House roll call 168 · 94th Congress · May 20, 1975
To amend H.R. 6674 so as to permit women to enter the service academies on the same basis as men.
On May 20, 1975, the House voted 303–96 (HR 6674). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 216–50, Republicans 88–46. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 96 members voted against their own party.
During the 94th Congress (1975–1976), Gerald Ford was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 303
- No
- 96
- Did not vote
- 41
- Date
- May 20, 1975
By party
- Republicans88 yes · 46 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Democrats216 yes · 50 no · 28 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ voted no
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted no
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA voted no
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID voted no
- Cardiss Collins D-IL voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- David Conner Treen R-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- William Henson Moore III R-LA voted no
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC voted no
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted no
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
- James David Santini D-NV voted no
- John Michael Murphy D-NY voted no
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY voted no
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH voted no
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- John Jarman R-OK voted no
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA voted no
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA voted no
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC voted no
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
And 16 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Tim Lee Hall D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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