House roll call 276 · 94th Congress · Jul 9, 1975
To amend H.R. 6706, white house employment authorization by providing for control of white house staffing, by congressional authorization in lieu of statuatory
On Jul 9, 1975, the House voted 146–242 (HR 6706). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 58–214, Republicans 97–36. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 94 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
- 146
- No
- 242
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- Jul 9, 1975
By party
- Republicans97 yes · 36 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Democrats58 yes · 214 no · 22 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted yes
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ voted no
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA voted yes
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA voted no
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA voted no
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- William Ross Cotter D-CT voted yes
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted no
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL voted no
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted yes
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA voted no
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted yes
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL voted yes
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted yes
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted yes
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted yes
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted yes
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted yes
- James Anthony Burke D-MA voted yes
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted yes
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted yes
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- William Thad Cochran R-MS voted no
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted no
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted no
- Charles Thone R-NE voted no
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE voted no
- Edward James Patten D-NJ voted yes
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted yes
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted yes
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY voted yes
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY voted yes
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY voted yes
- John Michael Murphy D-NY voted yes
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY voted no
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted no
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted no
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted yes
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH voted no
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted yes
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted yes
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted yes
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR voted yes
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA voted no
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA voted no
- Daniel John Flood D-PA voted yes
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA voted yes
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA voted no
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted yes
And 14 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- John Andrew Young 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
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-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
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens 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
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Tim Lee Hall D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-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
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- 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
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn 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
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-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
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm 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
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds 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
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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