House roll call 326 · 94th Congress · Jul 25, 1975
To pass H.R. 5900,
On Jul 25, 1975, the House voted 230–177 (HR 5900). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 209–71, Republicans 28–113. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 99 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
- 230
- No
- 177
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Jul 25, 1975
By party
- Republicans28 yes · 113 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Democrats209 yes · 71 no · 14 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted yes
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA voted yes
- John Hans Krebs D-CA voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted yes
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA voted yes
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted yes
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted no
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA voted no
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted yes
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN voted yes
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted yes
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted no
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted yes
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted yes
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC voted no
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted no
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC voted no
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC voted no
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY voted no
- William Francis Walsh R-NY voted yes
- Jack French Kemp R-NY voted yes
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted no
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA voted yes
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC voted no
- James Robert Mann D-SC voted no
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC voted no
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD voted yes
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted no
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN voted no
- Ed Jones D-TN voted no
And 19 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- John Emerson Moss 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
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-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
- 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
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Tim Lee Hall D-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price 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
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-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
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-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
- Albert Harold Quie 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
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- James Joseph Florio 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
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-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
- 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
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-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
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan 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
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Henry John Heinz III 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
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua 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
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-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
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- 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
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- 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
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Marvin Leonel Esch 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
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- 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 Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor 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
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha 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
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland 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
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- 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
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- 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
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
Did not vote
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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