To agree to H. RES. 861, rule for consideration of H.R. 10585, a bill to increase the temporary public debt limitation.

On Nov 12, 1975, the House voted 257–149 (HRES 861). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 257–25, Republicans 9–133. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 34 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: 257
No: 149
Did not vote: 17
Date: Nov 12, 1975

By party

Republicans9 yes · 133 no · 5 didn’t vote
Democrats257 yes · 25 no · 12 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

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
John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted no
Paul Findley R-IL voted yes
Floyd James Fithian D-IN voted no
Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA voted no
Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
Gilbert Gude R-MD voted yes
Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted yes
James Joseph Florio D-NJ voted no
Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY voted no
Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted yes
Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted yes
Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH voted no
Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted no
Gus Yatron D-PA voted no
Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted no
Albert Walter Johnson R-PA voted yes
Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC voted no
Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC voted no
John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC voted no
William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted no
William Creed Wampler R-VA voted yes
Kenneth William Hechler D-WV voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

William Flynt Nichols D-AL
Tom Bevill D-AL
Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
Walter Flowers D-AL
William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
Morris King Udall D-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
Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. 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
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
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
William Ross Cotter D-CT
Christopher John Dodd D-CT
Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
Don Fuqua D-FL
Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
William Lehman D-FL
Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
Phillip Mitchell Landrum 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
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
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
Paul Findley R-IL
George Edward Shipley D-IL
Charles Melvin Price D-IL
Paul Martin Simon D-IL
Ray John Madden D-IN
John Brademas D-IN
John Edward Roush D-IN
David Walter Evans D-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
Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
William Huston Natcher D-KY
Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
Gillis William Long D-LA
Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
John Joseph Moakley D-MA
James Anthony Burke D-MA
Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
Parren James Mitchell D-MD
Gilbert Gude R-MD
John Conyers Jr. D-MI
Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
Jerome Bob Traxler 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
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
Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
David Reece Bowen D-MS
Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
John Melcher D-MT
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
Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
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
Edward James Patten D-NJ
James David Santini D-NV
Otis Grey Pike 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
Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
Frederick William Richmond D-NY
Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
John Michael Murphy 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
James Michael Hanley D-NY
Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
Henry James Nowak D-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
James Robert Jones D-OK
Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
Thomas Jefferson Steed 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
Robert William Edgar D-PA
Daniel John Flood D-PA
John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
William Singer Moorhead D-PA
Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
John Herman Dent D-PA
Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
Albert Walter Johnson R-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
Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
Ed Jones D-TN
Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
John William Wright Patman D-TX
Charles Wilson D-TX
Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
Olin Earl Teague D-TX
Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
James Claude Wright Jr. 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
Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
George Herman Mahon D-TX
Henry B. González 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
Allan Turner Howe D-UT
Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
William Creed Wampler R-VA
Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
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
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
Teno Roncalio D-WY

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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