House roll call 676 · 94th Congress · Mar 4, 1976
To pass H.R. 12203.
On Mar 4, 1976, the House voted 214–152 (HR 12203). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 177–102, Republicans 62–75. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 164 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
- 214
- No
- 152
- Did not vote
- 25
- Date
- Mar 4, 1976
By party
- Republicans62 yes · 75 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Democrats177 yes · 102 no · 15 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted yes
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted no
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted yes
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted no
- George Miller D-CA voted no
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. 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
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted no
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted no
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted yes
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted yes
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett 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
- 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
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA voted no
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA voted no
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted yes
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted yes
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted yes
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted yes
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted yes
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted yes
- Paul Findley R-IL voted yes
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted yes
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted no
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN voted yes
- David Walter Evans D-IN voted no
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS voted no
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS voted yes
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS voted yes
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY voted no
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- David Conner Treen R-LA voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- William Henson Moore III R-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted yes
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted yes
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME voted yes
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI voted yes
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted yes
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI voted yes
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted yes
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted yes
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted yes
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted yes
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN voted no
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN voted no
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted no
And 84 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton 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
- John Hans Krebs D-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
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-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
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- 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
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Tim Lee Hall D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-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
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman 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
- 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
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown 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
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- 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
- 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
- James David Santini D-NV
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula 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
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan 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
- 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
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- 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
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-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
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- 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
- 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
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy 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
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- 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
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Jack English Hightower 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
- 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
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki 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
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
Did not vote
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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