House roll call 702 · 94th Congress · Mar 23, 1976
To pass H.J. RES. 280.
On Mar 23, 1976, the House voted 229–181 (HJR 280). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 202–84, Republicans 36–101. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 120 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
- 229
- No
- 181
- Did not vote
- 18
- Date
- Mar 23, 1976
By party
- Republicans36 yes · 101 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Democrats202 yes · 84 no · 8 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted yes
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted no
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA voted no
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted no
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA voted no
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted yes
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE 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
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted yes
- Paul Findley R-IL voted yes
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted yes
- George Edward Shipley D-IL 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
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted no
- 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
- David Farnham Emery R-ME voted yes
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME voted yes
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI voted yes
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted no
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted no
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN voted no
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Bill D. Burlison D-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
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC voted no
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted yes
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
- James David Santini D-NV voted no
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted no
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY voted yes
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- Mario Biaggi D-NY voted no
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY voted no
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted no
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY voted yes
- William Francis Walsh R-NY voted yes
And 40 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills 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
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall 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
- Charles Herbert Wilson 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 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
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- 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
- 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
- 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
- John Bayard Anderson 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
- 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
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs 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
- 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
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch 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
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- 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
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III 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
- 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
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond 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
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-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
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling 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
- 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
- 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
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling 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
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- 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
- 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 Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers 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
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-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
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan 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
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- 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
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-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
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-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
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- 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
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II 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
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer 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
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- 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
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann 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
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- 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
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González 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
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Did not vote
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- 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
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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