House roll call 708 · 94th Congress · Mar 25, 1976
To amend H.R. 12566 by excluding authorization for curriculum development, and instead directing funds to upgrade the knowledge of teachers of elementary and s
On Mar 25, 1976, the House voted 160–232 (HR 12566). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 55–204, Republicans 106–29. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 84 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
- 160
- No
- 232
- Did not vote
- 47
- Date
- Mar 25, 1976
By party
- Republicans106 yes · 29 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Democrats55 yes · 204 no · 35 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted yes
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA voted no
- John Hans Krebs D-CA voted yes
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- William Ross Cotter D-CT voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted no
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted no
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted yes
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted yes
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted yes
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL voted yes
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN voted no
- David Walter Evans D-IN voted yes
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted yes
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted yes
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA voted yes
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA voted yes
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted yes
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted no
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI voted yes
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted no
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted yes
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted yes
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC voted yes
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted no
- William John Hughes D-NJ voted yes
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted no
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ voted yes
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted yes
- James David Santini D-NV voted yes
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY voted yes
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY voted yes
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY voted no
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY voted no
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted no
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH voted no
- John William Stanton R-OH voted no
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH voted no
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH voted yes
- John Jarman R-OK voted no
- Les Aucoin D-OR voted yes
- Gus Yatron D-PA voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA voted yes
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted no
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted yes
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC voted yes
- James Robert Mann D-SC voted yes
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD voted no
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted yes
- Ed Jones D-TN voted yes
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX voted yes
- Jack English Hightower D-TX voted yes
- Richard Crawford White D-TX voted yes
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted yes
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX voted yes
- Dale Milford D-TX voted yes
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT voted yes
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted yes
And 4 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-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
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-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
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- 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
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-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
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-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
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-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
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- 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
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- 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
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-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
- 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
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- 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
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. 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
- 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
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland 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
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- William Eldridge Frenzel 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
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-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
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Joseph Florio 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
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey 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
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-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
- John Jarman R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-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
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- 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
- 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
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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