House roll call 725 · 94th Congress · Apr 1, 1976
To agree to H. RES. 1085, the rule for considering H.J. RES. 606,to call an atlantic convention to explore ways of achieving more effective unity of western de
On Apr 1, 1976, the House voted 165–194 (HRE 1085). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 129–109, Republicans 36–87. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 145 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
- 165
- No
- 194
- Did not vote
- 80
- Date
- Apr 1, 1976
By party
- Republicans36 yes · 87 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Democrats129 yes · 109 no · 56 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted no
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted no
- George Miller D-CA voted no
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA voted no
- John Hans Krebs D-CA voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted yes
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA voted no
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO 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
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. 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
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL voted no
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL voted no
- John G. Fary D-IL voted no
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted no
- Frank Annunzio D-IL voted no
- 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
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN voted no
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted no
- David Walter Evans D-IN voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted yes
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted yes
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted yes
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted yes
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI voted no
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI voted yes
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted yes
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted yes
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted yes
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II 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
- John Melcher D-MT voted no
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain 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
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted yes
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ voted no
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted yes
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ voted yes
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ voted no
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ voted no
And 65 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett 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
- William Matthew Ketchum 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
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- Christopher John Dodd 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
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- 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
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva 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
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge 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
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- 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
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond 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
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Mike Mccormack 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
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- 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
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills 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
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-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
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-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
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton 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
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain 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 Joseph Florio D-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton 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
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl 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
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks 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
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- 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
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Did not vote
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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