House roll call 999 · 94th Congress · Jul 19, 1976
To agree to H. RES. 1259, the rule to consider H.R. 10210.
On Jul 19, 1976, the House voted 246–131 (HRE 1259). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 206–59, Republicans 50–81. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 109 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
- 246
- No
- 131
- Did not vote
- 45
- Date
- Jul 19, 1976
By party
- Republicans50 yes · 81 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Democrats206 yes · 59 no · 29 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted yes
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted yes
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted yes
- Lionel Van Deerlin 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
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted yes
- 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
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted yes
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL voted yes
- Robert Henry Michel 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
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted yes
- John Bayne Breckinridge 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
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted yes
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted yes
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME voted yes
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted yes
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI voted yes
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted yes
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted yes
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted yes
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted yes
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- William Leonard Hungate 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
- Ike Franklin Andrews 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
- Charles Thone R-NE voted yes
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted yes
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ voted yes
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM voted yes
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY voted yes
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY voted yes
- William Francis Walsh R-NY voted yes
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted yes
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted yes
- John William Stanton R-OH voted yes
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH voted yes
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted yes
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted no
And 29 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-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
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey 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
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- John G. Fary 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
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel 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
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead 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
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-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
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. 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
- 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
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-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
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-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
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks 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
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-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
- 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
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Donald Holst Clausen R-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
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-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
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis 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
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum 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 Edward Shipley D-IL
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-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
- 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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-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
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews 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
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. 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
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-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
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- 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
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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