House roll call 1249 · 95th Congress · Jul 31, 1978
To agree to H. RES. 1247, the rule to consider H.R. 12931, the bill making appropriations for foreign aid and related programs for fiscal year 1979.
On Jul 31, 1978, the House voted 265–84 (HRE 1247). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 202–27, Republicans 66–57. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 84 members voted against their own party.
During the 95th Congress (1977–1978), Jimmy Carter was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 265
- No
- 84
- Did not vote
- 89
- Date
- Jul 31, 1978
By party
- Republicans66 yes · 57 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Democrats202 yes · 27 no · 65 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted no
- George Miller D-CA voted no
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA voted no
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA voted no
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA voted no
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL voted no
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted no
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA voted no
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted no
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- David Alan Stockman R-MI voted no
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI voted no
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- William Thad Cochran R-MS voted no
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS voted no
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC voted no
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted no
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC voted no
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted no
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE voted no
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM voted no
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY voted no
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY voted no
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH voted no
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted no
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK voted no
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK voted no
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted no
- James Howard Weaver D-OR voted no
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA voted no
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA voted no
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA voted no
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA voted no
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC voted no
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC voted no
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC voted no
- James Henry Quillen R-TN voted no
- John James Duncan R-TN voted no
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. R-VA voted no
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted no
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA voted no
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA voted no
And 4 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-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
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-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
- 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
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- 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
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson 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
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- David Edward Bonior 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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- 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
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- 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
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green 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
- 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
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- James Abdnor R-SD
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. 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
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks 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
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- George Miller D-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. R-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
Did not vote
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- Charles Thone R-NE
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Other votes
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