House roll call 1365 · 95th Congress · Sep 11, 1978
To amend H.R. 11280 by establishing a statutory ceiling on the total number of federal employees in the executive branch.
On Sep 11, 1978, the House voted 251–96 (HR 11280). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 142–94, Republicans 113–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 96 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
- 251
- No
- 96
- Did not vote
- 90
- Date
- Sep 11, 1978
By party
- Republicans113 yes · 2 no · 32 didn’t vote
- Democrats142 yes · 94 no · 58 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR voted no
- Morris King Udall D-AZ voted no
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted no
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted no
- John Lowell Burton D-CA voted no
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA voted no
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA voted no
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted no
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA voted no
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted no
- James Charles Corman D-CA voted no
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA voted no
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA voted no
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA voted no
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins 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
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA voted no
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA voted no
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted no
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted no
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI voted no
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL voted no
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL voted no
- Cardiss Collins D-IL voted no
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL voted no
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD voted no
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted no
- David Edward Bonior D-MI voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted no
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN voted no
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted no
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC voted no
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC voted no
- James John Howard D-NJ voted no
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ voted no
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ voted no
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ voted no
- Edward James Patten D-NJ voted no
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY voted no
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY voted no
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY voted no
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY voted no
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY voted no
- John Michael Murphy D-NY voted no
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY voted no
- Robert Garcia D-NY voted no
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY voted no
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY voted no
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY voted no
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY voted no
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH voted no
- Donald James Pease D-OH voted no
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH voted no
- Louis Stokes D-OH voted no
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR voted no
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR voted no
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA voted no
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA voted no
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA voted no
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA voted no
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA voted no
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA voted no
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC voted no
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC voted no
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted no
And 16 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-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
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-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
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer 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
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage 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
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. R-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
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- John G. Fary D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
Other votes
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