House roll call 1444 · 95th Congress · Sep 26, 1978
To amend H.R. 12005, the bill authorizing appropriations to the department of justice for fiscal year 1979. The collins amendment prohibits the use of these fu
On Sep 26, 1978, the House voted 235–158 (HR 12005). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 132–138, Republicans 110–26. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 158 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
- 235
- No
- 158
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- Sep 26, 1978
By party
- Republicans110 yes · 26 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Democrats132 yes · 138 no · 24 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL voted yes
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted yes
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted yes
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA voted yes
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted no
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted yes
- John Hans Krebs D-CA voted yes
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted yes
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA voted yes
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted yes
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- William Ross Cotter D-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Sam Melville Gibbons 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
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA voted yes
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA voted yes
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI voted yes
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL voted yes
- John G. Fary D-IL voted yes
- Frank Annunzio D-IL voted yes
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted yes
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN voted yes
- David Walter Evans D-IN voted yes
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN voted yes
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted yes
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS voted yes
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS voted yes
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted yes
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby 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
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted yes
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA voted yes
- James Anthony Burke D-MA voted yes
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD voted yes
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD voted yes
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted yes
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD voted no
- David Farnham Emery R-ME voted no
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted no
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI voted yes
- David Edward Bonior D-MI voted yes
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted yes
- William David Ford D-MI voted yes
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted yes
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI voted yes
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted no
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO voted yes
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO voted yes
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted yes
And 78 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- 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
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk 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
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-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
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-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
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- 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
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Floyd James Fithian 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
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-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
- 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
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal 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
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- 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
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Tennyson Guyer 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
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- 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
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland 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
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- James Albon Mattox 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
- 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
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett 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
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson 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
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- 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
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-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
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Louis Stokes 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
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- 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
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack 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
- 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
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Other votes
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