House roll call 1450 · 95th Congress · Sep 27, 1978
To amend H.R. 1 by reducing the criminal penalties for persons that falsify their financial reports or misuse the information contained therein.
On Sep 27, 1978, the House voted 129–269 (HR 1). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 64–206, Republicans 67–66. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 130 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
- 129
- No
- 269
- Did not vote
- 38
- Date
- Sep 27, 1978
By party
- Republicans67 yes · 66 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Democrats64 yes · 206 no · 24 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL voted yes
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted yes
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted yes
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted yes
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA voted yes
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted no
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted yes
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted yes
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted yes
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL voted yes
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL voted no
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted yes
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA voted yes
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA voted yes
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA voted no
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL voted yes
- John G. Fary D-IL voted yes
- Frank Annunzio D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted no
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN voted no
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- 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
- James Anthony Burke D-MA voted yes
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD voted no
- David Farnham Emery R-ME voted no
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI voted no
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted no
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted yes
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted no
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN voted no
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- William Thad Cochran R-MS voted no
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted no
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted no
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
- Edward James Patten D-NJ voted yes
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted yes
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY voted no
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted no
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY voted yes
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY voted yes
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted no
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted no
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY voted no
- William Francis Walsh R-NY voted no
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY voted yes
And 50 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk 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
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe 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
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- 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
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- James Henry Quillen 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
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-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
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- 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
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- 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
- 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
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman 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
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-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
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka 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
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran 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
- 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
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- 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
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-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
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard 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
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling 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
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal 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
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- 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
- Mario Biaggi 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
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling 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
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- James Howard Weaver 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
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- James Abdnor R-SD
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. R-VA
- 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
- John Edward Cunningham III R-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
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- 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 Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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