House roll call 1456 · 95th Congress · Sep 28, 1978
To agree to the conference report on H.R. 3816, the federal trade commission act amendments of 1978.
On Sep 28, 1978, the House voted 175–214 (HR 3816). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 171–103, Republicans 17–122. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 120 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
- 175
- No
- 214
- Did not vote
- 28
- Date
- Sep 28, 1978
By party
- Republicans17 yes · 122 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Democrats171 yes · 103 no · 20 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted no
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted no
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted no
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA voted yes
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted no
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted no
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted no
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- William Ross Cotter D-CT voted no
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT voted no
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted no
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL voted no
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA voted no
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA voted no
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA voted no
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA voted no
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL voted no
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL voted no
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted yes
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN voted no
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN voted no
- David Walter Evans D-IN voted no
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted no
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN voted no
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted no
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY voted no
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby 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
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD voted yes
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted no
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI voted no
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI voted no
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted no
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI voted no
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN voted no
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO voted no
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II 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
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT voted no
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC voted no
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC voted no
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted no
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC voted no
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC voted no
- William John Hughes D-NJ voted no
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ voted no
And 40 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- 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
- 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
- Carlos John Moorhead R-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
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- 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
- 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
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire 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
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal 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
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. 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
- Frederick Bernard Rooney 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
- Gary Arthur Myers 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
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- 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
- 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
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- 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
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder 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
- 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
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland 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
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- 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
- 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
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-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
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II 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
- 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
- Ike Franklin Andrews 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
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. 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
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- 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
- 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
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- 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
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger 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
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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