House roll call 203 · 95th Congress · May 11, 1977
To pass H.R. 6655.
On May 11, 1977, the House voted 369–20 (HR 6655). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 258–5, Republicans 112–15. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 20 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
- 369
- No
- 20
- Did not vote
- 51
- Date
- May 11, 1977
By party
- Republicans112 yes · 15 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Democrats258 yes · 5 no · 31 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA voted no
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted no
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Dale Milford D-TX voted no
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums 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
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-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
- 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
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans 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
- 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
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-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
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- 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
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- 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
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- 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
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. 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
- 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
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer 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
- 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
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ
- Edward James Patten 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
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo 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
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-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
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton 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
- 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
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- 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
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. 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
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks 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
- 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
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt 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
- 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
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. R-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-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 Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
Did not vote
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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