House roll call 394 · 95th Congress · Jul 15, 1977
To pass H.R. 4287.
On Jul 15, 1977, the House voted 244–88 (HR 4287). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 189–30, Republicans 58–58. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 88 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
- 244
- No
- 88
- Did not vote
- 106
- Date
- Jul 15, 1977
By party
- Republicans58 yes · 58 no · 31 didn’t vote
- Democrats189 yes · 30 no · 75 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted no
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted no
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA voted no
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA voted no
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA voted no
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA voted no
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted no
- William Henson Moore III R-LA voted no
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted no
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN voted no
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN voted no
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO voted no
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- William Thad Cochran R-MS voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC voted no
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted no
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC voted no
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC voted no
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC voted no
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted no
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC voted no
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted no
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM voted no
- James David Santini D-NV voted no
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY voted no
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH voted no
- Thomas Norman Kindness 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
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted no
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK voted no
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted no
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA voted no
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC voted no
- James Robert Mann D-SC voted no
- James Abdnor R-SD voted no
- James Henry Quillen R-TN voted no
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX voted no
And 8 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson 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
- Bernice Frederic Sisk 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
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson 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
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-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
- Elliott Harris Levitas 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
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien 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
- Elwood Haynes Hillis 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
- 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
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-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
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi 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
- 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
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-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
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. 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
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss 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
- 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
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. 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
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- 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
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-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
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Richard Crawford White 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
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley 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
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- 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
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino 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
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer 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
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- 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
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- 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
Did not vote
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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