To approve the house journal for sept. 21, 1977.

On Sep 22, 1977, the House voted 283–6. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 192–3, Republicans 93–4. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 7 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: 283
No: 6
Did not vote: 149
Date: Sep 22, 1977

By party

Republicans93 yes · 4 no · 50 didn’t vote
Democrats192 yes · 3 no · 99 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted no
Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted no
William S. Broomfield R-MI voted no
Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ voted no
James Albon Mattox D-TX voted no
Leslie Aspin D-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

William Louis Dickinson R-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
Morris King Udall D-AZ
Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
John Lowell Burton D-CA
Phillip Burton D-CA
George Miller D-CA
William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
Leo Joseph Ryan D-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
James Charles Corman D-CA
Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
Edward R. Roybal D-CA
John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
Robert Kenneth Dornan R-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
Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
Robert Edward Badham R-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
Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
Don Fuqua D-FL
Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
J. Herbert Burke R-FL
William Lehman D-FL
Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
George Vernon Hansen R-ID
Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
John G. Fary D-IL
Henry John Hyde R-IL
Cardiss Collins D-IL
Daniel David Rostenkowski 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
George Miller O'Brien R-IL
Robert Henry Michel R-IL
Paul Findley R-IL
Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
George Edward Shipley D-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
Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
John Thomas Myers R-IN
Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
Philip Riley Sharp 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
William Huston Natcher D-KY
Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. 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
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
James Anthony Burke D-MA
Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
David Farnham Emery R-ME
William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
David Alan Stockman R-MI
Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
Albert Harold Quie R-MN
Thomas Michael Hagedorn 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
Robert Anton Young III D-MO
Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
Gene Taylor R-MO
Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
Bill D. Burlison D-MO
Jamie Lloyd Whitten 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
Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
James Grubbs Martin R-NC
James Thomas Broyhill R-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 Joseph Florio D-NJ
Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
Robert A. Roe D-NJ
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
Joseph George Minish D-NJ
Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
Edward James Patten D-NJ
Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
James David Santini D-NV
Otis Grey Pike D-NY
Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
James Joseph Delaney D-NY
Mario Biaggi D-NY
John Michael Murphy D-NY
Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
James Michael Hanley D-NY
Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
Henry James Nowak D-NY
Jack French Kemp R-NY
Thomas Andrew Luken D-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
Donald James Pease D-OH
John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
Mary Rose Oakar 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
Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
Les Aucoin D-OR
Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
James Howard Weaver D-OR
Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
Richard Taylor Schulze R-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
Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
William Singer Moorhead D-PA
Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
Douglas Walgren D-PA
Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
Austin John Murphy D-PA
Joseph Scofield Ammerman 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
John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-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
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
James Mitchell Collins R-TX
Herbert Ray Roberts 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
Richard Crawford White 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
David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel 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
Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
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
Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “To approve the house journal for sept. 21…: House Vote, Sep 22, 1977,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/95-H-536/to-approve-the-house-journal-for-sept-21-1977 (accessed 2026-10-17).