House roll call 63 · 95th Congress · Mar 15, 1977
To pass H.R. 4876.
On Mar 15, 1977, the House voted 281–126 (HR 4876). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 241–33, Republicans 44–96. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 77 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
- 281
- No
- 126
- Did not vote
- 27
- Date
- Mar 15, 1977
By party
- Republicans44 yes · 96 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Democrats241 yes · 33 no · 20 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted yes
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted yes
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted yes
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis 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
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA voted no
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA voted no
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted yes
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted yes
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted yes
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted yes
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted yes
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted yes
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- William Henson Moore III R-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted yes
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD voted yes
- David Farnham Emery R-ME voted yes
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME voted yes
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted yes
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO voted no
- William Thad Cochran R-MS voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC voted no
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC voted no
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted yes
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ voted yes
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY voted yes
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY voted yes
- William Francis Walsh R-NY voted yes
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted yes
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted yes
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted yes
- John William Stanton R-OH voted yes
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted no
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted no
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted yes
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA voted yes
- James Robert Mann D-SC voted no
- James Henry Quillen R-TN voted yes
- John James Duncan R-TN voted yes
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Dale Milford D-TX voted no
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted no
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted no
- William Creed Wampler R-VA voted yes
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT voted yes
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- 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
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-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
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-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 Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback 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
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp 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
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- 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
- 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
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-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
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- 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
- 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
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo 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
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss 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
- 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
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Les Aucoin 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
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-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
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead 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
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- 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
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle 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
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-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
- 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
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards 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
- William Matthew Ketchum R-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
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- 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
- 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
- Elliott Harris Levitas 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
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- 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
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- 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
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews 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
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula 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
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- James Abdnor R-SD
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-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
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Dale Milford 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
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
Did not vote
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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