House roll call 708 · 95th Congress · Jan 19, 1978
To pass H.R. 2329, the fish and wildlife improvement act of 1977.
On Jan 19, 1978, the House voted 292–59 (HR 2329). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 219–25, Republicans 78–35. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 60 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
- 292
- No
- 59
- Did not vote
- 84
- Date
- Jan 19, 1978
By party
- Republicans78 yes · 35 no · 34 didn’t vote
- Democrats219 yes · 25 no · 50 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL voted no
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted no
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA voted no
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA voted no
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA voted no
- David Conner Treen R-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted no
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted no
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted no
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN voted no
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO voted no
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS voted no
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Charles Thone R-NE voted no
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE voted no
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM voted no
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted no
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK voted no
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK voted no
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA voted no
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA voted no
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA voted no
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC voted no
- James Abdnor R-SD voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX voted no
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT voted no
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted no
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA voted no
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted no
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA voted no
The bill
H.R. 2329: A bill to improve the administration of fish and wildlife programs.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- 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
- Ronald V. Dellums 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
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-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
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo 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
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. 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
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin 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
- 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
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-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
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-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
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-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
- David Edward Bonior 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
- 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
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Ike Franklin Andrews 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
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney 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
- 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
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-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
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar 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
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-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
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland 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
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks 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 Alton Gammage D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. R-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- 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
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-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
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
Did not vote
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- George Miller D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
Cite or embed this page
Capitol Receipts, “To pass H.R. 2329, the fish and wildlife…: House Vote, Jan 19, 1978,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/95-H-708/to-pass-h-r-2329-the-fish-and-wildlife (accessed 2026-10-16).