House roll call 770 · 95th Congress · Feb 24, 1978
To pass H.R. 9179.
On Feb 24, 1978, the House voted 191–165 (HR 9179). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 120–135, Republicans 87–44. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 164 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
- 191
- No
- 165
- Did not vote
- 55
- Date
- Feb 24, 1978
By party
- Republicans87 yes · 44 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Democrats120 yes · 135 no · 39 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted no
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- Morris King Udall D-AZ voted yes
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted yes
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted yes
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted yes
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted yes
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted yes
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted yes
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted no
- James Charles Corman D-CA voted yes
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA voted yes
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA voted yes
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA voted yes
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted yes
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA voted yes
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted yes
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO voted yes
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted yes
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT voted yes
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted yes
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL voted yes
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL voted no
- William Lehman D-FL voted yes
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL voted yes
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL voted yes
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI voted yes
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI voted yes
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA voted yes
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA voted no
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted yes
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Cardiss Collins D-IL voted yes
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL voted yes
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL voted no
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL voted yes
- John Brademas D-IN voted yes
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN voted no
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted yes
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY voted yes
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted yes
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted yes
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA voted yes
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted no
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted no
- David Farnham Emery R-ME voted no
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted yes
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI voted yes
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted yes
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted yes
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI voted yes
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT voted no
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC voted yes
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC voted yes
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted yes
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC voted yes
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC voted yes
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC voted no
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE voted yes
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH voted yes
- William John Hughes D-NJ voted yes
- James John Howard D-NJ voted yes
And 84 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-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
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-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
- 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
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt 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
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn 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
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi 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
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- 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
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-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 Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- 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
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-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
- 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
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. 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
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- 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
- 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
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- George Miller D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-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
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- Bruce Frank Vento D-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
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- James Joseph Florio 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
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-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
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-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
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. 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
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier 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
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Did not vote
- 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
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. R-VA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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