House roll call 793 · 95th Congress · Mar 7, 1978
To amend H.R. 11180 by striking title II of the bill. Title II states that the limit in the public debt shall be decided thereafter by means of a concurent bud
On Mar 7, 1978, the House voted 277–132 (HR 11180). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 173–101, Republicans 107–34. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 135 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
- 277
- No
- 132
- Did not vote
- 26
- Date
- Mar 7, 1978
By party
- Republicans107 yes · 34 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Democrats173 yes · 101 no · 20 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- John Lowell Burton D-CA voted no
- Phillip Burton D-CA voted no
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA voted no
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA voted no
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted no
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted no
- James Charles Corman D-CA voted no
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA voted no
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA voted no
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA voted no
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted no
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA voted no
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- William Ross Cotter D-CT voted no
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted no
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- William Lehman D-FL voted no
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA voted no
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA voted no
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA voted no
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA voted no
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI voted no
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted no
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL voted no
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted no
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL voted no
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted no
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN voted no
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS voted no
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA voted no
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted no
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD voted no
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD voted no
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted no
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted no
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI voted no
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI voted no
- David Edward Bonior D-MI voted no
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted no
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN voted no
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO voted no
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO voted no
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC voted no
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted no
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC voted no
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted no
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted no
- Charles Thone R-NE voted no
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE voted no
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ voted no
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ voted no
- Edward James Patten D-NJ voted no
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY voted no
And 55 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta 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
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-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
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-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
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-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
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price 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
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- 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
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas 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
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- 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
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-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
- 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
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo 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
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha 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
- 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
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-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
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- 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
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- Leslie Aspin 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 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 Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton 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
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle 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
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Other votes
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