House roll call 868 · 95th Congress · Apr 6, 1978
To amend H.R. 7700 by requiring the postmaster general to submit an annual report to Congress that details the postal service's expenditure of public service fu
On Apr 6, 1978, the House voted 203–189 (HR 7700). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 79–190, Republicans 133–9. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 88 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
- 203
- No
- 189
- Did not vote
- 30
- Date
- Apr 6, 1978
By party
- Republicans133 yes · 9 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Democrats79 yes · 190 no · 25 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted yes
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA voted yes
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted yes
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted yes
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted yes
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted yes
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- William Lehman D-FL voted yes
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted yes
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI voted yes
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA voted yes
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL voted yes
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted yes
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL voted yes
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL voted yes
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN voted yes
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS voted yes
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted yes
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY voted yes
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY voted yes
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted yes
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA voted yes
- Edward John Markey D-MA voted yes
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA voted yes
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted yes
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted yes
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD voted no
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted yes
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI voted yes
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted yes
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI voted yes
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC voted yes
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC voted yes
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted no
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH voted yes
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted yes
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ voted yes
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted yes
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY voted yes
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY voted yes
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted no
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted yes
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted no
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH voted yes
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH voted yes
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK voted yes
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted yes
- Douglas Walgren D-PA voted yes
- Austin John Murphy D-PA voted yes
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC voted yes
- James Robert Mann D-SC voted yes
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN voted yes
- Ed Jones D-TN voted yes
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX voted yes
- James Albon Mattox D-TX voted yes
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX voted yes
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX voted yes
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX voted yes
- Richard Crawford White D-TX voted yes
And 8 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- 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
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- 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
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva 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
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-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
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown 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
- 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
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II 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
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-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
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage 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
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson 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
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall 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
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- 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
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- 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
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-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
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi 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
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. 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
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover 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
- 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
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-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
- 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
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Other votes
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