House roll call 907 · 95th Congress · Apr 20, 1978
To amend H.R. 8494 by requiring any organization that spends more than 1% of its total income for lobbying purposes, to report the names and addresses of contri
On Apr 20, 1978, the House voted 251–135 (HR 8494). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 172–99, Republicans 89–45. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 144 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
- 251
- No
- 135
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- Apr 20, 1978
By party
- Republicans89 yes · 45 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Democrats172 yes · 99 no · 23 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted no
- 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
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- Morris King Udall D-AZ voted no
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted no
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ voted no
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted no
- John Emerson Moss 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
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted no
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- John Hans Krebs D-CA voted no
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- James Charles Corman D-CA voted no
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA voted no
- Anthony Charles Beilenson 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
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA voted no
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA voted no
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted no
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted no
- George Edward Brown Jr. 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
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT voted no
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted no
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI voted no
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA voted no
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL voted no
- John G. Fary D-IL voted no
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted no
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Frank Annunzio D-IL voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN voted no
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA voted no
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA voted no
- Edward John Markey D-MA voted no
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA voted no
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD voted no
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted no
- David Alan Stockman R-MI voted no
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI voted no
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
And 64 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. 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
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- 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
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. 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
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead 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
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) 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
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott 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
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- 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
- 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
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-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
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh 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
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-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
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers 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
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-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
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- James Abdnor R-SD
- 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
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt 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
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. R-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- John Hans Krebs 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
- 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
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
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 Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
Other votes
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