House roll call 922 · 95th Congress · Apr 26, 1978
To pass H.R. 8494.
On Apr 26, 1978, the House voted 259–140 (HR 8494). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 187–75, Republicans 75–67. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 142 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
- 259
- No
- 140
- Did not vote
- 37
- Date
- Apr 26, 1978
By party
- Republicans75 yes · 67 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Democrats187 yes · 75 no · 32 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
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- Morris King Udall D-AZ voted no
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted no
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted no
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted no
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA voted no
- John Hans Krebs D-CA voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-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
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA voted no
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA voted no
- Charles Herbert Wilson 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
- Robert Edward Badham 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
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA voted no
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. 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
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL voted no
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted no
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN voted no
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS voted no
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted no
- Edward John Markey D-MA voted no
- James Anthony Burke D-MA voted no
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted no
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted no
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted no
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted no
And 62 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-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
- 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
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins 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
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan 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
- 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
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-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
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- 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
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin 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
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes 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
- 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
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey 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
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-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
- 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
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Donald James Pease 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
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-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
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-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
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. R-VA
- George William Whitehurst 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
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- 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 Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II 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
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson 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
- Robert Edward Badham 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
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- James Haas Scheuer 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
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford 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
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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