House roll call 942 · 95th Congress · May 3, 1978
To amend H. CON. RES. 559 by reducing the total budget authority by $255 million and total outlays by $255 million in order to allow for a federal salary increa
On May 3, 1978, the House voted 172–210 (HCR 559). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 87–165, Republicans 86–49. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 136 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
- 172
- No
- 210
- Did not vote
- 54
- Date
- May 3, 1978
By party
- Republicans86 yes · 49 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Democrats87 yes · 165 no · 42 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted no
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted yes
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted yes
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA voted yes
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA voted yes
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA voted yes
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted no
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted yes
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT voted yes
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted no
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT voted yes
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted yes
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted yes
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL voted yes
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- William Lehman D-FL voted yes
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted yes
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA voted yes
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted yes
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA voted yes
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA voted yes
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA voted yes
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA voted yes
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted no
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL voted yes
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN voted yes
- David Walter Evans D-IN voted yes
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN voted yes
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted yes
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS voted yes
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS voted no
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS voted yes
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted yes
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY voted yes
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted yes
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA voted yes
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA voted yes
- Edward John Markey D-MA voted yes
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted no
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD voted yes
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted no
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD voted no
- David Farnham Emery R-ME voted no
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI voted no
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted no
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted yes
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI voted yes
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO voted yes
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO voted yes
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted yes
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC voted yes
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE voted yes
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted no
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ voted yes
And 56 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-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
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- Floyd James Fithian D-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
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- 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
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-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
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-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
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- 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
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- David Edward Satterfield III 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
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss 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
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall 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
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- 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
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. 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
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- 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
- 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
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal 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
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-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
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- David Daniel Marriott R-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
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-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
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Other votes
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