House roll call 269 · 96th Congress · Jun 27, 1979
To amend H.R. 4389 by reducing the appropriation for osha by $10.3 million. (motion failed)
On Jun 27, 1979, the House voted 177–240 (HR 4389). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 58–209, Republicans 122–34. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 92 members voted against their own party.
During the 96th Congress (1979–1980), Jimmy Carter was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 177
- No
- 240
- Did not vote
- 17
- Date
- Jun 27, 1979
By party
- Republicans122 yes · 34 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Democrats58 yes · 209 no · 13 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL voted yes
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted no
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL voted yes
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted yes
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted no
- Tony Coelho D-CA voted yes
- William Ross Cotter D-CT voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted no
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL voted yes
- Daniel Andrew Mica D-FL voted yes
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley 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
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA voted yes
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA voted yes
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA voted no
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA voted yes
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted no
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted yes
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted no
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC voted yes
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted yes
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC voted yes
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC voted yes
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC voted yes
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC voted yes
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH voted yes
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted no
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted yes
- James David Santini D-NV voted yes
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY voted no
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted no
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted no
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted no
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted no
- James Michael Hanley D-NY voted yes
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH voted no
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted no
- John William Stanton R-OH voted no
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH voted no
- Lyle Williams R-OH voted no
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted yes
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK voted yes
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted yes
- Charles Francis Dougherty R-PA voted no
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted no
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA voted no
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC voted yes
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted yes
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX voted yes
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted yes
- William Philip (Phil) Gramm D-TX voted yes
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX voted yes
- James Marvin Leath D-TX voted yes
And 12 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
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL
- Edwin Ruthvin Bethune Jr. R-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- William Howard Royer R-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas 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
- Wayne Richard Grisham R-CA
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Daniel Andrew Mica D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Henry John Hyde R-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
- Daniel Bever Crane R-IL
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Huey Joel Deckard R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- James Edmund Jeffries R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Arlen Ingolf Erdahl R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Jon Clifton Hinson R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain 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
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- William Carney R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Gary Alcide Lee R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- 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
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Philip (Phil) Gramm D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Joseph Peyton Wyatt Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Kent Ronald Hance D-TX
- Thomas Gilbert Loeffler R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- 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
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. 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
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Raymond Peter Kogovsek D-CO
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- William Richard Ratchford D-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Edward John Stack D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Bennett McVey Stewart D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy 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
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-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
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Anthony Claude (Buddy) Leach Jr. 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
- James Michael Shannon D-MA
- Nicholas James Mavroules D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Michael Darr Barnes D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Donald Joseph Albosta D-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
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-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
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- 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
- Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- 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
- Geraldine Anne Ferraro 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
- 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
- Peter A. Peyser D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Lyle Williams R-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Charles Francis Dougherty R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Donald Allen Bailey D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Eugene Vincent Atkinson D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Thomas Andrew Daschle D-SD
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- William Hill Boner D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Michael Edward Lowry 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
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- David Ross Obey 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
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Raphael John Musto D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- John Guiher Hutchinson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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