House roll call 487 · 96th Congress · Oct 9, 1979
To amend H. J. RES. 413, labor/HEW continuing appropriations, by prohibiting use of federal funds for abortions except where the mother's life is endangered, or
On Oct 9, 1979, the House voted 162–234 (HJR 413). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 139–121, Republicans 26–116. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 147 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
- 162
- No
- 234
- Did not vote
- 38
- Date
- Oct 9, 1979
By party
- Republicans26 yes · 116 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Democrats139 yes · 121 no · 20 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted yes
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL voted no
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Wayne Richard Grisham R-CA voted yes
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted yes
- William Ross Cotter D-CT voted no
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE voted yes
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL voted no
- Daniel Andrew Mica D-FL voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA voted no
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA voted no
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted yes
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted no
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA voted no
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL voted no
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL voted no
- John G. Fary D-IL voted no
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted no
- Frank Annunzio D-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted yes
- Paul Findley R-IL voted yes
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN voted no
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN voted no
- David Walter Evans D-IN voted no
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted no
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN voted no
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS voted yes
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY voted no
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA voted no
- Anthony Claude (Buddy) Leach Jr. D-LA voted no
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted no
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted no
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted no
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted no
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA voted no
- Nicholas James Mavroules D-MA voted no
- Edward John Markey D-MA voted no
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA voted no
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA voted no
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD voted no
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted yes
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI voted yes
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI voted no
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI voted no
- Donald Joseph Albosta D-MI voted no
- David Edward Bonior D-MI voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted yes
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN voted no
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN voted no
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO voted no
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO voted no
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO voted no
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted yes
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE voted no
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH voted no
And 67 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- 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
- 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
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Wayne Richard Grisham R-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Raymond Peter Kogovsek D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-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
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Edward John Stack D-FL
- William Lehman 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
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Bennett McVey Stewart D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- James Michael Shannon D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Michael Darr Barnes D-MD
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr 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 Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- 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 Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ
- Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Geraldine Anne Ferraro D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond 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
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Thomas Andrew Daschle D-SD
- 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 Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- 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
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL
- Edwin Ruthvin Bethune Jr. R-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- William Howard Royer R-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA
- William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- 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
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Daniel Andrew Mica D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley 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
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-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
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Daniel Bever Crane R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Huey Joel Deckard R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- James Edmund Jeffries R-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
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Anthony Claude (Buddy) Leach Jr. D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-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
- 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
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Donald Joseph Albosta D-MI
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Arlen Ingolf Erdahl R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento 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
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- 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
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- William Carney R-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-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
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-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
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Lyle Williams R-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Charles Francis Dougherty R-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Donald Allen Bailey D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Eugene Vincent Atkinson D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- William Hill Boner D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- William Philip (Phil) Gramm D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Joseph Peyton Wyatt Jr. 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
- 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
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
Did not vote
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Raphael John Musto D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- John Guiher Hutchinson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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