House roll call 764 · 97th Congress · Dec 13, 1982
To suspend the rules and pass H. J. RES. 429, a bill establishing a state commission on teacher excellence. (motion failed;2/3 required)
On Dec 13, 1982, the House voted 225–153 (HJRES 429). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 195–14, Republicans 29–140, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 43 members voted against their own party.
During the 97th Congress (1981–1982), Ronald Reagan was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 225
- No
- 153
- Did not vote
- 63
- Date
- Dec 13, 1982
By party
- Republicans29 yes · 140 no · 26 didn’t vote
- Democrats195 yes · 14 no · 37 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Lawrence Joseph Denardis R-CT voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted yes
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA voted yes
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted yes
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted yes
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL voted yes
- Paul Findley R-IL voted yes
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted yes
- Huey Joel Deckard R-IN voted yes
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted yes
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted yes
- Robert William Davis R-MI voted yes
- Arlen Ingolf Erdahl R-MN voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted yes
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ voted yes
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM voted yes
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted no
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted yes
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH voted no
- Lyle Williams R-OH voted yes
- James Leo Nelligan R-PA voted yes
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA voted yes
- Claudine Schneider R-RI voted yes
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX voted no
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX voted no
- William Philip (Phil) Gramm D-TX voted no
- James Marvin Leath D-TX voted no
- Jack English Hightower D-TX voted no
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX voted no
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted no
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT voted yes
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA voted yes
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- 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
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Raymond Peter Kogovsek D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Lawrence Joseph Denardis R-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- William Richard Ratchford D-CT
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL
- Daniel Andrew Mica D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- 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
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Katie Beatrice Hall D-IN
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Huey Joel Deckard R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Barney Frank D-MA
- James Michael Shannon D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Royden Patrick Dyson D-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Michael Darr Barnes D-MD
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Dennis Mark Hertel D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- Arlen Ingolf Erdahl R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo 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
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith 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
- Bernard James Dwyer D-NJ
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Geraldine Anne Ferraro D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-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
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Robert Norton Shamansky D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Lyle Williams R-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta I-PA
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- James Leo Nelligan R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Donald Allen Bailey D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Claudine Schneider R-RI
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Thomas Andrew Daschle D-SD
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- William Hill Boner D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- William Neff Patman D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Kent Ronald Hance D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Michael Edward Lowry D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier 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
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- Albert Lee Smith Jr. R-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
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Bobbi Fiedler R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Wayne Richard Grisham R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- William David Lowery R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- Lynn Morley Martin R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Daniel Bever Crane R-IL
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN
- Daniel Ray Coats R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- James Edmund Jeffries R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Mark Deli Siljander R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- James Whitney Dunn R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- R. Wendell Bailey R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Walter Eugene Johnston III R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- William Martin Hendon R-NC
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Harold John Daub Jr. (Hal) R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Judd Alan Gregg R-NH
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Gregory Wright Carman R-NY
- Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
- John Leboutillier R-NY
- Guy Victor Molinari R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY
- Gary Alcide Lee R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Edward Ford Weber R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Jean Spencer Ashbrook R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- James Kitchenman Coyne III R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- John Light Napier R-SC
- Clint Ronald Roberts R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- William Philip (Phil) Gramm D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Thomas Gilbert Loeffler R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. R-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Cleveland Keith Benedict R-WV
- David Michael Staton R-WV
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
Did not vote
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Eugene A. Chappie R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Harold Washington D-IL
- Gus Savage D-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- Nicholas James Mavroules D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Donald Joseph Albosta D-MI
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jon Clifton Hinson R-MS
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- William Carney R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Joseph Francis Smith D-PA
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Charles Francis Dougherty R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Eugene Vincent Atkinson R-PA
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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