House roll call 79 · 97th Congress · Jun 18, 1981
To amend H.R. 3480 by prohibiting legal services to clients in actions where local school boards or their employees are defendants. (motion failed)
On Jun 18, 1981, the House voted 176–219 (HR 3480). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 47–174, Republicans 135–50, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 97 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
- 176
- No
- 219
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- Jun 18, 1981
By party
- Republicans135 yes · 50 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Democrats47 yes · 174 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL voted yes
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted yes
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR voted yes
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted yes
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted no
- Bobbi Fiedler R-CA voted no
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA voted no
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO voted no
- Lawrence Joseph Denardis R-CT voted no
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted no
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted yes
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland 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
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted yes
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA voted yes
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA voted yes
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA voted no
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA voted no
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted no
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted no
- Lynn Morley Martin R-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted no
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN voted no
- Huey Joel Deckard R-IN voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted yes
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted yes
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA voted yes
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA voted yes
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted yes
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA voted yes
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted no
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA voted yes
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI voted no
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI voted no
- James Whitney Dunn R-MI voted no
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI voted yes
- Donald Joseph Albosta D-MI voted yes
- Arlen Ingolf Erdahl R-MN voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted no
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE voted no
- Judd Alan Gregg R-NH voted no
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted no
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ voted no
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted no
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
- Guy Victor Molinari 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
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH voted no
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH voted no
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH voted yes
- Lyle Williams R-OH voted no
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH voted yes
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH voted yes
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK voted yes
- Gus Yatron D-PA voted yes
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA voted yes
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted no
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted yes
And 17 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Albert Lee Smith Jr. R-AL
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Edwin Ruthvin Bethune Jr. R-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Eugene A. Chappie R-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Charles Pashayan Jr. 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
- 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
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Daniel Andrew Mica D-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Daniel Bever Crane R-IL
- 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
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Mark Deli Siljander R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Donald Joseph Albosta D-MI
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- 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 Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- William Martin Hendon R-NC
- Harold John Daub Jr. (Hal) R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- William Carney R-NY
- Gregory Wright Carman R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
- John Leboutillier R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY
- Gary Alcide Lee R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Edward Ford Weber R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- Charles Francis Dougherty R-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- James Kitchenman Coyne III R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- James Leo Nelligan R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-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 Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- William Neff Patman D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Thomas Gilbert Loeffler R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- David Daniel Marriott 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
- 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
- Thomas Evert Petri 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
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- 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
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Bobbi Fiedler R-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-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
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Lawrence Joseph Denardis R-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- William Richard Ratchford D-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Charles Floyd Hatcher 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
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Harold Washington D-IL
- Gus Savage 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
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Lynn Morley Martin 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 Patrick Hiler R-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
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs 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
- Nicholas James Mavroules D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-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
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- James Whitney Dunn R-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI
- Dennis Mark Hertel D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- Arlen Ingolf Erdahl R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- Judd Alan Gregg R-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema 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
- James David Santini D-NV
- Thomas Joseph Downey 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
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Guy Victor Molinari R-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
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Robert Norton Shamansky D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Lyle Williams R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Michael Lynn Synar 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
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Donald Allen Bailey D-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Eugene Vincent Atkinson 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
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- 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
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Did not vote
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- William Lehman D-FL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Katie Beatrice Hall D-IN
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
- Jon Clifton Hinson R-MS
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Jean Spencer Ashbrook R-OH
- Joseph Francis Smith D-PA
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- William Hill Boner D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- William Philip (Phil) Gramm D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Kent Ronald Hance D-TX
Other votes
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