House roll call 35 · 98th Congress · Mar 21, 1983
To pass H.R. 1149. (motion passed)
On Mar 21, 1983, the House voted 252–93 (HR 1149). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 225–6, Republicans 37–95. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 43 members voted against their own party.
During the 98th Congress (1983–1984), Ronald Reagan was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 252
- No
- 93
- Did not vote
- 76
- Date
- Mar 21, 1983
By party
- Republicans37 yes · 95 no · 35 didn’t vote
- Democrats225 yes · 6 no · 41 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL voted no
- Edwin Van Wyck Zschau R-CA voted yes
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL voted yes
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted yes
- Connie Mack III R-FL voted yes
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted yes
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA voted yes
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted yes
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted yes
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- John Rettie Mckernan Jr. R-ME voted yes
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted yes
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI voted yes
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted yes
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN voted yes
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted yes
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted yes
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY voted yes
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted yes
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA voted yes
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA voted yes
- Claudine Schneider R-RI voted yes
- John James Duncan R-TN voted yes
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX voted yes
- William Neff Patman D-TX voted no
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted no
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI voted yes
- Toby A. Roth R-WI voted yes
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI voted yes
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Ben Erdreich D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- James Francis Mcnulty Jr. D-AZ
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Barbara Boxer 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
- Edwin Van Wyck Zschau R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Meldon Edises Levine D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jim Bates D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Raymond Peter Kogovsek D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Bruce Andrew Morrison D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- William Richard Ratchford D-CT
- Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Kenneth Hood Mackay Jr. (Buddy) D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL
- Connie Mack III R-FL
- Daniel Andrew Mica D-FL
- Lawrence Jack Smith D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Robert Lindsay Thomas D-GA
- Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Gus Savage D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Katie Beatrice Hall D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- James Charles Slattery D-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- 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
- Nicholas James Mavroules D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley 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
- John Rettie Mckernan Jr. R-ME
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-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
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- Gerald Edward Sikorski 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
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Charles Robin Britt D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- James McClure Clarke 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
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Bernard James Dwyer D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
- Harry Reid D-NV
- Robert Jan Mrazek D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Geraldine Anne Ferraro D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Edward Farrell Feighan D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Joseph Paul Kolter 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
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Claudine Schneider R-RI
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC
- John James Duncan R-TN
- James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
- William Hill Boner D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Kent Ronald Hance D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Tommy (Tom) Joe Vandergriff D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Michael Edward Lowry D-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Jim Moody D-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers Jr. D-WV
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II 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
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Sidney Mccain III R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Eugene A. Chappie R-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Bobbi Fiedler R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Alfred A. Mccandless R-CA
- William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- William David Lowery R-CA
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- Lynn Morley Martin R-IL
- Daniel Bever Crane R-IL
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN
- Daniel Ray Coats R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- William Webster Franklin R-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Harold John Daub Jr. (Hal) R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Judd Alan Gregg R-NH
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
- William Carney R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- Michael Dewine R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
- William Philip (Phil) Gramm R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- William Neff Patman D-TX
- Thomas Gilbert Loeffler R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
- Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
Did not vote
- Edwin Ruthvin Bethune Jr. R-AR
- Douglas Harry Bosco D-CA
- Sala Galante Burton D-CA
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
- Harold Washington D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Mark Deli Siljander R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Donald Joseph Albosta D-MI
- Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
- Guy Victor Molinari R-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Lyle Williams R-OH
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Frank Girard Harrison D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- Thomas Andrew Daschle D-SD
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- James R. Olin D-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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