House roll call 281 · 99th Congress · Sep 18, 1985
To amend a prior substitute to a prior amendment to H R 7 which would eliminate federal school lunch assistance for children whose family income is above 250% o
On Sep 18, 1985, the House voted 174–254 (HR 7). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 18–230, Republicans 156–25. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 43 members voted against their own party.
During the 99th Congress (1985–1986), Ronald Reagan was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 174
- No
- 254
- Did not vote
- 10
- Date
- Sep 18, 1985
By party
- Republicans156 yes · 25 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Democrats18 yes · 230 no · 9 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO voted no
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO voted no
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted no
- Thomas Richard Carper D-DE voted yes
- 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
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA voted yes
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA voted no
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA voted no
- John Grotberg R-IL voted no
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA voted yes
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA voted yes
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted yes
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI voted no
- Paul B. Henry R-MI voted no
- Robert William Davis R-MI voted no
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT voted no
- William Martin Hendon R-NC voted no
- William John Hughes D-NJ voted yes
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted no
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY voted no
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted no
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted no
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY voted no
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA voted no
- James Henry Quillen R-TN voted no
- James Marvin Leath D-TX voted yes
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX voted yes
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- John Sidney Mccain III R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- Eugene A. Chappie R-CA
- Edwin Van Wyck Zschau R-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino 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
- Robert Kenneth Dornan 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
- Michael Lathrop Strang R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- John Rowland R-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland R-FL
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Connie Mack III R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA
- Patrick Lynn Swindall R-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Lynn Morley Martin R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN
- Daniel Ray Coats R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- Jan Meyers R-KS
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-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
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- John Rettie Mckernan Jr. R-ME
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Mark Deli Siljander R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Bill Schuette R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- William Webster Franklin R-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- William Wilfred Cobey Jr. R-NC
- Howard Coble R-NC
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Harold John Daub Jr. (Hal) R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Robert C. Smith R-NH
- Judd Alan Gregg R-NH
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
- William Carney R-NY
- Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
- Guy Victor Molinari R-NY
- Joseph J. Dioguardi R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY
- Fred J. Eckert R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- Michael Dewine R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Claudine Schneider R-RI
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- Eldon Beau Boulter R-TX
- David McCann (Mac) Sweeney R-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Thomas Gilbert Loeffler R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- David Smith Monson R-UT
- Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Daniel French Slaughter Jr. R-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- John Ripin Miller R-WA
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
- Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Ben Erdreich D-AL
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Tommy Franklin Robinson D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Douglas Harry Bosco D-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- Sala Galante 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
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman 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
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Bruce Andrew Morrison D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Kenneth Hood Mackay Jr. (Buddy) D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-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
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Richard Howard Stallings D-ID
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
- Gus Savage D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- John Grotberg R-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Terry Lee Bruce D-IL
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Peter Visclosky 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 Christopher Perkins 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
- Chester Greenough Atkins D-MA
- Nicholas James Mavroules D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Royden Patrick Dyson 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 Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Paul B. Henry R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Robert William Davis R-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
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-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
- Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- William Martin Hendon R-NC
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
- James Joseph Florio 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
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- Harry Reid D-NV
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Robert Jan Mrazek D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert 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
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. 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
- 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 D-PA
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Joseph Paul Kolter D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-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
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC
- Thomas Andrew Daschle D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
- William Hill Boner D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Jim Chapman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Albert G. Bustamante D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- James R. Olin D-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- 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
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Jim Moody D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers Jr. D-WV
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Did not vote
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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