House roll call 384 · 99th Congress · Dec 3, 1985
Motion to approve the house journal of monday, december 2, 1985. (motion passed)
On Dec 3, 1985, the House voted 255–126. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 213–9, Republicans 43–117. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 52 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
- 255
- No
- 126
- Did not vote
- 57
- Date
- Dec 3, 1985
By party
- Republicans43 yes · 117 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Democrats213 yes · 9 no · 35 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ voted yes
- Norman David Shumway R-CA voted yes
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA voted yes
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA voted yes
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted yes
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted yes
- Daniel Ray Coats R-IN voted yes
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN voted yes
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted yes
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA voted no
- Royden Patrick Dyson D-MD voted no
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD voted no
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted yes
- Robert William Davis R-MI voted yes
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN voted no
- Gerald Edward Sikorski D-MN voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
- William Webster Franklin R-MS voted yes
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC voted yes
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted yes
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE voted yes
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted yes
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY voted yes
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted yes
- Fred J. Eckert R-NY voted yes
- Jack French Kemp R-NY voted yes
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted yes
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA voted yes
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA voted yes
- Claudine Schneider R-RI voted yes
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC voted yes
- James Henry Quillen R-TN voted yes
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted yes
- David McCann (Mac) Sweeney R-TX voted yes
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX voted yes
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX voted yes
- Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT voted yes
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA voted yes
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT voted yes
- John Ripin Miller R-WA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- 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
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-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
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-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
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Jim Bates D-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Bruce Andrew Morrison 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
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson 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
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA
- George (Buddy) Darden 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
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Richard Howard Stallings D-ID
- Gus Savage D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski 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
- Terry Lee Bruce D-IL
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Daniel Ray Coats R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton 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
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Carl Christopher Perkins D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Catherine Small Long D-LA
- 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
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Michael Darr Barnes D-MD
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee 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
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- 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
- William Webster Franklin R-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery 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
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Bernard James Dwyer D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-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
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer 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
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Fred J. Eckert R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate 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
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron 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
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Claudine Schneider R-RI
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC
- 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
- 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
- William Reynolds Archer 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
- David McCann (Mac) Sweeney R-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
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Albert G. Bustamante D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James R. Olin D-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- John Ripin Miller R-WA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker 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
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Sidney Mccain III R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- Eugene A. Chappie R-CA
- Edwin Van Wyck Zschau 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
- 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
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Michael Lathrop Strang R-CO
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- John Rowland R-CT
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland R-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Connie Mack III R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Patrick Lynn Swindall R-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- John Grotberg R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Lynn Morley Martin R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- Jan Meyers R-KS
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Royden Patrick Dyson D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- John Rettie Mckernan Jr. R-ME
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Mark Deli Siljander R-MI
- Paul B. Henry R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Bill Schuette R-MI
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- Gerald Edward Sikorski D-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- William Wilfred Cobey Jr. R-NC
- Howard Coble R-NC
- William Martin Hendon R-NC
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Harold John Daub Jr. (Hal) R-NE
- Robert C. Smith R-NH
- Judd Alan Gregg R-NH
- Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
- Guy Victor Molinari R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Michael Dewine R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- Eldon Beau Boulter R-TX
- Thomas Gilbert Loeffler R-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- David Smith Monson R-UT
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Daniel French Slaughter Jr. R-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
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
Did not vote
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Kenneth Hood Mackay Jr. (Buddy) D-FL
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
- William Carney R-NY
- Robert Jan Mrazek D-NY
- Alton R. Waldon Jr. D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Joseph J. Dioguardi R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Edward Farrell Feighan D-OH
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Joseph Paul Kolter D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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