House roll call 416 · 99th Congress · Dec 12, 1985
Motion to approve the journal of december 11, 1985. (motion passed)
On Dec 12, 1985, the House voted 274–111. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 209–9, Republicans 66–102. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 75 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
- 274
- No
- 111
- Did not vote
- 53
- Date
- Dec 12, 1985
By party
- Republicans66 yes · 102 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Democrats209 yes · 9 no · 39 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL voted yes
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted yes
- John Sidney Mccain III R-AZ voted yes
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ voted yes
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ voted yes
- Norman David Shumway R-CA voted yes
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA voted yes
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA voted yes
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- Michael Lathrop Strang R-CO voted yes
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO voted yes
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT voted yes
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL voted yes
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID voted yes
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL voted yes
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL voted no
- 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
- Jan Meyers R-KS voted yes
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted yes
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA voted no
- William Henson Moore III R-LA voted yes
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD voted no
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI voted yes
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted yes
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted yes
- Gerald Edward Sikorski D-MN voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted yes
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO voted yes
- William Webster Franklin R-MS voted yes
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS voted yes
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) 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
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM voted yes
- Edolphus Towns D-NY voted no
- Guy Victor Molinari R-NY voted yes
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted yes
- Joseph J. Dioguardi 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
- Jack French Kemp R-NY voted yes
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Bob Mcewen R-OH voted yes
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH voted yes
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted yes
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH voted yes
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR voted yes
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR voted yes
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA voted yes
- Claudine Schneider R-RI voted yes
- James Henry Quillen R-TN voted yes
- John James Duncan R-TN voted yes
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted yes
- Eldon Beau Boulter R-TX voted yes
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX voted yes
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX voted yes
- James Vear Hansen R-UT voted yes
- Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT voted yes
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA voted yes
- George William Whitehurst R-VA voted yes
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA voted yes
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT voted yes
- John Ripin Miller R-WA voted yes
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI voted yes
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- 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
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- John Sidney Mccain III R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-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
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Meldon Edises Levine D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Jim Bates D-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Michael Lathrop Strang R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Bruce Andrew Morrison D-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-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
- 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
- Wyche Fowler Jr. 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
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- Richard Howard Stallings D-ID
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
- Gus Savage D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Terry Lee Bruce 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
- Jan Meyers R-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
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-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
- 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
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
- Michael Darr Barnes D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-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
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- 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
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Webster Franklin R-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) 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 A. Roe D-NJ
- Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
- Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- Harry Reid D-NV
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Robert Jan Mrazek D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo 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
- 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
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Joseph J. Dioguardi R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-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
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-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
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Joseph Paul Kolter 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
- 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
- Thomas Andrew Daschle D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan 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
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Eldon Beau Boulter R-TX
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Albert G. Bustamante D-TX
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel 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
- Thomas Evert Petri 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
How each representative voted: No
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- Edwin Van Wyck Zschau 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
- 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
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- John Rowland R-CT
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Michael Bilirakis 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
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- 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
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts 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
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- John Rettie Mckernan Jr. R-ME
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Mark Deli Siljander R-MI
- Paul B. Henry R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Robert William Davis 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
- 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
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
- William Carney R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Michael Dewine R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- Thomas Gilbert Loeffler R-TX
- David Smith Monson R-UT
- 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
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Eugene A. Chappie R-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
- William David Lowery R-CA
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Chester Greenough Atkins D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Royden Patrick Dyson D-MD
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Bill Schuette R-MI
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Alton R. Waldon Jr. D-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Fred J. Eckert R-NY
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- David McCann (Mac) Sweeney R-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- James R. Olin D-VA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Other votes
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