House roll call 57 · 99th Congress · Apr 23, 1985
To agree to h res 136, the rule under which H. J. RES. 239 is to be considered. H. J. RES. 239 approves the obligation of funds available under public law 98
On Apr 23, 1985, the House voted 286–127. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 233–7, Republicans 56–122. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 63 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
- 286
- No
- 127
- Did not vote
- 21
- Date
- Apr 23, 1985
By party
- Republicans56 yes · 122 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Democrats233 yes · 7 no · 17 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Louis Dickinson 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
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ voted yes
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA voted no
- Connie Mack III R-FL voted yes
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted yes
- Gus Savage D-IL voted no
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted yes
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL voted yes
- Robert Henry Michel 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
- Jan Meyers R-KS voted yes
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY voted yes
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY voted yes
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA voted yes
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA voted no
- William Henson Moore III R-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD voted yes
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted yes
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted yes
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI voted yes
- Paul B. Henry R-MI voted yes
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI voted yes
- Bill Schuette R-MI voted yes
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI voted no
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted yes
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted no
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO voted yes
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted yes
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE voted yes
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted yes
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted yes
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM voted yes
- Guy Victor Molinari R-NY voted yes
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert 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
- John Richard Kasich R-OH voted yes
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH voted yes
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted yes
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA voted yes
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA voted yes
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA voted yes
- Claudine Schneider R-RI voted yes
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC voted yes
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC voted yes
- James Henry Quillen R-TN voted yes
- John James Duncan R-TN voted yes
- Charles Wilson D-TX voted no
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX voted no
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA voted yes
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Louis Dickinson 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
- James Thomas Kolbe 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
- 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
- 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
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Bruce Andrew Morrison D-CT
- Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Kenneth Hood Mackay Jr. (Buddy) D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons 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
- 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
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Richard Howard Stallings D-ID
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo 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
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-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
- Daniel Ray Coats R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. 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
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Carl Christopher Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Catherine Small Long 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
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Michael Darr Barnes D-MD
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- 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
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Bill Schuette R-MI
- David Edward Bonior 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
- 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
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Edolphus Towns 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
- 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
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Donald James Pease D-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
- 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
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-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
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Claudine Schneider R-RI
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-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
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James R. Olin D-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-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
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-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
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Eugene A. Chappie R-CA
- Edwin Van Wyck Zschau R-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Bobbi Fiedler R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-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
- 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
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- John Rowland R-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland R-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Patrick Lynn Swindall R-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- Gus Savage D-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Grotberg R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Lynn Morley Martin R-IL
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA
- John Rettie Mckernan Jr. R-ME
- Mark Deli Siljander R-MI
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- William Webster Franklin R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- William Wilfred Cobey Jr. R-NC
- Howard Coble R-NC
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) 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
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
- William Carney R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
- Joseph J. Dioguardi R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY
- Fred J. Eckert R-NY
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Michael Dewine R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-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
- Daniel French Slaughter Jr. 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
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Alton R. Waldon Jr. D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Jim Chapman D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Albert G. Bustamante D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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