House roll call 449 · 100th Congress · Dec 10, 1987
To amend HR 3100, foreign aid authorization, to strike language urging the President to provide debt rescheduling to low-income african countries.
On Dec 10, 1987, the House voted 125–259 (HR 3100). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 13–211, Republicans 113–51. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 64 members voted against their own party.
During the 100th Congress (1987–1988), Ronald Reagan was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 125
- No
- 259
- Did not vote
- 53
- Date
- Dec 10, 1987
By party
- Republicans113 yes · 51 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats13 yes · 211 no · 38 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL voted yes
- Ben Erdreich D-AL voted yes
- Claude Harris Jr. D-AL voted yes
- Tommy Franklin Robinson D-AR voted yes
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ voted no
- Alfred A. Mccandless R-CA voted no
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA voted no
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT voted no
- John Rowland R-CT voted no
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT voted no
- Patricia Saiki R-HI voted no
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA voted no
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA voted no
- Frederick Lawrence Grandy R-IA voted no
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted no
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted no
- Lynn Morley Martin R-IL voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS voted no
- Jan Meyers R-KS voted no
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS voted no
- James Paul David Bunning R-KY voted no
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA voted yes
- James Allison Hayes D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Constance A. Morella R-MD voted no
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted no
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI voted no
- Paul B. Henry R-MI voted no
- Robert William Davis R-MI voted no
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN voted no
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO voted no
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC voted no
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE voted no
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted no
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green 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
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH voted yes
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA voted no
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA voted no
- Claudine Schneider R-RI voted no
- Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC voted no
- Timothy Peter (Tim) Johnson D-SD voted yes
- James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN voted yes
- James Marvin Leath D-TX voted yes
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA voted no
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA voted no
- Daniel French Slaughter Jr. R-VA voted no
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA voted no
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA voted no
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT voted no
- John Ripin Miller R-WA voted no
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI voted no
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Ben Erdreich D-AL
- Claude Harris Jr. D-AL
- Tommy Franklin Robinson D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes III R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- Jon Llewellyn Kyl R-AZ
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- Ernest Leslie Konnyu R-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- William David Lowery R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Joel M. Hefley R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Patrick Lynn Swindall R-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- Jack Davis R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN
- Daniel Ray Coats R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- James Allison Hayes D-LA
- Clyde Cecil Holloway R-LA
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Bill Schuette R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- John William (Jack) Buechner R-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Howard Coble R-NC
- Cass Ballenger R-NC
- Harold John Daub Jr. (Hal) R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith 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
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
- Norman Frederick Lent 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
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- Michael Dewine R-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- James Mountain Inhofe R-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Timothy Peter (Tim) Johnson D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-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
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- Douglas Harry Bosco D-CA
- Nancy Pelosi 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
- 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
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Alfred A. Mccandless R-CA
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA
- Jim Bates D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- David Evans Skaggs D-CO
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell D-CO
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Bruce Andrew Morrison D-CT
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT
- John Rowland R-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
- James William Grant D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-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
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Patricia Saiki R-HI
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- David Ray Nagle D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Frederick Lawrence Grandy R-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
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Lynn Morley Martin 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
- James Prather Jontz D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- James Charles Slattery D-KS
- Jan Meyers R-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- James Paul David Bunning R-KY
- Carl Christopher Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby 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
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy II D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Royden Patrick Dyson D-MD
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Charles Thomas Mcmillen D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
- Kweisi Mfume D-MD
- Constance A. Morella R-MD
- Joseph Edward Brennan D-ME
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
- H. Martin Lancaster D-NC
- David Eugene Price 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 McClure Clarke D-NC
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter 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
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- George Joseph Hochbrueckner D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Robert Jan Mrazek D-NY
- Floyd Harold Flake 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
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss 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
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Edward Farrell Feighan D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio 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
- 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
- William Franklin Goodling R-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
- Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Elizabeth J. Patterson D-SC
- Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Jim Chapman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle 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
- Douglas Wayne Owens D-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- James R. Olin D-VA
- Daniel French Slaughter Jr. R-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-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
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Jim Moody D-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
Did not vote
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- Sala Galante Burton D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Meldon Edises Levine D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland R-FL
- Connie Mack III R-FL
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
- James Hubert Bilbray D-NV
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- William Hill Boner D-TN
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- David McCann (Mac) Sweeney R-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Lamar Seeligson Smith R-TX
- Lewis Franklin Payne Jr. D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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