House roll call 23 · 101st Congress · Apr 13, 1989
To pass HR 1750, contra aid, a bill to provide funds for non-military aid to the nicaraguan contras.
On Apr 13, 1989, the House voted 309–110 (HR 1750). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 154–100, Republicans 159–11. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 111 members voted against their own party.
During the 101st Congress (1989–1990), George H. W. Bush was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 309
- No
- 110
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Apr 13, 1989
By party
- Republicans159 yes · 11 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Democrats154 yes · 100 no · 10 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ voted no
- Douglas Harry Bosco D-CA voted no
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA voted no
- Nancy Pelosi D-CA voted no
- Barbara Boxer D-CA voted no
- George Miller D-CA voted no
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA voted no
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA voted no
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted no
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA voted no
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA voted no
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA voted no
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA voted no
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA voted no
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA voted no
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA voted no
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA voted no
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA voted no
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA voted no
- Jim Bates D-CA voted no
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA voted no
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell D-CO voted no
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT voted no
- Bruce Andrew Morrison D-CT voted no
- John R. Lewis D-GA voted no
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted no
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL voted no
- Gus Savage D-IL voted no
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL voted no
- Cardiss Collins D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL voted no
- Terry Lee Bruce D-IL voted no
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL voted no
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL voted no
- Glenn Poshard D-IL voted no
- James Prather Jontz D-IN voted no
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN voted no
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- James Paul David Bunning R-KY voted no
- Carl Christopher Perkins D-KY voted no
- Clyde Cecil Holloway R-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA voted no
- Barney Frank D-MA voted no
- Edward John Markey D-MA voted no
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy II D-MA voted no
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA voted no
- Joseph Edward Brennan D-ME voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted no
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI voted no
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN voted no
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN voted no
- Gerald Edward Sikorski D-MN voted no
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO voted no
- Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO voted no
- John Patrick Williams D-MT voted no
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC voted no
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted no
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND voted no
- Robert C. Smith R-NH voted no
- Charles Gywnne Douglas III R-NH voted no
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ voted no
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ voted no
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY voted no
- Floyd Harold Flake D-NY voted no
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY voted no
- Edolphus Towns D-NY voted no
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY voted no
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted no
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY voted no
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY voted no
And 31 more.
The bill
H.R. 1750: To implement the Bipartisan Accord on Central America of March 24, 1989.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Ben Erdreich D-AL
- Claude Harris Jr. D-AL
- Tommy Franklin Robinson R-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes III R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Jon Llewellyn Kyl R-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Thomas J. Campbell R-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Tony Coelho D-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
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Meldon Edises Levine D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Alfred A. Mccandless R-CA
- William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
- Charles Christopher Cox R-CA
- William David Lowery R-CA
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- David Evans Skaggs D-CO
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT
- John Rowland R-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- James William Grant R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Craig T. James R-FL
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Clifford Bundy Stearns R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-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
- Porter J. Goss R-FL
- Harry A. Johnston II D-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Lawrence Jack Smith D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Robert Lindsay Thomas D-GA
- Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA
- Ben Jones D-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins 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
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Frederick Lawrence Grandy R-IA
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- Richard Howard Stallings D-ID
- George Edward Sangmeister D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Lynn Morley Martin R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN
- Jill Lynette Long D-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton 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
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- James Allison Hayes D-LA
- Richard Edmund Neal D-MA
- Chester Greenough Atkins D-MA
- Nicholas James Mavroules D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Royden Patrick Dyson D-MD
- Helen Delich Bentley R-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
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Paul B. Henry R-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Bill Schuette R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Dennis Mark Hertel D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- John William (Jack) Buechner R-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Melton D. (Mel) Hancock R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Michael (Mike) Parker D-MS
- Larkin I. Smith R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- H. Martin Lancaster D-NC
- David Eugene Price D-NC
- Howard Coble R-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC
- Cass Ballenger R-NC
- James McClure Clarke D-NC
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Peter J. Hoagland D-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Bernard James Dwyer D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
- Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
- Steven Harvey Schiff R-NM
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- James Hubert Bilbray D-NV
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
- George Joseph Hochbrueckner D-NY
- Robert Jan Mrazek D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Guy Victor Molinari R-NY
- Eliot Lance Engel D-NY
- Nita M. Lowey D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- James T. Walsh R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- L. William Paxon R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- Michael Dewine R-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- James Mountain Inhofe R-OK
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- 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
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-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
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Ronald K. Machtley R-RI
- Claudine Schneider R-RI
- Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Elizabeth J. Patterson D-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- John S. Tanner D-TN
- Jim Chapman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- William Sarpalius D-TX
- Gregory H. Laughlin D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Lamar Seeligson Smith R-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
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Douglas Wayne Owens D-UT
- Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Lewis Franklin Payne Jr. D-VA
- James R. Olin D-VA
- Daniel French Slaughter Jr. R-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Peter P. Smith R-VT
- John Ripin Miller R-WA
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- Douglas Harry Bosco D-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Nancy Pelosi 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
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Jim Bates D-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Bruce Andrew Morrison D-CT
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
- Gus Savage D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Terry Lee Bruce D-IL
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- Glenn Poshard D-IL
- James Prather Jontz D-IN
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- James Paul David Bunning R-KY
- Carl Christopher Perkins D-KY
- Clyde Cecil Holloway R-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Barney Frank D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy II D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Joseph Edward Brennan D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Gerald Edward Sikorski D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
- Robert C. Smith R-NH
- Charles Gywnne Douglas III R-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Floyd Harold Flake D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- Donald James Pease 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
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Timothy Peter (Tim) Johnson D-SD
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Jolene Unsoeld D-WA
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Jim Moody D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers Jr. D-WV
Did not vote
- John Glen Browder D-AL
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
- Joel M. Hefley R-CO
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Susan Molinari R-NY
- José E. Serrano D-NY
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Preston M. (Pete) Geren D-TX
- Craig Anthony Washington D-TX
- Craig Lyle Thomas R-WY
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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