(house approved the journal of friday, november 8, 1991.)

On Nov 12, 1991, the House voted 247–98 on “On Approving the Journal”. Result: Passed. By party: Democrats 204–4, Republicans 43–94. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 47 members voted against their own party.

During the 102nd Congress (1991–1992), George H. W. Bush was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Result: Passed
Yes: 247
No: 98
Did not vote: 96
Date: Nov 12, 1991

By party

Republicans43 yes · 94 no · 33 didn’t vote
Democrats204 yes · 4 no · 62 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL voted yes
David Timothy Dreier R-CA voted yes
Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA voted yes
Ronald C. Packard R-CA voted yes
Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT voted yes
Thomas W. Ewing R-IL voted yes
John Thomas Myers R-IN voted yes
Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
Richard Nichols R-KS voted yes
Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA voted yes
Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted yes
Carl Duane Pursell R-MI voted yes
Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI voted yes
Robert William Davis R-MI voted yes
William S. Broomfield R-MI voted yes
Gerald Edward Sikorski D-MN voted no
William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO voted yes
Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND voted no
Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted yes
Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM voted yes
Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY voted yes
Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted yes
Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
James T. Walsh R-NY voted yes
Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted yes
Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY voted yes
Michael Garver Oxley R-OH voted yes
Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH voted yes
John Richard Kasich R-OH voted yes
Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK voted yes
E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA voted yes
William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA voted yes
Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC voted yes
James Henry Quillen R-TN voted yes
John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN voted yes
Sam Johnson R-TX voted yes
William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted yes
Larry Ed Combest R-TX voted yes
James Vear Hansen R-UT voted yes
Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA voted yes
Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA voted yes
Scott L. Klug R-WI voted yes
Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI voted yes
Craig Lyle Thomas R-WY voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
John Glen Browder D-AL
Tom Bevill D-AL
Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL
Ben Erdreich D-AL
Claude Harris Jr. D-AL
Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
Robert T. Matsui D-CA
Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. 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
Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
Edward R. Roybal D-CA
Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
David Timothy Dreier R-CA
Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
Ronald C. Packard R-CA
David Evans Skaggs D-CO
Ben Nighthorse Campbell D-CO
Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
James Bacchus D-FL
William Lehman D-FL
Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
Robert Lindsay Thomas D-GA
John R. Lewis 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
Neil Abercrombie D-HI
Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
David Ray Nagle D-IA
Neal Edward Smith D-IA
Larry Larocco D-ID
Richard Howard Stallings D-ID
Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
Gus Savage D-IL
Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
Frank Annunzio D-IL
Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
John W. Cox Jr. 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
Peter Visclosky D-IN
Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
Timothy John Roemer D-IN
Jill Lynette Long D-IN
James Prather Jontz D-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
Richard Nichols R-KS
Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
William Huston Natcher D-KY
Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
Carl Christopher Perkins D-KY
Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
James Allison Hayes D-LA
John Walter Olver D-MA
Richard Edmund Neal 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
Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
Charles Thomas Mcmillen D-MD
Kweisi Mfume D-MD
Thomas Hiram Andrews D-ME
Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
Robert William Davis R-MI
David Edward Bonior D-MI
Barbara-Rose Collins 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
James Louis Oberstar D-MN
Joan Kelly Horn D-MO
Richard Andrew Gephardt 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
Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy D-MS
Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
Michael (Mike) Parker D-MS
Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
John Patrick Williams D-MT
Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
H. Martin Lancaster D-NC
Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
Peter J. Hoagland D-NE
Richard Swett D-NH
Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
William John Hughes D-NJ
Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
Bernard James Dwyer D-NJ
Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
Robert A. Roe D-NJ
Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
Bill Richardson D-NM
James Hubert Bilbray D-NV
George Joseph Hochbrueckner D-NY
Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
Thomas J. Manton D-NY
Edolphus Towns D-NY
Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
José E. Serrano D-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
James T. Walsh 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
Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
Charles J. Luken D-OH
Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
John Richard Kasich R-OH
Donald James Pease D-OH
James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
Edward Farrell Feighan D-OH
Louis Stokes D-OH
Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
Les Aucoin D-OR
Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
Michael J. Kopetski D-OR
Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
Joseph Paul Kolter D-PA
Gus Yatron D-PA
Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
John F. (Jack) Reed D-RI
Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC
Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC
Timothy Peter (Tim) Johnson D-SD
James Henry Quillen R-TN
John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN
Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
John S. Tanner D-TN
Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
Jim Chapman D-TX
Sam Johnson R-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
Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
Preston M. (Pete) Geren D-TX
William Sarpalius D-TX
Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
Craig Anthony Washington D-TX
Larry Ed Combest R-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
James Vear Hansen R-UT
Douglas Wayne Owens D-UT
William Orton D-UT
Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
Norman Sisisky D-VA
Lewis Franklin Payne Jr. D-VA
James P. Moran D-VA
Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
Allan Byron Swift D-WA
Jolene Unsoeld D-WA
Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
James A. Mcdermott D-WA
Leslie Aspin D-WI
Scott L. Klug R-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
Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Craig Lyle Thomas R-WY

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Donald Edwin Young R-AK
William Louis Dickinson R-AL
William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
Ed Pastor D-AZ
Morris King Udall D-AZ
Frank D. Riggs R-CA
Nancy Pelosi D-CA
Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
Meldon Edises Levine D-CA
Maxine Waters D-CA
Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
William David Lowery R-CA
Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
Rosa L. Delauro D-CT
Douglas Brian (Pete) Peterson D-FL
Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
Harry A. Johnston II D-FL
Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
Lawrence Jack Smith D-FL
Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA
Richard Belmont Ray D-GA
Ben Jones D-GA
James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
George Edward Sangmeister D-IL
William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
Cardiss Collins D-IL
John Edward Porter R-IL
Harris W. Fawell R-IL
Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
John Conyers Jr. D-MI
Dennis Mark Hertel D-MI
John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
Collin Clark Peterson D-MN
Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
David Eugene Price D-NC
Howard Coble R-NC
Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
Steven Harvey Schiff R-NM
Robert Jan Mrazek D-NY
Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
Floyd Harold Flake D-NY
James Haas Scheuer D-NY
Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
Charles B. Rangel D-NY
David O'Brien Martin R-NY
Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
William K. Brewster D-OK
Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
Lucien Edward Blackwell D-PA
William Herbert Gray III D-PA
Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
William Joseph Coyne D-PA
Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
William Franklin Goodling R-PA
Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
Austin John Murphy D-PA
Ronald K. Machtley R-RI
Elizabeth J. Patterson D-SC
Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
Charles Wilson D-TX
Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
Gregory H. Laughlin D-TX
James R. Olin D-VA
Daniel French Slaughter Jr. R-VA
George Allen R-VA
Bernard Sanders I-VT
Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA
Harley Orrin Staggers Jr. D-WV
Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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