House roll call 750 · 103rd Congress · May 5, 1994
Public safety and recreation firearms use protection act
On May 5, 1994, the House voted 216–214 on “On Passage” (HR 4296). Result: Passed. By party: Democrats 177–77, Republicans 38–137, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 115 members voted against their own party.
During the 103rd Congress (1993–1994), Bill Clinton was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Result
- Passed
- Yes
- 216
- No
- 214
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- May 5, 1994
By party
- Republicans38 yes · 137 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Democrats177 yes · 77 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- John Glen Browder D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL voted no
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL voted no
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted no
- Michael Huffington R-CA voted yes
- John Stephen (Steve) Horn R-CA voted yes
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT voted yes
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT voted yes
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE voted yes
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL voted no
- Douglas Brian (Pete) Peterson D-FL voted no
- Karen L. Thurman D-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted yes
- Daniel Miller R-FL voted yes
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL voted yes
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL voted yes
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA voted no
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA voted no
- John Nathan Deal D-GA voted no
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted yes
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted no
- Larry Larocco D-ID voted no
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted yes
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted yes
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL voted no
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL voted yes
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted yes
- Glenn Poshard D-IL voted no
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN voted no
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted no
- Jan Meyers R-KS voted yes
- Thomas J. Barlow III D-KY voted no
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA voted no
- James Allison Hayes D-LA voted no
- Peter I. Blute R-MA voted yes
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD voted yes
- Constance A. Morella R-MD voted yes
- Bart T. Stupak D-MI voted no
- James A. Barcia D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN voted no
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN voted no
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted no
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-MO voted no
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Michael (Mike) Parker D-MS voted no
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS voted no
- John Patrick Williams D-MT voted no
- H. Martin Lancaster D-NC voted no
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC voted no
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC voted no
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE voted yes
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ voted yes
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted yes
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ voted yes
- Bill Richardson D-NM voted no
- James Hubert Bilbray D-NV voted no
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY voted yes
- Peter T. King R-NY voted yes
- David A. Levy R-NY voted yes
- Susan Molinari R-NY voted yes
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY voted yes
- Maurice Dunlea Hinchey D-NY voted no
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY voted yes
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Ted Strickland D-OH voted no
- John Richard Kasich R-OH voted yes
- Deborah D. Pryce R-OH voted yes
- William K. Brewster D-OK voted no
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR voted no
- Michael J. Kopetski D-OR voted no
- Ronald Klink D-PA voted no
- Thomas Timothy (Tim) Holden D-PA voted no
- James Charles Greenwood R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA voted no
And 35 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln D-AR
- Samuel G. Coppersmith D-AZ
- Ed Pastor D-AZ
- Karan English D-AZ
- Daniel Hamburg D-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Lynn C. Woolsey D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Nancy Pelosi D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Sam Farr D-CA
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
- Michael Huffington R-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Xavier Becerra D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Lucille Roybal-Allard D-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- Maxine Waters D-CA
- Jane L. Harman D-CA
- Walter R. Tucker III D-CA
- John Stephen (Steve) Horn R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Lynn Schenk D-CA
- Bob Filner D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- David Evans Skaggs D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Rosa L. Delauro D-CT
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE
- Corrine Brown D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Daniel Miller R-FL
- James Bacchus D-FL
- Carrie P. Meek D-FL
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL
- Harry A. Johnston II D-FL
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL
- Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-GA
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- Clete Donald Johnson Jr. (Don) D-GA
- Cynthia Ann Mckinney D-GA
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL
- Mel Reynolds D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- George Edward Sangmeister D-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- James Charles Slattery D-KS
- Jan Meyers R-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Henry Scott (Scotty) Baesler D-KY
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- Cleo Fields D-LA
- John Walter Olver D-MA
- Richard Edmund Neal D-MA
- Peter I. Blute R-MA
- Barney Frank D-MA
- Martin Thomas Meehan D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy II D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Kweisi Mfume D-MD
- Constance A. Morella R-MD
- Thomas Hiram Andrews D-ME
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Barbara-Rose Collins D-MI
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
- David R. Minge D-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
- Bennie Thompson D-MS
- Eva M. Clayton D-NC
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
- David Eugene Price D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Peter J. Hoagland D-NE
- Richard Swett D-NH
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ
- Herbert C. Klein D-NJ
- Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Robert Menendez D-NJ
- George Joseph Hochbrueckner D-NY
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY
- Peter T. King R-NY
- David A. Levy R-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- Floyd Harold Flake D-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Jerrold Lewis Nadler D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
- Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY
- Susan Molinari R-NY
- Carolyn Bosher Maloney D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- José E. Serrano D-NY
- Eliot Lance Engel D-NY
- Nita M. Lowey D-NY
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- David Scott Mann D-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Sherrod Brown D-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- Deborah D. Pryce R-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Eric D. Fingerhut D-OH
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Elizabeth Furse D-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- Lucien Edward Blackwell D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- James Charles Greenwood R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Paul F. Mchale Jr. D-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- Ronald K. Machtley R-RI
- John F. (Jack) Reed D-RI
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- Craig Anthony Washington D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX
- Karen Shepherd D-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Robert C. Scott D-VA
- James P. Moran D-VA
- Leslie Larkin Byrne D-VA
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- Maria E. Cantwell D-WA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Jay Robert Inslee D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Myron Bradford (Mike) Kreidler D-WA
- Scott L. Klug R-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Thomas M. Barrett D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- Robert Terry Everett R-AL
- John Glen Browder D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL
- Spencer T. Bachus III R-AL
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Timothy Hutchinson R-AR
- Jay W. Dickey Jr. R-AR
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- Jon Llewellyn Kyl R-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA
- William P. Baker R-CA
- Richard William Pombo R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
- Howard P. (Buck) Mckeon R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Edward Randall Royce R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Jay C. Kim R-CA
- Ken Calvert R-CA
- Alfred A. Mccandless R-CA
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Charles Christopher Cox R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Scott Mcinnis R-CO
- A. Wayne Allard R-CO
- Joel M. Hefley R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Gary A. Franks R-CT
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Douglas Brian (Pete) Peterson D-FL
- Tillie Kidd Fowler R-FL
- Karen L. Thurman D-FL
- Clifford Bundy Stearns R-FL
- John L. Mica R-FL
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL
- Charles Terrance Canady R-FL
- Porter J. Goss R-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-FL
- Jack Kingston R-GA
- Michael Allen (Mac) Collins R-GA
- John Elmer Linder R-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA
- John Nathan Deal D-GA
- James Allen Nussle R-IA
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Frederick Lawrence Grandy R-IA
- Larry Larocco D-ID
- Michael Dean Crapo R-ID
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
- Donald A. Manzullo R-IL
- Glenn Poshard D-IL
- Stephen Earle Buyer R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- Thomas J. Barlow III D-KY
- James Paul David Bunning R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- James Allison Hayes D-LA
- Peter Gerard Torkildsen R-MA
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Bart T. Stupak D-MI
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- James A. Barcia D-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Nick H. Smith R-MI
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- Rod Grams R-MN
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- James Matthes Talent R-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-MO
- Melton D. (Mel) Hancock R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Michael (Mike) Parker D-MS
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- H. Martin Lancaster 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
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC
- William E. Barrett R-NE
- William H. Zeliff Jr. R-NH
- Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
- Richard Zimmer R-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
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- John Michael Mchugh R-NY
- James T. Walsh R-NY
- Maurice Dunlea Hinchey D-NY
- L. William Paxon R-NY
- Robert Jones (Rob) Portman R-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
- Ted Strickland D-OH
- David Lee Hobson R-OH
- John Andrew Boehner R-OH
- Martin R. Hoke R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- James Mountain Inhofe R-OK
- William K. Brewster D-OK
- Ernest James Istook Jr. R-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Michael J. Kopetski D-OR
- Ronald Klink D-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Thomas Timothy (Tim) Holden D-PA
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Richard John (Rick) Santorum R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Robert Durden Inglis R-SC
- Timothy Peter (Tim) Johnson D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John J. Duncan Jr. R-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
- Sam Johnson R-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Preston M. (Pete) Geren D-TX
- William Sarpalius D-TX
- Gregory H. Laughlin D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Lamar Seeligson Smith R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Henry Bonilla R-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Frank Tejeda D-TX
- Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- William Orton D-UT
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Lewis Franklin Payne Jr. D-VA
- Robert William Goodlatte R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Jolene Unsoeld D-WA
- Jennifer Blackburn Dunn R-WA
- Peter William Barca 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
- Craig Lyle Thomas R-WY
Did not vote
- Eni F. H. Faleomavaega D-AS
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Eleanor Holmes Norton D-DC
- Robert A. Underwood D-GU
- Jill Lynette Long D-IN
- Ron Lewis R-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Paul B. Henry R-MI
- Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy D-MS
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Frank D. Lucas R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Carlos A. Romero-Barceló D-PR
- Ron De Lugo D-VI
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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