House roll call 208 · 105th Congress · Jun 19, 1997
(house rejected the frank of massachusetts motion to adjourn.)
On Jun 19, 1997, the House voted 123–282 on “On Motion to Adjourn”. Result: Failed. By party: Republicans 2–212, Democrats 120–70, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 72 members voted against their own party.
During the 105th Congress (1997–1998), Bill Clinton was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Result
- Failed
- Yes
- 123
- No
- 282
- Did not vote
- 39
- Date
- Jun 19, 1997
By party
- Republicans2 yes · 212 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Democrats120 yes · 70 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL voted no
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL voted no
- Zoe Lofgren D-CA voted no
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA voted no
- Brad Sherman D-CA voted no
- Jane L. Harman D-CA voted no
- F. Allen Boyd Jr. D-FL voted no
- Karen L. Thurman D-FL voted no
- Jim Davis D-FL voted no
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL voted no
- Cynthia Ann Mckinney D-GA voted no
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI voted no
- Leonard L. Boswell D-IA voted no
- Jesse L. Jackson Jr. D-IL voted no
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL voted no
- Rod R. Blagojevich D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL voted no
- Glenn Poshard D-IL voted no
- Peter Visclosky D-IN voted no
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN voted no
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted no
- Henry Scott (Scotty) Baesler D-KY voted no
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD voted no
- Elijah Eugene Cummings D-MD voted no
- Thomas H. Allen D-ME voted no
- John Elias Baldacci D-ME voted no
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI voted no
- Lynn Nancy Rivers D-MI voted no
- David R. Minge D-MN voted no
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN voted no
- William Paul Luther D-MN voted no
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN voted no
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted no
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-MO voted no
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS voted no
- David Eugene Price D-NC voted no
- William J. Pascrell Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Steven Rothman D-NJ voted no
- Robert Menendez D-NJ voted no
- Michael Patrick Forbes R-NY voted yes
- Carolyn Mccarthy D-NY voted no
- Nita M. Lowey D-NY voted no
- Dennis Kucinich D-OH voted no
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH voted no
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH voted no
- Darlene Hooley D-OR voted no
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA voted no
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA voted no
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA voted no
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA voted no
- Paul F. Mchale Jr. D-PA voted no
- Michael F. Doyle D-PA voted no
- Frank R. Mascara D-PA voted no
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC voted no
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN voted no
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN voted no
- John S. Tanner D-TN voted no
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX voted no
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX voted no
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX voted no
- Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX voted no
- Henry B. González D-TX voted no
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX voted no
- Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX voted no
- James Vear Hansen R-UT voted yes
- Robert C. Scott D-VA voted no
- Virgil H. Goode Jr. D-VA voted no
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA voted no
- Ron Kind D-WI voted no
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV voted no
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Robert Marion Berry D-AR
- Victor F. Snyder D-AR
- Ed Pastor D-AZ
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Lynn C. Woolsey D-CA
- Nancy Pelosi D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Ellen O'Kane Tauscher D-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA
- Sam Farr D-CA
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
- Walter Holden Capps D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Xavier Becerra D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Lucille Roybal-Allard D-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- Maxine Waters D-CA
- Juanita Millender-Mcdonald D-CA
- Loretta Sanchez D-CA
- Bob Filner D-CA
- David Evans Skaggs D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Rosa L. Delauro D-CT
- James H. Maloney D-CT
- Corrine Brown D-FL
- Carrie P. Meek D-FL
- Robert Wexler D-FL
- Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL
- Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-GA
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL
- Danny K. Davis D-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Julia May Carson D-IN
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- Christopher John D-LA
- John Walter Olver D-MA
- Richard Edmund Neal D-MA
- James P. Mcgovern D-MA
- Barney Frank D-MA
- John F. Tierney D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy II D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Bill Delahunt D-MA
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Bart T. Stupak D-MI
- James A. Barcia D-MI
- Deborah Ann Stabenow D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Karen Mccarthy D-MO
- Bennie Thompson D-MS
- Eva M. Clayton D-NC
- Bobby R. Etheridge D-NC
- Mike Mcintyre D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Michael Patrick Forbes R-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman 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
- Carolyn Bosher Maloney D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- José E. Serrano D-NY
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY
- Maurice Dunlea Hinchey D-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Ted Strickland D-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Sherrod Brown D-OH
- Elizabeth Furse D-OR
- Earl Blumenauer D-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Ronald Klink D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy D-RI
- Robert A. Weygand D-RI
- Harold Ford Jr. D-TN
- Max A. Sandlin D-TX
- Jim Turner D-TX
- Nicholas V. Lampson D-TX
- Lloyd Alton Doggett II D-TX
- Rubén Hinojosa D-TX
- Silvestre Reyes D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Ciro D. Rodriguez D-TX
- Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- James P. Moran D-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Adam Smith D-WA
- Thomas M. Barrett D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Jay W. Johnson D-WI
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- Robert Terry Everett R-AL
- Robert Riley R-AL
- Robert Aderholt R-AL
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL
- Spencer T. Bachus III R-AL
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL
- Asa Hutchinson R-AR
- Jay W. Dickey Jr. R-AR
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- John B. Shadegg R-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- John D. Hayworth Jr. R-AZ
- Frank D. Riggs R-CA
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA
- Thomas J. Campbell R-CA
- Zoe Lofgren D-CA
- George P. Radanovich R-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
- Brad Sherman D-CA
- Howard P. (Buck) Mckeon R-CA
- James E. Rogan R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Jane L. Harman D-CA
- John Stephen (Steve) Horn R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Jay C. Kim R-CA
- Ken Calvert R-CA
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
- Charles Christopher Cox R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Brian P. Bilbray R-CA
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Scott Mcinnis R-CO
- Robert W. Schaffer R-CO
- Joel M. Hefley R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE
- Charles Joseph Scarborough R-FL
- F. Allen Boyd Jr. 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 William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Jim Davis D-FL
- Charles Terrance Canady R-FL
- Daniel Miller R-FL
- Porter J. Goss R-FL
- David Joseph Weldon R-FL
- Mark A. Foley R-FL
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Jack Kingston R-GA
- Michael Allen (Mac) Collins R-GA
- Cynthia Ann Mckinney D-GA
- Bob Barr R-GA
- Saxby Chambliss R-GA
- John Nathan Deal R-GA
- Charles W. Norwood Jr. R-GA
- John Elmer Linder R-GA
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- James Allen Nussle R-IA
- Leonard L. Boswell D-IA
- Greg Ganske R-IA
- Thomas Latham R-IA
- Helen P. Chenoweth-Hage R-ID
- Michael Dean Crapo R-ID
- Jesse L. Jackson Jr. D-IL
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL
- Rod R. Blagojevich D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Gerald C. (Jerry) Weller R-IL
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
- Donald A. Manzullo R-IL
- Ray H. Lahood R-IL
- Glenn Poshard D-IL
- John M. Shimkus R-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- David Martin Mcintosh R-IN
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN
- Mark Edward Souder R-IN
- Stephen Earle Buyer R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- Edward Allan Pease R-IN
- John Nathan Hostettler R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Jerry Moran R-KS
- Jim Ryun R-KS
- Vincent K. Snowbarger R-KS
- Todd Tiahrt R-KS
- Wayne Edward (Ed) Whitfield R-KY
- Ron Lewis R-KY
- Anne Meagher Northup R-KY
- James Paul David Bunning R-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Henry Scott (Scotty) Baesler D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin R-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- John Cooksey R-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. R-MD
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD
- Elijah Eugene Cummings D-MD
- Constance A. Morella R-MD
- Thomas H. Allen D-ME
- John Elias Baldacci D-ME
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Nick H. Smith R-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI
- Lynn Nancy Rivers D-MI
- Gilbert W. Gutknecht R-MN
- David R. Minge D-MN
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- William Paul Luther D-MN
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN
- James Matthes Talent R-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-MO
- Roy Blunt R-MO
- Jo Ann Emerson R-MO
- Kenny Hulshof R-MO
- Roger F. Wicker R-MS
- Charles W. (Chip) Pickering Jr. R-MS
- Michael (Mike) Parker R-MS
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
- Rick Hill R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Jr. R-NC
- David Eugene Price D-NC
- Richard M. Burr R-NC
- Howard Coble R-NC
- Sue Myrick R-NC
- Cass Ballenger R-NC
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Jon Lynn Christensen R-NE
- William E. Barrett R-NE
- John E. Sununu R-NH
- Charles Foster Bass R-NH
- Frank A. Lobiondo R-NJ
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ
- William J. Pascrell Jr. D-NJ
- Steven Rothman D-NJ
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Michael James Pappas R-NJ
- Robert Menendez D-NJ
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- William Thomas Redmond R-NM
- John Eric Ensign R-NV
- James A. Gibbons R-NV
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY
- Peter T. King R-NY
- Carolyn Mccarthy D-NY
- Nita M. Lowey D-NY
- Sue W. Kelly R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- John Michael Mchugh R-NY
- James T. Walsh R-NY
- L. William Paxon R-NY
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- Steve Chabot R-OH
- Robert Jones (Rob) Portman R-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
- David Lee Hobson R-OH
- John Andrew Boehner R-OH
- Dennis Kucinich D-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- Deborah D. Pryce R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Robert William Ney R-OH
- Steve Largent R-OK
- Thomas Allen Coburn R-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins R-OK
- Julius Caesar Watts Jr. (J. C.) R-OK
- Frank D. Lucas R-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Darlene Hooley D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- John Peterson R-PA
- James Charles Greenwood R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Jon D. Fox R-PA
- Paul F. Mchale Jr. D-PA
- Joseph R. Pitts R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Michael F. Doyle D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Frank R. Mascara D-PA
- Philip Sheridan English R-PA
- Mark Sanford R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Lindsey O. Graham R-SC
- Robert Durden Inglis R-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- John Thune R-SD
- William Lewis Jenkins R-TN
- John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN
- Zachary Paul Wamp R-TN
- Van Hilleary R-TN
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Ed Bryant R-TN
- John S. Tanner D-TN
- Sam Johnson R-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- Pete Sessions R-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Kevin Patrick Brady R-TX
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
- Kay Granger R-TX
- William McClellan (Mac) Thornberry R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Lamar Seeligson Smith R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Henry Bonilla R-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX
- Merrill Cook R-UT
- Christopher B. Cannon R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Robert C. Scott D-VA
- Virgil H. Goode Jr. D-VA
- Robert William Goodlatte R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Thomas M. Davis III R-VA
- Richard Alan (Rick) White R-WA
- Jack Metcalf R-WA
- Linda Smith R-WA
- Richard Norman (Doc) Hastings R-WA
- George R. Nethercutt Jr. R-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Jennifer Blackburn Dunn R-WA
- Mark W. Neumann R-WI
- Scott L. Klug R-WI
- Ron Kind D-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
- Barbara L. Cubin R-WY
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Matthew James Salmon R-AZ
- George Miller D-CA
- Barbara Lee D-CA
- Richard William Pombo R-CA
- Lois Capps D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Edward Randall Royce R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Mary Bono R-CA
- Sonny Bono R-CA
- Diana Degette D-CO
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-FL
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Martin Thomas Meehan D-MA
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND
- Heather Wilson R-NM
- Steven Harvey Schiff R-NM
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- Floyd Harold Flake D-NY
- Gregory W. Meeks D-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Susan Molinari R-NY
- Vito John Fossella R-NY
- Eliot Lance Engel D-NY
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Steven C. Latourette R-OH
- Ernest James Istook Jr. R-OK
- Robert A. Brady D-PA
- Chaka Fattah D-PA
- Thomas Timothy (Tim) Holden D-PA
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC
- Frank Tejeda D-TX
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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