House roll call 369 · 105th Congress · Sep 9, 1997
H.R.2264 by porter (r-il) -- department of labor appropriations act, 1998 department of health and human services appropriations act, 1998 department of educati
On Sep 9, 1997, the House voted 164–255 on “On Agreeing to the Amendment” (HR 2264). Result: Failed. By party: Republicans 156–64, Democrats 8–190, Independents 0–1. 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
- 164
- No
- 255
- Did not vote
- 25
- Date
- Sep 9, 1997
By party
- Republicans156 yes · 64 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Democrats8 yes · 190 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted no
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL voted no
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL voted yes
- Jay W. Dickey Jr. R-AR voted no
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ voted no
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA voted no
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA voted no
- John Stephen (Steve) Horn R-CA voted no
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA voted no
- Jay C. Kim R-CA voted no
- Brian P. Bilbray R-CA voted no
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham R-CA voted no
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT voted no
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT voted no
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- Daniel Miller R-FL voted no
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL voted no
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-FL voted no
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL voted no
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted no
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted no
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL voted no
- Ray H. Lahood R-IL voted no
- Wayne Edward (Ed) Whitfield R-KY voted no
- Anne Meagher Northup R-KY voted no
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY voted no
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA voted no
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD voted no
- Constance A. Morella R-MD voted no
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI voted no
- David Lee Camp R-MI voted no
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI voted no
- Michael (Mike) Parker R-MS voted no
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS voted yes
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC voted no
- Frank A. Lobiondo R-NJ voted no
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted no
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted no
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ voted no
- Michael Patrick Forbes R-NY voted no
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY voted no
- Peter T. King R-NY voted no
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted no
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY voted no
- John Michael Mchugh R-NY voted no
- James T. Walsh R-NY voted no
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY voted no
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH voted no
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH voted no
- David Lee Hobson R-OH voted no
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH voted no
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH voted yes
- Robert William Ney R-OH voted no
- Steven C. Latourette R-OH voted no
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA voted no
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
- Jon D. Fox R-PA voted no
- George William Gekas R-PA voted no
- Michael F. Doyle D-PA voted yes
- Philip Sheridan English R-PA voted no
- John S. Tanner D-TN voted yes
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX voted yes
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX voted yes
- Henry Bonilla R-TX voted no
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA voted no
- Virgil H. Goode Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA voted no
- Thomas M. Davis III R-VA voted no
- Jack Metcalf R-WA voted no
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- Asa Hutchinson R-AR
- Matthew James Salmon R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- John B. Shadegg R-AZ
- John D. Hayworth Jr. R-AZ
- Frank D. Riggs R-CA
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA
- Richard William Pombo R-CA
- Thomas J. Campbell R-CA
- George P. Radanovich R-CA
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
- Howard P. (Buck) Mckeon R-CA
- James E. Rogan R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Edward Randall Royce R-CA
- Ken Calvert R-CA
- Sonny Bono R-CA
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard 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
- Charles Joseph Scarborough R-FL
- Tillie Kidd Fowler R-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
- David Joseph Weldon R-FL
- Mark A. Foley R-FL
- Jack Kingston R-GA
- Michael Allen (Mac) Collins R-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
- James Allen Nussle R-IA
- Greg Ganske R-IA
- Thomas Latham R-IA
- Helen P. Chenoweth-Hage R-ID
- Michael Dean Crapo R-ID
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Gerald C. (Jerry) Weller R-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
- Donald A. Manzullo R-IL
- John M. Shimkus R-IL
- David Martin Mcintosh R-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
- Jerry Moran R-KS
- Jim Ryun R-KS
- Vincent K. Snowbarger R-KS
- Todd Tiahrt R-KS
- Ron Lewis R-KY
- James Paul David Bunning R-KY
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin R-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- John Cooksey R-LA
- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. R-MD
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Nick H. Smith R-MI
- Gilbert W. Gutknecht R-MN
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- James Matthes Talent R-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
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
- Rick Hill R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Jr. R-NC
- Richard M. Burr R-NC
- Howard Coble R-NC
- Sue Myrick R-NC
- Cass Ballenger 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
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Michael James Pappas R-NJ
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- William Thomas Redmond R-NM
- John Eric Ensign R-NV
- Sue W. Kelly R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- L. William Paxon R-NY
- Steve Chabot R-OH
- Robert Jones (Rob) Portman R-OH
- John Andrew Boehner R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Deborah D. Pryce R-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Steve Largent R-OK
- Thomas Allen Coburn R-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins R-OK
- Julius Caesar Watts Jr. (J. C.) R-OK
- Ernest James Istook Jr. R-OK
- Frank D. Lucas R-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- John Peterson R-PA
- James Charles Greenwood R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph R. Pitts R-PA
- Michael F. Doyle D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Mark Sanford R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Lindsey O. Graham R-SC
- Robert Durden Inglis R-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
- 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
- Kay Granger R-TX
- William McClellan (Mac) Thornberry R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Lamar Seeligson Smith R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Merrill Cook R-UT
- Virgil H. Goode Jr. D-VA
- Robert William Goodlatte R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Richard Alan (Rick) White R-WA
- Linda Smith R-WA
- Richard Norman (Doc) Hastings R-WA
- George R. Nethercutt Jr. R-WA
- Jennifer Blackburn Dunn R-WA
- Mark W. Neumann R-WI
- Scott L. Klug R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Barbara L. Cubin R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- Robert Marion Berry D-AR
- Victor F. Snyder D-AR
- Jay W. Dickey Jr. R-AR
- Ed Pastor D-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-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
- Ellen O'Kane Tauscher D-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA
- Zoe Lofgren D-CA
- Sam Farr D-CA
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Walter Holden Capps D-CA
- Brad Sherman 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
- Juanita Millender-Mcdonald D-CA
- John Stephen (Steve) Horn R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Jay C. Kim R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Loretta Sanchez D-CA
- Brian P. Bilbray R-CA
- Bob Filner D-CA
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham R-CA
- Diana Degette 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
- James H. Maloney D-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE
- F. Allen Boyd Jr. D-FL
- Corrine Brown D-FL
- Karen L. Thurman D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Jim Davis D-FL
- Daniel Miller R-FL
- Carrie P. Meek D-FL
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL
- Robert Wexler D-FL
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL
- Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-GA
- Cynthia Ann Mckinney D-GA
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Leonard L. Boswell D-IA
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL
- Jesse L. Jackson Jr. D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL
- Rod R. Blagojevich D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Danny K. Davis D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Ray H. Lahood R-IL
- Glenn Poshard D-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Wayne Edward (Ed) Whitfield R-KY
- Anne Meagher Northup R-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Henry Scott (Scotty) Baesler D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- 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
- Martin Thomas Meehan 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
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Elijah Eugene Cummings D-MD
- Constance A. Morella R-MD
- Thomas H. Allen D-ME
- John Elias Baldacci D-ME
- Bart T. Stupak D-MI
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- James A. Barcia D-MI
- Deborah Ann Stabenow D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- Lynn Nancy Rivers D-MI
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- David R. Minge D-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- William Paul Luther D-MN
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Karen Mccarthy D-MO
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-MO
- Bennie Thompson D-MS
- Michael (Mike) Parker R-MS
- Eva M. Clayton D-NC
- Bobby R. Etheridge D-NC
- David Eugene Price D-NC
- Mike Mcintyre D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
- Frank A. Lobiondo R-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ
- William J. Pascrell Jr. D-NJ
- Steven Rothman D-NJ
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Robert Menendez D-NJ
- Michael Patrick Forbes R-NY
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY
- Peter T. King R-NY
- Carolyn Mccarthy D-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
- Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY
- Carolyn Bosher Maloney D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Eliot Lance Engel D-NY
- Nita M. Lowey D-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- John Michael Mchugh R-NY
- James T. Walsh R-NY
- Maurice Dunlea Hinchey D-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
- Ted Strickland D-OH
- David Lee Hobson R-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Dennis Kucinich D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Sherrod Brown D-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Robert William Ney R-OH
- Steven C. Latourette R-OH
- Elizabeth Furse D-OR
- Earl Blumenauer D-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Darlene Hooley D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- Chaka Fattah D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Ronald Klink D-PA
- Thomas Timothy (Tim) Holden D-PA
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Jon D. Fox R-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Paul F. Mchale Jr. D-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Frank R. Mascara D-PA
- Philip Sheridan English R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy D-RI
- Robert A. Weygand D-RI
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- 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
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
- Rubén Hinojosa D-TX
- Silvestre Reyes D-TX
- Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX
- Henry Bonilla R-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Ciro D. Rodriguez D-TX
- Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX
- Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Robert C. Scott D-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- James P. Moran D-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Thomas M. Davis III R-VA
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- Jack Metcalf R-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Adam Smith D-WA
- Ron Kind D-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Thomas M. Barrett D-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Jay W. Johnson D-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Did not vote
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL
- Barbara Lee D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Lois Capps D-CA
- Mary Bono R-CA
- Charles Christopher Cox R-CA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Julia May Carson D-IN
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Heather Wilson R-NM
- Steven Harvey Schiff R-NM
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- James A. Gibbons R-NV
- Gregory W. Meeks D-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
- Susan Molinari R-NY
- Vito John Fossella R-NY
- José E. Serrano D-NY
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY
- Robert A. Brady D-PA
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Frank Tejeda D-TX
- Christopher B. Cannon R-UT
Other votes
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