House roll call 37 · 90th Congress · Apr 6, 1967
To agree to the recommendation of committee of the whole to strike the enacting clause of H.R. 2512, a bill providing for a general revision of the copyright la
On Apr 6, 1967, the House voted 126–252 (HR 2512). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 96–124, Republicans 38–137. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 134 members voted against their own party.
During the 90th Congress (1967–1968), Lyndon B. Johnson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 126
- No
- 252
- Did not vote
- 10
- Date
- Apr 6, 1967
By party
- Republicans38 yes · 137 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Democrats96 yes · 124 no · 7 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted yes
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- Sam Steiger R-AZ voted yes
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted yes
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted yes
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted yes
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA voted yes
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA voted yes
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted yes
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA voted yes
- John Varick Tunney D-CA voted yes
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted yes
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted yes
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted yes
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- John William Davis D-GA voted yes
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted yes
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- John Henry Kyl R-IA voted yes
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID voted yes
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL voted yes
- Frank Annunzio D-IL voted yes
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted yes
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted yes
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted yes
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN voted yes
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN voted yes
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted yes
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted yes
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted yes
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA voted yes
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA voted yes
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted yes
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted yes
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted yes
- Hervey Gilbert Machen D-MD voted yes
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted yes
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME voted yes
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI voted yes
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted yes
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN voted yes
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN voted yes
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN voted yes
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted yes
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted yes
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted yes
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted yes
- James Carson Gardner R-NC voted yes
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC voted yes
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC voted yes
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted yes
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted yes
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted yes
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted yes
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted yes
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Edward James Patten D-NJ voted yes
- E. S. Johnny Walker D-NM voted yes
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM voted yes
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY voted yes
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY voted yes
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted yes
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted yes
And 54 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Hervey Gilbert Machen D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- James Carson Gardner R-NC
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- E. S. Johnny Walker D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Donald Jay Irwin D-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Edward John Gurney R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- William Owen Cowger R-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Thomas Savig Kleppe R-ND
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Herbert Tenzer D-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Frank James Brasco D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Theodore Roosevelt Kupferman R-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Daniel Evan Button R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- James Vernon Smith R-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Albert William Watson R-SC
- John James Duncan R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Chester Louis Mize R-KS
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Joseph Yale Resnick D-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
Did not vote
Other votes
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