House roll call 412 · 90th Congress · Jul 31, 1968
To pass H.R. 17126, to amend the food and agriculture act of 1965.
On Jul 31, 1968, the House voted 213–176 (HR 17126). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 151–84, Republicans 76–103. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 160 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
- 213
- No
- 176
- Did not vote
- 7
- Date
- Jul 31, 1968
By party
- Republicans76 yes · 103 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Democrats151 yes · 84 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK voted yes
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted yes
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted yes
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted yes
- Sam Steiger R-AZ voted yes
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA voted no
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted no
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA voted no
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted no
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA voted yes
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA voted no
- James Charles Corman D-CA voted no
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA voted no
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA voted no
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted no
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA voted no
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA voted no
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO voted yes
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT voted no
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted no
- Donald Jay Irwin D-CT voted no
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted yes
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA voted yes
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted yes
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- John Henry Kyl R-IA voted yes
- Wiley Mayne R-IA voted yes
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA voted yes
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID voted yes
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL voted no
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted no
- William Lee Springer R-IL voted yes
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS voted yes
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS voted yes
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS voted yes
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted yes
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted yes
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Hervey Gilbert Machen D-MD voted no
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI voted yes
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted yes
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted yes
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted yes
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted no
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI voted yes
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted yes
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN voted yes
- Clark Macgregor R-MN voted yes
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN voted no
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN voted yes
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN voted yes
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- James Franklin Battin R-MT voted yes
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted yes
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted yes
And 80 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- 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
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-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
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Thomas Savig Kleppe R-ND
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- E. S. Johnny Walker D-NM
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Frank James Brasco D-NY
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Daniel Evan Button R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- James Vernon Smith R-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson R-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
- John James Duncan R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley 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
- James Kee D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-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
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. 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
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Donald Jay Irwin D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE
- 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
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-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
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Chester Louis Mize R-KS
- William Owen Cowger R-KY
- 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
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Hervey Gilbert Machen D-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- James John Howard D-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
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- 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
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey 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
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett 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
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
Voted present
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- James Carson Gardner R-NC
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Joseph Yale Resnick D-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
Did not vote
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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