House roll call 121 · 91st Congress · Oct 31, 1969
To pass H.R. 4244, to amend section 576 of title 5, United States code, pertaining to the administrative conference of the United States, to remove the ceiling
On Oct 31, 1969, the House voted 133–127 (HR 4244). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 179–44, Republicans 15–143. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 59 members voted against their own party.
During the 91st Congress (1969–1970), Richard Nixon was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 133
- No
- 127
- Did not vote
- 68
- Date
- Oct 31, 1969
By party
- Republicans15 yes · 143 no · 41 didn’t vote
- Democrats179 yes · 44 no · 27 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA voted yes
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted no
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted yes
- David Worth Dennis R-IN voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA voted no
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted yes
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- Clark Macgregor R-MN voted yes
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO voted no
- 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
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted yes
- John James Rooney D-NY voted no
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY voted yes
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH voted yes
- John William Stanton R-OH voted yes
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH voted no
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR voted no
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- James Robert Mann D-SC voted no
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX voted no
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted no
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted no
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA voted no
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT voted yes
- William Albert Steiger R-WI voted yes
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- John William Davis D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Allard Kenneth Lowenstein D-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
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-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
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-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
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. R-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Chester Louis Mize R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- William Owen Cowger R-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- John Glenn Beall Jr. R-MD
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- 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
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-NM
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Martin Boswell Mckneally R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Albert William Watson R-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Robert Mann 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
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- John Schiller Wold R-WY
Did not vote
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Daniel Evan Button R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- John Jarman D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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