House roll call 300 · 91st Congress · Jul 15, 1970
To agree to the conference report on S. 2601, to reorganize the courts of the district of columbia.
On Jul 15, 1970, the House voted 332–64 (S 2601). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 172–69, Republicans 171–6. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 75 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
- 332
- No
- 64
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Jul 15, 1970
By party
- Republicans171 yes · 6 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Democrats172 yes · 69 no · 9 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted no
- Phillip Burton D-CA voted no
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted no
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- 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
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA voted no
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted no
- John Varick Tunney D-CA voted no
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI voted no
- John Chester Culver D-IA voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- David Worth Dennis R-IN voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted no
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA voted no
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted no
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted no
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted no
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted no
- John Melcher D-MT voted no
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ voted no
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ voted no
- Allard Kenneth Lowenstein D-NY voted no
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Frank James Brasco D-NY voted no
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY voted no
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY voted no
- John James Rooney D-NY voted no
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY voted no
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY voted no
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY voted no
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY voted no
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY voted no
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY voted no
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY voted no
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted no
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY voted no
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
- Louis Stokes D-OH voted no
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH voted no
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA voted no
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA voted no
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA voted no
- William Joseph Green D-PA voted no
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA voted no
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX voted no
- Henry B. González D-TX voted no
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA voted no
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA voted no
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA voted no
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI voted no
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI voted no
The bill
S. 2601: A bill to reorganize the courts of the District of Columbia and for other purposes
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. 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
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. 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
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson 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
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-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
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane 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
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- John Brademas D-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
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-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
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- William Owen Cowger R-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. 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
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- John Glenn Beall Jr. R-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- 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
- James Harvey R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- 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
- William Leonard Hungate 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
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-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
- 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
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-NM
- 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
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Martin Boswell Mckneally R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Daniel Evan Button R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha 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
- 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
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-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
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- 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
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-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
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- 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
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-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
- John Schiller Wold R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie 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
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- John Melcher D-MT
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Allard Kenneth Lowenstein D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Frank James Brasco D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. 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
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- 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
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
Did not vote
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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