House roll call 330 · 91st Congress · Aug 11, 1970
To pass H.R. 18434, to revise provisions of the communications act of 1934 which relate to political broadcasting.
On Aug 11, 1970, the House voted 273–98 (HR 18434). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 173–32, Republicans 100–66. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 98 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
- 273
- No
- 98
- Did not vote
- 78
- Date
- Aug 11, 1970
By party
- Republicans100 yes · 66 no · 33 didn’t vote
- Democrats173 yes · 32 no · 45 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR voted no
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA voted no
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA voted no
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted no
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA voted no
- John George Schmitz R-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL voted no
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- John Henry Kyl R-IA voted no
- Wiley Mayne R-IA voted no
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA voted no
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN voted no
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN voted no
- David Worth Dennis R-IN voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN voted no
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN voted no
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Arnold Olsen D-MT voted no
- John Melcher D-MT voted no
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted no
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE voted no
- David Thomas Martin R-NE voted no
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ voted no
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ voted no
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted no
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK voted no
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR voted no
- John Irving Whalley R-PA voted no
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA voted no
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted no
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- Albert William Watson R-SC voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- James Henry Quillen R-TN voted no
- John James Duncan R-TN voted no
- Ed Jones D-TN voted no
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN voted no
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
And 18 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George William Andrews D-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- 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
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller 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
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson 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
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-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
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Thomas Myers 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
- 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
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. 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
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- John Glenn Beall Jr. R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway 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
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Thomas Savig Kleppe R-ND
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Allard Kenneth Lowenstein 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
- Shirley Anita Chisholm 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
- 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
- Daniel Evan Button 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
- Donald Daniel Clancy 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
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-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
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-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
- 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
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis 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
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson R-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- 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
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- John Schiller Wold R-WY
Did not vote
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. R-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Martin Boswell Mckneally R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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