House roll call 346 · 91st Congress · Sep 16, 1970
To adopt conference report on S. 3637, to amend section 315 of the communications act of 1934 with respect to equal-time requirements for political broadcasts.
On Sep 16, 1970, the House voted 246–113 (S 3637). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 173–48, Republicans 83–75. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 123 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
- 246
- No
- 113
- Did not vote
- 70
- Date
- Sep 16, 1970
By party
- Republicans83 yes · 75 no · 41 didn’t vote
- Democrats173 yes · 48 no · 29 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
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR 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
- Sam Steiger 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
- Charles Edward Wiggins 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
- 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
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN voted no
- David Worth Dennis R-IN voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. 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
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD voted no
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN voted no
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO voted no
- William Leonard Hungate D-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
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted no
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE voted no
- David Thomas Martin R-NE voted no
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ voted no
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-NM voted no
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY voted no
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted no
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted no
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted no
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
And 43 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- 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
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-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
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. 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
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- 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
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- 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
- 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
- Daniel David Rostenkowski 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
- Leslie Cornelius Arends 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
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- 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
- 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
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- John Glenn Beall Jr. R-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway 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
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg 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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-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 Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- 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
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- 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
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten 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
- Seymour Halpern R-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
- 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
- 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
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- 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
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- 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
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos 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
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Richard Harmon Fulton 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
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-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
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-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
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-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
- Sam Steiger 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
- Charles Edward Wiggins 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
- 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
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-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
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-NM
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow 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
- John Phillips Saylor R-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
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Ed Jones D-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
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle 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
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Did not vote
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. R-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Chester Louis Mize R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- William Owen Cowger R-KY
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Thomas Savig Kleppe R-ND
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Allard Kenneth Lowenstein D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Martin Boswell Mckneally R-NY
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- John Schiller Wold R-WY
Other votes
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