House roll call 33 · 92nd Congress · Apr 19, 1971
To suspend the rules and pass H.R. 1535, amending section 312 of the immigration and nationality act.
On Apr 19, 1971, the House voted 192–84 (HR 1535). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 126–42, Republicans 66–42. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 84 members voted against their own party.
During the 92nd Congress (1971–1972), Richard Nixon was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 192
- No
- 84
- Did not vote
- 167
- Date
- Apr 19, 1971
By party
- Democrats126 yes · 42 no · 90 didn’t vote
- Republicans66 yes · 42 no · 77 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- John George Schmitz R-CA voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA voted no
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA voted no
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- William Lee Springer 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
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI voted no
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI voted no
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted no
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy 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
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC voted no
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC voted no
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC voted no
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
- David Thomas Martin R-NE voted no
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ voted no
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH voted no
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK voted no
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- John James Duncan R-TN voted no
- LaMar Baker R-TN voted no
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN voted no
- John William Wright Patman D-TX voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA 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
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA voted no
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA voted no
And 4 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Nicholas Joseph Begich D-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- James Douglas (Mike) Mckevitt R-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Romano Louis Mazzoli 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
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Parren James Mitchell 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
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Arthur Albert Link D-ND
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Frank James Brasco D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- John Hart Terry R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman 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
- 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
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Mike Mccormack 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
- 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
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- 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
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- 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
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- John James Duncan R-TN
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Did not vote
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Elizabeth Bullock Andrews D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Cliffard Dale Carlson 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
- John Brademas D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- William Robert Roy D-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- William Prather Curlin Jr. D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Louise Day Hicks D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- William Sheldrick Conover II R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- James George Abourezk D-SD
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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