House roll call 365 · 92nd Congress · Mar 15, 1972
To agree to the conference report on H.R. 12910, to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.
On Mar 15, 1972, the House voted 238–150 (HR 12910). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 155–91, Republicans 99–74. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 165 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
- 238
- No
- 150
- Did not vote
- 24
- Date
- Mar 15, 1972
By party
- Democrats155 yes · 91 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans99 yes · 74 no · 12 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Nicholas Joseph Begich D-AK voted no
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Sam Steiger R-AZ voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted no
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted no
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA voted no
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted no
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted no
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA voted no
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA voted no
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted no
- John George Schmitz R-CA voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT voted no
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL voted no
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA voted no
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- John Henry Kyl 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
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN voted no
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS voted no
- William Robert Roy D-KS voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA voted no
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA voted no
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA voted no
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA voted no
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD voted no
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI voted no
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN 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
- 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
And 85 more.
The bill
H.R. 12910: To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-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
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson 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
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Paul Findley 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 Edward Roush D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- William Prather Curlin Jr. 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
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Louise Day Hicks D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-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
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- 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
- John Melcher D-MT
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-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
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Frank James Brasco 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
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Earle Cabell 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
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Richard Walker Mallary 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
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-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
- James Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Nicholas Joseph Begich D-AK
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- William Robert Roy D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-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
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-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
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Arthur Albert Link D-ND
- 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
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- John Hart Terry R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- James George Abourezk D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Elizabeth Bullock Andrews D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Cliffard Dale Carlson R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- William Sheldrick Conover II R-PA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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