House roll call 553 · 92nd Congress · Aug 16, 1972
To amend H.R. 16071, a bill to amend the public works and economic development act of 1965, by amending the wright (d, tex) amendment, so as to reduce the time
On Aug 16, 1972, the House voted 162–209 (HR 16071). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 31–192, Republicans 131–17. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 48 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
- 162
- No
- 209
- Did not vote
- 72
- Date
- Aug 16, 1972
By party
- Democrats31 yes · 192 no · 35 didn’t vote
- Republicans131 yes · 17 no · 37 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT voted no
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- John William Davis D-GA voted yes
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted yes
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI voted yes
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted no
- William Prather Curlin Jr. D-KY voted yes
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC voted yes
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted yes
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted yes
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted no
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY voted no
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted no
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted no
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- Jack French Kemp R-NY voted no
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted no
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted yes
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR voted no
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR voted yes
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA voted no
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted no
- James Robert Mann D-SC voted yes
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC voted yes
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX voted yes
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted yes
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted yes
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted yes
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX voted yes
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted yes
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted yes
- William Creed Wampler R-VA voted no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- James Douglas (Mike) Mckevitt R-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- 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
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Cliffard Dale Carlson R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- William Prather Curlin Jr. D-KY
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-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
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister 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
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-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
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- William Sheldrick Conover II R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. 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
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Nicholas Joseph Begich D-AK
- Elizabeth Bullock Andrews D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-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
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-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
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- William Robert Roy D-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Louise Day Hicks D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-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
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- 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
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Arthur Albert Link D-ND
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff 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
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-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
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor 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
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle 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
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey 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
Did not vote
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James George Abourezk D-SD
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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