House roll call 560 · 92nd Congress · Aug 17, 1972
To amend the green (d, oreg) amendment to H.R. 13915 by striking out language that authorizes busing, other than busing to the school nearest to the student's r
On Aug 17, 1972, the House voted 174–211 (HR 13915). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 90–135, Republicans 84–77. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 167 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
- 174
- No
- 211
- Did not vote
- 57
- Date
- Aug 17, 1972
By party
- Democrats90 yes · 135 no · 33 didn’t vote
- Republicans84 yes · 77 no · 24 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted yes
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR voted yes
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted no
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA voted no
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted no
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted no
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA voted yes
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted yes
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA voted no
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA voted no
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO voted no
- William Ross Cotter D-CT voted yes
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted no
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted yes
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL voted yes
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted yes
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- John William Davis D-GA voted yes
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted no
- John Henry Kyl R-IA voted no
- Wiley Mayne R-IA voted no
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID voted no
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID voted no
- Frank Annunzio D-IL voted yes
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted no
- Cliffard Dale Carlson R-IL voted no
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted yes
- David Worth Dennis R-IN voted no
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted yes
- Louise Day Hicks D-MA voted yes
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted yes
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD voted yes
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted yes
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted no
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted no
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted no
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted no
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted yes
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted yes
- William David Ford D-MI voted yes
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted yes
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted yes
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted no
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS voted yes
And 87 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- James Douglas (Mike) Mckevitt R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua 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
- Claude Denson Pepper 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
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Louise Day Hicks D-MA
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt 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
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- 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
- 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
- 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
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-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
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- 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
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Richard Crawford White 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
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- 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
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Clement John Zablocki D-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
- Elizabeth Bullock Andrews D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory 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
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- William Robert Roy D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- William Prather Curlin Jr. D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Arthur Albert Link D-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-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
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent 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
- 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
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Wendell Wyatt R-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
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-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
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- William Sheldrick Conover II R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- Joseph Landon Evins 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
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- 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
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- George William Andrews D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman 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
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- John Melcher D-MT
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- John Hart Terry R-NY
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James George Abourezk D-SD
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- 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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