House roll call 537 · 93rd Congress · Dec 21, 1973
To suspend the rules and agree to H. RES. 759, thereby agreeing to pass an emergency energy bill, H.R. 12128. (see roll call 720.)
On Dec 21, 1973, the House voted 169–95 (HRES 759). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 175–24, Republicans 34–91, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 58 members voted against their own party.
During the 93rd Congress (1973–1974), Richard Nixon was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 169
- No
- 95
- Did not vote
- 117
- Date
- Dec 21, 1973
By party
- Republicans34 yes · 91 no · 70 didn’t vote
- Democrats175 yes · 24 no · 47 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted yes
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted no
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- Samuel Hollingsworth Young R-IL voted yes
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted yes
- Paul Findley R-IL voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Paul William Cronin R-MA voted yes
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted yes
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted yes
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME voted yes
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI voted yes
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted yes
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- John Melcher D-MT voted no
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted yes
- Charles Thone R-NE voted yes
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted yes
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
- Joseph James Maraziti R-NJ voted yes
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY voted yes
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY voted yes
- James Fred Hastings R-NY voted yes
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH voted yes
- John William Stanton R-OH voted yes
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH voted yes
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted yes
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted no
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted no
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted yes
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- James Robert Mann D-SC voted no
- James Abdnor R-SD voted yes
- Ed Jones D-TN voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX voted no
- Dale Milford D-TX voted no
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted no
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted no
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA voted yes
- William Albert Steiger R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Walter Flowers 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
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- William Dawson (Bill) Gunter Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Samuel Hollingsworth Young R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- William Robert Roy D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Paul William Cronin R-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley O-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-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
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Joseph James Maraziti R-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi 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
- Elizabeth Holtzman 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
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. 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
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-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
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- James Abdnor R-SD
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Douglas Wayne Owens D-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-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
- William Albert Steiger R-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
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Robert Paul Hanrahan R-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- William Herbert Hudnut III R-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Robert James Huber R-MI
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- John Melcher D-MT
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- David Gilmer Towell R-NV
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Edward Lunn Young R-SC
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Did not vote
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Angelo Dominick Roncallo R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- William John Keating R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Clem Rogers Mcspadden D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Harold Vernon Froehlich R-WI
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Other votes
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