House roll call 626 · 93rd Congress · Apr 2, 1974
To amend S. 2770 by deleting dentists, veternarians and optometrists from its coverage.
On Apr 2, 1974, the House voted 194–201 (S 2770). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 120–105, Republicans 73–96, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 178 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
- 194
- No
- 201
- Did not vote
- 47
- Date
- Apr 2, 1974
By party
- Republicans73 yes · 96 no · 26 didn’t vote
- Democrats120 yes · 105 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted no
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted no
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted no
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA voted yes
- James Charles Corman D-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted yes
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted yes
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA voted no
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted no
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted yes
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted yes
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted yes
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted yes
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL voted yes
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted yes
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- John William Davis D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted yes
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL voted no
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL voted no
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted yes
- Cardiss Collins D-IL voted no
- Frank Annunzio D-IL voted no
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted yes
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted yes
- Paul Findley R-IL voted yes
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- David Worth Dennis R-IN voted yes
- William Robert Roy D-KS voted no
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted yes
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted no
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted no
- James Anthony Burke D-MA voted no
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted yes
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME voted yes
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI voted yes
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted yes
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI voted no
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted yes
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted no
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- Robert James Huber R-MI voted yes
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted yes
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted yes
And 98 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums 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
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- William Dawson (Bill) Gunter Jr. D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley O-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Robert James Huber 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
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike 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
- Elizabeth Holtzman 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
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook 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
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Edward Lunn Young R-SC
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Douglas Wayne Owens D-UT
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Harold Vernon Froehlich R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Robert Paul Hanrahan R-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Samuel Hollingsworth Young R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- 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
- William Herbert Hudnut III R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- William Robert Roy D-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Paul William Cronin R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-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
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Joseph James Maraziti R-NJ
- David Gilmer Towell R-NV
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Angelo Dominick Roncallo R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Clem Rogers Mcspadden D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González 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
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid D-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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