To agree to H.RES. 929, rule for consideration of H.R. 8053, to establish within the bureau of the census a voter registration administration to be administered

On May 8, 1974, the House voted 197–204 (HRES 929). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 181–48, Republicans 22–163, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 70 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: 197
No: 204
Did not vote: 27
Date: May 8, 1974

By party

Republicans22 yes · 163 no · 10 didn’t vote
Democrats181 yes · 48 no · 17 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 0 no

Who broke with their party

Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted yes
William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted yes
Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted no
Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted no
Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA 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
Paul William Cronin R-MA voted yes
Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted yes
Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
Gilbert Gude R-MD voted yes
Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI voted yes
Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted yes
William Eldridge Frenzel 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
Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC voted no
Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
Mark Andrews R-ND voted yes
Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
Joseph James Maraziti R-NJ voted yes
Norman Frederick Lent R-NY voted yes
Mario Biaggi D-NY voted no
Jack French Kemp R-NY voted yes
Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted yes
John William Stanton R-OH voted yes
Charles Adams Mosher R-OH voted yes
James Vincent Stanton D-OH voted no
Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
John Jarman D-OK voted no
Edith Starrett Green D-OR voted no
Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA voted yes
Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted yes
Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA voted no
Henry John Heinz III R-PA voted yes
James Robert Mann D-SC voted no
Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC voted no
Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted no
Richard Crawford White D-TX voted no
Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
Robert Randolph Casey D-TX voted no
Dale Milford D-TX voted no
Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA 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

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

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
John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
Walter Flowers D-AL
John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
Sam Steiger R-AZ
John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
Alphonzo Bell R-CA
Craig Hosmer R-CA
Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
William Matthew Ketchum R-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
James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
William Lester Armstrong R-CO
Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
Don Fuqua D-FL
William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
James Andrew Haley D-FL
Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
J. Herbert Burke R-FL
Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
Harold Royce Gross R-IA
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
Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
Samuel Hollingsworth Young R-IL
Philip Miller Crane R-IL
Robert Mcclory R-IL
John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
John Bayard Anderson R-IL
George Miller O'Brien R-IL
Robert Henry Michel R-IL
Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
Paul Findley R-IL
Edward Rell Madigan R-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
David Worth Dennis R-IN
William Herbert Hudnut III 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
Tim Lee Carter R-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
Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
Robert James Huber R-MI
William S. Broomfield R-MI
Albert Harold Quie R-MN
Ancher Nelsen R-MN
John Matthew Zwach 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
Chester Trent Lott R-MS
Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT
Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
David Newton Henderson D-NC
Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
James Grubbs Martin R-NC
James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
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
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
David Gilmer Towell R-NV
James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
Angelo Dominick Roncallo R-NY
John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
Mario Biaggi D-NY
Peter A. Peyser R-NY
Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
Carleton James King R-NY
Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
William Francis Walsh R-NY
Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
Henry P. Smith III R-NY
James Fred Hastings R-NY
Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
Tennyson Guyer R-OH
Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
Clarence E. Miller R-OH
Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
James Vincent Stanton D-OH
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
John Jarman D-OK
John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
Wendell Wyatt R-OR
Edith Starrett Green D-OR
John Richard Dellenback R-OR
John Haines Ware III R-PA
Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
George Atlee Goodling R-PA
Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
James Robert Mann D-SC
Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
Edward Lunn Young R-SC
James Abdnor R-SD
James Henry Quillen R-TN
John James Duncan R-TN
LaMar Baker R-TN
Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
James Mitchell Collins R-TX
Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
Olin Earl Teague D-TX
William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
Robert Dale Price R-TX
Richard Crawford White D-TX
Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
Dale Milford 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
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
William Albert Steiger R-WI
Harold Vernon Froehlich R-WI
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI

Did not vote

William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
John Lowell Burton D-CA
William Somers Mailliard R-CA
Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
Kenneth James Gray D-IL
William Oswald Mills R-MD
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
James Harvey R-MI
John Anton Blatnik D-MN
James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
Henry Helstoski D-NJ
Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
William John Keating R-OH
William Howard Harsha R-OH
Louis Stokes D-OH
Carl Bert Albert D-OK
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
John William Wright Patman D-TX
James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
William Robert Poage D-TX
Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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