House roll call 897 · 93rd Congress · Aug 15, 1974
To amend H.R. 12859, federal mass transportation act of 1974, by eliminating "operating subsidies" from the bill.
On Aug 15, 1974, the House voted 197–202 (HR 12859). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 62–160, Republicans 135–42, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 104 members voted against their own party.
During the 93rd Congress (1973–1974), Gerald Ford was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 197
- No
- 202
- Did not vote
- 42
- Date
- Aug 15, 1974
By party
- Republicans135 yes · 42 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Democrats62 yes · 160 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA voted yes
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted no
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted yes
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT voted no
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted no
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted no
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE voted no
- 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
- William Dawson (Bill) Gunter 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
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted no
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted yes
- William Robert Roy D-KS voted yes
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted yes
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Paul William Cronin R-MA voted no
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted yes
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted yes
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted no
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI voted no
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted no
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI voted yes
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted yes
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted yes
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO voted yes
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO voted yes
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted yes
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC voted yes
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC voted yes
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted yes
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ voted no
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ voted no
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ voted no
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ voted no
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
- Joseph James Maraziti R-NJ voted no
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted yes
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY voted no
- Angelo Dominick Roncallo R-NY voted no
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY voted no
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted no
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY voted no
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted no
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted no
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY voted no
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY voted no
- William Francis Walsh R-NY voted no
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY voted no
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY voted no
- Jack French Kemp R-NY voted no
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH voted no
- John William Stanton R-OH voted no
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH voted yes
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted yes
- John Jarman D-OK voted yes
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA voted no
And 24 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias 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
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- William Dawson (Bill) Gunter Jr. D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms 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
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley 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
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- David Worth Dennis 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
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- 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
- Ike Franklin Andrews 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
- 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
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- David Gilmer Towell R-NV
- Carleton James King R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- 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
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster 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
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- Edward Lunn Young R-SC
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- James Abdnor R-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
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- 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
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Harold Vernon Froehlich R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-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
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- 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
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- 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
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi 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
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Melcher D-MT
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-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
- 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
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Bertram L. Podell 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
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-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
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Edith Starrett Green 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
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. 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
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Douglas Wayne Owens D-UT
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Mike Mccormack 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
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Robert James Huber R-MI
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Frank James Brasco D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Clem Rogers Mcspadden D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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