House roll call 1037 · 94th Congress · Jul 28, 1976
To agree to an amendment to the flowers amendment (see r.c. 560) in the nature of a substitute for H.R. 11656. The horton amendment defines the word "meeting"
On Jul 28, 1976, the House voted 204–180 (HR 11656). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 90–174, Republicans 125–16. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 106 members voted against their own party.
During the 94th Congress (1975–1976), Gerald Ford was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 204
- No
- 180
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- Jul 28, 1976
By party
- Republicans125 yes · 16 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Democrats90 yes · 174 no · 30 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA voted yes
- John Hans Krebs D-CA voted yes
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted no
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA voted yes
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted yes
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA voted yes
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL voted no
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL voted yes
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted yes
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted yes
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted yes
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted yes
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA voted yes
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted yes
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted yes
- David Walter Evans D-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS voted yes
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted yes
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted yes
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted yes
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted no
- David Farnham Emery R-ME voted no
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- John Melcher D-MT 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
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC voted yes
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted yes
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
- Edward James Patten D-NJ voted yes
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted yes
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted no
- James Michael Hanley D-NY voted yes
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY voted yes
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY voted yes
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH voted no
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted no
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH voted no
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted yes
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA voted yes
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA voted yes
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA voted no
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted yes
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC voted yes
- James Robert Mann D-SC voted yes
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC voted yes
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC voted yes
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD voted no
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted yes
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN voted yes
- Ed Jones D-TN voted yes
And 26 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-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
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn 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
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- 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
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-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
- 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
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-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
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. 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
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton 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 Robert Jones D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-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
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-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
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-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
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Tim Lee Hall D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. 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
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-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
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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