House roll call 34 · 94th Congress · Mar 17, 1975
To amend H.R. 25 by abolishing the proposed reclamation fee and providing to finance the abandoned mine reclamation fund with $200 million/year from outer conti
On Mar 17, 1975, the House voted 140–250 (HR 25). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 42–217, Republicans 98–34. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 76 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
- 140
- No
- 250
- Did not vote
- 50
- Date
- Mar 17, 1975
By party
- Republicans98 yes · 34 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats42 yes · 217 no · 35 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted yes
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted yes
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted yes
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted no
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted no
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL voted no
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL voted no
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted yes
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley 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
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted yes
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted no
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted yes
- William Henson Moore III R-LA voted no
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA voted yes
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted no
- David Farnham Emery R-ME voted no
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS voted no
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted yes
- Charles Thone R-NE voted no
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE voted no
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
- James David Santini D-NV voted yes
- John Michael Murphy D-NY voted yes
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY voted yes
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted yes
- Jack French Kemp R-NY voted no
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH voted no
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH voted no
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted no
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA voted yes
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA voted yes
- Gus Yatron D-PA voted yes
- Daniel John Flood D-PA voted yes
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA voted yes
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA voted yes
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA voted no
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted yes
- John Herman Dent D-PA voted yes
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA voted yes
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA voted no
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC voted yes
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA voted yes
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted yes
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV voted yes
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV voted yes
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- 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
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- 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 Joseph Randall D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-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
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett 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
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-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
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- 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
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo 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
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald 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
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-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 McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-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
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney 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
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- 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 Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-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
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams 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
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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