House roll call 439 · 94th Congress · Oct 6, 1975
To suspend the rules and pass H.R. 9576, veterans readjustment assistance amendments of 1975.
On Oct 6, 1975, the House voted 298–106 (HR 9576). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 175–96, Republicans 123–10. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 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
- 298
- No
- 106
- Did not vote
- 37
- Date
- Oct 6, 1975
By party
- Republicans123 yes · 10 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Democrats175 yes · 96 no · 23 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted no
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- John Lowell Burton D-CA voted no
- Phillip Burton D-CA voted no
- George Miller D-CA voted no
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA voted no
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA voted no
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA voted no
- James Charles Corman D-CA voted no
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA voted no
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA voted no
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA voted no
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA voted no
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA voted no
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO voted no
- William Lehman D-FL voted no
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL voted no
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA voted no
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI voted no
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA voted no
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA voted no
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL voted no
- Cardiss Collins D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- Tim Lee Hall D-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- John Brademas D-IN voted no
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN voted no
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA voted no
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA voted no
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD voted no
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI voted no
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI voted no
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted no
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted no
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI voted no
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN voted no
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN voted no
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted no
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT voted no
- John Melcher D-MT voted no
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ voted no
- William John Hughes D-NJ voted no
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ voted no
- James David Santini D-NV voted no
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY voted no
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY voted no
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY voted no
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY voted no
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY voted no
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY voted no
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY voted no
- Herman Badillo D-NY voted no
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY voted no
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY voted no
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY voted no
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY voted no
- Henry James Nowak D-NY voted no
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted no
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH voted no
- Louis Stokes D-OH voted no
And 26 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-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
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-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
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. 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
- Dante Bruno Fascell 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
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane 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
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- 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
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early 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
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- 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
- 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
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III 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
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe 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
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- 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
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Charles Wilson 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
- 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
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Allan Turner Howe 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
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-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
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Tim Lee Hall D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara 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
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond 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
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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