House roll call 476 · 94th Congress · Oct 28, 1975
To pass H.R. 6227, a bill to provide federal employees under investigation for misconduct the right to representation.
On Oct 28, 1975, the House voted 217–162 (HR 6227). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 214–51, Republicans 15–121. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 66 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
- 217
- No
- 162
- Did not vote
- 40
- Date
- Oct 28, 1975
By party
- Republicans15 yes · 121 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Democrats214 yes · 51 no · 29 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted yes
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA voted no
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted yes
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted yes
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted no
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted yes
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted yes
- David Farnham Emery R-ME voted yes
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Bill D. Burlison 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
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted yes
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
- James David Santini D-NV voted no
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK voted no
- Les Aucoin D-OR voted no
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR voted no
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA voted yes
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA voted yes
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD voted yes
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted no
- Ed Jones D-TN voted no
- Charles Wilson D-TX voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Jack English Hightower D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX voted no
- Robert Randolph Casey 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
- Mike Mccormack D-WA voted no
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA voted no
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA voted no
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV voted no
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- 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
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees 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
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo 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
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-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
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- 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
- 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
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes 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
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- 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
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. 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
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-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
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-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
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- James Howard Weaver 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
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- 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
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- 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
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-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
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- 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
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett 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
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-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
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-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
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert 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
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- 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
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II 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
- Charles Grandison Rose III 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
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman 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
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness 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
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- 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
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey 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
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- 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
Did not vote
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Other votes
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