House roll call 627 · 94th Congress · Jan 28, 1976
To agree to a conference report on S. 2718, railroad revitalization and regulatory reform act of 1976, to improve the quality of rail services in the united ST
On Jan 28, 1976, the House voted 353–61 (S 2718). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 246–33, Republicans 109–28. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 61 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
- 353
- No
- 61
- Did not vote
- 25
- Date
- Jan 28, 1976
By party
- Republicans109 yes · 28 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Democrats246 yes · 33 no · 15 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- Sam Steiger R-AZ voted no
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL voted no
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted no
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM voted no
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH voted no
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH voted no
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH voted no
- John Jarman R-OK voted no
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted no
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN voted no
- Ed Jones D-TN voted no
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX voted no
- Dale Milford D-TX voted no
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI voted no
The bill
S. 2718: A bill to provide financial aid for railroad rehabilitation and maintenance.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-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
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-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
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- 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
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Tim Lee Hall D-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
- 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
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-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
- 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
- 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
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-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
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-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
- 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 S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-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
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-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
- 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
- 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
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-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
- 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
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison 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
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-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
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover 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
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar 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
- William Singer Moorhead D-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
- 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
- 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
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger 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
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley 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
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- John Jarman R-OK
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
Did not vote
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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