House roll call 773 · 94th Congress · Apr 30, 1976
To pass H.R. 366, the public saftey officers benefits act, providing benefits to survivors of certain public safety officers who die in the performance of dut
On Apr 30, 1976, the House voted 199–93 (HR 366). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 144–54, Republicans 55–41. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 95 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
- 199
- No
- 93
- Did not vote
- 147
- Date
- Apr 30, 1976
By party
- Republicans55 yes · 41 no · 51 didn’t vote
- Democrats144 yes · 54 no · 96 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted no
- George Miller D-CA voted no
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA voted no
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted no
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA voted no
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA voted no
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA voted no
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA voted no
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA voted no
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Cardiss Collins D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS voted no
- David Conner Treen R-LA voted no
- William Henson Moore III R-LA voted no
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted no
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted no
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI voted no
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN voted no
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC voted no
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted no
- William John Hughes D-NJ voted no
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY voted no
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY voted no
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY voted no
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY voted no
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted no
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY voted no
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY voted no
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY voted no
- Jack French Kemp R-NY voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH voted no
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH voted no
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH voted no
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted no
- John Jarman R-OK voted no
- Les Aucoin D-OR voted no
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR voted no
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR voted no
- James Howard Weaver D-OR voted no
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA voted no
- Robert William Edgar D-PA voted no
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA voted no
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA voted no
- James Abdnor R-SD voted no
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN voted no
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
And 15 more.
The bill
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
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Phillip Burton 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
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Tim Lee Hall D-IL
- George Miller O'Brien 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
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux 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
- 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
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen 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
- 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
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski 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
- 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
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Tennyson Guyer 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
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. 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
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Mike Mccormack 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
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- James Abdnor R-SD
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
Did not vote
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- 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
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-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
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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