House roll call 784 · 94th Congress · May 4, 1976
To amend H.R. 12704, to authorize appropriations to the office of research and development in the environmental protection agency, by requiring that rules or re
On May 4, 1976, the House voted 228–167 (HR 12704). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 119–142, Republicans 109–26. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 145 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
- 228
- No
- 167
- Did not vote
- 45
- Date
- May 4, 1976
By party
- Republicans109 yes · 26 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Democrats119 yes · 142 no · 33 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted yes
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted yes
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA voted yes
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted no
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted yes
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted yes
- John Hans Krebs D-CA voted yes
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted yes
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA voted yes
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted yes
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO voted yes
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted yes
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- Elliott Harris Levitas 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
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA voted yes
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA voted yes
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL voted yes
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL voted yes
- John G. Fary D-IL voted yes
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted yes
- Frank Annunzio D-IL voted yes
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted yes
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN voted yes
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted yes
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted yes
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted yes
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted no
- James Anthony Burke D-MA voted yes
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD voted yes
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted yes
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted no
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI voted yes
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI voted yes
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI voted no
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted yes
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted yes
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI voted yes
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN voted yes
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO voted yes
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted yes
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted yes
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT voted yes
- John Melcher D-MT voted yes
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted yes
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted yes
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC voted yes
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC voted yes
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted yes
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH voted yes
And 65 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan 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
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- 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
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-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
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-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
- John G. Fary D-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
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Edward Roush 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
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- 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
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-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
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi 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
- Richard Michael Nolan 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
- 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
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal 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
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen 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
- 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
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- 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
- 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
- Jack Bascom Brooks 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- 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
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- 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
- 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
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith 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
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- 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
- 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
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire 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
- 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
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond 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
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-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
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing 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
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
Did not vote
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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