House roll call 1347 · 95th Congress · Sep 6, 1978
To amend H.R. 7308 by striking language that provided for special courts to preside over orders for electronic surveillance.
On Sep 6, 1978, the House voted 224–103 (HR 7308). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 128–95, Republicans 96–10. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 105 members voted against their own party.
During the 95th Congress (1977–1978), Jimmy Carter was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 224
- No
- 103
- Did not vote
- 112
- Date
- Sep 6, 1978
By party
- Republicans96 yes · 10 no · 41 didn’t vote
- Democrats128 yes · 95 no · 71 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR voted no
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted no
- John Lowell Burton D-CA voted no
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA voted no
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted no
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA voted no
- James Charles Corman D-CA voted no
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA voted no
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA voted no
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted no
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA voted no
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA voted no
- William Ross Cotter D-CT voted no
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT voted no
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted no
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL voted no
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA voted no
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA voted no
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA voted no
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA voted no
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA voted no
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL voted no
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL voted no
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL voted no
- Frank Annunzio D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN voted no
- John Brademas D-IN voted no
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted no
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN voted no
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS voted no
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS voted no
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY voted no
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted no
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA voted no
- Edward John Markey D-MA voted no
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted no
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD voted no
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD voted no
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted no
- David Edward Bonior D-MI voted no
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI voted no
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI voted no
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO voted no
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted no
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO voted no
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO voted no
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC voted no
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ voted no
- William John Hughes D-NJ voted no
- James John Howard D-NJ voted no
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted no
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ voted no
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Edward James Patten D-NJ voted no
- James David Santini D-NV voted no
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted no
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY voted no
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY voted no
- Mario Biaggi D-NY voted no
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY voted no
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY voted no
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted no
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY voted no
And 25 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- 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
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-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
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Austin John Murphy 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
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. R-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
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- 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
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- 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
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Other votes
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