House roll call 1350 · 95th Congress · Sep 7, 1978
To amend H.R. 7308, the foreign intelligence surveillance act of 1978, by requiring the President to notify the house and Senate intelligence committees when he
On Sep 7, 1978, the House voted 154–230 (HR 7308). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 37–225, Republicans 117–6. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 43 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
- 154
- No
- 230
- Did not vote
- 56
- Date
- Sep 7, 1978
By party
- Republicans117 yes · 6 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Democrats37 yes · 225 no · 32 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted yes
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted yes
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted yes
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA voted yes
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted yes
- David Walter Evans D-IN voted yes
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted yes
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA voted yes
- Edward John Markey D-MA voted yes
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD voted yes
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD voted no
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI voted yes
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted yes
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ voted yes
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ voted no
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted yes
- James David Santini D-NV voted yes
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted no
- Mario Biaggi D-NY voted yes
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY voted yes
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY voted yes
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted yes
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY voted yes
- Henry James Nowak D-NY voted yes
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH voted no
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH voted yes
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH voted yes
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK voted yes
- Les Aucoin D-OR voted yes
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted yes
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC voted yes
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN voted yes
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX voted yes
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted yes
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-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
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-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
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- David Alan Stockman 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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-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
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- 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
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- John Edward Cunningham III R-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton 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
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-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
- 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
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell 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
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-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
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- David Edward Bonior 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
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- 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
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-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
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar 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
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks 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
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- George Miller D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Austin John Murphy 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
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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