House roll call 773 · 95th Congress · Feb 24, 1978
To pass H.R. 9757, the grazing fee moratorium act of 1978.
On Feb 24, 1978, the House voted 257–47 (HR 9757). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 166–36, Republicans 96–11. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 47 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
- 257
- No
- 47
- Did not vote
- 132
- Date
- Feb 24, 1978
By party
- Republicans96 yes · 11 no · 40 didn’t vote
- Democrats166 yes · 36 no · 92 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA voted no
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted no
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA voted no
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA voted no
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA voted no
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted no
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA voted no
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA voted no
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN voted no
- David Walter Evans D-IN voted no
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- David Conner Treen R-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA voted no
- Michael Joseph Harrington 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
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN voted no
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted no
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY voted no
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY voted no
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY voted no
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY voted no
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY voted no
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY voted no
- Robert Garcia D-NY voted no
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY voted no
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY voted no
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY voted no
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY voted no
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted no
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH voted no
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH voted no
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA voted no
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA voted no
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX voted no
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- David Lance Cornwell D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. 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
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. 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
- 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 Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-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
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-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
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann 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
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Jack English Hightower 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
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-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
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-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
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo R-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman D-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
Did not vote
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- 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
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Richard Alvin Tonry D-LA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Joseph Anthony Lefante D-NJ
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal 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
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Alton Gammage D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To pass H.R. 9757, the grazing fee…: House Vote, Feb 24, 1978,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/95-H-773/to-pass-h-r-9757-the-grazing-fee-moratorium (accessed 2026-10-17).