House roll call 128 · 96th Congress · May 10, 1979
To agree to H. RES. 212, approving the standby gasoline rationing plan (department of energy standby rationing plan no. 1) (motion failed)
On May 10, 1979, the House voted 159–246 (HRES 212). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 159–109, Republicans 7–141. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 116 members voted against their own party.
During the 96th Congress (1979–1980), Jimmy Carter was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 159
- No
- 246
- Did not vote
- 24
- Date
- May 10, 1979
By party
- Republicans7 yes · 141 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Democrats159 yes · 109 no · 12 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL voted no
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted no
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA voted no
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA voted no
- John Lowell Burton 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
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA voted no
- Tony Coelho D-CA voted no
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA voted no
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA voted no
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA voted no
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA voted no
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted no
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted no
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted no
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- Raymond Peter Kogovsek D-CO voted no
- William Ross Cotter D-CT voted no
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL voted no
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI voted no
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA voted no
- Cardiss Collins D-IL voted no
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted yes
- David Walter Evans D-IN voted no
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY voted no
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted no
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD voted no
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD voted no
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD voted no
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted no
- Donald Joseph Albosta D-MI voted no
- David Edward Bonior D-MI voted no
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- John Patrick Williams D-MT voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC voted no
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE voted no
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH voted no
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted yes
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
- James David Santini D-NV voted no
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY voted no
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY voted no
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY voted no
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY voted no
- Geraldine Anne Ferraro D-NY voted no
- Mario Biaggi D-NY voted no
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY voted no
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY voted no
- John Michael Murphy D-NY voted no
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY voted no
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY voted yes
- James Michael Hanley D-NY voted no
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY voted no
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH voted no
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH voted no
And 36 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- William Richard Ratchford D-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Daniel Andrew Mica D-FL
- Edward John Stack D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- Billy Lee Evans D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Bennett McVey Stewart D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-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
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Anthony Claude (Buddy) Leach Jr. D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- James Michael Shannon D-MA
- Nicholas James Mavroules D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Michael Darr Barnes D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. 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
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- 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
- 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 Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- William Hill Boner D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Philip (Phil) Gramm D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Joseph Peyton Wyatt Jr. D-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Kent Ronald Hance D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Michael Edward Lowry D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL
- Edwin Ruthvin Bethune Jr. R-AR
- 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 T. Matsui D-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- William Howard Royer R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Wayne Richard Grisham R-CA
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Raymond Peter Kogovsek D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Huey Joel Deckard R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- James Edmund Jeffries R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Robert Russell Whittaker 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
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- David Alan Stockman R-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Donald Joseph Albosta D-MI
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Arlen Ingolf Erdahl R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Jon Clifton Hinson R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- John Joseph Cavanaugh D-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- James David Santini D-NV
- William Carney R-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Geraldine Anne Ferraro D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Gary Alcide Lee R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha 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
- Lyle Williams R-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Michael Lynn Synar 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
- Michael Joseph (Ozzie) Myers D-PA
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- Charles Francis Dougherty R-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Donald Allen Bailey D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Eugene Vincent Atkinson D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- Thomas Andrew Daschle D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Thomas Gilbert Loeffler R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost 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
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
Did not vote
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Daniel Bever Crane R-IL
- James Danforth (Dan) Quayle R-IN
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Raphael John Musto D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- James Abdnor R-SD
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- John Guiher Hutchinson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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