House roll call 182 · 97th Congress · Sep 9, 1981
To amend H.R. 4169, the appropriations for the departments of commerce, justice, and state, the judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending sept.
On Sep 9, 1981, the House voted 122–272 (HR 4169). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 22–199, Republicans 104–76, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 98 members voted against their own party.
During the 97th Congress (1981–1982), Ronald Reagan was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 122
- No
- 272
- Did not vote
- 40
- Date
- Sep 9, 1981
By party
- Republicans104 yes · 76 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats22 yes · 199 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL voted yes
- Edwin Ruthvin Bethune Jr. R-AR voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ voted yes
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted no
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA voted no
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA voted no
- Lawrence Joseph Denardis R-CT voted no
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted no
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE voted no
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL voted yes
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted yes
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA voted no
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA voted no
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted no
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted no
- Lynn Morley Martin R-IL voted no
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted no
- Huey Joel Deckard R-IN voted no
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY voted no
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA voted no
- William Henson Moore III R-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted no
- David Farnham Emery R-ME voted no
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted no
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI voted no
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI voted no
- James Whitney Dunn R-MI voted no
- Robert William Davis R-MI voted no
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted no
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted no
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN voted no
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC voted yes
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC voted no
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE voted no
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted no
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ voted no
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted no
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ voted no
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM voted no
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM voted no
- Guy Victor Molinari R-NY voted no
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted no
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted no
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted no
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY voted no
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH voted no
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH voted no
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH voted no
- Edward Ford Weber R-OH voted no
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted no
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH voted no
- Lyle Williams R-OH voted no
- Charles Francis Dougherty R-PA voted no
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted no
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA voted no
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA voted no
And 18 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Albert Lee Smith Jr. R-AL
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL
- Robert Lee Stump D-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Eugene A. Chappie R-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Bobbi Fiedler R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Wayne Richard Grisham R-CA
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- William David Lowery R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland D-FL
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Daniel Bever Crane R-IL
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN
- Daniel Ray Coats R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- James Edmund Jeffries R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Mark Deli Siljander R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- R. Wendell Bailey R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Walter Eugene Johnston III R-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- William Martin Hendon R-NC
- Harold John Daub Jr. (Hal) R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Judd Alan Gregg R-NH
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- William Carney R-NY
- Gregory Wright Carman R-NY
- Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
- John Leboutillier R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY
- Gary Alcide Lee R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- James Kitchenman Coyne III R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- James Leo Nelligan R-PA
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Light Napier R-SC
- Clint Ronald Roberts R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- William Philip (Phil) Gramm D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- William Neff Patman D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Kent Ronald Hance D-TX
- Thomas Gilbert Loeffler R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- David Daniel Marriott R-UT
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- David Michael Staton R-WV
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Edwin Ruthvin Bethune Jr. R-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-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
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Raymond Peter Kogovsek D-CO
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Lawrence Joseph Denardis R-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- William Richard Ratchford D-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. R-DE
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Daniel Andrew Mica D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Charles Floyd Hatcher 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
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Harold Washington D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Lynn Morley Martin R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Adam Benjamin Jr. D-IN
- Huey Joel Deckard R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Barney Frank D-MA
- James Michael Shannon D-MA
- Nicholas James Mavroules D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Royden Patrick Dyson D-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Barbara Ann Mikulski D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Michael Darr Barnes D-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Harold Samuel Sawyer R-MI
- James Whitney Dunn R-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Donald Joseph Albosta D-MI
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI
- Dennis Mark Hertel D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- James Louis Oberstar 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
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- 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
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
- Bernard James Dwyer D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Geraldine Anne Ferraro D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Guy Victor Molinari R-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Edward Ford Weber R-OH
- Robert Norton Shamansky D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Lyle Williams R-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta I-PA
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Joseph Francis Smith D-PA
- Charles Francis Dougherty R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Allen Edward Ertel D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Donald Allen Bailey D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA
- Eugene Vincent Atkinson R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Claudine Schneider R-RI
- Thomas Andrew Daschle D-SD
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D-TN
- William Hill Boner D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- James Albon Mattox D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Michael Edward Lowry D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Gus Savage D-IL
- Katie Beatrice Hall D-IN
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- William David Ford D-MI
- Arlen Ingolf Erdahl R-MN
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jon Clifton Hinson R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- James David Santini D-NV
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Jean Spencer Ashbrook R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Raymond Francis Lederer D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. R-VA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Cleveland Keith Benedict R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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