House roll call 184 · 99th Congress · Jun 27, 1985
To amend the foley amendment to H R 1872. The foley amendment prohibits the introduction of armed forces into nicaragua for combat and provides that nothing in
On Jun 27, 1985, the House voted 186–235 (HR 1872). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 35–208, Republicans 151–28. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 63 members voted against their own party.
During the 99th Congress (1985–1986), Ronald Reagan was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 186
- No
- 235
- Did not vote
- 17
- Date
- Jun 27, 1985
By party
- Republicans151 yes · 28 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Democrats35 yes · 208 no · 14 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL voted yes
- Ben Erdreich D-AL voted yes
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL voted yes
- Tommy Franklin Robinson D-AR voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted no
- John Rowland R-CT voted no
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT voted no
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL voted yes
- Robert Lindsay Thomas D-GA voted yes
- Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA voted yes
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA voted yes
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA voted yes
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA voted yes
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI voted yes
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA voted no
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted yes
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA voted yes
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA voted yes
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- John Rettie Mckernan Jr. R-ME voted no
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted no
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI voted no
- Paul B. Henry R-MI voted no
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC voted yes
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE voted no
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted no
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted no
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted no
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted yes
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY voted no
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH voted no
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA voted yes
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA voted no
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted yes
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA voted no
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA voted no
- Claudine Schneider R-RI voted no
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted yes
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN voted yes
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX voted yes
- James Marvin Leath D-TX voted yes
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX voted yes
- Albert G. Bustamante D-TX voted yes
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX voted yes
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT voted no
- John Ripin Miller R-WA voted no
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI voted no
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Ben Erdreich D-AL
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL
- Tommy Franklin Robinson D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Sidney Mccain III R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- Eugene A. Chappie R-CA
- Edwin Van Wyck Zschau R-CA
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Bobbi Fiedler R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Alfred A. Mccandless R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
- Robert Edward Badham R-CA
- William David Lowery R-CA
- Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Michael Lathrop Strang R-CO
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland R-FL
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Connie Mack III R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Robert Lindsay Thomas D-GA
- Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA
- Patrick Lynn Swindall R-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- John Grotberg R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Lynn Morley Martin R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN
- Daniel Ray Coats R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- Jan Meyers R-KS
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
- Mark Deli Siljander R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Bill Schuette R-MI
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- William Webster Franklin R-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
- William Wilfred Cobey Jr. R-NC
- Howard Coble R-NC
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- William Martin Hendon R-NC
- Harold John Daub Jr. (Hal) R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Robert C. Smith R-NH
- Judd Alan Gregg R-NH
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
- William Carney R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
- Guy Victor Molinari R-NY
- Joseph J. Dioguardi R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY
- Fred J. Eckert R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- Michael Dewine R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- Eldon Beau Boulter R-TX
- David McCann (Mac) Sweeney R-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Albert G. Bustamante D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- David Smith Monson R-UT
- Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Daniel French Slaughter Jr. R-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
- Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Douglas Harry Bosco D-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- Sala Galante Burton D-CA
- Barbara Boxer 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
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Meldon Edises Levine D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- Jim Bates D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Bruce Andrew Morrison D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- John Rowland R-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Kenneth Hood Mackay Jr. (Buddy) D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Daniel Andrew Mica D-FL
- Lawrence Jack Smith D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Wyche Fowler 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
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Richard Howard Stallings D-ID
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
- Gus Savage D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Terry Lee Bruce D-IL
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- James Charles Slattery D-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Carl Christopher Perkins D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Catherine Small Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Barney Frank D-MA
- Chester Greenough Atkins D-MA
- Nicholas James Mavroules D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Royden Patrick Dyson 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
- John Rettie Mckernan Jr. R-ME
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Paul B. Henry R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI
- Dennis Mark Hertel D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- Gerald Edward Sikorski D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Bernard James Dwyer D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- Harry Reid D-NV
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Robert Jan Mrazek D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Edward Farrell Feighan D-OH
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Joseph Paul Kolter D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Claudine Schneider R-RI
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC
- Thomas Andrew Daschle D-SD
- James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
- William Hill Boner D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James R. Olin D-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- John Ripin Miller R-WA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Michael Edward Lowry D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Jim Moody D-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers Jr. D-WV
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Did not vote
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Alton R. Waldon Jr. D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- Jim Chapman D-TX
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Thomas Gilbert Loeffler R-TX
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
Other votes
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