House roll call 344 · 99th Congress · Oct 31, 1985
Motion to approve the house journal of october 30. (motion passed)
On Oct 31, 1985, the House voted 267–127. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 213–14, Republicans 56–113. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 70 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
- 267
- No
- 127
- Did not vote
- 43
- Date
- Oct 31, 1985
By party
- Republicans56 yes · 113 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Democrats213 yes · 14 no · 30 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted yes
- John Sidney Mccain III R-AZ voted yes
- Morris King Udall D-AZ voted no
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ voted yes
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ voted yes
- Norman David Shumway R-CA voted yes
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA voted yes
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA voted yes
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA voted yes
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT voted yes
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL voted yes
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL voted no
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted yes
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted yes
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted yes
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL voted no
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN voted yes
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted yes
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY voted yes
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA voted yes
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA voted no
- William Henson Moore III R-LA voted yes
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD voted no
- Paul B. Henry R-MI voted yes
- Robert William Davis R-MI voted yes
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted yes
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted yes
- Gerald Edward Sikorski D-MN voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted yes
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO voted no
- William Webster Franklin R-MS voted yes
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS voted yes
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC voted yes
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted yes
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE voted yes
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted yes
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ voted yes
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM voted yes
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted yes
- Joseph J. Dioguardi R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted yes
- Fred J. Eckert R-NY voted yes
- Jack French Kemp R-NY voted yes
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted yes
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH voted yes
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH voted no
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA voted yes
- Claudine Schneider R-RI voted yes
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC voted yes
- James Henry Quillen R-TN voted yes
- John James Duncan R-TN voted yes
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted yes
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX voted yes
- James Vear Hansen R-UT voted yes
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA voted yes
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT voted yes
- Michael Edward Lowry D-WA voted no
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
- Ben Erdreich D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Tommy Franklin Robinson D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- John Sidney Mccain III R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- Eldon Dean Rudd R-AZ
- Douglas Harry Bosco D-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. 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
- Norman David Shumway R-CA
- Tony Coelho D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Meldon Edises Levine D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Jim Bates D-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Bruce Andrew Morrison D-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Kenneth Hood Mackay Jr. (Buddy) D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-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
- Robert Lindsay Thomas D-GA
- Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA
- Wyche Fowler Jr. D-GA
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Richard Howard Stallings D-ID
- Gus Savage D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Terry Lee Bruce D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- James Charles Slattery D-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Carl Christopher Perkins D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Catherine Small Long D-LA
- 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
- Michael Darr Barnes D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-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
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- George William Crockett Jr. D-MI
- Dennis Mark Hertel D-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Robert Anton Young III D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Webster Franklin R-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
- Charles Orville Whitley D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Bernard James Dwyer D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- Harry Reid D-NV
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Robert Jan Mrazek D-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Joseph J. Dioguardi R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Fred J. Eckert R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart 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
- Edward Farrell Feighan 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
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- 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
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-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
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Douglas Walgren D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Claudine Schneider R-RI
- Thomas Forbes Hartnett R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC
- Thomas Andrew Daschle D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
- William Hill Boner D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Jim Chapman D-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Marvin Leath D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Albert G. Bustamante D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- James R. Olin D-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-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
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- Eugene A. Chappie R-CA
- Edwin Van Wyck Zschau R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Bobbi Fiedler R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead 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
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Michael Lathrop Strang R-CO
- George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
- Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- John Rowland R-CT
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland R-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Connie Mack III R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Patrick Lynn Swindall R-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
- Thomas Cooper Evans R-IA
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-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
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- John Patrick Hiler R-IN
- Daniel Ray Coats R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- Jan Meyers R-KS
- Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Charles Elson (Buddy) Roemer III D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- John Rettie Mckernan Jr. R-ME
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Mark Deli Siljander R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Bill Schuette R-MI
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
- Gerald Edward Sikorski D-MN
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- William Wilfred Cobey Jr. R-NC
- Howard Coble R-NC
- William Martin Hendon R-NC
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Harold John Daub Jr. (Hal) R-NE
- Robert C. Smith R-NH
- Judd Alan Gregg R-NH
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
- James Andrew Courter R-NJ
- 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
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- Michael Garver Oxley 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
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- Eldon Beau Boulter R-TX
- Thomas Gilbert Loeffler R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- David Smith Monson R-UT
- Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Daniel French Slaughter Jr. R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
- Michael Edward Lowry D-WA
- Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
Did not vote
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Richard C. Shelby D-AL
- Sala Galante Burton D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Cecil Landau Heftel D-HI
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Alton R. Waldon Jr. D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
- Robert Garcia D-NY
- George Cornelius Wortley R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. R-SC
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- David McCann (Mac) Sweeney R-TX
- George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- John Ripin Miller R-WA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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