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Recorded vote
TO AMEND H.R. 8444 BY EXEMPTING NEW ONSHORE NATURAL GAS SUPPLIERS FROM THE FEDERAL PRICE CONTROLS EFFECTIVE ON APR. 30, 1978. THE EXEMPTION WOULD ALSO AFFECT NEW OFFSHORE SUPPLIERS BEGINNING IN 1982.
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
Every member's recorded position linked directly to their file.
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What was on the floor
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Every roll call on H.R. 8444
How each state's members voted
In 10 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 5 every one voted no; 35 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its members voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: 1 yes, 0 no
- Maine: 1 yes, 1 no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 1 no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 1 no
- Washington: 3 yes, 4 no
- Idaho: 2 yes, 0 no
- Montana: 1 yes, 1 no
- North Dakota: 1 yes, 0 no
- Minnesota: 4 yes, 4 no
- Illinois: 15 yes, 9 no
- Wisconsin: 2 yes, 7 no
- Michigan: 8 yes, 11 no
- New York: 10 yes, 28 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 11 no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 3 no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: 0 yes, 1 no
- South Dakota: 2 yes, 0 no
- Iowa: 1 yes, 5 no
- Indiana: 5 yes, 6 no
- Ohio: 12 yes, 11 no
- Pennsylvania: 7 yes, 16 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 14 no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 4 no
- California: 16 yes, 27 no
- Utah: 2 yes, 0 no
- Colorado: 4 yes, 1 no
- Nebraska: 2 yes, 1 no
- Missouri: 3 yes, 7 no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 5 no
- West Virginia: 2 yes, 2 no
- Virginia: 8 yes, 2 no
- Maryland: 4 yes, 4 no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arizona: 3 yes, 1 no
- New Mexico: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kansas: 4 yes, 1 no
- Arkansas: 1 yes, 3 no
- Tennessee: 4 yes, 4 no
- North Carolina: 4 yes, 7 no
- South Carolina: 5 yes, 1 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: 6 yes, 0 no
- Louisiana: 7 yes, 0 no
- Mississippi: 4 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 4 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 4 yes, 6 no
- Hawaii: 0 yes, 2 no
- Texas: 19 yes, 5 no
- Florida: 8 yes, 7 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alaska 1 yes, 0 no
- Don Young (Republican) — YEA
Alabama 4 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Arkansas 1 yes, 3 no
Arizona 3 yes, 1 no
California 16 yes, 27 no
- Anthony Charles Beilenson (Democrat) — NAY
- Augustus Freeman Hawkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk (Democrat) — NAY
- Carlos John Moorhead (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Edward Wiggins (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Herbert Wilson (Democrat) — YEA
- Clair Walter Burgener (Republican) — YEA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson (Republican) — YEA
- Donald Holst Clausen (Republican) — YEA
- Edward R. Roybal (Democrat) — NAY
- Fortney Pete Stark (Democrat) — NAY
- George Edward Brown Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- George Elmore Danielson (Democrat) — NAY
- George Miller (Democrat) — NAY
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson (Democrat) — NAY
- Harold Terry Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry A. Waxman (Democrat) — NAY
- James Charles Corman (Democrat) — NAY
- James Fredrick Lloyd (Democrat) — NAY
- Jerry Mumford Patterson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Emerson Moss (Democrat) — NAY
- John Hans Krebs (Democrat) — NAY
- John Harbin Rousselot (Republican) — YEA
- John Joseph McFall (Democrat) — NAY
- John Lowell Burton (Democrat) — NAY
- Leo Joseph Ryan (Democrat) — NAY
- Leon Edward Panetta (Democrat) — NAY
- Lionel van Deerlin (Democrat) — NAY
- Mark Warren Hannaford (Democrat) — YEA
- Norman Y. Mineta (Democrat) — NAY
- Paul Norton McCloskey Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Phillip Burton (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Carlton Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Edward Badham (Republican) — YEA
- Robert John Lagomarsino (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Louis Leggett (Democrat) — NAY
- Ronald V. Dellums (Democrat) — NAY
- Shirley Neil Pettis (Republican) — YEA
- William Donlon Edwards (Democrat) — NAY
- William Matthew Ketchum (Republican) — YEA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (Democrat) — NAY
Colorado 4 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 2 yes, 4 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 8 yes, 7 no
- Andrew Poysell Ireland (Democrat) — YEA
- C. W. Bill Young (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Edward Bennett (Democrat) — NAY
- Claude Denson Pepper (Democrat) — NAY
- Dante Bruno Fascell (Democrat) — NAY
- Don Fuqua (Democrat) — YEA
- J. Herbert Burke (Republican) — YEA
- Louis Arthur Bafalis (Republican) — YEA
- Louis Frey Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Paul Grant Rogers (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Kelly (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes (Democrat) — NAY
- Sam Melville Gibbons (Democrat) — NAY
- William Lehman (Democrat) — NAY
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
Georgia 4 yes, 6 no
- Billy Lee Evans (Democrat) — NAY
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Edgar Lanier Jenkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Elliott Harris Levitas (Democrat) — NAY
- Jack Thomas Brinkley (Democrat) — YEA
- John James Flynt Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Lawrence Patton McDonald (Democrat) — YEA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis (Democrat) — NAY
- Ronald Bryan Ginn (Democrat) — NAY
- Wyche Fowler Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
Hawaii 0 yes, 2 no
Iowa 1 yes, 5 no
Idaho 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 15 yes, 9 no
- Abner Joseph Mikva (Democrat) — NAY
- Cardiss Collins (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Melvin Price (Democrat) — NAY
- Daniel David Rostenkowski (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward Joseph Derwinski (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Rell Madigan (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Annunzio (Democrat) — NAY
- George Edward Shipley (Democrat) — YEA
- George Miller O'Brien (Republican) — YEA
- Henry John Hyde (Republican) — YEA
- John Bayard Anderson (Republican) — YEA
- John G. Fary (Democrat) — NAY
- John Neal Erlenborn (Republican) — YEA
- Martin Anthony Russo (Democrat) — NAY
- Morgan Francis Murphy (Democrat) — YEA
- Paul Findley (Republican) — YEA
- Paul Martin Simon (Democrat) — NAY
- Philip Miller Crane (Republican) — YEA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Henry Michel (Republican) — YEA
- Robert McClory (Republican) — YEA
- Sidney Richard Yates (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Fisher Railsback (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Joseph Corcoran (Republican) — YEA
Indiana 5 yes, 6 no
- Adam Benjamin Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- David Lance Cornwell (Democrat) — YEA
- David Walter Evans (Democrat) — YEA
- Elwood Haynes Hillis (Republican) — YEA
- Floyd James Fithian (Democrat) — NAY
- James Danforth Quayle (Republican) — YEA
- John Brademas (Democrat) — NAY
- John Thomas Myers (Republican) — YEA
- Lee Herbert Hamilton (Democrat) — NAY
- Philip Riley Sharp (Democrat) — NAY
Kansas 4 yes, 1 no
Kentucky 2 yes, 5 no
Louisiana 7 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 11 no
- Edward J. Markey (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward Patrick Boland (Democrat) — NAY
- Gerry Eastman Studds (Democrat) — NAY
- James Anthony Burke (Democrat) — NAY
- John Joseph Moakley (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Daniel Early (Democrat) — NAY
- Margaret M. Heckler (Republican) — NAY
- Michael Joseph Harrington (Democrat) — NAY
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Frederick Drinan (Democrat) — NAY
- Silvio Ottavio Conte (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 4 yes, 4 no
- Barbara A. Mikulski (Democrat) — NAY
- Clarence Dickinson Long (Democrat) — YEA
- Gladys Noon Spellman (Democrat) — NAY
- Goodloe Edgar Byron (Democrat) — YEA
- Marjorie Sewell Holt (Republican) — YEA
- Newton Ivan Steers Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Parren James Mitchell (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Edmund Bauman (Republican) — YEA
Maine 1 yes, 1 no
Michigan 8 yes, 11 no
- Carl Duane Pursell (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Dale E. Kildee (Democrat) — NAY
- David Alan Stockman (Republican) — YEA
- David Edward Bonior (Democrat) — NAY
- Elford Albin Cederberg (Republican) — YEA
- Garry Eldridge Brown (Republican) — YEA
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt (Republican) — YEA
- Harold Samuel Sawyer (Republican) — YEA
- James Johnston Blanchard (Democrat) — NAY
- Jerome Bob Traxler (Democrat) — NAY
- John Conyers, Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- John D. Dingell (Democrat) — NAY
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi (Democrat) — NAY
- Milton Robert Carr (Democrat) — NAY
- Philip Edward Ruppe (Republican) — YEA
- William David Ford (Democrat) — NAY
- William McNulty Brodhead (Democrat) — NAY
- William S. Broomfield (Republican) — YEA
Minnesota 4 yes, 4 no
- Albert Harold Quie (Republican) — YEA
- Arlan Ingehart Stangeland (Republican) — YEA
- Bruce Frank Vento (Democrat) — NAY
- Donald MacKay Fraser (Democrat) — NAY
- James Louis Oberstar (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard M. Nolan (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn (Republican) — YEA
- William Eldridge Frenzel (Republican) — YEA
Missouri 3 yes, 7 no
- Bill D. Burlison (Democrat) — NAY
- Earl Thomas Coleman (Republican) — YEA
- Gene Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Harold Lee Volkmer (Democrat) — NAY
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Andrew Gephardt (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Howard Ichord II (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Walker Bolling (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Anton Young III (Democrat) — NAY
- William Lacy Clay Sr. (Democrat) — NAY
Mississippi 4 yes, 1 no
Montana 1 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 4 yes, 7 no
- Charles Grandison Rose III (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Orville Whitley (Democrat) — NAY
- Ike Franklin Andrews (Democrat) — NAY
- James Grubbs Martin (Republican) — YEA
- James Thomas Broyhill (Republican) — YEA
- Lawrence H. Fountain (Democrat) — NAY
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer (Democrat) — NAY
- Stephen Lybrook Neal (Democrat) — YEA
- Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Willie Gathrel Hefner (Democrat) — NAY
North Dakota 1 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 2 yes, 1 no
New Hampshire 1 yes, 1 no
New Jersey 1 yes, 14 no
- Edward James Patten (Democrat) — NAY
- Edwin Bell Forsythe (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Thompson Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Gene Andrew Maguire (Democrat) — NAY
- Harold Capistran Hollenbeck (Republican) — NAY
- Helen Stevenson Meyner (Democrat) — NAY
- James John Howard (Democrat) — NAY
- James Joseph Florio (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Anthony Lefante (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph George Minish (Democrat) — NAY
- Matthew John Rinaldo (Republican) — NAY
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick (Republican) — NAY
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert A. Roe (Democrat) — NAY
- William John Hughes (Democrat) — NAY
New Mexico 2 yes, 0 no
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 10 yes, 28 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman (Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (Democrat) — NAY
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo (Republican) — YEA
- Charles B. Rangel (Democrat) — NAY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Irving Koch (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward Worthington Pattison (Democrat) — NAY
- Elizabeth Holtzman (Democrat) — NAY
- Frank Jefferson Horton (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick William Richmond (Democrat) — NAY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Henry James Nowak (Democrat) — NAY
- Herman Badillo (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jack French Kemp (Republican) — YEA
- James Haas Scheuer (Democrat) — NAY
- James Joseph Delaney (Democrat) — NAY
- James Michael Hanley (Democrat) — NAY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- John Joseph Lafalce (Democrat) — NAY
- John Michael Murphy (Democrat) — NAY
- John Waldemar Wydler (Republican) — YEA
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo (Democrat) — NAY
- Leo C. Zeferetti (Democrat) — NAY
- Lester Lionel Wolff (Democrat) — NAY
- Mario Biaggi (Democrat) — NAY
- Matthew Francis McHugh (Democrat) — NAY
- Norman Frederick Lent (Republican) — YEA
- Otis Grey Pike (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Cameron McEwen (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton (Democrat) — NAY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm (Democrat) — NAY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine (Democrat) — NAY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz (Democrat) — NAY
- Theodore S. Weiss (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Joseph Downey (Democrat) — NAY
- William Francis Walsh (Republican) — NAY
Ohio 12 yes, 11 no
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Albert Vanik (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Joseph Carney (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Clarence E. Miller (Republican) — YEA
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Delbert Leroy Latta (Republican) — YEA
- Donald James Pease (Democrat) — YEA
- Douglas Earl Applegate (Democrat) — NAY
- John Frederick Seiberling (Democrat) — NAY
- John Milan Ashbrook (Republican) — YEA
- John William Stanton (Republican) — YEA
- Louis Stokes (Democrat) — NAY
- Mary Rose Oakar (Democrat) — NAY
- Ralph Straus Regula (Republican) — YEA
- Ronald Milton Mottl (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Leeper Devine (Republican) — YEA
- Tennyson Guyer (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Andrew Luken (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Norman Kindness (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley (Democrat) — NAY
- William Howard Harsha (Republican) — NAY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. (Republican) — YEA
Oklahoma 6 yes, 0 no
Oregon 1 yes, 3 no
Pennsylvania 7 yes, 16 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Edward Ertel (Democrat) — NAY
- Austin John Murphy (Democrat) — NAY
- Daniel John Flood (Democrat) — NAY
- Douglas Walgren (Democrat) — NAY
- E. G. Shuster (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney (Democrat) — YEA
- Gary Arthur Myers (Republican) — YEA
- Gus Yatron (Democrat) — NAY
- John Herman Dent (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Michael McDade (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Scofield Ammerman (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Eilberg (Democrat) — NAY
- Marc Lincoln Marks (Republican) — NAY
- Michael Joseph Myers (Democrat) — NAY
- Peter Houston Kostmayer (Democrat) — NAY
- Raymond Francis Lederer (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Taylor Schulze (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Smith Walker (Republican) — YEA
- Robert William Edgar (Democrat) — NAY
- William Franklin Goodling (Republican) — YEA
- William Singer Moorhead (Democrat) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 5 yes, 1 no
South Dakota 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 4 yes, 4 no
Texas 19 yes, 5 no
- Abraham Kazen Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Barbara Charline Jordan (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Wilson (Democrat) — NAY
- Dale Milford (Democrat) — YEA
- Eligio de la Garza II (Democrat) — YEA
- George Herman Mahon (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry B. González (Democrat) — NAY
- Herbert Ray Roberts (Democrat) — YEA
- Jack Bascom Brooks (Democrat) — YEA
- Jack English Hightower (Democrat) — YEA
- James Albon Mattox (Democrat) — YEA
- James Claude Wright Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- James Jarrell Pickle (Democrat) — YEA
- James Mitchell Collins (Republican) — YEA
- John Andrew Young (Democrat) — YEA
- Olin Earl Teague (Democrat) — YEA
- Omar Truman Burleson (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Crawford White (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Alton Gammage (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Charles Krueger (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Christian Eckhardt (Democrat) — NAY
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- William Robert Poage (Democrat) — YEA
Utah 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 8 yes, 2 no
- David Edward Satterfield III (Democrat) — YEA
- George William Whitehurst (Republican) — YEA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II (Democrat) — NAY
- James Kenneth Robinson (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher (Democrat) — NAY
- Manley Caldwell Butler (Republican) — YEA
- Paul Seward Trible Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Wilbur Clarence Daniel (Democrat) — YEA
- William Creed Wampler (Republican) — YEA
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no
Washington 3 yes, 4 no
Wisconsin 2 yes, 7 no
- Alvin James Baldus (Democrat) — NAY
- Clement John Zablocki (Democrat) — NAY
- David Ross Obey (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss (Democrat) — NAY
- Leslie Aspin (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert John Cornell (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Robert William Kastenmeier (Democrat) — NAY
- William Albert Steiger (Republican) — YEA
West Virginia 2 yes, 2 no
Wyoming 0 yes, 1 no
- Teno Roncalio (Democrat) — NAY
Every vote, by name — 434 members
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