House Vote 553 - On Passage

Bill:	H.R.420 - To amend Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to improve attorney accountability, and ...
Description:	Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act
Result:	Passed by a margin of 21 votes (simple majority required to pass)
Date:	October 27, 2005 at 4:15 p.m. EDT (vote source)

	R	D	Total
Yes	212	16	228	16 212
No	5	178	184	178 5 1
Other*	14	8	22	8 14

*Includes members who did not vote or voted "present"

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Yes Votes (228)

Member	Party	Dist.
Robert B. Aderholt	R	AL-4
Todd Akin	R	MO-2
Rodney Alexander	R	LA-5
Spencer Bachus	R	AL-6
Richard Hugh Baker	R	LA-6
J. Gresham Barrett	R	SC-3
Roscoe G. Bartlett	R	MD-6
Joe L. Barton	R	TX-6
Charles F. Bass	R	NH-2
Bob Beauprez	R	CO-7
Judy Biggert	R	IL-13
Michael Bilirakis	R	FL-9
Rob Bishop	R	UT-1
Marsha Blackburn	R	TN-7
Sherwood L. Boehlert	R	NY-24
John A. Boehner	R	OH-8
Henry Bonilla	R	TX-23
Jo Bonner	R	AL-1
Mary Bono Mack	R	CA-45
John Boozman	R	AR-3
Dan Boren	D	OK-2
Charles Boustany Jr.	R	LA-7
Allen Boyd	D	FL-2
Jeb E. Bradley	R	NH-1
Kevin Brady	R	TX-8
Henry E. Brown Jr.	R	SC-1
Michael C. Burgess	R	TX-26
Dan Burton	R	IN-5
Steve Buyer	R	IN-4
Ken Calvert	R	CA-44
Dave Camp	R	MI-4
Christopher B. Cannon	R	UT-3
Eric Cantor	R	VA-7
Shelley Moore Capito	R	WV-2
Dennis Cardoza	D	CA-18
John Carter	R	TX-31
Ed Case	D	HI-2
Michael N. Castle	R	DE-1
Steven J. Chabot	R	OH-1
Chris Chocola	R	IN-2
Howard Coble	R	NC-6
Tom Cole	R	OK-4
K. Michael Conaway	R	TX-11
Robert E. Cramer	D	AL-5
Ander Crenshaw	R	FL-4
Barbara L. Cubin	R	WY-1
Henry Cuellar	D	TX-28
John Culberson	R	TX-7
Randy 'Duke' Cunningham	R	CA-50
Geoff Davis	R	KY-4
Lincoln Davis	D	TN-4
Jo Ann S. Davis	R	VA-1
Thomas M. Davis	R	VA-11
Nathan Deal	R	GA-10
Thomas Dale DeLay	R	TX-22
Charlie Dent	R	PA-15
Thelma D. Drake	R	VA-2
David Dreier	R	CA-26
John J. Duncan Jr.	R	TN-2
Chet Edwards	D	TX-17
Vernon J. Ehlers	R	MI-3
Jo Ann Emerson	R	MO-8
Phil English	R	PA-3
Terry Everett	R	AL-2
Tom C. Feeney	R	FL-24
Michael Ferguson	R	NJ-7
Jeff Flake	R	AZ-6
J. Randy Forbes	R	VA-4
Jeff Fortenberry	R	NE-1
Vito J. Fossella	R	NY-13
Virginia Foxx	R	NC-5
Trent Franks	R	AZ-2
Rodney Frelinghuysen	R	NJ-11
Elton Gallegly	R	CA-24
Scott Garrett	R	NJ-5
Jim Gerlach	R	PA-6
James A. Gibbons	R	NV-2
Wayne T. Gilchrest	R	MD-1
Paul E. Gillmor	R	OH-5
Phil Gingrey	R	GA-11
Louie Gohmert	R	TX-1
Virgil H. Goode	R	VA-5
Robert W. Goodlatte	R	VA-6
Bart Gordon	D	TN-6
Kay Granger	R	TX-12
Mark A. Green	R	WI-8
Gilbert W. Gutknecht	R	MN-1
Melissa A. Hart	R	PA-4
Doc Hastings	R	WA-4
Robin C. Hayes	R	NC-8
John D. Hayworth	R	AZ-5
Joel Hefley	R	CO-5
Jeb Hensarling	R	TX-5
Wally Herger	R	CA-2
David Lee Hobson	R	OH-7
Peter Hoekstra	R	MI-2
Tim Holden	D	PA-17
John Nathan Hostettler	R	IN-8
Kenny C. Hulshof	R	MO-9
Duncan L. Hunter	R	CA-52
Henry John Hyde	R	IL-6
Bob Inglis	R	SC-4
Darrell Issa	R	CA-49
Ernest J. Istook	R	OK-5
William Lewis Jenkins	R	TN-1
Bobby Jindal	R	LA-1
Nancy Lee Johnson	R	CT-5
Timothy V. Johnson	R	IL-15
Sam Johnson	R	TX-3
Walter B. Jones	R	NC-3
Ric Keller	R	FL-8
Sue W. Kelly	R	NY-19
Mark R. Kennedy	R	MN-6
Steve King	R	IA-5
Jack Kingston	R	GA-1
Mark Steven Kirk	R	IL-10
John Kline	R	MN-2
Joseph K. Knollenberg	R	MI-9
James T. Kolbe	R	AZ-8
John R. Kuhl	R	NY-29
Ray H. LaHood	R	IL-18
Tom Latham	R	IA-4
Steven C. LaTourette	R	OH-14
James A. Leach	R	IA-2
Jerry Lewis	R	CA-41
Ron Lewis	R	KY-2
John Linder	R	GA-7
Frank A. LoBiondo	R	NJ-2
Frank D. Lucas	R	OK-3
Dan Lungren	R	CA-3
Kenny Marchant	R	TX-24
Jim Marshall	D	GA-3
Jim Matheson	D	UT-2
Michael McCaul	R	TX-10
Thaddeus McCotter	R	MI-11
Jim O. McCrery	R	LA-4
Patrick T. McHenry	R	NC-10
John M. McHugh	R	NY-23
Howard P. McKeon	R	CA-25
Cathy McMorris Rodgers	R	WA-5
John L. Mica	R	FL-7
Jeff Miller	R	FL-1
Candice S. Miller	R	MI-10
Gary G. Miller	R	CA-42
Jerry Moran	R	KS-1
Tim Murphy	R	PA-18
Marilyn N. Musgrave	R	CO-4
Sue Myrick	R	NC-9
Randy Neugebauer	R	TX-19
Robert William Ney	R	OH-18
Anne Meagher Northup	R	KY-3
Charles W. Norwood	R	GA-9
Devin Nunes	R	CA-21
James Allen Nussle	R	IA-1
Thomas William Osborne	R	NE-3
C.L. Otter	R	ID-1
Michael G. Oxley	R	OH-4
Ron Paul	R	TX-14
Steve Pearce	R	NM-2
Mike Pence	R	IN-6
Collin C. Peterson	D	MN-7
John E. Peterson	R	PA-5
Tom Petri	R	WI-6
Charles W. Pickering	R	MS-3
Joe Pitts	R	PA-16
Todd R. Platts	R	PA-19
Ted Poe	R	TX-2
Richard W. Pombo	R	CA-11
Jon Christopher Porter	R	NV-3
Tom Price	R	GA-6
Deborah D. Pryce	R	OH-15
Adam H. Putnam	R	FL-12
George P. Radanovich	R	CA-19
James M. Ramstad	R	MN-3
Ralph Regula	R	OH-16
Denny Rehberg	R	MT-1
Dave Reichert	R	WA-8
Rick Renzi	R	AZ-1
Thomas M. Reynolds	R	NY-26
Mike D. Rogers	R	AL-3
Harold Rogers	R	KY-5
Mike Rogers	R	MI-8
Dana Rohrabacher	R	CA-46
Ed Royce	R	CA-40
Paul D. Ryan *	R	WI-1
Jim R. Ryun	R	KS-2
H. James Saxton	R	NJ-3
Jean Schmidt	R	OH-2
John J.H. Schwarz	R	MI-7
David Scott	D	GA-13
Pete Sessions	R	TX-32
John Shadegg	R	AZ-3
Christopher H. Shays	R	CT-4
Donald L. Sherwood	R	PA-10
John Shimkus	R	IL-19
Bill Shuster	R	PA-9
Mike Simpson	R	ID-2
Christopher H. Smith	R	NJ-4
Lamar Smith	R	TX-21
Michael E. Sodrel	R	IN-9
Mark Souder	R	IN-3
Cliff Stearns	R	FL-6
John Sullivan	R	OK-1
John E. Sweeney	R	NY-20
Thomas G. Tancredo	R	CO-6
John Tanner	D	TN-8
Gene Taylor	D	MS-4
Charles H. Taylor	R	NC-11
William M. Thomas	R	CA-22
William M. Thornberry	R	TX-13
Todd Tiahrt	R	KS-4
Pat Tiberi	R	OH-12
Michael R. Turner	R	OH-3
Fred Upton	R	MI-6
Greg Walden	R	OR-2
James T. Walsh	R	NY-25
Zach Wamp	R	TN-3
David J. Weldon	R	FL-15
W. Curtis Weldon	R	PA-7
Gerald C. Weller	R	IL-11
Lynn Westmoreland	R	GA-8
Edward Whitfield	R	KY-1
Roger Wicker	R	MS-1
Heather A. Wilson	R	NM-1
Joe Wilson	R	SC-2
Frank R. Wolf	R	VA-10
Don Young	R	AK-1
C. W. Bill Young	R	FL-10

No Votes (184)

Member	Party	Dist.
Neil Abercrombie	D	HI-1
Gary L. Ackerman	D	NY-5
Thomas H. Allen	D	ME-1
Robert E. Andrews	D	NJ-1
Joe Baca	D	CA-43
Brian Baird	D	WA-3
Tammy Baldwin	D	WI-2
John Barrow	D	GA-12
Melissa Bean	D	IL-8
Xavier Becerra	D	CA-31
Shelley Berkley	D	NV-1
Howard L. Berman	D	CA-28
Marion Berry	D	AR-1
Sanford D. Bishop Jr.	D	GA-2
Timothy H. Bishop	D	NY-1
Earl Blumenauer	D	OR-3
Rick Boucher	D	VA-9
Robert A. Brady	D	PA-1
Sherrod Brown	D	OH-13
Corrine Brown	D	FL-3
G. K. Butterfield	D	NC-1
Lois Capps	D	CA-23
Michael E. Capuano	D	MA-8
Benjamin L. Cardin	D	MD-3
Russ Carnahan	D	MO-3
Julia M. Carson	D	IN-7
Ben Chandler	D	KY-6
William Lacy Clay	D	MO-1
Emanuel Cleaver II	D	MO-5
John Conyers Jr.	D	MI-14
Jim Cooper	D	TN-5
Jim Costa	D	CA-20
Jerry F. Costello	D	IL-12
Joseph Crowley	D	NY-7
Elijah E. Cummings	D	MD-7
Artur Davis	D	AL-7
Susan A. Davis	D	CA-53
James Davis	D	FL-11
Danny K. Davis	D	IL-7
Peter A. DeFazio	D	OR-4
Diana DeGette	D	CO-1
Bill Delahunt	D	MA-10
Rosa DeLauro	D	CT-3
Norman D. Dicks	D	WA-6
John D. Dingell	D	MI-15
Lloyd Doggett	D	TX-25
John T. Doolittle	R	CA-4
Mike Doyle	D	PA-14
Rahm Emanuel	D	IL-5
Eliot L. Engel	D	NY-17
Anna G. Eshoo	D	CA-14
Bob Etheridge	D	NC-2
Lane A. Evans	D	IL-17
Sam Farr	D	CA-17
Chaka Fattah	D	PA-2
Bob Filner	D	CA-51
Michael G. Fitzpatrick	R	PA-8
Harold E. Ford Jr.	D	TN-9
Barney Frank	D	MA-4
Charlie Gonzalez	D	TX-20
Al Green	D	TX-9
Gene Green	D	TX-29
Raúl M. Grijalva	D	AZ-7
Luis V. Gutiérrez	D	IL-4
Jane Harman	D	CA-36
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin	D	SD-1
Brian Higgins	D	NY-27
Maurice D. Hinchey	D	NY-22
Rubén Hinojosa	D	TX-15
Rush Holt	D	NJ-12
Michael M. Honda	D	CA-15
Darlene Hooley	D	OR-5
Steny H. Hoyer	D	MD-5
Jay Inslee	D	WA-1
Steve Israel	D	NY-2
Jesse L. Jackson Jr.	D	IL-2
Sheila Jackson-Lee	D	TX-18
William J. Jefferson	D	LA-2
Eddie Bernice Johnson	D	TX-30
Stephanie Tubbs Jones	D	OH-11
Paul E. Kanjorski	D	PA-11
Marcy Kaptur	D	OH-9
Patrick J. Kennedy	D	RI-1
Dale E. Kildee	D	MI-5
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick	D	MI-13
Ron Kind	D	WI-3
Peter T. King	R	NY-3
Dennis J. Kucinich	D	OH-10
Jim Langevin	D	RI-2
Tom Lantos	D	CA-12
Rick Larsen	D	WA-2
John B. Larson	D	CT-1
Barbara Lee	D	CA-9
Sander M. Levin	D	MI-12
John Lewis	D	GA-5
Daniel Lipinski	D	IL-3
Zoe Lofgren	D	CA-16
Nita M. Lowey	D	NY-18
Stephen F. Lynch	D	MA-9
Carolyn B. Maloney	D	NY-14
Donald Manzullo	R	IL-16
Edward J. Markey	D	MA-7
Doris Matsui	D	CA-5
Carolyn McCarthy	D	NY-4
Betty McCollum	D	MN-4
Jim McDermott	D	WA-7
Jim McGovern	D	MA-3
Mike McIntyre	D	NC-7
Cynthia McKinney	D	GA-4
Michael R. McNulty	D	NY-21
Martin T. Meehan	D	MA-5
Kendrick B. Meek	D	FL-17
Gregory W. Meeks	D	NY-6
Charlie Melancon	D	LA-3
Robert Menendez	D	NJ-13
Michael H. Michaud	D	ME-2
Juanita Millender-McDonald	D	CA-37
Brad Miller	D	NC-13
George Miller	D	CA-7
Alan B. Mollohan	D	WV-1
Dennis Moore	D	KS-3
Gwen Moore	D	WI-4
James P. Moran	D	VA-8
John P. Murtha	D	PA-12
Jerrold Nadler	D	NY-8
Grace F. Napolitano	D	CA-38
Richard E. Neal	D	MA-2
James L. Oberstar	D	MN-8
John W. Olver	D	MA-1
Solomon P. Ortiz	D	TX-27
Major R. Owens	D	NY-11
Frank Pallone	D	NJ-6
Bill Pascrell Jr.	D	NJ-8
Ed Pastor	D	AZ-4
Donald M. Payne	D	NJ-10
Nancy Pelosi	D	CA-8
Earl Pomeroy	D	ND-1
David E. Price	D	NC-4
Nick J. Rahall II	D	WV-3
Charles B. Rangel	D	NY-15
Mike Ross	D	AR-4
Steven R. Rothman	D	NJ-9
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger	D	MD-2
Bobby L. Rush	D	IL-1
Tim Ryan	D	OH-17
Martin Olav Sabo	D	MN-5
John Salazar	D	CO-3
Linda T. Sánchez	D	CA-39
Loretta Sánchez	D	CA-47
Bernard Sanders	ID	VT-1
Jan Schakowsky	D	IL-9
Adam B. Schiff	D	CA-29
Allyson Y. Schwartz	D	PA-13
Robert C. Scott	D	VA-3
José E. Serrano	D	NY-16
Brad Sherman	D	CA-27
Ike Skelton	D	MO-4
Louise M. Slaughter	D	NY-28
Adam Smith	D	WA-9
Vic Snyder	D	AR-2
Hilda L. Solis	D	CA-32
John M. Spratt Jr.	D	SC-5
Pete Stark	D	CA-13
Ted Strickland	D	OH-6
Bart Stupak	D	MI-1
Lee Terry	R	NE-2
Mike Thompson	D	CA-1
Bennie Thompson	D	MS-2
John F. Tierney	D	MA-6
Edolphus Towns	D	NY-10
Mark Udall	D	CO-2
Tom Udall	D	NM-3
Chris Van Hollen	D	MD-8
Nydia M. Velázquez	D	NY-12
Peter J. Visclosky	D	IN-1
Debbie Wasserman Schultz	D	FL-20
Maxine Waters	D	CA-35
Diane Watson	D	CA-33
Melvin Watt	D	NC-12
Henry A. Waxman	D	CA-30
Anthony Weiner	D	NY-9
Lynn Woolsey	D	CA-6
David Wu	D	OR-1
Albert Russell Wynn	D	MD-4

Did Not Vote (21)

Member	Party	Dist.
Roy Blunt	R	MO-7
Leonard L. Boswell	D	IA-3
Ginny Brown-Waite	R	FL-5
James E. Clyburn	D	SC-6
Lincoln Diaz-Balart	R	FL-21
Mario Diaz-Balart	R	FL-25
Mark Adam Foley	R	FL-16
Sam Graves	R	MO-6
Ralph M. Hall	R	TX-4
Katherine Harris	R	FL-13
J. Dennis Hastert	R	IL-14
Alcee L. Hastings	D	FL-23
Connie Mack	R	FL-14
David R. Obey	D	WI-7
Silvestre Reyes	D	TX-16
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen	R	FL-18
Lucille Roybal-Allard	D	CA-34
F. James Sensenbrenner	R	WI-5
E. Clay Shaw	R	FL-22
Robert Ruhl Simmons	R	CT-2
Ellen O. Tauscher	D	CA-10
Robert Wexler	D	FL-19

* By tradition, the Speaker of the House votes at his or her discretion. In cases where the Speaker does not vote, that absence is not counted in the "Not Voting" totals displayed here, but Represent adds the Speaker's name to the list of people who did not vote.

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