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Senate Roll Call 27, 115th Congress · January 12, 2017

A bill to provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of relief from active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed Forces.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

81 yea · 17 nayBill Passed2 not voting or present
Democrat29 yea · 16 nay
Republican50 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 84

A bill to provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of relief from active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed Forces.

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) A waiver for a cabinet nominee is procedural and does not alter military policy.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

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