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House Roll Call 17, 117th Congress · January 21, 2021

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

326 yea · 78 nayPassed27 not voting or present
Democrat205 yea · 15 nay
Republican121 yea · 63 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 335 ↗

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 (0.90) Waiver for Secretary of Defense appointment is executive personnel procedure.

    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.

Yea (326)

Nay (78)

Not voting or present (27)

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