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Senate Roll Call 4, 117th Congress · January 21, 2021

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

69 yea · 27 nayBill Passed4 not voting or present
Democrat32 yea · 14 nay
Republican33 yea · 13 nay
Independent4 yea · 0 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 (0.85) 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.

Yea (69)

Nay (27)

Not voting or present (4)

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