115th Congress > Senate > Vote 27

Date: January 12, 2017

Result: 81-17 (Bill Passed)

Clerk session vote number: 27

Sponsor: McCAIN, John Sidney, III (R-AZ)

Bill number: S84

Question: On Passage of the Bill

Description: 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.

Bill summary: (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate passed version is repeated here.) (Sec. 1) This bill allows the first person, and only such person, appointed as Secretary of Defense after the enactment of this bill to be a person who is, on the date of appointment, at least three years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of the Armed Forces. (Under current law, an individual may not be appointed as Secretary of Defense within seven years after relief from such active duty.)

Bill titles: 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.

Links for more info on the vote: congress.gov

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