A bill to provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense…

Full title

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.

Law · 115-2

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No cosponsors.

Senate Introduced Jan 10, 2017
Senate Passed Jan 12, 2017 81–17
House Passed Jan 13, 2017 268–151
President To the President Jan 20, 2017
President Signed Jan 20, 2017

What it does: CRS summary · Public Law · Jan 20, 2017

(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, not within 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.)

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

Votes to become law

Senate · Bill Passed Jan 12, 2017 · 81 Yea – 17 Nay Passage Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell House · Passed Jan 13, 2017 · 268 Yea – 151 Nay Passage Speaker: Paul D. Ryan

About this bill and sources

Official title: 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.

Member	Party at vote	Seat	Position
Don Young	R	AK-AL	Aye
Bradley Byrne	R	AL-1	Aye
Martha Roby	R	AL-2	Aye
Mike Rogers	R	AL-3	Aye
Robert Aderholt	R	AL-4	Aye
Mo Brooks	R	AL-5	Aye
Gary Palmer	R	AL-6	Aye
Terri Sewell	D	AL-7	No
Rick Crawford	R	AR-1	Aye
J. Hill	R	AR-2	Aye
Steve Womack	R	AR-3	Aye
Bruce Westerman	R	AR-4	Aye
Tom O’Halleran	D	AZ-1	Aye
Martha McSally	R	AZ-2	Aye
Raúl Grijalva	D	AZ-3	No
Paul Gosar	R	AZ-4	Aye
Andy Biggs	R	AZ-5	Aye
David Schweikert	R	AZ-6	Aye
Ruben Gallego	D	AZ-7	No
Trent Franks	R	AZ-8	Aye
Kyrsten Sinema	D	AZ-9	Aye
Doug LaMalfa	R	CA-1	Aye
Jeff Denham	R	CA-10	Aye
Mark DeSaulnier	D	CA-11	No
Nancy Pelosi	D	CA-12	No
Barbara Lee	D	CA-13	No
Jackie Speier	D	CA-14	No
Eric Swalwell	D	CA-15	No
Jim Costa	D	CA-16	Aye
Ro Khanna	D	CA-17	No
Anna Eshoo	D	CA-18	Aye
Zoe Lofgren	D	CA-19	No
Jared Huffman	D	CA-2	No
Jimmy Panetta	D	CA-20	Aye
David Valadao	R	CA-21	Aye
Devin Nunes	R	CA-22	Aye
Kevin McCarthy	R	CA-23	Aye
Salud Carbajal	D	CA-24	No
Steve Knight	R	CA-25	Aye
Julia Brownley	D	CA-26	Aye
Judy Chu	D	CA-27	No
Adam Schiff	D	CA-28	No
Tony Cárdenas	D	CA-29	No
John Garamendi	D	CA-3	No
Brad Sherman	D	CA-30	Aye
Pete Aguilar	D	CA-31	No
Grace Napolitano	D	CA-32	No
Ted Lieu	D	CA-33	No
Xavier Becerra	D	CA-34	Not Voting
Norma Torres	D	CA-35	No
Raul Ruiz	D	CA-36	No
Karen Bass	D	CA-37	No
Linda Sánchez	D	CA-38	No
Ed Royce	R	CA-39	Aye
Tom McClintock	R	CA-4	Aye
Lucille Roybal-Allard	D	CA-40	No
Mark Takano	D	CA-41	No
Ken Calvert	R	CA-42	Aye
Maxine Waters	D	CA-43	No
Nanette Barragán	D	CA-44	No
Mimi Walters	R	CA-45	Aye
J. Correa	D	CA-46	Aye
Alan Lowenthal	D	CA-47	No
Dana Rohrabacher	R	CA-48	Aye
Darrell Issa	R	CA-49	Aye
Mike Thompson	D	CA-5	Aye
Duncan Hunter	R	CA-50	Aye
Juan Vargas	D	CA-51	No
Scott Peters	D	CA-52	No
Susan Davis	D	CA-53	No
Doris Matsui	D	CA-6	No
Ami Bera	D	CA-7	Aye
Paul Cook	R	CA-8	Aye
Jerry McNerney	D	CA-9	No
Diana DeGette	D	CO-1	No
Jared Polis	D	CO-2	No
Scott Tipton	R	CO-3	Aye
Ken Buck	R	CO-4	Aye
Doug Lamborn	R	CO-5	Aye
Mike Coffman	R	CO-6	Aye
Ed Perlmutter	D	CO-7	Aye
John Larson	D	CT-1	No
Joe Courtney	D	CT-2	No
Rosa DeLauro	D	CT-3	No
Jim Himes	D	CT-4	No
Elizabeth Esty	D	CT-5	No
Lisa Blunt Rochester	D	DE-AL	No
Matt Gaetz	R	FL-1	Aye
Val Demings	D	FL-10	No
Daniel Webster	R	FL-11	Aye
Gus Bilirakis	R	FL-12	Aye
Charlie Crist	D	FL-13	Aye
Kathy Castor	D	FL-14	No
Dennis Ross	R	FL-15	Aye
Vern Buchanan	R	FL-16	Not Voting
Thomas Rooney	R	FL-17	Aye
Brian Mast	R	FL-18	Aye
Francis Rooney	R	FL-19	Aye
Neal Dunn	R	FL-2	Aye
Alcee Hastings	D	FL-20	No
Lois Frankel	D	FL-21	Not Voting
Ted Deutch	D	FL-22	No
Debbie Wasserman Schultz	D	FL-23	No
Frederica Wilson	D	FL-24	No
Mario Diaz-Balart	R	FL-25	Aye
Carlos Curbelo	R	FL-26	Aye
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen	R	FL-27	Aye
Ted Yoho	R	FL-3	Aye
John Rutherford	R	FL-4	Not Voting
Al Lawson	D	FL-5	No
Ron DeSantis	R	FL-6	Aye
Stephanie Murphy	D	FL-7	No
Bill Posey	R	FL-8	Aye
Darren Soto	D	FL-9	No
Buddy Carter	R	GA-1	Aye
Jody Hice	R	GA-10	Aye
Barry Loudermilk	R	GA-11	Aye
Rick Allen	R	GA-12	Aye
David Scott	D	GA-13	Aye
Tom Graves	R	GA-14	Aye
Sanford Bishop	D	GA-2	No
A. Ferguson	R	GA-3	Aye
Hank Johnson	D	GA-4	No
John Lewis	D	GA-5	No
Tom Price	R	GA-6	Not Voting
Rob Woodall	R	GA-7	Aye
Austin Scott	R	GA-8	Aye
Doug Collins	R	GA-9	Aye
Colleen Hanabusa	D	HI-1	No
Tulsi Gabbard	D	HI-2	No
Rod Blum	R	IA-1	Aye
David Loebsack	D	IA-2	Aye
David Young	R	IA-3	Aye
Steve King	R	IA-4	Aye
Raúl Labrador	R	ID-1	Aye
Mike Simpson	R	ID-2	Aye
Bobby Rush	D	IL-1	Not Voting
Brad Schneider	D	IL-10	No
Bill Foster	D	IL-11	No
Mike Bost	R	IL-12	Aye
Rodney Davis	R	IL-13	Aye
Randy Hultgren	R	IL-14	Aye
John Shimkus	R	IL-15	Aye
Adam Kinzinger	R	IL-16	Aye
Cheri Bustos	D	IL-17	No
Darin LaHood	R	IL-18	Aye
Robin Kelly	D	IL-2	No
Daniel Lipinski	D	IL-3	Present
Luis Gutiérrez	D	IL-4	No
Mike Quigley	D	IL-5	No
Peter Roskam	R	IL-6	Aye
Danny Davis	D	IL-7	No
Raja Krishnamoorthi	D	IL-8	No
Jan Schakowsky	D	IL-9	No
Peter Visclosky	D	IN-1	No
Jackie Walorski	R	IN-2	Aye
Jim Banks	R	IN-3	Aye
Todd Rokita	R	IN-4	Aye
Susan Brooks	R	IN-5	Aye
Luke Messer	R	IN-6	Aye
André Carson	D	IN-7	No
Larry Bucshon	R	IN-8	Aye
Trey Hollingsworth	R	IN-9	Aye
Roger Marshall	R	KS-1	Aye
Lynn Jenkins	R	KS-2	Aye
Kevin Yoder	R	KS-3	Aye
Mike Pompeo	R	KS-4	Not Voting
James Comer	R	KY-1	Aye
Brett Guthrie	R	KY-2	Aye
John Yarmuth	D	KY-3	No
Thomas Massie	R	KY-4	Aye
Hal Rogers	R	KY-5	Aye
Andy Barr	R	KY-6	Aye
Steve Scalise	R	LA-1	Aye
Cedric Richmond	D	LA-2	No
Clay Higgins	R	LA-3	Aye
Mike Johnson	R	LA-4	Aye
Ralph Abraham	R	LA-5	Aye
Garret Graves	R	LA-6	Aye
Richard Neal	D	MA-1	No
Jim McGovern	D	MA-2	No
Niki Tsongas	D	MA-3	No
Joseph Kennedy	D	MA-4	No
Katherine Clark	D	MA-5	No
Seth Moulton	D	MA-6	Aye
Michael Capuano	D	MA-7	No
Stephen Lynch	D	MA-8	No
William Keating	D	MA-9	Aye
Andy Harris	R	MD-1	Aye
C. Ruppersberger	D	MD-2	Aye
John Sarbanes	D	MD-3	No
Anthony Brown	D	MD-4	No
Steny Hoyer	D	MD-5	No
John Delaney	D	MD-6	Aye
Elijah Cummings	D	MD-7	No
Jamie Raskin	D	MD-8	No
Chellie Pingree	D	ME-1	No
Bruce Poliquin	R	ME-2	Aye
Jack Bergman	R	MI-1	Aye
Paul Mitchell	R	MI-10	Aye
Dave Trott	R	MI-11	Aye
Debbie Dingell	D	MI-12	No
John Conyers	D	MI-13	No
Brenda Lawrence	D	MI-14	No
Bill Huizenga	R	MI-2	Aye
Justin Amash	R	MI-3	No
John Moolenaar	R	MI-4	Aye
Daniel Kildee	D	MI-5	No
Fred Upton	R	MI-6	Aye
Tim Walberg	R	MI-7	Aye
Mike Bishop	R	MI-8	Aye
Sander Levin	D	MI-9	No
Timothy Walz	D	MN-1	Aye
Jason Lewis	R	MN-2	Aye
Erik Paulsen	R	MN-3	Aye
Betty McCollum	D	MN-4	No
Keith Ellison	D	MN-5	No
Tom Emmer	R	MN-6	Aye
Collin Peterson	D	MN-7	Aye
Richard Nolan	D	MN-8	Aye
Wm. Clay	D	MO-1	No
Ann Wagner	R	MO-2	Aye
Blaine Luetkemeyer	R	MO-3	Aye
Vicky Hartzler	R	MO-4	Aye
Emanuel Cleaver	D	MO-5	Not Voting
Sam Graves	R	MO-6	Aye
Billy Long	R	MO-7	Aye
Jason Smith	R	MO-8	Aye
Trent Kelly	R	MS-1	Aye
Bennie Thompson	D	MS-2	No
Gregg Harper	R	MS-3	Aye
Steven Palazzo	R	MS-4	Aye
Ryan Zinke	R	MT-AL	Not Voting
G.K. Butterfield	D	NC-1	No
Patrick McHenry	R	NC-10	Aye
Mark Meadows	R	NC-11	Aye
Alma Adams	D	NC-12	No
Ted Budd	R	NC-13	Aye
George Holding	R	NC-2	Aye
Walter Jones	R	NC-3	Not Voting
David Price	D	NC-4	No
Virginia Foxx	R	NC-5	Aye
Mark Walker	R	NC-6	Aye
David Rouzer	R	NC-7	Aye
Richard Hudson	R	NC-8	Aye
Robert Pittenger	R	NC-9	Aye
Kevin Cramer	R	ND-AL	Aye
Jeff Fortenberry	R	NE-1	Aye
Don Bacon	R	NE-2	Aye
Adrian Smith	R	NE-3	Aye
Carol Shea-Porter	D	NH-1	No
Ann Kuster	D	NH-2	Aye
Donald Norcross	D	NJ-1	Aye
Donald Payne	D	NJ-10	No
Rodney Frelinghuysen	R	NJ-11	Aye
Bonnie Watson Coleman	D	NJ-12	No
Frank LoBiondo	R	NJ-2	Aye
Tom MacArthur	R	NJ-3	Aye
Chris Smith	R	NJ-4	Aye
Josh Gottheimer	D	NJ-5	Aye
Frank Pallone	D	NJ-6	No
Leonard Lance	R	NJ-7	Aye
Albio Sires	D	NJ-8	Aye
Bill Pascrell	D	NJ-9	Aye
Michelle Lujan Grisham	D	NM-1	No
Steve Pearce	R	NM-2	Aye
Ben Luján	D	NM-3	No
Dina Titus	D	NV-1	No
Mark Amodei	R	NV-2	Aye
Jacky Rosen	D	NV-3	No
Ruben Kihuen	D	NV-4	No
Lee Zeldin	R	NY-1	Aye
Jerrold Nadler	D	NY-10	No
Daniel Donovan	R	NY-11	Aye
Carolyn Maloney	D	NY-12	No
Adriano Espaillat	D	NY-13	No
Joe Crowley	D	NY-14	No
José Serrano	D	NY-15	No
Eliot Engel	D	NY-16	No
Nita Lowey	D	NY-17	No
Sean Maloney	D	NY-18	Aye
John Faso	R	NY-19	Aye
Pete King	R	NY-2	Aye
Paul Tonko	D	NY-20	No
Elise Stefanik	R	NY-21	Aye
Claudia Tenney	R	NY-22	Aye
Tom Reed	R	NY-23	Aye
John Katko	R	NY-24	Aye
Louise Slaughter	D	NY-25	No
Brian Higgins	D	NY-26	No
Chris Collins	R	NY-27	Aye
Thomas Suozzi	D	NY-3	Aye
Kathleen Rice	D	NY-4	No
Gregory Meeks	D	NY-5	No
Grace Meng	D	NY-6	No
Nydia Velázquez	D	NY-7	No
Hakeem Jeffries	D	NY-8	No
Yvette Clarke	D	NY-9	No
Steve Chabot	R	OH-1	Aye
Michael Turner	R	OH-10	Aye
Marcia Fudge	D	OH-11	No
Pat Tiberi	R	OH-12	Aye
Tim Ryan	D	OH-13	Aye
David Joyce	R	OH-14	Aye
Steve Stivers	R	OH-15	Aye
James Renacci	R	OH-16	Aye
Brad Wenstrup	R	OH-2	Aye
Joyce Beatty	D	OH-3	No
Jim Jordan	R	OH-4	Aye
Robert Latta	R	OH-5	Aye
Bill Johnson	R	OH-6	Aye
Bob Gibbs	R	OH-7	Aye
Warren Davidson	R	OH-8	Aye
Marcy Kaptur	D	OH-9	No
Jim Bridenstine	R	OK-1	Aye
Markwayne Mullin	R	OK-2	Aye
Frank Lucas	R	OK-3	Aye
Tom Cole	R	OK-4	Aye
Steve Russell	R	OK-5	Aye
Suzanne Bonamici	D	OR-1	No
Greg Walden	R	OR-2	Aye
Earl Blumenauer	D	OR-3	No
Peter DeFazio	D	OR-4	Aye
Kurt Schrader	D	OR-5	No
Robert Brady	D	PA-1	No
Tom Marino	R	PA-10	Aye
Lou Barletta	R	PA-11	Aye
Keith Rothfus	R	PA-12	Aye
Brendan Boyle	D	PA-13	No
Michael Doyle	D	PA-14	No
Charles Dent	R	PA-15	Aye
Lloyd Smucker	R	PA-16	Aye
Matt Cartwright	D	PA-17	Aye
Tim Murphy	R	PA-18	Aye
Dwight Evans	D	PA-2	No
Mike Kelly	R	PA-3	Aye
Scott Perry	R	PA-4	Aye
Glenn Thompson	R	PA-5	Aye
Ryan Costello	R	PA-6	Aye
Patrick Meehan	R	PA-7	Aye
Brian Fitzpatrick	R	PA-8	Aye
Bill Shuster	R	PA-9	Aye
David Cicilline	D	RI-1	No
Jim Langevin	D	RI-2	No
Mark Sanford	R	SC-1	Aye
Joe Wilson	R	SC-2	Aye
Jeff Duncan	R	SC-3	Aye
Trey Gowdy	R	SC-4	Aye
Mick Mulvaney	R	SC-5	Not Voting
Jim Clyburn	D	SC-6	Not Voting
Tom Rice	R	SC-7	Aye
Kristi Noem	R	SD-AL	Aye
Phil Roe	R	TN-1	Aye
Jimmy Duncan	R	TN-2	Aye
Chuck Fleischmann	R	TN-3	Aye
Scott DesJarlais	R	TN-4	Aye
Jim Cooper	D	TN-5	Aye
Diane Black	R	TN-6	Aye
Marsha Blackburn	R	TN-7	Aye
David Kustoff	R	TN-8	Aye
Steve Cohen	D	TN-9	Aye
Louie Gohmert	R	TX-1	Aye
Michael McCaul	R	TX-10	Aye
K. Conaway	R	TX-11	Aye
Kay Granger	R	TX-12	Aye
Mac Thornberry	R	TX-13	Aye
Randy Weber	R	TX-14	Aye
Vicente Gonzalez	D	TX-15	No
Beto O’Rourke	D	TX-16	No
Bill Flores	R	TX-17	Aye
Sheila Jackson Lee	D	TX-18	No
Jodey Arrington	R	TX-19	Aye
Ted Poe	R	TX-2	Aye
Joaquin Castro	D	TX-20	No
Lamar Smith	R	TX-21	Aye
Pete Olson	R	TX-22	Aye
Will Hurd	R	TX-23	Aye
Kenny Marchant	R	TX-24	Aye
Roger Williams	R	TX-25	Aye
Michael Burgess	R	TX-26	Aye
Blake Farenthold	R	TX-27	Aye
Henry Cuellar	D	TX-28	Aye
Gene Green	D	TX-29	Not Voting
Sam Johnson	R	TX-3	Aye
Eddie Johnson	D	TX-30	Not Voting
John Carter	R	TX-31	Aye
Pete Sessions	R	TX-32	Aye
Marc Veasey	D	TX-33	No
Filemon Vela	D	TX-34	No
Lloyd Doggett	D	TX-35	No
Brian Babin	R	TX-36	Aye
John Ratcliffe	R	TX-4	Aye
Jeb Hensarling	R	TX-5	Aye
Joe Barton	R	TX-6	Aye
John Culberson	R	TX-7	Aye
Kevin Brady	R	TX-8	Aye
Al Green	D	TX-9	No
Rob Bishop	R	UT-1	Aye
Chris Stewart	R	UT-2	Aye
Jason Chaffetz	R	UT-3	Aye
Mia Love	R	UT-4	Aye
Robert Wittman	R	VA-1	Aye
Barbara Comstock	R	VA-10	Aye
Gerald Connolly	D	VA-11	Aye
Scott Taylor	R	VA-2	Aye
Bobby Scott	D	VA-3	No
A. McEachin	D	VA-4	No
Thomas Garrett	R	VA-5	Aye
Bob Goodlatte	R	VA-6	Aye
Dave Brat	R	VA-7	Aye
Donald Beyer	D	VA-8	Aye
H. Griffith	R	VA-9	Aye
Peter Welch	D	VT-AL	No
Suzan DelBene	D	WA-1	No
Denny Heck	D	WA-10	No
Rick Larsen	D	WA-2	No
Jaime Herrera Beutler	R	WA-3	Aye
Dan Newhouse	R	WA-4	Aye
Cathy McMorris Rodgers	R	WA-5	Aye
Derek Kilmer	D	WA-6	No
Pramila Jayapal	D	WA-7	No
David Reichert	R	WA-8	Aye
Adam Smith	D	WA-9	No
Mark Pocan	D	WI-2	No
Ron Kind	D	WI-3	No
Gwen Moore	D	WI-4	No
F. Sensenbrenner	R	WI-5	Aye
Glenn Grothman	R	WI-6	Aye
Sean Duffy	R	WI-7	Aye
Mike Gallagher	R	WI-8	Aye
David McKinley	R	WV-1	Aye
Alexander Mooney	R	WV-2	Aye
Evan Jenkins	R	WV-3	Aye
Liz Cheney	R	WY-AL	Aye

A bill to provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense…

Votes to become law

Final vote · House · Jan 13, 2017