Senate · Roll call 4 · 117th Congress, session 1

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.

On Passage of the Bill: Bill Passed 69–27 on Jan 21, 2021. 27 members voted against the majority of their party.

Result
Agreed to
Vote type: 3/5
Yea
69
Nay
27
Present
0
Not voting: 4

Jan 21, 2021 · Passage

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The measure

The bill or resolution this roll call was on.

  1. 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.
    Became law· Adam Smith (D-WA-9)· Armed Forces and National Security· Jan 22, 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.

Split by party

Yea on the left, nay on the right, scaled to each party's members.

PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
Democrats341400
Independents2000
Republicans331304
Total692704

Seat chart

One seat per member, colored by their recorded position; outlined seats voted against their party's majority. Seats are grouped by party and ordered by DW-NOMINATE (Analisa's layout: House members have no assigned seats).

Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) · NayCory A. Booker (D-NJ) · NayEdward J. Markey (D-MA) · NayMazie K. Hirono (D-HI) · YeaTammy Baldwin (D-WI) · NayJon Ossoff (D-GA) · YeaJeff Merkley (D-OR) · NayKirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY) · NayRaphael G. Warnock (D-GA) · YeaAlex Padilla (D-CA) · YeaBrian Schatz (D-HI) · YeaRichard Blumenthal (D-CT) · NaySherrod Brown (D-OH) · YeaTina Smith (D-MN) · YeaChris Van Hollen (D-MD) · NayBen Ray Luján (D-NM) · YeaRobert Menendez (D-NJ) · YeaJack Reed (D-RI) · YeaPatrick J. Leahy (D-VT) · YeaPatty Murray (D-WA) · NayCharles E. Schumer (D-NY) · YeaTammy Duckworth (D-IL) · NayCatherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) · NayDebbie Stabenow (D-MI) · YeaSheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) · YeaRichard J. Durbin (D-IL) · YeaRon Wyden (D-OR) · NayMartin Heinrich (D-NM) · YeaBenjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) · YeaRobert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA) · YeaMaria Cantwell (D-WA) · YeaJohn W. Hickenlooper (D-CO) · YeaChristopher Murphy (D-CT) · YeaJacky Rosen (D-NV) · NayAmy Klobuchar (D-MN) · YeaMark Kelly (D-AZ) · YeaDianne Feinstein (D-CA) · YeaGary C. Peters (D-MI) · YeaMichael F. Bennet (D-CO) · YeaChristopher A. Coons (D-DE) · YeaTim Kaine (D-VA) · YeaMargaret Wood Hassan (D-NH) · YeaJeanne Shaheen (D-NH) · YeaMark R. Warner (D-VA) · YeaJon Tester (D-MT) · NayThomas R. Carper (D-DE) · YeaKyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) · YeaJoe Manchin, III (D-WV) · YeaBernard Sanders (I-VT) · YeaAngus S. King, Jr. (I-ME) · YeaSusan M. Collins (R-ME) · NayLisa Murkowski (R-AK) · YeaShelley Moore Capito (R-WV) · YeaMitt Romney (R-UT) · YeaMike Rounds (R-SD) · YeaChuck Grassley (R-IA) · YeaLindsey Graham (R-SC) · YeaRob Portman (R-OH) · YeaRoger F. Wicker (R-MS) · YeaThom Tillis (R-NC) · Not votingRoy Blunt (R-MO) · YeaKevin Cramer (R-ND) · YeaMitch McConnell (R-KY) · YeaJohn Hoeven (R-ND) · YeaJerry Moran (R-KS) · Not votingJohn Boozman (R-AR) · YeaJohn Thune (R-SD) · YeaRichard Burr (R-NC) · Not votingTodd Young (R-IN) · NayRichard C. Shelby (R-AL) · YeaCindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) · Not votingDeb Fischer (R-NE) · YeaDan Sullivan (R-AK) · YeaBill Cassidy (R-LA) · YeaJohn Cornyn (R-TX) · YeaMike Crapo (R-ID) · YeaJoni Ernst (R-IA) · YeaJohn Barrasso (R-WY) · NayJames E. Risch (R-ID) · YeaJames M. Inhofe (R-OK) · YeaJohn Kennedy (R-LA) · YeaTom Cotton (R-AR) · NaySteve Daines (R-MT) · YeaJames Lankford (R-OK) · YeaRoger Marshall (R-KS) · NayMarco Rubio (R-FL) · NayPatrick J. Toomey (R-PA) · NayTim Scott (R-SC) · YeaMarsha Blackburn (R-TN) · NayRon Johnson (R-WI) · YeaBen Sasse (R-NE) · NayBill Hagerty (R-TN) · YeaCynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) · NayRick Scott (R-FL) · NayTed Cruz (R-TX) · YeaMike Braun (R-IN) · YeaJosh Hawley (R-MO) · NayRand Paul (R-KY) · YeaMike Lee (R-UT) · NayTommy Tuberville (R-AL) · YeaBill Passed69–27
Yea 69Nay 27Not voting 4Voted against their party

Voted against their party

Members who voted yea or nay against most of their party's voting members.

How each member voted

Recorded positions, by party and then position. Highlighted names voted against the majority of their party's voting members.

Democrats · 48

Yea · 34

Nay · 14

Independents · 2

Yea · 2

Republicans · 50

Yea · 33

Nay · 13

Not voting · 4

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll calls via Voteview, from the official Senate record.
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • The seat chart groups members by party (Analisa's layout); it is not a floor plan.