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| Recent House Votes |
| FY 2014 Defense Authorization ? Passage?- Vote?Passed?(315-108, 11 Not Voting) After voting on a series of amendments, including rejecting one from Adam Smith, D-Wash. to close the detention facility at Guant?namo Bay, Cuba by the end of 2014, the House passed this bill authorizing spending on the Defense Department and national security programs for fiscal year 2014. Ignoring the White House administration?s threat to veto the bill, they passed a $638.4 billion measure that includes $85.8 billion for war costs, requirements for the Defense secretary to detail military intervention options in Syria, and new guidelines and harsher penalties for sexual assault in the armed services. Sexual assault amendments from Lois Frankel, D-Fla., and Michael R. Turner, R-Ohio, making it an offense to abuse one?s authority in the chain of command and establishing mandatory minimum sentences of discharge, dismissal and confinement for certain offenses, respectively, were adopted. Rep. Frank LoBiondo?voted?YES |