119th Congress · PN246-5 · Department of Defense
Austin Dahmer
Where this nomination stands
Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate. · January 3, 2026
- ReceivedJune 2, 2025
- Sent to committeeJune 2, 2025
- HearingNovember 4, 2025
- Committee votenot on record
- On the Senate calendarnot on record
- Senate votenot on record
- ReturnedJanuary 3, 2026
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Description on the record: Austin Dahmer, of Arizona, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Mara Elizabeth Karlin.
Evidence
- Record
- Congress.gov nomination PN246-5 ↗
- Machine-readable record
https://api.congress.gov/v3/nomination/119/246-5?format=json- Status wording
- PORKER shows the status from Congress.gov’s latest-action text: “Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate.” (January 3, 2026)
- Last updated by Congress.gov
- January 5, 2026
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- Raw copy kept
- nominations-119-2026-10-16-06a5bfe9.jsonl.gz
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Senate votes
Roll calls recorded on this nomination. Both parties are shown the same way, and nothing here is a score.
No Senate roll call vote is on record for this nomination yet.
Committee steps
- Referred To June 2, 2025: Armed Services Committee
- Hearings By (full committee) November 4, 2025: Armed Services Committee
Every recorded action
- Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
- Committee on Armed Services. Hearings held.
- Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
Same rule for every member. Both parties are always shown, and every number links to the bill or member behind it. How we calculate →