Date: April 18, 2023

Subject: Confirmation of Radha Iyengar Plumb to the Position of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense

Description: This roll call vote was taken to confirm Radha Iyengar Plumb as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. Iyengar Plumb previously served as Director of Research and Insights for Trust & Safety at Google and as the Global Head of Policy Analysis at Facebook. Iyengar Plumb held both positions while the companies censored information not deemed acceptable by the radical left.

She is also one of the co-authors of a paper titled "Assessing the Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly", in which the authors argue that the Department of Defense should integrate openly serving transgender people into the armed forces, adopt anti-harassment policies for transgender service members, and create gender advisers that can give out advice on gender transition-related issues. CPAC believes that the Department of Defense should focus on promoting U.S. national security interests and not on the promotion of radical gender ideology or censorship of speech. CPAC opposed this confirmation.

Result: Nomination Confirmed, 68-30

Democrat: 46 Yeas, 0 Nays, 2 Not voting
Republican: 19 Yeas, 30 Nays, 0 Not voting
Independent: 3 Yeas, 0 Nays, 0 Not voting

Names ordered: By yea/nay       Order alphabetically       Order by party       Order by state

Click on a Senator's name to see more information for that Senator.