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Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) remove any individual from the Senior Executive Service upon determining that such individual's performance warrants such removal, and (2) remove such individual from federal service or transfer the individual to a General Schedule position at any grade the Secretary deems appropriate.
Requires: (1) the Secretary to notify the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs committees within 30 days after removing such an individual, and (2) such removal to be done in the same manner as the removal of a professional staff member employed by a Member of Congress.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 4031 as passed House without amendment on May 21, 2014. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House May 21, 2014
Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
390 Yea 33 Nay 8 not voting
Crossed both parties 33 of 423 voting members broke with their own party: 33 Democrats.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 4031 and vote against it. 9 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 4031 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
33 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.