Senate Democrats are trying a new workaround to confirm hundreds of military officers blocked by Sen. Tommy Tuberville ten months after the Alabama Republican first said he would object to the nominations over a Pentagon abortion policy
MARY CLARE JALONICK and LOLITA BALDORSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters about support for Israel following a closed-door caucus meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. WASHINGTON — — Senate Democrats are trying a new workaround to confirm hundreds of military officers, ten months after the Alabama Republican first said he would object to the nominations over a Pentagon abortion policy.
The Senate maneuvers come amid a new war in Israel and as members of both parties are growing increasingly frustrated with Tuberville’s holds. Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Republican, had gathered enough signatures to force a vote on Franchetti and Allvin and spoke out in frustration about the issue at the weekly GOP lunch on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with Sullivan’s comments who requested anonymity to discuss the closed-door meeting.
In public remarks in early September, Smith described his grueling schedule as he juggled the strategic and oversight responsibilities of commandant and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the personnel and management duties of the No. 2 job. “It is not sustainable,” Smith said. “What doesn’t stop is the clock. The adversary doesn’t take a pause.”
Tuberville has shown no signs of lifting the blockade since he first announced it in February. Despite several high-level vacancies, he has said he will continue to hold up the other nominations unless the Pentagon ends its policy of paying for travel when a service member has to go out of state to get an abortion or other reproductive care.
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