Chuck Schumer invoked a parliamentary maneuver Wednesday in a bid to advance three senior-level military nominees whose promotions have long been stalled in the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer during a news conference at the Capitol on Tuesday.
With the announcement, Schumer teed up votes on the nominations of Charles “C.Q.” Brown to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Randy George to become chief of staff of the Army, and Gen. Eric Smith to become the next commandant of the Marine Corps. Schumer said that, for more than six months, Tuberville has continued his “brazen, reckless hold of hundreds of routine, nonpolitical promotions of senior military officers.”
Milley’s expected successor, Brown Jr., was lauded as a well-qualified candidate in a hearing in July by members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and is expected to be confirmed easily if a vote is taken. He has served for the last three years as the top officer in the Air Force, and previously held positions overseeing operations in the Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.
An assessment by the independent Congressional Research Service released in August said that it would take the Senate more than 30 days to confirm nominees if the chamber worked 24 hours per day without stopping. If the Senate worked eight hours per day, it would take at least 89 days, CRS found.
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