Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) invoked a parliamentary maneuver Wednesday in a bid to advance three senior-level military nominees whose promotions have long been stalled in the Senate.
Speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday, Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said he would request unanimous consent to hold initial votes on the three key Pentagon nominations later Wednesday. If Tuberville or another senator objects, Schumer threatened to keep lawmakers in the Senate over the weekend while he proceeds to force votes under the chamber’s cloture rules.
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.”“Due to the extraordinary circumstances of Senator Tuberville’s reckless decisions, Democrats will take action,” Schumer said. “Democrats have said all along that these promotions should move forward together, as these nominations have for decades in the past.
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. A senior Pentagon official, asked about Schumer’s plans on Wednesday, expressed gratitude, but said that Tuberville’s hold “remains unnecessary at a critical moment for our national security.”
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