Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville, who has had a hold on military promotions for the last nine months, slammed a proposal being floated to change the chamber’s rules to allow a vote on many of the nominations en-masse and attacked the White House and Senate Democrats for not negotiating with him.
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who has held up military promotions for nine months, slammed a proposal being floated to change the chamber’s rules to allow a vote on many of the nominations en masse and attacked the White House and Senate Democrats for not negotiating with him. “It’s typical of this place. This administration would rather burn the Senate down and that’s what would happen. … If you change the rules of the Senate then it lasts forever,” Tuberville told CNN’s Manu Raju.
And I’ve told you that all along. And the people that I trust tell me that it’s not,” he told CNN. Tuberville’s hold is affecting a number of senior military posts in the Middle East as the US deploys units to the area amid heightened tensions after a series of attacks on coalition bases and the crisis in Israel and Gaza.
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