Page 163 - Eric Smith News Today

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has lined up votes to advance the nominations of three top military officials who have been waiting to take their posts since Sen. Tommy Tuberville has been holding them up in a protest over Pentagon abortion policy.

Republicans bicker over spending, Tuberville's test, religious liberty in court, and more.

Tuberville told fellow GOP senators on Tuesday that he intended to try and force a vote to appoint a new Marine Corps commandant.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday moved to tee up votes on three military nominations, including for Charles “C.Q.” Brown to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, marking Democrats’ first maneuver to get around Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) hold on more than 300 promotions. Schumer also teed up votes on…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer finally folded Wednesday and began to set up votes on three military prominations.

Three generals were on track for confirmation, but Senator Tommy Tuberville, the Alabama Republican who has been blocking them, said he would continue to hold up others over a Pentagon abortion policy.

 

Senator Chuck Schumer filed a motion that would end deliberation on three of President Joe Biden's nominations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff Wednesday.

GOP senator’s opposition to abortion policy has deadlocked US military’s promotion track

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has teed up a vote on three high-level Pentagon nominees blocked by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), a major reversal in a stalemate over the department's abortion policy.