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Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said his hold on military promotions was still in place after Sen. Charles Schumer of New York filed cloture motions.

The U.S. Senate confirmed a nominee for a high-ranking military post on Wednesday night and advanced another.

More than 300 signs dotted the lawn outside the U.S. Senate Tuesday, each bearing the name of a military nominee blocked this year by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama in protest of a Pentagon abortion policy.

The U.S. Senate held two votes for high-ranking military posts Wednesday night, the first since Sen. Tommy Tuberville started blocking them.

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to confirm Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Wednesday, an initial step toward breaking a monthslong

The Senate confirmed General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. as the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff after a monthslong hold on his nomination by Tommy Tuberville.

The Senate is voting one-by-one in the face of the Tuberville hold on top nominees.

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama took a victory lap Wednesday, saying that his hold on military promotions was still in place after Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York filed cloture motions on multiple nominations for high-ranking posts.

THE FOUNDATION "Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind." —Thomas Jefferson (1822) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1780, Benedict Arnold betrayed the Patriot cause by giving the...

Tommy Tuberville's hold over the Pentagon's illegal abortion policy is still in place.