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Senate Republicans clash with Tommy Tuberville over hold on military promotions
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville has said he will continue to hold the nominees up unless the Pentagon ends its new policy of paying for travel when a service member has to go out of state to get an abortion or other reproductive care
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Tuberville says he will keep blocking military promotions despite Israel’s war
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Senate Republicans clash with Tommy Tuberville over hold on military promotions
By Lauren Fox and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) – Senate Democrats are eyeing a new plan to try and work around GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s holds on military promotions, which would require a temporary change in rules that would allow them to approve hundreds of military nominations en bloc, a source fam…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats are mulling a strategy to bypass Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s months-long hold on hundreds of military promotions in protest of a Pentagon abortion policy that was authorized in the aftermath of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
By Sam Fossum and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — 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…
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.
Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan said if the standoff continues and officers leave the military, Tuberville’s blockade will be remembered as a “national security suicide mission.”
Sen. Tommy Tuberville has said he will continue to hold the nominees up unless the Pentagon ends its new policy of paying for travel when a service member has to go out of state to get an abortion or other reproductive care
Senate Democrats are trying a new workaround to confirm hundreds of military officers blocked by Sen. Tommy Tuberville ten months after the Alabama Republican first said he would object to
WASHINGTON — Republican senators angrily challenged Sen. Tommy Tuberville on his blockade of almost 400 military officers Wednesday evening, taking over the Senate floor for more than four hours to call for individual confirmation votes after a monthslong stalemate. Tuberville, R-Ala.
By Morgan Rimmer, CNN Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska was joined by his GOP colleagues Joni Ernst of Iowa, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Todd Young of Indiana and Mitt Romney of Utah in the chamber Wednesday night in an attempt to pass 115 top military nominees delayed by fellow Republica…
Senate Republicans criticized Sen. Tuberville for blocking military nominations over the Pentagon's abortion policy, which has delayed hundreds of nominees.
For hours on the Senate floor Wednesday, a group of Republican senators publicly broke with Alabama GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville over his hold on military nominations.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., has blocked quick approval of more than 300 top-level military promotions in protest of the Defense Department's abortion travel policy.
Republican senators angrily challenged Sen. Tommy Tuberville on his blockade of almost 400 military officers Wednesday evening, taking over the Senate floor for hours to call for individual confirmation votes after a months-long stalemate on the issue.
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville vs. all Senate Democrats – and as of now – five Republican Senators, who joined with them, in an attempt to confirm the military officer nominations being procedurally withheld by Tuberville in a stand against the Pentagon’s military abortion travel policy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators angrily challenged Sen. Tommy Tuberville on his blockade of almost 400 military officers Wednesday evening, taking over the Senate floor
The Senate barreled ahead with several military nominees Thursday after a GOP revolt a day earlier against Sen. Tommy Tuberville over his promotion freeze.
Senator Dan Sullivan was joined by Senators Joni Ernst, Lindsey Graham, Todd Young, and Mitt Romney in an attempt to pass 115 top military nominees delayed by Senator Tommy Tuberville’s hold over his opposition to the Pentagon’s policy of reimbursing servicemembers for travel to obtain reproductive …
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) blocked a GOP effort to confirm military promotions on the Senate floor as frustration over his blanket hold boiled over on Wednesday.
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