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Sen. Tuberville on memo stating it would take roughly 700 hours to individually vote on military promotions
Sen. Tommy Tuberville is responding to a Congressional Research Service memo stating it would take roughly 700 hours in the U.S. Senate to process and vote on hundreds of military officers whose promotions are currently blocked. Tuberville has kept the nominations from moving forward in protest of the Pentagon's abortion policy. During a press call Wednesday morning, WVTM 13 asked Tuberville if he was concerned about taking away from other Senate business if it did, in fact, take roughly 700 hours to move the nominations forward one-by-one. "Sure, it worries me. The problem I have with this is when we started this, I told Democrats, 'listen, I am not changing my mind. You are running into someone here who will stand up for the rule of law,'" said Tuberville. "We could have been doing these every week for last 30-40 weeks and had most of the people done. They didn't want to do that." During this blockade, Tuberville has said several times that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer could bring each nominee to the floor individually for a confirmation vote. On Wednesday, the Senate is expected to vote on three nominations individually, including the Commandant of the Marine Corps. In the past several months, Tuberville has also faced questions about whether blocking military promotions was impacting national security. During a press call in July of 2023, he said "If I thought it was having just a small part of an affect on national security, I wouldn't be doing this..."CNN contributed to this report.
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville is responding to a Congressional Research Service memo stating it would take roughly 700 hours in the U.S. Senate to process and vote on hundreds of military officers whose promotions are currently blocked. Tuberville has kept the nominations from moving forward in protest of the Pentagon's abortion policy.
During a press call Wednesday morning, WVTM 13 asked Tuberville if he was concerned about taking away from other Senate business if it did, in fact, take roughly 700 hours to move the nominations forward one-by-one.
"Sure, it worries me. The problem I have with this is when we started this, I told Democrats, 'listen, I am not changing my mind. You are running into someone here who will stand up for the rule of law,'" said Tuberville. "We could have been doing these every week for last 30-40 weeks and had most of the people done. They didn't want to do that."
During this blockade, Tuberville has said several times that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer could bring each nominee to the floor individually for a confirmation vote. On Wednesday, the Senate is expected to vote on three nominations individually, including the Commandant of the Marine Corps.
In the past several months, Tuberville has also faced questions about whether blocking military promotions was impacting national security. During a press call in July of 2023, he said "If I thought it was having just a small part of an affect on national security, I wouldn't be doing this..."
CNN contributed to this report.
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