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Tommy Tuberville, a Republican Senator from Alabama, has been blocking hundreds of military promotions for months. Senate Democrats are reportedly working on a way to circumvent Tuberville's holds. McConnell has been trying to convince Tuberville to express his opposition in a different way. Tuberville moved to force a vote to confirm the U.S. Marine Corps's second-in-command after the top officer fell ill. There has been criticism of the Senate for not confirming the military nominees. Tuberville has also expressed his opinion on the conflict in Ukraine, calling for an end to the war.
Shifting Winds For Ukraine Support: Secretary Austin Warns Stopping Aid Means Russia Will Certainly Win – Senator Tuberville Calls the War Too Costly: ‘It’s Time to Get This Conflict Over With’ via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/Hh2tYAHf6h
It is beyond belief that the Senate, after some nine months, has not steamrolled Tuberville and confirmed the military nominees. At the very least, make the Tuberville defenders stand up and vote on the floor against a motion to confirm all of them. Now.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R., Ala.), who has held up hundreds of military promotions for months, moved to force a vote to confirm the U.S. Marine Corps’s second-in-command after its top officer fell ill and was taken to the hospital https://t.co/Lhn6j9ZpsJ
McConnell on Tuberville holds now that the Commandant of the Marine Corps is ill: I have been among those trying to convince Sen Tuberville to express his opposition some other way
Senate Democrats reportedly working on way to circumvent most of Tommy Tuberville’s military holds https://t.co/B6waGr6Jik
Tommy Tuberville on Senate efforts to end his blocking of military promotions: "They need to be worried about what's going on in Ukraine, the Middle East, the wars that their side, the Democrats and Joe Biden, have created." https://t.co/L5bAxnEVTe