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Senator Tommy Tuberville is facing criticism for blocking military promotions for months. The Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Eric Smith, was hospitalized, prompting Tuberville to push for the confirmation of the Marine Corps' second-in-command. Republican senators are planning to confront Tuberville and force individual confirmation votes. The Senate is considering ways to bypass Tuberville's blockade of military promotions.
Senate Republicans face pivotal week on Senator Tommy Tuberville’s military holds https://t.co/5CICbddd0w https://t.co/xRn4saCoT9
Senate GOPers to discuss Tuberville holds today. Some bipartisan senators want to go around Tuberville
Tuberville under fire from GOP for continuing to hold up military promotions | Fox News Video https://t.co/RPrV0cVqhi
Tensions are erupting within the Senate GOP ranks as members with backgrounds in the armed forces take on Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) over his hold on military promotions. @alweaver22 reports: https://t.co/KbHWqjYKOV
Tensions are erupting within the Senate GOP ranks as members with backgrounds in the armed forces take on Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) over his hold on military promotions. @alweaver22 reports: https://t.co/Ba4MgsU9sT
The Senate bypassed Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville's blockade of senior military promotions to confirm Adm. Lisa Franchetti to be the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. Navy. https://t.co/ZPYcmmskxL
Republicans, fed up with Tuberville, plot ways to bust his military blockade https://t.co/4q3m5hbVHh
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to what the Senate is considering to go around Tuberville https://t.co/ua3N1drq1s
The GOP has rightfully taken Tuberville to task. Its about time.
1) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to What the Senate is Considering to Go Around Tuberville on Military Promotions Bipartisan senators are apoplectic at Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and his blockade of more than 400 routine military promotions.
“A national security suicide mission.” Senate Republicans are fed up with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) for blocking high-ranking military promotions since February over a DoD abortion policy. https://t.co/nzGlcnJ0l1
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is asked about fellow Republicans publicly criticizing him on the Senate floor over his military promotions blockade. CNN’s @mkraju: “Has any of this caused you to change your approach?” Tuberville: “No. No.” https://t.co/2EcUWKskn1
Republicans angrily confront Tommy Tuberville on Senate floor over his blocking of hundreds of military confirmations https://t.co/XCxBO5T7rT https://t.co/2uHHlXCNIU
Senate GOP launches offensive to overcome Tuberville military holds https://t.co/Bh3luFbT3D https://t.co/IevqydL5fT
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 monthslong stalemate on the issue. https://t.co/Wt0RcYyjRN
Republican senators ran out of patience with Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s monthslong hold on hundreds of military promotions https://t.co/bFyMUo44Yc https://t.co/bFyMUo44Yc
1) Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) verbally lashes Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) for individually blocking military promotions. By the time the Senate finishes tonight, Tuberville will have blocked the promotion of 61 military officers.
Senate GOP launches offensive to overcome Tuberville military holds https://t.co/y2t9eMxhxN https://t.co/O8cTVYm6xj
Senate GOP launches offensive to overcome Tuberville military holds https://t.co/Q7M1XY2F7Q https://t.co/B5mLdrFZBM
GOP senator to confront Tuberville on military blockade https://t.co/qDl88U9Z1E
I'm hearing McConnell deputies and allies, including Lindsay Graham, Joni Ernst, Todd Young, and Dan Sullivan, told colleagues today they're planning an attack on Tommy Tuberville's hold on military promotions, modeled after Elizabeth Warren's attack a few months ago. Tuberville… https://t.co/sBaKtzPPLM
Tuberville Laments, ‘Our Military’s Struggling to Actually Put a Group Together’ as He’s Blocking Hundreds of Military Nominees https://t.co/gZGRKWfN9r
Facing fresh attacks over his military holds, Sen. Tommy Tuberville is pushing to confirm the Marine Corps’ second-in-command after the service branch’s commandant, Gen. Eric Smith, was hospitalized due to a medical emergency on Sunday. https://t.co/Rs89CODbnA
Facing fresh attacks over his military holds, Sen. Tommy Tuberville is pushing to confirm the Marine Corps’ second-in-command after the service branch’s commandant, Gen. Eric Smith, was hospitalized due to a medical emergency on Sunday. https://t.co/p4EHxYbbhz
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.
Tuberville Laments, 'Our Military's Struggling to Actually Put a Group Together' as He's Blocking Hundreds of Military Nominees https://t.co/gZGRKWffjT
Facing fresh attacks over his military holds, Sen. Tommy Tuberville is pushing to confirm the Marine Corps’ second-in-command after the service branch’s commandant, Gen. Eric Smith, was hospitalized due to a medical emergency on Sunday. https://t.co/1TJG3GFjXK
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
Facing fresh attacks over his military holds, Sen. Tommy Tuberville is pushing to confirm the Marine Corps’ second-in-command after the service branch’s commandant, Gen. Eric Smith, was hospitalized due to a medical emergency on Sunday. https://t.co/IvzV4ZcszU
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