Sen. Tommy Tuberville should drop his ‘irresponsible’ protest and OK military nominees, Biden says
traveled to Finland as a show of support for the new NATO member, following the NATO summit in Lithuania this week.
“The idea that we’re injecting into fundamental foreign policy decisions what, in fact, is a domestic social debate on social issues is bizarre,”The block also affects the families of nominees, who usually relocate over the summer to their new military communities so school-age children can get settled in before fall.
And it stretches to hundreds more younger military personnel who don’t need Senate confirmation but are still affected by the hold because they are assigned to serve as staff or aides to the relocating generals. Those aides move their families as well. So they are essentially stuck, too. A proposal last month to hold a Senate debate over Pentagon abortion policies as part of the annual defense bill negotiations was seen by some senators as the best prospect for gettingThe Alabama senator’s action bucks decades of precedent in which swaths of military officers and promotions are approved by voice vote and with no objections. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I.
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