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Senate panel will move to break Tuberville's hold |
The Rules Committee on Tuesday will move to circumvent a hold that Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has had in place for nine months to protest the Pentagon's abortion policy. |
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Monday that the committee will mark up a resolution Tuesday to confirm more than 350 nonpolitical military promotions at once, sidestepping Tuberville's block. The Democratic leader said once the Rules Committee approves the measure, he will bring it to the Senate floor for a vote "as soon as possible." "I know some Republicans have been trying to work with Sen. Tuberville over the past week to find some last-ditch solution but he seems to remain ironclad in his stubbornness," Schumer said. "So tomorrow the Senate Rules Committee, led by Sen. [Amy] Klobuchar [D-Minn.], will mark up a resolution allowing the Senate to quickly confirm the promotions currently blocked by Tuberville." Schumer thanked Armed Services Committee Chair Jack Reed (D-R.I.) for working on the resolution and expressed hope that it will pick up the nine Republican votes needed to pass the Senate. "If Sen. Tuberville continues his blanket holds on military nominations, if he won't even listen to members of his own side of the aisle, I will bring Sen. Reed's resolution to the floor for a vote as soon as possible. That way, we can end Sen. Tuberville's farce and quickly confirm the over 350 military promotions," Schumer said. It remains an open question, however, whether Schumer will get enough Republican support for the standing order resolution, which would change Senate procedure for confirming nonpolitical military promotions for the rest of the 118th Congress. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) last week called on Senate GOP leaders to support Tuberville and warned it would be a "mistake" to support the Democratic resolution to allow more than 300 promotions to be confirmed in one batch. Read the full report at TheHill.com. |
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The Pentagon has identified the five Army special operations aviation soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Stephen Dwyer, 38, of Clarksville, Tenn.; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Shane Barnes, 34, of Sacramento, Calif.; Staff Sgt. Tanner Grone, 26, of Gorham, N.H.; Sgt. Andrew Southard, 27, of Apache Junction, Ariz.; and Sgt. Cade Wolfe, 24, of Mankato, Minn., were killed … |
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| Israel on Monday said soldiers fought near a major hospital in Gaza City and killed 21 Hamas militants in the firefight as clashes around medical facilities intensified. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Hamas fighters embedded themselves among civilians in the Al-Quds hospital and fired from the entrance of the facility at Israeli soldiers. The Hamas militants fired rocket-propelled grenade launchers and damaged an Israeli … |
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The U.S. on Sunday launched strikes on two facilities in Syria with links to Iran and Iranian proxies, marking the latest retaliatory action amid an uptick in attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East, according to the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday the strikes hit a training facility near the city of Abu Kamal, along with a safe house near the city of Mayan, which were used by Iran’s Islamic … |
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Upcoming things we're watching on our beat: |
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will be in Indonesia Tuesday for the 10th ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting (ADMM)-Plus and meet with regional counterparts. The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on "Examining the Biden administration's Afghanistan policy since the U.S. withdrawal," with John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), at 10 a.m.
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Trump team demands DC election subversion trial be televised |
Former President Trump's legal team asked a federal judge to allow his Washington trial over efforts to subvert the 2020 election to be televised, joining a coalition of media outlets who say the American public should be able to watch the case unfold in real time.
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Events in and around the defense world: |
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission will discuss its 2023 Annual Report to Congress at 10:30 a.m. - The U.S. Institute of Peace will hold a talk on "China's space collaboration with Africa" at 1:30 p.m.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies will have a conversation on "Countering uncrewed aerial systems" with Maj. Gen. Sean Gainey, director of the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aerial Systems Office, at 2 p.m.
A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee will hold a hearing on "Go-to-zero: Joe Biden's withdrawal order and the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan" at 2 p.m.
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