“Sen. Tuberville is forcing us to confront his obstruction head on,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, said on Wednesday.
The Senate voted on Thursday to confirm Gen. Randy George to be chief of staff of the Army and Gen. Eric Smith to be commandant of the Marine Corps – key votes that follow a monthslong hold of more than 300 military promotions by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.The trio of high-profile confirmations comes as tensions have continued to rise over Tuberville’s tactic – a protest by the Alabama senator over the Pentagon’s abortion policy.
Schumer moved to have the three key military promotions – the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Marine Corps commandant and the Army chief of staff – voted on separately rather than as part of a bloc of holds by Tuberville.with members of his own party unable to move Tuberville from his position because of his opposition to a Defense Department policy reimbursing travel costs for service members who must go across state lines to seek an abortion.
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