{"id":1983726,"date":"2023-07-26T21:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-challenge-tubervilles-blockade-on-military-nominations\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:40:00","slug":"senate-democrats-challenge-tubervilles-blockade-on-military-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-challenge-tubervilles-blockade-on-military-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats oppose Tuberville&#8217;s obstruction of military nominations."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-democrats-challenge-tubervilles-blockade-on-military-nominations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1983726&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Senate Democrats Denounce Sen. Tuberville&#8217;s\u200b Hold on Military Nominations<\/h2>\n<p>Senate\u2064 Democrats took to the floor on Wednesday\u2063 night to denounce Sen. Tommy\u200b Tuberville&#8217;s (R-AL) hold\u2063 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cotton-critical-race-theory-has-most-corrosive-influence-on-military\/\" title=\"Cotton: Critical Race Theory Has \u2018Most Corrosive\u2019 Influence on Military\">military nominations<\/a> \u200cas lawmakers\u200d attempt to break the stalemate ahead of\u2063 the August recess.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tuberville has been blocking nearly\u200b 300 military \u2062nominations since early \u200bMarch in protest of\u200b the Defense Department&#8217;s new abortion policy. Tuberville says \u2064he believes \u200bthe policy, put in place in response\u2063 to \u200cthe Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last year, is a \u200dviolation of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/waffle-arizona-house-speaker-claims-they-cant-enforce-constitution-wont-commit-to-calling-legislative-hearing\/\" title=\"WAFFLE: Arizona House Speaker Claims They Can\u2019t Enforce Constitution, Won\u2019t Commit To Calling Legislative Hearing\">federal law<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-tommy-tuberville-wont-back-down-on-stalling-250-military-nominees-in-the-senate\/\" title=\"Tommy Tuberville stands firm, refusing to expedite 250 military nominees in the Senate.\">limits federal funding<\/a> of abortion to cases of rape, incest, or threats to the life of the mother.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Senate Votes to Keep China from Buying US Farmland<\/h3>\n<p>The Pentagon does not \u200cpay for the procedure itself but recently began to cover the travel expenses for servicewomen seeking an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>As Senate leaders work \u2062to wrap \u2062up\u2062 consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act this week, many Democrats are questioning what it \u200bwill \u2063take to get \u2062Tuberville to back off his blockade since the legislation had been viewed at \u200bone time as an off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville \u2063at one time signaled a vote on the policy\u200b as part of the NDAA would be enough for \u2063him to drop\u200b the hold, but he has since taken a harder \u2064line, maintaining that the only way he would relent is \u200bif the Pentagon reverses its policy or if Democrats successfully codify it into law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The senator from Alabama has moved his goalposts many times. Never offering a viable or reasonable compromise,&#8221; Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), \u200bthe chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on the Senate floor. &#8220;Originally, he just wanted a call \u2064from the secretary of defense. Once he got it, he\u200c changed his demand again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he asked for\u200c a \u2064vote to repeal\u2063 the policy, we did so during the National \u2064Defense Authorization Act markup, but of course he\u2063 changed his demands again,&#8221; Reed, who was joined \u200bby multiple Democratic colleagues, added. &#8220;At this point, one has to \u200dwonder if he actually wants \u2063to achieve his demands or if he just wants to stay in the spotlight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 backlog of Pentagon nominees, which\u2062 could grow to as large as 650 by the end of the \u2062year, is typically approved without objection, usually in batches. Tuberville lacks the power to block \u200dthe \u2063promotions entirely \u2014\u200c Senate Majority Leader Chuck\u2062 Schumer (D-NY) can still put them up\u200c for a vote\u2064 \u2014 but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-challenge-tubervilles-blockade-on-military-nominations\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats oppose Tuberville's obstruction of military nominations.\">hold basically forces<\/a> him\u200d to\u2062 do so one by one, eating up valuable floor\u2064 time.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer could\u200d keep the\u2063 Senate \u2062in session during the \u200bAugust recess \u200dto ramp up pressure on\u2063 Tuberville, but he is not likely to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville \u2062rejects the idea that he must relent, putting the onus\u2063 on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to reverse course. The two have spoken twice in recent weeks, though the conversations\u2062 have yet to yield a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, \u2064there\u2062 are some members on both sides of the aisle looking to\u2064 find a way \u2064forward. One potential solution some\u200b senators are considering \u2063is to limit the\u200d Defense Department&#8217;s policy in an effort \u2064to satisfy Tuberville&#8217;s objections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s\u2063 a small\u200c group of us that\u200b have been working\u2063 to find a path forward that\u200d responds to the\u2064 concerns that the senator has but also allows \u2063us to\u200b move forward with the votes of the nominees,&#8221; said \u2062Sen. Mike \u2063Rounds (R-SD), a member of the Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">CLICK HERE \u200bTO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats criticized Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) for obstructing military nominations, aiming to resolve the deadlock before the August recess. Since March, Tuberville has blocked around 300 nominations to protest the Defense Department&#8217;s abortion policy. Tuberville maintains his stance, stating his belief in the importance of protecting unborn lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}