{"id":2116393,"date":"2023-12-05T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tommy-tuberville-ends-military-blockade-in-the-senate-sparked-by-abortion-policy\/"},"modified":"2023-12-05T14:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:05:01","slug":"tommy-tuberville-ends-military-blockade-in-the-senate-sparked-by-abortion-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tommy-tuberville-ends-military-blockade-in-the-senate-sparked-by-abortion-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Tuberville halts Senate blockade over abortion policy"},"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%2Ftommy-tuberville-ends-military-blockade-in-the-senate-sparked-by-abortion-policy%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=2116393&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>Senator Tuberville Backs\u2064 Down on Military Holds<\/h2>\n<p>Senator \u2063Tommy \u200bTuberville (R-AL) \u200dmade a surprising announcement on Tuesday, revealing that he is ending his blockade on hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judeo-christian-society-foundations-create-more-ethical-ai-than-adversaries-u-s-air-force-general-says\/\" title=\"US Air Force General: 'Judeo-Christian Society' Builds Ethical AI\">military holds<\/a> in the Senate. This decision comes after Tuberville\u200b informed his colleagues during a luncheon at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s important to note that the\u200c hold will still remain in place for four-star generals.<\/p>\n<h3>Avoiding a Controversial Vote<\/h3>\n<p>Tuberville explained\u200b that he is taking this action to avoid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-explode-at-each-other-over-infrastructure-stalemate-its-the-effing-progressives\/\" title=\"Dems Explode At Each Other Over Infrastructure Stalemate: \u2018It\u2019s The Effing Progressives!\u2019\">forthcoming vote<\/a> on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-to-force-votes-on-navy-and-cyber-command-nominees-caught-in-pentagon-blockade\/\" title=\"Tuberville to force votes on Navy and Cyber Command nominees caught in Pentagon blockade\">temporary rules change<\/a>. This change would have allowed the Senate to confirm the nominees all at once.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We fought hard,&#8221; Tuberville emphasized.\u2064 &#8220;We did the right thing for the unborn and for our military, fighting back against executive\u200b overreach\u200b and an abortion policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Protesting the Defense Department&#8217;s Abortion Policy<\/p>\n<p>Since early March, Tuberville has been blocking nominations in protest of the Defense Department&#8217;s new abortion policy. \u2062This move \u2062has resulted in the delay of over 300 top military \u2064nominees.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Tuberville&#8217;s office had planned a press conference to announce this change of heart. However, the senator decided to inform his GOP colleagues in person during lunch before making a public statement.<\/p>\n<p>Please stay tuned for updates on \u200bthis developing story.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What was the\u2062 reason behind Senator Tuberville&#8217;s decision to end \u2064his \u2062blockade\u2063 on \u200dmilitary \u200bholds in\u2063 the Senate?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Senator\u200c Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) \u2063made a \u200dsurprising announcement on \u200dTuesday, revealing that he is ending his blockade on hundreds of military holds in\u200c the Senate. This decision comes after Tuberville informed \u2063his colleagues during a luncheon at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s\u200c important to \u2062note that the hold will still remain in place for four-star generals.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville explained that he is taking this action to avoid a forthcoming vote on a temporary rules\u200d change. This change would have allowed the Senate to confirm the nominees all at\u200c once.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We \u200dfought hard,&#8221; Tuberville emphasized. &#8220;We did the right thing for the unborn and for our military, fighting back against executive overreach and an abortion policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since early March, Tuberville \u200chas been blocking\u200d nominations in protest of the Defense Department&#8217;s new abortion policy. This move has resulted \u2064in the delay of over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-softens-on-military-holds-and-will-pivot-to-woke-biden-nominees\/\" title=\"Tuberville eases stance on military holds, shifts focus to 'woke' Biden nominees\">300 top military nominees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Tuberville&#8217;s office had planned a press \u2062conference to announce this change of heart. However, the senator\u2063 decided to inform his GOP colleagues in person during lunch before making a public statement.<\/p>\n<p>Please stay tuned for updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has reversed his stance on the numerous military holds he placed in the Senate. He made this announcement during a Capitol luncheon with his colleagues and later confirmed it to reporters. It&#8217;s worth noting that the hold will remain in place for four-star generals. Additionally, Krysten Sinema faces an ethics complaint<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2116395,"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-2116393","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\/2116393","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=2116393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2116395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}