Posted on 09/12/2023 1:41:00 PM PDT by cotton1706
New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer loves to lament how Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s protest of the Pentagon’s abortion policy supposedly “weaken[s] our national security.” So, why isn’t he using his power as Senate majority leader to do anything about it?
Since March, Tuberville has used his position on the Senate Armed Services Committee to slow down military personnel moves requiring Senate confirmation to protest the Pentagon’s use of taxpayer money to cover service members’ travel expenses to get abortions. To be clear, Tuberville is not blocking votes but is forcing the committee to vote on each nomination individually rather than voting “en masse on large numbers of nominations.”
Despite fomenting baseless claims that Tuberville’s protest is putting “American security in jeopardy,” Schumer could easily utilize existing Senate procedures to bring President Biden’s military nominations to the floor for a confirmation vote.
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Somebody is pointing this out!
All Tuberville has done is deny unanimous consent...because he doesn't consent.
The Senate can vote on ANY and ALL nominations/promotions/commissions WHENEVER it wants.
It just has to call the roll. But they don't like to work between their many recesses.
More likely they don't want their vote on the record.
“More likely they don’t want their vote on the record.”
That too.
They don’t want the political activity history of the nominees on the record either…
No one could have convinced me 20 years ago that I’d be cheering for Tubby! LOL
There is a reason why Tommy Tuberville is holding up senate confirmations and I’m wondering if anyone else besides me has figured it out. Raise your hand if you think you know. No flaming for a wrong answer.
He says it’s about the pentagon’s abortion policies.
OK that’s a wrong answer but points for chiming in. Tuberville also says its because of woke policies but that’s not it either. Lets keep going.
Here’s a clue. Oct 4th is a huge EBS test.
What’s EBS?
Why make this just an abortion protest? None of the President’s woke military nominees are to be trusted.
Emergency Broadcasting System.
Think! Why is the Joint Chiefs being sidelined? Why are the Army, Navy and Marines under control of senior officers? Think!
You’re getting warm!
Chucky boy did this with all Trumps judge nominations so he can whine all he wants.
It’s way past time for all of us not to consent...
If we only had a free press, we would know this versus this website.
“Emergency Broadcasting System.
Think! Why is the Joint Chiefs being sidelined? Why are the Army, Navy and Marines under control of senior officers? Think!”
Sorry. I don’t know about such things. Not my area of expertise. Can you please enlighten me?
“Sorry. I don’t know about such things. Not my area of expertise. Can you please enlighten me?”
It’s nothing but conspiracy theorist rubbish.
Re: 18: - “It’s nothing but conspiracy theorist rubbish.”
The poster who has been jackassin’ about the EBS / EAS 10/04 test was busted a while back for claiming that the Joint Chiefs didn’t matter because President Trump had appointed combatant commanders who were essentially loyal to him.
It took all of 10 minutes to figure out that the majority of the commander at that time had been appointed by Puddinghead. The poster never came back to that thread.
She has been advocating for the military overthrow of the US Government since at least late 2020 and claimed that the EAS would be used close to the 2021 Inauguration to signal the military stepping in.
She’s the Jim Cramer of FR - whatever she says, the opposite is likely to happen.
Oh my God you’re subconsciously trying to make sense. You are unbelievably warm and you dont even know it. I can’t deal with it. 😆
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