Amy Klobuchar may have a 'way around' Tommy Tuberville’s 'one-man blockade of military promotions': report

Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-Alabama) blockade of military promotions has been a major source of frustration not only to the Biden Administration, but also, to some fellow Republicans — including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky). But the Alabama senator hasn't budged, even after Hamas' November 7 terrorist attack on Israel.

National Public Radio's Lauren Hodges, however, reports that frustrated senators may be able to "find a way around" Tuberville.

"Tuberville is nine months into his one-man blockade of hundreds of military promotions — in protest of an unrelated Pentagon policy that allows service members to get assistance to seek abortion care," Hodges explains. "He's blocked more than 370 appointments so far. And lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say he's leaving the military in a desperate position."

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Senate Rules Committee Chair Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), however, believes that a temporary rule change could solve the problem and allow military promotions to move forward.

Klobuchar told NPR, "Sen. Tuberville has not listened to those that are running our military, and he's not listened to his own Republican colleagues."

According to Hodges, "Senate rules allow Tuberville to hold up nominations all by himself. But a small group of senators has introduced a measure that would allow most military promotions to be approved as a group, or 'en bloc,' with a simple majority vote. The measure would need to be approved by the Rules Committee before coming up for a vote in the full Senate, where it would need 60 votes to pass."

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