Senate using a workaround to sidestep tuberville's block on confirmations

[butters]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...31&cvid=d89003ec960b403486bda190536b46f2&ei=6

The Senate circumvented a hold by Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Thursday and confirmed Adm. Lisa Franchetti to lead the Navy, making her the first woman to be a Pentagon service chief and the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Franchetti's historic confirmation as the chief of naval operations comes as Tuberville has drawn bipartisan criticism for holding up almost 400 military nominations in an effort to protest Pentagon abortion policy. In a remarkable display, several Republican senators angrily held the floor for more than four hours on Wednesday evening and called up 61 of the nominations for votes, praising each nominee for their military service. Tuberville showed no signs of letting up, standing and objecting to each one.

Franchetti, the vice chief of operations for the Navy, has broad command and executive experience. A surface warfare officer, she has commanded at all levels, heading U.S. 6th Fleet and U.S. Naval Forces Korea. She was the second woman to be promoted to four-star admiral, and she did multiple deployments, including as commander of a naval destroyer and two stints as aircraft carrier strike group commander.

Confronting Tuberville publicly for the first time since he announced the holds, the Republican senators — Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, Indiana Sen. Todd Young and others — read lengthy biographies, praised nominees and lashed out at Tuberville as they called for vote after vote. They said they agree with the Alabama senator in opposing the abortion policy but questioned — as Democrats have for months — why he would hold up the highest ranks of the U.S. military.

As Wednesday night wore on, Sullivan, a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, and Ernst, a former commander in the U.S. Army Reserve and Iowa Army National Guard, continued to bring up new nominations and appeared to become increasingly frustrated. They noted that they were bringing up the nominations “one by one” as Tuberville had once called for, and they asked why he wouldn’t allow them to go forward. Tuberville did not answer.

the 'workaround' being considered by the Senate is in the form of a resolution to permit the quick confirmation of almost 400 officers en masse, a resolution brought by sinema and Reed...but it will take some time and probably require republican support in the Senate, which they may well receive given the growing anger at tuberville's blockage.

 

[Escierto]

You can thank the white trash scum of Alabama for electing this piece of shit.

 

[butters]

Senate panel will move resolution Tuesday to break Tuberville’s hold on military nominees​

He thanked Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Jack Reed (D-R.I.) for working on the resolution and expressed hope that it will pick up the nine Republican votes needed to pass the Senate.

“If Sen. Tuberville continues his blanket holds on military nominations, if he won’t even listen to members of his own side of the aisle, I will bring Sen. Reed’s resolution to the floor for a vote as soon as possible. That way, we can end Sen. Tuberville’s farce and quickly confirm the over 350 military promotions,” Schumer said

whether they'll get 9 republicans voting with them is the question, but there's been a lot of anger among republican senators over tuberville's disgraceful behaviour

The standing order resolution, if passed, would not apply to top-level commanders such as members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or candidates nominated to lead a combatant command.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=6294940b42344c9cbf51c58951cf6a90&ei=60

 

[JohnnySavage]

The option to confirm the political appointees (who are BTW already doing the job whether confirmed or not) individually has always been there.

Schumer has just been playing to the uninformed in his party in a Goebbelesk move to keep the "us vs them" strategy of destroying the country alive.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

The option to confirm the political appointees (who are BTW already doing the job whether confirmed or not) individually has always been there.

Schumer has just been playing to the uninformed in his party in a Goebbelesk move to keep the "us vs them" strategy of destroying the country alive.

Yes it's always the Democrats fault on these things.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Yes it's always the Democrats fault on these things.

Political confirmations occur in the Senate.

Democrats are in charge of the Senate.

No charge for the civics lesson.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Political confirmations occur in the Senate.

Democrats are in charge of the Senate.

No charge for the civics lesson.

Strange that as a Canadian, I seem to know more about the Senate rules than you.

 

[Pad_Foot]

Strange that the GOP, Trumplikan, senators are mad at Mr T but can’t manage to have 9 votes to get around him

Cloture and Filiibusters must go if there is the right size wave

That’s first !!

 

[RobDownSouth]

The option to confirm the political appointees (who are BTW already doing the job whether confirmed or not) individually has always been there.

Schumer has just been playing to the uninformed in his party in a Goebbelesk move to keep the "us vs them" strategy of destroying the country alive.

Hillbilly Johnny Savage neglects to mention that a one by one nominee confirmation of all general officers would consume the entirety of the Senate calendar without "unanimous consent", and we've seen Hillbilly Johnny's fellow America hater Tommy Tuberville smile and say "I object" continuously to this workaround all week long.

Naturally, Hillbilly Johnny Savage blames Chuck Shumer for the failings of his MAGA party, because accepting responsibility for their own fuckup is a foreign concept to MAGAts.

 

[Lazaran]

Hillbilly Johnny Savage neglects to mention that a one by one nominee confirmation of all general officers would consume the entirety of the Senate calendar without "unanimous consent", and we've seen Hillbilly Johnny's fellow America hater Tommy Tuberville smile and say "I object" continuously to this workaround all week long.

Naturally, Hillbilly Johnny Savage blames Chuck Shumer for the failings of his MAGA party, because accepting responsibility for their own fuckup is a foreign concept to MAGAts.

And why the fuck would Johnny choose Tommy Tubby as their pile of shit to die on???

Tommy Tubby is the problem.

Full stop.

 

[Bray123]

Just as School Football Coach Tuberville's blockade of the military runs its course, the aim of his petulance (he wants prosecutions of women wanting abortions) has now ben taken up by another low-life.

https://www.essence.com/news/louisi...ter-infrastructure-funds-reproductive-rights/

Jeff Landry in Louisiana is forcing his electorate to drink seawater until abortions are prosecuted.
It's a funny old world.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Hillbilly Johnny Savage neglects to mention that a one by one nominee confirmation of all general officers would consume the entirety of the Senate calendar without "unanimous consent", and we've seen Hillbilly Johnny's fellow America hater Tommy Tuberville smile and say "I object" continuously to this workaround all week long.

Naturally, Hillbilly Johnny Savage blames Chuck Shumer for the failings of his MAGA party, because accepting responsibility for their own fuckup is a foreign concept to MAGAts.

 

[schism666]

hillbilly johnny needs a quoting lesson.

no charge.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Just remembered it does no good to feed the trolls or giggle with the racists.

Carry on.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Just remembered it does no good to feed the trolls or giggle with the racists.

Carry on.

So you're commenting why?

 

[Lazaran]

Just remembered it does no good to feed the trolls or giggle with the racists.

Carry on.

You feed the trolls and giggle with racists???

Yeah… don’t do that.

*nods*

 

[RobDownSouth]

Just remembered it does no good to feed the trolls or giggle with the racists.

Carry on.

"Disagree with me and you're a racist!" has some cachet amongst your mixed-race MAGA buddies, they claim "victimhood" because of their situational half-minority racial makeup.

You don't get to make that claim, Hillbilly Johnny. Your parents are the same race, and judging from the lack of quality in your posts, they're most likely close relatives too.

Roll Tide!

 

[Bray123]

It turns out that the likely reason for Tuberville blocking all the military promotions was so that Trump could make his own appointments, choosing officers loyal to him instead of the constitution.

This after Trump stole the money from the Vets fund to pay for Mexico's wall and refused to go to a memorial service in case his hair got wet and the dye ran down his face. He still thinks the losers and suckers will support him after that?

 

[schism666]

Just remembered it does no good to feed the trolls or giggle with the racists.

you live in wat's thread -- home of the racist trolls who *chuckle* ya hypocrite.