Democrats Are About To Drop The Hammer On Tommy Tuberville
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the Senate has reached a boiling point with Sen. Tommy Tuberville and is ready to act.
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Tommy Tuberville’s MAGA Military Promotions Blockade Stunt May Have Unified A Bipartisan Coalition
Senate Majority Leader Schumer (D-NY) took to the Senate floor on Monday to announce that the Senate will be acting to end Sen. Tuberville’s military promotions blockade.
Schumer said:
Before the end of the year, the Senate must put a stop to a grave abuse carried out by the Senior Senator from Alabama: the brazen, months and months long blockade of over 350 military nominees.
The blockade of hundreds of military nominees, to push the hard-right view on abortion, is something that the majority of Americans do not support. Let's look at what happened in the referenda results over the last two years. It is something never seen before in the Senate. It has cost our military preparedness dearly. It has thrown the lives of hundreds of families into limbo.
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