Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) will attempt to force a vote this week on the Marine Corps commandant ensnared in his blanket hold on Pentagon nominees.
The Alabama senator has collected the 16 signatures needed, according to his office, to invoke cloture on Eric Smith, one of more than 300 nominees he is delaying over the Pentagon's abortion policy. Once he files the motion on Wednesday, it would take 30 hours before he can force a cloture vote, though even this step is not guaranteed due possible procedural obstacles in his way.
Republicans lack the votes for the effort to succeed — Democrats control the chamber 51-49 — but it would put senators on the record, and Schumer on defense. "Schumer can always bring these to a vote — the ones he wants, the ones that are most important that he keeps saying are so critical. We're voting on judges every day, we can be voting on some of those," Rubio told the Washington Examiner."He just doesn't want to put them up for a vote. He wants to pass them all en bloc."
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