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WASHINGTON \u2013 The Senate on Sunday <\/b>adjourned for the monthlong August recess without confirming any of the 12 Defense Department nominees that have become log-jammed in the Senate amid Republican holds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nominees include key Defense Department positions such as the inspector general, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, an acquisitions official and another who would oversee industrial policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt leaves big gaps, particularly in many of the key acquisition positions,\u201d Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., told Defense News. \u201cAnd of course, it takes away time from other people who have to fill in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has blocked unanimous consent requests on the Senate floor for most of these otherwise noncontroversial nominees as part of his year-long hold on confirming all Pentagon and State Department nominees in protest of the administration\u2019s chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, announced a hold last month on the three nominees in the Armed Services Committee who would work on defense acquisitions and industrial base policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sullivan placed the holds in protest of the Biden administration s decision to stall Alaska\u2019s Ambler Mining District industrial access road, which he said would inhibit the mining of critical minerals \u2013 a market where China\u2019s domination has created several vulnerabilities in the defense supply chain<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis decision was a huge setback for our domestic critical mineral supply chains, really undermining our national security,\u201d Sullivan said last month. \u201cI haven\u2019t been able to get answers from anybody in the Pentagon or at the Department of the Interior.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nominees that Sullivan has held over in committee include Radha Plumb as deputy undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment and Laura Taylor-Kale as assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy. He is also holding Brendan Owens as assistant secretary of defense for energy, installations and environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sullivan called all three nominees \u201cwell-qualified\u201d but vowed to keep the holds in place until the Biden administration answers his queries as to why it blocked the industrial access road for the Ambler Mining District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the discoveries we\u2019ve made \u2013 that everyone\u2019s made \u2013 is that our industrial base is not as strong as we thought it was<\/a>,\u201d said Reed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hawley Blockade<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Reed went on the Senate floor last month in an attempt to confirm three other key Defense Department nominees by unanimous consent, only for Hawley to stymie his efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawley\u2019s objection to Reed\u2019s request blocked the confirmation of Robert Storch to serve as the Defense Department\u2019s inspector general \u2013 a key post that has not had a Senate-confirmed official since January 2016. Hawley also blocked Reed from confirming Tia Johnson as a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and Russell Rumbaugh as the Navy comptroller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have always said that it is better for national security and for our country to have Senate-confirmed officials leading the Department of Defense,\u201d James Inhofe, R-Okla., the ranking member on the Armed Services Committee, told Defense News. \u201cEvery member has a right to ask for a vote, and it\u2019s up to the Majority Leader to schedule those votes, so of course I\u2019d like to see those votes happen soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Byzantine Senate procedures ensure that floor votes eat up hours or even days of valuable floor time that can slow-walk the majority party\u2019s agenda. This makes the majority party reluctant to use precious floor time on noncontroversial, lower-level nominees that would typically pass with bipartisan unanimous consent requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., did schedule a floor vote in May for Christopher Lowman to serve as the assistant secretary of defense for sustainment \u2013 a position deemed particularly vital given its role in overseeing Ukraine aid delivery logistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed Lowman to the post 94-1. Hawley was the lone no vote after blocking several requests to confirm Lowman by unanimous consent in the months before the floor vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawley first insisted he would keep his holds in place until Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken resign over the Afghanistan withdrawal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent months, he has scaled back his ultimatum and now says he will lift the hold in exchange for a public hearing on last year\u2019s Abbey Gate attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport that killed 13 American service members and more than 160 Afghan civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to have a hearing in public \u2013 not behind closed doors, not closed press \u2013 we at a minimum need to have a hearing on CENTCOM\u2019s report on the Abbey Gate disaster,\u201d Hawley told Defense News. \u201cAnd we need to have the principals testify.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reed has pushed back against scheduling such a hearing, noting that the Senate has held a combined total of seven public and private hearings since the withdrawal and that the Fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act mandates quarterly briefings on the security situation in Afghanistan. But Hawley remains unsatisfied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t want to talk about the withdrawal,\u201d said Hawley. \u201cThey don\u2019t want any public accountability. They will do it behind closed doors, but they don\u2019t want any public accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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