{"id":42795,"date":"2017-07-13T18:52:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2017\/07\/13\/shanahan-pole-vaulting-senate-health-care-quicksand-to-confirmation-vote\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:32:45","slug":"shanahan-pole-vaulting-senate-health-care-quicksand-to-confirmation-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2017\/07\/13\/shanahan-pole-vaulting-senate-health-care-quicksand-to-confirmation-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanahan pole vaulting Senate health care quicksand to confirmation vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is advancing the nominee for the Pentagon&#8217;s No. 2 job, Patrick Shanahan, to a floor vote, likely next week.\u00a0 <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shanahan was one of two Pentagon nominees to move forward on Thursday. The Senate Armed Services Committee voted by voice to send U.S. Navy secretary nominee Richard Spencer to a Senate confirmation vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SASC Chair John McCain, R-Ariz., seems to have used a\u00a0floor debate with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to pole vault Shanahan over the chamber&#8217;s all-consuming fight on health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moments after an exchange in which Schumer denied McCain&#8217;s request for unanimous consent to advance Shanahan to a floor vote, Senate Republicans  <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenateCloakroom\/status\/885621706538274816\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> that McConnell, R-Ky., had called for a procedural vote to advance Shanahan to a vote \u2014 essentially resolving the issue. <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, the exchange was telling in that Schumer admitted to McCain that Shanahan was a casualty of Democratic efforts to win concessions from the GOP on health care. It also laid bare McCain&#8217;s frustrations with his own leadership in the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Maybe once things change a little bit in health care we can \u2014 with the consent of my colleagues on this side of the aisle \u2014 move a lot of things quickly,&#8221; Schumer said. &#8220;But at this point, despite my great respect for my dear friend, I must object.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shanahan,\u00a0a Boeing executive who is\u00a0U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s pick for deputy defense secretary, was advanced out of the SASC by a voice vote on June 28. 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Shanahan would replace Bob Work, who has agreed to stay on until the next deputy defense secretary is sworn in, according to a DoD spokeswoman. <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work, one of the few holdovers from the Obama administration, has been managing almost a dozen major reviews that will need to be handed off to Shanahan, including major looks at current readiness, the question of creating a chief management officer, reforming the military health system, whether U.S. Cyber Command should be elevated to a full combatant command, the establishment of cross-functional teams to enhance mission effectiveness and efficiencies and how best to manage the split of the undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics. <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCain pleaded with Democrats to drop their delay tactics and permit a debate and vote at 5 p.m. on Monday. They should put aside partisanship, &#8220;for the sake of our national security, and come together as Republicans and Democrats to move this nomination,&#8221; McCain said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats, in protest over Republican efforts to repeal U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s signature health care law, have been using parliamentary tactics to disrupt the Senate, including blocking requests like McCain&#8217;s for unanimous consent to vote on nominees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schumer told McCain that McConnell would have to advance all nominees through regular order, a lengthier process. Schumer also pointed to McConnell&#8217;s placing nominees for other federal government posts ahead of the waiting DoD nominees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schumer said that if McConnell filed the nomination Thursday \u2014\u00a0which is what McConnell later did \u2014\u00a0there would be a procedural vote Monday, and &#8220;then maybe we could talk about, with the permission of my [GOP] colleagues \u2026 speeding it up after that.&#8221; <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCain expressed annoyance with GOP leadership and suggested bipartisan compromise to avert an oncoming &#8220;train wreck&#8221; on a variety of pressing issues. 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