{"id":47590,"date":"2023-08-25T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/08\/25\/senators-could-be-forced-to-ram-through-some-military-nominations-soon\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:40:26","slug":"senators-could-be-forced-to-ram-through-some-military-nominations-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2023\/08\/25\/senators-could-be-forced-to-ram-through-some-military-nominations-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators could be forced to ram through some military nominations soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate Democrats could circumvent the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2023\/04\/25\/no-end-in-sight-to-senate-fight-over-military-nominations\/\" target=\"_blank\">lingering hold on more than 300 senior military nominees <\/a>as soon as they return to town next month. It would just take until next spring to finish the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chamber leaders have already ruled out the approach as cumbersome and impractical, and insist that the only reasonable path ahead is for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2023\/03\/24\/abortion-fight-in-senate-snarls-hundreds-of-military-promotions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Tommy Tuberville<\/a>, R-Ala., to end<a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2023\/07\/19\/pentagon-abortion-policy-talks-fail-to-yield-compromise-on-nominees\/\" target=\"_blank\"> his blockade on the Defense Department confirmations.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But senators could be forced to take up the first individual nomination votes when they return in September on key military posts because of both the necessity of filling the leadership voids and the high-profile nature of the roles themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2023\/08\/14\/army-navy-and-marines-all-without-top-leaders-due-to-tuberville-holds\/\" target=\"_blank\">three of the eight Joint Chiefs of Staff seats are without permanent, Senate-confirmed replacements<\/a> because of the ongoing fight between Tuberville and Pentagon leaders. The next uniformed leaders for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps have all been named, but their confirmations are being held up by Tuberville because of his objections to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/02\/16\/troops-can-take-three-weeks-off-to-travel-for-abortions-ivf-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\">military\u2019s abortion access policy.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2023\/04\/25\/no-end-in-sight-to-senate-fight-over-military-nominations\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23087724428933.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">No end in sight to Senate fight over military nominations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Nearly 200 nominations have been stalled over one senator&#039;s objections to military abortion policies.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 300 others are caught in the political fight too, some since early March. Democratic leaders have blasted Tuberville for the move and begged Senate Republicans to intervene on the impasse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSimilar to the way military officers hold each other to account, it\u2019s time Senate Republican leaders bring their colleague into line and end this harmful blockade on merit-based military promotions,\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/caucus.militarytimes.com\/speaker\/jack-reed\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Senate Armed Services Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., <\/a>said in a statement earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Tuberville and his supporters have noted that Democratic lawmakers could also end the blockade by moving on the nominations one at a time, instead of insisting on an en-masse approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2022\/12\/06\/senator-vows-hold-on-military-nominees-over-pentagon-abortion-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tuberville\u2019s objections<\/a> block speedy Senate approval of large groups on non-controversial military nominees, as has been the chamber\u2019s past practice to swiftly fill those key national security roles. It does not stop leaders from scheduling votes on individual candidates though, something Tuberville has suggested his critics should push for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey could solve this supposed problem. They just don\u2019t want to,\u201d Tuberville\u2019s office said in a statement on Aug. 17. \u201cAs long as [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer refuses to vote on these nominations, then no Senate Democrat can complain about acting officials serving in the military\u2019s most senior roles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doing so would require a series of parliamentary moves that takes at least a few hours, and possibly as long as a few days. Senate Armed Services Committee officials earlier this summer estimated getting through all of the nominees would take more than 80 days of eight-hour Senate sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And since that estimate was made, another 50 nominees were added to the backlog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given that the Senate typically operates for only three full days a week as senators spend the rest of the time at work in their home states, that would mean that the lawmakers would have to work on the defense nominees until March 2024 to get through the entire list. And that assumes no intervening work, to include the annual defense authorization bill and the new federal budget for next fiscal year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this week, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md.,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/huddle\/2023\/08\/23\/one-more-house-gop-first-termer-is-chasing-a-plum-prize-00112403?nname=huddle&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b4be0000&#038;nrid=0000014e-f114-dd93-ad7f-f915e0ea0001&#038;nlid=630309\" target=\"_blank\"> told Politico<\/a> that such a plan is not feasible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t have the luxury to bring each one of these promotions up for a vote. There\u2019s not enough time on the calendar for that,\u201d he said. \u201cI do hope that we will have time for individual votes on those that are contested, such as our judges and ambassadorships. But not on military [promotions]. That\u2019s not controversial. That\u2019s a waste of time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2023\/02\/16\/troops-can-take-three-weeks-off-to-travel-for-abortions-ivf-treatment\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pregnant.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Troops can take three weeks off to travel for abortions, IVF treatment<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The services have 30 days to enact a trio of new policies that aim to guarantee service members\u2019 ability to access reproductive health care.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">High-profile posts, however, like the three vacant Joint Chiefs spots, and the pending nomination of Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. to be the next Joint Chiefs Chairman, will likely require individual votes, regardless of Tuberville\u2019s block. That\u2019s because such roles are subject to extra scrutiny, and individual votes allow lawmakers from both parties to praise or sound off on a White House\u2019s leadership choices, and current administration policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are senior jobs that are so symbolic that they set the tone for everybody else, and that\u2019s the chairman and the service chiefs,\u201d said Peter D. Feaver, a Duke University professor focusing on civil-military relations. \u201cI would be surprised if they don\u2019t find a way to confirm Gen. Brown because his role is operationally critical, but it\u2019s also symbolically critical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feaver, who recently wrote the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Thanks-Your-Service-Consequences-Confidence\/dp\/0197681131\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThanks for Your Service\u201d on the politicization of the American military<\/a>, said Senate Democratic leaders face a dilemma in choosing any individual nomination votes for Pentagon leaders because it could weaken their argument that Tuberville is significantly damaging military planning and procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut some posts, particularly in the Indo-Pacific Command, are important intrinsically for the competition with China,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, not confirming those is a gift to the Chinese government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now, neither Schumer nor senior Democratic leaders have signaled that they will start picking out individual nominees for votes to fill those kinds of key leadership roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last such vote was in mid-April, when the chamber voted 68-30 to approve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/About\/Biographies\/Biography\/Article\/2576708\/dr-radha-iyengar-plumb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radha Iyengar Plumb as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment<\/a>. Plumb\u2019s nomination had been blocked by Tuberville for several weeks before the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate Armed Services Committee officials have warned that the total of backlogged nominees could top 600 before the end of the year if Tuberville does not relent, potentially causing cascading problems across the armed forces \u2014 and adding months more to the timeline to clear the backlog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senators are expected to return to Capitol Hill from their extended late summer break on Sept. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite one senator&#8217;s hold on 300-plus confirmations, Democratic leaders could advance some nominees 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