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Tuberville will continue block on US military nominees despite Hamas attack on Israel
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Republican US senator Tommy Tuberville has said he will continue to block hundreds of military leadership appointments despite the Hamas attack on Israel, a close American ally, that has triggered a deadly escalation in the Middle East conflict.
The former Auburn University football team coach turned Alabama senator has indicated he will maintain the blockade even in the wake of Hamas’ assault on Israel, in which at least 700 mostly civilians are thought to have died, including several hundred revelers killed at a music festival, while dozens more people are believed to have been taken hostage.
Israel has responded with airstrikes on the Gaza Strip that authorities in the penned-in territory say has killed at least 493 Palestinian people, including entire families sheltering in their apartments.
Invoking a name Tuberville calls himself because of his prior job, the spokesperson added: “If the Biden administration wants their nominees confirmed then Senate Democrats can do what Coach just did in September and file a cloture petition to force a vote.”
Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader, has said that individual votes on each of the nominees would eat up a huge amount of time and urged Republicans to get Tuberville “in line”.
Abortion has been effectively banned in several states following the US supreme court’s decision to overturn the longstanding Roe v Wade precedent last year – a move decried by progressives but lauded by conservatives like Tuberville.
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