Former Senate Majority Leaders Trent Lott, a Republican from Mississippi, and Tom Daschle, a Democrat from South Dakota, weighed in on the Alabama senator's months-long hold on military appointments Thursday.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., left, speaks with Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., during a Senate Armed Services Committee nominations hearing of Gen. David Allvin for reappointment to the grade of General and to be U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two former Senate Majority Leaders on Thursday criticized U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville’s 10-month-long hold on key military appointments over a Pentagon abortion policy.
“I’m from Pascagoula and I feel strongly about the military,” said Lott, who served in the Senate from 1989-2007, and was the upper chamber’s Majority and Minority Leader in the early 2000s. “It’s not a good idea to hold up these nominations, quite frankly.” “We got a war in Ukraine and a war in the Middle East,” Daschle said. “We’ve got issues in the last couple of day sin the Philippines and China. There is so much need for military leadership now at the highest levels in how to address all of this.”
“The Senate leadership needs to be meeting with Tuberville, the Secretary of Defense and sit down and say, ‘What is your problem?’” Lott said. “If they would just sit down and work it out, it would be resolved.”Since February, the Alabama senator has held up reportedly more than 300 military promotions. The blanket hold on the nominations, according to the senator, is over a Department of Defense policy that allows service members to be reimbursed for travel while obtaining abortions.
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