WaPo: “But with the United States’s closest ally now waging a war in the Middle East while critical positions remain on hold, Democrats are getting behind a plan to circumvent Tuberville’s hold. It will only work, however, if some Republicans back it — a test of whether Republicans’ private frustrations with the Republican Alabama senator’s tactics run deep enough to spur public action.
The new plan would require nine or more Republicans to join with Democrats in order to approve a large block of military nominees at once, without infringing on senators’ power to stall nominations.
Anger at the affable former college football coach, who has said “there’s nobody more military” than him, have reached a boiling point since Hamas attacked Israel earlier this month.”