His staff has worked to justify the block in numerous memos to reporters – including listing off seven other times senators held up promotions.
It's been over six months since Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville first announced a hold on hundreds of high-level military promotions over the Biden Administration's military abortion policy. During that time, his staff has worked to justify the block in numerous memos to reporters, including listing off seven other times that senators have held up military promotions and high profile nominations.
Punaro recalls the situation well — he was the staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 1983 until 1997. The next precedent in the list of seven is from 1996, when then-Senator Arlen Specter"held hundreds of promotions in protest of [the] Secretary of Defense['s] refusal [to] answer questions about the nation's spy agencies."
In six out of the seven instances listed, Scripps News spoke with aides, former staffers, and Tuberville's former Senate colleague, retired Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, who served from 1987 until earlier this year — all of whom said the precedents don't stack up.
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