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Big shoes filled as Senate appropriators spread earmarks wealth - Roll Call

The retirement of several titans of congressional appropriating hasn't slowed down the Senate's appetite for earmarks.

Roll Call

Biden rejects Trump decision to move Space Command from Colorado to Alabama

Decision comes amid Alabama senator blocking military promotions in response to Pentagon’s abortion policy

The Independent UK

Space Command stays in Colorado, infuriating Alabama delegation - Roll Call

The Biden administration has reversed a Trump-era decision to move the U.S. Space Command headquarters to Alabama.

Roll Call

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Biden has decided to keep Space Command in Colorado, rejecting move to Alabama, officials tell AP

Senior U.S. officials say President Joe Biden has decided to keep the U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama

The Independent UK

Senate passes defense bill with bipartisan support, but clash looms with House over social issues

The Senate has passed a massive annual defense bill that would deliver a 5.2% pay raise for service members and keep the nation’s military operating

The Independent UK

At the Races: Riding in a getaway car - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

Roll Call

Tuberville's tales of dad in WWII false

The Washington Post found that some of Tuberville's claims are dubious or false

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Sen. Tuberville's blockade of US military promotions takes a historic tradition to a radical new level – and could go beyond Congress' August break

As Congress prepares to head into its August 2023 break, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, shows no signs of ending his five-month-long hold on military promotions for several hundred senior officers, namely generals and admirals.

The Conversation

Manchin, Tuberville introduce college sports bill to standardize NIL rules, regulate collectives

Senators Joe Manchin and Tommy Tuberville introduced a college sports bill that would require athletes to disclose how much they money make from name, image and likeness deals, regulate collectives and agents and put restrictions in transferring players

The Independent UK

Democrats call on GOP to end senator’s ‘reckless’ military promotions block

Eight Democrats urge Republicans to press Tommy Tuberville to end protest over policy allowing military to travel for abortion

The Guardian - US

Biden nominates Adm. Lisa Franchetti to be chief of naval operations

President Biden has nominated Adm. Lisa Franchetti to be the next chief of naval operations. If confirmed she'd be the first woman who would serve in that role and on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

WEKU

Supreme Court should pay more attention to basic rights

The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and other sources have plenty of information on rights.

Chicago Sun-Times

Blinken urges Congress to act on delayed ambassadorial nominations

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging the Senate to move forward with votes on more than 60 diplomatic nominations, including 38 ambassadors

The Independent UK

Editorial: Senator's 'white nationalist' gaffe gets at a wider problem within the GOP

It was in August of 2017 that then-President Donald Trump, speaking after a deadly showdown between avowed white supremacists and anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, shocked the nation by blithely declaring that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the conflict.

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The Independent UK

GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville’s military blockade over abortion jeopardises national security, US Army veteran senator says

The Alabama Republican’s ‘bizarre’ protest injects culture wars into national defense, Tammy Duckworth says

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Blocking military promotions is unpatriotic

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville misses few chances to tout both his career as a college football coach and his love for the military. It’s all the more reprehensible, then, that Tuberville is single-handedly blocking the Pentagon from putting its best team on the field — and harming the country’s security…

WEKU

Tuberville is showing how much power one lawmaker wields under Senate rules

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has been blocking every U.S. military personnel move that needs Senate confirmation since February. Here, a look at why and how he can bend the will of the Senate to his own.

The Independent UK

Why a single senator is blocking US military promotions and what it means for the Pentagon

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville is waging an unprecedented campaign to try to change Pentagon abortion policy by holding up hundreds of military nominations and promotions

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Chicago Sun-Times

Anti-abortion senator puts nation’s military preparedness at risk

Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is holding up more than 270 military promotions because he is not happy that the Pentagon pays for travel for service members who are having an abortion.

The Independent UK

House Republicans push through defense bill limiting abortion access and halting diversity efforts

The House has passed a sweeping defense bill that provides a pay raise for service members but strays from traditional military policy with Republicans add-ons blocking abortion coverage, diversity initiatives at the Pentagon and transgender care

The Guardian - US

Republican senator finally ends crusade to defend white nationalists

Tommy Tuberville, from Alabama, had seemed determined to support extremists despite condemnation from his colleagues

Salon

The GOP is Timothy McVeigh's party now

Being a "good" Republican means embracing the anti-government ideology that led to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing

The Independent UK

Democratic lawmaker loses his cool with Matt Gaetz during House floor speech: ‘You are exhausting!’

Heated debate came after Republicans introduced an amendment to a spending bill which has now banned diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military

The Independent UK

Republican senator should drop his 'irresponsible' protest and OK military nominees, Biden says

President Joe Biden says it is “irresponsible” of an Alabama senator to block confirmation of military officers in protest of a Defense Department policy that pays for travel when a service member has to go out of state to get an abortion or reproductive care

The Guardian - US

Biden attacks ‘ridiculous’ Republican senator for blocking military picks

President says Tommy Tuberville is jeopardising national security with protest against defense department’s abortion policy

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