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The blockade ends with no concessions from the administration on the Pentagon’s abortion travel policy.

Earlier this month, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) finally relinquished his months-long hold on hundreds of senior-level military promotions that requires US Senate confirmation. 

Tuberville failed to mention that he's personally prevented hundreds of officers from being promoted because he disagrees with a 2022 Pentagon policy.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has no plans to let off his blockade of Senate approvals of military promotions following the Thanksgiving holidays, as his own party grows increasingly angry with him. Even Fox News reporters begin to criticize him.

A spokesperson for Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) asked anti-abortion groups to spread the message that GOP senators could be primaried if they support an effort to defeat his military holds regarding a Pentagon abortion policy, Politico reported Thursday.

The nation's top Marine has been hospitalized due to a "medical emergency," officials say, leaving a three-star ranked leader to take charge thanks to a stalled confirmation process led by Sen. Tommy Tubervile over the Corps' abortion policy. Gen. Eric Smith suffered a health scare on Sunday night...

Biden did not refer to Tuberville by name in a speech Thursday, calling him “one guy in Alabama” and “one MAGA senator.”

The Alabama senator wrongly claimed that the military is “not an equal opportunity employer,” arguing that it should work like a “football team I coached.”

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has blocked hundreds of military promotions and nominations since February in a protest to the Pentagon’s abortion policy. Blue Star Families co-founder and CEO Kathy Roth-Douqet joins Brittany Lewis to discuss on "Forbes Newsroom."

“He lives and breathes cruelty without feeling a thing," the MSNBC anchor said of the Republican lawmaker.

The Republican senator's military hold-ups have forced the U.S. Senate to individually confirm nominees.

Washington (AFP) - The US Senate confirmed two generals as the new leaders of the Army and Marine Corps on Thursday, filling senior military posts left open due to a lawmaker's opposition to Pentagon abortion access policies. Senators approved General Randy George as chief of staff of the Army by a vote of 96-1, while General Eric Smith was confirmed as commandant of the Marine Corps 96-0. The previous night, senators voted for General Charles Brown to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but hundreds of other senior officers are still caught in limbo. 

Senate Democrats began holding votes on military promotions after a months-long blockade by Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville.

While many Republicans in the United States Senate expressed squeamishness about former President Donald Trump describing immigrants in the same way that Adolf Hitler once described Jews, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) thinks the former president needs to go even farther than that.

After months of mounting pressure and frustration among both lawmakers and the military brass, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is finally ending his protest block on over 400 military appointments and promotions, letting them all be confirmed by voice vote. 

After nine months of single-handedly holding up hundreds of confirmations of U.S. military officers, Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) reportedly has promised his fellow Republicans he will find a way to end his blockade...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) blockade appears to be coming to an end, according to an MSNBC report. Capitol reporter Ali Vitali said that a group of Republicans were going to take to the Senate floor and force a vote with Democrats to marginalize Tuberville's protest against military promotion

U.S. Senate Democrats are mulling a strategy to bypass Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s months-long hold on hundreds of military promotions in protest of a Pentagon abortion policy that was authorized in the aftermath of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., rejected notions that the U.S. military should promote racial minorities. The military began desegregating in 1948.

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) "sounds like a racist" after he declared the Department of Defense was not an equal-opportunity employer.

Tuberville is treating the military with contempt. He reduces America’s fighters to powerless pawns in a political fight over abortion.

The Senate has confirmed three top military leaders, but hundreds of others remain blocked by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.).

Former President Donald Trump congratulated Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) for what he called a "BIG WIN."

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) continues to block hundreds of military members from being promoted through Senate confirmation.