Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville and a group of his fellow GOP senators are plotting a new tactic to break the Senate’s gridlock on stalled military nominees: they may force a procedural vote on the Marine Corps commandant nominee, in a breach of Senate protocol.
Senators huddled behind closed doors in Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office to discuss taking the unusual step. It is extremely rare for a rank-and-file member to force a procedural vote – that is usually left to the Senate majority leader, due to concerns that normalizing this in the minority could make the already cumbersome Senate even more difficult to manage.
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