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Lockheed Martin Stock Eases Despite Improved Outlook; Senate Prepares For Defense Debate

Lockheed Martin topped forecasts early Tuesday while the Senate debates the $886 billion defense spending bill. Lockheed Martin stock rises.

Investors Business Daily

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.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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

The Independent UK

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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…

Tribune News Service

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.

WEKU

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

The Independent UK

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.

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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 Independent UK

Republican senator finally ends crusade to defend white nationalists

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

The Guardian - US

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

Salon

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 Independent UK

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

The Guardian - US

Biden calls out GOP senator’s ‘ridiculous’ block on military promotions: ‘It jeopardises US security’

As many as 650 top military positions could be vacant if Republican senator Tommy Tuberville continues to block approval of needed promotions and other nominations

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Salon

GOP tests new marketing for old racism

Tommy Tuberville can play coy, but history is clear: The GOP has long made white nationalism synonymous with racism

The Independent UK

GOP senator says he can’t be racist because he’s a football coach – after white nationalist comments

Tommy Tuberville often prefers to be called ‘coach’ in the Senate hallways rather than Senator

The Independent UK

Army chief nominee would boost recruiting, but Tuberville blockade leaves his confirmation uncertain

The Army officer tapped to be the service’s next chief of staff is outlining his plan to fix what he described as the service’s top challenge — rebuilding recruiting — as it becomes clear the Army will again fall short of its enlistment goal

Salon

Not just the House: Senate GOP gone wild

Mitch McConnell may soon have a Freedom Caucus of his own to contend with

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The Independent UK

Alabama senator says white nationalists are racists after weeks of declining to say so

Alabama Sen_ Tommy Tuberville is backing off his defense of white nationalists, telling reporters in the Capitol that white nationalists “are racists.”

Salon

"The View" takes down Tuberville

The Alabama senator said that "it's some people's opinion" that white nationalists are racist

The Independent UK

Joint Chiefs nominee wins over lawmakers but faces uncertain fate because of senator's hold

President Joe Biden’s pick to serve as America’s top military officer is warning senators of the difficulties posed by any potential conflict in Asia and describing how he would use lessons learned from the Ukraine war to help the U.S. military prepare

WEKU

One senator's abortion protest leaves the Marine Corps without a permanent leader

The Marine Corps' highest-ranking officer position fell vacant on Monday thanks to a move from Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., who continues to block nominations to protest a Pentagon abortion policy.

Roll Call

DOD’s top levels feel effects of Tuberville blanket holds - Roll Call

The Marines do not have a Senate-confirmed commandant for the first time in more than a century because of Tuberville's nomination blockade.

The Independent UK

GOP senator says calling white nationalists racist is an ‘opinion’

Chuck Schumer says ‘The senator from Alabama is wrong, wrong, wrong’

Salon

Tuberville clings to "white nationalist"

“My opinions of a white nationalist, if somebody wants to call them white nationalist, is to me an American”

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