Sen. Tommy Tuberville drops blockade on most military nominations.
This post comes from UPI.com. “U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., on Tuesday mostly dropped his boycott of military nominations, which left multiple nominees in a state of limbo for months.
Tuberville initiated the boycott in February as a protest against military rules that allow servicemembers to leave base in states that don’t allow abortion to travel to states that do.
The boycott was in response to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signing the memorandum Ensuring Access to Reproductive Health Care, which also granted soldiers leave if they required abortion services.” Click here to read the rest of this article.