Sen­ate con­firms new Army chief, bypass­ing Tuberville block­ade

The Sen­ate vot­ed on Thurs­day to con­firm Gen. Randy George to be chief of staff of the Army, the sec­ond nom­i­na­tion to move through in recent days after Sen. Tom­my Tuberville’s (R‑AL) month­s­long block­ade on mil­i­tary pro­mo­tions and con­fir­ma­tions.
The cham­ber vot­ed 96–1 to install George, who had been serv­ing as the Army’s vice chief of staff and work­ing in an act­ing capac­i­ty since August. George cleared a pro­ce­dur­al vote 92–1 on Wednes­day night.
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George is a dec­o­rat­ed Army infantry sol­dier who did mul­ti­ple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was the senior mil­i­tary assis­tant to Defense Sec­re­tary Lloyd Austin and became act­ing chief of the Army last August.

Army Gen. Randy George.
(AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

“As an Army vet­er­an myself, I have full con­fi­dence he will con­tin­ue to mod­ern­ize the Army and main­tain our high­ly trained and lethal force to fight and win our nation’s wars,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R‑IA) said on the floor of the Sen­ate, ahead of the vote. George grew up in Alden, Iowa.
There was grow­ing pres­sure for law­mak­ers to resolve a stand­off cen­tered on the Pentagon’s abor­tion pol­i­cy after the Army, Marine Corps, and Navy had been with­out Sen­ate-con­firmed lead­ers. Since March, Tuberville placed a blan­ket hold on more tha …