Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is advancing votes on three military nominees, amid a Senate standoff over a Department of Defense policy that compensates service members for abortion-related travel.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Schumer filed a cloture motion for the Senate to vote on the nomination of Air Force Gen. Charles “C.Q.” Brown to serve as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mr. Schumer also filed cloture motions to bring votes on the nomination of Gen. Eric Smith to serve as the next commandant of the Marine Corps and for Gen. Randy George to become chief of staff of the Army.
