Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) filed three motions for cloture on Oct. 31, setting up confirmation votes for nominees for two vacancies on the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and a top Marine Corps office, amid an ongoing legislative battle over military confirmations.
Mr. Schumer’s cloture motions set the stage for Senate confirmation votes on President Joe Biden’s appointment of U.S. Navy Adm. Lisa Franchetti to serve as the next chief of Naval operations and for U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin to serve as the next chief of staff of the Air Force. The two joint chiefs positions have lacked Senate-confirmed officers for weeks as Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has placed a hold on bulk confirmations of military nominees and the Democratic Senate majority has ordered few confirmation votes on individual nominees.
