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On the recordJanuary 23, 2025
I want to reiterate what my colleague from Tennessee just talked about, the importance of the vote that we just took just a few minutes ago--our nominee for new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. Now, the procedure is--as we just voted--to close the vote, and now we wait 30 hours from just a few minutes ago and have the final vote on his nomination, which it looks like that he has the votes of the majority to be appointed or sent to the White House to be confirmed as the next Secretary of Defense. I am on the Armed Services Committee, and I have watched 4 years of the destruction of the best military in our world--the United States of America. It is a shame what has happened. The DEI, the woke agenda that is being pushed on the troops in our country, to me, is embarrassing. I am a military brat. My dad died on active duty in the military. Awarded five Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart at age 17, driving a tank across Europe after landing the first day of Normandy. We have to change course in our military. And we can talk about inflation and pumping gas and the crime and all the things that we are having a lot of problems with, but if you don't have a strong military to protect our borders and protect the citizens in our country from adversaries all over the world, we have problems. And it has to start there. Pete Hegseth is the choice, the right choice. I like his age; I like his demeanor; I like the things he brings to our military.…
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Tommy Tuberville
Republican · Alabama
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Jan 23, 2025

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