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Democrat senators on the Rules Committee advanced a resolution Tuesday to confirm more than 350 military promotions that have been held up for months due to Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s, R-Ala., protest of the Pentagon’s abortion policy. The resolution will now head to a full floor vote. 

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday that once the resolution was approved, he would bring it to a full vote “as soon as possible.” Nine Republicans will have to vote with Democrats in the upper chamber to codify the proposal. 

“What Sen. Tuberville has done is truly an anomaly that does much harm and requires a response,” Schumer said before the vote on Tuesday. “There’s been a lot of negativity and dysfunction in the Senate these days, but Sen. Tuberville has single-handedly brought the Senate to a new low for months.”

TUBERVILLE NOT BUDGING ON MILITARY HOLDS OVER ABORTION POLICY AS DEMS EYE RULES CHANGE

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chairwoman of the committee, said military families – a handful were present at the markup – have been suffering due to the holds, leaving positions vacant. 

“We are here today because one of our colleagues has used the Senate’s rules to hold the entire military chain of command hostage,” Klobuchar said.

Every Republican member on the committee – including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a critic of the holds – voted against the resolution, but Sen. Ted Cruz’s, R-Texas, vote by proxy did not count in the final tally. 

TUBERVILLE TO MAINTAIN HOLD ON MILITARY NOMINEES OVER PENTAGON ABORTION POLICY

The DOD’s abortion policy – which pays for some expenses incurred by an abortion procedure for service members – was implemented after the overturning of Roe v. Wade last year. 

Tuberville, a retired college football coach, previously told Fox News Digital he doesn’t think the Senate will approve a rule change. It would need 60 votes to pass. Republicans currently hold 49 seats in the Senate while Democrats hold the majority at 51.

TUBERVILLE FORCES SCHUMER’S HAND IN MILITARY NOMINEE VOTES: ‘HE BLINKED’

“I think that we’ll be able to hold her in the line and force them to eventually vote on this,” Tuberville said.

Earlier this month, several GOP lawmakers – Sens. Todd Young, R-Ind., Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska – took turns on the floor urging Tuberville to rescind his opposition before selecting nominees one by one to be confirmed. Tuberville objected to each one.

In September, Tuberville followed a Senate rule enabling a minority member to bring a cloture vote with 16 signatures. However, once Schumer received the petition on Wednesday, he changed course and opted to sidestep Tuberville, proceeding directly to the floor votes for those promotions. 

As such, the Senate confirmed Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. However, Democrats remained unwavering on teeing up votes one-by-one for each member.

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Congress has plenty of political battles, but Tuesday saw several incidents that nearly resulted in literal fights. 

Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin almost got in a physical altercation with Teamster President Sean O’Brien in a health, education and labor committee hearing. 

“Sir this is a time, this is a place, you want to run your mouth we can be two consenting adults, and we can finish it here,” Mullin told O’Brien after reading a tweet where O’Brien said he could take the senator “any time” or “any place.” 

“I would love to do it right now,” O’Brien said, prompting Mullin to say, “Well, stand your butt up then.”

“You stand your butt up, big guy,” O’Brien said. Then Mullin, a former MMA fighter, rose from his chair and appeared ready to take on the union boss before committee Chairman Bernie Sanders told the pair to knock it off.

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Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is calling for a House ethics investigation into former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for allegedly assaulting another GOP lawmaker, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., in a U.S. Capitol hallway earlier Tuesday.

Burchett had accused McCarthy of having “elbowed [him] in the kidneys” when walking past him along with his security detail at the end of a members-only House GOP Conference meeting. McCarthy said any contact they made was an accident. Burchett said it was “a cheap shot by a bully.”

“Needless to say, this incident deserves immediate and swift investigation by the Ethics Committee. This Congress has seen a substantial increase in breaches of decorum unlike anything we have seen since the pre-Civil War era,” Gaetz wrote in a letter to House Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest, R-Miss.

MIKE JOHNSON BUCKS TREND OF HOUSE SPEAKERS OWNING HIGH-DOLLAR ASSETS: ‘MAN OF THE PEOPLE’

“I myself have been a victim of outrageous conduct on the House floor as well, but nothing like an open and public assault on a Member, committed by another Member. The rot starts at the top.”

Gaetz and Burchett were two of eight Republicans who voted with Democrats to oust McCarthy from the speakership last month. 

HOW THE GOP CONFERENCE CAME TOGETHER TO ELECT MIKE JOHNSON AS SPEAKER, DESPITE MCCARTHY MEDDLING

Burchett told reporters he believed McCarthy targeted him “100% on purpose,” adding, “He didn’t see any cameras. He didn’t think anybody was paying attention. But [Claudia Grisales] from NPR was paying attention.”

Gaetz wrote in his ethics complaint that Burchett “is within his rights to decline to press charges against Rep. McCarthy.”

“Given Rep. Burchett’s comments on the matter, and the statements of public witnesses, I request the House Committee on Ethics to proceed immediately with an investigation into the facts of today’s incident, including interviewing, under oath, the alleged assailant and assailee, and any witnesses,” Gaetz wrote.

The Florida congressman, meanwhile, is the subject of his own probe by the House Ethics Committee over allegations of sexual misconduct and misuse of his funding.

Burchett told reporters earlier that he would not take any action against McCarthy. 

Asked about the incident later, McCarthy told the press, “I guess our elbows hit as I walked by. I didn’t punch anyone.”

Fox News’ Kelly Phares and Brianna O’Neill contributed to this report

Supporters of Wisconsin’s taxpayer-funded school choice and independent charter school programs urged the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject a lawsuit seeking to declare the programs unconstitutional, saying such a move would create chaos for tens of thousands of families with students currently enrolled.

Private schools, parents with students who attend them, advocacy groups and the state chamber of commerce argue in court filings that the 32-year-old program has benefitted families for a generation and the effort to undo it is politically motivated, after the Supreme Court’s majority shifted to liberal control earlier this year.

“A mere change in membership should not create an opportunity to challenge precedent,” supporters of school choice programs, being represented by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, contend. “A single election is not a mandate to radically change the law.”

FORMER WISCONSIN CHIEF JUSTICE ORDERED TO TURN OVER RECORDS RELATED TO PROTASIEWICZ IMPEACHMENT ADVISEMENT

The lawsuit was filed two months after the state Supreme Court flipped to 4-3 liberal controlled. With that change, Democrats hope the court will rule in their favor in pending cases seeking to overturn Republican-drawn legislative electoral maps and undo the state’s ban on abortion.

The school choice lawsuit comes after decades of complaints from Democrats who have argued that the program is a drain on resources that would otherwise go to public schools.

The nation’s first school choice program began in Milwaukee in 1990. Then seen as an experiment to help low-income students in the state’s largest city, the program has expanded statewide and its income restrictions have been loosened, and it served more than 52,000 students at a cost of $444 million in the last school year.

Democrats including Gov. Tony Evers, who previously served as state superintendent of education, have been longtime critics of the program. But Evers this summer agreed to increase spending on the programs as part of a larger education funding package that was also tied to a deal sending more money to Milwaukee and local governments.

The first question for the Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide is whether to take the case directly or first have it work its way through lower courts. The plaintiffs want the high court to take it directly, which would mean a ruling could come in months rather than perhaps years if it had to go through the lower courts.

The lawsuit was brought by several Wisconsin residents and is being funded by the liberal Minocqua Brewing Super PAC. Kirk Bangstad, who owns the Minocqua Brewing Co., is a former Democratic candidate for U.S. House and state Assembly. His brewery produces beer with politically themed names that tout Democrats, such as “Evers Ale,” a nod to the governor.

Bangstad’s super PAC has funded previous lawsuits targeting Republicans.

The lawsuit asks the court to stop three state officials from continuing the choice programs: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly and Secretary of the Department of Administration Kathy Blumenfeld.

All three of them faced a Tuesday deadline to file arguments.

The lawsuit argues that the state’s revenue limit and funding mechanism for voucher school programs and charter schools violate the Wisconsin Constitution’s declaration that public funds be spent for public purposes.

It also contends that vouchers defund public schools, do not allow for adequate public oversight and do not hold private schools to the same standards as public schools.

WISCONSIN SENATE APPROVES 3 NEW CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS IN ELECTION SECURITY PUSH

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that Milwaukee’s voucher program was legal. But the current lawsuit alleges that as the program has expanded, the situation has dramatically changed.

At the start of last school year, enrollment in choice programs was more than 29,000 in Milwaukee, 3,900 in Racine and 17,000 elsewhere in the state, according to the state Department of Public Instruction. Another 2,200 disabled students received vouchers under a special needs scholarship program.

Ending the programs now would cause “chaos,” for tens of thousands of families, argued 22 parents of voucher-enrolled students, private schools and choice advocacy groups.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative activist law firm, on Tuesday released a report claiming that if the school choice program ended, the Milwaukee school district would have to open about 17 additional buildings to accommodate the influx of students. Statewide, more than 3,700 teachers would have to be hired in public schools, the report said.

The Wisconsin state Senate narrowly approved a plan Tuesday to spend nearly half a billion dollars to help the Milwaukee Brewers repair their stadium over the next three decades, brushing aside arguments that the team has more than enough money and doesn’t deserve such a sizable government subsidy.

The chamber approved the legislation on a 19-14 vote, sending it to the Assembly for a floor vote later Tuesday. Speaker Robin Vos has signaled his support for the proposal.

Assembly passage would put the bill in front of Gov. Tony Evers, who can sign it into law or veto it. Evers’ spokesperson, Britt Cudaback, said Monday that the governor supports the plan.

WISCONSIN ASSEMBLY GREENLIGHTS $545M BREWERS STADIUM OVERHAUL

Brewers President of Business Operations Rick Schlesinger called the Senate vote “historic.”

“The Brewers require a premier ballpark to drive ticket sales and continue to field competitive teams — making maintenance of the ballpark all the more critical,” he said in a statement.

The Brewers say 22-year-old American Family Field needs extensive repairs. The stadium’s glass outfield doors, seats and concourses need replacing, the stadium’s luxury suites and video scoreboard need upgrades and the stadium’s signature retractable roof, fire suppression systems, parking lots, elevators and escalators need work, according to the team.

Brewers officials initially said the team might leave Milwaukee if they didn’t get public dollars for repairs. Rick Schlesinger, the Brewers’ president of business operations, softened the team’s stance last month, saying the Brewers want to remain in the city “for the next generation.” But the prospect of the team leaving looms.

Debates over handing billions of public dollars to professional sports teams are always divisive. The Brewers’ principal owner, Mark Attanasio, is worth an estimated $700 million, according to Yahoo Finance, and the team itself is valued at around $1.6 billion, according to Forbes. But legislative leaders are fearful of losing tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue if the Brewers leave Milwaukee and have been working on a plan to help cover the repairs since September. The legislation has gone through multiple iterations.

The Assembly last month approved a plan that calls for the state to contribute $411.5 million and the city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County to contribute a combined $135 million. The state and the locals would make the payments in annual installments through 2050. The Brewers would contribute $100 million and extend their lease at the stadium through 2050, guaranteeing Major League Baseball would remain in its smallest market for another 27 years.

But Senate Republicans balked at the state contribution and amended the package last week to scale it back to $386.5 million, according to a Legislative Fiscal Bureau analysis. They also added a $2 surcharge on tickets to non-baseball events and an $8 surcharge on luxury suite tickets to non-baseball events. The surcharges would generate an estimated $14.1 million by 2050. The city and county’s contributions would remain unchanged but the team’s contribution would increase to $110 million.

Republicans amended the plan again Tuesday, this time during floor debate, to incrementally raise the $2 ticket surcharge to $4 and the luxury suite ticket surcharge from $8 to $10 by 2050. The revenue would be used to reduce the state contribution. According to Legislative Fiscal Bureau projections, the surcharges will generate about $20.7 million, reducing the state contribution to $365.8 million.

Democratic Sen. Chris Larson of Milwaukee railed against the public contribution on the Senate floor, labeling the Brewers’ talk of leaving a “trick” that other Major League Baseball teams have used to leverage public dollars for stadiums. He said public dollars would be better spent on local ballparks, complaining that the field where his children play is a “mud pit.”

“The Brewers do not need this cash,” Larson said. “The Brewers have decided they need additional cash and we are falling for that.”

WISCONSIN LAWMAKERS HEAR $614M MILWAUKEE BREWERS STADIUM OVERHAUL PROPOSAL

Republican Sen. Dan Feyen of Fond du Lac, who authored the Senate amendments, argued that the team will generate more than $600 million in income tax revenue over the next three decades.

“The state of Wisconsin is far better off with the Brewers here,” Feyen said. “This is a good deal for baseball fans, a good deal for taxpayers, a good deal for the state of Wisconsin. The vote is yes.”

The final vote was fractured, with three of the four Democrats who represent Milwaukee joining 11 Republicans in voting against it. LaTonya Johnson was the only Milwaukee Democrat who voted for the plan.

The stadium opened in 2001 as Miller Park and replaced aging County Stadium. Construction cost about $392 million and was funded largely through a 0.1% sales tax imposed in Milwaukee County and the four other counties that surround the stadium. The sales tax generated about $605 million before it expired in 2020.

The stadium name changed to American Family Field in 2021 after the Brewers struck a 15-year naming rights deal with the insurance company.

The Pentagon said Tuesday that there have been 55 attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria since Oct. 17, with 59 U.S. personnel getting injured with either traumatic brain injury (TBI) or non-serious injuries.

Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh provided the update to reporters, saying of the 55 attacks on U.S. forces, 27 took place in Iraq and 28 occurred in Syria.

She also said of the 59 U.S. personnel who were injured, 32 were listed with injuries in the non-serious category, while the other 27 individuals suffered from TBI.

IRAN-BACKED HOUTHIS SHOOT DOWN US MQ-9 REAPER DRONE OFF COAST OF YEMEN

American troops in Iraq and Syria have been repeatedly attacked by groups likely backed by Iran.

Last week, the Iranian-backed Houthis shot down a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone near the Yemini Coast.

The drone was reportedly surveilling Yemen when a Houthi militia fired at the equipment, estimated to cost about $30 million.

IRANIAN SHADOW MILITIAS TARGET US, ISRAEL IN MIDDLE EAST: REPORT

Since the drone was shot down, the U.S. has not responded, and the Houthis have threatened to act against Israeli ships in the Red Sea.

A reporter asked Singh about the lack of response by the U.S. military, and whether it was inviting more aggressive action from the Houthis.

“I wouldn’t say that it’s inviting more aggressive or further response from the Houthis. We’ve seen the Houthis do this before,” Singh said. “We’ve seen one of our MQ-9s shot down before in the past. I’m not saying that we’re not going to respond. We always reserve the right to respond at a time and place of our choosing.”

MIDDLE EAST PAYING PRICE OF BIDEN WHITE HOUSE REMOVING HOUTHIS FROM TERRORIST LIST, EXPERTS SAY

She reiterated that the U.S. goal is to contain the conflict between Israel and Hamas to Gaza, which is where it has remained.

“I think we’ve been pretty clear in our message when it comes to deterrence, and we haven’t seen this conflict widen out,” Singh added.

But she was pressed further, as the U.S. goal of deterrence did not appear to be having any effect on the Houthis, who continue to fire missiles and threaten ships.

“You have to remember that one of our ships did act when the Houthis did fire missiles that were headed toward Israel. We did engage in that. We did bring those down,” Singh said. “We have a very robust presence in the region right now that is sending, I think, a very strong message of deterrence.”

U.S. Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, who was confronted by a left-wing reporter on an Amtrak train from New York City to D.C., has responded to the video posted to social media. 

“Sen. @ChrisCoons sat across from me on the train,” Aaron Maté posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Monday. “With Israel using US weapons to kill thousands of Palestinian civilians, including 4600+ children, I asked him why he refuses to call for a ceasefire.”

In the video, the Democratic senator asks Maté who he is and who he works for. Maté identifies himself as a journalist working for The Grayzone, whose X profile describes itself as “Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.”

“Senator, I’m sorry to put you on the spot,” Maté says as the recording begins. “Then don’t,” Coons responds. 

Maté continues, asking, “Why not call for a cease-fire in Gaza?”

BIDEN OFFICIALS REBEL AGAINST PRESIDENT ON ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR, SIGN DISSENT LETTER

Coons then tells Maté they are in a “quiet car” on the train, which Amtrak’s website says “guests are asked to limit conversation and speak in subdued tones.”

When Maté continues to question the senator, Coons responds by repeatedly saying, “Please, stop,” adding, “You are bothering me and everyone else around here.” 

Coons told Maté the train was not an appropriate place to interview him, saying what Maté was doing was not “professional journalism.”

“Aaron, please stop, or I’m gonna have you thrown off this train,” Coons said. 

HILLARY CLINTON CALLS FOR HAMAS’ ELIMINATION, SAYS ALL BLOODSHED IN GAZA IS ON ITS HANDS

“As Senator Coons said yesterday afternoon, he believes the whole world should unite in opposition to terrorism following Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7,” a spokesperson for Sen. Coons said in a statement. “While Senator Coons does not support a ceasefire, he has repeatedly made clear that he supports humanitarian pauses to allow for assistance deliveries to Gaza, including hospitals, and has urged the Israeli government to target their campaign against Hamas. He also has repeatedly pushed for the swift release of the hostages Hamas continues to hold.”

A subsequent X post from Maté says he followed Amtrak rules.

“I didn’t accost him, I questioned him (in a quiet voice, because it was the Quiet Car) about his refusal to back a Gaza ceasefire. And he did have me thrown off the train,” Maté said. 

The former Speaker elbowing a member who voted to oust him from the Speakership in the kidneys.

A former MMA fighter who is now a senator challenging a leader from the Teamsters to a fight on the dais in a hearing room.

REPUBLICANS TALKING WITH DEMOCRATS TO GAUGE WHERE VOTES MAY LIE TO PASS SPENDING BILL, AVOID SHUTDOWN

A House committee chairman calling a rank-and-file member a “Smurf” at a committee hearing. 

There’s a reason tensions are boiling at such a high level.

The House is now in session for its 10th consecutive week. Such a stretch without a recess is extraordinary. Especially when the House has wrestled with an unprecedented situation as evicting the Speaker and two potential government shutdowns.

DEMOCRATS BLOCK EFFORT TO IMPEACH DHS SECRETARY MAYORKAS WITH REPUBLICAN SUPPORT

Pressure is also mounting over the war in the Middle East, aid to Israel and what could happen to Ukraine.

Members are also raging about an effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. And there could be an Ethics Committee report later this week on Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.). The House could wrestle with expelling Santos as early as this week. The House has only expelled five members in history.

MCCARTHY ACCUSED OF PHYSICALLY ATTACKING GOP COLLEAGUE WHO HELPED REMOVE HIM AS SPEAKER

Moreover, there are lots of questions about why House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is able to get away with an interim spending bill – yet that cost former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) his job.

The reason? Look no further to the elbow McCarthy doled out to Burchett.

Burchett voted to remove McCarthy from the Speakership.

Frankly, some members will tell you they never trusted McCarthy.

“He did stuff like (elbowing Burchett) to us all the time,” said one House Republican to Fox. “Only behind the scenes.”

In short, there was always a cohort of Republicans who just never liked McCarthy. They like Johnson better. Hence, the reason McCarthy was ousted was personal. It was not over policy or legislative strategy.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday the behavior of lawmakers in the upper chamber is not his responsibility after he was questioned about his role in lowering the temperature of his party.

“Very difficult to control the behavior of everybody who’s in the building,” McConnell told reporters after the GOP conference’s weekly luncheon. “I don’t view that as my responsibility.” 

He added, “That’s something that the Capitol Police have to deal with.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to Capitol Hill Police for comment. 

The senator’s comments come after Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., stood up and threatened to fight a labor leader during a Senate Health Committee hearing on Tuesday.

GOP SEN. MULLIN, UNION BOSS ALMOST COME TO BLOWS IN SENATE HEARING: ‘STAND YOUR BUTT UP’

“Sir, this is a time, this is a place, you want to run your mouth we can be two consenting adults and we can finish it here,” Mullin told Teamster President Sean O’Brien during a Senate Health Committee hearing on Tuesday after reading a tweet where O’Brien said he could take the senator “any time” or “any place.”

“OK, that’s fine, perfect,” O’Brien responded.

UPS AND TEAMSTERS UNION REACH AGREEMENT ON NEW CONTRACT TO AVOID POTENTIAL STRIKE

“You want to do it now?” Mullin asked.

“I would love to do it right now,” O’Brien said, prompting Mullin to say, “Well, stand your butt up then.”

“You stand your butt up, big guy,” O’Brien said, at which point Mullin, a former MMA fighter, stood up in his chair and seemed to be trying to make his way over to the union president.

GOP SENATOR CHALLENGES UNION BOSS TO CAGE FIGHT AFTER ‘ANYTIME, ANYPLACE’ DARE 

“Stop it, hold it, no, no, sit down,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the chairman of the committee, said in an attempt to calm the pair down. “You’re a United States senator. Sit down.”

Both Mullin and O’Brien asked permission from Sanders to respond to each other after Mullin sat down, but Sanders denied the request. 

Mullin and O’Brien have previously gone head-to-head, throwing jabs at each other through social media during the summer. 

“Greedy CEO who pretends like he’s self made. In reality, just a clown [and] fraud,” O’Brien wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on June 26. “Quit the tough guy act in these senate (sic) hearings.”

“You know where to find me,” he continued. “Anyplace, Anytime cowboy.”

Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.