On July 10, the Marine Corps may be led an acting commandant for the first time in 164 years.
A GOP senator is blocking the next commandant's confirmation over the Pentagon's abortion leave policy.
The Justice Department has already conducted a legal analysis of the Pentagon policy.
Smith, then commander of III Marine Expeditionary Force, at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in September 2018.
"It was a spirited discussion, and it took a long time," Kaine said about the committee's closed-door debate on the abortion policy.
Persons:
—, David Berger, Jim Stenger, Military.com, Berger's, Eric Smith, Smith, Sen, Tommy Tuberville, Read, Stenger, Berger, Chip Somodevilla, Archibald Henderson, Tuberville, Andrew Jones, Joe Manchin, Joni Ernst, Tim Kaine, Kaine, Charles " C.Q, Brown, Mark Milley, James McConville, Mike Gilday, — Rebecca Kheel, — Konstantin Toropin
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Iowa, Smith