A temporary Senate rule change could finally end Tuberville's military blockade

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If you can't move him, it's time to find a way around him.

That seems to be the thinking among many senators when it comes to Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.

Tuberville is nine months into his one-man blockade of hundreds of military promotions — in protest of an unrelated Pentagon policy that allows service members to get assistance to seek abortion care. He's blocked more than 370 appointments so far. And lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say he's leaving the military in a desperate position.

"Enough is enough," Senate Rules Committee Chair Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., told NPR this week. "Sen. Tuberville has not listened to those that are running our military and he's not listened to his own Republican colleagues."