Military.com
By Brendan McGarry
July 16th, 2013
Posted in Policy
The U.S. Senate may soon begin to fill dozens of vacant positions at the Defense Department after lawmakers reached a tentative deal to avert a constitutional showdown over president nominations.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., threatened to change the time-honored rules for filibuster — an act or speech designed to obstruct legislative action — after charging that Republicans unfairly used the procedural maneuver to block President Barack Obama’s nominations for numerous agency posts.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., helped broker a deal between Reid, the Senate majority leader, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader.
There were 61 such vacancies at the Defense Department last year, including the position of inspector general, according to a December 2012 report published by the U.S. House of Representatives panel known as the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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