“A group of Senate Armed Services Democrats is pressing Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to intervene to help end Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s holdup of nearly 300 senior military promotions,” Politico reports.
“The push by eight senators in a letter Monday to McConnell comes as time is running out to resolve the blockade before Congress leaves for its extended summer recess, ensuring more vacancies in top military posts.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.