Klobuchar says Tuberville has blocked so many positions — more than 370 — the Senate doesn’t have time to start from the beginning, even if someone got him to back down. There’s a spending bill deadline to consider.
“If we voted on them individually, we would literally be going through the year and the government would shut down,” she says.
“If we voted on them individually” is the operative phrase here. Tuberville’s hold was on approval of them as a group with a single vote. Now that he’s dropping his blockade, the entire group can be approved with a voice vote.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1211789423/a-temporary-senate-rule-change-could-finally-end-tubervilles-military-blockade
And that was a month ago.
“If we voted on them individually” is the operative phrase here. Tuberville’s hold was on approval of them as a group with a single vote. Now that he’s dropping his blockade, the entire group can be approved with a voice vote.