Senate confirms Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs

Sep 21, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    4% Center

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"Due to the extraordinary circumstances of Sen. Tuberville's reckless decisions, Democrats will take action, Schumer said."
Positive
26% Conservative
"Tuberville has had a blanket hold on senior military promotions for more than six months in protest of a Pentagon policy that reimburses servicemembers who must travel for reproductive care because they are stationed in states that have baed abortion."
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-40% Liberal
"Due to the extraordinary circumstances of Sen. Tuberville's reckless decisions, Democrats will take action, Schumer said."
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-4% Liberal
"Due to the extraordinary circumstances of Sen. Tuberville's reckless decisions, Democrats will take action, Schumer said."
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-4% Liberal
"The 83-11 vote came after Sen. Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer filed cloture on Brown's nomination as well as the nominations of Gen. Randy A. George to be chief of staff of the Army and Gen. Eric M. Smith to be commandant of the Marine Corps."
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6% Conservative
"Proves what @SenTuberville has been saying all along, tweeted Haah Eddins, Tuberville's press secretary."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Schumer can bring up individual nominees for a vote ANYTIME he chooses."
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2% Conservative
"Senate Democrats are looking for every opportunity to get our military officers promoted, Reed said in a statement."
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0% Conservative
"My hold is still in place, Tuberville said on the floor."
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-2% Liberal
"The votes are the first tangible sign of a shift in an ongoing stalemate between Senate Democrats and Tuberville, whose blockade has led to three vacancies among the Joint Chiefs, with officers filling top roles in the Navy, Marine Corps and Army in an acting capacity."
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-6% Liberal
"Tuberville had plaed to force a cloture vote on Smith's nomination, his spokesman Steven Stafford said Tuesday."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"But Schumer appeared to preempt that plan by instead making his own move in the latest round of political maneuvering."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, continued to rail against Tuberville's stand after the Senate took up Brown's nomination."
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-12% Liberal
"Tuberville's staff, however, framed Schumer's move as a win for their cause."
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0% Conservative
"Tuberville's staff, however, framed Schumer's move as a win for their cause."
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0% Conservative
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCoell has said he opposes his Alabama colleague's gambit but has stopped short of calling on fellow Republicans to vote with Democrats to override the hold."
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-22% Liberal
"Doing so would have required submitting a petition signed by at least 16 senators, potentially circumventing Schumer's refusal to schedule a vote."
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-30% Liberal
"But Sen. Tuberville is forcing us to confront his obstruction head-on."
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-34% Liberal
"Schumer's actions came after Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., indicated Tuesday he was going to submit a cloture petition himself on Wednesday that would have forced a vote on one of the nominees."
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0% Conservative
"Schumer's actions came after Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., indicated Tuesday he was going to submit a cloture petition himself on Wednesday that would have forced a vote on one of the nominees."
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0% Conservative
"Tuberville has had a blanket hold on senior military promotions for more than six months in protest of a Pentagon policy that reimburses servicemembers who must travel for reproductive care because they are stationed in states that have baed abortion."
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-18% Liberal
"Republicans have spent months pleading with Schumer to hold votes on critical jobs at the Pentagon left unfilled, while Democrats have insisted that Republican leaders handle the issue of Tuberville's intransigence themselves."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Republicans have spent months pleading with Schumer to hold votes on critical jobs at the Pentagon left unfilled, while Democrats have insisted that Republican leaders handle the issue of Tuberville's intransigence themselves."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Today, Leader Schumer outmaneuvered Senator Tuberville and again exposed his hold for the absurd, dishonest political stunt it is."
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-6% Liberal
"Today, Leader Schumer outmaneuvered Senator Tuberville and again exposed his hold for the absurd, dishonest political stunt it is."
Negative
-6% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : "Due to the extraordinary circumstances of Sen. Tuberville's reckless decisions, Democrats will take action," Schumer said.
30% : Tuberville has had a blanket hold on senior military promotions for more than six months in protest of a Pentagon policy that reimburses servicemembers who must travel for reproductive care because they are stationed in states that have banned abortion.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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