Elbridge Colby clears hurdle, moves to final vote to become Pentagon's top policy strategist

Fox News - 08/04
Elbridge Colby, a key architect of U.S. military strategy on China and Taiwan, cleared a major hurdle in the Senate with a cloture vote advancing his nomination to a senior Pentagon post.
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The Senate voted Monday to invoke cloture on Elbridge Colby’s nomination, moving the national security strategist one step closer to confirmation as undersecretary of defense for policy, the Pentagon’s No. 3 post. 

The procedural vote, which limits debate and tees up a final confirmation vote, passed by a margin of 53 to 49. Colby’s nomination advanced out of the Armed Services Committee last month, overcoming skepticism from hawkish Republicans like Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., during a closed-door vote.

The Senate voted on cloture for Elbridge Colby, under secretary of defense for policy nominee for US President Donald Trump (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Ima...
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