
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on Wednesday voted 13-13, along party lines, on the nomination of Colin Kahl for the Pentagon’s top policy job, the latest contentious step in his confirmation process. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will now have to make a motion to discharge Kahl’s nomination to bring a vote to the full Senate floor, and then potentially need to bring in the vice president to break another tiebreaker vote down the road. Kahl, who served…