{"id":2865,"date":"2021-01-22T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-votes-to-maintain-civilian-control-of-pentagon-confirm-lloyd-austin-to-top-defense-post\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:06:01","slug":"merkley-votes-to-maintain-civilian-control-of-pentagon-confirm-lloyd-austin-to-top-defense-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-votes-to-maintain-civilian-control-of-pentagon-confirm-lloyd-austin-to-top-defense-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley vota para mantener el control civil del Pent\u00e1gono y confirma a Lloyd Austin para el puesto superior de defensa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 El senador estadounidense de Oreg\u00f3n, Jeff Merkley, que forma parte del Comit\u00e9 de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, emiti\u00f3 hoy la siguiente declaraci\u00f3n despu\u00e9s de que el Senado votara a favor de eliminar el requisito de que el Secretario de Defensa no lleve uniforme militar durante al menos siete a\u00f1os, y luego votara para confirmar a Lloyd Austin en el puesto:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAyer vot\u00e9 en contra de la exenci\u00f3n del requisito de estatus civil para el Secretario de Defensa porque el control civil de nuestras fuerzas armadas es un principio fundamental que es demasiado importante para comprometerlo. Conceder exenciones a los candidatos a Secretario de Defensa en dos administraciones sucesivas debilita esta norma. Creo que Lloyd Austin est\u00e1 comprometido con el control civil y ser\u00e1 un buen Secretario de Defensa, pero ninguna persona es m\u00e1s importante para el \u00e9xito de nuestra naci\u00f3n que nuestros principios.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComo tengo confianza en el Secretario Austin y creo que tiene la experiencia y la estatura que este puesto cr\u00edtico requiere, despu\u00e9s de que mis colegas votaron a favor de conceder la exenci\u00f3n, apoy\u00e9 esta nominaci\u00f3n. A lo largo de su carrera, el Secretario Austin ha demostrado una capacidad demostrada para liderar con valent\u00eda y un compromiso firme para proteger la salud y el bienestar f\u00edsico y mental de los miembros del servicio estadounidense. Esas cualidades, y su determinaci\u00f3n de tomar las medidas necesarias para abordar los desaf\u00edos de las nuevas tecnolog\u00edas del campo de batalla, hacen del Departamento de Defensa una fuerza para el bien en la lucha contra el caos clim\u00e1tico y fortalecen la inclusi\u00f3n y la equidad en nuestras filas, incluso eliminando las restricciones militares transg\u00e9nero. prohibici\u00f3n de servicio: lo convierten en una buena elecci\u00f3n para este puesto. Ya es hora de que Estados Unidos tenga un Secretario de Defensa negro, y aplaudo el hist\u00f3rico ascenso del Secretario Austin a este rol\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>En 2017, Merkley tambi\u00e9n se opuso a la exenci\u00f3n para el exsecretario Jim Mattis, el primer candidato del presidente Trump para ser secretario de Defensa, antes de votar para confirmarlo.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley&mdash;who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee&mdash;released the following statement today after the Senate voted to waive the requirement that the Defense Secretary be out of military uniform for at least seven years, and then voted to confirm Lloyd Austin to the position: &ldquo;Yesterday, I voted against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-foreign-policy-and-national-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley Votes to Maintain Civilian Control of Pentagon, Confirm Lloyd Austin to Top Defense Post - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-votes-to-maintain-civilian-control-of-pentagon-confirm-lloyd-austin-to-top-defense-post\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley Votes to Maintain Civilian Control of Pentagon, Confirm Lloyd Austin to Top Defense Post - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON, D.C. &ndash; 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