Tommy Tuberville
American politician and football coach
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| March 11 2025 | Tuberville participated in a Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing addressing the mass termination of VA employees and discussed potential private company contracts for VA operations. |
| 2025 | Tuberville publicly endorsed Donald Trump's controversial proposal for Gaza, suggesting the U.S. should take over the territory, clear munitions and war ruins, ethnically displace Palestinians, and redevelop it as the 'Riviera of the Middle East', stating he thinks it's 'a good idea'. |
| 2025 | Tuberville claimed he recruited Patrick Mahomes, which Mahomes disputed as untrue. |
| January 2025 | Claimed that transgender children should 'live in fear' of their parents, describing parents supporting transgender children as 'child abuse'. |
| November 12 2024 | Tuberville announced his candidacy for reelection to a second Senate term in the 2026 elections. |
| June 2024 | Called Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy a 'dictator' and made controversial statements about Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukraine |
| March 29 2024 | Accused the Democratic Party of being a 'Satanic cult' in response to a New York Post tweet about the White House Easter Egg art contest, coinciding with International Transgender Day of Visibility. |
| 2023 | Voted against the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, stating the bill did not go far enough to reform the budget |
| 2023 | Became Alabama's senior senator following Richard Shelby's retirement. |
| December 24 2023 | Tuberville was doxxed and swatted, along with other leading activists and politicians. |
| December 19 2023 | Tuberville lifted the hold on the final 11 officers nominated for four-star positions, effectively ending his military nominations blockade. |
| December 5 2023 | Tuberville largely lifted his hold, which had blocked 451 promotions during the previous week. The Senate subsequently promoted 425 military officers. |
| November 1 2023 | Tuberville blocked dozens of military nominations brought to the Senate floor by incensed senators. |
| October 2023 | Michael Hayden made a controversial social media comment about Tuberville that Tuberville interpreted as a threat, leading him to report the comment to the United States Capitol Police as a potential politically motivated assassination threat. |
| September 20 2023 | The Senate voted to confirm three high-ranking officers (Joint Chiefs chairman, Marine Corps commandant, and Army chief of staff) by working around Tuberville's hold. |
| August 2023 | The Washington Post reported that Tuberville appears to be living in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, instead of Auburn, Alabama, potentially raising questions about his residency. |
| July 2023 | During a CNN interview with Kaitlan Collins, Tuberville initially called white nationalism an 'opinion' and denied white nationalists are inherently racist, drawing significant criticism from Democrats and Republican senators. |
| July 2023 | A spokesperson stated that the foundation was under audit, had paused activities, and Tuberville was working to reform it. |
| July 11 2023 | Tuberville blocked the confirmation of a new Marine Corps commandant, leaving the Corps without a leader for the first time in two centuries. |
| June 2023 | A New Hampshire resident was arrested and charged with threatening to assault, kidnap, or murder a member of Congress, allegedly connected to Tuberville's hold on military promotions. |
| May 10 2023 | Tuberville made controversial comments about white nationalists in a WBHM radio interview, stating he calls white nationalists 'Americans'. His congressional staff later released a clarifying statement suggesting he was skeptical of white nationalists' presence in the military. |
| March 2023 | Reintroduced a bill to forbid public schools from allowing biological males to participate in girls' or women's sports, co-sponsored by 19 Republicans. |
| March 25 2023 | Publicly complained about a viral U.S. Navy Instagram video featuring Lieutenant Junior Grade Audrey Knutson, a nonbinary sailor reading a poem during a spoken-word event. |
| February 2023 | Tuberville announced he would block all 'civilian, flag, and general officer nominations' in response to the DOD abortion policy implementation. |
| February 2023 | Tuberville co-sponsored a bill to prevent people with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria from serving in the U.S. military, with limited exceptions. |
| February 1 2023 | Tommy Tuberville announced his committee assignments for the 118th Congress, joining multiple Senate committees including Agriculture, Armed Services, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and Veterans' Affairs, with ranking member positions on Rural Development and Energy Subcommittee and Children and Families Subcommittee. |
| 2022 | Tuberville voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, which would federally codify same-sex marriage, despite stating that people should 'live life the way you want to'. The bill ultimately passed and was signed into law. |
| December 2022 | Tuberville threatened to put a Senate hold on all military promotions in protest of the Department of Defense policy allowing pregnant service members leave and travel cost reimbursement for legal abortions. |
| October 8 2022 | Spoke at a Trump rally in Nevada, making controversial remarks about Democrats that were widely condemned as racist by organizations like the NAACP |
| June 2022 | Celebrated the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which he had previously supported through an amicus brief, calling it a 'victory for life' |
| May 2022 | Introduced the Financial Freedom Act of 2022, which would allow cryptocurrency inclusion in individual retirement accounts |
| February 2022 | Dismissed proposals to ban lawmakers from trading stocks, later reported by Business Insider to have violated the STOCK Act 132 times in 2021 |
| 2021 | The Tommy Tuberville Foundation's website became defunct by the end of the year. |
| 2021 | Began serving as the senior United States senator from Alabama. |
| 2021 | The Washington Post revealed that the foundation reported $74,101 in revenue but spent only 12% on charitable causes, with $32,000 going to administrative costs, including paying off a truck purchase. |
| May 28 2021 | Senator Tommy Tuberville voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6, 2021 United States Capitol attack, opposing a bipartisan effort to examine the events of the insurrection. |
| January 7 2021 | The Electoral College vote count resumed and was concluded, certifying Joe Biden's victory, with Tuberville's objections being defeated by the remainder of the Senate. |
| January 6 2021 | Tuberville voted to support objections to Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes, which were both won by Joe Biden. He was among six Republican senators objecting to Arizona's votes and seven objecting to Pennsylvania's votes. |
| January 6 2021 | During the Electoral College vote count, Tommy Tuberville was contacted by President Trump during the Capitol riot after Trump mistakenly dialed Senator Mike Lee's phone. Pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol, forcing officials to evacuate before the vote count could be completed. |
| 2020 | The Associated Press criticized the Tuberville Foundation as a 'questionable charity' that raises money but gives little away, with only 18% of funds spent on charitable causes. |
| 2020 | The New York Times reported discrepancies in the foundation's fundraising records, highlighting bookkeeping inconsistencies for a veterans' retreat project. |
| November 26 2020 | Tuberville announced Stephen Boyd as his chief of staff, who previously served as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legislative Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice. |
| November 3 2020 | Tuberville defeated incumbent Democrat Doug Jones in the general election, winning 60.1% of the vote. |
| July 14 2020 | Tuberville defeated Jeff Sessions in the Republican primary runoff, winning 60.7% of the vote. |
| March 10 2020 | President Trump endorsed Tuberville ahead of the runoff election. |
| March 3 2020 | Tuberville received 33.4% of the vote in the Republican primary, advancing to a runoff with Jeff Sessions. |
| April 2019 | Tuberville announced his entry into the 2020 Republican primary for the Senate seat held by Democrat Doug Jones. |
| August 2018 | Tommy Tuberville moved from Florida to Alabama with the intention to run for the U.S. Senate in 2020. |
| 2017 | Worked as a color analyst for ESPN's college football coverage. |
| December 4 2016 | After a disappointing 4-8 season, Tuberville resigned as head coach of Cincinnati, concluding his tenure with an overall record of 29-22 and 18-14 in AAC conference play. |
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