The Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday advanced a resolution that would pave the way for an end to Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s months-long holds on military promotions.

In a 9-7 party line vote, the committee approved sending the resolution, which would allow all the nearly 400 promotions blocked by Tuberville to be considered en bloc, or in large groups, to the full Senate.

“We believe this is the most sensible way to do it because it is a temporary policy, and I want people to have hope that we are going to get this done,” said Rules Committee Chairwoman Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. “And this is the first step in the process to get these promotions through.”

Since mid-February, Tuberville has held up the promotions over a new Department of Defense policy that reimburses service members for travel-related expenses for abortions if the procedure is illegal where they are stationed.

Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., who is a member of the Senate Rules Committee and voted against the resolution, suggested the measure would set a dangerous precedent.

“The action taken today by my Democratic colleagues on the Senate Rules Committee is an ill-advised erosion of the institution of the Senate and the core Constitutional role the chamber should play in providing appropriate advice and consent. Fundamentally changing the rules of this institution, even temporarily, sets a dangerous precedent that undermines our nation’s tried-and-true system of checks and balances,” Britt said in a statement following the vote.

“The Senate rules are designed to ensure the minority party has a true voice—not to whimsically bend to benefit Democrats’ wishes at any given moment in time. Ultimately, rules are real rules only if they’re applied evenly across the board, blind to which party is in power,” Britt continued. “And let’s face reality—when Democrats are in the majority, they’re happy to throw the minority party’s rights down the drain to achieve their short-term partisan agenda; yet, when Democrats are in the minority, they would never cede those same rights. This so-called ‘temporary’ rule change would forever damage the institution of the Senate.”