Lindsey Graham Renews Threats to Block Nominees; Benghazi Boogaloo part deux
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) pressed the Obama administration Sunday to allow Congress to hear from American survivors of the September 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, and renewed his promise to block confirmation of all of President Obama’s nominees if it does not.
“A year later, Congress doesn’t know anything about it from those who lived through it,” Graham said of the attack during an appearance on Fox News Sunday.
Graham’s vow to block nominees threatens to delay the confirmation of Jeh Johnson as homeland security secretary and Janet L. Yellen as head of the Federal Reserve.
“I shouldn’t have to make these kinds of threats,” he said. “I’m hoping they will relent.”