Obama Hammers Republican Party for Delaying Attorney General Appointee
President Barack Obama said that his nomination of Loretta Lynch for attorney general has been languishing in the Senate without a vote for more than four months, “longer than the seven previous attorneys general combined.”
“No one can claim she’s unqualified,” the president said during his weekly address. “This is purely about politics.”
Obama said Republican lawmakers had initially held up her nomination “because they were upset about the actions I took to make our broken immigration system smarter and fairer. Now they’re denying her a vote until they can figure out how to pass a bill on a completely unrelated issue.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has warned there will be no vote on Lynch, who would be the country’s first female African-American attorney general, until the Senate passes legislation on human trafficking that contains anti-abortion language.
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