Lynch Nomination May Be An Early Test For Republican Senate
Democrats are worried about trying to push through the appointment during the lame-duck session.
U.S. President Barack Obama listens as Loretta Lynch, Brooklyn prosecutor, speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014.
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Senate Democratic leaders are showing little appetite for pushing through confirmation of Loretta Lynch as U.S. attorney general before they surrender control to Republicans in January.
A vote on the nomination likely will be delayed until Congress’s new session, though no final decision has been made, said a Senate Democratic aide who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal party deliberations.