President Obama strongly criticized Senate Republicans for holding his Attorney General nominee “hostage” while waiting for Democrats to stop filibustering important human trafficking prevention legislation.
Senate Democrats filibustered a sex trafficking bill this week—one they put their full support behind the week before—when major abortion industry groups suddenly discovered the bill would cause taxpayer funding of abortion to be at risk.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attacked Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Friday in an appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s radio program.
Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) told Democrats who want a vote on Loretta Lynch’s confirmation to “sit down, shut up” on the human trafficking bill on Friday’s “Situation Room” on CNN. “What is on the floor of the United States Senate right
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) declared that “no Republican” should vote for Loretta Lynch’s confirmation because of her support for the president’s executive action on immigration on Friday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” McCain stated, “Loretta Lynch has said that the president’s unconstitutional
Friday, CNN played a clip of Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) entering the battle over Republicans delaying a vote on Loretta Lynch’s confirmation until the abortion language dispute on the sex trafficking bill can be resolved. Brown chose to join her
Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN) is the latest GOP senator to say he’ll vote against attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch, due to her belief that Obama’s executive amnesty is legal.
Sen. John McCain wants Sen. Dick Durbin to apologize for comments he made about the Loretta Lynch nomination.
Thursday on TV One’s “News One Now,” host Roland Martin said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) was “flat-out wrong” to suggest racism is behind Republicans stalling a confirmation vote on Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch, when he said the GOP is making
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) blasted Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) for saying Republicans were making Loretta Lynch “sit in the back of the bus” on the Senate floor on Thursday. McCain stated that the comments were “totally inappropriate to be made
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) argued that race and gender were “a factor” in the battle over Loretta Lynch’s confirmation on Thursday’s “NewsNation” on MSNBC. After hearing Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) say “I have voted against African-American women nominees in the
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) shot back at Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) for saying that Republicans were making Loretta Lynch “sit in the back of the bus” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “These are the same Democrats that
Liberal pressure groups and some U.S. senators claim that the holdup over Loretta Lynch’s nomination to be attorney general is another front in a supposed Republican “War on women.”
Wednesday on the Senate floor, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) likened Senate Republicans’ confirmation vote delay on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch to racist Jim Crow laws that forced African-Americans like Rosa Parks to sit on the back of the bus.
Sen. Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois, reaches for Civil Rights-era language to attack Republicans. The Senate won’t vote on Loretta Lynch’s nomination to be attorney general until after it passes a human trafficking bill that Democrats are filibustering.
In a move defying the GOP base, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has jumped into the confirmation process for Obama’s Attorney General nominee, Loretta Lynch.
Nothing’s moving in the Senate. Democrats won’t allow a human trafficking bill to come to the floor, so GOP leaders won’t allow a vote on Loretta Lynch’s nomination for attorney general.
Two more GOP senators now say they’ll vote against Loretta Lynch’s nomination to be U.S. attorney general. She needs to win at least four Republican votes to be confirmed.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is as reliable a vote for progressives and President Obama as any other Senate Democrat. His public advocacy for the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be Attorney General puts a lie to his well-crafted maverick myth.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) slammed Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for delaying a vote on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch’s confirmation until the Senate clears a human trafficking bill.
Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch will likely be confirmed — but it is shaping up to be a tight vote, according to reports.
Civil Rights advocate Peter Kirsanow strongly opposes the nomination of Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as Barack Obama’s Attorney General.
There will be no Senate vote on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch until Democrats stop blocking a human trafficking bill, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says.
Sen. Rand Paul says that President Barack Obama’s Attorney General nominee U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch hasn’t “shown any compassion, or understanding of the law” when it comes to civil forfeiture.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Sunday that he won’t hold a confirmation vote for Loretta Lynch as attorney general before the Senate completes work on a bill designed to curb human trafficking.
