USA Today
By Catalina Camia
March 16, 2015
Hillary
Rodham Clinton criticized the GOP-led Congress on Monday, weighing in
on the delay in confirming Loretta Lynch to be attorney general and an
impasse on a human
trafficking bill.
Her
two tweets on Twitter leave no mistake that Clinton, the leading
Democratic presidential candidate, will make women’s issues a key part
of her likely 2016 campaign.
Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Sunday he will not
schedule a vote on Lynch’s nomination until Democrats drop their
objections to a provision in the
trafficking measure that would prohibit money in a victim’s
compensation fund from being used to fund abortions.
White
House spokesman Josh Earnest lamented Monday the “unconscionable delay”
in giving Lynch a vote, noting that the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn was
nominated by President
Obama 128 days ago to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder as the
nation’s top law enforcement. Lynch’s nomination was voted out of the
Senate Judiciary Committee last month, but she is drawing opposition for
Republicans because she backs Obama’s executive
actions on immigration.
In
her tweets, Clinton criticized what she called a “congressional
trifecta” against women. She called Lynch a “great nominee” who would be
the first African-American
woman to serve as attorney general. Lynch was first appointed U.S.
attorney by Bill Clinton in 1999 and served until 2001. After working in
private practice, Obama tapped Lynch again for the top federal
prosecutor’s job in 2010.
Hillary
Clinton also suggested congressional Republicans are “playing politics”
on the trafficking bill and “threatening women’s health & rights.”
Clinton’s
tweets came as a new CNN/ORC poll showed the public is divided on
whether her use of a private e-mail system while secretary of State is a
serious problem. The
same survey shows her ratings have dropped to 53% favorable to 44%
unfavorable, down 6 percentage points since November.
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