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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Hillary Clinton Criticizes Delay in Loretta Lynch for AG Vote

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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