Posted on 11/10/2014 11:27:26 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and a chorus of GOP lawmakers say Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee to serve as attorney general, should wait until next year for Senate confirmation.
“Ms. Lynch will receive fair consideration by the Senate. And her nomination should be considered in the new Congress through regular order,” McConnell said in a statement.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah), a senior Republican member and former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, warned in a Friday op-ed that Democrats should not try to rush Lynch's nomination through in the lame-duck session.
“Properly considering a nominee to such a significant position as attorney general requires a full and fair process, something that is particularly hard to do in a post-election ‘lame-duck’ session,” Hatch wrote in The Washington Times.
“No one has been nominated and confirmed to be attorney general in a lame-duck session since before the Civil War,” he added....
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Let us see how long this lasts
My first laugh (out loud) of the week. YERTLE the Turtle aka, singalongwith-Mitch McConnell. Watch that throat wattle wobble.
[ Let us see how long this lasts ]
They are going to dump a BUNCH of stuff after thjanksgiving and around christmas, they always DO!
Can barely wait to see how this plays out.....
What about a recess appointment over the holidays?
Would that only be in effect until next January?
We know Miotch has no gonads.
The O-bots out there on various blogs spend as much time considering Lynch as they do a menu choice at Denny’s. They’re sold, no questions asked.
Does Obama know his worshipers or what!?
Wondering whether the House should refuse to go back in session, to prevent the Senate from acting. Recess appointments only last until the next session, which is next January, so that is not a fear any more.
I think the House and Senate can adjourn separately. Also, it’s only the Senate that needs to give “advice and consent” to appointments.
Duh. But the Senate has to be in session to give the advice and consent. Hence my question. They cannot adjourn separately, which is why the House was not adjourning when Obama tried to make recess appointments. They would come in every few days and pretend to have a session. It was written about extensively in connection with the NLRB appointments and the SC's slap down of Obama about them. HOWEVER, I have not seen whether they can go into session separately or it has to be together. I thought someone might know the answer before I look it up.
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