Posted on 03/12/2015 7:44:22 PM PDT by 11th_VA
After weeks of Democrats questioning his unwillingness to schedule the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be attorney general, the Senate majority leader announced at a press conference Tuesday that the Senate will vote to confirm her next week. There's just one catch: Members will have to get past legislation that includes a controversial abortion rider first.
"This is bad," Jessica Brady, a spokeswoman for Judiciary Committee Democrats, said Tuesday.
Not long after agreeing unanimously to move forward with a bill to combat human trafficking on Monday, Democrats discovered the abortion language that had been sitting near the start of the bill. They're now refusing to allow Republicans a final vote on the bill, potentially carrying out a filibuster that could last well into next week.
To get their vote on Lynch, Democrats will have to get off of the trafficking bill. And, so far, Republicans aren't showing any willingness to remove the controversial abortion language.
Democrats are furious that McConnell's top deputy, Republican Whip John Cornyn, snuck—in their telling—a provision into a bipartisan human-trafficking bill that would prevent any of the funds reserved for trafficking victims from being used on abortions or Plan B contracepton (known as the morning-after pill).
Cornyn argued Tuesday that the legislation including the abortion language was posted publicly on Jan. 13. It earned a dozen Democratic cosponsors and passed the Judiciary Committee unanimously without a single Democratic member or aide flagging the abortion language.
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Whatever. We sure don’t want any of those illegal aliens aborting any of the Democrat voters.
Pretty sure pigs find acorns by smell not sight.
There is a very remote possibility that even the Turtle is sharp enough to out smart the dems.
Not enough!
No more compromising!
Ha! They’re just now reading it.
Is there Kitty Litter ?
Yea, I can wish.
Indeed this is about human trafficking. The “amnesty’d” illegals will STILL have access to abortion, and back tax refunds (for which most have never filed any 1040).
So, this is being touted as “slick”. This idiot thinks they care about this “bipartisan” bill? No.. they WANT Loretta Lynch to continue the Just Us department and banning ammo.
If the dumbass would just stop the filibuster rule (like the dems shoved it up his a@@ for the last 5 years or so) then the obamaumao agenda could be negated.... totally. But NOOOOO...!
.nationaljournal.com ^ | 10 March 2015 | Sarah Mimms
There's just one catch: Members will have to get past legislation that includes a controversial abortion rider first.
There is a joke there... somewhere...
Let’s not get too celebratory just yet. McConnell still has 3-5 days to surrender. That is plenty of time to have some wine & cheese before groveling in front of Harry
Reid
Pine, he asked hopefully?
Lynch should need 60 votes to get Confirmed, No 50 vote Bullcrap
LOL. Too bad the Dems decided to read it before the final vote.
Well, it’ll go like this.
Cornyman will pull his part he put in there because it is making the GOP look mean then they will go on about nominating Lynchwhitey.
OR
They will loose the battle over this one having fought the good fight and go ahead and nominate Lynchwhitey.
“We sure don’t want any of those illegal aliens aborting any of the Democrat voters.”
McConnell will fold.
More theater antics before the vote is taken and lo and behold Lynch is confirmed. Just DC at is finest, lets show the American people that we are truly serious but do not care about what they think in the end.
Being that this is McConnell, I half wonder if this isn’t a deal that allows the dems to save-face on Lunch, Abortion funding or both...
If not, McConnell better be careful or they will revoke his covert, complementary, fellow-traveler, demoncrap membership.
Ehhh.... “Lunch” = “Lynch”
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