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Re: Senate Confirms Loretta Lynch as Attorney General After Long Delay

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Fri, 24 Apr 15 5:19 AM | 48 view(s)
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...she almost has to be an improvement over Holder.




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Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!

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Senate Confirms Loretta Lynch as Attorney General After Long Delay
By: clo in FFFT3
Fri, 24 Apr 15 12:30 AM 		Msg. 11912 of 65535

Senate Confirms Loretta Lynch as Attorney General After Long Delay

After one of the nation’s most protracted cabinet-level confirmation delays, the Senate Thursday narrowly approved Loretta Lynch to be attorney general. She is the first African-American woman to hold the position.

Her confirmation took longer than that for all but two other nominees for the office: Edward Meese III, who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan, and A. Mitchell Palmer, who was picked by President Woodrow Wilson, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Republicans have found themselves in a quandary for months. They longed to replace Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., and they agreed that Ms. Lynch was qualified for the job. But they opposed her because Ms. Lynch defended President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/politics/loretta-lynch-attorney-general-vote.html?emc=edit_na_20150423

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