Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell today said he plans to hold up a vote on the confirmation of

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CNN Breaking News Email:

"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell today said he plans to hold up a vote on the confirmation of attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch until the Senate passes a now-controversial human trafficking bill.

"This will have an impact on the timing of considering a new attorney general," McConnell told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." "I had hoped to turn to her next week, but if we can't finish the trafficking bill, she will be put off again."

Democrats are now holding up the trafficking bill, which glided through the Judiciary Committee, after they noticed an abortion provision embedded in the bill.

A spokesman for Minority Leader Harry Reid slammed McConnell for holding up Lynch's nomination."

[Faux pas]

1. They are so sickening.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Almost as sickening as the media that fails to mention the unrelated, undebated poison pill abortion clause snuck in.

Now apparently it is the Democrats fault for "holding up" the bill...what a fine thing corruption makes of democracy.

[Faux pas]

6. They're all in it

together. A media sponsored coup.

[Panich52]

3. Anti-choice riders vs US' highest law official. Why, of course anti-choice wins

Forget, for a moment, that putting anti-choice rider in a bill that's to crack down on teafficking -- which often involves forced prostitution -- and answer one question, Mr McConnell: is this poisoned rider the reason you held up the confirmation in the first place -- so you could extort votes for a disgusting ill-placed rider?

[Spazito]

4. Pathetic, nauseatingly pathetic...

Yet another juvenile temper tantrum.

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5. They don't want someone black in a laudable, trust

oriented, symbiotic relationship with the American people. They had to take out Eric Holder early as attorney general. Why what would happen when some national legal threat took place and a black attorney general acted with authority to save the day? Why regular American folk might have some good feelings towards how a black person kept them safe or stabilized a situation. Security feelings might occur. Then their would be a hole in the whole GOP southern strategy. Can't hate/fear a whole people you have had positive relations with.