-- her nomination this week. we breathed a sigh of relief. then, over the weekend, he announced she would not be called until a bill pending on the floor is passed. yes, i am upset and frustrated on her behalf. to think that she is being treated in this manner. i am not going to use any pejorative terms other than to say i believe it is insensitive for the senate to hold her up for such a lengthy time with no objection to this woman's character, fitness and ability to continue to serve the united states. she has served, you know. she is currently in a position as the u.s. attorney in new york . she has the support of the following organizations -- the national district attorneys association, the federal law enforcement officers association, the international association of chiefs of police, the major cities chiefs association, the association of prosecuting attorneys, the fbi agents association, and a long list of republican and democratic-appointed former u.s. attorney including patrick fitzgerald and scott laza

her nomination has been delayed longer than any in recent history. in fact longer than any in modern history putting aside the neece nomination which was delayed by an ongoing investigation into alleged inproprieties. there's no investigation here. there's no question of impropriety. there has been no hint of any reason to reject the loretta lynch nomination. in fact the american people could be forgiven for thinking that some of the members of this body are simply looking for an excuse to delay or deny her nomination. first it was in our hearing questions about her capacity and qualifications. those reasons or potential excuses for delaying or denying her nomination were quickly extinguished. then it was the immigration issue. and that one too as an excuse for delaying or denying this nomination has been dispensed. and now it is the antitrafficking bill. no reason for delay could be more inappropriate because the fact of the matter is, the threat to delay again her nomination is antithetical to the very goal of the goal of stopping human trafficking

the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the question occurs on the brown nomination. is there any further debate? hearing none, all those in favor say aye. all those opposed no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes have it. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table. the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action, and the senate will resume legislative session. the majority leader is recognized. mr. mcconnell: mr. president i ask unanimous consent the senate be in a

so, i will call for nominations. >> i will make a nomination. i will nominate denise senhaux. are there any other nominations. all right. nominations are closed. do you accept the nomination? >> yes i do. i'm in shock. >> all right. great. nominations are closed and you should find a ballot in your packet. mark one name. >> do you want to make a statement? >> i guess so, i will make a quick statement and get on with business. i want to thank cochair supanich for his nomination and the support from the council. there has been amazing people and still continue to sit in the cochair and i will continue to do my best and serve the council and the community. i have a lot of support and knowledge from my council members and mayor's office on disability. so i look forward to this challenge and one of the last conversations i had with derek when i was considering to run for this position and i was having some self doubt, he said go ahead and do it. you can do it. i think in his memory i'm going to go ahead and take this new challenge in this position. i will do my very best. thank you

nomination be a clean vote? >> well, in an up or down case, right now only 51 votes are needed to confirm her. i think she will eventually be nominated but the people in charge of the calendar in the senate are the republicans so what they are kind of doing is holding the nomination hostage to try to get leverage with democrats on these other issues. and i think with all the republicans willing to vote against her, even though she probably will be nominated, they are able to say to their constituents look, i'm taking a stand against the president on this immigration issue that you all care about so much. i think it's hard for the public to watch and say hey, what's going on, why does nothing ever get done. the internal politics of it all are really what's behind this. >> i have to leave it there. good to see you. thanks. >> thanks, arthel. >>> a federal judge ordering the u.s. government to release some controversial photos showing the abuse of detainees in iraq and afghanistan. the government has fought that la

lynch's nomination. i've been here long enough to know we can debate legislation and vote on nominations at the same time. otherwise urges last thursday we voted on four other executive nominations while we were on the human trafficking bill we're telling going to vote on two more executive nominations this evening while we're on the human trafficking bill. it all serves to agree -- it's important to confirm loretta lynch as our nation's top law enforcement officer. she has a proven track record of prosecuting human trafficking and child rape crimes. this is not somebody who just talks about it, how much they are opposed to human trafficking, as though anybody's in favor of human trafficking. this is not someone who just says she's opposed to child rape cases, as though anybody here is going to say they're in favor of it. she has actually prosecuted them. over if course of the last -- the course of the last decade the u.s. attorney's office ms. lynch leads has indicted over 55 defendants in sex trafficki

host: on the loretta lynch nomination, chris in alabama writes "let the nomination drag on. i like having eric holder as attorney general." we will be talking specifically about loretta lynch's nomination in our last half hour this morning. top issues of the week, feel free to continue to call in. george is in california, line for republicans. good morning, george. caller: good morning, how you doing? i would like to suggest two guests and then make a statement on the iran military spending issue. number one, i would like to see dr. charles krauthammer as a guest. i really would. he is such a brilliant man. and whatever happened to reverend wright? if you could have reverend wr ight, i think that would explain a lot of the character about president obama. back on military spending, i think we are just going to have to do it. everybody hates to have to have a giant military, but with iran going to bomb israel, it looks like things might blow up here pretty good. i don't know. i hope they don't. but yeah, we have to spend on military spending. i wouldn't trust iran -- i mean,

the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table. the president will be immediately notified of the senate's actions and the senate will resume legislative session. the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i send a cloture to the desk for the committee-reported amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close on the committee-reported substitute amendment to s. 178, a bill to provide justice for the victims of trafficking signed by 17 senators as follows. mr. mcconnell: i ask reading of the names be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: mr. president i send another cloture motion to the desk for the bill. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion, we the suedes up undersigned senators in accordance with

chairman in light of the fact you don't want to be nominated for chair i nominate commissioner renne for chair. >> any other nominations for chair? okay hearing none public comment? >> commissioner ray heart for open government we need someone that will lead and i don't mean financial every time you try to find someone from illegally using money for illegal campaigns they'll find a way i'd like someone that makes an effort to do some of the things and you've neglect under the current lisp so such as enforcing the sunset ordinance people think they have a right to go to a public hearing and until the shut hits the fan and told they're not allowed to i have a list of 19 or they tried try to get public records and denied those by people that know under the law they have a requirement to provide it yet for 8 years i've been coming to theometers with lip service to our responsibility of enforcing the sunset ordinance like on tonight agenda one case from the sunset task force ion they've gotten to the point they don't see to send e send it to you and purposing to protect other people in po

for her and her nomination? she is the first african-american woman appointed to head her department of justice, has had her nomination pending on the senate floor longer than any nominee for attorney general going back three decades. >> i think durbin was wrong. i think he was flat-out wrong. the reason i say that the way i look at it here we know why it's being held up. her points on immigration, really what you're doing is you're helping the opposition because now they can focus on you and your comment versus why she's actually being held up. >> you know what steve? doesn't roland martin have a point here? i usually don't agree with everything he says, but i gray 100% there with him. doesn't that make durbin a distraction to the real issue? >> well senator durbin certainly makes himself a distraction to the real issue, which is frankly whether or not this woman is being treated fairly whether or not she should be confirmed, why frankly only four united states senators have said this nominee, who is eminently

the senator illinois voted against the historic nomination. i would never suggest even with failed rhetoric that judge rogers brown race was the reason for the senator from illinois opposition to her nomination. he should extend i say to my colleague from illinois he should extend that same courtesy to me and my colleagues. i i would like to remind the senator illinois about how we were able to fill vacancies last year effectively alleviating a judicial emergency with tremendous bipartisan support in the nomination of two senators we confirmed a diverse and historic slate of six nominees which included a hispanic, and african-american and the 1st native american woman ever to serve on the federal bench. .. confirmations, just as ms. lynch's race should have no impact on her consideration in this body. those six judges were approved by this body because each of them had shown a commitment to justice, public service and the people of arizona. each also had demonstrated the judicial temperament and professional demeanor necessary to serve with in

not maybe on her nomination. we owe it to ms. lynch the employees of the justice department and the american people to have a newly designated attorney general in place as the nation's chief law enforcement officer and top defender of americans' constitutional rights. with that, mr. president, i would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from -- the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 106, which was submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate re

congratulations on your nomination. today we will consider the nomination of sally yates to be deputy attorney general. i would start by noting that she's already doing the job. she's been nominated for. she's been serving as acting deputy since the beginning of the year. so she already has some experience with leading the department and has been exposed to some of the challenges that the department faces. before her service, as acting deputy attorney general, she served in the u.s. attorney's office for northern district of georgia for over 25 years. including five as the u.s. attorney. so she also has experience in running an office an important experience as a prosecutor. too often when nominees appear before our committee, they avoidancing questions by claiming that they aren't yet on the job, so they aren't in a position to provide responsive answers. however, because ms. yates has already been on the job for a few months, i assume she'll be able to answer questions about the department for us. i won't repeat all o

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congratulations on your nomination. today we will consider the nomination of sally yates to be deputy attorney general i would start by noting that she's already doing the job. she's been nominated for. she's been serving as acting deputy since the beginning of the year. so she already has some experience with leading the department. and has been exposed to some of the challenges the department faces. before her service, as acting deputy attorney general she served in the u.s. attorney's office for northern district of georgia for over 25 years. including five as the u.s. attorney, so she also has experience in running an office, and important experience as a prosecutor. too often when nominees appear before our committee they avoid answering questions by claiming that they aren't yet on the job, so they aren't in a position to provide responsive answers. however, because ms. yates has already been on the job for a few months, i assume she'll be able to answer questions about the department for us. i won't repeat all of

the senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations -- calendar number 17 and calendar number 18, that there be 30 minutes for debate equally divided in the usual form, that upon the use or yielding back of time the senate vote without intervening action or debate on the nominations in the order listed. that following disposition of the nominations the motions to reconsider be made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be in order that any statements related to the nominations be printed in the record, the president be immediately notified of the senate's actions and the senate then resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: now mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations -- calendar number 3 and calendar number 4, that the nominations be confirmed the motions to reconsider be made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be in order that any statements rel

she was nominated for attorney general back before president obama nominated ash carter to be the next defense secretary. he nominated loretta lynch and then ash carter. they sailed through and there was no options to either of them. but you want to know the difference between them? he has already been confirmed as defense secretary scene working and she is still waiting for a vote. he has been confirmed long enough that he has started delaying the end of one of our wars. the war in afghanistan, he is unending wars around. loretta lynch, he has not even had a vote in the senate. she is still waiting. and now senate republicans say they're not going to vote on her nomination until dcs give in on a totally unrelated piece of legislation that has nothing to do with her and that both parties are fighting about in congress. they are holding her nomination hostage. even though they admit they have nothing against her, when you read these story there's is always a mention of ed meest. loretta lynch has waited the longest for a vote of any attorney general nomination in history except for ed m

her nomination has been held up for too long, in fact, republicans have held up her nomination longer than the five most recent attorney general nominees combined. but now her nomination has been tied to a piece of legislation that republicans have themselves poisoned. why are they putting poison pills in their own legislation? they took a perfectly good bipartisan bill and ensured it would go nowhere and then they took a perfectly qualified attorney general nominee and tied her vote to that poisoned legislation. the majority party is getting in its own way when it comes to the major responsibilities of governing. it's time for the republicans to act like the majority and govern, and this is the difference between being in the majority and being in the minority. putting poison pills in legislative vehicles may be an odious practice, but it is normally reserved for the minority party the party that is not in charge. generally speaking you do not poison your own piece of legislation. the american people have given the keys to the car to the republican party but now they need to drive th

for somebody for whom there are no substantive objections to her nomination, no one nominated to be attorney ever in the history of our country been held by the senate for this long. she's already been approved by the judiciary committee. it's just that the republican leadership in the senate won't allow the full senate to vote on her. unprecedented. democrats are starting to stamp their feet about it a little bit including harry reid making yet another call today for her to get a vote. the lightest word from mitch mcconnell is that maybe they'll vote on her next week. we'll see. we've heard that before though. even if they do finally get around to voting on her next week by the time they do that they will have put her through a truly remarkable ordeal on the way to her getting this job and that's if they vote next week. watch this space. most of the products we all buy are transported on container ships. before a truck delivers it to your store, a container ship delivered it to that truck. here in san diego, we're building the first one ever to run on natural gas. ships this big running thi

the prospect of a hillary clinton presidential nomination a holy grail for this group. have to believe that means that the room there is hostile if anything about this story about hillary clinton's e-mails at the state department. >> referee: this whole event has a feeling of hillary clinton for president pep rally is the kick off political event of what everyone expects will soon be her political campaign around the edges of it. there are people here talking about a little bit of consternation about this e-mail story and what it says and means about the future of hillary clinton as a candidate. no one really thinks that this story has really long legs and will hang around for a long time. a lot will depend on how hillary handles it. she may do so in sort of a joking way tonight, and if she is able to kind of tack it will head on, and talk about what she really was obligated to do, and maybe even turn over some e-mails, the expectation of e-mails is that the whole thing goes away fairly soon. >> one thing that is remarkable here is the contrast between what is happening

and we talked about the delay between lynch's nomination and her floor vote. she's now also facing a record delay between getting committee approval and a floor vote. it's been 18 days congressman meeks, 18 days since the judiciary committee voted to confirm loretta lynch, more than twice as long as anyone else and that could be about to get much longer. i mean will this tragedy fire on republicans politically, congressman, in your view? >> well, i think that the american people should stand up and will backfire as we move forward. you know, look at the hypocrisy of the republican in mcconnell. mcconnell asked the president, and said to slow down on the appointment back in november. he put loretta up in november and in december he said why don't wait until the republicans take over and then he will handle her in regular order? and here we are, they playing politics, stretching this out, as you said not only -- she's got through the committee finally and now from the committee to getting a full hearing on the floor. the longest period of time. and the only expl

i rise today to talk about the nomination that will be before the entire senate next week, the nomination of loretta lynch to be the attorney general of the united states of america and to urge all of my senate colleagues to quickly confirm united states attorney lynch to this position. loretta lynch has dedicated much of her life, many, many years of her life, to public service serving twice as the united states to enfor to attorney for the eastern district of new york. in this role she earned a reputation as a tough but fair prosecutor. i'd like to take a few minutes to outline some of loretta lynch's record. as united states attorney for the eastern district of new york she has kept communities safer by bringing serious violent criminals to justice prosecuting high-level gang members, and drug traffickers. u.s. attorney lirchl has also -- u.s. attorney lirchllynch has also fought corruption. she was the lead prosecutor in municipal cases on long island and supervised the new york state senate majority leader recently. during her time in private practice, loretta lynch did pro bono work

we don't have even the scheduled nomination of miss lynch to be on the floor.d have had a filibuster, a debate or anything. we could have had it weeks ago. we could have had it when she came out of committee, and so the onus and the burden falls on the leadership in the senate. they have not scheduled her for a vote. we're outraged about that, and we believe that she is being treated disparately, and we don't think that that is both appropriate, and we don't think the senate is following its appropriate duties which is the advice and consent. they are stopping the workings of government by blocking the chief law enforcement officer of the united states of america. they can't step away from that. >> congresswoman sheila jackson lee, thank you so much for joining us and sticking around. >> thank you for having me. i'm in the judiciary committee right now so i apologize. >> glad you stuck around. >> thank you, bye-bye. >> and developing now, was there a crash at the white house or not? new secret service director joseph clancy will be back in front of lawmakers to

she was nominated january 8. questions included mandatory sentencing, human sex trafficking, countering violent extremism. this is just under two hours. chuck grassley: we will start with you. itwe will have our opening statements. the constitution recognizes us as equal. i was going to call on you first because you are the senior member here today. it you have been a respected member of the house of representatives and you know miss yates. hope you will start. john lewis: thank you very much. i am delighted and pleased to be here. i am on a to be here with my friend from the georgia delegation. we are introducing the united states attorney for the district of georgia. she has been nominated to serve as deputy attorney general of the united states. her dedication to public service is in her blood. both her father and grandfather served in the georgia court of appeals. her father was one of the great lawyers in the state of georgia and in our nation. she is principled, tough has used her commitment to justice to s

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president obama nominated loretta lynch and then he nominated ash carter. the two of them both sailed through their confirmation hearings. there have been no substantive objections to either of them but you want to know the difference between them? the difference between them now is he has already been confirmed as defense secretary, and is working as our nation's defense secretary. she's still waiting for a vote. he's been confirmed long enough already that he's already started delaying the end of one of our wars. the war in afghanistan. ash carter is on the job and unending wars anywhere. loretta lynch, she's not even had a vote in the senate. sme she is still waiting. and now senate republicans say they're not going to vote on her nomination until democrats give in on a totally unrelated piece of legislation that has nothing to do with her and that both parties are fighting about right now in congress. republicans are holding her nomination hostage on that unrelated matter. you know, when you read about this on its merits inexplicable treatment of lorett

you still work for his chief rival for the nomination? it's going to be appear uphill climb, right? what he called to talk to those reporters about last week minutes before he killed himself was the fact that john hancock, the chairman of the republican party of missouri had been telling republican donors and republican party activists in missouri that tom schweich was a jew. tom schweich was not a jew. one of his grandfathers was jewish. he believed that the republican party of missouri institutionally and in support of his campaign for governor, he believed that the chair of the party was spreading this false rumor that he was jewish as a way of trying to hurt tom schweich's chances of becoming governor. or becoming the republican party's nominee for governor in missouri. and as those incredible headlines started to bloom in the wake of tom schweich's death, these headlines that it was about an anti-semitic whisper campaign, the chairman e-mailed out a statement to members of the party saying yeah he might sl told people schweich was jewish. he said i would like to set the record

. >> loretta lynch the first african-american woman nominated to be attorney general is asked to sit in the back of the bus when it comes to senate calendar that sun fair. -- that is unfair. it is unjust. it is beneath the decorum and dignity of u.s. senate. lou: well his critics agree with him saying his remarks are beneath the decorum and dignity of the senate, if there is any left. we talk with republican senator david sreutder, we begin with netanyahu's victory, president obama has yet to congratulate him, delegates the task to secretary kerry. three others allies have already offered congratulations including prime minister of britain, and canada and india. joining us is congressman. polls were wrong talking with former ambassador of u.s., he said that polls were always wrong in israel. but, this is really a decisive victory, what does this mean for israel its national security, and policies they will follow going forward? >> prime minister clearly is very strong on national security. that is what drove him to calm address the joint session of congress on march 3 the israels as

congratulations on your nomination. today we will consider the nomination of sally yates to be deputy attorney general i would start by noting that she's already doing the job. she's been nominated for. she's been serving as acting deputy since the beginning of the year. so she already has some experience with leading the department. and has been exposed to some of the challenges the department faces. before her service as acting deputy attorney general she served in the u.s. attorney's office for northern district of georgia for over 25 years. including five as the u.s. attorney, so she also has experience in running an office and important experience as a prosecutor. too often when nominees appear before our committee they avoid answering questions by claiming that they aren't yet on the job so they aren't in a position to provide responsive answers. however, because ms. yates has already been on the job for a few months, i assume she'll be able to answer questions about the department for us. i won't repeat all of my

in 2012 janice rogers brown an african-american, was nominated to serve on the u.s. court of appeals for the district of columbia a court that had never included an african-american woman judge. the senator from illinois voted to filibuster her nomination in 2003 and again in 2005 when she was finally confirmed after waiting 684 days, the senator from illinois voted against the historic nomination. i would never suggest even with veiled rhetoric that judge rogers brown's race was the reason for the senator from illinois' opposition to her nomination. and he should extend, i say to my colleague from illinois, he should extend that same courtesy to me and my colleagues. i'd also like to remind the senator from illinois about how we were able to fill vacancies in the u.s. district court of arizona last year, effectively alleviating a judicial emergency with tremendous bipartisan support and the nomination of senator flake and myself, we confirmed a diverse and historic slate of six nominees which included an hispanic, an african-american and the first native american wo

will he be the man who gets the nomination? chances are slim. the other issue is that he's appeal together right-wing base, the christian conservative base while he's saying there are things on no change to the same-sex marriage, then there is the problem of appealing to the broader electorate in 6:00. >> alan, thank you. >>> afghanafghanistan president ashraf ghani will be visiting the united states. the withdrawal of is likely to dominate the talks with president obama on monday. roslind jordan reports. >> when afghan president ashraf ghani meets with u.s. officials on monday, security will be the top of his mind. he wants president barack obama to delay plans to withdraw troops by 2015. the top u.s. general in afghanistan is inclineed to do so. >> i'm particularly concerned about the summer of 2015 for the afghans. this is the first fighting season completely on their own. >> ashraf ghani is worried about the threat of al-qaeda and local militias. he is also very worried that isil might be trying to move in. >> we believe that the major prese

she was nominated before him. no substantive objections have been raised to either nomination. he is already serving, but the republicans in congress will not let there be a vote on her yet. she has waited longer than any nominee in decades for a vote on her nomination. mitch mcconnell has been very busy with that he won't with there this weekend. the last major national civil rights congressmen ration where the president spoke and it was a true national event was august 2013. a massive, massive event held at the lincoln memorial to honor the march on washington from 50 years ago where dr. martin luther king brought his "i have a dream speech." republican leadership in congress in total skipped that event as well. none of them went. it is the sellma march and event. it is one thing to use these about the progress people can have. it is one thing to use thing things as a benchmark for the ragged dissatisfied march. one of the two major political parties right now don't even really care about the basic window dressing on this stuff any more. steve scalise, david duke without the

and i would nominate chair avalos to continue in this chair. you have done a great job in that capacity and moving that community choice aggregation forward but also other various initiatives. i know that it's very challenging role because it's not only do you have to you know work with the rest of us on this commission, but you have the san francisco public utilities commission and the supervisors office and the mayor's office. i would like to make a motion to nominate chair avalos to continue in that capacity. >> great. thank you for your support and i would like to continue on because i feel it's important to keep the leadership going special ly in this crucial year for cleanpowersf. your motion and second by commissioner mar. we should probably open it up for public comment. public comment on the motion to reelect me for chair of lafco. and seeing no member of the public come forward on that we'll close public comment on that. part of this item and can we take that colleagues, without objection? okay. thank you, colleagues. i really appreci

he was being nominated for the issue of civil rights.important here is that we not think about race as an issue of the racialized bodies that have been normalminated. that's too easy. we have to look at what it's saying about a broader system of justice and the ways in which it impacts people of color dramatically differently. >> to be fair there was outrage because. he was involved in this appeal defending this individual who killed a police officer. >> there are numbers of the supreme court of the united states -- >> pennsylvania came forward and oppose this -- >> i was very clear about what i think about those democrats. >> shockingly came forward and sided with republicans when this got politically inconvenient for them. it's important to note that the court agreed on that piece. the court did lessen the sentence to life in prison. so that's also important to note when we're following the facts. >> let's be fair. why when democrats are appointing somebody to the bench or an important position, they are fully qualified. when a republi

and if not what is the alternative or how do you get her nomination voted on earlier? >> this is the responsibility of the united states senate, to vote on the president's nominees. and as i mentioned before there's not been a legitimate question that's been raised about her aptitude for the office. so the delay is unconscionable. it's unexplained. and the thing that i will -- that i think warrants mentioning here is you'll recall as i pointed out senator -- ms. lynch has been waiting 128 days to get a vote in the senate. the reason that time period has been so long is because the president nominated her back in november for this job. and at that time we saw senator mcconnell himself say that ms. lynch, a, will receive fair consideration. i think he'd be hard pressed to make the case he lived up to that promise. but b, he also said that her nomination should be considered in the course of -- i'm sorry, should be considered in the new congress through regular order. so essentially huh senator mcconnell in the position back in november telling the president that he shoul