article_snippet.sent: Mitch McConnell and expected presidential candidate Lindsey Graham, the senior senator from South Carolina.
article_snippet.sent: candidate' as Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid'd seen in almost 30 years in the Senate.
article_snippet.sent: fellow Harvard Law School graduate, nominated fellow Harvard Law School graduate.
article_snippet.sent: fellow Harvard Law School graduate nomination was backed by the Senate's Judiciary Committee by a vote of 12-8 on Feb. 26.
article_snippet.sent: But fellow Harvard Law School graduate languished over an impasse in the Republican-led the Senate on an unrelated bill meant to protect human trafficking victims.
article_snippet.sent: Democrats had balked at an anti-abortion provision included in an unrelated bill meant to protect human trafficking victims, and the Senate Majority Leader McConnell put a hold on all business until that issue was resolved.