article_snippet: The verbal strike on McConnell came after the Republican legislator said over the weekend that the Republican legislator wouldn't allow a vote on New York prosecutor Loretta Lynch's confirmation until the Senate passes a once bipartisan sex trafficking bill that Democrats are now refusing to support over a provision limiting funding for abortions.
article_snippet: The verbal strike on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell came after the Republican legislator said over the weekend that the Republican legislator wouldn't allow a vote on New York prosecutor Loretta Lynch's confirmation until the Senate finishes a once bipartisan human trafficking bill that Democrats are now refusing to support over a provision limiting funding for abortions .
article_snippet: McConnell is now using the Lynch confirmation vote as a bargaining chip in McConnell fight to keep a provision that would place heavy restrictions on use of money for abortion in a victims fund named in the child sex trafficking bill.
article_snippet: Earnest pointed out that McConnell had argued last year that Lynch's confirmation should wait until the new GOP-run Senate was seated in January, but was now claiming publicly that it was Democrats who prolonged the confirmation by waiting until 2015.
article_snippet: Ironically, Republicans' strategy to force a vote in support of the sex trafficking legislation before taking a vote on Lynch's nomination prolongs the departure of one of their least favorite Obama administration officials from the president's service: Eric Holder, pictured here to the left of the president.
article_snippet: Ironically, Republicans' strategy to force a vote in support of the sex trafficking legislation before taking a vote on Lynch's nomination prolongs the departure of one of their least favorite Obama administration officials from the president's service: Eric Holder.
article_snippet: Earnest confirmed today that Eric Holder will remain on the job,‘gettin' up early and workin' late,' as long as is 'necessary.'
highlights_snippet: The Senate majority leader won't allow a vote on Loretta Lynch's confirmation until the Senate passes a sex trafficking bill .
  