Loretta Lynch's nomination as Attorney General was
approved in committee last Thursday, which should lead to a quick confirmation vote in the full Senate. It
should, but that doesn't mean it will, because actual governing isn't something Mitch McConnell's Senate will do. The official excuse for not having the vote this week is that they
just have too much to do to get to her.
The Judiciary Committee Thursday voted in favor of her nomination for attorney general, but the full Senate is unlikely to take up Lynch’s nomination this week, according to Senate Republican leadership aides—pointing to an already-packed floor schedule.
Here's what the schedule is packed with:
The Senate will first take up a request from the House to trigger formal negotiations over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which Democrats plan to block. The chamber will also take up a measure trying to override President Barack Obama’s veto on legislation authorizing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Also likely to come to the Senate floor this week is legislation aimed at the so-called "ambush election" rule from the National Labor Relations Board, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office.
So, they'll hang around waiting for House Speaker John Boehner to get his
shit house together. Then they'll waste time on a KXL veto override, which they'll never get because there aren't 67 votes for it. Then they'll take up totally not time-sensitive and totally political anti-NLRB legislation, that will probably also face a Democratic filibuster. That's much more important than seating the nation's highest-ranking law enforcement officer. And clearly, working on three things in one week is as much as the Senate could possibly do.