Senators expect movement on Lynch soon

Two senators predicted Sunday that the upper chamber will move this week on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch.

{mosads}”My sense is, over the next 48 to 72 hours, that [this] is going to be resolved,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“We are hopeful the Loretta Lynch nomination will be brought to the floor,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said on the same program. “I am hopeful it will be brought up this week.”

Corker said Lynch’s nomination will likely be “worked out” after a anti-human trafficking bill that also stalled in the Senate is also “worked out.”

Republicans refused to vote on Lynch until the trafficking bill passed, though Democrats have objected to the legislation over abortion language.

“It should have been done well before now. It shouldn’t be connected to any other issue,” Cardin said.

“It’s outrageous. She should be confirmed,” Cardin said of Lynch not having gotten a vote yet.

President Obama vented frustration Friday about the delay of Lynch, his pick for attorney general, for a vote, calling it “embarrassing.”

Lynch, who currently serves as the U.S. District Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, is poised to become the nation’s first black female attorney general and has waited more than 160 days for confirmation.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) office said Friday it was hopeful the trafficking bill would pass soon, allowing the Senate to vote on Lynch.