<p class="x_MsoNormal">Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set up a Thursday cloture vote on Loretta Lynch's nomination to be attorney general after breaking a logjam over amendments to the human trafficking bill.</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">The Kentucky Republican's filing of cloture on Tuesday ends Lynch's months-long limbo, with the votes for her confirmation seemingly assured but her position held up as a bargaining chip as the parties wrangled over abortion provisions in the trafficking bill. <a href="https://rollcall.com/2015/04/21/mcconnell-sets-thursday-vote-on-loretta-lynch/#more-146879" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading McConnell Sets Thursday Vote on Loretta Lynch">(more…)</span></a></p>
