美參議院將對下任司法部長提名投票表決

Five months after her nomination by U.S. President Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch is expected to be finally confirmed by the Senate as the nation's next attorney general Thursday.

Lynch's nomination had been held up for weeks after Senate Democrats held up passage of legislation aimed at cracking down on human trafficking, due to an anti-abortion amendment inserted into the bill by Republicans. In response, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to bring Lynch's nomination up for a vote until work on the trafficking bill was resolved.

The impasse over the abortion measure was broken earlier this week when a handful of Republicans and Democrats reached a compromise, paving the way for its passage Wednesday by a vote of 99-0.美國參議院預計星期四將表決確認奧巴馬的司法部長提名。

奧巴馬總統五個月前提名洛雷塔·林奇爲司法部長，但參議院遲遲沒有對提名進行表決，原因是參議院民主黨議員因爲共和黨人要求在打擊人口走私的提案中加入反墮胎條款而推遲通過這一議案。共和黨籍的參議院多數黨領袖米奇·麥康奈爾則拒絕人口走私法案通過之前對林奇的提名確認交付表決。

國會兩黨本星期早些時候打破了在墮胎法案問題上的僵局，兩黨一部分議員達成折衷。參議院星期三以99票贊成、無人反對通過了打擊人口走私議案。