Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) accused his Republican colleagues on Thursday of turning the confirmation hearings for the next attorney general into “a soundbite factory for Fox News and conspiracy theorists everywhere.”
Whitehouse criticized GOP lawmakers for “launch[ing] a series of unanswerable attacks” on outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder instead of focusing on the candidate under consideration, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch.
“There are plenty of forums where the attorney general would have an opportunity to defend himself,” Whitehouse said. “This is not one.”
He added: “This solemn occasion has been co-opted to that extent and turned into what appears to be a soundbite factory for Fox News and conspiracy theorists everywhere. We actually have a nominee in front of us. … We should get about the business of voting on her.”
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