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The vote was 56-43.<\/p>\n

The only reason the full U.S. Senate didn’t vote on this key appointment was that Republican Ted Cruz of Texas didn’t cast a vote. He didn’t like the nominee being considered for attorney general.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the U.S. Justice Department, Loretta Lynch.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/senate\/239878-senate-votes-to-confirm-lynch-as-attorney-general<\/p>\n

A number of Republicans voted to confirm Lynch, whose nomination should have been decided weeks ago. It was bogged down by the Senate Republican leadership’s insistence that it deal first with a bill that had nothing to do with Lynch’s nomination.<\/p>\n

But she’s in. That’s good. She’s qualified and she deserved long ago to get a vote by senators on her nomination.<\/p>\n

But here’s a curious element to the vote. One of the “no” votes came from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who said this: \u00a0\u201cThe question for me from the start has been whether Ms. Lynch will make a clean break from\u00a0(President Obama’s)\u00a0policies and take the department in a new direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, the chairman wants the new attorney general to break away from the policies of the president who appointed her. When has that ever happened? When has a Cabinet official ever promised to go against<\/em> the individual who selected him or her?<\/p>\n

The bogeyman for Grassley and other Republicans was Obama’s executive order on immigration that delays deportation for an estimated 5 million undocumented immigrants. He wanted her to say she opposed the order. Good luck with that one, Mr. Chairman.<\/p>\n

But what the heck. She waited longer than any other recent Cabinet appointment to get confirmed.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope her new job will have been worth the wait.<\/p>\n

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