Senate Democrats have pushed back the schedule to consider the nomination of Pam Bondi, who is President Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. attorney general, by at least a week.
On Tuesday, the Judiciary Committee sent out a notice announcing that a planned Wednesday meeting, at which members could have voted to advance Bondi’s nomination to the full Senate, had been called off.
“Per Judiciary Committee Rule I.3, any member of the Committee may request an item on the Committee’s agenda be held over for a minimum of seven days. Holds are common practice in the Senate Judiciary Committee,” the notice said.
“Pursuant to this rule, the Minority will hold Bondi’s nomination for seven days. As a result of this hold, which goes into effect tomorrow, the Committee will not meet in person for this week’s executive business meeting,” the advisory added.
The Judiciary Committee, which is led by Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), said it expects to convene next week on January 29 and hold a final vote on Bondi’s nomination at that time.
Bondi, a former attorney general of Florida, testified before the Judiciary Committee in a confirmation hearing last week.
“If confirmed, I will fight every day to restore confidence and integrity to the Department of Justice and each of its components,” Bondi said. “The partisanship, the weaponization, will be gone. America will have one tier of justice for all.”
Bondi made waves when she clashed with some of the committee’s Democrat members, including Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Alex Padilla (D-CA).
“Senator, what I can tell you is that I will never play politics,” Bondi said at one point to Schiff. “You’re trying to engage me in a ‘gotcha.’ I won’t play politics with any ongoing investigation like you did.”
As of press time, the GOP-led Senate has confirmed just one of Trump’s Cabinet nominees: the now-former senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, who on Tuesday was sworn into office as U.S. Secretary of State.
Other nominees are working their way through the confirmation process.
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