GOP refuses to delay confirmation hearings on Jeff Sessions

Published December 14, 2016 5:51pm ET



Republicans won’t delay the confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions, despite the urging of Democrats who are demanding additional answers about Sessions’ congressional questionnaire.

“Senator Sessions has provided this committee with fulsome responses clearly resulting from a good faith effort to answer the questionnaire,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote in a letter sent to the panel’s top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

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