Senate to delay vote on Pompeo until Monday

Published January 20, 2017 10:25pm ET



Senate Democrats resisted entreaties from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to vote on Rep. Mike Pompeo’s nomination to become CIA director late Friday, punting the vote to Monday.

The move will leave the nation’s top intelligence agency without a leader over the weekend because former CIA director John Brennan and his deputy David Cohen formally departed when President Obama left office Friday.

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