Just Say No: Six U.S. senators—including Democrats Al Franken of Minnesota, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Ron Wyden of Oregon—sent a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler urging regulators to block the $45 billion merger of Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable. The Los Angeles Times has details here.
Moving Forward: The U.S. Senate on Tuesday appeared to break its impasse over the confirmation of Loretta Lynch for attorney general, the NLJ’s Mike Sacks reports. The hold-up: a human-trafficking bill’s abortion funding prohibition. “After weeks of stalling on the bipartisan human-trafficking bill, our Republican colleagues have agreed not to expand the scope of the Hyde language,” minority leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said on the floor. “Democrats and Republicans have come to agreement on a path forward on the pointless, contrived fight.” The vote on Lynch is likely to come this week.
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