Always the fault of a low level staffer or aide.
Via FOX19
Senate Democrats blocked debate on stalled human trafficking legislation for a second day Wednesday as a Democratic senator’s office belatedly conceded that a staff aide knew weeks ago that the measure included a controversial abortion-related provision.
Democrats have said for more than a week that their side of the aisle was not aware of the provision until a few days ago, nearly two months after the legislation was made public and long after a bipartisan vote in the Judiciary Committee on Feb. 24.
Several Democrats have accused Republicans of sneaking it into the measure without their discovering it.
But Julia Krahe, a spokeswoman for Sen. Amy Klobuchar, said an aide to the Minnesota Democrat “had seen the language” relating to abortion before the committee voted.
The aide “did not inform the senator. The senator takes responsibility for the work of her office and missing the provision and she is focused on moving forward to find a way to fix the bill and protect victims of trafficking,” Krahe added. Her disclosure came in an email Tuesday evening in response to an inquiry first made a week ago.
Klobuchar is a leading Democratic advocate for the trafficking bill.
It was not clear if the Democratic aide informed any other staff members or officials in outside groups involved in the measure. Advocates with the National Organization for Women, the National Women’s Law Center and several other women’s groups said at a press conference Wednesday that they had not known of the provision.
Democrats erupted in anger last week, when they said they had belatedly discovered the presence of the provision.[…]
Lynch was nominated last fall and Democrats are growing increasingly agitated over the holdup in confirming her, although they were in control of the Senate for part of that time and failed to call for a vote.
“Loretta Lynch, the first African-American woman nominated to be attorney general, is asked to sit in the back of the bus when it comes to the Senate calendar,” Durbin said. “That is unfair. It’s unjust. It is beneath the decorum and dignity of the United States Senate.”
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell countered that the Lynch nomination was next on the schedule, and blamed Democrats for any delay.
“The only thing holding up that vote is the Democrats’ filibuster of a bill that would help prevent kids from being sold into sex slavery,” said the spokesman, Don Stewart.
“The sooner they allow the Senate to pass that bipartisan bill, the sooner the Senate can move to the Lynch nomination.”