The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced the selection of a former Fox News host for a federal prosecutor post along with half a dozen other U.S. attorney nominees and three bills on opioid tracking, background checks and missing persons.
Republicans voted together to advance the nomination of Jeanine Pirro, a former federal prosecutor and Fox News host, as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia on a 12-10 vote.
They advanced the U.S. attorney picks and bipartisan bills amid procedural skirmishes over disclosure of files related to investigations into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. That issue has broadly roiled Capitol Hill in recent weeks.