Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, met Monday with senior Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who said they looked forward to a confirmation hearing for her next year.
Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, met separately with Sen. Charles E. Grassley, who plans to be chairman of the panel in the next Congress, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the committee in this Congress. Grassley and Graham opened the beginning of their meetings to press photographers, and both praised her as Trump’s pick for attorney general, a role in which she will likely be tasked with implementing Trump’s plans to remake an agency he criticized on the campaign trail.
Grassley, in a statement released after his meeting with Bondi, pledged that the Judiciary Committee would move swiftly to consider her anticipated nomination when the new Congress convenes. He described her as “a well-qualified nominee with an impressive legal career,” pointing in part to her years as Florida attorney general.
