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1st LD: Loretta Lynch confirmed as U.S. Attorney General in Senate vote

Xinhua, April 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

Five months after she was nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama to serve as the country's Attorney General, Loretta Lynch got a confirmation vote in the Senate of Congress on Thursday.

The vote was 56-43. Lynch is replacing Attorney General Eric Holder, who has served in the job since Obama took office in 2009. She is the first African-American woman to hold the position.

After Obama nominated Lynch on Nov. 8 last year, a confirmation vote was held up in part because Republicans insisted on first resolving a dispute with Democrats over an unrelated bill.

The wait is one of the nation's most protracted cabinet-level confirmation delays, marked by partisan fights and Republican arguments that she won't be independent enough from President Obama. Endite