A Senate panel appears increasingly likely to vote against the nomination of Mike Pompeo to be secretary of state next week, but Republican leaders say they still plan to hold a full Senate confirmation vote.
"I think it's important he get a vote on the floor of the Senate and I believe he'll be confirmed," said Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, a member of the GOP leadership team and of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is considering Pompeo's nomination.
Barrasso decried a Democratic "resistance movement" that he said seems more geared toward keeping President Donald Trump from assembling his leadership team than being directed at Pompeo, who is currently CIA director.
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