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How many hot buttons can they push at one time? The Senate turns a confirmation debate into a standoff over human trafficking and abortion. And, in New Hampshire, two likely Republican presidential candidates test the waters.

For more on the week, this politics Monday, we turn to Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report, and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Let's start on Capitol Hill, Amy, in which the attorney general's nomination, Loretta Lynch, the designate's nomination, is being held up not because of immigration fights, which we have had before, not because of other things, but in this case because of a human trafficking bill that Democrats and Republicans actually agree about?