After holding up the confirmation of Loretta Lynch as the new U.S. Attorney General for weeks, the Senate announced this week that it will move forward with her confirmation process now that an agreement has been reached over a sex-trafficking bill that includes a controversial abortion provision.

Lynch, who has been waiting to be confirmed as Eric Holder's successor since February, has been stalled by a majority of the Republicans in the Senate over an anti-human-trafficking bill. However, Senate leaders said that they will set up a vote to confirm Lynch as early as Thursday.

"I'm glad we can say there is a bipartisan proposal that will allow us to complete action on this legislation so we can provide help to the victims who desperately need it," Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on the Senate floor.

"As soon as we finish the trafficking bill, as I've indicated for some time now, we'll move to the president's nominee for attorney general in the next day or so," he added.

A cloture vote was scheduled for Thursday morning after senators were able to compromise on legislation to help victims of sex trafficking, that include anti-abortion language

"I'm thrilled we were finally able to come together to break the impasse over this vital legislation," said Sen. John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, the main sponsor of the bill, in a statement. "I look forward to swift passage in the Senate so we can ensure victims of human trafficking receive the resources they need to restore their lives."

Lynch has been waiting for more than 160 days for congress to take a vote on her nomination, which is more than five times the amount of time that Janet Reno waited to be confirmed as President Bill Clinton's attorney general and three times the length of days that John Ashcroft waited to be confirmed as the attorney general under the George W. Bush Administration, reports The Huffington Post.