Law & order

President Obama’s nominee to succeed Eric Holder as the next U.S. attorney general promised the GOP Senate majority she would foster “a new and improved relationship” with Congress if confirmed.

Loretta Lynch arrived on Capitol Hill on Wednesday flanked by close family members and friends and was introduced with effusive praise from New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand, both Democrats.

But Republicans, in charge of a confirmation proceeding for the first time in eight years, set a different tone.

After years of acrimony between GOP lawmakers and Holder’s Department of Justice, which Republicans say acted as a political arm of President Obama, they demanded to know whether Lynch planned do things differently.

Senate to Loretta Lynch: How are you different than Eric Holder?