[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 75 (Wednesday, June 15, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 15, 1994]
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            STATEMENT ON THE NOMINATION OF WILLIAM F. DOWNES

  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. President, I would make a comment with regard to 
calendar item No. 973, the nomination of William F. Downes to be U.S. 
District Judge for the District of Wyoming.
  This is a very excellent nomination by the President. I have known 
Bill Downes for many years. He is a splendid man. He will do a very 
fine job. It is very pleasing to the bench and bar and citizens of 
Wyoming as he now will take up his residence in Casper, WY, where we 
have prepared the facilities, remodeled the district court, very 
beautifully done.
  It was done several years ago to accommodate a judge in that area of 
Wyoming. Bill Downes will now be the Federal District Judge in the 
Federal courthouse in Casper, WY, and he will serve with great 
distinction and do as fine a job on the bench as he has done during his 
practice of law. He and his wife, Cathy, are splendid people.
  I am very pleased to see this result for our citizens of Wyoming, for 
the attorneys, and others of the bar and the bench in Wyoming.
  Thank you very much.

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