[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 180 (Tuesday, November 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S6490]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              NOMINATIONS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, on one final matter, while our 
Democratic colleagues continue to block the Senate from moving forward 
with defense funding here on the floor, we will use this time to 
confirm more of the President's well-qualified nominees to the 
executive branch and to the Federal bench.
  Later this week we will consider the nomination of Steven J. Menashi 
to be U.S. circuit judge for the Second Circuit. Mr. Menashi is a 
graduate of Dartmouth College and Stanford University Law School. He 
has accrued an impressive record in private practice and earned 
clerkships on the D.C. Circuit and the Supreme Court with Justice 
Alito.
  First, we will consider the nomination of Chad Wolf to serve in a 
senior leadership position post at the Department of Homeland Security. 
Mr. Wolf's experience at the Department dates back to the immediate 
aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks. He has had a hand in 
arranging our Nation's critical homeland security infrastructure. The 
current Acting Secretary of DHS has called him a ``proven, thoughtful, 
and principled executive,'' and a former Assistant Secretary at the 
Department said, ``Chad knows the issues cold.''
  I hope my colleagues will join me in advancing each of these 
nominations later this week.

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