[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 185 (Tuesday, November 19, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6631-S6632]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              NOMINATIONS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, on another matter, for weeks 
Republicans have been trying to move forward significant bipartisan 
legislation for the American people. Senate Republicans are trying to 
get our Democratic colleagues to let us consider defense funding. House 
Republicans have tried to get Speaker Pelosi to finally allow a vote on 
the USMCA, and in both Chambers we have been asking Democrats to stop 
slow-walking the conference committee for the critical Defense bill, 
the NDAA.

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  Alas, our Democratic colleagues have not been willing to budge on any 
of those things. As a result, while the Senate waits for the House to 
send us short-term funding legislation, we will spend our time on the 
personnel business.
  Yesterday, we advanced the nomination of Justice Robert Luck, of 
Florida, to be a U.S. circuit judge for the Eleventh Circuit, with the 
support of a bipartisan majority.
  Justice Luck brings an impressive and well-rounded legal record, 
including a clerkship on the Eleventh Circuit, service in the U.S. 
Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, and years spent 
ruling from the State bench.
  Today, we will also advance the nomination of Justice Barbara Lagoa, 
of Florida, also to serve on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. A 
graduate of Columbia University School of Law, Justice Lagoa has spent 
years practicing law, serving as a Federal prosecutor, and ruling from 
both the State appellate bench and the Florida Supreme Court.
  I look forward to confirming both of these impressive nominees, along 
with Adrian Zuckerman, the President's nominee to serve as our Nation's 
Ambassador to Romania.

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