[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 184 (Wednesday, October 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7108-S7109]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. SCHUMER. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate resume 
consideration of the Lin nomination.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the nomination.
  The senior assistant bill clerk read the nomination of Tana Lin, of 
Washington, to be United States District Judge for the Western District 
of Washington.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). The junior Senator from 
Oklahoma.

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  Mr. LANKFORD. Madam President, I do have to make a quick comment 
before I jump into a unanimous consent request.
  I did appreciate hearing the majority leader talk about how the 
minority and the majority stood up around Reconstruction. And I found 
it interesting that he continued to talk about the majority and the 
minority standing up for the rights of slaves and the rights of 
individuals, conveniently leaving out it was the Republicans at that 
time that were the majority that were actually standing up for the 
rights of all individuals of all races to be able to vote and to be 
able to be engaged, and it was the Democrats at that time that were 
working very hard to be able to block the rights of individuals to be 
able to vote.
  So I did have to find it personally humorous when he seems to not be 
very shy about saying Republican and Democrat on this floor, at that 
moment he used majority and minority. But I digress. On to other 
issues.