[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 45 (Monday, March 14, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1138-S1139]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                              Nominations

  Madam President, now on nominations, as we continue exploring ways to 
help the people of Ukraine, the Senate will also move forward on 
nominations.
  Later today, we are scheduled to vote to proceed on the nomination of 
Shalanda Young, President Biden's choice to lead the Office of 
Management and Budget.
  For the last year, Ms. Young has already been doing the work leading 
OMB as Acting Director, and she has proved to be bipartisan, deeply 
experienced, and knows the budget and appropriation process like the 
back of her hand. She was an amazing--amazing--budget director for the 
Appropriations Committee in the House and has been an amazing Acting 
Director, and she will do great as Director of OMB.
  It is time we make her appointment official here in the Senate, and I 
hope to see Members from both sides of the aisle rally behind her later 
this week.

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  If confirmed, Shalanda Young would make history as the very first 
Black woman confirmed by the Senate to lead the OMB--another glass 
ceiling shattered by a remarkable Member of the President's historic 
Cabinet.
  It has been under Ms. Young's leadership that the OMB has notched 
some of the administration's biggest accomplishments, from securing 
billions in disaster relief funding and beefing up the Made in America 
Office to working with Congress on the bipartisan infrastructure law. 
Clinton, LA, can celebrate this week knowing that one of their own is 
bringing the administration's agenda to life.
  I look forward to seeing this great nominee confirmed later this 
week.