[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 67 (Monday, April 25, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S2118]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                     Nomination of Lisa DeNell Cook

  Madam President, as soon as tomorrow, the Senate will proceed on the 
nomination of Lisa Cook to sit on the Federal Reserve Board of 
Governors. Coming from humble beginnings in rural Georgia, where her 
family fought racial segregation, Ms. Cook would make history as the 
first Black woman ever to sit on the Federal Reserve Board of 
Governors. Her qualifications are irrefutable. She is a professor of 
economics at Michigan State, a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of 
Chicago Advisory Board, and served as senior economist in President 
Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. In short, Ms. Cook absolutely 
belongs on the Fed, and I look forward to the Senate confirming her 
soon.