[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 42 (Monday, March 6, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S653]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            VOTE EXPLANATION

  Mr. CASEY. Madam President, on February 14, I successfully underwent 
surgery for prostate cancer. I am grateful to the doctors and other 
medical professionals who provided me with excellent care, and I am 
glad to be back in the Senate working for the people of Pennsylvania. 
As the result of my medical treatment, I required several weeks of 
recovery and thus missed several votes in the Senate. The outcome of 
these votes was unaffected by my absence, but I wish for the record to 
show, had I not been absent due to my cancer treatment and recovery, 
how I would have voted on the following votes: yea on vote number 11, 
on the confirmation of Gina R. Mendez-Miro to be U.S. District Judge 
for the District of Puerto Rico; yea on vote number 12, on the motion 
to invoke cloture on Lindsay C. Jenkins to be U.S. District Judge for 
the Northern District of Illinois; yea on vote number 13, on the 
confirmation of Lindsay C. Jenkins to be U.S. District Judge for the 
Northern District of Illinois; yea on vote number 14, on the motion to 
invoke cloture on Matthew L. Garcia to be U.S. District Judge for the 
District of New Mexico; yea on vote number 15, on the confirmation of 
Matthew L. Garcia to be U.S. District Judge for the District of New 
Mexico; yea on vote number 16, on the motion to invoke cloture on 
Adrienne C. Nelson to be U.S. District Judge for the District of 
Oregon; yea on vote number 17, on confirmation of Adrienne C. Nelson to 
be U.S. District Judge for the District of Oregon; yea on vote 18, on 
the motion to invoke cloture on Ana C. Reyes to be U.S. District Judge 
for the District of Columbia; yea on vote 19, on the motion to invoke 
cloture on Daniel J. Calabretta to be U.S. District Judge for the 
Eastern District of California; yea on vote 20, on confirmation of Ana 
C. Reyes to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia; yea on 
vote 21, on the motion to invoke cloture on Lester Martinez Lopez to be 
an Assistant Secretary of Defense; yea on vote 22, on confirmation of 
Daniel J. Calabretta to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District 
of California; yea on vote 23, on the confirmation of Lester Martinez-
Lopez to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense; yea on vote number 24, 
on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Maria Araujo Kahn 
to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit.
  Due to my medical treatment on February 14, I also missed committee 
hearings and other Senate business when the Senate was in session from 
February 14 to February 17.

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