[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 64 (Monday, April 15, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S2729]
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                            Motion to Table

  Mr. LEE. Madam President, I rise today to speak in support of my 
motion to table the Ramona Manglona nomination.
  My issue with the nominee at hand is not with the nominee at hand. In 
fact, she is quite well-qualified. She passed out of the Judiciary 
Committee, on which I serve, with my support, by a vote in committee of 
21 to 0. But the Senate should not be processing nominees right now. 
The Senate should be laser-focused, instead, on preparing for the trial 
for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whom 
the House impeached in February.
  Instead of confirming yet another nominee, we should be considering 
and organizing a resolution to set up that trial, which we are 
constitutionally compelled to conduct. Unfortunately, that is not what 
we are doing. Instead, Senator Schumer is preparing to enact a nuclear 
option by tabling the Articles of Impeachment for the first time in 
American history. Senate Democrats want to avoid even examining the 
evidence presented against Mayorkas. We should not be going about 
business as usual while Senator Schumer prepares to nuke the Senate.
  If this motion to table is successful, then with respect to Manglona, 
we could move to legislative business to consider an organizing 
resolution for the impeachment trial. I ask my colleagues for support.