[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 171 (Tuesday, November 19, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6615-S6616]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                          Judicial Nominations

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, today, the Senate moves forward on 
confirming more of President Biden's judicial nominees.
  Yesterday, the Senate confirmed Judge Embry Kidd to serve a lifetime 
appointment as a circuit judge to the Eleventh Circuit. Judge Kidd will 
be an excellent addition to the bench. He is exceptionally qualified. 
He has extensive experience as a judge, a prosecutor, and an attorney 
in private practice.
  I thank my colleagues for supporting his nomination and for moving 
him through the Chamber.
  Last night, I also filed cloture on another nine nominees to serve as 
district judges across the country, including Arizona, California, 
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. If you 
include these nominations with those I filed last week, I will now have 
filed cloture on a total of 12 district court judges since the end of 
last week.

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  We will keep working to confirm these nominations as quickly as we 
can, starting this morning with the cloture vote on the nomination of 
Mustafa Kasubhai to be a district judge for the District of Oregon.
  For the information of Senators, we expect to vote on as many as 
three judges today. Members should be prepared for another late night 
on Wednesday to vote on the nominations I filed last night.
  Voting on the President's judicial nominees is a core function of the 
Senate. It is one of our basic responsibilities, and we are going to 
carry out that responsibility as long as this majority continues.
  I am very proud of the judges we have confirmed over the past 4 years 
under this administration. They have all been highly qualified 
individuals, and together they represent a wide range of experiences 
and areas of expertise.
  For a long time, this Chamber primarily focused on confirming 
nominees with backgrounds as prosecutors or from big law firms. Of 
course, many of these individuals have gone on to serve as excellent 
judges, but this majority and this administration have cast a wider 
net. For 4 years, we have expanded the sort of backgrounds and resumes 
that make for a qualified nominee to the Federal bench. We have more 
judges from backgrounds in consumer protection and civil rights and 
voting rights. We have confirmed more women and people of color too. 
All of these individuals are highly qualified by their own merits, but 
their broad range of backgrounds and experiences is an additional asset 
to the bench.
  But we are not done. There are more judges to consider and confirm. 
We are going to spend the rest of the week and the rest of this year 
focused on confirming them, and I thank all of my colleagues for their 
continued good work. Let us continue.