[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 9782]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, earlier today Senator Daschle and I had a 
productive meeting with Andy Card, the President's chief of staff. At 
that meeting, Mr. Card committed that there would be no further circuit 
and district judicial recess appointments during the remainder of the 
President's term, and the Democratic leader committed to vote on, by 
the end of June, 25 judicial nominations now pending on the Executive 
Calendar.
  I ask Senator Daschle if I have correctly summarized where we now 
stand on these nominations.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, the majority leader is correct. With 
these 25, we will have confirmed 198 of the President's judicial 
nominees, 100 of which were confirmed thanks to the efforts of Senator 
Leahy and the other members of the Judiciary Committee while the 
Democrats controlled the Senate. In return for the President's 
commitment, which Mr. Card has conveyed to us, that there will be no 
further judicial recess appointments for the remainder of his term, we 
have committed to confirm now 25 of the judicial nominations currently 
on the Executive Calendar by the end of June. Some may entail more 
floor time than others, but there will be a vote on each of the 25 
nominations and, if necessary, I will support cloture on any of these 
25 that should be necessary.

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