[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Pages 6368-6369]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          JUDICIAL NOMINATION

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I hope, as I mentioned this morning, we are 
not in a situation where we have to file cloture on district court 
judges. That is a little much. I filed cloture on this because I 
couldn't get agreement not to

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do it, but I hope we don't have to have cloture on all the district 
court judges whom somebody has some concern about.
  This is a very good man. Morally his record is impeccable. As a 
lawyer, he is certainly one of the two or three best lawyers in the 
State of Rhode Island, and I would hope we could get this done on 
Wednesday when this cloture motion ripens.

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