[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11253]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           KRAUSE NOMINATION

  Mr. CASEY. Madam President, I rise this afternoon to speak just for a 
couple moments--because we are limited in time to speak--about Cheryl 
Ann Krause who is the nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 
Third Circuit.
  I want to review her credentials, some of which the Members of the 
Senate are familiar with in preparing for the vote.
  Cheryl Ann Krause is a graduate of the Stanford Law School. She got 
her juris doctorate degree with distinction in 1993. She graduated from 
the University of Pennsylvania summa cum laude. Of course, I am 
especially proud of that as a Pennsylvanian.
  She has an extensive career both as a member of law firms in the 
private sector as well as a prosecutor. Before I get to that, I want to 
mention her clerkships.
  She clerked in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for 
Judge Alex Kozinski. That was followed by a clerkship in the Supreme 
Court of the United States for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
  Later she became a prosecutor, as I mentioned, in the U.S. Attorney's 
Office for the Southern District of New York, where she worked for 5 
years. In that capacity as a prosecutor, she handled the investigation, 
prosecution, and appeals of domestic and international bank fraud, 
securities fraud, money laundering, and public corruption cases.
  She has a broad and deep experience in the law, both on the civil and 
criminal side of it. She is an excellent student, as you can tell from 
her academic credentials and her educational background. She has been a 
member of so many organizations which would be directly relevant and 
connected to her work as a judge. I will not read all of those today.
  But I also want to say that Cheryl is someone I know. I know her to 
be a person of character and integrity, someone who has not just broad 
experience but the kind of integrity and judicial temperament that we 
will want from a member of any Federal district court or, in this case, 
an appeals court.
  Finally, I will mention something about her own family background. 
Her husband is Col. Bradford R. Everman, who currently serves as the 
Operations Group commander of the 177th Fighter Wing with the New 
Jersey National Guard. He served, as well, as a fighter pilot in tours 
of duty the world over. So she has both her own credentials but also 
has as a member of her family a real commitment to our country above 
and beyond her excellent work as a lawyer, as a scholar, as a lecturer, 
and, of course, as a prosecutor. So I could not say anything more today 
to recommend her to Members of the Senate on both sides of the aisle 
when we have the vote to move her forward so she can become a circuit 
court judge on the U.S. Circuit Court for the Third Circuit, which, of 
course, includes Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware as States in 
that circuit.
  With that, I yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. GRASSLEY. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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