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“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. 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.…”