Patrick Leahy: “The Senate continues, as we have all year, to make progress filling…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2007

The Senate continues, as we have all year, to make progress filling judicial vacancies when the White House will work with us. The nominations before us today for lifetime appointments to the Federal bench are Jennifer Walker Elrod for the Fifth Circuit, Roslynn Renee Mauskopf for the Eastern District of New York, Richard Jones for the Western District of Washington, and Sharion Aycock for the Northern District of Mississippi. They each have the support of both home State Senators. The progress we have made this year in considering and confirming judicial nominations is sometimes lost amid the partisan sniping over the most controversial nominations. If the nominations we consider today are confirmed, the Senate will have already confirmed 33 nominations for lifetime appointments to the Federal bench this session alone. That is more judicial nominations than were confirmed in all of 2005 or 2006 with a Republican majority.

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Patrick Leahy

Democratic · Vermont

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Discussing judicial nominations and progress in filling vacancies during Senate floor debate.

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Patrick Leahy: “The Senate continues, as we have all year, to make progress filling judicial vacancies when the White House will work…”

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