Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Confirming Well-Qualified Judicial Nominees And Advancing The Social Security Fairness Act

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the Senate’s pending business before the end of the year. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

As Congress continues working on government funding, the Senate has other matters to attend to on the floor.

Today the Senate is scheduled to vote on two more District Judges: Ben Cheeks to be District Judge for the Southern District of California and Serena Murillo to be District Judge for the Central District of California.

For the information of my colleagues, our first vote will be at 11:00 to advance the Cheeks nomination.

If cloture is invoked, the Senate will then vote to confirm Judge Cheeks sometime this afternoon.

After that, we will proceed with a roll call vote to advance the Murillo nomination.

It is my hope that we can finish voting on these two judicial nominees by the end of the day.

Finally, the Senate will keep working on the Social Security Fairness Act.

We should pass the bill sent to us by the House as soon as we can. It’s very important for our retired teachers and firefighters and postal workers and police officers and so many other public servants who deserve their full Social Security benefits.

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