Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Senate Continuing To Work To Confirm President Biden’s Highly Qualified And Diverse Judicial Nominees

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the Senate continued focus on confirming President Biden’s well-qualified judicial nominees. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Today, the Senate will continue doing what we’ve done all week: working to confirm as many of President Biden’s well-qualified judicial nominees as possible.

Yesterday, we confirmed two more District Court Judges for the Northern District of New York: Anthony Brindisi, a proud son of Utica whom I worked with closely when he was a member of Congress, and Beth Coombe, a trailblazing prosecutor.

Later this morning, we’ll vote to confirm Sarah Davenport to be District Court Judge for the District of New Mexico.

Following that, we’ll vote to advance the nominations of two more judges: Tiffany Johnson to be the District Court Judge for the Northern District of Georgia and Keli Neary to be District Court Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

So, of the five judges I filed cloture on Monday, we will have confirmed three by the end of today, and will be very close to confirming the remaining two.

While Democrats still hold the Majority, we are going to do everything we can to confirm as many judges as we can.

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