Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Vote To Confirm Jeannette Vargas To Serve As District Judge For The Southern District Of New York

Washington, D.C. –  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate on the vote to confirm Jeanette Vargas to serve as District Judge For The Southern District Of New York, adding to the Biden – Harris administration’s list of highly qualified and diverse nominees . Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks.

I come to the floor to note that the Senate today will vote on the confirmation of a terrific judicial nominee and a terrific New Yorker: Jeannette Vargas, nominated to serve as District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Jeannette Vargas will make an excellent addition to the bench: she was a clerk to then-judge now Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, is a career prosecutor, and served as a top lawyer in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District as the deputy chief of the Civil Division.

She is truly a New Yorker to her core, being a native of the great borough of Queens and of both Puerto Rican and Irish background.

With Ms. Vargas, the Senate continues to add to the list of excellent, qualified, diverse nominees to the federal bench. And I want to thank my Senate colleague, Senator Gillibrand, for advocating this great nominee and all my colleagues for voting to confirm.

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