Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Senate Democrats Working To Confirm President Biden’s Nominees And Fund The Government

Washington, D.C. –  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor regarding the priorities that Senate Democrats will work on during this work period, including nominations and funding the government. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Over the next few weeks there are other crucial priorities that the Senate must also attend to. As we return to this work period, discussions among Senate Democrats on BBB will continue.

We will also work on nominations. At the end of the last work period, I filed cloture on 20 nominees to serve in both the Biden Administration and on our federal courts. Later today we will hold a cloture vote on the first of these nominees—Ms. Bridget Brennan to serve as a District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio—and over the course of this week we will work to get these men and women confirmed as quickly as possible.

Among the 20 individuals I filed cloture on include one nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals, several federal district judges, several judges to serve in Washington DC’s Superior Court, the nominee to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, and many other highly qualified men and women to serve in the Department of Defense, the Export-Import Bank, and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation.

We are going to work until we confirm all of these crucial nominees, and I look forward to working in good faith with the other side to get them done.

Finally this work period the Senate will also work on the vital task of passing an omnibus package to fund the federal government, prevent a shutdown, and making sure that the federal government is well-equipped to serve the American people. I will sit down with a number of Democratic appropriators tomorrow to discuss the state of negotiations, and I want to thank all the appropriators for their hard work in bringing a funding package together.

We are going to work day and night to bring a funding package together, avoid a shutdown, and make sure Congress fulfills this basic duty to the American people.

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