07.08.19

Senate Will Continue to Confirm Highly-Qualified Nominees for Important Federal Offices

‘… I am proud that the Senate’s modest rules change from several months back is proving successful, and will enable us to get through this whole list of impressive professionals this week. I look forward to getting these amply-qualified nominees on the job so they can get to work for the country — and so the American people can be governed by the government they elected.’

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the need to confirm more of the president’s well-qualified nominees:

“This week the Senate will continue to make headway and confirm the president’s highly-qualified nominees for important federal offices. We’ll begin by considering Daniel Bress who has been nominated to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Bress is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law.

“Clerkships after law school included time at the Supreme Court clerking for the late Justice Scalia. Since then he has built an impressive reputation in private practice. I look forward to continuing the work of our colleagues on the Judiciary Committee, who favorably recommended Mr. Bress to the floor, when we vote to advance his nomination later today and vote on his confirmation later this week.

“After him, the Senate will weigh three nominees for district court vacancies in Florida, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. And after them, we’ll continue to staff up the executive branch with nominees for important posts in the Departments of Education and Labor and the EPA. As I have said continually, I am sorry that it is necessary to file cloture on uncontroversial district court and Assistant Secretary nominees.

“But notwithstanding that hurdle, I am proud that the Senate’s modest rules change from several months back is proving successful, and will enable us to get through this whole list of impressive professionals this week. I look forward to getting these amply-qualified nominees on the job so they can get to work for the country — and so the American people can be governed by the government they elected.”

Related Issues: Judicial Nominations, Nominations, EPA