April 8, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 60 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Page S2286]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                              Nominations

  Madam President, this week the Senate will continue its work to move 
well-qualified nominees off of the Executive Calendar and to give the 
American people the government they elected. We will do it more 
sensibly and efficiently thanks to last week's action to restore order 
to the nominations process.
  As we discussed extensively last week, the past 2 years have offered 
a record-setting display of how comprehensively a Senate minority could 
prevent a President from putting his team in place, extending even to 
thoroughly uncontroversial nominations.
  Fortunately, last week we took a big step toward restoring the sort 
of productive nominations process that had once been the Senate's 
routine. Now it is time to move forward together. This week the Senate 
will be able to consider a number of the President's capable nominees 
to positions in the executive branch and on the Federal bench.
  We will begin with Daniel Domenico, named to serve as U.S. district 
judge for the District of Colorado. Mr. Domenico is a graduate of 
Georgetown University and the University of Virginia School of Law. His 
well-rounded legal career includes a clerkship on the Tenth Circuit 
Court of Appeals, a term as solicitor general of Colorado, as well as 
work in private practice. I would encourage each of my colleagues to 
join me in supporting Mr. Domenico's nomination.
  We will follow with the consideration of Patrick Wyrick, nominated to 
the Western District of Oklahoma; then, Cheryl Stanton, to be 
Administrator of the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division; then, 
General John Abizaid, to be Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and then, Holly 
Brady and David Morales, to serve as district judges in Indiana and 
Texas, respectively.
  These are six more well-qualified nominees who, among them, have 
passed a combined 2,364 days since the Senate received their 
nominations. Let me say that again. These six well-qualified nominees, 
among them, have passed a combined 2,364 days since the Senate received 
their nominations. But, most importantly, they are six of the many 
nominees who will receive now more prompt consideration here on the 
floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.