June 12, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 98 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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




                              NOMINATIONS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, this week we are continuing to confirm 
more unobjectionable nominees who had to move through the Senate more 
slowly than they should. Yesterday we confirmed Sarah Daggett Morrison 
to serve as U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, and 
despite the fact that our Democratic friends forced us to file cloture 
on her nomination, when she finally received a vote, she was confirmed 
89 to 7.
  That is probably because Ms. Morrison, like the other nominees we are 
considering this week, is thoroughly noncontroversial and very well-
qualified for the job. Thanks to the modest reforms to the Senate rules 
we put in place this spring, more nominees who fit this description are 
being confirmed in a fraction of the time it would have otherwise 
taken.
  So I hope the strong bipartisan support we saw yesterday will be 
shown to the jurists we will vote to confirm on the Federal bench 
today: Pamela Barker to the Northern District of Ohio; Corey Maze to 
the Northern District of Alabama; Rodney Smith to the Southern District 
of Florida; Thomas Barber to the Middle District of Florida; and Jean-
Paul Boulee to the Northern District of Georgia.
  Together, these nominees possess more than a century of legal 
experience. Their resumes include work in State attorneys' offices, as 
county judges, and as State solicitor general. They include a former 
U.S. Army defense counsel and a U.S. Supreme Court litigator. Each has 
demonstrated a commitment to upholding the Constitution and preserving 
the rule of law. Each deserves strong, bipartisan support.

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