Good morning! Here’s how Cascadia’s United States Senators voted on major issues during the legislative week ending Friday, September 9th, 2022.
The House of Representatives was in recess.
In the United States Senate
JOHN LEE, APPEALS COURT JUDGE: The Senate on September 7th confirmed the nomination of John Z. Lee to be a judge on the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Lee, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois since 2012,was previously a private practice lawyer in Chicago and, in the early 1990s, a Justice Department lawyer. A supporter, Senator Dick Durbin, D‑Illinois, said of Lee: “During his time on the bench, he always applied the law to the facts before him in an evenhanded and fair fashion.”
The vote was 50 yeas to 44 nays.
Voting Nay (2): | |
Voting Aye (2): | |
Voting Aye (2): |
Cascadia total: 4 aye votes, 2 nay votes
ANDRE MATHIS, APPEALS COURT JUDGE: The Senate on September 8th confirmed the nomination of Andre Mathis to be a judge on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mathis has been a private practice lawyer in Memphis, Tenn., since 2007. A supporter, Senator Dick Durbin, D‑Illinois, called Mathis “a person of outstanding credentials and integrity to serve the community that raised him.”
The vote was 48 yeas to 47 nays.
Voting Nay (2): | |
Voting Aye (2): | |
Voting Aye (2): |
Cascadia total: 4 aye votes, 2 nay votes
Key votes ahead
The House will reconvene on Tuesday after a month-long break that was interrupted by a vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act. Bills being taken up include Representative Suzan DelBene’s Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2021, the Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act of 2021, the Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act, and the Preventing a Patronage System Act of 2021. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s office also advised members that there could be a vote on an appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2023.
The Senate is slated to continue working on judicial nominations. The next nominee to be considered will be a Washingtonian: Salvador Mendoza, Jr., who was nominated to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit. (The Ninth Circuit includes the entire greater Pacific Northwest: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, plus California, Hawaii, Arizona, and Nevada.)
The Senate will also move towards confirmation votes on two other appellate nominees: Arianna J. Freeman from Pennsylvania to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit and Lara E. Montecalvo from Rhode Island to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit. There are a total of 179 judgeships in the federal appellate system, spread over eleven circuits.
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