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“NOMINATION OF RAYMOND JOSEPH LOHIER, JR., TO BE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the Senate section on pages S10724-S10725 on Dec. 19, 2010.
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NOMINATION OF RAYMOND JOSEPH LOHIER, JR., TO BE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT
JUDGE FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will report.
The assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Raymond Joseph Lohier, Jr., of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate prior to the vote, equally divided and controlled between the Senator from Vermont, Mr. Leahy, and the Senator from Alabama, Mr. Sessions, or their designees.
The Senator from Connecticut.
Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I yield my time to the senior Senator from New York.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New York.
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, over the last few days, the Senate has finally begun to vote on judicial nominations that have been waiting on the Executive Calendar for months. There are currently three judicial emergency vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Judiciary Committee has reported qualified nominees to fill each one.
With the consideration of Ray Lohier's nomination, the Senate will finally fill one of those for the people of Vermont, Connecticut, and New York. For the past 13 years, Mr. Lohier has served as a Federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York and is currently special counsel to the U.S. attorney. He previously served as the chief and deputy chief of both the Securities and Commodities Task Force, which investigates and prosecutes offenses on Wall Street, and the narcotics unit.
He has the strong support of Senator Gillibrand and myself. The Judiciary Committee unanimously reported his nomination on May 13.
I urge confirmation of the nomination.
Mrs. GILLIBRAND. Mr. President, I am pleased to stand in support of Raymond J. Lohier, Jr., who is President Obama's nominee to serve on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Ray is a highly talented and accomplished New Yorker, and I applaud President Obama for this excellent choice.
Ray Lohier has dedicated his career to public service and protecting the rule of law. For nearly a decade, Ray has served with distinction as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he has been successfully involved in some of the Nation's most challenging and complex cases. He has led that office's efforts to prosecute securities fraud, commodities fraud, insider trading and Ponzi schemes. Notably, he served on the team that successfully prosecuted Bernard Madoff for a Ponzi scheme that defrauded billions of dollars from New Yorkers and individuals across the country. Prior to his service as an assistant U.S. attorney, Ray worked as a senior trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
In addition to his impressive professional career, Ray Lohier is actively involved in his community, serving on Brooklyn Community Board 6, where he is currently the first vice chairman and chairman of the Public Safety Committee. While he worked as an attorney in private practice in New York, Ray was a member of his firm's pro bono committee, while also serving the State of New York on the Gubernatorial Task Force on Judicial Diversity on the Bench and the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Court, Subcommittee on Court Appointments. He has also been a member of the National Black Prosecutors Association.
Ray is a cum laude graduate of Harvard College and an alumnus of the New York University School of law, where he earned his juris doctorate and was awarded the Vanderbilt Medal. He also has served as editor-in-
chief of the Annual Survey of American law.
In addition to all of these outstanding professional and educational accomplishments, he has been married for the past 10 years to his wife Donna, a professor at CUNY Law School and former chair of the New York Asian Women's Center. Together they are raising two children, William who is 8 and John who is 6.
I am confident that given his extraordinary background of professional accomplishment, Ray Lohier will be an excellent addition to the U.S. Circuit Court for the Second Circuit. He was unanimously supported by the Judiciary Committee on May 13 of this year, and I urge all of my colleagues to support his confirmation.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who yields time?
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, we yield back our time, and I ask for the yeas and nays.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second.
The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Raymond Joseph Lohier, Jr., of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit?
The yeas and nays have been ordered.
The clerk will call the roll.
The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent.
Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Voinovich).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from South Carolina
(Mr. DeMint) would have voted ``yea.''
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote?
The result was announced--yeas 92, nays 0, as follows:
YEAS--92
AkakaAlexanderBarrassoBaucusBayhBegichBennetBennettBingamanBondBoxerBrown (MA)Brown (OH)BrownbackBurrCantwellCardinCarperCaseyChamblissCoburnCochranCollinsConradCoonsCorkerCornynCrapoDoddDorganDurbinEnsignEnziFeingoldFeinsteinFrankenGillibrandGrahamGrassleyGreggHaganHarkinHatchHutchisonInhofeInouyeJohannsJohnsonKerryKlobucharKohlKylLandrieuLautenbergLeahyLeMieuxLevinLiebermanLincolnLugarManchinMcCainMcCaskillMcConnellMenendezMerkleyMikulskiMurkowskiMurrayNelson (NE)Nelson (FL)PryorReedReidRischRobertsRockefellerSandersSchumerSessionsShelbySnoweStabenowTesterThuneUdall (CO)Udall (NM)VitterWarnerWebbWhitehouseWicker
NOT VOTING--8
BunningDeMintIsaksonKirkShaheenSpecterVoinovichWyden
The nomination was confirmed.
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