what jack markell has focused on for years, for decades actually is how to help many stakeholders in our state to create a nurturing environment for job creation and job preservation. jack understood this and he'll take that with him to paris. with a memory of what looking to companies, countries across the world for solutions did to help families in delaware. he'll continue to look anywhere and everywhere to help american workers. because jack's a lifelong learner who spent decades thinking about how to bring more americans into an equitable prosperous economy. he learned fundamentals of economic development by studying development studies and economics at brown university and earned his masters in business administration at the university of chicago, school of business. he learned what businesses need to thrive by serving as a senior vice president at nextell and communications director at comcast. he led a campaign to promote the earned income tax credit for families and founded the delaware money school to offer free financial literacy classes to empower delawareans. he learned ab

the clerk: department of state, jack a. markell. mr. schumer: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby bring to a close debate on the nomination of executive calendar number 4466, jack a. markell, of delaware, to be representative of the united states of america to the organization for economic cooperation and development with the rank of ambassador signed by 17 senators as follows. mr. schumer: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion to proceed. all in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 442. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion to proceed. all in favor say aye. all opposed

governor jack mark l to be the -- jack markell to be the u.s. representativive to the organization for economic development. marcela escobari to be assistant administrator for latin america and the caribbean at usaid, and mark knapper to be the ambassador to vietnam. think about it, mr. president. think about these assignments. think about these assignments and what they mean to the united states. these are quality nominees, people who will represent the united states at home and abroad with skill and dignity. i appreciate the majority leader has made it a priority to confirm them prior to the end of the session, and i encourage all of my colleagues to support their nomination. but let's face it. there's little to celebrate when it comes to nominations in the senate. the truth is that some republicans' unprecedented obstructionism is straining the system to the breaking point, leaving the president without a team of national security positions that are critical to the national security and interest of the united states and the american people, l

when the senate has had qualified nominees like jack markell, denise bauer in front of it, it it has never required days of debate, cloture motions in order to get key personnel, especially at times of need right now. i hope we get an agreement to move nominees, but, frankly, time is running short for ukraine. time is running short for the ukrainian people and my republican colleagues, the handful that are blocking if these nominees, need to decide wher they are interested in score -- whether they are interesting in scoring political points or standing up for the ukrainian people. madam president, i have a separate set of remarks and i ask that they be in a different part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. murphy: madam president, when they made either it pra -- either it pragg, they broke the mold. i have never ever met another person like her. i knew edith in the connecticut senate. she modeled a form of public service for me that i will be eternally grateful for. there was no one in connecticut public life as persistent, as dogged, as forceful as edith. s