How Arkansas’ congressional delegation voted

Here is how Arkansas’ U.S. senators and U.S. representatives voted on major roll call votes during the week that ended Friday. D F KEY: ✔ FOR ✖ AGAINST ☐ NOT VOTING PASSED DEFEATED

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HOUSE

The House was not in session.

SENATE

Gina Mendez-Miro, federal District Court judge. Confirmed 54-45, the nomination of Gina R. Mendez-Miro as a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. She becomes the first openly LGBTQ federal judge to serve in Puerto Rico and the 100th Biden administration judicial nominee to receive Senate confirmation. Born in 1974, Mendez-Miro served most recently on the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals, and before that she was chief of staff of the Puerto Rico Senate, an assistant attorney general in the Puerto Rico Department of Justice and a lawyer in private practice. President Biden’s 100 confirmed judicial appointees include 76 women, one Muslim and 68 persons of color including 21 Hispanics. Former President Donald Trump appointed 226 judges to the federal bench over four years and former President Barack Obama appointed 320 over eight years. The federal judiciary has 800 about judges on district (trial) and appellate courts and nine Supreme Court justices. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Mendez-Miro “would make history” as the first openly gay federal district judge in Puerto Rico. “That is something to celebrate, something to be proud of and something that shows America can, little by little, live up to its promise of opportunity for all, regardless of his or her background.”

No senator spoke against the nomination.

A yes vote was to confirm Judge Mendez-Miro.

h ✖ John Boozman (R)

h ✖ Tom Cotton (R)

Cindy K. Chung, federal appellate judge. Confirmed 50-44, the nomination of Cindy K. Chung for a seat on the 3rd U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She becomes the court’s first Asian- American judge. Based in Philadelphia, the court hears appeals from federal district, or trial, courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands. Chung, born in 1975, had been U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Before that, she served in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and the office of the Manhattan District Attorney. The Omaha, Neb., native received her undergraduate degree from Yale University. There was no debate on the nomination.

A yes vote was to confirm Judge Chung.

✖ Boozman (R)

✖ Cotton (R)

Lester Martinez- Lopez, assistant secretary of defense.

Confirmed 61-34, the nomination of Lester Martinez-Lopez as assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. Born in Puerto Rico in 1955, Martinez- Lopez was the first Hispanic to head the Army Medical and Research Command at Fort Detrick in Maryland. Among his overseas deployments, he was chief medical officer for U.S. forces in Haiti in 1995 and oversaw military relief for victims of Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1998. In civilian work, Martinez-Lopez was chief medical officer at Brandon Regional Hospital in Brandon, Fla., and administrator of the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston, Texas. He has a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a specialty in environmental health sciences. There was no debate on the nomination.

A yes vote was to confirm Martinez-Lopez.

✖ Boozman (R)

✖ Cotton (R)

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