WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Sen. Chuck Grassley issued text of the following remark:

On today's agenda, we have seven nominations listed.

We'll vote today on all seven, including three district judges: Nicholas Ganjei for the Southern District of Texas, David Clay Fowlkes for the Western District of Arkansas and Aaron Christian Peterson for the District of Alaska.

We'll also vote on Darin Smith, Andrew Benson, William Boyle and Richard Price to be U.S. Attorneys.

I look forward to supporting each of these nominees, and I urge my colleagues to join me.

The CLEAR Path Act is listed on our agenda for the first time today, and we'll hold it over for future consideration.

To begin, and as we enter this holiday season, it's important that we rem...