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Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, the Kasubhai nomination, which we will vote on in just a few minutes, is deeply personal to me. My parents fled the Nazis in the thirties, and not all of our family got out. We lost family at Auschwitz, at Kristallnacht, and we saw firsthand the horrors of anti-Semitism. My parents' families came to the United States, and both my parents served in our Army and vowed to fight for the rest of their lives against anti-Semitism.

When anti-Semitism came to my community again earlier this year, Judge Kasubhai drew a line in the sand against that scourge, against anti-Semitism. When a White supremacist attacked one of our synagogues, Judge Kasubhai recognized the threat when others did not, and he ordered that the anti-Semitic suspect be held in jail without bail, colleagues. Judge Kasubhai came down on the side of community safety. And, just last week, this White supremacist pled guilty to multiple counts of Federal hate crimes, and he now faces years in prison.

Mr. President, I will close with this. I believe that America and Oregon will be better and safer and stronger when Judge Kasubhai is confirmed. I urge all my colleagues to support him.

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