119th Congress · PN12-8 · Department of Justice
Walter Clayton
Where this nomination stands
Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate. · January 3, 2026
- ReceivedJanuary 20, 2025
- Sent to committeeJanuary 20, 2025
- Hearingnot on record
- Committee votenot on record
- On the Senate calendarnot on record
- Senate votenot on record
- ReturnedJanuary 3, 2026
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Description on the record: Walter Clayton, of New York, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York for the term of four years, vice Damian Williams.
Evidence
- Record
- Congress.gov nomination PN12-8 ↗
- Machine-readable record
https://api.congress.gov/v3/nomination/119/12-8?format=json- Status wording
- PORKER shows the status from Congress.gov’s latest-action text: “Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate.” (January 3, 2026)
- Last updated by Congress.gov
- January 5, 2026
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- Raw copy kept
- nominations-119-2026-10-16-06a5bfe9.jsonl.gz
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Senate votes
Roll calls recorded on this nomination. Both parties are shown the same way, and nothing here is a score.
No Senate roll call vote is on record for this nomination yet.
Committee steps
- Referred To January 20, 2025: Judiciary Committee
Every recorded action
- Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
Same rule for every member. Both parties are always shown, and every number links to the bill or member behind it. How we calculate →