Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), left, congratulates Ramon Ernesto Reyes, Jr., right, on his nomination before the start of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, on Wednesday, November 30, 2022. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

With only weeks remaining in the 117th Congress, and power in the House of Representatives set to flip from the Democrats to Republicans, the Senate Judiciary Committee continued President Joe Biden's judicial nomination streak, though the sparsely attended hearing offered few fireworks. 

Senators ducked in and out of Wednesday's panel as five nominees for district court seats were introduced and peppered with questions about their judicial acumen.