[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
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[S. Res. 319 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 319

     Recognizing the accomplishments of Professor Milton Friedman.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 1, 2002

Mr. Gramm submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 
                               agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
     Recognizing the accomplishments of Professor Milton Friedman.

Whereas Nobel Laureate economist Professor Milton Friedman was born on July 31, 
        in the year 1912, the fourth and youngest child to Austro-Hungarian 
        immigrants in Brooklyn, New York;
Whereas he served as a research staffer to the National Bureau of Economic 
        Research from 1937 to 1981;
Whereas he helped implement wartime tax policy at the United States Treasury 
        from 1941 to 1943, and further contributed to the war effort from 1943 
        to 1945 at Columbia University by studying weapons design and military 
        tactics;
Whereas he served as a professor of economics at the University of Chicago from 
        1946 to 1976;
Whereas he was a founding member and president of the Mont Pelerin Society;
Whereas he was awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 
        in 1976;
Whereas since 1977 he has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover 
        Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University;
Whereas in 1988 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and
Whereas he has been a champion of an all-volunteer armed forces, an advisor to 
        presidents, and has taught the American people the value of capitalism 
        and freedom through his public broadcasting series: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That the United States Senate commend and express its 
deep gratitude to Professor Milton Friedman for his invaluable 
contribution to public discourse, American democracy, and the cause of 
human freedom.
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