[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 22, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 22, 1994]
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            TO ELECT MARTHA S. POPE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE

  Mr. MITCHELL. Madam President, I send a resolution to the desk and 
ask that it be stated and considered immediately.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 191) to elect as the Secretary of the 
     Senate, Martha S. Pope.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the immediate 
consideration of the resolution?
  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. MITCHELL. Madam President, Members of the Senate, the 
distinguished Secretary of the Senate, Walter J. Stewart, who served 
this institution with great integrity, dedication, and loyalty for many 
decades, has informed me of his intention to leave the Senate employ 
effective April 14 of this year.
  I know of no person, other than Members of the Senate themselves, who 
has been so devoted, so loyal, and so knowledgeable about and committed 
to the Senate as an institution than has been our friend, Joe Stewart.
  He has been a superb administrator, he has been a friend, adviser, 
and he has been a source of institutional memory that all Senators have 
had the opportunity to call upon whenever necessary. There was no time 
of day or night, no day of the year, when he was not available, and he 
will be sorely missed.
  I will at an appropriate time present to my colleagues in the 
majority a resolution of commendation for Joe Stewart, and I know that 
these few words are inadequate to convey the sense of gratitude and 
loss which we all feel.
  The resolution before us calls for Martha S. Pope, who currently 
serves as Sergeant at Arms, to replace Mr. Stewart as Secretary of the 
Senate effective April 15, 1994. The resolution has been cleared by the 
Republican colleagues, and I ask that it be considered as passed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the question is on agreeing 
to the resolution.
  The resolution (S. Res. 191) was agreed to.
  Mr. MITCHELL. Madam President, I move to reconsider the vote by which 
the resolution was agreed to.
  Mr. BYRD. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  The resolution is as follows:

                              S. Res. 191

       Resolved, That Martha S. Pope be, and she is hereby, 
     elected Secretary of the Senate, effective April 15, 1994.

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