[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 4, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S11]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      CONGRATULATIONS TO SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE GINGRICH AND OTHERS

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, let me say first of all that having served 
in the House for 8 years, in the other body for 8 years, a long time 
ago, I have just come from the House floor where I have had the 
privilege of seeing something that I did not think might ever happen, 
where we have a Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives.
  I say to my Democratic friends as well that I think after 40 years, 
everybody would be fairly happy. We waited a long, long time. So I wish 
to congratulate Speaker Gingrich and Minority Leader Gephardt and the 
others on the House side who have tremendous responsibilities as we 
begin the 104th Congress.
  But I must say that as I sat there and thought about the days I was 
there in the sixties, in 1961 through 1968, and thought about all that 
has happened since and all that happened during those 8 years, even the 
fact that, in the Senate, it probably does not create the excitement--
even within this Senator--that we feel for the House after all of those 
years.
  So I salute my colleagues in the House and I wish them every success.

                          ____________________