[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 102 (Wednesday, June 21, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S8721]
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                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Inhofe). Under the previous order, the 
Senate will now go into executive session to proceed to the 
consideration of the nomination of Dr. Henry W. Foster, Jr., of 
Tennessee, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public 
Health Service, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, 
on which there shall be 3 hours of debate.
  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, the time will be under the direction of the 
chairman of the committee, Senator Kassebaum, and the ranking Democrat 
member, Senator Kennedy.
  I just want the Record to reflect before the debate starts that this 
nomination came on the calendar on May 26. That was followed by a 
recess. It was June 5 when we came back. This Senator and Dr. Foster 
tried to get together in 1 week. He was not available. The next week I 
was not available. But the Record should reflect that it has only been 
really since June 5 to June 21.
  So there has not been any delay as far as bringing the nomination to 
the floor. There was a lot of research and investigation done prior to 
the hearing. But I listened to some comments last night on television. 
I had the impression that many in the media thought this had been 
pending on the Senate floor for months and months, which is not the 
case. It is barely a little over 2 weeks.

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