[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 104 (Friday, June 23, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S9009]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       CONGRATULATING SCOTT BATES FOR 25 YEARS OF SENATE SERVICE

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I want to take a moment today and call the 
attention of the Senate to the accomplishments of a good friend of the 
Senate community and an individual who performs one of the most vital 
functions in the Senate: The calling aloud and reporting by hand of 
each Senator's vote.
  Mr. President, I know all of my colleagues join me in expressing a 
hearty congratulations to Scott Bates, the Senate's legislative clerk, 
on the occasion of his 25th anniversary of work in the Senate.
  Scott began his Senate employment 25 years ago today, on June 23, 
1970, when he was appointed the assistant bill clerk of the Senate. 
After growing up in Pine Bluff, AR, and graduating from Hendrix 
College, Scott came to Washington for what was to be a summer job in 
the Senate. Twenty-five years later--the longest summer on record--
Scott finds himself seated at the rostrum of the Senate attending to 
the important duties of the legislative clerk.
  Scott performed the duties of the assistant bill clerk and bill clerk 
from 1970 to 1975, when he became an assistant legislative clerk. As 
the Senate's bill clerk, Scott efficiently executed the important 
functions of assigning bill numbers to legislation, processing bills 
for printing, and entering information in the Senate's Legis computer 
system to indicate the status of bills and amendments. In fact, Scott 
was instrumental in converting the legislative tracking system from 
cumbersome index cards to a computerized system.
  Due to his exemplary service and performance of duties, he was 
appointed as the Senate's legislative clerk on January 1, 1993. He 
continues to serve in this important role today. All of us who serve in 
the Senate are familiar with the meticulous care with which he manually 
takes and tallies rollcall votes and quorum calls and reads aloud bills 
and amendments when so ordered by the Senate's Presiding Officer.
  Scott is quite experienced in the taking of rollcall votes, because 
he started doing so at the young age of 27. Since he probably has taken 
more votes than anyone in recent memory, it is no surprise that viewers 
of C-SPAN witness such an expert execution of that particular duty. I 
know all Senators appreciate his accuracy and professionalism under the 
frequent conditions of long and intense Senate sessions.
  So it is with much gratitude that I congratulate Scott on this 25th 
anniversary of his Senate employment, and extend best wishes to Scott 
and his wife, Ricki, and their children Lisa, Lori, and Paul.

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