[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 137 (Wednesday, September 6, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S12686]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         SALUTE TO SENATOR PELL

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, nearly 35 years ago, the voters of Rhode 
Island decided to send Claiborne Pell to the U.S. Senate. And in the 
years that followed, they have made the same decision in five separate 
elections.
  Yesterday, Senator Pell announced that this term will be his final 
one in the Senate.
  While there are still 16 months left in Senator Pell's term, I did 
want to take a minute to pay tribute to this dedicated public servant.
  As all of my colleagues know, Senator Pell has devoted his years in 
the Senate to many issues of great importance: To foreign relations, 
where he has served as chairman and ranking member of the Senate 
Foreign Relations Committee; to bettering the environment; and, of 
course, to education, where Pell grants to college students have become 
a household word. I listened to the Senator from New York comment on 
that yesterday.
  Mr. President, the State motto of Rhode Island is just one word--the 
word ``Hope.''
  And from serving in the Coast Guard during World War II, to 
representing our country in the Foreign Service for 7 years, to serving 
here in the Senate for three and a half decades, Claiborne Pell has 
never given up hope on America.
  I join with all Senators in wishing Senator Pell all the best as he 
writes the final chapters in a very distinguished Senate career.


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