[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 186 (Monday, November 20, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S17500]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   COMMENDATION OF SENATORS AND STAFF

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I applaud leaders on both sides of the 
aisle for the work that was being done around here this weekend. I saw 
the hard work of Senator Daschle, and Senator Dole, and of everybody 
else.
  Let me just take a moment to applaud a lot of people whose names and 
faces do not get on the news, the men and women who keep the Congress 
running--many of whom were here not knowing whether they were going to 
be paid or not, who work extraordinary hours well past midnight night 
after night, whether they are the parliamentarians, the clerks, the 
security guards, the Capitol Police, the young pages, the men and women 
who come here to learn of the Government, whether they are from Vermont 
or any other State. The staff of Senators, Republicans and Democrats 
alike--those in the Cloakroom who, when many of us were able to go home 
at night, had to stay there for hours and hours after that time in case 
votes came up and we were called; and the same in the other body.

  Those who keep doors open, those who make it possible for us to 
fulfill our constitutional responsibility to America to have this 
body--this body which should be the conscience of the Nation--open to 
the public; those who make sure that any member of the public who came 
here, even though Washington was shut down, could at least come and 
visit the Congress, and either be enlightened or enraged by the debate, 
depending upon how they might feel.

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