[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 151 (Wednesday, October 21, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S12841-S12842]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            TRIBUTE TO STAFF

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I have to recognize some of my own staff 
members. Alison Carroll McSlarrow has been my deputy Chief of Staff for 
the past couple of years. She has done a wonderful job. I have tried to 
talk her out of getting married and then out of moving to Arizona. But 
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McSlarrow, who worked with me a while, and now works with Senator 
Coverdell, swept her off her feet and now off to Arizona. I will never 
quite get over what he has done to me. They are a great and wonderful 
couple. Alison has come to be one of my most trusted aides. She is so 
competent. I have always been able to rely on her. I will miss her 
tremendously. I wanted to have an expression of my appreciation in the 
Record for her.
  My counsel, Steve Seale, will be going downtown to work with a law 
firm, which will remain nameless for now. He is a close friend from my 
own State of Mississippi. He was a naval officer and he was a State 
Senator and had an outstanding law practice. He left that to come and 
work for me over the past 3 years. He has done an outstanding job. I 
wish him the very best in the future.
  Last but not least, I want to especially recognize our Sergeant at 
Arms, Gregg Casey. Gregg had worked for, of course, our policy 
chairman, Larry Craig. He did a great job with him as Chief of Staff. 
He is a very close friend of Dirk Kempthorne, the other Senator from 
Idaho. He came to my aid when I became majority leader to try to help 
me get my office organized, as I was putting 3 separate staffs into 
one. He has a real talent for organization and getting an office set up 
where it can be administered properly. I had another emergency on my 
hands. We had a need for a new Sergeant at Arms and he agreed to not go 
back with Senator Craig and go into this position of Sergeant at Arms. 
Over the past 2, 2\1/2\ years, he has done a great job in my Senate 
office and as Sergeant at Arms. It has been difficult in many respects 
because there were problems that needed to be dealt with. He stepped up 
to the task.
  Of course, we had the very trying experience when we had two of our 
own security people here in the Capitol killed. That week, I'm sure, is 
one that has been indelibly marked in Gregg Casey's mind--the horror of 
it and all that went on. Actually, through it all, a family atmosphere 
came out of it, and everybody felt a closeness. He did a great job in 
the aftermath of that and provided real leadership. I know he is going 
to have many great opportunities in the future. I thank Gregg Casey for 
a job well done as Sergeant at Arms. This place is better because of 
the service he has given.

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