[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 154 (Thursday, December 14, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S11801]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE NEW MILLENNIUM

  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, as we prepare, in these last days, to go 
home for the Christmas holidays--and I suppose we include New Year's as 
well, at which time we will go into a new century. To all those who 
have been a part of perpetrating this colossal hoax on the American 
people, trying to make the American people believe that the new century 
began in January of 2000, let me say, come January 1 of 2001, all 
mankind will then, indeed, move into the 21st century. It will begin, 
and so will the third millennium. Anyone who can count from 1 to 100 
knows that that is the case, whether they use the old math or the new. 
We will begin the 21st century on January 1 next.

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