[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 136 (Thursday, October 11, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10538-S10539]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the clerk will 
report Senate Joint Resolution 25.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 25) designating September 11, 
     2001, as a National Day of Remembrance.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, one month ago today, more than 6,000 
innocent men and women had their lives stolen from them in an act of 
terrorism so hideous and cruel that it still almost defies belief.
  In the days since, we have come together--not as Democrats or 
Republicans--as Americans, to honor the memory of all those who died at 
the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and

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in that lonely field in western Pennsylvania.
  We have come together to tell their families they are not alone. They 
are part of our American family and we are with them--now in their hour 
of grief, and in the days and years to come.
  And we have also come together to say, in the strongest possible 
terms, that we stand with President Bush in his determination to find 
those who committed these hideous attacks and hold them accountable, 
and to destroy their global network of hate and terror.
  I had the opportunity to join many of my Senate colleagues in the 
days after the attack to visit Ground Zero in New York City. There, in 
a mountain of rubble and wreckage that is beyond my ability to 
describe, I saw a sign scrawled on a wall. It read simply: ``We will 
never forget.''
  That is true. Whether we live another hundred months, or another 
hundred years, we will never forget the thousands of innocent victims 
who lost their lives on September 11th.
  We will never forget the heartbreak of those they left behind, or the 
stunning bravery of those who tried to save them.
  And we will never forget our responsibility to find those who 
committed these evil acts and stop them.
  That is our promise.
  In the aftermath of the attacks, America has searched for words to 
describe the enormity of what happened.
  Every description has fallen short--and so we simply refer to the 
day: September 11th.
  This day has become hallowed in our memories, and in our history.
  Today, Senator Lott and I are introducing a resolution to honor it on 
our calendars, as well.
  This resolution designates September 11 as our national day of 
mourning and remembrance.
  We ask that each year on September 11, the President issue a 
proclamation, the flags be lowered to half-mast, and that America 
observe a moment of silence.
  It is yet another guarantee that as years pass, and wounds heal, that 
we will never forget what happened on that day.
  Mr. DASCHLE. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a 
sufficient second. The yeas and nays were ordered.
  Is all time yielded back?
  Mr. DASCHLE. I yield back the remainder of my time.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I yield back the remainder of our time.
  The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading 
and was read the third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The resolution having been read the third 
time, the question is, Shall the resolution pass?
  The yeas and nays have been ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 100, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 296 Leg.]

                               YEAS--100

     Akaka
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cantwell
     Carnahan
     Carper
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Clinton
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Craig
     Crapo
     Daschle
     Dayton
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Miller
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wyden
  The resolution (S.J. Res. 25) was agreed to, as follows:

                              S.J. Res. 25

       Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
     United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``National Day of Remembrance 
     Act of 2001''.

     SEC. 2. NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE.

       (a) Designation.--September 11 is National Day of 
     Remembrance.
       (b) Proclamation.--The President is requested to issue each 
     year a proclamation--
       (1) remembering those who tragically lost their lives as a 
     result of the terrorist attacks on the United States on 
     September 11, 2001, and honoring the police, firefighters, 
     and emergency personnel who responded with such valor on 
     September 11, 2001;
       (2) calling on United States Government officials to 
     display the flag of the United States at half mast on 
     National Day of Remembrance in honor of those who lost their 
     lives as a result of the terrorist attacks on the United 
     States on September 11, 2001;
       (3) inviting State and local governments and the people of 
     the United States to observe National Day of Remembrance with 
     appropriate ceremonies; and
       (4) urging all people of the United States to observe a 
     moment of silence on National Day of Remembrance in honor of 
     those who lost their lives as a result of the terrorist 
     attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. BURNS. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, all Senators should know that the next two 
votes are 10-minute votes. When we finish these two votes, we will go 
on to the antiterrorism legislation. The majority leader said we are 
going to finish that night. We will stick to the 10-minute votes. If 
Members are not here at or near that time, we will close the vote.

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