[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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