[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 108 (Thursday, August 1, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S8021]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      RECOGNIZING MILTON FRIEDMAN

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed 
to the consideration of S. Res. 319, submitted introduced earlier today 
by Senator Gramm of Texas.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 319) recognizing the accomplishments 
     of Professor Milton Friedman.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution 
and preamble be agreed to en bloc, the motion to reconsider be laid 
upon the table, and any statements relating to the resolution be 
printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 319) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows:

                              S. Res. 319

       Whereas California resident and Nobel Laureate economist 
     Professor Milton Friedman:
       Whereas he was born on this day, July 31, in the year 1912, 
     the fourth and youngest child to Austro-Hungarian immigrants 
     in Brooklyn, New York;
       Wheeas he served as a research staffer to the National 
     Bureau of Economic Research from 1937 to 1981;
       Whereas he helped implement wartime tax policy at the 
     United States Treasury from 1941 to 1943, and further 
     contributed to the war effort from 1943 to 1945 at Columbia 
     University by studying weapons design and military tactics;
       Whereas he served as a professor of economics at the 
     University of Chicago from 1946 to 1976;
       Whereas he was a founding member and president of the Mont 
     Pelerin Society;
       Whereas he was awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic 
     Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1976;
       Whereas since 1977 has served as a Senior Research Fellow 
     at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at 
     Stanford University;
       Whereas in 1988 was awarded the Presidential Medal of 
     Freedom; and
       Whereas he has been a champion of an all-volunteer armed 
     forces, an advisor to presidents, and has taught the American 
     people the value of capitalism and freedom through his public 
     broadcasting series,
       Be it therefore Resolved, That the United States Senate 
     commend and express its deep gratitude to Professor Milton 
     Friedman for his invaluable contribution to public discourse, 
     American democracy, and the cause of human freedom.

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