[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 115 (Thursday, September 12, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S8515]
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                   UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST--S. 2924

  Mr. SPECTER. I ask unanimous consent--and I understand there is an 
objection, but for the record I ask unanimous consent to take up S. 
2924.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? The Senator from New York.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Reserving the right to object, and I will object, the 
intentions of the Senator from Pennsylvania are good and noble and I am 
supportive of them, but there are people in New York who should be 
taken into account as well. We have been negotiating for a little 
while. We will continue to negotiate and hopefully come to a happy 
resolution. That is why I object. I have no objection to the 
Pennsylvanian people being included, but certainly I have objection to 
leaving out some of the heroes in New York who were not police and 
firefighters--they were included--but we have lots of people who tried 
to carry people downstairs and everything else. That is what we have to 
work out. So I will reluctantly object and hopefully we can resolve 
this shortly.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The Senator from 
Pennsylvania.
  Mr. SPECTER. I thank the Senator from New York for his comments. As I 
said, I anticipated the objection. I am willing to work with the 
Senator from New York to give recognition to the many heroes who were 
involved in the rescue effort in the World Trade Center towers. There 
is no doubt about that. However, I do want to get it moved along. I 
think this is something that would have been better had we been able to 
finish it before September 11, 2002. However, since we did not do that, 
since it is September 12, we now have a calendar to move it ahead.
  I thank the Chair and my colleague from New York for yielding the 
floor.

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