[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 32 (Thursday, February 27, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S2875]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      WELCOMING THE GUEST CHAPLAIN

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I welcome our guest Chaplain today and the 
many people who have accompanied him from his home community. It gives 
great meaning, as we all know, to listen to and to rely upon the words 
as expressed so meaningfully and so aptly by our guest Chaplain today.
  I yield the floor to the distinguished Senator from New York to also 
welcome our guest Chaplain.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from New York.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, first, let me thank our majority leader 
for the grace and hospitality he has shown our honored guest today, and 
all of our guests from the Bronx and the New York area who are present.
  We are graced, of course, by God's presence but also by the presence 
of one of the great leaders in New York, the Reverend Diaz.
  Visitors are not allowed to applaud, but we are applauding in our 
hearts--en nuestros corazones. And we are honored and blessed to have a 
leader such as Reverend Diaz. He is a leader in both the temporal 
world--God's world--and our secular world. And he brings the two 
together in such a beautiful and exquisite way that he is admired from 
one end of our State to the other.
  He has been my friend for a very long time. We are honored that he 
serves us in our legislature, but we are even more honored that he 
brings the word of God to all of us here in the Senate as well as in 
New York. And may he be granted many, many more years of leadership and 
good health.
  Mr. President, I thank the majority leader.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader.

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