[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 41 (Thursday, March 13, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3663-S3664]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CASTING OF 10,000TH VOTE

  Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I wish to announce to my colleagues that 
a truly impressive milestone was just reached with this last vote. 
Senator Lugar, on this vote just announced a few moments ago, cast his 
10,000th vote as a U.S. Senator. That is a feat accomplished by just 21 
other Senators in the history of this institution, the Senate.
  Senator Lugar's vote places him in the company of a distinguished 
list of Members which includes eight current Senators: Senators Biden, 
Byrd, Domenici, Hollings, Inouye, Kennedy, Leahy, and Stevens.
  Most importantly, Senator Lugar's achievement is a testament of his 
tremendous service, not only to his home State of Indiana but to the 
United States of America.
  I ask all of my colleagues to join me in congratulating Senator Lugar 
for his important milestone.
  (Applause.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic leader.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Madam President, I join the distinguished Republican 
leader in expressing my heartfelt congratulations to the senior Senator 
from Indiana, our colleague, Dick Lugar.
  He was sworn in on January 3, 1977. Over the course of these 10,000 
votes cast, he has served as the chairman of the Senate Agriculture 
Committee and now serves as the chairman, as we all know, of the 
Foreign Relations Committee.
  With those 10,000 votes, he has made a major impact on American 
history. I would be willing to bet that for every vote he has cast, he 
has made at least one more friend over all of these years. He may be a 
Republican and I may be a Democrat, but I have never been so 
appreciative of a relationship as a Senator as I have with Senator 
Lugar. He has many more than 10,000 friends since he came to the Senate 
in 1977. So we congratulate him. We tell him of his great service to 
this country and our appreciation for that service. We hope that there 
will be many thousands more.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nebraska.
  Mr. HAGEL. Madam President, I congratulate our dear colleague, 
Senator Dick Lugar from Indiana, for his remarkable service to our 
country in many ways, not just through his leadership and years and 
votes in the Senate; prior to his time in the Senate, his service to 
our country in the U.S. Navy and all the other contributions he has 
made. It is a remarkable morning for our country to recognize this 
remarkable individual.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Indiana.
  Mr. LUGAR. Madam President, I am overwhelmed by the thoughtfulness 
and graciousness of both leaders, my friends Bill Frist and Tom 
Daschle. I thank both of them for those very wonderful comments.
  I will take a moment, if I may, to thank some other people, people of 
Indiana, who made it possible for me to be in the Senate to cast the 
10,000 votes, those who gave me their confidence, their support, and 
their prayers throughout the years.
  I especially thank the Lord above for giving me good health 
throughout that period of time and who made it possible to do this.
  I must pay tribute, as we all are doing today, to Lloyd Ogilvie whose 
personal counsel and support to me and my family during the past 8 
years has meant so much.
  Of course, behind all of this is the confidence and love of my wife 
Charlene, our boys, and their wives, who have really sustained me, who 
said this is something we ought to be doing, a commitment of our time 
and our lives in a way that has been exciting for me and I hope for 
them.
  My staff has made it possible for me to get to the Chamber for all of 
these votes. Wherever we are in the country, in Washington or at the 
airport, each one of us is indebted to staff who tell us when the votes 
are going to occur and give us some reasonable idea about what is being 
voted on. I pay tribute to each one of those persons.
  I pay tribute to colleagues who have sustained me each day with their 
loyal friendship, likewise the sheer vigor of the experience. I feel 
each day it is an adventure, and I am sure that is shared by each of 
the colleagues who are present today.
  I want to mention specifically Senator Robert Byrd, who was the 
majority leader when I first came. One of the reasons my vote total 
escalated so rapidly was that in 1977 I think Senator Byrd created an 
all-time record of rollcall votes. I am certain he will remember 
exactly how many, but I recall there were at least 650, which was a 
substantial amount for a freshman Senator to start out with. So we have 
had some money in the bank ever since, thanks to Senator Byrd.
  Finally, I want to thank the pages. They have played a very special 
role in these votes because, as some of my colleagues know, 
occasionally I go running out on The Mall. On several occasions I have 
been caught as far away as 14th Street or the Washington Monument when 
the beeper went off. I had to run swiftly. Fortunately, my pace is 
sufficient to get the mile and a half back to the Capitol during the 
time of the vote to scramble up the back stairs, but in a disheveled 
condition I have prevailed upon the pages to crack open the door, and 
the reading clerk has been kind enough to read my name so that I can 
peak through and keep this voting record alive.
  So I thank all of you. I appreciate very much this moment today.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The assistant minority leader.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, while the two leaders are in the Chamber, 
it is my understanding that the leaders

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are going to provide an opportunity for people who wish to give 
statements regarding Pastor Ogilvie--that the chairman of the 
Appropriations Committee is going to put that in booklet form. So is it 
fair to announce to everyone that they need not come now to give 
speeches regarding Pastor Ogilvie, that they will have an opportunity 
to give a speech later or insert something in the Record so Dr. Ogilvie 
will have all of these in one book?
  Mr. FRIST. Madam President, that is correct. There has been an 
outpouring of feeling for our Chaplain on this very special day, 8 
years after he first gave a prayer in this Chamber. With that 
outpouring of respect, people will be given the opportunity to provide 
their written statements. Of course, they are welcome to come and make 
statements, but we are encouraging people to make their written 
statements part of a permanent book that we will be giving him. We will 
have morning business and people can come to the Chamber. There will be 
other morning business conducted as well, but most of the tributes will 
be going into written form, and we encourage people to do just that.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the first 20 minutes 
shall be equally divided between the Senator from Nebraska and the 
Senator from North Dakota, with the rest of the time until 11:30 a.m. 
to be equally divided between the two leaders or their designees.
  The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. DORGAN. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that during the 
20 minutes I be notified when I have consumed 5, after which the 
Senator from Nebraska will be recognized for 5 minutes, following which 
the Senator from South Dakota, Mr. Johnson, for 5 minutes, following 
that Senator Brownback from Kansas for 5 minutes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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