[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 133 (Thursday, September 25, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11931-S11932]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  COMMENDING THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, first, might I say, as I note your 
presence in the chair--and you are also the chairman of the 
Appropriations Committee, about which we are talking this morning--I 
compliment you. I have not seen

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more difficult hearings than you have endured in getting started on 
this process. I think you have been eminently fair. I have great 
confidence that what you choose to do, and how you choose to handle 
this, will be fair to everybody. And I say that to you in all honesty.

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