[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 37 (Tuesday, April 5, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Page S3189]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      RELATING TO THE DEATH OF THE HOLY FATHER, POPE JOHN PAUL II

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the hour of 4:45 
p.m. having arrived, the Senate will proceed to a vote on the 
resolution relating to the death of the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II.
  The clerk will report the resolution.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 95) relating to the death of the Holy 
     Father, Pope John Paul II.

  Mr. LUGAR. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be.
  The question is on agreeing to the resolution. The clerk will call 
the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senator was necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Colorado (Mr. Allard).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Kennedy) is necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Alexander). Are there any other Senators 
in the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 98, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 82 Leg.]

                                YEAS--98

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Burr
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Clinton
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Cornyn
     Corzine
     Craig
     Crapo
     Dayton
     DeMint
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Dole
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Frist
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Isakson
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Obama
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Salazar
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Thune
     Vitter
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Allard
     Kennedy
       
  The resolution (S. Res. 95) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows:

                               S. Res. 95

       Whereas Pope John Paul II was one of the greatest spiritual 
     leaders and moral teachers of the Modern Era; and
       Whereas he set an extraordinary example of personal 
     integrity and courage, not only for his fellow Catholics but 
     for people of every religious and philosophical viewpoint; 
     and
       Whereas throughout the course of his pontificate he 
     campaigned tirelessly for human rights and human dignity 
     throughout the world; and
       Whereas he practiced and inspired resistance to the great 
     totalitarian systems and tyrannies that rose and, with his 
     help, fell in the 20th Century; and
       Whereas he fostered harmony between Catholics and Eastern 
     Orthodox and Protestant Christians, reached out in friendship 
     to Jews, Muslims and members of other faiths, and warmly 
     promoted interfaith understanding and cooperation; and
       Whereas he dedicated himself to the defense of the weakest 
     and most vulnerable members of the human family; and
       Whereas on his visits to our country he has called all 
     Americans to be true and faithful to the great principles of 
     liberty and justice inscribed in our Declaration of 
     Independence and Constitution; and
       Whereas his selfless service to God and man has been an 
     inspiration to Americans and men and women of goodwill across 
     the globe; Therefore be it
       Resolved That the Congress of the United States joins the 
     world in mourning his death, and pays tribute to him by 
     pledging to be ever faithful to our national calling to be 
     ``one Nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and 
     justice for all,'' and to help our neighbors in immeasurable 
     ways.

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