[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 195 (Wednesday, December 19, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Pages S16060-S16061]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         THANKING SENATOR CASEY

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, so it does not pass my mind, I want to 
express the appreciation of everyone involved here for the Presiding 
Officer spending so much time here today. We thought we would be out of 
here by 3 o'clock this afternoon. It is 8:30, and we are still not 
finished our work.
  I can remember when I was a new Member of the House of 
Representatives, and it was a time about like this,

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and I was asked to preside. Now, remember, there are 435 Members of the 
House of Representatives, and I was a freshman. Oh, was I happy--a 
great big podium and a great big gavel, which I did not have to use. I 
would not have known how to anyway. But I look back with a lot of fond 
memories to that 25 years ago.
  But we appreciate the Senator being here today. Most of this work of 
this Senate is completed, and we have to have someone who is presiding. 
The Senator has been very patient with all of us. We appreciate it very 
much. But this speaks of who you are. You are always a very patient 
person. I am grateful to you, as we all are.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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