[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 56 (Tuesday, April 23, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2861-S2862]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      COMMENDING SENATOR HEITKAMP

  Mr. HOEVEN. Mr. President, I come to the floor to commend my esteemed 
colleague from the State of North Dakota, Senator Heitkamp, on giving 
her maiden address this morning. She is not only someone I have known 
for a long time and worked with for a long time but somebody who I 
think truly brings a spirit of bipartisanship to this

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body, which is so needed as we address the challenges today, ranging 
from our debt and deficit, to getting our economy going, to getting 
people back to work, and addressing things such as terrorism and the 
heinous act we saw in the attack on the marathon in Boston and the 
great people of this great country, on immigration, on entitlement 
reform, protecting and preserving Social Security and Medicare for the 
long term, progrowth tax reform, an energy plan for this country, 
making sure we find ways to get our health care system working better--
the finest health care system in the world--all of these great issues 
of the day for this Nation. I know she brings that sense of 
bipartisanship and that desire to serve the people of this great 
country.
  It is an unbelievable honor to serve the people of North Dakota and 
this country and this body, and I look forward to working with Senator 
Heitkamp--and all of our colleagues--on the challenges we face and the 
opportunities we face, the greatest country in the world, as we work on 
behalf of the American people. But I do want to commend her for her 
dedication and her commitment and her vision for a brighter future for 
this country.
  Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. ALEXANDER. 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for the quorum call be rescinded.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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