[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 154 (Thursday, October 31, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S7690]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      CONGRATULATING CARL FRITTER

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I wish to take a minute to congratulate a 
man who has been part of the Senate for a long time. With more than 
four decades of service to the Federal Government and some 32 years 
here in the Senate, a man by the name of Carl Fritter will retire 
today. He began his career at the Government Printing Office and gave 
44 years of service to the Federal Government. He is respected by his 
colleagues in the Secretary's Office and admired throughout the Senate 
community for his craftsmanship. Carl learned the art of bookbinding as 
an apprentice in the Government Printing Office. He received special 
training in bookbinding from experts across the globe.
  In 1977, Carl was detailed to the Senate Library, where he eventually 
became Director of the Office of Conservation and Preservation. My son, 
during one of the summers, worked in that office, and that was a great 
experience. There he got to know Carl.
  In addition to binding and repairing books, he has built many 
beautiful boxes and other things. He is a modern-day artisan. It is 
amazing the things he has built and can build. He has built, for 
example, boxes to contain gavels, books, and other works of art. Later 
today when we swear in the new junior Senator from New Jersey, the oath 
book Vice President Biden will use to swear in Senator-elect Booker was 
made by Carl Fritter.
  I wish him the very best in his retirement. He is going to go to Key 
West, FL, where he wants to spend more time there with his wife Bunny 
and his children and grandchildren. I thank Carl for his decades of 
dedicated service to this institution and the Federal Government, and 
congratulate him on a career of success building and preserving 
artifacts here in the U.S. Capitol.

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