[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 24647]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                     SENATOR PAT MOYNIHAN PRESIDING

  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I call attention to something that I have 
not seen in the Senate, now, in over 5 years. It has been 5 years since 
I saw a Democrat in that chair. But who better than the distinguished 
senior Senator from New York, Pat Moynihan, to grace that chair. This 
is truly a record day. We will be celebrating Columbus Day on next 
Tuesday, but I am ready to start now because there sits Senator 
Moynihan--in the chair.
  Let me comment just a little further on that. Imagine our good 
Republican friends allowing a Democrat to sit in the Presiding 
Officer's chair. They trust him. I think it was with great grace that 
Jesse Helms, the senior Senator from North Carolina, the State in which 
I was born and the State whose motto is ``to be rather than to seem,'' 
that he chose Pat Moynihan to preside over these last few minutes.

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