[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12910]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

  The Honorable Slade Gorton, a Senator from the State of Washington, 
led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows:

       I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of 
     America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation 
     under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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