[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 18245-18246]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2002

  The bill (S. 1419) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2002 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for 
other purposes, was considered, ordered to be engrossed for a third 
reading, read the third time, and passed.
  (See Division A of S. 1438, which will be printed in a future edition 
of the Record.)
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that S. 1438, as 
passed the Senate, be printed as a Senate document.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. LEVIN. To the members of our committee, including the Presiding 
Officer who served so well to bring this bill to the floor; to Dave 
Lyles and our staff on this side of the aisle; Les Brownlee and his 
staff, but most important perhaps of all Senator Warner for, as always, 
his extraordinary efforts to produce a bill in a bipartisan fashion, I 
am truly indebted. More importantly, the Nation has been advantaged by 
his service, and I am very grateful personally to him for all of his 
efforts.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. I echo the compliments made by Chairman Levin for the 
work of Senator Warner. I will also say that Senator Levin did an 
outstanding job. It was great the Senate

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was able to work. We had no partisan votes, as I recall, on the DOD 
authorization bill, a very important bill for our national security and 
important for us. So now we can go on and finish the DOD appropriations 
bill, a very critical bill as well.
  Again, my compliments to Chairman Levin and Senator Warner for their 
leadership, and for all Senators working together to get this bill 
passed as expeditiously as we did.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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the quorum call be rescinded.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 PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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