[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 21926]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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    RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE EMPLOYEES OF DELL COMPUTER 
                              CORPORATION

 Mr. GRAMM. Mr. President, I am sure many Americans know of the 
Dell Computer Corporation because they use a Dell at work or at home. 
However, I would like to recognize Dell for the outstanding 
contribution the company's employees made in helping America respond to 
the terrorist attacks of September 11.
  On the day after the attacks, Dell technicians were helping 
Department of Defense employees displaced from the Pentagon to set up 
computers in temporary offices. Dell employees also worked diligently 
to prioritize and facilitate orders critical to the rebuilding effort, 
intelligence gathering, and our Nation's military offensive. Shipments 
for financial services firms were also pushed to the head of the 
assembly line so they had needed computers to reopen for business when 
Wall Street and the financial markets resumed trading. On a personal 
level, Dell and its employees contributed more than $3.4 million to the 
rebuilding and recovery effort, including equipment to the American Red 
Cross to help serve the families directly affected by those terrible 
attacks.
  I am grateful for the hard work and generosity of the people at Dell, 
and I am proud of their efforts in the difficult and challenging 
time.

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