[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15827]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      RECOGNIZING MILTON FRIEDMAN

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed 
to the consideration of S. Res. 319, submitted introduced earlier today 
by Senator Gramm of Texas.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 319) recognizing the accomplishments 
     of Professor Milton Friedman.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution 
and preamble be agreed to en bloc, the motion to reconsider be laid 
upon the table, and any statements relating to the resolution be 
printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 319) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows:

                              S. Res. 319

       Whereas Nobel Laureate economist Professor Milton Friedman 
     was born on July 31, in the year 1912, the fourth and 
     youngest child to Austro-Hungarian immigrants in Brooklyn, 
     New York;
       Whereas he served as a research staffer to the National 
     Bureau of Economic Research from 1937 to 1981;
       Whereas he helped implement wartime tax policy at the 
     United States Treasury from 1941 to 1943, and further 
     contributed to the war effort from 1943 to 1945 at Columbia 
     University by studying weapons design and military tactics;
       Whereas he served as a professor of economics at the 
     University of Chicago from 1946 to 1976;
       Whereas he was a founding member and president of the Mont 
     Pelerin Society;
       Whereas he was awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences in 
     Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1976;
       Whereas since 1977 he has served as a Senior Research 
     Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and 
     Peace at Stanford University;
       Whereas in 1988 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of 
     Freedom; and
       Whereas he has been a champion of an all-volunteer armed 
     forces, an advisor to presidents, and has taught the American 
     people the value of capitalism and freedom through his public 
     broadcasting series: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the United States Senate commend and express 
     its deep gratitude to Professor Milton Friedman for his 
     invaluable contribution to public discourse, American 
     democracy, and the cause of human freedom.

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