[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 17341-17342]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            EXTENDING THE SENATE'S APPRECIATION TO THE STAFF

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I would like to--we do not do this nearly 
often enough--extend our appreciation, that of the Senate, to the 
staff. This reading that I have done in the last few minutes has taken 
hours to accomplish. This is probably the 15th time they have typed 
this. We thought we had it done on a number of different occasions, and 
because of people's schedules

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and other things Senators wanted, they had to retype it again and again 
and again.
  So I appreciate their patience. And I am sorry it took so long. I 
really wish we were accomplishing more with all of this work because, 
as a body, we have not accomplished too much, but we are moving on the 
best we can.

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