[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 23]
[Senate]
[Page 31852]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     COMMENDING THE MAJORITY LEADER

  Mr. LAUTENBERG. Madam President, before the majority leader leaves 
the floor, I want to say that I have been back here about a year now, 
and working with the majority leader, when he took office, has been an 
interesting and a positive experience. We are all cognizant of the 
wonderful work that Dr. Frist has done in his time before the Senate 
and how he served populations so desperately in need. He took the risks 
and the time necessary to do that.
  We all congratulate him for that, for his generosity of spirit, and 
his skill as a surgeon and physician.
  I have found on the rare occasions that I--I hope they are rare--
called on Senator Frist for an ear, he was more than willing to lend 
it. If he disagreed, he said so. And if he agreed--even rarer--that was 
done with dispatch and a straightforwardness which I greatly respect. I 
hope he and his family will enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday.
  As we muse over what happened in the last week, since Senator Frist 
is a physician, I hope he can prescribe a way we can heal some of the 
bruises that occurred in this last contentious period.

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