[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 8952]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             HONORING THE LIFE OF NBC REPORTER DAVID BLOOM

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Res. 114, introduced 
earlier today by Senators Dayton and Coleman.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 114) honoring the life of NBC 
     reporter David Bloom, and expressing the deepest condolences 
     of the Senate to his family on his death.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the resolution 
be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motion to reconsider 
be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, and any 
statements thereto be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 114) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, with its preamble, is as follows:

                              S. Res. 114

       Whereas the Senate has learned with sadness of the death of 
     NBC Reporter David Bloom;
       Whereas David Bloom, a native of Edina, Minnesota, greatly 
     distinguished himself by his rapid rise in the field of 
     journalism;
       Whereas, most recently, David Bloom was embedded with the 
     Third Infantry Division of the United States Army to provide 
     in-depth reporting on the war in Iraq;
       Whereas David Bloom, as a skilled and determined reporter, 
     covered many major news stories for NBC News, including 
     reporting from Israel on the escalating violence in the 
     Middle East, the recovery efforts from Ground Zero after 
     September 11, 2001, the war on terrorism at home, and the 
     Washington, D.C., sniper story;
       Whereas, while covering the White House beat between 1997 
     and 2000, David Bloom reported on the Maryland Peace Summit 
     with Yassir Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu, on Operation 
     Desert Fox in Iraq, and on the NATO air campaign in Kosovo;
       Whereas, prior to being named White House Correspondent, 
     David Bloom was a Los Angeles-based correspondent for NBC 
     News, where he reported extensively on the Unabomber, the 
     Freeman ranch standoff, and the war in Bosnia;
       Whereas David Bloom was a co-recipient of the 1992 George 
     Foster Peabody Award, a winner of the Radio-Television News 
     Directors Association Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage 
     of Hurricane Andrew, and a 1991 Regional Emmy Award winner 
     for Investigative Journalism for his report on the shipment 
     of arms to Iraq from south Florida;
       Whereas David Bloom was a devoted husband to his wife, 
     Melanie, and a proud father to three exceptional daughters, 
     Nicole, Christine, and Ava; and
       Whereas David Bloom's life was distinguished for its great 
     ambition, multitude of accomplishments, standards of 
     excellence, dedication to family, and important contributions 
     to the dissemination of unbiased information to citizens 
     throughout the country: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) pays tribute to the outstanding career and devoted work 
     of David Bloom;
       (2) expresses its deepest condolences to his family; and
       (3) directs the Secretary of the Senate to transmit an 
     enrolled copy of this resolution to the family of David 
     Bloom.

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