[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6809]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       PENSION CONFERENCE REPORT

  Mr. DAYTON. Mr. President, I thank my colleague from Minnesota, the 
Presiding Officer, for a letter I just signed with him to the employees 
of Northwest Airlines and also the steel companies in northeastern 
Minnesota on his initiative. This letter indicates both of us support 
the pension conference report which, fortunately, is going to be voted 
upon tomorrow in the Senate. I thank the Senator for his initiative on 
that, his calls imploring me to do what is in the best interest of 
important companies in Minnesota and the thousands of employees whose 
pensions depend upon those companies. I concur with my colleague and 
appreciate his giving me the opportunity to send that joint 
communication out to the thousands of Minnesotans for whom we will be 
acting tomorrow, in a bipartisan way, to protect for the future.

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