[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 292]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO SAMANTHA LOUISE

  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, as I was sitting at the West Front of the 
Capitol on this Inauguration Day listening to the speech of the 
President and the hopes of all the speakers for a fresh beginning, I 
kept thinking of another fresh beginning that occurred yesterday when 
our daughter Kate presented her husband Howard with a second daughter 
and her daughter Bess with a sister, Samantha Louise.
  While the hopes for a new beginning of an administration are always 
tempered by time and reality, the hopes which spring from a new baby 
are boundless.
  And so, at the inaugural lunch today in Statuary Hall, Senator Warner 
and his wife Jeanne and General Myers and Mrs. Myers, as well as our 
other lunch partners, raised our glasses in congratulations and best 
wishes to the President and Vice President, but also graciously and 
gleefully raised their glasses with my wife Barb and me in salute to 
the birth of our granddaughter Samantha Louise.
  I know my colleagues will forgive this burst of a grandfather's pride 
as we undertake the serious business before us.

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