[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 19012]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      A PRODUCTIVE SEVERAL MONTHS

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, we will be closing tomorrow afternoon, 
hopefully not too late in the afternoon. This has been a very 
productive several months. If you look back and reflect upon the issues 
that have been discussed and the bills that have been passed, there 
have been many. We are governing in a way that meets the expectations 
of the American people, governing with meaningful solutions to their 
everyday problems. We passed a budget which was the fifth fastest in 
history. We passed a bankruptcy bill, a class action reform bill to rid 
frivilous lawsuits. We had six circuit court nominations, judges that 
had been either filibustered or threatened to be filibustered in the 
past. Now we will continue all of that work tomorrow with an Energy 
bill, a highway bill, a gun liability bill, a legislative conference 
report, and the Interior conference report. So it has been a very 
productive Congress and one that we will continue to work very 
aggressively on as we come back after the recess.

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