[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 22]
[Senate]
[Page 30916]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      THANKING THE STAFF AND PAGES

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, as we bring this first session of the 109th 
Congress to a close, I once again thank my colleagues, the staff, the 
pages, and everyone who contributes so much to our work in this 
Chamber.
  I want to give a special thanks to the few pages we have remaining 
this evening. Most of them have gone back home to their families, and 
we have a few volunteers who stayed behind. They are instrumental in 
allowing us to carry out our work each day. It is very rare that we 
actually say thank you. I want to take this opportunity to say thank 
you for volunteering to be with us over what has been a pretty long 
last couple of days. So I thank Rafi Bortnick, Katie Rember, and Dan 
Tinsley.
  I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy holiday 
season. I hope that everyone does get some rest and spends some time 
with family and friends and neighbors and others in their communities 
and returns back here in January ready to roll up your sleeves and 
continue right where we left off.

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