[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Pages 5662-5663]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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 SENATE RESOLUTION 95--RELATING TO THE DEATH OF THE HOLY FATHER, POPE 
                              JOHN PAUL II

  Mr. FRIST (for himself, Mr. Reid, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Durbin, Mr. 
Santorum, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Allard, Mr. 
Allen, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Bayh, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Biden, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. 
Bond, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Brownback, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Burns, Mr. Burr, Mr. 
Byrd, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Carper, Mr. Chafee, Mr. Chambliss, Mrs. 
Clinton, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Coleman, Ms. Collins, Mr. Conrad, 
Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Craig, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Dayton, Mr. DeMint, 
Mr. DeWine, Mr. Dodd, Mrs. Dole, Mr. Domenici, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Ensign, 
Mr. Enzi, Mr. Feingold, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Graham, Mr. Grassley, Mr. 
Gregg, Mr. Hagel, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Hatch, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Inhofe, 
Mr. Inouye, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. 
Kerry, Mr. Kohl Mr. Kyl, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Leahy, Mr. 
Levin, Mr. Lieberman, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Lott, Mr. Lugar, Mr. Martinez, 
Mr. McCain, Ms. Murkowski, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Nelson of Florida, Mr. 
Nelson of Nebraska, Mr. Obama, Mr. Pryor, Mr. Reed, Mr. Roberts, Mr. 
Rockefeller, Mr. Salazar, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Sessions, Mr. 
Shelby, Mr. Smith, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Specter, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Stevens, 
Mr. Sununu, Mr. Talent, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Thune, Mr. Vitter, Mr. 
Voinovich, Mr. Warner, and Mr. Wyden) submitted the following 
resolution; which was considered and agreed to:

                               S. Res. 95

       Whereas Pope John Paul II was one of the greatest spiritual 
     leaders and moral teachers of the Modern Era; and
       Whereas he set an extraordinary example of personal 
     integrity and courage, not only for his fellow Catholics but 
     for people of every religious and philosophical viewpoint; 
     and
       Whereas throughout the course of his pontificate he 
     campaigned tirelessly for human rights and human dignity 
     throughout the world; and
       Whereas he practiced and inspired resistance to the great 
     totalitarian systems and tyrannies that rose and, with his 
     help, fell in the 20th Century; and
       Whereas he fostered harmony between Catholics and Eastern 
     Orthodox and Protestant Christians, reached out in friendship 
     to Jews, Muslims and members of other faiths, and warmly 
     promoted interfaith understanding and cooperation; and
       Whereas he dedicated himself to the defense of the weakest 
     and most vulnerable members of the human family; and
       Whereas on his visits to our country he has called all 
     Americans to be true and faithful to the great principles of 
     liberty and justice inscribed in our Declaration of 
     Independence and Constitution; and

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       Whereas his selfless service to God and man has been an 
     inspiration to Americans and men and women of goodwill across 
     the globe; therefore be it
       Resolved, That the Senate of the United States joins the 
     world in mourning his death, and pays tribute to him by 
     pledging to be ever faithful to our national calling to be 
     ``one Nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and 
     justice for all,'' and to help our neighbors in immeasurable 
     ways.

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