[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15424]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            VISITING FAMILY

  Mr. FRIST. I am blessed today to have with me, although I haven't 
seen them yet--I will be with them here in about 3 or 4 minutes--
members of my own family. I say that in part because it is a real 
pleasure and honor for us to be here, occupying these positions, 
whether it is majority leader, which I clearly understand I am here for 
just a period of time in this position, or having that opportunity to 
serve our 6 million constituents back in Tennessee or as Senators 
representing, indeed, the entire Nation, for us to be able to welcome 
visitors here or family members here and share with them the enduring 
values of freedom and democracy that are represented in this Capitol 
building as we walk through it and work through this working edifice, 
this emblem and symbol of democracy around the world but also a working 
building where we conduct the Nation's business that I just outlined, 
or I go down the hall to my office, the Howard Baker Majority Leader's 
Suite. And as I work there all day and a lot of nights, I look out that 
window and look out on that expansive mall with the Smithsonian 
Institutions on either side and the Washington Monument reaching for 
the sky and the Lincoln Memorial. That is all right here.
  So I have with me today my niece, Mary Lauren Allen, the daughter of 
my sister Mary, and her husband Lawson Allen, and for the first time 
together, they have all three of their children, Cole Allen, Frist 
Allen, and Harrison Allen. They have been here separately. And it is so 
much fun for me to walk them over to that window and look out at the 
Smithsonian and look out at that Lincoln Memorial out there and the 
Washington Monument. It is a real honor and delight for me to have Mary 
Lauren and Lawson and especially Harrison and Frist and Cole to walk 
them through these marble halls in the great Rotunda. Lawson's parents 
Sam and Phyllis are here as well. I have had the pleasure of having 
them in the past and hosting them here as well. It is a big family.

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