[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22948]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           GOLDEN GAVEL AWARD

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have been informed the Presiding Officer 
has received something I have never gotten in all the many years I have 
been in the Senate, the Golden Gavel Award. For those who are 
listening, it is given to those people who preside 100 hours, and you 
have done that. That is tremendous. It is only July, but it shows what 
a workhorse the Senator from Rhode Island is. There is no better 
indication than that--presiding. Of course, we will present this award 
to Senator Whitehouse in the first caucus we have in September.
  On this, the most important legislation we dealt with today, FISA--no 
one worked on it any more than you. The hours you put in on that, well 
past midnight--you were the talk of the Judiciary Committee. Even 
though you are a junior member of that committee, your experience as 
attorney general and as a U.S. attorney, doing all the good things you 
have done, certainly qualified you, and people looked to you for 
guidance on that most important piece of legislation.
  I say to my friend from Rhode Island how fortunate we are to have you 
in the Senate.

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