[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12567]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       EXPRESSION OF APPRECIATION

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, first of all, let me express my appreciation 
to the Presiding Officer, for you and all the staff. I am sorry things 
take so long. Believe me, I wish we would have done it more quickly 
myself. Sometimes you can't. It takes a lot of phone calls.
  As I have reminded people, much of what we do in the Senate is done 
with unanimous consent. That means all Senators have to agree, and 
there are 100 of us. Senator McConnell and I have been making phone 
calls to see if we can get this resolved, and I think we are at the 
point we need to be now. So thank you very much, everybody.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Presiding Officer is very happy to be 
here.

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