[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 1214]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         HONORING MARTIN PAONE

  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I come to the floor this afternoon to 
speak about the economic stimulus, but before I go to that, I wished to 
take a moment of personal privilege to recognize a special member of 
the Senate family whose last day in the Senate is today, and that is 
someone we all know well: Marty Paone. He has been a tremendous asset 
to all of us. His good will, his steadfastness, the way he works with 
all of us, because he loves the Senate and understands the dignity of 
it and yet had a great passion for the work he was doing, will be 
missed.
  Marty came to the Senate nearly 30 years ago and joined the 
Democratic cloakroom back in 1979 and worked his way up to become 
secretary of the minority back in 1995 and currently as secretary of 
the majority. He has been a tremendous asset to every one of us. I 
speak on behalf of myself as well as all Members of the Senate in 
saying he will be greatly missed, but we wish him absolutely the best 
in his new career.

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