[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 4326]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THANKS TO STAFF

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, everyone has expressed appreciation to a lot 
of people, but the people in front of the Presiding Officer have been 
here all day, all night, and now it is morning time. They get very 
little recognition or attention, but on behalf of the whole Senate, we 
really appreciate all of your work. We have pages who have been here 
since early this morning. I would like to express my appreciation to 
the wonderful floor staff we have, especially someone whom I couldn't 
do the work without, Lula Davis, who does such great work for the 
majority, and Dave Schiappa, who is really--even though he looks out, 
sometimes, a little too much for the minority, he is a pleasant person 
to work with and is always very fair and understanding of our issues. 
So I appreciate the work he and Lula do, the work they do together.

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