[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1954]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 WISHING WELL SENATOR CLAIRE McCASKILL

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, on behalf of the entire Senate, we 
acknowledge the prayer of the Chaplain today regarding Claire 
McCaskill. Claire McCaskill, as is known now, has breast cancer. She 
feels comfortable with the diagnosis. She is in a place where they are 
rendering great care in St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, so we are 
hopeful and very confident she is going to be just fine. But our 
thoughts are with her, recognizing the number of people in the Senate 
who have been stricken with cancer of one kind or another.
  Without belaboring the point, breast cancer is personally very 
devastating not only to the patient, of course, but to the family who 
is doing everything they can in a compassionate way to support their 
loved one. We know Joe, her husband, is terribly concerned, but I sent 
a message to him that the treatment of breast cancer is so much better 
than it was just a few years ago and that we believe Claire will be OK, 
and we certainly hope that is the case.

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