Disable Veterans and Other Persons with Disabilities
DISABLED VETERANS AND OTHER PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES -- (Senate - October 20, 2005)
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Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I wanted to take a minute, as we finish this bill, to again thank my colleague from Missouri for his tremendous work on this bill. I know he has been under personal duress today and had a late night last night, but his team won despite what it appears to be. I think he has done a tremendous job and I wish to thank him.
I also wish to thank all of the majority staff, John Kamarck Paul Doerrer, Cheh Kim, Lula Edwards, Josh Manley, and Matt McCardle for their help in working with us for many months along the way, and also our minority staff, Peter Rogoff, Kate Hallahan, Diana Hamilton, Bill Simpson, Meaghan McCarthy, as well as my personal staff, especially Casey Sixkiller. I also want to thank all of the floor staff who have been diligent in working with us as we have moved this bill through and again thanks to my colleague from Missouri for his tremendous work on this bill.
Mr. BOND. I continue to be grateful for the cooperation of the Senator from Washington and her staff. I was going to go down the list of the staff members on both sides. I will incorporate by reference and say once again our staff worked very well together. This is the first time anybody had dealt with a TTHUD bill. It has many interesting moving parts, and some of them move in different directions at the same time. We could not have done it without the tremendous assistance of all of the staff, plus the floor staff.
I want to say a special thanks to Lula Davis, Dave Schiappa, and all the people in front here for their unfailing willingness to sit and help us through all of these things. This was more exciting than I wanted it to be, and their help enabled us to get through.
We would also like to put in a special thanks to Mike Solon in the Whip's office for helping us work on a number of things and both the Appropriations Committee leaders, Chairman Cochran and Senator Byrd. Also, the majority leader and minority leader were a great help.
So we are most grateful, and we are delighted to be out of the way now, and we will go to conference. We look forward to coming back with perhaps an even better process and a good product.
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