Cord Byrd: “my attention has just been called to the fact that this is the last day in which we will all be blessed by the services…”

“my attention has just been called to the fact that this is the last day in which we will all be blessed by the services rendered to all Senators on both sides of the aisle by these wonderful young people who sit on the dais, to our right and to our left, who are the pages. Daniel Webster appointed the first page. Tomorrow, these pages will graduate. They go to school while they do this work here for us and for our country. They work for our country, just as we Senators seek to do our best in serving our country. Without these pages, we would find our work to be more difficult, and we can't thank them enough. They get up early and they go to school. They have to continue to maintain good grades while they are doing the Senate's work. And this is demanding work. They run here, they run there. They are at the beck and call of every Senator all day long. Tennyson said, ``I am a part of all that I have met.'' I hope these young pages, when they go back to their homes and to their communities throughout the country, will take with them, as I know they will, a part of us, as we will keep with us a part of them.”