09/12/2004
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"I welcome you back."
"We're safer because you stand ready to put on the uniform."
"I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the Protocol, along with the Joint Declaration and give its advice and consent to ratification."
"Dana Gioia, of California, to be Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts for a term of four years. (Reappointment)"