Senate Proceeding on Aug 6th, 2009 :: 10:42:40 to 10:45:00
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Saxby Chambliss: objection. mr the presiding officer: the setor from georgia. mr. chambliss: what's the status o the present? the presiding officer: the senatorrom michigan. mr. levin:ju ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to morning business with senators allowed to minutes. the priding officer: without

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Speech By: Saxby Chambliss

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Saxby Chambliss: objection, so ordered. mr. chambliss: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. chambliss: i rise along with my colleague from georgia to comme and great friend, frank norton. his years of service ended recently with untimely death but it is fitting we rember frank here on the senate floor, a

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Saxby Chambliss: place that he served this body, as well as service to our country in years provide to that. frafng died a resident of st. simon's island georgia that he called home even though he was a nature of waycross georgia, graduating from emory to go to unlawful but the army

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Saxby Chambliss: ente and went to officer's candidate school and instructor and headed to vietnam. while in vietnam, he served in one of the most dangerous jobs in the army which was a ranger reconnaissance platoon leader and earned some nine medals

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Saxby Chambliss: including a purple heart and three bronze stars for valor in combat. he served assignments in georgia and korea and jarm any but colleagues will rember him heading the army in the house and senate and at

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Saxby Chambliss: the time of his retirement in 1993 as aolonel, he was a principle deputy to the secretary of t army for the u.s. senate liaison, the only army officer to serve in position in both the house and the snavmen senate. frank's service did not end

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Saxby Chambliss: there, in 1993 senator sam nunn appointed frank staffer on the senate armed services committee and this was a point in had to go through its first major base closure and realignment process. frank headed up that from an armed services committee standpoint and did an outstanding job.

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Saxby Chambliss: after a later career in government relations, frank devoted his time to his family