Senate Proceeding on Sep 23rd, 2009 :: 3:23:55 to 3:30:05
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Saxby Chambliss: quorum call: a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator fro that what is current the senate? the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. a senator: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. chambliss: and i would ask unanimous consent that i be allowed to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. chambliss: madam president, i rise today to recognize the

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Speech By: Saxby Chambliss

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Saxby Chambliss: great work that's done by angel flight organization and, in particular, one of its georgia members, max secord. in the world of nonprofits, angel flight stands out for its determination to bring those in need of lifesaving medical care. and in a volunteers, matt secord stands or fought coupling his passion for flying with his passion to

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Saxby Chambliss: help his fellow man. angel flight's creed is that the cost of travel should never stand in the way of patients receiving necessary medical care. through a network of volunteer pilots, angel flight specializes in flying those in need to medical facilities at distant locations.

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Saxby Chambliss: in georgia, we are provided that peachtree-dekalb airport in metro atlan is home to angel flight, the original volunteer pilot organization serving those who live in or traveling to or through georgia, alabama, mississippi, tennessee, and the carolinas. since the year 2000, angel flight's missions of hope have

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Saxby Chambliss: increased more than 760%. last year, these generous volunteer pilots flew 2,266 missions, serving patients with 167 different medical conditions who ranged in age from newborn to 100 years old. in some of our nation's most trying hours, the pilots and

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Saxby Chambliss: coordinators of angel flight were there. in the aftermath of 9/11, they transported relief workers, firefighters, red cross personnel, and f.b.i. agents to new york and washington commercial air traffic was grounded. and they served as first responders during hurricanes

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Saxby Chambliss: katrina and rita, flying 450 relief missions that ferried supplies, medical equipment, and volunteers into disaster areas and reunited families separated by the storms. in recognition of the service of its volunteers, angel flight received awards from the red cross and the national aeronautic association.

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Saxby Chambliss: one of angel flight's dedicated volunteers is max secord of atlanta. simply put, max' life has always been about service. he is one of the original 15 pilots of angel flight of georgia. but before he found his calling transporting adults and children to hospitals, burn centers and

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Saxby Chambliss: cancer treatment fa facilities, mack had another calling. mack spent 22 years as a pilot in the united states air force. for five of those years, he served as the air force's senior spokesman at the pentagon. flying and helping others have always been mack's twin passions passions. in 1964, while in the air force, he participated in a daring humanitarian airlift in the

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Saxby Chambliss: congo that saved more than 2,000 people who had been taken hostage. for his efforts, mack and his colleagues received the prestigious mackie trophy awarded by the air force for the most meritorious flight of the year. since 1985, mack has donated his time, his cessna 180 and

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Saxby Chambliss: counties of his fuel to angel flight. on his first mission, he picked up a little boy in columbus, georgia, who had terrible burns on his face and body from pulling a frying pan off a stove stove. mack says he didn't know that burn patients require continuing treatment, and he said, "i realize that during the first flight that this was an

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Saxby Chambliss: important service and that i could make a difference." ck is a one-man cheering session for the angel flight. he spreads the word to lion's club, kawana's club, rotary clubs, pilots associations, schools, churches and anyone who will listen. he jokes that he will get his 20-minute powerpoint presentation to any grouch

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Saxby Chambliss: people that will sit still. this remarkable man also volunteers at the hartsfield-jackson airport u.s.o., works at the atlanta community food bank, and participates in a program to read to the blind. but his first love is flying. last august, mack received the wright brothers master pilot

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Saxby Chambliss: award from the f.a. to commemorate 50 years of flying without accidents, incidents, or violations. in october, mack was given the first-ever lifetime achievement award from angel flight, marking his 23 years of service. fittingly, it will be renamed,

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Saxby Chambliss: "the mack secord award." and just this month, mack was honored with the national air senatnationalaeronautical association's public flying award for decades of going above and beyond as a volunteer pilot, bringing lifesaving medical care to families in need. this recognition couldn't come to a more deserving organization

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Saxby Chambliss: than angel flight nor to a more deserving individual than mack secord. on behalf of those who need help, thanks to angel displiet to macflight andto mack secord for letting your service takeispliet for making flight and for making hope soar. with that, madam president, i

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Saxby Chambliss: would yield back. the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. session: madam president, i just would like to share a few thoughts about the process we're going through here and the impact it's having on spending by the united states government.