July 20, 1973
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Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed.
Mr. MUSKIE. I move to lay that motion on the table.
The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
Mr. MUSKIE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar No. 320, House Joint Resolution 542,
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The Senate proceeded to consider the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 542) concerning the war powers of Congress and the President.
Mr. MUSKIE. Mr. President, I move to strike all after the resolving clause of House Joint Resolution 542 and substitute therefor the text of S. 440, as amended and passed today.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion of the Senator from Maine.
The motion was agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the engrossment of the amendment and the third reading of the joint resolution.
The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the joint resolution to be read a third time.
The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 542) was read a third time and passed.
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the joint resolution was passed.
Mr. MUSKIE. I move to lay that motion on the table.
The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
Mr. MUSKIE. Mr. President, I should like to take a moment to congratulate the distinguished Senator from New York (Mr. JAVITS) for one of the most masterful pieces of legislative craftsmanship that it has been my pleasure and my privilege to be associated with. He has done an outstanding job in the service of the Senate and the country, and I congratulate him.
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, if the Senator will yield, I greatly appreciate the job Senator MUSKIE undertook. It required him to absorb literally months of work and study, which I have done and others have done, including some very complicated legal questions and constitutional questions. He simply astounded me with the skill and grasp he showed in connection with this bill. I am very grateful to him. The Senate has every reason to be grateful to him. He has done the Foreign Relations Committee proud.
Mr. MUSKIE. I thank the Senator.
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, I wish to express my appreciation to a number of assistants of my own and of the Foreign Relations Committee, who rendered extraordinary help in respect to the bill.
I would like to thank Peter Lakeland of my own staff, a former Foreign Service officer and a very gifted foreign policy assistant to me for some years, who did a monumental job, which any professional would consider a life's work, in the preparation for this debate, the drafting of the committee report, and the research, all of which went with it.
Then to Seth Tillman, who is one of the assistants to Senator FULBRIGHT, who had a big hand in drafting the committee report, which I thought was a magnificent document; and Mr. Tillman
worked under the direction of Carl Marcy, the very honored and very much respected chief of staff of our committee, to whom I also wish to give every credit for bringing the matter to the floor and for the preparation on it.