October 14, 1978
Page 37621
PAUL G. ROGERS FEDERAL BUILDING
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask that the Chair lay before the Senate H.R. 14295 which names a building in Florida after Paul Rogers.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the clerk will state the bill by title.
The legislative clerk read as follows:
An act (H.R. 14295) to designate the "Paul G. Rogers Federal Building".
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered as having been read twice, and that the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Does the Senator from Rhode Island have a comment?
Mr. CHAFEE. Is this the building named after Mr. Rogers?
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Yes.
Mr. CHAFEE. Are there any other amendments to it?
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. I know of no amendment and I was going to ask that there be no amendments.
Mr. CHAFEE. Could the Senator make that request?
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Yes. I make that request.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. CHAFEE. Could I also make a request that he was willing to name some buildings after Republicans?
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Yes. May I say to the distinguished Senator that the majority leader initiated a resolution a few years ago which resulted in the naming of the so-called New Senate Office Building the Everett Dirksen Building, and the so-called Old Building the Richard B. Russell Building. So the distinguished Senator will know that I am very much in favor of being nonpartisan and bipartisan but never partisan.
Mr. CHAFEE. Will the Senator yield at that?
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Yes.
Mr. MUSKIE. I reassure my good friend from Rhode Island that in the early hours this morning a public building in Maine was named for my predecessor Frederick G. Payne, who was here before I came.
Mr. CHAFEE. That is a very good draw, one named in Washington and three, including Rogers, today. How about tomorrow?
Mr. DURKIN. Mr. President, will the Senator yield?
Mr. CHAFEE. I know what the Senator is going to say.
Mr. DURKIN. I was going to suggest the new Federal building in Providence be named the Richard Nixon Building. [Laughter.]
Mr. CHAFEE. I thought the Senator was going to say the building that was named for Norris Cotton.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Does that settle it?
Mr. CHAFEE. That causes me to regroup. On that basis I have no objection.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the third reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the third time, and passed.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, on behalf of the two Senators from Florida I move to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed.
Mr. STEVENS. I move to lay that motion on the table.
The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.