Strom Thurmond Casts 15,000th Vote As Senator
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Strom Thurmond, already the oldest person
ever to serve in Congress, has become only the second senator to
cast a 15,000th vote.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., said the historic
vote cast Wednesday by the 95-year-old Thurmond "reminds us of the
continuity and the stability that the framers of the Constitution
sought to establish in the Senate."
"None of us has ever seen a senator like Senator Thurmond,"
said Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., who in May became the first senator
to cast a 15,000th vote. "He is a true legend in this
institution."
Thurmond, R-S.C., responded by saying the current group of
senators is the best he had seen in his 44 years of service.
Thurmond's milestone vote came as he joined the majority in
supporting an amendment imposing conditions on carrying out
agreements with North Korea.
Thurmond was elected South Carolina governor in 1946, ran for
president as a States' Rights Democrat in 1948 and in 1954 became
the first and only person ever to be elected to the Senate on a
write-in ballot.
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