A resolution honoring and thanking Terrance W. Gainer, former Chief of the United States Capitol Police.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate now proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 455, which was submitted earlier today.

I ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table.

Mr. President, this Senate resolution we just agreed to thanks Terrance Gainer, former Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police. Although I don't have a formal statement, I have had an opportunity to work with Chief Gainer very closely over the last several years. Although many of those interactions were in routine business, what we regard as routine business, at every moment he stood ready with the Capitol Police for any unexpected event. And those unexpected, tragic events that I was able to work with him on, led me--seeing the way he addressed these issues, with dignity, with discipline, with a real understanding of what was at stake--to have a great deal of respect for him, his approach, his character, his integrity and his professionalism.

It wasn't too long ago that many people were stranded inside of the Russell Building parking garage for an alarm that went off. I was able to go and talk to Chief Gainer about that, as they were determining what the etiology of that alarm was, and I got to see the full force of that integrity and that discipline and that level of sophistication.

I wish him the best of luck and good fortune as he leaves behind his tremendous service here at the Capitol.