Honorable Bill Frist
United States Senator, Tennessee, Republican
Senator Frist was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994. He was a practicing surgeon from 1978 to 1994 and Director of the Vanderbilt Medical Center Heart-Lung Transplant Program from 1986 to 1993. He serves as Senate Majority Leader and sits on the Finance Committee, the Rules Committee, and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. The following is from a statement delivered on the Senate floor on January 4, 2005.Our first responsibility above all else is to do our constitutional duty. Nothing should come before it. Nothing should stand between it — not party, not ideology, and certainly…
