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. In January 2003, he became Senate Majority Leader. He serves on the following committees: Rules; Finance; and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. The following is from the March 11, 2003, Senate floor debate on S. 3, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003.I rise in support of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. I rise to speak on this particular issue with a deep passion…
