Pete Domenici: “I would not dare let this record go today without my having an opportunity to share some remarks with the Senate about…”

“I would not dare let this record go today without my having an opportunity to share some remarks with the Senate about the Senator from Oklahoma. There is nobody here that has served on as many committees together as Senator Nickles and Senator Domenici. We have been thrilled to work on the Energy Committee. He has told us the facts about energy. He has told us the impact that was made by that committee, and nobody can doubt that to have the Senator from Oklahoma come to that committee, having lived with the ridiculousness of the rules on natural gas, having him there was a great stimulus to change, once and for all--we did a little bit and we opened the floodgates--to give the country a great supply of energy called natural gas. More important than that, he is one who takes an opportunity to come forth with an idea, with a cause, and set it forth when people do not even think it has a chance. All of a sudden it gathers some more momentum, and then it is a big issue, and nobody believes it but pretty soon it passes and becomes law.”