Pete Domenici: “the Senator from New Mexico ought to be doing the thanking. I knew when the people of the Senator's State sent him up…”

“the Senator from New Mexico ought to be doing the thanking. I knew when the people of the Senator's State sent him up here--he thanked us, but we ought to be thanking him; we thank the people of his State for sending him here--we knew when the Senator came that he was going to be a stalwart and someone to whom we could look. We knew we would be getting the ``straight scoop,'' so to speak. Tonight it didn't take the Senator very long to set this record straight. There is no use playing politics with things that do not need any politics added to them. There are already plenty of problems surrounding that big tragedy that came to America. We thank the Senator for telling us the way it is, the way it was, and the way we ought to understand it. This Senator thanks him for that. I wish he had more to say. I hope before it is over, he will have more to say about it. With all of the inferences and implications when things go wrong, there is a political campaign. Just wait, and somebody will find some reason to blame the person running for office. Regardless of how farfetched or how wild, or how irrelevant it is, it will be there. Frankly, we have a Senate with lots of privileges. I like the distinguished Senator from Florida. He had a big job when he had to put that report together. He doesn't have any more to say about it than a lot of other people. He just happens to be running for President. So he has a lot to say.…”