Heidi Alexander: “in Jon Meacham's biography of President George W. Bush--actually, I believe it is in the biography of President George…”

“in Jon Meacham's biography of President George W. Bush--actually, I believe it is in the biography of President George H. W. Bush--Meacham quotes Prescott Bush, H.W. Bush's father and Senator Prescott Bush, of Connecticut, as saying that the Senate is the place where everybody in politics ultimately wants to be. Senator Prescott Bush, of Connecticut, said that the U.S. Senate is the place in politics where everybody in politics ultimately wants to be. I have noticed that over the years, after an election, usually we have lost about 10 Members of the Senate--sometimes a couple more, sometimes a couple less. This year, it is 7. If you look at Georgia and what one has to go through to stay here or to get here given the amount of money being spent and the number of things being said in those two races, you would think that there might be a shortage of people today who would want to follow Senator Prescott Bush's advice but apparently not. Instead of 10 people leaving this year, it is only 7, and only 4 of us are retiring voluntarily. I would like to take just a minute or two about each of the other six U.S. Senators who will not be coming back in the next Congress.”