Liz Saville Roberts: “first, I wish to sincerely thank my distinguished colleague and my dear friend from Nevada--Searchlight, NV, by the…”

“first, I wish to sincerely thank my distinguished colleague and my dear friend from Nevada--Searchlight, NV, by the way--Senator Reid, for his very kind comments. It has been a team effort in behalf of Senator Reid and myself as we have tried to serve--some people would say sentenced to--the Ethics Committee. But we have been very conscientious in fulfilling this duty, and I think we have done so with Senator Reid's unique ability to not only come up with what is right, according to the ethics manual, but what is basically common sense. As a matter of fact, Senator Reid has this notion that continually is expressed: Gee, Pat, we ought to sit down and really see if we can rewrite the ethics manual to make it actually understood by Members of the Senate and reform it, make it adhere to a criterion--a yardstick, if you will--of common sense. I always tried to dissuade him from that. No. 1, I did not want to undertake that mountain to climb, and it would be a big mountain to climb, because just as soon as you start that, why, other Members add other mountains. At any rate, Senator Reid has been a joy to work with. I admire his leadership. He is soft spoken and, as I have indicated, has brought a lot of common sense and has tried to make the Ethics Committee proactive and very helpful to Members. As a matter of fact, with every new class of Senators that comes in, we have a briefing, and Harry always points out: Ask; ask first before there is any problem.…”