Jon Kyl: “obviously, in the brief time here I am not going to be able to say everything that comes to mind about the Senators who…”

“obviously, in the brief time here I am not going to be able to say everything that comes to mind about the Senators who are retiring but to summarize a little bit of the information for the benefit of those who might be watching. When you have long, distinguished careers of Senators and they decide not to run for reelection but leave the body, there is a lot that comes to mind about their service. I think it is good to remind ourselves of just a few of these things because of the service they have provided, both to the people of their own States and to the United States. Don Nickles Starting, for example, with our colleague from Oklahoma, Don Nickles, he served both in the leadership of the Senate Republican Conference as well as chairman of the Budget Committee. The last 2 years of his time, during his chairmanship of that committee, he was deeply involved on behalf of taxpayers in saving literally hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money that might otherwise have been spent but for his hard work in ensuring that we had the procedural mechanisms in place to object to excess spending.”