12/01/2009
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"Your decision to leave your service here in the Senate leaves for the District of Columbia a hole in our heart and a big hole in the chair where you sit."
"If compromise is to be the way of the lame duck and the way of the 113th Congress, I certainly hope we won't open that issue."
"I certainly appreciate that approach. I am trying to go to efficiency in Government."
"What I object to is preemptory action by one Member of Congress to take over the whole Airports Authority when neither this committee nor any other committee has any information about why this was don..."