Porter Goss: “I hope it is not good-bye. I think in his new role we will be able to see more of him in a different capacity, but it is…”

“I hope it is not good-bye. I think in his new role we will be able to see more of him in a different capacity, but it is clear that I think the House feels we are losing a really nice guy and terrific resource. He has served us well. I have actually had the pleasure, as most of us have tonight who have been talking, of working with Doug in a number of capacities. How many times have we all flown back and forth across the Atlantic with Doug? How many different airports have we stopped at on that airplane that sits out there that we sort of groan when we see, thinking how often we are going to have to stop for gas to get where we are going? For all those years on the Parliamentary Assembly that he has worked and taken over the leadership, he has been working hard for the United States of America's position of a changing world, a changing times, and it has not been easy as we all know. He has served as the chief congressional spokesman on NATO issues during the most difficult debates we had, I think, in Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia, and he did it with eloquence and with clarity and a great amount of patience.”