Zach Nunn: “serving in the Senate has given me the opportunity to work on many important issues with many talented Members on both…”

“serving in the Senate has given me the opportunity to work on many important issues with many talented Members on both sides of the aisle. When I leave the Senate, I will miss the professional and personal associations I have had working with my colleagues in the Senate and the House, none more than my association with my friend Senator Carl Levin of Michigan. Carl Levin and I have served together on the same two committees for the past 18 years, the Armed Services Committee and the Governmental Affairs Committee. During those years I have gained a tremendous appreciation for his energy, his intelligence, his tenacity, his skill in the legislative process, and his total commitment to public service. I trust and hope the voters of Michigan will return him to the Senate next year where, depending on the makeup of the Congress, whether Republicans or Democrats control, he will be either the chairman or ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, and he will certainly be a leader on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and perhaps chairman of that subcommittee or ranking minority member on that subcommittee, a position that I have held now since the late 1970's. Mr. President, one of the hallmarks that I associate with Carl Levin's service in the Senate is his passionate belief that Government should work and that it can work, and that Congress has a responsibility to the American people to make sure that it does work.”