On the recordDecember 14, 2010
I want to join my colleagues in wishing our friend, Senator Judd Gregg, the best of luck as he prepares for his new life beyond the U.S. Senate. I don't think it is any exaggeration to say that, without the leadership and dogged insistence of Judd Gregg and Kent Conrad, there would have been no Presidential Deficit Commission. As a member of that commission, I want to say to Senator Gregg: I will get you back for that one. In all seriousness, serving on the Deficit Commission was not an easy assignment. But I believe the commission's work, and the way we went about our work, shows that Democrats and Republicans can still reason together and act together for the good of our nation. I thank Senator Gregg for helping to remind us of that important truth. Judd was an indispensible leader in the effort to finally give the FDA the authority to regulate tobacco.
