Sam Brownback: “I rise to pay tribute to my colleague. What a great gentleman. This is an august body, a wonderful place, a delightful…”

“I rise to pay tribute to my colleague. What a great gentleman. This is an august body, a wonderful place, a delightful place to serve. It has great issues before it. There are people who are gentlemen and gentleladies in it who conduct themselves in one of the highest regards and highest abilities. And when I think of that, I think of George Voinovich. He is a really good guy, a real gentleman in the Senate, and a man who lives his faith, believes it, which is tough to do in this body. It is tough to do in any position in life. Yet he does it and has done it for over four decades in public service to the people in the State of Ohio and the people of the United States. That is quite a tribute. He and his wife I get to see often. When I think of the expression 'two people becoming one,' I don't know if I could describe it any better than the Voinovichs, how two become one. The smile is the same. The look is the same. The attitude is just a wonderful togetherness that the two of them live.”