Roy Blunt: “I feel a little guilty, as the chairman of the Rules Committee, standing in between the Enzi desire to get the devices…”

“I feel a little guilty, as the chairman of the Rules Committee, standing in between the Enzi desire to get the devices on the floor. I have watched in recent weeks. If you looked around on the floor, you would assume that we had adopted that rule. It is a pretty hard rule to enforce with all the information that Senator Enzi always knew was there and needed to be available in ways that we have not made it available yet. I just want to stand as a particular friend of Mike Enzi. We came to the Congress at the same time. I came to the House, and he came to the Senate. He and Diana and I were together on travel fairly early in that we had an opportunity to go to Lithuania, as they were desperately trying to get included in NATO. And, Mike, you remember walking on that little square where people had their signs up: We want in NATO. They had been left behind one time; they didn't want to be left behind another time. But that is one of the many memories I have with Mike. Another is just Mike's incredible capacity to listen. I think without question and by plenty of evidence, Mike is the best listener in the Senate. In fact, he has listening sessions in his State, where what he does, shockingly, is listen. His talking is at a minimum at those sessions.…”