Harry Reid: “I personally believe, speaking on behalf of 50 other Democrats--and if the truth were known, many of the…”

“I personally believe, speaking on behalf of 50 other Democrats--and if the truth were known, many of the Republicans--that there is not a Senator in this body who is held in higher regard than Senator Leahy. But even if every Senator in the Senate had no regard for Senator Leahy, the people of Vermont and the people of America hold him in high regard. Here is a man who started talking about landmines and how bad they were before it became popular to do so. He was the first to speak out against landmines. It is hard for me to get out of my mind a trip I took to Africa, Angola. Every place you go there, people are missing arms and legs. The No. 1 business is fixing people with prostheses, mainly women and children, because they are the ones who go out in the fields. Senator Leahy has spoken about landmines and our need to do something about them.”