Don Nickles: “I, too, would like to compliment the Senator from South Carolina, Senator Thurmond, for his leadership, as well as…”

“I, too, would like to compliment the Senator from South Carolina, Senator Thurmond, for his leadership, as well as Senator Levin, for moving this bill through, and in addition to that, Senator Lott and Senator Daschle. This bill had great potential for not only taking all this week, but all of next week. I compliment the leaders for making this happen, to get this bill completed, as the majority leader announced at the beginning of the week that we were going to finish this on Friday before we adjourned. And we did. I think that is very important. I also think that the vote is very positive. To have 94 votes for final passage on a defense bill I think is very positive indeed.”