Don Nickles: “I rise to compliment my colleague from Oklahoma for the statement he has just made. I also compliment him for 16…”

“I rise to compliment my colleague from Oklahoma for the statement he has just made. I also compliment him for 16 outstanding years of service in the U.S. Senate. I congratulate him for his announcement that he will be retiring from the Senate at the conclusion of this year and assuming the presidency of the University of Oklahoma, and I do that with mixed emotions. I am delighted for the University of Oklahoma and for my State, because he will be a tremendous asset in that capacity. But I do it with mixed emotions, because I hate to see him leave the Senate. He has been a friend to this Senator, and we have worked together in a way that has been good for our State and certainly good for me. I have enjoyed our friendship and our relationship, and I have enjoyed working with him on behalf of our State and our country. Senator Boren has done an outstanding job as a servant to our country.”