Lincoln Chafee: “I am here now in my 20th year, and as I look back on the individuals I have known here and the friends I have had and…”

“I am here now in my 20th year, and as I look back on the individuals I have known here and the friends I have had and the respect I have for them, there is none that stands higher than the distinguished senior Senator from West Virginia, who I feel lucky to have known. We have worked together on issues. Sometimes we have been in opposition on issues, I will confess to that, but never with rancor and always with friendship and always with, certainly from my point of view, respect, and I would like to believe the respect was mutual. I am absolutely confident that there is no tribute that Howard Greene has received on this floor that will mean more to him than the one he has received from the distinguished senior Senator from West Virginia, because he has, as do all the Members on this side and all the Members of the Senate, tremendous respect and affection for the gentleman who once upon a time was majority leader, and he has been minority leader.”