Mark Warner: “There are moments in your Senate career you shall not forget, and this is one, when I am privileged to join with our…”

“There are moments in your Senate career you shall not forget, and this is one, when I am privileged to join with our distinguished junior Senator from Maine. She pioneered this effort. And let no one be mistaken about that fact. I think Senator Jeffords and Senator Kyl and others have also been at the early stages of this issue, some years more ago. I joined them last year. We recognized we had two bills, and the time came for a consensus to elect a leader. The unanimous choice was the junior Senator from Maine. I am, as we say in the military, one step behind her dutifully following. But together we have crafted an amendment that every Senator in his or her heart and conscience can accept. I am optimistic that this will become law.”