Patrick Leahy: “while the distinguish leader is still on the floor, let me thank him for those remarks. And I know Marcelle will thank…”

“while the distinguish leader is still on the floor, let me thank him for those remarks. And I know Marcelle will thank him too. Of course, our spouses have spent a lot of time together, and we know who the real leaders are in the house. I think of what the leader has said, and he speaks of the time when we worked together. And I appreciate very much--I have told him privately, but I will say it publicly: I have appreciated the friendship and the work together. We did go back and forth over a period of years. Part of the time he was chair, and part of the time I was chair, but in a very, very important subcommittee. In Foreign Ops we had everything from foreign aid to a lot of the things we did around the world. But that bill would pass on the floor, oftentimes on a Friday afternoon, when everybody would say: Bring it up; we have got to get out of here. And it passed, virtually, unanimously. We would work out a couple of differences. First, we talked about them, and then they were gone, and off we went. I remember speaking at a symposium put together by the distinguished leader, and I was given and presented with a Louisville Slugger with my name on it. Now, throughout the course of any Senator's career, and certainly one of 48 years, you get presented with a lot of things, which you thank people for, and you put them in the closet or the attic.…”