Patrick Leahy: “there is a rock group that I have been reputed to have spent time with and listened to. One of their songs is ``Keep on…”

“there is a rock group that I have been reputed to have spent time with and listened to. One of their songs is ``Keep on Trucking.'' I might say, a long strange trip it has been. But if we keep on trucking, at least those of us with a touch of gray will complete this. I will at this point, while the distinguished Senator from Kentucky tries to maintain his composure, stop going through the song, the playbook of the Grateful Dead. We have had a feeling between us over the years in doing this bill that each year we wanted to finish it in less time than we did the year before. And I might say to my friend from Vermont, I think this year may be our record. We are on the verge of the shortest time for passage in our history together.”