Ron Kind: “I too want to rise before this body tonight and offer my sincere thanks and congratulations to Lee Hamilton. Lee, I was…”

“I too want to rise before this body tonight and offer my sincere thanks and congratulations to Lee Hamilton. Lee, I was 1 year old when you joined this great body, the United States Congress. As a freshman Member, when I am back home in Western Wisconsin people come up to me and ask me how do you do it, how do you come up to speed with all the procedures and all the substance that you are confronted with out in Washington, D.C. And in a large respect it is by just listening and getting feedback from the people who sent me there to represent them. But I also tell them that as a new Member you seek out role models in this body, people who you can admire and emulate, that you can sit back and watch and listen to, see how they conduct themselves, see how they handle themselves during debate, and sit next to them at times before votes and as policy is starting to develop, especially in the area of foreign policy, and just pick their brains. And, Lee, I am not too proud to admit tonight to you and to the Nation that you have always been one of my role models as a freshman Member.”