Senate Proceeding on Dec 7th, 2006 :: 5:47:53 to 5:52:07
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Ted Stevens: the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. stevens: i thank the chair and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the senator from

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Pete Domenici: new mexico. mr. domenici: mr. president, i wanted to say a few words before the leader left. i even ate hate hate to call him "leader" or "majority leader." he is he's just become a great friend. i don't

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Speech By: Pete Domenici

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Pete Domenici: i don't know how to explain it. but i didn't think coming to the senate that i would have the cha tons meet somebody like our -- that i would have the chance to meet somebody like our good de departing

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Pete Domenici: leader. i met all kinds of people here. henry bellman once said, if you sit down with all 1 100 of them, no matter what you have said about criticizing them, there is no better 100 men put fought

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Pete Domenici: together in america than the 100 senators that serve. i think that's true. i'm wondering now whether the military wouldn't rival with us their leadership. the point is, i didn't think, bill, that --

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Pete Domenici: i know we can't do that in the senate -- bill is his first name -- but i didn't ever think that i would ever meet in the budget committee of the united states senate, sitting in the very last

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Pete Domenici: seat available was that man whose name is so simple, but i had so much trouble with it. you remember? i didn't say "frist." i came first "first." and i don't know why, but i did that for a a long

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Pete Domenici: time. and then it became sort of -- people would come up and punch me, so i would say it right. but, you know, whether it's "frist," or "first," i guess they mean about the same thing to me. you are

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Pete Domenici: truly first. what we have gone through person personally will be reflected. people know that i've had a few years of illness. they're gone mostly now, but i found out that he was a superb doctor. eventually,

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Pete Domenici: i found out that weren't too many better anywhere anywhere. that made it easy, because i had a ready-made doctor and he was the best. and we would meet in his office and people would think that's always

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Pete Domenici: business. but they had no idea that it was half business, a little bit family. we got to know each other's families and what a terrific and excite ing thing that was for me. and we got to -- i got to

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Pete Domenici: know about his excellence as a doctor doctor. it will be a different senate. there is no question, you have been dealt some cards that are not right. the years you were here, the things that were accomplished

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Pete Domenici: were not quite presented to the people as accomplishments or as big of accomplishments as they are. but if there is anybody interested searching the record during his term and during his leadership period

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Pete Domenici: to see what he accomplished, i believe you will have to end up saying there was nobody during his time here that accomplished more for his state and for the country. and i believe an in-depth search

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Pete Domenici: of what he has done may even rival him among the best, even though he does not know how to legislate and there is no question about that, and he does not know how to appropriate that that, and there's

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Pete Domenici: no question about that, and he might not even know how to get an a appropriation bill up, and there might be no doubt about that -- he may doubt it, but this senator doesn't, and i'm his best friend

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Pete Domenici: -- but i have great friends whether he knows how to get an appropriations bill up and passed. but i still believe that the business of the senate is not done in those very overt ways that people think. it's

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done as you sit down for long hours on a conference report and come out with a health bill. it all of a you had sudden is better than anything we've had before. and when you find out who did it -- you'll