[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 137 (Saturday, September 28, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S11710]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TRIBUTE TO SENATOR BILL COHEN

  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, also, I would like to comment on another 
retiring colleague from the State of Maine, Senator Bill Cohen. Bill 
Cohen served 6 years in the U.S. House of Representatives during a very 
turbulent time, a time many people called ``Watergate.'' He served, I 
believe, on the Judiciary Committee. I remember being an interested 
observer in Oklahoma and watching the House committee and Senator 
Cohen's involvement. That was back in 1973 and 1974. Senator Cohen was 
elected to the House in 1972.
  In 1978, he was elected to the U.S. Senate. So he has served 18 years 
in the Senate. In addition to being an outstanding Senator on Armed 
Services and also on the Intelligence Committee, he is an author, he is 
a poet, he is a person who is respected on both sides of the aisle. He 
is a person who all in the Senate, Democrat and Republican, have 
certainly come to enjoy, to respect. He will certainly be missed in the 
Senate. We wish Senator Bill Cohen all the best and thank him for his 
years of service to our country, both in the House and in the Senate.

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