[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 151 (Wednesday, October 21, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S12867]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        SENATOR DIRK KEMPTHORNE

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, as the Senate completes its work and the 
105th Congress comes to a close, I want to take this opportunity to say 
farewell to one of my colleagues who has decided to leave this body and 
pursue other activities.
  The junior senator from Idaho, Dirk Kempthorne, and I were both 
elected to the Senate in 1992. We have served together for the past 6 
years on the Environment and Public Works Committee. While we have 
disagreed on many environmental issues, I have always enjoyed working 
with him and appreciated his personal kindness. He is a gentleman of 
impeccable manners and good humor. And he is known to all his 
colleagues as one of the ``workhorses'' of the Senate: a senator who 
does his work quietly and responsibly, and does not insist on getting 
all the credit for the results.
  My very best wishes to Senator Kempthorne as he leaves Washington to 
return to his home in Idaho, and the best of luck in all that he does 
in the years to come.

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