[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 21 (Thursday, February 11, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S547]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO KYLE SIMMONS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, there is nothing I can say to assuage the 
anguish that my friend, the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, now 
feels. It is a unique relationship that comes with our staff members, 
especially someone who has been with us as many years as Kyle has been 
with Leader McConnell. These people become part of us. As we can see, 
Kyle Simmons has become part of Mitch McConnell.
  My dealings with Kyle Simmons are meetings that are held in my office 
or in Senator McConnell's office, and if there were a way to describe 
my dealings with Kyle Simmons, it would be to go to the dictionary, 
under the Hs, and go to the word ``humility,'' and there would be Kyle 
Simmons. He is just as Mitch McConnell described him. He is a man who 
has loads of humility. He does not talk very often. But whenever he 
talks, we listen.
  So I wish you the very best, Kyle, in the things you do, and I 
recognize that your boss, Mitch McConnell, was speaking for the entire 
Senate in our relationships with our staff. But, of course, even though 
there are many relationships with our staff, I think the relationship 
between Senator Mitch McConnell and Kyle Simmons, as we can see, is 
very unique.
  The best of luck to you, Kyle.

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