[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 65 (Wednesday, May 9, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H2459]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   PROGRESS MADE BY WORKING TOGETHER

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I have had the great privilege of serving in 
Congress with Senator Richard Lugar. He was in the Aspen Institute, and 
I visited with him on those occasions, and received an award from the 
American Bar Association the same day he did, as did John Lewis, which 
made it more important than any other reward I have received.
  Richard Lugar's loss is a great loss to this country. He worked in a 
bipartisan fashion, and worked with President Obama on nuclear 
proliferation treaties and on the approval of Supreme Court Justices.
  He said, last night, we are experiencing days of political division 
in our society. These divisions have stalemated progress in critical 
areas. They have, indeed. And unless the Republican side works with the 
Democratic side in a bipartisan fashion, we won't be successful, as 
Richard Lugar tried to do, and was defeated for doing it.
  There's something wrong in the constituencies that don't realize that 
progress is made by parties working together, not by one party 
conquering the other.

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