[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 212 (Tuesday, December 15, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S7484]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                          United States Senate

  Mr. ALEXANDER. Madam President, in Jon Meacham's biography of 
President George W. Bush--actually, I believe it is in the biography of 
President George H. W. Bush--Meacham quotes Prescott Bush, H.W. Bush's 
father and Senator Prescott Bush, of Connecticut, as saying that the 
Senate is the place where everybody in politics ultimately wants to be. 
Senator Prescott Bush, of Connecticut, said that the U.S. Senate is the 
place in politics where everybody in politics ultimately wants to be.
  I have noticed that over the years, after an election, usually we 
have lost about 10 Members of the Senate--sometimes a couple more, 
sometimes a couple less. This year, it is 7. If you look at Georgia and 
what one has to go through to stay here or to get here given the amount 
of money being spent and the number of things being said in those two 
races, you would think that there might be a shortage of people today 
who would want to follow Senator Prescott Bush's advice but apparently 
not.
  Instead of 10 people leaving this year, it is only 7, and only 4 of 
us are retiring voluntarily. I would like to take just a minute or two 
about each of the other six U.S. Senators who will not be coming back 
in the next Congress.