[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]



                         Tribute to Pat Roberts

  Madam President, Pat Roberts came to the Senate in 1967 in the way a 
lot of us have come--as a Senate aide. I came the same year. He worked 
for Senator Baker, who was working in the House of Representatives at 
the time. Yet we have seen in the Senate, through all of that time, its 
pluses and its minuses, and we have learned our way. Pat learned his 
way especially well.
  I suppose he served longer on the Ethics Committee and longer on the 
Agriculture Committee than anyone, particularly if you count his 
service in the House and the Senate on the Agriculture Committees. His 
good humor and his resoluteness in terms of rural America and making 
sure that the farmers of our country have an environment in which they 
can succeed are legendary. I suspect for all of us, when we go sleep at 
night, that if Pat Roberts comes into our brains, the words ``crop 
insurance'' come right along behind him