[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 214 (Thursday, December 17, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S7581]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    TRIBUTE TO THE TEXAS DELEGATION

  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, at the end of each Congress, we have the 
bittersweet task of saying good-bye to some of our retiring colleagues, 
and today I want to talk a little bit about our departing Members of 
Team Texas.
  When I came to the Senate, succeeding Senator Phil Gramm, Senator Kay 
Bailey Hutchison, now our Ambassador to NATO, always schooled us on 
Team Texas and said: We may be Democrats, we may be House Members, we 
may be Republicans, we may be Members of the Senate, but when it comes 
to Texas, we are all part of Team Texas.
  And I tried to carry that tradition on as well.
  Our delegation is losing six incredible statesmen, including three 
ranking Members in the House, whose contributions have notched 
countless wins for our State during their time in Congress.

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