[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 180 (Thursday, December 5, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6827]
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                         Tribute to Mitt Romney

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, one of the drawbacks of the end of a 
Congress is the need to say goodbye to departing colleagues. We are 
losing two Republicans this year--Senators Mitt Romney and Mike Braun.
  Mitt gave his farewell remarks yesterday, and they were 
characteristic of the man I have come to know: humble, faith-filled, 
patriotic. Mitt is what I would call a character guy. He is guided by a 
moral compass, and he is not afraid to live by it. And in a world where 
being religious isn't always highly regarded, he is unapologetic about 
his faith.
  Mitt is also a big family guy. Like me, he married up, and he and his 
wife Ann have shared the good times and the tough times for well now 
over 50 years of marriage--hard to believe to look at him. But they say 
children keep you young, and Mitt has 5 sons and an incredible 25 
grandchildren--a beautiful legacy all on its own.
  Mitt's professional legacy needs no recounting. He is well known as a 
successful businessman, a successful Republican Governor of a deep-blue 
State, and most recently as a successful Senator. He may be leaving us 
after just one term, but that term was filled with an outsized amount 
of work, and he has more than earned his retirement.