[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16283]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           THE AUGUST RECESS

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I thank the distinguished Presiding 
Officer. I commend him for his duty in the chair on a Friday morning 
where the smell of jet fumes have proven an allure to many of our 
colleagues in both parties who have headed off. I might say to my 
friend, the distinguished Presiding Officer, I do realize he cannot 
respond from the chair, but all of us look forward to that time. I am 
willing to spend the month of August in my own State of Vermont.
  I said to somebody that we make sacrifices in these jobs, and they 
suggested the idea of being in Vermont for a month, which is one of the 
prettiest times of the year up there, was probably not the world's 
greatest sacrifice. I invite the Presiding Officer and anybody else to 
come up and visit. You don't have to wear a tie, and you can go to 
county fairs. Most of the people at the county fairs are Republicans, 
but most of them vote for me, so I am delighted to go there. They would 
vote for the distinguished Presiding Officer, too.

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