[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17233]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                    REMEMBERING SENATOR CRAIG THOMAS

  Mr. VOINOVICH. Mr. President, all of us in the Senate will miss Craig 
Thomas. I got to know Craig when we both served on the Senate Ethics 
Committee. During that time, I came to admire him as a wonderful human 
being, a man of character and integrity, and someone who spoke plainly 
on how he felt about things.
  I also admired Craig for speaking up in policy lunch and at the 
steering committee on so many occasions. He always got to the nub of 
the problem and never failed to tell it just as he saw it. On many 
occasions, I sensed he had a great frustration with the system, but he 
stayed in there and was an encouragement to many.
  When he got sick, Janet and I put him on our prayer list. I also 
looked at some health care alternatives for him in Cleveland, but he 
felt he had great care at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. The last time I 
saw him, he looked like the old Craig, full of vim and vigor. We were 
shocked when we heard of his passing. It is said that it is not the 
number of years one lives that counts but what one does with those 
years that matters. We will all miss Craig but know that he is in 
heaven with our father eternally happy.

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