[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 27076]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         SENATORS DOMENICI AND KENNEDY AND APPROPRIATIONS BILLS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, let me commend the majority leader for 
his comments about our colleague, Senator Domenici's long and 
extraordinarily distinguished career. We are indeed fortunate he will 
be here for another 15 months and we look forward to serving with him. 
I will have, obviously, a lot more to say about his remarkable tenure 
in the Senate later.
  It is also good to have a health update on our colleague Senator 
Kennedy, and to learn his operation went well and he is doing well and 
will be back with us soon.
  Finally, let me underscore the observations the majority leader made. 
It is our goal to pass as many of the appropriations bills as possible. 
There will be significant cooperation on this side of the aisle toward 
that end. That is, after all, the basic work of Government, and we need 
to try to complete it as rapidly as possible.

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