[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12639]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                CONGRATULATING SENATORS BOXER AND INHOFE

  Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, let me take this moment as in morning 
business to salute Senators Barbara Boxer and Inhofe of Oklahoma for 
passage of the Water Resources Development Act. If I am not mistaken, 
it has been 6 years that we have been trying to do this--maybe longer--
and this important infrastructure legislation is an example of 
bipartisan cooperation.
  Many people from time to time ask why we spend so much time arguing 
on the floor of the Senate. I hope they paid close attention to the 
proceedings of the last week, when Senator Boxer and Senator Inhofe, on 
a bipartisan basis, managed to pass a critically important bill for the 
United States of America. I salute them. It is an important bill for my 
State, the Midwest, and the Nation.

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