[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11533]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    REMEMBERING SENATOR CRAIG THOMAS

  Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I wish to add my voice of love, 
respect, and a very deep feeling of comradeship with the good Senator 
from Wyoming who has died--Senator Thomas. My family has been 
associated with Wyoming for many years. In a sense, their Senators have 
been Senators whom we have related to. Senator Thomas, Senator Enzi, 
now a new Senator, these are people we feel very strongly about. I have 
particularly strong feelings about both--about Senator Enzi because of 
his willingness to come to a coal mine in West Virginia and actually 
write a bill that rewrote 30 years of our mine inspection laws, and 
Senator Thomas simply because as member of the Finance Committee he was 
always an even, steady voice--level-headed. You could trust him. He was 
totally a man of his word, and I will miss him greatly.

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