[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18624]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CONGRATULATING THE MAJORITY LEADER

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, the majority leader is not a person to 
praise himself, but I will.
  I totally agree with the comments he made about how the session has 
virtually ended.
  It is only in recent times that I find myself presiding as often as I 
have because of other circumstances, and I am glad I was here to open 
the Senate today to hear the distinguished senior Senator from Illinois 
speak about the distinguished senior Senator from Nevada. We first met 
when he was running for the Senate seat at a campaign event in another 
State. We worked together at that time and became friends, and from 
that day on we have actually spoken many times with our wives about 
that meeting in Florida.
  I consider it a privilege that I was on the floor today to hear the 
words of the Senator from Illinois and I join in praising my friend 
from Nevada. He is a dear and wonderful friend. His wife and my wife 
are dear wonderful friends. We both married way above ourselves. But I 
feel privileged to serve every day with the Senator from Nevada.
  I yield the floor.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I appreciate very much the chairman of the 
Judiciary Committee and the President pro tempore of the Senate saying 
those nice things about me. It is an honor to have gotten to know Pat 
Leahy so well. He has broken all records. My record is minimal compared 
to his in Vermont: the first Democrat elected and he has been in the 
Senate since 1972, a wonderful Senator and a good friend. I appreciate 
his words very much.
  I will mention, because I have here before, his lovely wife Marcelle 
is a nurse, and during my wife's travail with a terrible automobile 
accident and breast cancer--she is doing well and it appears she is 
beating both of those so far--Marcelle has done a lot of good things 
for my wife, with her nursing skills, calling and telling her what she 
is going through is what happens to a lot of people and she is going to 
be a lot better. I appreciate very much Senator Leahy, but also his 
lovely wife Marcelle.

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