Senate Proceeding on Oct 2nd, 2008 :: 3:27:19 to 3:32:25
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Speech By: Michael Crapo

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Michael Crapo: enter this new chapter in their lives. thank you, very much, mr. president. i yield back my time. mr. president, i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll.

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Larry Craig: quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senior senator from idaho. a senator: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer:

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Speech By: Larry Craig

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Larry Craig: without objection. mr. craig: mr. president, i want to thank my partner and colleague from idaho, soon to become idaho's senior senator, mike crapo. mike and i had have -- and i have had a working

3:27:54 to 3:28:06( Edit History Discussion )

Larry Craig: relationship and friendship for decades. it is one that i -- while i came to the congress before mike, senator crapo was in the legislature during a period of time after i was there and so he brought with

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Larry Craig: him, first to the house and then to the senate, the very similar experiences that i had had as a state legislator. and i highly recommend that to anyone who wants to serve in the united states senate that

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Larry Craig: they have what experience on the ground in their home state in a way that brings the reality of state governance and federal governance together. and, certainly, senator crapo over the years has had that

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Larry Craig: experience and has shared it with me and together i think we've made a very valuable team for our state. there's another aspect of senator crapo that i have so highly regarded over the years,

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Larry Craig: and certainly the presiding officer from colorado would appreciate that. out west there is probably one single most valuable commodity in the high deserts of the west like many parts of colorado in the

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Larry Craig: state of idaho, and that's water. there's an old phrase that many have heard over the years is that whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over. and there is a lot of truth to that. and our

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Larry Craig: states historically had that in their background as we sorted out our water problems and began to recognize these phenomenally valuable commodities. mike crapo in his other life spent a lot of time with

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Larry Craig: water law, and i always said when it came to water issues here in washington, while they best be fought out in the state capital in boise, i wanted mike crapo by my side as we worked through water

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Larry Craig: issues that were for our state and certainly for the nation, because he not only knew the law; coming out of a high desert environment of the kind that is in southeastern and southern idaho, you knee

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Larry Craig: that water was life and death, it was economy or no comirks based on its values. and that's the kind of partnership that we have had over the years. i will be replaced by idaho's lieutenant lieutenant

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Larry Craig: governor jim rich. i'm confident he will be elected, for a lot of reasons. he's highly competent person. idaho knows him well and respects him. he has served idaho well and he will serve us very

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Larry Craig: well here. and he'll become the junior partner of the soon-to-be senior senator mike crapo and that team shift, that organizational effort, that combining forces on, by far, a majority of issues will

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Larry Craig: be held for idaho's interests. mike and i rarely split our votes. when we do, we talk about them. we know our differences and we understand that. but we've recognized over the years that the team approach

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Larry Craig: for idaho and for the idaho congressional delegation is very important for a small state, small by population at least. it's certainly not small by geography. so the friendships and the relationship

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Larry Craig: i've had with senator crapo over the years has been personally very valuable to me, but i trust it has been very valuable to the state of idaho. but that kind of working, team ing, partnership is going

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Larry Craig: to continue as i step down and jim rich is elected in november to continue to work with mike crapo. so i say to my colleague, senator crapo, thank you. thank you for the kind remarks and the working

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Larry Craig: relationship and friendship we've had over the years, and to the presiding officer,hile he has not served here as long as either of us, you fit in immediately because you're a westerner who understands

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Larry Craig: our issues, because they're your issues. and we've already begun to work those kinds of partnership and relationships that are very valuable to the west, to the public lands and to the interests of

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Larry Craig: our states' people. i thank you and i yield the floor. mr. crapo: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from idaho. mr. crapo: mr. president, i came down here to pay tribute to our senior

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Larry Craig: senator from idaho, senator larry craig, and you can see the caliber of man he is. he came down and paid tribute to meevment and that's the way he is. i just wanted to add to my remarks my thanks to senator

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Michael Crapo: craig personal little for his tremendous assistance t me. from the very first day that i set foot on the floor of the united states senate -- in fact, before that as i was trying to get elected to

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Speech By: Michael Crapo