As you know i announced i was not running for reelection and if i had known everyone was going to be so nice to me to my my have announced it earlier h. I am not the only senator who is giving a farewell speech. Many of us got to hear Lamar Alexander last week. He is the perfect example of what a United States senator should be. Before i was wet behind the ears in the senate, a first one my first week here he invited me and my wife to dinner. There it began to become fast friends and we grew closer pulling that kind of friendship that is essential here in the senate. We Work Together to get things done for our state and National Laboratories and conserving the great outdoors. Something else we shared with the harbor in the senate barbershop with mario. [laughter] and to be honest thats the place on the best place to learn the wisdom of the Senate Sitting in marios chair. Friendships like with four more and mario are what i willfr missik most the friendships and because is any good cent
Alexander last week. Lamar is the perfect example of what a United States senator should be. Before i was wet behind wet behs in the senate, my first week here, lamar invited me and my wife jill to dinner. There it began, jill and lamars wife honey became fast friends and lamar and i built the kind of friendship that is essential in the senate. We worked together to get things done for our states, bolstering our National Laboratories and conserving our great outdoors. Something else we shared was mario, our barber in the barber shop and to be honest, that is the best place to learn about the senate, sitting in marios chair. Friendships like i have with lamar and mario is what i will miss most about the senate, the friendships. And because as any good senator will tell you, friendships are what gets you over the finish line. I will cherish the friendships i forged over the last 12 years, i will miss serving the people of new mexico and congress, the greatest honor of my life has been do
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