A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Coburn i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Coburn and i ask unanimous consent to speak for at least five minutes. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Coburn first of all, id like to spend a few minutes just talking about my colleague and chairman of the Homeland Security and the Government Affairs committee. The last two years has been a real pleasure on my part and grown to have a great friendship with the chairman of the committee. And i can truly say in our committee, we have done a lot of great work. Weve both compromised on a lot of issues to try to move the country forward, and to him i am thankful for that. And i dont think either of us have had to break on any principles that we had to be able to do that. I think its been a model our committees been a model in terms of doing bipartisan bills and bipartis