Yet we should not miss the point of his famous humor. He uses it as a tool to deflate pomposity. to replace tension with camaraderie. to replace argument with communication. The 104th Congress is closing with a landmark victory for Senator SIMPSON. enactment of an illegal immigration bill on which he has long labored. I know in many respects he will consider it his crown jewel. his greatest accomplishment legislatively over the years. It really frustrated me a week or so ago when it looked like we might actually lose it or lose major portions of it. but he was determined. he was relentless. he was aggressive. and again he employed his best weapon of all. humor. But just this past Saturday. at 2:30 in the morning. ALAN SIMPSON was ramming around these corridors looking for where the meetings were on illegal immigration. He was not going to let them escape his grasp. Every place the negotiations settled for a meeting to talk about various subjects that always led to illegal immigration. lo and behold the door filled up with the image of AL SIMPSON once again. We all know that there is much more he wanted to accomplish. but the times. and perhaps the tempers. were not right. So we have much to come back to next year. including those hot wires that Senator SIMPSON had the courage to grasp barehanded.
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