with marland?? i yield the floor. >> the senator from new jersey. oant t >> mr. president, i just want to take a couple of minutes to salute the service the one great united states senator chris dd. dodd. chris and i have served together more than 25 years, and when i s arrived here i was not one of pl the youngest people at thatsomee time, but chris was someone who from other walks of life and ird turned to him and might be your friend who sused to occupy this seat for advice and counsel. bue sometimes counseling was merelys a device, but we were younger then, and chris dodd have that r incredibleso personality that gs things done that presents a leadership position on issues sd and has -- showed incredible patience in the way that he walh dealt with financial reform, with health care, but never as i saw did chris leave the people who disagreed with him with o anger, with a feeling o bangerter -- anchor, and chris comes from a distinguished havin family. a this author having occupied here for a dozen years and nowr senator chris dodd to have decided to leave the