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Standing ovation for Sen. John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, for outstanding leadership on and stewardship of the START Treaty. Standing ovation for Sen. Dick Lugar, Republican of Indiana and ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, and for the 13 Republican senators who voted to ratify START.

I have seen many senators come and go, and John Kerry is one of the finest I have ever known. His prodigious work on the START Treaty was a textbook case of what a senator and committee chairman can do, in the best tradition of the Senate.

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