You’d be hard pressed to find a more humble United States Senator than Rod Grams, who passed away this week at 65. Former Senator Don Nickles of Oklahoma once told me that Rod was the ‘gold standard’ as well as the nicest man he met in the Senate. I had the great pleasure of working with Rod throughout his Senate tenure on fighting encroaching government and reforming Social Security with a series of Town Hall meetings. And the sad irony is that if Sen. Grams proposals for Social Security had been enacted while he was in the Senate the program would be solvent (even without depleting a trust fund) and the public fisc in much better shape. But more important than Rod’s principled conservatism were his principles as a man. A genuine one of a kind who will be sorely missed. His family remains in our thoughts and prayers.



























