Sa carrière sénatoriale fut, hélas! trop courte, cinq ans seulement, de 1996 à 2001, dont les trois dernières années comme whip, une tâche qui n'est certes pas facile.
His career as a senator was unfortunately too short, lasting only five years, from 1996 to 2001, and he spent the last three of them as whip, no easy job.