March 28, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3049 just like my colleagues over the years coastal plain of the Arctic National We’ve shown that opening ANWR will be in the course of my four Senate races, Wildlife Refuge. done in a responsible, environmentally sound I have gained a firsthand familiarity In attendance were: James P. Hoffa, way. International Brotherhood of Team- Since the opening of Alaska’s North Slope, with campaign finance issues. The Sen- nature and development have safely co-ex- ate can take pride in this debate, while sters; Michael Sacco, Maritime Trade isted. And today’s technology makes it pos- issues regarding the first amendment Department, AFL–CIO; Terry sible to produce oil in a less-invasive and have been center stage, it seems to me O’Sullivan, Building Trades Depart- more environmentally friendly manner. there is another fundamental issue we ment; Martin J. Maddaloni, United As- The Maritime Trades Department stands should consider. sociation of Journeymen and Appren- with the Building Trades, major oil pro- One of our aims during this great de- tices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting ducers, the business community and all the bate should be to encourage greater Industry; Joseph Hunt, International members of JobPower in calling on Congress to open ANWR. citizen participation in elections. Citi- Association of Bridge, Structural, Or- America will benefit for years to come. zens are the backbone of our democ- namental and Reinforcing Iron Work- f racy and should be given encourage- ers; Frank Hanley, International Union ment to participate in every way in the of Operating Engineers; Larry O’Toole, TRIBUTE TO ROWLAND EVANS elective process. Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Associa- Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, today What are the means by which we can tion; James Henry, Transportation In- in our Nation’s Capital funeral services encourage a greater role for the aver- stitute; and Michael McKay, American were held for Rowland Evans, a life- age citizen? I believe one method is a Maritime Officers Service. time journalist of international ac- $100 tax credit for contributions made I ask unanimous consent that the claim. This magnificently conducted to House and Senate candidates. I pro- statement made by Michael Sacco of service, attend by an extraordinary pose this tax credit be available only to the Maritime Trades Department of gathering of family, friends, and peers, single persons with an adjusted gross the AFL–CIO be printed in the RECORD preserved forever the man’s extraor- income at or below $50,000. For married for my colleagues to read. It offers dinary love of family, journalism, and couples, in order to avoid exacting a great insight into the reasons why service to country in the uniform of ‘‘marriage penalty,’’ a married couple working men and women throughout the U.S. Marines in combat operations filing jointly could claim a total of $200 the country support oil and gas explo- in the Pacific during World War II. in tax credits. ration in the coastal plain. The Commandant of the Marine For various reasons, the wealthy are There being no objection, the mate- Corps, General Jones, officiated in pre- already involved in politics, but there rial was ordered to be printed in the senting the American Flag to the fam- has been a declining interest in cam- RECORD, as follows: ily to conclude this deeply moving paigns for those at the other end of the STATEMENT OF MICHAEL SACCO, MTD service. spectrum. This credit would encourage PRESIDENT Rowland Evans was an astute ob- broader participation by moderate and With increasing energy problems through- server of the values of our federal sys- lower income voters to balance the out the United States, Americans are look- tem of government, but his great fas- greater ability of special interests to ing for new ways to meet the growing de- cination was with the political arena— participate in the process. mand for energy products and ensure the the centerpiece being those who com- There is precedent for such a tax continued economic expansion we have en- peted for and won or lost elective of- joyed over the past decade. credit. Until 1986, there was a $50 tax fices. credit for contributions to political Only one location promises to help Amer- ica meet its energy needs while providing His partner—his close friend—for campaigns. According to IRS data, good-paying jobs to American workers—the over a quarter of a century, Robert when Congress repealed the political Arctic National Widlife Refuge. Novak, rose to the challenge of chron- contributions tax credit, ‘‘a significant By opening ANWR, the United States can icling with sensitivity, humor and in- percentage of persons claiming the increase domestic oil production, reduce our sight his many lifetime achievements. credit have sufficiently high incomes reliance on foreign sources of oil, and create Senator KENNEDY, Senator SNOWE, to make contributions in after tax dol- hundreds of thousands of new jobs for Amer- and I were privileged to be in attend- lars, without the benefit of the tax ican workers. ance at the services at Christ’s Church, credit.’’ ANWR will be explored and drilled by American workers—the oil transported Georgetown. We join in asking unani- My proposal would contrast with the through U.S.-built pipelines—refined and dis- mous consent to have printed in to- previous tax credit because it would tributed by domestic facilities—and its by- day’s RECORD the proceedings of the cap the eligible income levels to ensure products used by U.S. energy producers and U.S. Senate, a complex institution, it is not exclusively the wealthy who U.S. consumers. which Rowland Evans keenly under- take advantage of it. These jobs will help keep the economic en- stood, the eulogy by Robert Novak. I think this is an issue that should be gine of this country running. There being no objection, the mate- addressed in this campaign finance bill. Many of our brothers and sisters in mari- rial was ordered to be printed in the However, because of the constitutional time labor will crew the growing fleet of en- vironmentally safe, double-hulled, U.S.- RECORD, as follows: prerogatives of the House of Represent- flagged tankers that will carry the oil from EULOGY BY MR. ROBERT NOVAK atives, I merely bring this issue to Alaska. Having spend his life in journalism writing your attention now, with the expecta- These vessels will be American-owned— thousands of columns and literally millions tion I will raise it again in the context built by Americans in American shipyards— of words, Rowland Evans well knew how hard of a reconciliation bill that may be and serviced and repaired in American yards. it was to get things exactly right. So it was forthcoming. In times of national emergency, the U.S. with his well-meaning obituaries last Satur- Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, dur- Merchant Marine is the first to enter the war day. ing yesterday’s campaign finance de- zone to deliver supplies. America’s military The AP report said he had been in poor depends on the ability to project its power bate, I referred to a number of busi- health for years. In truth, until diagnosed anywhere in the world. with cancer last summer, it could be said he nesses that support a campaign finance That means we need sealift which is capa- was the healthiest 79-year-old on the planet. reform proposal. I meant to say that ble of quickly transporting fuel and supplies Even for the past nine months, he was no in- top executives or chief executive offi- across thousands of miles. valid. cers of those businesses support the re- As we learned in Operation Desert Shield/ His oncologist said he had never quite seen form proposal. Desert Storm, U.S.-flag ships, American sea- a cancer patient like Rowly Evans. Two farers employed on those ships, and the weeks before he died he was playing squash, f American shipyard workers that build the appearing on television, climbing the moun- OIL EXPLORATION IN THE ARCTIC vessels, are vital parts of our sealift capa- tain at his place in Culpepper, even making NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE bility. a deal to finally achieve his long-time desire Opening ANWR to development also will to buy the top of the mountain and complete Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, my enable our U.S.-flag Merchant Marine to ownership of it. As he entered the hospital colleague from Alaska, Senator MUR- grow and help expand our shipyard industrial with two days of life remaining and the KOWSKI, and I just attended a press con- base—both of which serve valuable military bleak options were laid before him, he inter- ference concerning exploration in the purposes. rupted the doctor to talk about his chances

VerDate 28-MAR-2001 04:04 Mar 29, 2001 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00045 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G28MR6.078 pfrm12 PsN: S28PT1 S3050 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 28, 2001 for presiding over the Evans-Novak political incidents in Vietnam and the Six-day War. has not changed, but this law must forum next week. He could not report on the independence change, since under current law, The headline in the New York Times called movement in the Baltics without actually CHAMPVA beneficiaries lose their eli- him a conservative columnist. I guess he did going to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. gibility for coverage when they turn 65. end up as pretty conservative—this friend When his father died, Rowly was reporting in The TRICARE for Life law passed and ardent admirer of Jack and Robert Ken- Iraq—awaiting a rare interview with Saddam nedy, the son of a liberal Democratic family Hussein. He flew to Philadelphia for the fu- last year specifically allows military on the conservative Philadelphia mainline neral, then back to Baghdad—and that inter- retirees and their dependents to remain who, at the behest of his New Deal father, view with the Iraqi dictator. in the TRICARE program after they delivered a speech—in Marine uniform—for But the heart of his reporting was here in turn age 65, as long as they are en- Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. Washington. His sources were legion: the rolled with Part B of Medicare. When Kay Winton told her liberal father mighty of Washington and obscure staffers, TRICARE will cover those expenses not she had fallen in love with Rowly, she con- CIA spooks and mysterious e´migre´s. All were covered under Medicare. It also pro- cluded by saying: and, daddy, he’s a liberal! interrogated in the dining room of the Met- vides for retail and mail-order pharma- Nearly half a century later, her husband was ropolitan Club. ceutical coverage for Medicare-eligible singing the praises of Ronald Reagan and In the last week, I have been contacted by Newt Gingrich. so many younger people in the news business military retirees. Still I can think of words more descriptive who told me how Rowly counseled them, There is no doubt that TRICARE and of the whole man than conservative: re- gave them a helping hand. His was what CHAMPVA beneficiaries should retain porter, patriot, mentor, competitor, even— Stew Alsop called the reporter’s trade and he similar eligibility for health care cov- and here using a description by his wife of 51 sought to pass it along to a new generation. erage. What TRICARE does for the years—rascal. If I may close with a strictly personal families of military retirees should be He rejoiced in his rascality and loved to note. On the morning of Monday, December no less readily available to the sur- talk about it. About the time as Marine re- 17, 1963, returning to the Washington Bureau vivors and dependents of severely dis- cruit at Parris Island, when he spotted an old of the Wall Street Journal after my honey- buddy from the Kent School who was a Ma- abled veterans and those service-mem- moon, I found a batch of notes from a re- bers who died in the line of duty. Sim- rine lieutenant. They decided to have a drink porter form the New York Herald-Tribune together, but where could an officer and an whom I barely knew: Rowland Evans. When I ple justice and equity demand this. enlisted man go together? To go to the Offi- called him, he asked me for lunch—not at Just last week, I received a letter from cers Club, his friend dressed Rowly as an offi- the Metropolitan Club by the way but at a constituent from Nutter Fort, WV, cer. All went well until Rowly spotted how Blackie’s House of Beef. It was a lunch that that hammered home this very point. own commanding officer at the bar. They changed my life and made my career. She asked in her letter, ‘‘Why aren’t tiptoed out to prevent their Marine careers The upshot was the Evans-Novak column the CHAMPVA beneficiaries offered from ending in court martial. which lasted for 30 years until his retirement Most of us know the story of how Rowly, the same program recently approved and a partnership of 38 years that continued for those on TRICARE who are now eli- the lowest of the low in the Washington Bu- in television and our newsletter. We had a reau of the Associated Press, posted as bu- gible for Medicare?’’ thousand shouting arguments, often at the Indeed, title 38 of the United States reau chief to interview Katherine for a job— top of our voices. We never fought about at 8 o’clock in the evening, no less. money, hardly ever about ideology but fre- Code reflects this view by requiring the And Rowly said the crowning achievement quently about what story to tell and how to Secretary to provide medical care ‘‘in of his life came just a few years ago when he tell it. the same or similar manner and sub- and his friend Woody Redmond skated the Rowland Evans was the life of every party, ject to the same or similar limitations frozen Potomac River before being halted— but he ceased being a society boy long ago in as medical care furnished to certain de- and nearly arrested—by police. the crucible of combat as a Marine sergeant The skating incident also reflected one of pendents and survivors of active duty in the Solomon Islands. He was a tough Ma- the fiercest competitive spirits any of us and retired members of the Armed rine, an unabashed patriot, a great journalist have ever seen—playing competitive ice Forces.’’ And up until enactment of the and a faithful friend and colleague. Rest in hockey until he was 40, winning squash tour- peace, Rowly. new, highly valued TRICARE for Life nament after squash tournament at the Met- provisions just last fall, the two pro- ropolitan Club into his 70’s and ranked na- f grams were, indeed, similar. tionally among senior squash players, play- CHAMPVA FOR LIFE An argument could be made that ing tennis or bridge or poker, shooting dice Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I since TRICARE was modified to re- with friends for lunch at the Metropolitan move the limitation on eligibility, leg- Club, just trying to drive from Georgetown am proud to be the author of the to Culpepper without hitting a stoplight. He CHAMPVA for Life Act of 2001. islation is not necessary to equate the could recite nearly every shot of the semi- Last year, Congress finally enacted two programs. However, VA has not yet embraced CHAMPVA for Life. final match in the National Father-and Son legislation to restore the promise of The bill simply clarifies that the Tennis Tournament when he was 14 years providing lifetime health care to our old. CHAMPVA and TRICARE programs He was a happy warrior, a delight at any military retirees. TRICARE for Life, as should continue to operate in a similar dinner party, playing the piano, stirring up it is known, is long overdue. However, manner, with similar eligibility. This trouble. But beneath these high spirits an equally worthy group has been left would mean that Medicare-eligible burned the heart of a patriot—the Yale out of the reform. CHAMPVA beneficiaries who enroll in freshman who stood in line on December 8, The Civilian Health and Medical Pro- 1941 to enlist in the Marine Corps, exchang- Part B of Medicare would retain sec- gram of the Department of Veterans ondary CHAMPVA coverage, and bene- ing the privileged life he had always known Affairs, CHAMPVA, provides health for combat at Guadalcanal. ficiaries would receive the same phar- His fierce passion for the security of his care coverage to several categories of macy benefit as CHAMPVA bene- country was the prism through which all his individuals who have paid dearly for ficiaries who are under age 65. journalism passed. It guided his greatest that right: dependents of veterans who The failure of Congress to enact pre- journalistic achievements—his expose´ of So- have been rated by VA as having a scription drug coverage under Medicare viet arms control cheating in the 1970’s that total and permanent disability; sur- only underscores the need to enact this the U.S. Government sought to hide, his in- vivors of veterans who died from VA- CHAMPVA reform. However serious a formed forecasts of the fall of the communist rated service-connected conditions; and empire in Czechoslovakia and Poland. gap it was for Medicare to lack pre- That passion embroiled Rowly in con- survivors of servicemembers who died scription drug benefit in 1965, incred- troversy when he refused to accept the Gov- in the line of duty. As such, CHAMPVA ible advances in drug therapy, com- ernment cover-up of the bombing of the provides a measure of security to a bined with staggering inflation in pre- U.S.S. Liberty in the Six-day War. He could group of persons who have indisputably scription drug costs, have made the not let the reasons for the death of fellow given a great deal to our country. need for affordable prescription drug Americans serving their country go unno- CHAMPVA is intended to serve as a coverage even more important today. ticed. safety net for dependents and survivors CHAMPVA beneficiaries who have sac- Rowland Evans was no deskbound col- of severely disabled veterans who, be- umnist. In the tradition of his great friends rificed so much already should not be the Alsop brothers, he went everywhere—and cause of their disabilities, were unable forced to sacrifice anything more to anywhere—for a story: China, Southeast to provide health insurance benefits to purchase needed prescription drugs. Asia, all over Eastern Europe, the Mideast, their families through employment. Nothing brings this closer to home the Indian subcontinent. He skirted death in The safety net mission of CHAMPVA for me than another letter I received

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