May 12, 2016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S2741 Wally was stunned. He thought, needed another professional challenge. new President said: ‘‘My friends, no ‘‘Here I am, from Abraham Lincoln’s So, at the age of 28, after 4 years as an one, not in my situation, can appre- hometown. I lived nine or ten blocks architect in Denver, Wally packed up ciate my feeling of sadness at this part- from Lincoln’s home, and this child his wife and baby and moved home. ing. To this place, and the kindness of knows as much about Abraham Lincoln He told Don Ferry that he would these people, I owe everything.’’ He as I do.’’ work with him, but he had conditions. closed by saying, ‘‘I bid you an affec- Over the next several decades, that He told Don, ‘‘You quit your job, I’ll tionate farewell.’’ would change. As an architect and ar- quit my job and we’ll open an office in Likewise, to my old friend Wally chitectural preservationist, Wally Springfield because, by God, Spring- Henderson, who did so much to pre- would play a crucial role in helping to field needs higher education and a serve the legacy of President Lincoln preserve what is now called the Lincoln whole bunch of other things.’’ and to enrich our hometown in so Home National Historic Site and the His other condition: Wally said, many other ways, I bid you an affec- Capital Complex. As I mentioned, he ‘‘We’re not competing with anybody. tionate farewell. also helped preserve and rebuild the old We’re going to bring contemporary ar- f State capitol in Springfield, where chitecture to Springfield, Illinois’’ NATIONAL POLICE WEEK Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous There were about a dozen architectural ‘‘House Divided’’ speech, warning that firms in town at that time, but no one Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, every the Nation could not endure half slave was doing much of anything new. year in May we commemorate National and half free. Coincidentally, it was Wally Henderson and Don Ferry Police Week, a time to reflect upon the also at the old State capitol that an- formed their own firm, Ferry & Hen- sacrifices made by the men and women other lanky lawyer from Illinois, derson Architects, in 1961. They started who serve in law enforcement. In par- , announced his can- out in a one-room office that contained ticular we honor those who have made didacy for President of the United two stools, a drafting table, and a tele- the ultimate sacrifice and died in the States in 2007. phone. They worked together for dec- line of duty. Our law enforcement offi- I was honored to serve with Wally ades and literally transformed Spring- cers risk their lives every day to pro- Henderson on the commission that field. tect and serve our communities in helped create the Abraham Lincoln They spearheaded projects including Vermont and across the country. This Presidential Library and Museum in the Springfield Municipal Plaza, the year I am proud to say that Congress Springfield. We also served together on Willard Ice Building, and the building has come together to deliver more than the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial that houses the Springfield Journal- just rhetoric in honor of this service. Committee, which helped lead the Na- Register. This year we are providing something tion in remembering Abraham Lincoln One reason Wally had vowed never to much more important—tangible, life- during 2009, the bicentennial of his return to Springfield was because the saving protection for hundreds of thou- birth. town lacked a university. Ferry & Hen- sands of law enforcement officers. On Wally was a past president and long- derson helped rectify that omission Tuesday, the House of Representatives time board member of the Abraham when their firm designed the Public Af- joined the Senate and passed my bipar- Lincoln Association, a distinguished fairs Building, the first permanent tisan reauthorization of the Bullet- group of Lincoln scholars. In 2009, the building at Sangamon State Univer- proof Vest Partnership Grant Program. Lincoln Association awarded him its sity, now the University of Illinois at I originally worked with former Sen- Logan Hay Medal, for his work in pre- Springfield. Wally remained a strong ator Ben Nighthorse Campbell to estab- serving and making more accessible supporter of the university until the lish the Bulletproof Vest Partnership buildings and landmarks associated end of his life. program in the wake of the Carl Drega with President Lincoln’s life. When Wally moved back to Spring- shootings on the Vermont-New Hamp- In 2013, the Springfield Journal Reg- field, the area surrounding the Lincoln shire border. While the Federal officers ister named Wally Henderson Spring- Home was run-down and nondescript. engaged in a shootout with Drega were field’s ‘‘First Citizen.’’ The ceremony Wally helped stir Springfield’s civic equipped with body armor, many of took place, fittingly, at the old State pride and its resolve to take care of its their State law enforcement counter- capitol State historic site, which Wal- priceless legacy as Abraham Lincoln’s parts were not, which resulted in the ly’s firm had helped to restore. hometown. I have been proud to have death of two State troopers. Now, near- That Wally became such an impor- my congressional and Senate offices in ly 20 years later, this program has pro- tant and cherished part of Springfield this restored area. vided more than 1.2 million protective is a bit of an irony. You see, when Just as that little Korean boy had en- vests to more than 13,000 law enforce- Wally Henderson left Springfield to go abled Wally to see Springfield through ment agencies around the country, in- to college, he vowed to himself that he new eyes, Wally helped others in cluding more than 4,400 vests for would never move back. Springfield to envision a future in Vermont officers; yet the program’s After serving in Korea, Wally used which the Lincoln Home, the old State charter expired in 2012, and I have been the G.I. Bill to earn his master’s degree capitol, and other places that Lincoln working to reauthorize it ever since. in architecture at the University of Il- loved would become the crown jewels The Senate passed the bipartisan meas- linois. He met his first wife, Sally; they of America’s Lincoln historic sites. ure coauthored by Senator LINDSEY got married, and Wally landed a great Last year, more than 233,000 people GRAHAM last year. I am proud that the job working as an architect in Denver. visited the Lincoln Home National His- House has now done the same, and the Then came the fateful phone call: toric Site in Springfield, up nearly 20 legislation is headed to the President’s Wally was contacted by a young archi- percent from the year before. Those desk for signature. This program saves tect in Springfield, the brother-in-law visitors spent more than $13.8 million lives and proves that Congress can of Wally’s best friend in high school. at local businesses. work together to protect those who The brother-in-law’s name was Don My wife, Loretta, and I were fortu- protect us. Ferry. He was working for a Spring- nate to count Wally Henderson as a While the Bulletproof Vest Partner- field firm that was designing hospitals, dear friend and neighbor. We both ex- ship will continue to protect officers, and they needed another architect. Was tend our condolences to Wally’s wife, we must never forget the more than Wally interested? Brynn, and to their children and grand- 20,000 fallen officers enshrined on the Wally came home, talked with Don children, all of whom Wally loved deep- walls of the National Law Enforcement Ferry, and left unimpressed. He went ly. Officers Memorial. These walls stand back to Denver and finished work on a When Abraham Lincoln left Spring- as a testament to the dedication and church that his firm was building in field to start his inaugural journey to commitment of our brave law enforce- the Rocky Mountains. The completed Washington, friends from all over town ment officers. Officers like Sergeant church was spectacular. At its grand came to see him off at the Great West- Gary A. Gaboury, a patrol commander opening, Sally nudged Wally and said, ern Railway station. In what is now in Shaftsbury and member of the State ‘‘You’re leaving.’’ She knew that Wally known as his Farewell Address, the police dive team, who tragically died 24

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Baker’s time on Capitol Hill has provided wounds are, our communities must not icy, Professor Baker saw firsthand how history the chance to have an academic get forget the sacrifice of Sergeant lawmakers, including myself, balance an up-close view of one of this era’s most in- Gaboury and others in uniform. meaningful, large-scale policy debates fluential political figures, but also one of the Tomorrow the names of 252 fallen of- with the day-to-day responsibility of most difficult to understand. ficers will be added to the walls of the representing and advocating for our ‘‘The panorama is breathtaking,’’ Baker memorial. Among those who will be constituents. It goes without saying said. ‘‘Here is somebody who has his [finger added to the wall is Vermont State that my relationship with Professor on the] pulse [of] all the major policy areas, Trooper Kyle Young, who tragically Baker was a two-way street. It was not has to, and has a staff that is equipped to do died last September. Trooper Young, that. So the feelers are out, the sensors are uncommon for me to respond to his everywhere, the neurons are firing con- who suffered heat stroke during a questions with some of my own. stantly.’’ training exercise, was the first line-of- In 2008, Ross Baker joined then-Ma- Reid said he wanted Baker to ‘‘focus on the duty death in Vermont in 12 years. jority Leader REID’s staff at a pivotal Senate as an institution’’ for history’s sake, Like so many of his fallen colleagues, time in both Congress and in the polit- and the professor wrote a 2014 book, ‘‘Is Bi- Trooper Young died while working to ical arena. Long and diverse primary partisanship Dead?,’’ based largely on his be a better public servant. He hoped to campaigns, coupled with the winding 2012 experience with Reid. be promoted to the agency’s tactical down of the tumultuous Bush adminis- ‘‘We all trust him,’’ Reid said in a tele- phone interview this week from Nevada. team, and he died showing the same tration, provided Professor Baker with He allowed Baker into every senior staff grit and determination that he showed even more fodder for his courses at meeting and let him watch Reid’s senior throughout his life, always trying to Rutgers. As he concludes his final stint aides prep the senator every Tuesday morn- achieve the next goal. Trooper Young with Senator REID’s office, one can ing for his weekly news conference. ‘‘He was only 28 years old and the father of only wonder how today’s political dia- doesn’t speak up very often, but when he two young girls. He was an outstanding logue both on the campaign trail and does, we all listen,’’ Reid added. high school athlete who went on to on the floor of the Senate will inform The low-light came when Republicans fili- bustered the ratification of a treaty to ele- serve in the U.S. Air Force, with tours Professor Baker’s American Govern- vate global standards for the disabled, open- in Iraq and Afghanistan. His colleagues ment course when he resumes teaching ing Baker’s eyes to the ability of conserv- described him as an active trooper who, this fall. ative groups to block legislation. with less than 2 years on the job, Vermonters have entrusted me to Now, Baker thinks the calls on both sides quickly found his calling. represent them in Washington several for ‘‘regular order’’—legislation beginning in The tragedy of Trooper Young’s times. Like Professor Baker, I have committee, involving junior members, death will not be forgotten, nor will spent time studying what works, and emerging to full and open debates on the the lives of 23 other Vermont law en- House and Senate floor—are hollow. what doesn’t. His insights are as im- ‘‘There are just too many forces arrayed forcement officers who have died in the portant to the chronicle of Senate his- against it for it to work,’’ he said. ‘‘I think line of duty. Vermont is fortunate to tory as they are to the students he it’s a function of polarization, that leaders be served by so many professional and teaches today. have to get control of the process and have dedicated public servants in law en- I ask unanimous consent that a May to use exotic procedures that are basically forcement. That is why I have worked 5 article in enti- incomprehensible.’’ so long to provide law enforcement of- tled ‘‘History Professor Landed a Privi- Yet Reid was never the dictator in John- ficers with what they need to keep leged Perch to See How Harry Reid son’s 1950s style, according to Baker. Those both themselves and their communities senators whom Reid rebuffed after his initial Works’’ be printed in the RECORD. ‘‘I’ll take a look at it’’ would soon find him safe. It is my hope that the reauthor- There being no objection, the mate- doing a quick favor. ‘‘He will double back ization of the Bulletproof Vest Part- rial was ordered to be printed in the and do something for that person to make nership program will do just that—and RECORD, as follows: them feel important,’’ Baker said. will help keep names off that wall. [From the Washington Post, May 5, 2016] Baker has long been known as a leading congressional expert, a go-to resource for f HISTORY PROFESSOR LANDED A PRIVILEGED news media in need of translating Wash- PERCH TO SEE HOW HARRY REID WORKS TRIBUTE TO ROSS BAKER ington. These stints on Capitol Hill have (By Paul Kane) Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I have given him a first-hand experience, spanning Harry Reid almost never says no. often likened the counsel that Senators decades, that few scholars can match. When he gets a new piece of information or Baker’s political interests started ran- receive from their staff to the con- a request or anything, he says—he uses this domly. In the mid-1970s, when he was fash- fidential advice a lawyer provides to a phrase all the time—he says: ‘I’ll look at ioning himself as an Africa expert and writ- client. That is why it is so rare that, it,’ ’’ says Ross K. Baker, a distinguished ing occasional op-eds in The Washington over the last 40 or so years, Ross congressional scholar at Rutgers University. Post, Baker decided to refocus his career on Baker, a Distinguished professor at That approach gives the Senate minority U.S. politics, and on Congress in particular. Rutgers University, has taken several leader wiggle room to make decisions in pri- So the 36-year-old professor persuaded Sen. sabbaticals to research the inner work- vate, a style of leadership that is decidedly ’s chief of staff, Richard Moe, different from the ‘‘master of the Senate,’’ to give him a break. Baker read the aca- ings of Capitol Hill. Most recently, as a bulldozing approach that Lyndon B. Johnson demic version of Washington in journals on scholar in residence in Senate Minority honed as leader in the 1950s. his bus commute, then lived the real-life Leader HARRY REID’s office, Professor That’s just one of the countless insights version by day, spending a full academic Baker has been given the unusual ac- that Baker, 77, has drawn in three separate year among the offices of Mondale (D–Minn ) cess to the inner workings of one of the stints as ‘‘scholar in residence’’ on Reid’s and Sens. Birch Bayh (D–Ind.) and Frank Senate’s leading offices. The result? staff Last week, he finished his final tour Church (D–Idaho). Professor Baker is considered the go-to with the retiring Senate leader as an unpaid Back then, Baker was more like a regular adviser and observer, a one-of-a-kind sab- academic expert on the Senate, one of staffer, writing speeches for Bayh and help- batical for the professor. Over the past 41 ing Church in his late-breaking bid for the the preeminent scholars of congres- years, Baker has done seven stints on Cap- 1976 presidential nomination. He almost ac- sional history, the author of six books itol Hill, working in the House and Senate. cepted Church’s offer of a full-time job but about Congress and government, and Rather than teaching undergraduate stu- returned to Rutgers for the fall of 1976. an insightful resource for the news dents his ‘‘American Government’’ course, ‘‘But I got a serious, you know, a chronic media about the often inscrutable go- the professor embedded himself in real case of Potomac Fever,’’ Baker said. ings-on in Congress. American government at an irregular pace in By 1983, the time of his next full-year sab- I came to know Professor Baker the past, but over the past 16 years he’s been batical, he had landed a gig with the House when he joined my staff as an adviser here every four years. Nothing can compete Democratic Caucus, when the massive ma- with the access he has been given in Reid’s jority included dozens of ‘‘Boll Weevil’’ in 2000, when he returned to Capitol leadership office in the Capitol. He watched Democrats who backed ’s tax Hill to gain a better understanding of the early stages of the 2008 presidential pri- cuts and strong military posture. Senate seniority. When he returned to mary play out on the Senate floor between Baker went another 17 years before he got my staff in 2004, during a period of then-Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clin- back to the Capitol, returning to the Senate

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