September 15, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5669 And tourists are worried about trav- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a RELATIVE TO THE DEATH OF THE eling to Vermont this fall to see the fo- sufficient second? HONORABLE MALCOLM WALLOP, liage or this winter to do some skiing. There appears to be a sufficient sec- FORMER SENATOR FROM THE Our small State is stretched to the ond. STATE OF limit right now. Winter is fast ap- The clerk will call the roll. Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- proaching, which means the end of the The assistant legislative clerk called mous consent that the Senate now pro- construction season is near. By Novem- the roll. ceed to the consideration of S. Res. 268, ber it will be too cold to lay asphalt, Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the which was submitted earlier today. and by December snow and ice will Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. KOHL), is The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cover the mountains, leaving many necessarily absent. clerk will report the resolution by towns dangerously isolated. We need to Mr. KYL. The following Senator is title. make more permanent repairs as soon The legislative clerk read as follows: as possible or future rains and the fall’s necessarily absent: The Senator from Florida (Mr. RUBIO). A resolution (S. Res. 268) relative to the freeze-thaw cycle will further deterio- death of the Honorable Malcolm Wallop, rate our roads and make them all but Further, if present and voting, the former Senator from the State of Wyoming. Senator from Florida (Mr. RUBIO) impassable this winter. With just There being no objection, the Senate would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ weeks to accomplish so much, we need proceeded to consider the resolution. the full and immediate support of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there Mr. ENZI. I ask unanimous consent FEMA, the Department of Transpor- any other Senators in the Chamber de- that the resolution be agreed to, the tation, and many other Federal agen- siring to vote? preamble be agreed to, and the motions cies. The result was announced—yeas 92, to reconsider be laid upon the table. Earlier natural disasters across the nays 6, as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Nation have drawn down our emer- [Rollcall Vote No. 138 Leg.] objection, it is so ordered. gency fund accounts, jeopardizing the YEAS—92 The resolution (S. Res. 268) was ability to respond in those States, as agreed to. Akaka Franken Mikulski well as the newly stricken States such Alexander Gillibrand Moran The preamble was agreed to. as Vermont. FEMA has less than $400 Ayotte Graham Murkowski The resolution, with its preamble, million in its disaster account for the Barrasso Grassley Murray reads as follows: Baucus Hagan rest of fiscal year 2011, and the Federal Nelson (NE) S. RES. 268 Begich Highway Administration’s disaster ac- Harkin Nelson (FL) Bennet Hatch Portman Whereas Malcolm Wallop served in the Wy- count is under $200 million. On top of Bingaman Heller Pryor oming House of Representatives from 1969 to that, the Federal highway account al- Blumenthal Hoeven Reed 1972, and in the from 1973 to ready has over $1 billion in backlogged Blunt Hutchison Reid 1976; Boozman Inhofe Risch Whereas Malcolm Wallop represented the projects waiting for funding. Since Boxer Inouye Roberts people of the State of Wyoming in the United damage to Vermont’s Federal-aid roads Brown (MA) Isakson Rockefeller Brown (OH) Johanns States Senate with distinction for 18 years, and bridges alone will exceed half a bil- Sanders Burr Johnson (SD) from 1977 to 1995; lion dollars, it is unclear whether the Cantwell Kerry Schumer Whereas, while serving in the Senate, Mal- $2.5 billion we propose in this amend- Cardin Kirk Sessions colm Wallop championed the development of Shaheen ment will even cover all of the costs for Carper Klobuchar space-based anti-missile defense, supported Casey Kyl Shelby declared disasters including Irene. But Snowe legislation to reduce inheritance and gift Chambliss Landrieu taxes, fought to restore fish habitats in the it is a good start. Coats Lautenberg Stabenow We must act quickly to replenish Cochran Leahy Tester , and opposed the control of the FEMA’s disaster relief fund, Federal Collins Levin Thune water resources of the State of Wyoming by Conrad Lieberman Udall (CO) the Federal Government; highway’s emergency road fund, and a Udall (NM) variety of other disaster accounts that Coons Lugar Whereas Malcolm Wallop created the Con- Corker Manchin Vitter gressional Award Program in 1979 as a chal- are at dangerously low levels right Cornyn McCain Warner lenge to young people throughout the United Webb now. Without additional funding to Crapo McCaskill States to change the world around them these and other emergency accounts, Durbin McConnell Whitehouse Enzi Menendez Wicker through personal initiative, achievement, Vermont and all of the other 49 States Feinstein Merkley Wyden and service; with ongoing Federal disasters will not Whereas, in 1984, Malcolm Wallop coau- have the resources they need to re- NAYS—6 thored section 1014 of the Tax Reform Act of build. Coburn Johnson (WI) Paul 1984 (Public Law 98-369; 98 Stat. 1015), com- Thousands of American families and DeMint Lee Toomey monly known as the Wallop-Breaux Amend- businesses have been devastated by an NOT VOTING—2 ment, which remains today as the leading unprecedented series of floods, torna- legislative initiative for sport fish restora- Kohl Rubio tion in the United States; does, hurricanes, wildfires, and other Whereas Malcolm Wallop served as chair- natural disasters this year. The people The bill (H.R. 2887) was passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under man of the Select Committee on Ethics, hurting out there are desperate for a ranking member of the Committee on En- helping hand from their fellow Ameri- the previous order, the motion to re- ergy and Natural Resources and the Com- cans. Given the breadth and depth of consider is considered made and laid mittee on Armed Services, chairman of the Irene’s destruction, on top of the ongo- upon the table. Senate Steering Committee, and was the ing disasters already declared in all 50 The Senator from Wyoming. first nonlawyer in the history of the Senate States, we must ensure that FEMA, the to serve on the Committee on the Judiciary; Department of Transportation, and all f Whereas, after retiring from the Senate, Malcolm Wallop founded the Frontiers of of the other Federal agencies involved Freedom Institute to continue addressing in disaster-relief efforts have the re- MORNING BUSINESS the issues he championed as a Senator and to sources they need to help our citizens Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- ensure that the ideals he espoused were not in their desperate time of need. forgotten; and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mous consent that the Senate proceed Whereas the hallmarks of Malcolm Wal- question is on the third reading of the to a period of morning business, with lop’s public service were conservatism, civil- bill. Senators permitted to speak for up to ity, and working for the western way of life: The bill was ordered to a third read- 10 minutes each, with an exception for Now, therefore, be it ing and was read the third time. myself and the other Senator from Wy- Resolved, That— The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under oming, concerning a tribute to Mal- (1) the Senate has heard with profound sor- colm Wallop, who passed away yester- row and deep regret the announcement of the the previous order, the bill having been death of the Honorable Malcolm Wallop, read the third time, the question is, day, and that we might have such time former member of the Senate; and Shall the bill pass? as needed. (2) the Secretary of the Senate commu- Mrs. FEINSTEIN. I ask for the yeas The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without nicate this resolution to the House of Rep- and nays. objection, it is so ordered. resentatives and transmit an enrolled copy

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