March 27, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4497 The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time cies meant ‘‘full employment’’ on the Let me say that yesterday all of us having been yielded back, the question Federal courts. Even with the vacan- were caused great sorrow when we is, will the Senate advise and consent cies that have arisen since we ad- heard the terrible news that Senator to the nomination of Philip P. Simon, journed last year, we remain below the Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a giant of Indiana, to be United States District ‘‘full employment’’ level that Senator among us, had passed from our midst. Judge for the Northern District of Indi- HATCH used to draw for the Federal While the sadness is still there, today I ana? courts with only 50 vacancies remain- rise to pay tribute to Pat Moynihan Mr. LUGAR. Mr. President, I ask ing on the district courts and courts of and to the extraordinary life that he that the yeas and nays be vitiated. appeals, according to the Judiciary led. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Committee website. Unfortunately, the It can rarely be said about someone CRAPO). Without objection, it is so or- President has not made nominations to that they changed the world and made dered. a number of those seats, and on more it a better place just with their ideas. The nomination was confirmed. than half of the current vacancies he Senator Moynihan was such an indi- Mr. LUGAR. I move to reconsider the has missed his self-imposed deadline of vidual. He was a font of ideas. He was vote, and I move to lay that motion on a nomination within 180 days. Of not afraid to utter them and he uttered the table. course, several of the nominations he them in such a way that people lis- The motion to lay on the table was has made are controversial. tened, paid attention, and changed the agreed to. This year the President has taken way they lived for the better. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the truly unprecedented action of re- Pat Moynihan was a friend to me, a President will be notified of the Sen- nominating candidates voted down in mentor. I first met him when I at- ate’s action. committee in spite of the serious con- tended his course at Harvard while I f cerns expressed by fair-minded mem- was a student and he was a professor. Throughout the many years, he ex- JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS bers of this committee. That is a sig- nificant problem. tended me so many kindnesses I can’t Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, while This year we have had a rocky begin- even count them. But beyond the per- there are continuing problems caused ning with a hearing that has caused a sonal—and every one of us has our per- by the administration’s refusal to work great many problems we might have sonal stories about Pat—is what he did with Democratic Senators to select avoided. The chairman’s insistence on for all of us. He was known in the Sen- consensus judicial nominees who could terminating debate on the Cook and ate as a unique individual, as a person be confirmed relatively quickly by the Roberts nominations is another serious of ideas in a body that, frankly, has al- Senate, today we again demonstrate problem. Of course, the administra- ways needed more of them. He was the what can happen when the administra- tion’s unwillingness to work with the kind of Senator that the Founding Fa- thers, as they look down on this body, tion works with us. Senate so that we may be provided the would look at and smile and say: In spite of the President’s lack of co- documents and information needed to That’s the kind of person we wanted to operation, the Senate in the 17 months proceed with a final vote on the serve in the Senate. I chaired the Judiciary Committee was Estrada nomination has already proved able to confirm 100 judges and vastly I think the Washington Post edi- to be a significant problem. The oppo- torial said it very well today. It said: reduce the judicial vacancies that had sition to the Sutton nomination is also built up and were prevented by the Re- He pursued with distinction enough careers extensive. for half a dozen men of lesser talents and publican Senate majority from being Nonetheless, the Senate has pro- filled by President Clinton. Last year imagination—politician, Presidential ad- ceeded to confirm 113 of President viser, diplomat, author, professor and public alone the Democratic-led Senate con- Bush’s judicial nominees, including 13 intellectual. firmed 72 judicial nominees, more than this year alone. The Senate confirmed As someone who is barely managing in any of the prior 6 years of Repub- the controversial nomination of Jay to pursue only one of those many ca- lican control. Not once did the Repub- Bybee to the Ninth Circuit, another reers, I can’t help but observe that, as lican-controlled committee consider pro-life judicial nominee. Already this you look around, there are no more Pat that many of President Clinton’s dis- year the Senate has confirmed more Moynihans in part because of the trict and circuit court nominees. In our circuit court judges than Republicans man—Pat Moynihan’s vision, erudi- efforts to turn the other cheek and allowed to be confirmed in the entire tion, intellect, dazzling wit, and moral treat this President’s nominees better 1996 session. In addition, I note that it conviction were second to none—and in than his predecessor’s had fared, we was not until September, 1999, that 13 part because of the times. Pat Moy- confirmed 100 judges in 17 months. Yet of President Clinton’s judicial nomi- nihan was one of the preeminent public not a single elected Republican has ac- nees were confirmed in the first session intellectuals in a time when such fig- knowledged this tremendous biparti- of the last Congress in which Repub- ures and their ideas could command sanship and fairness. When Chief Jus- licans controlled the Senate majority. the Nation’s attention in a way that I tice Rehnquist thanked the committee This year we are 6 months ahead of fear is now all but gone from American for confirming 100 judicial nominees, that schedule. life. I hope and pray that is not true. this was the first time this accomplish- The California nominee comes from But we mourn his passing. We mourn ment had been acknowledged by any- the bipartisan selection commissions the passing of his time from the na- one from a Republican background. I Senator FEINSTEIN and Senator BOXER tional stage and from this beloved in- thanked him last week when I appeared have established in California and the stitution that he loved so well and before the Judicial Conference. Indiana nominee has the bipartisan served so well in for 24 years, the Sen- Almost all of the judges confirmed support of his home State Senators. I ate. are conservatives, many of them quite congratulate the nominees and their In the coming days, many will pay to the right of the mainstream, and families. tribute to Pat Moynihan’s leadership many are pro-life. Many of these nomi- and vision on so many ideas where his f nees have been active in conservative mark on policy and his mark on indi- political causes or groups, but we LEGISLATIVE SESSION viduals are well known. There are chil- moved fairly and expeditiously on as The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- dren born in this country and in for- many as we could. ate will return to legislative session. eign countries whose lives are better, We cut the number of vacancies on f who will live better lives because Pat the courts from 110 to 50, despite an ad- Moynihan lived and worked on this ditional 60 new vacancies that had aris- DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Earth. en. I recall that the chairman said in Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I His leadership in Social Security, in September of 1997 that 103 vacancies, know there are a group of us who wish welfare reform, in poverty, in tax pol- during the Clinton Administration, did to speak about Senator Moynihan. I icy, in trade, in education, in immigra- not constitute a ‘‘vacancy crisis.’’ He think that would be the next order of tion, in foreign policy, and most re- also repeatedly stated that 67 vacan- business, and so I will proceed. cently in government secrecy—any one

VerDate Jan 31 2003 05:17 Mar 28, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27MR6.060 S27PT1 S4498 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 27, 2003 of those would have been enough to be his speeches, though not necessarily to fol- after his mother bought a bar there when he a capstone of an ordinary Senator’s ca- low his recommendations. He had a knack was 20. But there was enough hardship and reer. But Pat did them all. for the striking phrase, but unease at the instability in his early life so that when he Adam Clymer of the New York Times controversy it often caused. When other sen- later wrote of ‘‘social pathology,’’ he knew ators used August recesses to travel or raise what he was talking about. chronicled Pat’s career and life mov- money for re-election, he spent most of them Mr. Moynihan’s mother, Margaret Moy- ingly and brilliantly today. I ask unan- in an 1854 schoolhouse on his farm in Pindars nihan, moved the family, including a broth- imous consent his piece be printed in Corners in Delaware County, about 65 miles er, Michael, and a sister, Ellen, into a suc- the RECORD. west of Albany. He was writing books, 9 as a cession of Manhattan apartments, and Pat There being no objection, the mate- senator, 18 in all. shined shoes in Times Square. In 1943 he rial was ordered to be printed in the Mr. Moynihan was less an original re- graduated first in his class at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem. He RECORD, as follows: searcher than a bold, often brilliant syn- thesizer whose works compelled furious de- also graduated to work as a stevedore at [From the New York Times, Mar. 27, 2003] bate and further research. In 1965, his fore- Piers 48 and 49 on West 11th Street. DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN IS DEAD; SENATOR most work, ‘‘The Negro Family: The Case for He went to City College for a year, enlisted FROM ACADEMIA WAS 76 National Action,’’ identified the breakup of in the Navy, and was trained as an officer at (By Adam Clymer) black families as a major impediment to Middlebury College and at Tufts University. Discharged the next spring, he went to work Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Harvard pro- black advancement. Though savaged by that summer tending bar for his mother, fessor and four-term United States senator many liberal academics at the time, it is then got his B.A. at Tufts in 1948 and an M.A. from New York who brought a scholar’s eye now generally regarded as ‘‘an important at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplo- for data to politics and a politician’s sense of and prophetic document,’’ in the words of macy at Tufts in 1949. the real world to academia, died yesterday at Prof. William Julius Wilson of Harvard. Five years later, his memo to President In 1950 he went to the London School of Ec- Washington, D.C. He was 76. onomics on a Fulbright Scholarship, and he The cause, a spokesman for the family Nixon on race relations caused another up- roar. Citing the raw feelings provoked by the lived well on it, the G.I. bill and later a job said, was complications of a ruptured appen- at an Air Force base. He started wearing a dix, which was removed on March 11 at the battles of the civil rights era, Mr. Moynihan suggested a period of rhetorical calm—‘‘be- bowler hat. He had a tailor and a bootmaker hospital, where he remained. and traveled widely, including a visit to Mr. Moynihan was always more a man of nign neglect’’ he called it—a proposal widely misinterpreted as a call to abandon federal Moynihan cousins in County Kerry, Ireland. ideas than of legislation or partisan combat. Work on his dissertation did not consume Yet he was enough of a politician to win re- programs to improve the lives of black fami- lies. him. In ‘‘Pat,’’ his 1979 biography, Doug election easily—and enough of a maverick Schoen described a 1952 visit by two former with close Republican friends to be an occa- Nonetheless, he could also be an effective legislator. In his first term he teamed with Middlebury colleagues: ‘‘Impressed at first sional irritant to his Democratic party lead- with his elaborate file cabinet full of index ers. Before the Senate, his political home Jacob K. Javits, his Republican colleague, to pass legislation guaranteeing $2 billion cards, they found that most of the cards were from 1977 to 2001, he served two Democratic recipes for drinks rather than notes on the presidents and two Republicans, finishing his worth of New York City obligations at a time when the city faced bankruptcy. In a International Labor Organization.’’ career in the executive branch as President Mr. Moynihan came home in 1953 and went brief turn leading the Environment and Pub- Richard M. Nixon’s ambassador to India and to work in the mayoral campaign of Robert lic Works Committee in 1991 and 1992 he suc- President Gerald R. Ford’s ambassador to F. Wagner. He went on to write speeches for cessfully pushed to shift highway financing the United Nations. W. Averell Harriman’s successful campaign toward mass transit—and get New York $5 For more than 40 years, in and out of gov- for governor in 1954, joined his administra- billion in retroactive reimbursement for ernment, he became known for being among tion in Albany and rose to become his chief building the New York State Thruway before the first to identify new problems and pro- aide. It was there he learned about traffic the federal government began the Interstate pose novel, if not easy, solutions, most fa- safety, which he described in a 1959 article in mously in auto safety and mass transpor- Highway System. Although Mr. Moynihan’s junior colleague The Reporter as a public health problem re- tation; urban decay and the corrosive effects quiring federal action to make automobile of racism; and the preservation and develop- for 18 years, Alfonse M. D’Amato, became known as Senator Pothole for his pork-bar- design safer. ment of architecturally distinctive federal A SEMI-MODEST PROPOSAL buildings. rel efforts of New York, Mr. Moynihan held Another former campaign worker who He was a man known for the grand gesture his own in that department. came to Albany was Elizabeth Brennan. Her as well as the bon mot, and his style some- MONUMENT OF BRICKS AND MARBLE desk and his were in the same room, and times got more attention than his pre- Long before he came to the Senate, and they grew friendly. Rather suddenly in early science, displayed notably in 1980 when he la- until he left, he was building a monument of 1955, when they had never dated, Mr. Moy- beled the Soviet Union ‘‘in decline.’’ Among bricks and marble by making Washington’s nihan did not formally propose but simply his last great causes were strengthening So- Pennsylvania Avenue, a dingy street where told her he was going to marry her. cial Security and attacking government se- he came to work for President John F. Ken- They married in May 1955, and she often crecy. nedy in 1961, into the grand avenue that said she married him because he was the fun- In the halls of academe and the corridors George Washington foresaw for the boule- niest man she ever met. of power, he was known for seizing ideas and vard that connects the Capitol and the White His wife survives him, as do their three connections before others noticed. In 1963, House. Nearly 40 years of his effort filled the children: Timothy, Maura and John, and two for example, he was the co-author of ‘‘Be- avenue with new buildings on its north side, grandchildren. yond the Melting Pot,’’ which shattered the including the apartment houses where he While he was an enthusiastic supporter of idea that ethnic identities inevitably wear lived, restored buildings on the south, and John F. Kennedy, work at Syracuse Univer- off in the United States. Then, on the day cafes and a sense of life all along. sity on a book about the Harriman adminis- that November when President Kennedy was Wherever he went, Mr. Moynihan explored tration and his Ph.D. kept his role in the shot in Dallas, he told every official he could interesting buildings and worked to preserve campaign sporadic. But Liz Brennan Moy- find that the federal government must take architectural distinction, from converting nihan organized the campaign efforts in the custody of Lee Harvey Oswald to keep him the main post office in Manhattan into the Syracuse area. alive to learn about the killing. No one lis- new Pennsylvania Station, to the Customs His Ph.D. in international relations finally tened. House at Battery Park and all around Wash- complete, he left Syracuse in 1961 for Wash- Friends also observed the intense sense of ington. Last year, over lunch and a martini ington and the Labor Department, rising to history he connected to immediate events. at Washington’s Hotel Monaco, an 1842 Rob- assistant secretary. One early research as- Bob Packwood, the former Republican sen- ert Mills building that was once the city’s signment on office space for the scattered ator from Oregon, recalled his Democratic main post office, he recalled how he had department gave him an opportunity to as- friend’s response in 1993 when a reporter on helped rescue it from decline into a shooting sert guiding architectural principles that the White House lawn asked what he thought gallery for drugs. have endured and produced striking court- of the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Daniel Patrick Moynihan was born in houses: that federal buildings ‘‘must provide agreement to share the West Bank. ‘‘Well, I Tulsa, Okla., on March 16, 1927, the son of an visual testimony to the dignity, enterprise, think it’s the end of World War I,’’ he said, itinerant, hard-drinking newspaperman who vigor and stability of the American govern- alluding to the mandates that proposed Mid- moved the family to New York later that ment.’’ That same report enabled him to dle Eastern boundaries in 1920. year to take a job writing advertising copy. raise the Pennsylvania Avenue issue, and he Erudite, opinionated and favoring, in sea- They lived comfortably in the city and sub- was at work on development plans on Nov. son, tweed or seersucker, Mr. Moynihan con- urbs until 1937 when his father, John Moy- 22, 1963, when the word came that the presi- veyed an academic personality through a nihan, left the family and left it in poverty. dent had been shot in Dallas. chirpy manner of speech, with occasional Mr. Moynihan’s childhood has been pseudo- Beyond his failed efforts to protect Mr. Os- pauses between syllables. More than most glamorized by references to an upbringing in wald, Mr. Moynihan marked that grim assas- senators, he could get colleagues to listen to Hell’s Kitchen, which in fact he encountered sination weekend with a widely remembered

VerDate Jan 31 2003 05:17 Mar 28, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27MR6.062 S27PT1 March 27, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4499 remark about the death of the president he were two ideas for which his time in the while he was in the Senate. When he arrived barely knew but idolized and eagerly fol- Nixon White House was known. in 1977, he found President Carter too soft in lowed. In 1970 he wrote to the president on race dealing with the Soviet Union and indif- On Sunday, Nov. 24, he said in a television relations, arguing that the issue had been ferent to its evil nature. interview: ‘‘I don’t think there’s any point in rubbed raw by ‘‘hysterics, paranoids and But he quickly came to believe that the being Irish if you don’t know that the world boodlers’’ on all sides. Now, he wrote, race Soviet Union was crumbling. In Newsweek in is going to break your heart eventually. I relations could profit from a period of ‘‘be- 1979 he focused on its ethnic tensions. In Jan- guess we thought we had a little more time.’’ nign neglect’’ in which rhetoric, at least, was uary 1980, he told the Senate: ‘‘The Soviet He added softly, ‘‘So did he.’’ toned down. In a return of the reaction to his Union is a seriously troubled, even sick soci- His first book, written jointly with Nathan paper on the Negro family, when this paper ety. The indices of economic stagnation and Glazer, had come out earlier that year. ‘‘Be- was leaked it was treated as if Mr. Moynihan even decline are extraordinary. The indices yond the Melting Pot’’ looked at the dif- wanted to neglect blacks. of social disorder—social pathology is not He may have invited that interpretation ferent ethnic groups of New York City and too strong a term—are even more so.’’ He by his quaintly glib language, but in fact Mr. scoffed at ‘‘the notion that the intense and added. ‘‘The defining event of the decade Moynihan was pushing an idea that might unprecedented mixture of ethnic and reli- might well be the breakup of the Soviet em- have been of vast help to poor blacks, and gious groups in American life was soon to pire.’’ blend into a homogeneous end product.’’ Eth- whites. That other idea for which he was known, the Family Assistance Plan, sought It was against that changed perception nicity persisted, they argued. that he was sharply critical of vast increases That concept won praise from the era’s to provide guaranteed income to the unem- in military spending, which, combined with leading historian of immigration, Harvard’s ployed and supplements to the working poor, the Reagan tax cuts, produced deficits that Oscar Handlin, who called it a ‘‘point of de- and together to stop fathers from leaving he charged were intended to starve domestic parture’’ in studies of immigrants. But in a home so their families could qualify for wel- spending. He called a 1983 Reagan proposal foretaste of academic criticism in years to fare. The president made a speech for the for cutting Social Security benefits a come, he said their methodology was some- program, sent it to Capitol Hill and let it times ‘‘flimsy.’’ die. ‘‘breach of faith’’ with the elderly, and ‘‘The Negro Family: The Case for National Afterward, though he remained on good worked out a rescue package that kept the Action,’’ a paper he wrote at the Labor De- terms with Mr. Nixon, Mr. Moynihan went program solvent for at least a decade into partment early in 1965, argued that despite back to Harvard in 1970. Resentment over his the 21st century. the Johnson administrations’s success in White House service chilled his welcome He also scorned the 1983 invasion of Gre- passing civil rights, laws, statutes could not back in Cambridge. His interests shifted to nada, the 1984 mining of harbors in Nica- ensure equality after three centuries of dep- foreign affairs—perhaps because the charges ragua and the 1989 invasion of Panama as rivation. He said the disintegration of black of racism left him no audience for domestic violations of international law, and voted families had reached a point of ‘‘social pa- policy, and made him welcome an appoint- against authorizing President George H. W. thology.’’ He wrote: ‘‘The principal challenge ment as ambassador to India, where he nego- Bush to make war against Iraq. It was not of the next phase of the Negro revolution is tiated a deal to end India’s huge food aid enough, he wrote in his book ‘‘On the Law of to make certain that equality of results will debt to the United States. He returned to Nations’’ in 1990, for the United States to be now follow. If we do not, there will be no so- Harvard to protect his tenure in 1975, but strong enough to get away with such actions. cial peace in the United States for genera- moved that year to the United Nations as The American legacy of international legal tions.’’ United States ambassador. norms of state behavior, he wrote, is ‘‘a leg- He cited black unemployment, welfare and There he answered the United States’ third acy not to be frittered away.’’ illegitimacy rates. His emphasis on families world critics bluntly, often contemptuously. But probably his worst relations with a headed by women led him to be accused of In his brief tenure he called Idi Amin, the president came when Bill Clinton and Hillary blaming the victims for their predicament, president of Uganda, a ‘‘racist murderer,’’ Rodham Clinton sought passage of national but in fact he wrote clearly, ‘‘It was by de- and denounced the General Assembly for health insurance. stroying the Negro family under slavery that passing a resolution equating Zionism with Certainly, the failure of health care legis- white America broke the will of the Negro racism: ‘‘the abomination of anti-Semitism lation was not primarily Mr. Moynihan’s re- people.’’ Now, he wrote, the federal govern- has been given the appearance of inter- sponsibility, but he had become chairman of ment must adopt policies especially in edu- national sanction.’’ After eight months of the Finance Committee in 1993, and health cation and employment, ‘‘designed to have struggles with Secretary of State Henry A. care fell within its jurisdiction. He said the the effect, directly or indirectly, of enhanc- Kissinger, who wanted a less confrontational administration should take on welfare re- ing the stability and resources of the Negro approach, he resigned in February 1976. form legislation first, and carped on tele- American family.’’ That made him available for a run for the vision about their health plan, quickly fixing He left the administration in 1965 as lib- Democratic nomination for the Senate, and on the role of teaching hospitals as the big- erals denounced his paper, and then ran for he edged out the very liberal Representative gest issue in health care. But otherwise he president of the New York City Council. He Bella Abzug in the primary before winning waited for Mr. Packwood and Senator Bob lost badly in the Democratic primary, but the general election easily over the incum- Dole of Kansas, the Republican leader, to went on to Wesleyan University and, in 1966, bent, James L. Buckley, the Republican-Con- propose a compromise. Mr. Dole had decided to Harvard as director of the Joint Center servative candidate. With his wife in charge all-out opposition was the better course for for Urban Studies and a tenured professor in of each campaign, he won three landslide re- his party, and they never did. elections. the Graduate School of Education. Mr. Moynihan’s career in the Senate was He set one high goal—a seat on the Fi- He spoke out against disorder, in urban marked not by legislative milestones but by slums and on select campuses. Speaking to nance Committee as a freshman—and reached it, along with a seat on the Intel- ideas. Even so, Senator Kennedy, the legisla- Americans for Democratic Action in 1967, he tive lion, once described him in 1993 as an ex- made it clear he though liberal pieties would ligence Committee. Early in office he joined Gov. Hugh L. Carey, Speaker Thomas P. emplar ‘‘of what the Founding Fathers not solve black problems. thought the Senate would be about,’’ because And in a passage that came to the eye of O’Neill Jr. and Senator Edward M. Kennedy of the New Yorker’s breadth of interests, the Republican presidential candidate Rich- of Massachusetts in a St. Patrick’s Day ap- ‘‘having read history, and thought about it, ard M. Nixon, he said liberals must ‘‘see peal to Irish-Americans to stop sending and being opinionated.’’ more clearly that their essential interest is money to arm the Irish Republican Army, in the stability of the social order’’ and whom he privately described as ‘‘a bunch of Mr. SCHUMER. As a fellow New ‘‘make alliances with conservatives who murderous thugs.’’ Yorker, I am going to speak of Pat share that concern.’’ When Nixon was elect- Every year he produced an analysis of fed- Moynihan as a builder. He was known ed, Mr. Moynihan made his alliance. He eral taxes and federal aid, known as ‘‘the as a thinker, but we forget he was also joined the White House staff as assistant to fisc,’’ which showed that New York was get- a builder, a builder of bricks and mor- the president for urban affairs. ting regularly shortchanged by Washington. He worked to reduce that imbalance, both tar, somebody who taught us in New That startled his friends, and his wife re- York and the country to think grandly fused to move to Washington. Mr. Moynihan, through Medicaid funding on the finance who never developed, even after Watergate, Committee and public works on the Environ- of public works once again. Those who the searing contempt for Mr. Nixon that ani- ment and Public Works Committee. knew Moynihan best say that is where mated so many contemporary Democrats, And his colleagues always knew he was his heart truly lay. explained that when the president of the around. Every day of the 2,454-day captivity The week after I won election for the United States asks, a good citizen agrees to of Terry Anderson, the Associated Press re- Senate, Pat Moynihan called me into porter captured by 1985 by the Hezbollah in help. Another biographer, Godfrey Hodgson, his office. He told me he would an- says that while Mr. Moynihan never stopped Lebanon, he would go to the Senate floor to remind his colleagues, in a sentence, just nounce he wasn’t going to run again. thinking of himself as a liberal Democrat, he He said: I am going to bequeath to you shared the president’s resentment of ortho- how many days it had been. dox liberalism. QUARRELED WITH WHITE HOUSE a gift. I am going to recommend that While his advice to the president to end After loyally serving four presidents, he my staffer Polly Trottenberg work for the war in Vietnam stayed private, there quarreled with those in the White House you. Well I took his advice and hired

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That was cer- toms House at Bowling Green and for a tremendous effect on. tainly one of them. recognizing what a treasure we have in I join with every New Yorker and Because she worked so long and well Governors Island. every American in mourning Pat Moy- for him, I asked Polly today what Pat He is beloved in Buffalo, at the other nihan’s passing but celebrating his ex- Moynihan had regarded as his greatest end of our State, for reawakening the traordinary life, his extraordinary ca- accomplishment and she said some- city’s appreciation for its architectural reer, celebrating the extraordinary thing that surprised me. But when you heritage, which includes Frank Lloyd man himself. think about it, it should not be sur- Wright houses and the Prudential I give my heartfelt condolences to his prising. It was how he reclaimed Penn- Building, one of the best known early family—Liz and Timothy and Maura sylvania Avenue in this city and made skyscrapers by the architect Louis H. and John and his grandchilden, Mi- it big and grand and beautiful again Sullivan, a building which Moynihan chael Patrick and Zora—and count my- and how he lived out the rest of his helped restore and then chose as his self among the many others who will days there with his wonderful wife Liz. Buffalo office. miss him dearly. Pat Moynihan not only taught us to Moynihan has also spurred a power- Mr. President, I will end with a pray- think grandly about public works on ful and passionate popular movement, er. It is my hope, it is my prayer, that the national scale, he also taught us to which is gaining strength as he leaves God grant us a few more Pat Moy- cherish our cities, to make them lively us, in Buffalo to build a new signature nihans in this Senate, in this country, and beautiful, and none so more than Peace Bridge over the Niagara River. in this world. his two beloved cities, New York and His last project—one that I regret he I yield the floor. Washington. didn’t live to see completed—was his The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- His groundbreaking work on Federal beloved Pennsylvania Station. In 1963, ator from New York. transportation policy remains without Pat Moynihan was one a group of pre- Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I join equal. Pat Moynihan is the father of scient New Yorkers who protested the my colleague in expressing our sense of ISTEA, the Intermodal Surface Trans- tragic razing of our city’s spectacular loss at the passing of a man whom we portation Efficiency Act of 1991, the Penn Station—a glorious public build- knew, we admired, we respected, we en- most important piece of transportation ing designed by the Nation’s premier joyed. legislation since President Eisen- architectural firm of the time, McKim, Yesterday, we lost more than ‘‘The hower’s Federal Highway Act of 1956. Mead & White. Gentleman from New York.’’ We lost Pat Moynihan, as a social scientist, It was Pat Moynihan who recognized one of the great minds of America’s urban planner, and old-fashioned New years ago that across the street from 20th century. He devoted more than 50 York politician, helped change the what is now a sad basement terminal years of his life to public service in course of American transportation, that functions—barely—as New York order to build a better world. For Sen- weaning us from our highways-only ap- City’s train station, sits the James A. ator Moynihan, his service to his coun- proach that had destroyed so many Farley Post Office Building, built by try and to the State he loved was more urban neighbors. the same architects in much the same than his career. It was his calling. Instead, ISTEA encouraged so many grand design as the old Penn Station. For 24 years, New Yorkers had the communities to invest in other modes, Pat Moynihan recognized that since benefit of his intellect and his dedica- such as transit, rail, and even bipeds. I the very same railroad tracks that run tion on the floor of this Senate. When- ride a bike every Saturday around New under the current Penn Station also ever he headed to the Senate floor to York. It is another small way I thank run beneath the Farley Building, we speak, he kept the people of New York Pat Moynihan. could use the Farley Building to once close to his heart. And he came armed He provided citizens with far greater again create a train station worthy of with three signature items: his horn- say in what types of projects would be our grand city. rim glasses, a bow tie, and a great idea. built in their communities. ISTEA was He then did the impossible: He per- No one believed more in the power of especially important to New York. It suaded New York City, New York restoration than Senator Moynihan: enabled the State to restore some of State, the U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. Restoration of our cities as economic our most important but neglected pub- Department of Transportation, Am- and cultural centers; restoration of our lic works, such as the magnificent trak, congressional appropriators, and historic buildings as public places of Brooklyn Bridge as well as dream new President Clinton himself, to commit pride; restoration of the family, when dreams like I–86 across the southern to making this project succeed. And I given the proper tools to mend decades tier, and the Second Avenue subway. can tell you, I don’t think President of despair; restoration of our Govern- His passion and dedication to public Clinton even knew what hit him. ment to better serve its people. architecture is well known and dates Herbert Muschamp, the noted New It was Senator Moynihan who helped from his days as a young aide to Presi- York Times architecture critic, praised restore our sense of hope with his abil- dent Kennedy who, right before his the new Penn Station design, which ity to look at an abandoned building, a death, tasked Moynihan with restoring brilliantly fuses the classical elements neglected neighborhood, or an empty Pennsylvania Avenue here in Wash- of the Farley Building with a dramatic, school, and see not only what it could ington. Moynihan succeeded brilliantly light-filled concourse, when he wrote: become but how to make it so. in his task, with the final piece of He could ‘‘see around corners,’’ to In an era better known for the decrepitude Pennsylvania Avenue, the Ronald of its infrastructure than for inspiring new quote his Irish heritage. I always loved Reagan Building and International visions of the city’s future, the plan comes that phrase when applied to Pat Moy- Trade Center, unveiled a few years ago as proof that New York can still undertake nihan because it so aptly described his and instantly hailed as one of the best major public works. This is the most impor- unique ability to foresee how we might new buildings to grace the Capital. tant transportation project undertaken in address a difficult problem. Time after Of course, Senator Moynihan was New York City in several generations. time, he could see our Nation’s next also a leading force for architecture in We have Pat Moynihan to thank for pressing challenge—and its solution— New York. He was responsible for that and so many other things. even when it was decades away from building a beautiful Federal court- The epitaph given to Sir Christopher our own national conscience. house at 500 Pearl Street in Lower Wren, designer of St. Paul’s Cathedral His soul was anchored in the New Manhattan, which we were proud to in London, is an equally fitting epitaph Deal, but it was his ability to enhance name after him. Completed in 1994, the for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: the social contract to meet the chal- Daniel Patrick Moynihan Federal ‘‘Si Monumentum Requiris lenges of the 20th and 21st century that Courthouse embodies the same spirit as Circumspice’’—‘‘If you would see this transformed the lives of millions of his previous architectural endeavors, man’s monument, look around.’’ New Yorkers and Americans. an extraordinary work of art inside and And not only look at the buildings, Whether it was Social Security, outside. look at people, look at highways, look Medicare, education, health care, the

VerDate Jan 31 2003 05:17 Mar 28, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27MR6.063 S27PT1 March 27, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4501 environment, fighting poverty, or his- Senator Moynihan once said, in a passionate and thoughtful leader toric preservation, every issue illus- very Irish way: among leaders. trated what Senator Moynihan did Well, knowledge is sorrow really. A true American success story by best: He used the power of an idea as an He was right. The knowledge that he any calculation, Pat Moynihan rose engine for change. He was an architect no longer walks among us brings sor- from the rough neighborhood of New of hope. row to every New Yorker and Amer- York City’s Hell’s Kitchen to become It was Senator Moynihan who was ican. He grew up in Hell’s Kitchen, but one of America’s leading intellectuals. able to articulate that poverty in an he brought a bit of heaven to the Sen- He earned a bachelor’s degree, two urban setting was just as isolating and ate. We are grateful for his being masters degrees, a law degree, and a devastating as in a rural setting. This amongst us; his looking around those PhD as well as teaching appointments helped launch the war on poverty and corners, seeing further than any of us at Harvard, MIT, and Syracuse Univer- the idea that we now know as the could on our own. sity. earned income tax credit. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Pat Moynihan was much more than It was Senator Moynihan who real- his wonderful wife Liz, his children, his simply a man of letters. He, above all ized that States such as New York and grandchildren. We wish them strength, else, combined his intellectual capac- others across the Northeast contrib- and we want them to know that Pat ity with a strong sense of action; of uted more in taxes than we received Moynihan was a blessing, a blessing to getting things done. back from the Federal Government. the Senate, a blessing to New York, Pat Moynihan brought life to the no- This prompted what he called the FISC and a blessing to America. tion that ideas serve as the engine of Report, and his fight, which I carry on, I thank the Chair. democracy. Many of the most thought- to get New York its fair share. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ful and progressive legislative pro- It was Senator Moynihan who looked ator from Connecticut. grams that have improved the lives of at our historic places—from Pennsyl- Mr. DODD. Mr. President, let me his beloved New York and all around vania Avenue right here in Wash- first of all commend both of our col- our Nation and across the globe for the ington, DC, to Penn Station in New leagues from New York, Senators past 40 years originated in the brilliant York City—and saw how saving these SCHUMER and CLINTON, for their very mind of Pat Moynihan. From pro- great monuments to the past held eloquent remarks about our former col- tecting underprivileged children, to meaning and purpose for our future. league and dear friend, Pat Moynihan. passionately defending the Social Se- It was Senator Moynihan, as chair- I know not only the Moynihan family curity system, to questioning Amer- man of the Senate Finance Committee, but the people of New York and others ica’s role in the world at pivotal mo- who helped write the 1993 Budget Act, around this great country who have ments in our history, Pat Moynihan’s pass the Economic Act, and the Deficit had the privilege of knowing and intellectual agility was only matched Reduction Act, that set the foundation spending time with Pat Moynihan by his desire to make America a better for the prosperity of the 1990s, lifted 7 deeply appreciate their comments and nation, a fairer nation, and a more suc- million Americans out of poverty, and their words. I join in expressing my cessful one. sent a clear message that the Federal deep sense of loss of a towering figure The description ‘‘renaissance figure’’ Government did its best work when it of American life, Senator Daniel Pat- is too liberally applied to people who did it responsibly, living within a budg- rick Moynihan, whom we all know don’t deserve it, in my view. That is et. Unlike what we have just seen here passed away yesterday. My heart cer- not the case with Pat Moynihan. He on the floor over the last several days, tainly goes out to Senator Moynihan’s truly was a renaissance figure, a person Senator Moynihan understood that a family at this most difficult time, his who could breeze easily and expertly Government which lived within its remarkable wife Liz and their three from issue to issue. He would expound means made real choices, not false children, Timothy, Maura, and John, upon what is needed to improve mass choices, and then putting it on a credit as well as the entire Moynihan family. transit systems nationwide one mo- card for our children to have to pay. All of us, every single American, ment, explain what is needed to It was Senator Moynihan who, in ad- even those who may never have heard achieve excellence in our public edu- dition to all of these domestic accom- his name or are unaware of his con- cation system in the next, and finish plishments, forged a new era of foreign tribution, lost a member of the family off with his latest idea to bring maj- policy for America with his work as in a sense with the death of Pat Moy- esty to the architecture along Pennsyl- Ambassador to India, and with his elo- nihan. That is because for more than vania Avenue, all in a very seamless quence on behalf of the United States, half a century, Pat Moynihan served way. speaking up during a contentious time the American people as a soldier, a I have heard the remarks of many of as Ambassador to the United Nations. teacher, as an author, an assistant to our colleagues and others over the last On a personal note, it was Senator four American Presidents, an Ambas- 24 hours in sharing their grief over the Moynihan who welcomed me to his sador to India and the United Nations loss of our friend. As I have read and farm in Pindars Corners on a picture- and, of course, a Member of this Cham- heard these remarks, in newspapers perfect July day in 1999 and offered his ber for 24 years, from 1976 to the year and public accounts, it struck me that support and encouragement, sending 2000. the words describing Pat Moynihan me on my way with a gesture of pro- Pat Moynihan, to those of us who that are being most repeated over and found kindness that I will never forget. knew him so well, was an intellectual over again are courageous, compas- A few months ago, Senator Moynihan giant who never lost sight of what sionate, principled, thoughtful, bril- came to see me in my office. It is the makes America tick, in its most funda- liant, and the like. office he was in for so many years. He mental way our nation’s people and our Few individuals have been so univer- sat with me, and we talked about the nation’s families. He had a deep appre- sally revered by so many here in Wash- issues confronting this Senate. I asked ciation and abiding of America’s fami- ington and across the Nation for their his advice. I told him I wanted to have lies as the backbone of our nation’s so- determination to make a difference in a chance to talk with him further cial and economic structure that has helping to steer our Nation in the right about so many of the challenges that provided us with stability and growth direction over a half century. That is are facing us. Unfortunately, that was and success for more than two cen- because for decades Pat Moynihan em- not to be. His illness prevented him turies. bodied the highest ideals and values of from coming back to the Senate and And he was, of course, an unparal- our Nation since its founding. This was from helping other Senators one last leled leader in pointing out weaknesses recognized by Democratic Presidents time. in America’s families and ways in and Republican ones alike. He served Today, we are all thinking of him which we might strengthen them. for both of them, and he served well. It and his family. We extend our condo- Generations of Americans, many of was recognized by every one of his Sen- lences, and our gratitude for the life he whom will never have known or pos- ate colleagues, regardless of party or lived, the example he set, and the sibly even have heard of Pat Moynihan, ideology, who had the great fortune to countless contributions he made. will reap the benefits of this most com- have worked with him in this Chamber.

VerDate Jan 31 2003 05:17 Mar 28, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27MR6.065 S27PT1 S4502 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 27, 2003 Frederick Douglass once said: critical importance of these basic val- [was] the nation’s best thinker among The life of a nation is secure only while the ues and concerns about the deteriora- politicians since Lincoln and its best nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. tion of these family values, long before politician among thinkers since Jeffer- For 40 years Pat Moynihan lent those others. He showed great foresight son.’’ Pat made a huge contribution to characteristics to the heart of the U.S. about our Constitution. One of the this body and its reputation. I will Government. Pat Moynihan’s death highlights for me in my service in the never forgot him. leaves a void in this Chamber, and in Senate was joining Senator Moynihan His wife, Liz, his children, grand- this country, that will not soon, if and Senator ROBERT BYRD in fighting children and the entire Moynihan fam- ever, be filled successfully against the line item veto ily are in our hearts and our prayers I would like to think that there will as a violation of our Constitution. And, today. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s be more Pat Moynihan’s coming down he showed great foresight about the memory will continue to serve as an the pike, to serve in this Chamber, and world and the role of the United States inspiration to us all in the Senate fam- in other important capacities nation- in international affairs. His work at ily—as he was in life—to better serve wide. I would like to think that there the United Nations and in the Senate, the country that he loved so much. will be more individuals with the style, as a former chairman of the Senate Se- Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, so and wit, and substance of Pat Moy- lect Committee on Intelligence, and as many Senators have spoken so elo- nihan to help guide our nation through chairman of the Finance Committee quently about the loss of Senator Moy- the multitude of complex issues we was marked by his perceptive, analyt- nihan; but no one has been listened to confront now and into the future. ical, and worldly view on trade, foreign in their speeches like they listened to I would like to think so, but the policy, and intelligence matters. Long our friend in the bow tie with the stac- truth is Pat Moynihan was one of a before others, Senator Moynihan was cato delivery. Standing in this Cham- kind. We will have to make due with- speaking of the economic and ulti- ber, he would overwhelm with his origi- out him. I only count my blessings mately military weaknesses of the So- nal thoughts, including overwhelming that I had a chance to serve with him viet Union and predicting its collapse— this Senator who had the good fortune in the United States Senate, and to at a time when most of the American to listen to his ideas for all 24 of his have been able to call him a friend. intelligence community was overesti- years here. I conclude my remarks by expressing mating its strength. The saddest part about losing our It is virtually impossible to list all of my deep sense of loss to Liz and the friend is we lose him when we need him Pat Moynihan’s accomplishments in rest of the Moynihan family. This most. the U.S. Senate. Among the most last- country has lost a remarkable indi- He was the authority on Social Secu- ing, however, will be his efforts on be- vidual, a person who made significant rity, just when we need someone to half of architectural excellence in the contributions to the health and well- stand up and expose the numbers that Nation’s Capital. He was a crucial force being of this Nation. But to those of us these voodoo tax cuts are taking out of behind the return to greatness of the who had the joy of serving with this de- the Social Security trust funds. He was Pennsylvania Avenue corridor between lightful man from Ireland, we have lost the United Nations Ambassador who the U.S. Capitol and the White House, spoke bluntly, just when we need a guy a wonderful friend, someone we will the restoration of Washington’s beau- with an opinion to straighten out those miss with a great sense of loss for the tiful, elegant, and historic Union Sta- people up in New York. He was the ar- rest of our lives. tion, and the construction of the I express my gratitude and those of chitect who turned Pennsylvania Ave- Thurgood Marshall Judiciary Building my family to the Moynihan family, the nue into a grand boulevard, just when here on Capitol Hill. people of New York, and to our col- And Pat could pack a punch, wielding we need someone to figure out how to leagues and staffs and others who his sharp sense of humor as a dev- protect against terrorism and not undo worked with him during those four dec- astating weapon as when, in 1981, when the beauty he brought to this city. ades of public service. the plastic covering used to protect the Right to the point: he was from the I yield the floor. workers on the then-new Hart Senate world of intellect, not from the non- Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, today is a Office Building was removed. No fan of sense poll watchers. This Senator will very sad day for America and for those the lack of architectural merit of the miss the gregarious big man with the of us who served in the United States Senate’s newest office building, he sug- biggest of the big ideas, who neverthe- Senate with one of its most visionary gested that the plastic be immediately less got things done in this Chamber. and accomplished members, a great put back. He commented, ‘‘Even in a My wife Peatsy joins me in extending man, a great American, Senator Daniel democracy, there are things it is as our deepest sympathy to his wonderful Patrick Moynihan of New York, who well the people do not know about wife Elizabeth and their family. died yesterday. their Government.’’ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- It stretches the mind just to think of The author or editor of eighteen ator from Massachusetts. all of the important positions that Pat books, Senator Moynihan was at the Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, our Moynihan held, including Cabinet or forefront of the national debate on dear colleague, Pat Moynihan, was a sub-Cabinet posts under four Presi- issues ranging from welfare reform, to true giant in the Senate, and his loss is dents: John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, tax policy to international relations. deeply felt by all of us who knew him Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford. He His most recent book, written in 1998, and admired him. He was a brilliant served as Ambassador to India in the ‘‘Secrecy: The American Experience’’ statesman and legislator, and he was 1970s and then as U.S. Ambassador to expands on the report of the Commis- also a wonderful friend to all the Ken- the United Nations. He came to the sion on Protecting and Reducing Gov- nedys throughout his extraordinary ca- United States Senate in 1977 already a ernment Secrecy of which he was the reer in the public life of the nation. scholar, author and public official of Chairman. This is a fascinating and Forty-two years ago, President Ken- great distinction and renown. In the 24 provocative review of the history of the nedy enlisted many of the finest minds years he spent here, he only greatly ex- development of secrecy in the govern- of his generation to serve in the New panded his enormous reputation and ment since World War I and argument Frontier. Among the outstanding body of work. Pat Moynihan was a Sen- for an ‘‘era of openness.’’ young men and women who answered ator’s Senator. Over the years, he At home in New York, in a State his call was the brilliant young Irish- earned the respect of every Member of which is known for its rough and tum- man who became a special assistant to the Senate—and we all learned a great ble politics, he demonstrated leader- Jack’s Secretary of Labor—and then an deal from him. ship again and again, exercising the Assistant Secretary of Labor himself— Pat Moynihan was a person who power of intellect and the ability to Daniel Patrick Moynihan. On that showed tremendous vision throughout rise above the fray. That has been a snowy Inauguration Day in January his life. He showed foresight about the wonderful contribution not just to New 1961, the torch was passed to that new importance of a strong family and York but to all of America. generation of Americans, and Pat Moy- about the importance of strong com- The ‘‘Almanac of American Politics’’ nihan helped to hold it high in all the munities in America. He raised the once noted ‘‘Daniel Patrick Moynihan years that followed.

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Throughout his remarkable career, thinkers, foreign policy experts, and What has been written in just the Pat was on the front lines on the great leaders of other nations as well. short time since his death yesterday social, political, and cultural chal- In a world of increasing specializa- afternoon reminds us how extraor- lenges of the day. To know him was to tion, there was no limit to his interest dinary pat Moynihan really was. love him—the remarkable intellect, or his intellect or his ability. In so The New York times—the newspaper the exceptional clarity of his think- many ways, he was the living embodi- Senator Moynihan read religiously ing—the abiding Irish wit that im- ment of what our Founding Fathers every day, from cover to cover, we are pressed and enthralled us all so often. had in mind when they created the told—reported that he ‘‘brought a We were not alone. Pat’s qualities and United States Senate. And he did it all scholar’s eye for data to politics and a achievements captivated, educated, without ever losing his common touch, politician’s sense of the real world to and inspired an entire generation of because he cared so deeply about the academia.’’ Americans. millions of citizens he served so well, The Washington Post noted that he All of us in Congress and around the the people of New York. ‘‘pursued with distinction enough ca- Nation learned a great deal from Pat, One of my own happiest associations reers for half a dozen men of lesser tal- and we will miss him dearly. His wis- with Pat was our work together to end ents and imagination: politician, presi- dom and experience contributed im- the violence in Northern Ireland and dential adviser, diplomat, author, pro- mensely to the progress our country bring peace to that beautiful land of fessor, public intellectual.’’ has made on a wide variety of issues. our ancestors. Pat and I worked closely In talking about Senator Moynihan We loved the professor in him. with Tip O’Neill and Hugh Carey on with colleagues and friends last night It was not unusual for Senators on that issue, and they called us the and today, it strikes me that everyone both sides of the aisle to come to the ‘‘Four Horsemen.’’ seems to come back to one idea: People Senate floor to hear Pat speak—Sen- Pat believed very deeply in that like Pat Moynihan simply do not come ators sitting like students in a class, cause and in all the other great causes along every day. trying to understand a complex issue he did so much to advance during his I said yesterday that he seemed larg- we were struggling with. long and brilliant career. Whether serv- er than life. He was also, truly, one of The whole Senate loved and re- ing in the Navy or as professor, adviser a kind. Senator Moynihan’s myriad spected Pat. As he often said, ‘‘If you to Presidents, Ambassador, or Senator, public accomplishments are being—and don’t have 30 years to devote to social Pat brought out the best in everyone will no doubt continue to be—well doc- policy, don’t get involved.’’ He dedi- he touched, and his mark on earth will umented. cated his brilliant mind and his beau- be remembered forever. Today, I want to add to what has tiful Irish heart to that challenge, and At another dark time in our history, been said in the press and on this floor America is a stronger and better and after President Kennedy was taken some of the less-frequently mentioned fairer nation today because of his con- from us, Pat said, ‘‘I don’t think things that made Pat special to those tributions. With his great insight, and there’s any point in being Irish if you of us who had the privilege to know wisdom, he skillfully questioned the don’t know that the world is going to him and work with him. way things worked, constantly search- break your heart eventually.’’ Pat’s Pat Moynihan enlivened the Senate. ing for new and better ways to enable loss breaks all our hearts today, and He did so in many ways, but there are all Americans to achieve their dreams. we know we will never forget him. We three in particular that come to mind In the 24 years Pat served with us in never forgot the lilt of his Irish laugh- for me today. the Senate, he was the architect of ter that stole our hearts away. First was the way he applied his en- many of the Nation’s most progressive My heart goes out to Liz and the en- cyclopedic mind to the deliberations of initiatives to help our fellow citizens, tire Moynihan family. We will miss Pat the Senate. In our Democratic caucus especially those in need. He left his very much, and we will do our best to meetings, in committee hearings, and mark on virtually every major piece of carry on his incomparable work to here on the floor, he elevated our dis- domestic policy legislation enacted by make our country and our world a bet- course. He would make a point, and Congress. ter place. drive it home, by drawing on his sweep- He had a central role in shaping the Mr. President, I suggest the absence ing knowledge of history, literature, debate on welfare reform, and he was a of a quorum. poetry, and the arts. He could quote visionary when it came to protecting The PRESIDING OFFICER. The from hundreds of sources—from mem- and strengthening Medicare and Social clerk will call the roll. ory. Security. He spearheaded the major The bill clerk proceeded to call the Listening to Pat speak extempo- transportation legislation that pro- roll. raneously, you might be treated to ver- vides indispensable support for high- Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I ask batim quotes from Disraeli or Church- ways throughout the country and for unanimous consent that the order for ill, Yeats or Robert Frost, Dylan mass transit in our cities. the quorum call be rescinded. Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, Arthur Conan An important part of Pat’s legacy is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Doyle, or Shakespeare. He always had the restoration of Pennsylvania Ave- objection, it is so ordered. just the right quote to support his ar- nue, which my friend and colleague, Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I gument, and he always quoted accu- Senator SCHUMER, referenced—the na- spoke briefly last night of the sorrow rately. tion’s principal thoroughfare. The key we all felt on hearing that our former In once read that the staff of the to that dream was the preservation of colleague, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Shakespeare Theater here—where Pat Lafayette Park, right across from the passed away. This afternoon, I join was a frequent patron—often noticed White House. Jackie Kennedy Onassis with Senators SCHUMER, CLINTON, KEN- him silently mouthing the words of the put forward the vision that she and Pat NEDY, DODD, and others to return to the play—as the actors spoke them. shared to preserve that famous na- floor to say a bit more for the record A second gift of Pat’s that we all tional square and the townhouses that about this truly remarkable man and treasured was his ready sense of surround it, which are such a vital part about how much the Senate and the humor. It was a puckish, mischievous of our history and our architectural Nation will miss him. wit, and it never failed to surprise and heritage. Opening this morning’s newspapers amuse us. Throughout his career, Pat worked at a time when news of the war in Iraq I remember when the Hart Senate Of- brilliantly, effectively, tirelessly, and seems to eclipse all else, I found it fit- fice Building was completed. Pat was with great political skill, to promote ting that Daniel Patrick Moynihan never an admirer of the architecture of the highest values of public service. was—as he was so often during his long the Hart Senate Office Building. In

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But he also knew As a matter of fact, in the 1992 highway this Senator from a rural State such as how to use humor to avoid questions he bill, I had a spectacular confrontation Montana. Our relationship grew from preferred not to answer. with him. We disagreed over a court- that point, and I realized what a mar- Nearly every week, he invited the house that was included in the highway velous man he really was. New York press corps into his office in bill. Thereafter, we became very good He was a man true to his faith and the Russell Building for coffee and to friends, and I think as a result of our principles. His intellect stood him answer questions. If he chose to, he rather tumultuous getting acquainted, apart from most men I have ever could crack a hilarious joke and have I had the opportunity to spend a good known, but he coupled that intellect the press in stitches. By the time they bit of time with him. with good old-fashioned common sense got through laughing, they had forgot- We were neighbors in an area of the and deep wisdom. ten the question altogether. Capitol where we both had workspaces. The subject matter of the conversa- Finally, Pat Moynihan was a fierce I spent a number of evenings enjoying tion did not make any difference. He Senate institutionalist—a quality that a discussion with him as we watched could relate to anyone on a common endeared him to me, to Senator BYRD, the debates on the floor of the Senate. ground. The ability to communicate and to so many of us. His ability to discuss and have insight- with anybody who is not blessed with Pat Moynihan loved and revered this ful observations about so many sub- the same amount of institutional infor- institution—much as he loved and re- jects was truly impressive. If I ever mation or knowledge of any issue that vered public service. met a Renaissance man, it was Pat may confront policymakers on a daily His respect for the Senate showed Moynihan. basis is a wonderful talent. He was one itself in many ways, from his stout de- I will give one example. Everybody I held in high esteem, as he was one of fense of Senate powers and preroga- knows the great role he played in revi- the most intelligent men I have ever tives to his keen interest in the archi- talizing Pennsylvania Avenue and the known. It is unusual to find a person of that tectural preservation of the Capitol leadership he provided. He was a great caliber to be blessed with a great sense Building and its environs. student of architecture. One of the of humor, and to put it on our level. He Pat had a sentimental side, as many projects we worked on in Missouri was was quick, and his humor would sneak of us do, when it came to this building. saving the Wainwright Building, the up on you. A man of his own style, very On special occasions, he loved to first steel-framed skyscraper designed comfortable with himself, his presen- present friends with a gift of sandstone by Louis Sullivan. I mentioned it to tations on the floor, in committee, or bookends made from the old East him one day. He proceeded to give me in public were strictly Pat Moynihan. Front of the Capitol. With each presen- a short course in architecture and the We shall miss his voice on the floor of tation of those treasured stones, Pat role of Louis Sullivan and his drafts- the Senate for several reasons, and loved to tell an elaborate story about man, Frank Lloyd Wright, which went printed words cannot describe that dis- the political intrigue surrounding the far beyond the knowledge I had of the tinct sound. extension of the East Front in the building in St. Louis. As a student of I notice my friend from West Vir- 1950s. architecture, as a student who appre- ginia is in the Chamber. Senator Moy- These are just a few of the special ciated the benefits architecture brings nihan sat only two seats behind Sen- things that come to mind as we reflect to the quality of life, he was absolutely ator BYRD. on the unique life and legacy of our without peer. We can hear him today say: Mr. friend and former colleague. There were many other issues, and I President, may we have order. I said last night that in losing Pat know my colleagues will have many That was distinctly a call we all Moynihan, New York and the Nation thoughts to share about him, but I knew, understood, and respected. I have lost a giant. And, as Winston wanted to rise to say to those he leaves shall miss him. I shall never forget Churchill once said of another great behind that he was truly an out- him. Whatever accolades he may re- patriot, we shall not see his like again. standing servant, one whose friendship ceive, he earned every one. On behalf of the entire United States and whose insights and experiences I I yield the floor. Senate, I again extend sincerest condo- personally will always hold dear. I The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- lences to Pat’s beloved wife and part- know this body is far richer for his ator from West Virginia. ner, Liz, to their children, Tim, John, presence and his service. Mr. BYRD. Mr. President: and Maura, and to their grandchildren, I thank the Chair. I yield the floor. There is a Catskill eagle in some souls that Zora and Michael Patrick. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- can alike dive down into the blackest gorges We thank them for sharing so much ator from Montana. and soar out of them again and become invis- of their husband, father and grand- Mr. BURNS. Mr. President, I also rise ible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for- father with us. Our thoughts and pray- to join with my colleagues on the pass- ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest ers are with them at this hour. ing of Pat Moynihan. Where does one swoop, the mountain eagle is still higher I yield the floor. start when a friend and colleague than other birds upon the plain, even though The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- leaves us? they soar. ator from Missouri. When Senator Moynihan retired from I was saddened to learn last night of Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I rise the Senate, where he served our coun- the death of one of the most educated, today to join my colleagues to mourn try and his State so well, he really did most versatile, and most gifted persons the passing of and express respect and not leave us. Now in this, his last tran- ever to bless this Chamber, and one of admiration for the service of our sition, he will not leave us. He left so my favorites, our former colleague, former colleague, Daniel Patrick Moy- much of himself with us. His words will Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. nihan, whom we recently lost. remain with us for years to come. With doctorate and law degrees from Before I came to this body, I had I did not join the Senate until 1989. the Fletcher School of Law and Diplo- heard a great deal about Pat Moy- Being on the opposite side of the macy, he was a Fulbright scholar and nihan. Who had not? If you followed aisle—I was one who had not earned his the author of a number of sometimes Government, if you were interested in spurs yet—I did not have the oppor- controversial, but important, books. policy, Pat Moynihan probably said tunity to get to know him until we He held academic positions at several something that was very important. He went on a trip together to the Persian of our country’s most prestigious uni- was way ahead of his time on some Gulf during Desert Shield in 1990. I can versities, including Syracuse, Harvard, issues. On other issues, I disagreed say my life has been richly blessed and MIT.

VerDate Jan 31 2003 05:17 Mar 28, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A27MR6.050 S27PT1 March 27, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S4505 Unable to settle into an academic gogues fear and like to portray but a Men who serve not for selfish booty; life, Pat Moynihan went on to serve in positive, creative force in American But real men, courageous, who flinch not at high positions in the administrations life that has helped all Americans to duty. of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon enjoy better, safer, and more produc- Men of dependable character; Men of sterling worth; Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald tive lives. Then wrongs will be redressed, and right will Ford—making him the first and only Senator Moynihan retired from the rule the earth. person to serve in the Cabinet or sub- Senate in the year 2000. But he was one God Give us Men! cabinets of four successive administra- of those Senators who was so much a Mr. President, those of us who knew tions. His Government work included part of this institution that he has Daniel Patrick Moynihan, especially serving as the American Ambassador never really left it. I still look over at those of us who served with him here in to India and as the United States Per- his seat and sit in my own and turn it the Senate, will remember his ‘‘strong manent Representative to the United in that direction and listen to him. I mind,’’ his ‘‘great heart,’’ his ‘‘true Nations. can hear him; I can still see him. Yes, faith,’’ and his ‘‘ready hands.’’ We will Even with this background, and these just like I still see Richard B. Russell remember him as a man of ‘‘dependable accomplishments, Daniel Patrick Moy- who sat at this seat and who departed character’’ and ‘‘sterling worth.’’ nihan still refused to rest. In fact, his this life on January 21, 1971; like I can Thank you, God, for giving us Sen- greatest work, I might even go so far still see Everett Dirksen, that flamboy- ator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. as to say his destiny, was still ahead. ant Republican orator and leader; as I I yield the floor and suggest the ab- In 1976, he was elected to the first of can see Lister Hill of Alabama, and the sence of a quorum. four terms in the United States Senate. other great lawmakers with whom I The PRESIDING OFFICER. The I was then the Democratic whip. I have had the privilege and the honor of clerk will call the roll. knew I was going to be the next Senate serving. The assistant legislative clerk pro- majority leader, so I welcomed Pat I look over there and see his unruly ceeded to call the roll. Moynihan to the Senate and assured hair, his crooked bow tie, his glasses Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, I him I would do my best to see that he that always seemed about to fall off his ask unanimous consent that the order got appointed to the Senate Finance face, and that unforgettable Irish twin- for the quorum call be rescinded. Committee. That is where he wanted to kle in his eyes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without go. But I have missed his incredible objection, it is so ordered. So it was in this chamber that the grasp of the issues. I have missed his Mr. BROWNBACK. I ask unanimous talents, the skills, and the powerful in- intellectual vigor, and his incisive wit consent to speak as in morning busi- tellect of this philosopher-statesman and wisdom. In these difficult and try- ness for 10 minutes. shined the brightest. ing times, I, and the Senate, have sore- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without It was more than his outstanding ly missed his innate sense of fairness, objection, it is so ordered. work as a Senator from a large and and his unbounded and unqualified de- Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, I powerful State. termination to do the right thing re- rise today to join my colleagues in of- It was more than his outstanding gardless of political party or political fering a tribute to the late distin- work as chairman of the Senate Envi- consequences. As I said when he retired guished Senator Patrick Moynihan, a ronment and Public Works Committee from the Senate, ‘‘His conscience is his role model, an inspiration, a friend, and as chairman of the Senate Finance compass. . . . Senator Moynihan states and my fellow Senator. I can only hope Committee. facts, the cold, hard truths that many that with my poor speaking skills, in It was that he was a visionary with others in high places refuse to face and comparison certainly to his, I can do the strongest sense of the pragmatic, that some are unable to see.’’ justice to his many virtues and innu- an idealist with the most profound Senator Moynihan lived the lifetime merable contributions he made to this grasp of what was practical, an inter- of ten mortals. An author, ambassador, Nation. I know today many of my col- nationalist who always put our country a college professor, an outstanding leagues are lauding him for his prin- first. With his keen and profound his- public servant, and a great United cipled stands, even if it meant feeling torical perspective and his incredible States Senator, he accomplished so exiled in Siberia. He many times breadth of knowledge ranging from much. He leaves an indelible mark on fought the lonely and oftentimes frus- taxes to international law, he had the this country. His legacy is intact. His trating fight, but he knew what was uncanny ability to make us confront was a creative and successful life. And, right and that sustained him through issues that needed to be confronted, he was blessed with a wonderful and the years of criticism and controversy and to cut to the core of a problem and gracious wife, Elizabeth. My wife, and, ultimately, was normally proven then help us to solve it. Erma, and I extend our deepest and right. He was a great role model. A person and a Senator not only of heartfelt condolences to Pat’s entire high intellectual quality, but also high In fact, when I first met the Senator family. from New York, one of the things that intellectual honesty, Senator Moy- I close my remarks by reciting the nihan took on the complicated and po- came to my mind was what the Ger- immortal words of Josiah Gilbert Hol- man poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goe- litically sensitive issues, like Social land: Security, health care, and welfare re- the, once said: God give us men! Talents are best nurtured in solitude; char- form, with passion and compassion; he A time like this demands strong minds, took on these mighty subjects with de- acter is best formed in the stormy billows of great hearts, true faith, and ready hands. the world. termination and foresight and with un- Men whom the lust of office does not kill; flinching integrity. Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; He also said: I have never forgotten, and will never Men who possess opinions and a will; He who is firm and resolute in will, molds forget, our valiant fight together to Men who have honor; men who will not lie. the world to himself. challenge and defeat the line-item Men who can stand before a demagogue I can’t think of anybody to which veto. I wish he were here now. This was And brave his treacherous flatteries without this statement applies better than to one of his many struggles to preserve winking. Senator Moynihan. He has always been and to protect our constitutional sys- Tall men, sun—crowned; willing to stand upon his principles, in tem. We need more Pat Moynihans who Who live above the fog, solitude if necessary, to weather the would take an unflinching stand for In public duty and in private thinking. stormy billows of the world, to truly the Constitution and this institution. For while the rabble with its thumbworn mold the world to himself. creeds, He truly believed in our Constitution It’s large professions and its little deeds, He has been someone who has been just as he truly believed in the mission mingles in selfish strife, the epitome of being firm and resolute as well as the traditions, the rules, and Lo! Freedom weeps! in will, no matter the criticism, the the folkways of the United States Sen- Wrong rules the land and waiting justice controversy or the circumstances. ate. He knew that the American Gov- sleeps. In fact, when he first wrote his report ernment is not the monster that dema- God give us men! to President Johnson, for example, 40

VerDate Jan 31 2003 05:17 Mar 28, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27MR6.104 S27PT1 S4506 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 27, 2003 years ago, highlighting the rising out- pleasure of participating in seeing. The commencement speech at Har- of-wedlock birthrates that were taking Senator Moynihan was all of this and vard, 2002, is entitled ‘‘Civilization place in the country, he felt that this much, much more. Need Not Die’’ by Daniel Patrick Moy- threatened the stability of the family, He was often described as the great nihan: particularly minority families, one of statesman of the Senate, a breed that Last February, some 60 academics of the the building blocks of our society. He seems more and more difficult to find widest range of political persuasion and reli- was roundly attacked at that time. in politics. He was always a steadfast gious belief, a number from here at Harvard, Rather than seeing this report rightly defender of American principles. He including Huntington, published a manifesto: was also someone who brought dignity, ‘‘What We’re Fighting For: A Letter from as a chilling foreboding of problems to America.’’ come, people chose to turn a blind eye character, and humor to this body. He It has attracted some attention here; per- to the truth upon which he so correctly has been and always will be the role haps more abroad, which was our purpose. shed light. Now we have reached a model of the true statesman. Our references are wide, Socrates, St. Augus- stage where the out-of-wedlock birth- In the Second Epistle to Timothy, tine, Franciscus de Victoria, John Paul II, rates in all the communities in our Paul writes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Alexander Sol- country have reached dangerous pro- I have fought the good fight, I finished the zhenitsyn, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. portions, and everyone is in agreement course, I have kept the faith. Senator Moynihan certainly did so. We affirmed ‘‘five fundamental truths that about exactly how dangerous this is. pertain to all people without distinction,’’ How many times we have heard, All of us here and across the Nation beginning ‘‘all human beings are born free ‘‘Patrick Moynihan was right.’’ How have benefited. and equal in dignity and rights.’’ many times should we have had to hear Mr. President, I yield the floor, and I We allow for our own shortcomings as a it said? Senator Moynihan always un- suggest the absence of a quorum. nation, sins, arrogance, failings. But we as- derstood the overriding importance of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The sert we are no less bound by moral obliga- the truth, of ensuring that there is sub- clerk will call the roll. tion. And finally, . . . reason and careful The legislative clerk proceeded to moral reflection . . . teach us that there are stance behind one’s politics and not call the roll. times when the first and most important just words. He showed this time and Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask reply to evil is to stop it. time again. unanimous consent that the order for But there is more. Forty-seven years ago, For example, one of the most impor- the quorum call be rescinded. on this occasion, General George C. Marshall tant chapters of our Nation’s story of The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. summoned our nation to restore the coun- tries whose mad regimes had brought the human freedom and dignity is the his- CHAMBLISS). Without objection, it is so tory and legacy of the African-Amer- world such horror. It was an act of states- ordered. manship and vision without equal in history. ican march towards freedom, legal Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, as we equality, and full participation in History summons us once more in different bring to a close what has been a very ways, but with even greater urgency. Civili- American society. Senator Moynihan productive week over the last 4 days zation need not die. At this moment, only understood the importance of this his- here in the Senate, we have had ups the United States can save it. As we fight tory, which is why in the 102d Congress and downs and a lot of very productive the war against evil, we must also wage he championed the effort to create a debate. Many sad events have been peace, guided by the lesson of the Marshall National African American Museum, a talked about on the floor, and many Plan—vision and generosity can help make vital project upon which Congressman happy events have actually been talked the world a safer place. LEWIS and I now have spent several about on the floor, with the range from Those are the words of Daniel Pat- years working and which we hope to the death of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, rick Moynihan, again, in 2002. They re- get to completion. an icon who has spoken so many times flect very much the global thinking, With Senator Moynihan’s leadership, from this floor to the American peo- the compassion, the integrity, the fore- at that time the museum idea success- ple—indeed, to the world—to the many sight of this great icon in this body. fully passed the Senate but, unfortu- comments made in morning business f nately, did not pass the House and to over the course of this week paying SUPPORTING COALITION TROOPS this day we picked up his mantle and tribute to our men and women, our sol- are still working on it. diers overseas; a resolution today com- Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I want to Senator Moynihan understood why it mending the coalition of allies who take just one final moment and com- was so critical to honor this history, support the United States and our Brit- ment on our troops overseas. President truly the history of not just African ish friends in the efforts that are un- Bush and Prime Minister Blair met Americans but of our Nation. His com- derway as I speak today; all the way to today at Camp David, just a few hours mitment was key to the first efforts. a budget that is a culmination, in ago. Today we passed in this Senate As I seek to move forward the legis- many ways, of weeks and weeks of unanimously a Senate resolution to lation to create the museum, I am hon- work as we have defined the priorities commend the members of the coalition ored that I am now carrying on the of this body in spending the taxpayers’ for their support of this noble cause. work he began in this body. It cer- dollars for the foreseeable future—a On this day of Prime Minister Blair’s tainly makes for very big shoes to fill, first step, the culmination of a lot of visit, I want him to know, and I want but I am only hopeful that in his mem- debate and discussion as we go through the RECORD to reflect, that the Senate ory I may do just efforts justice. our conference with the House over the and the American people are grateful Billy Graham once said: next several weeks. for his courage, for the courage of the Courage is contagious. When a brave man We had a lot of ups and a lot of downs British people and, above all, for the takes a stand the spine of others are often but a lot of progress, and we are doing courage of the British troops fighting stiffened. the Nation’s business at the same time shoulder to shoulder with the Amer- This was always true when we associ- we are paying respect to the incidents ican troops in Iraq. ated with Senator Moynihan. Some- that are playing out before us in the We have seen more evidence of the how, people seemed to stand a little international and domestic realm. Last brutal tactics of Saddam Hussein’s re- taller, act more resolute. They even ar- night I had the opportunity of intro- gime: Iraqi soldiers dressed in civilian gued better. No one could ever out ducing the resolution, along with Sen- clothes; Iraqi soldiers surrendering and argue Senator Moynihan, but somehow ator DASCHLE, paying respects to Sen- then firing on coalition forces; mili- the challenge of having such a talented ator Moynihan and, as I mentioned in tary equipment placed in residential opponent made one’s own skills sharp- my opening comments today, once areas and near cultural sites; even re- er. again, the great legacy that he leaves ports of Iraqi soldiers using women as There is so much more to my friend, all of us. shields and giving weapons to children. though, than what is so obviously and I would like to pay one final tribute These and other horrific acts that we publicly known. For example, so many to him, and read just a few paragraphs have been able to witness firsthand as of us here experienced his wonderful from the commencement speech he they played out over the last 7 days and robust sense of humor, something I gave at Harvard in 2002, which has pre- lead us only to strengthen our coali- wish everyone could have had the viously been printed in the RECORD. tion’s resolve. Let there be no doubt,

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