February 2, 1987 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2381 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Monday, February 2, 1987 The House met at 12 noon. The SPEAKER. The gentleman committee and to the House, to the The Chaplain, Rev. James David from [Mr. EDWARDS] is rec­ Congress, and to the country. Ford, D.D., offered the following ognized for 1 hour. She was one of those ladies, beauti­ prayer: Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. ful of person as she was beautiful of Gracious God, Your Word has told Speaker, I yield myself such time as I spirit. She cast a radiance wherever us that blessed are the peacemakers may consume. she went of that nobility of character for they shall be called the sons of Mr. Speaker, as we drove to the Cap­ for which she was so eminently distin­ God. On this day, 0 God, we specially itol today, we saw with great sorrow guished. remember the peacemakers of our the flags at half mast, meaning that Everybody who knew world, those who are willing to risk we have lost our dear colleague from loved her because one cannot but love their personal safety and freedom for California, SALA BURTON. a person of such beautiful character the sake of the freedom and safety of SALA passed away last night at and such noble presence. The Commit­ others. We reach out to all who follow George Washington Hospital here in tee on Rules will never be the same the practices of understanding, re­ Washington, DC, early in the evening, without SALA being down there at the spect, and good will among individuals 8:21 p.m., I believe. end in her accustomed seat, to whom and nations, aware that that goal is She passed away in her sleep. She we listened with such respect and ven­ not limited by vocation, but is the re­ had lost a brave battle against cancer eration. sponsibility of each of us. Impress that she had been fighting for some Just a little while ago we thought upon us, 0 loving God, how we can months. she was well again and we sort of sent become peacemakers in our day and We are going to miss SALA very her a toast to her recovery and then, a time, using the abilities You have much. little while later, the bad news came. given us to further the vision of the Mr. Speaker, the funeral will be in Mr. Speaker, I am grateful that the promise that the peacemakers will be California, , this Thurs­ Lord gave me the privilege of walking blessed and shall be called Your day. Arrangements are being made by the Sergeant at Arms for transporta­ a part of the way along the journey of people. Amen. tion to San Francisco, leaving first life with so great, so gracious, so lovely thing in the morning on Thursday. It a lady as SALA BuRTON, and we vener­ ate her distinguished career and shall THE JOURNAL will be announced where we will meet. I believe we will meet on the steps of always cherish with noble affection The SPEAKER. The Chair has ex­ the Capitol, on the House side, about her residence and service among us. amined the Journal of the last day's 8:30. Mr. EDWARDS of California. I proceedings and announces to the Anybody desiring to go, and I know thank the Senator. House his approval thereof. we are going to have a great many Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle­ Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the who will want to attend the services woman from California, BARBARA Journal stands approved. and be part of the services in San BoxER, who shared San Francisco with Francisco, please get in touch with the SALA. Sergeant at Arms, Jack Russ. Mrs. BOXER. I thank the gentle­ THE LATE HONORABLE SALA Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, will the man from California, the senior BURTON gentleman yield? member of our delegation, who was Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. Mr. EDWARDS of California. I yield such a dear and close friend to SALA Speaker, I offer a privileged resolution to the chairman of the Committee on BURTON.

0 This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., 0 1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 2382 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE February 2, 1987 I say to the gentleman that I am not and good to so many people. She was a 0 1215 going to speak anymore today, but will lovely person. Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. have further comments to make. I She was Byron's lady who "walked Speaker, serving with SALA from our know many of my colleagues are in in beauty, like the night, of cloudless shock right now. area is the very distinguished gentle­ climes and starry skies; And all that man from California [Mr. MILLER], I strongly support this idea that we was best of dark and bright, met in her go to California and pay our respects and I yield now to the gentleman. aspect and in her eyes." Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. personally. I will miss her dreadfully. Mr. EDWARDS of California. We Speaker, I thank the gentleman for Mr. EDWARDS of California. I yielding. certainly at a later date plan a fuller thank the gentlewoman from Louisi­ afternoon or evening of eulogies about Mr. Speaker, this is a very sad ana. moment for all of us, and a very sad SALA. So today will be not a discourse Mr. Speaker, I yield to the distin­ in full. moment for me because the Miller guished minority leader, the gentle­ family and the Burton families have Mr. Speaker, I yield now to a dear man from Illinois [Mr. MICHEL]. friend of SALA's, the very distinguished been long intertwined in the pursuit of Mr. MICHEL. I thank the gentle­ political office and in taking stands on gentlewoman from Louisiana [Mrs. man for yielding. BOGGS]. issues that were of concern to us. Mrs. BOGGS. I thank the gentle­ Mr. Speaker, I was very sorry to In such a short period of time, to man for yielding. learn this morning of the passing of now have the disappearance from this Mr. Speaker, I also thank the gentle­ our dear friend, SALA BURTON. I came Congress and from public policy the man for arranging this resolution and to know her quite well when she was, Burton family is really a very tragic this time on the House floor and for obviously, the wife of our former event. The death of SALA brings down all of his devoted duty and kindness to Member, Phil, who served with such a curtain on an era and on the family SALA during her entire time in the distinction in this body for a number of battlers and warriors for humanity Congress, but especially during her ill­ of years. Even though we were poles in this country, for the oppressed, for ness. apart on a number of issues politically, the minorities, for the poor who gave All of us salute the gentleman from there were so many occasions when no inch, who would give no quarter in California in the well for his beautiful SALA and I would take a trek, to either seeing that public policy reflected the service, and we are very, very grateful one side of the aisle or the other, back concern for those who truly needed to him. and forth, simply to talk about mat­ the help of this Government. SALA leaves two voids in my life be­ ters of mutual interest. She was SALA BuRTON was more than that, cause I knew her first, of course, as a always very gracious in her consider­ however. She was a wonderful and congressional wife. She was the per­ ation of my appearances before the dear friend, constantly asking after fect congressional wife. She was a Committee on Rules. my children and my wife, what were complete extension of her husband This is one of those days again when we going to do for the Easter break and her husband's service. we are reminded of how this body, this and where were we going to spend She worked with all of the other institution, brings together people of Christmas and how were the children congressional wives to lead them into differing minds and philosophies. But doing in school, because she was really significant service to this body we all have a very deep and abiding re­ always concerned about how Members and to this Nation. She was active and spect for one another's views as they of Congress would survive our daily became president, program chairman, are expressed here. chores in the career that we had legislative chairman of the Democratic Then beyond that a warm friendship chosen. Congressional Wives Forum, of the grows, and that is the thing, I guess, I think she started that clearly as National Women's Democratic Club that is important on the personal side the wife to Phillip, where many of us and many other organizations that of serving in this body. always thought that perhaps San aided and abetted the work of her hus­ For me, I am going to miss not Francisco had an extra representative band and helped other wives channel seeing our dear friend, SALA BURTON, because she battled on those fights as their interests to the help of their hus­ on the floor of this House. strongly as he did. But I want to ex­ bands as well. As the gentleman indicated, she was press my very personal grief and We had husbands who were opposed another one of those untold numbers sorrow for her passing to her family to each other not occasionally, politi­ of victims of the ravages of cancer. So and to her brother-in-law, John, an­ cally. We all loved each other affec­ we are all reminded again of what our other of the great Burtons who fought tionately, however, and we understood obligation is in our small way here to so hard for the issues that are so im­ their political differences, and both of portant that we debate in this Con­ us were very strong and firm in our de­ try to remedy and find a cure for that gress. fense of our husbands' positions. dreaded disease. We are really going to miss SALA Then I have known SALA of course as ANNOUNCEMENT OF PASSING OF HELEN MARIE BURTON because she put a little extra a Member of Congress. She took to MILLER glimmer in this body, as she talked to being a Member of Congress, as we say Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, if I all of us, not just about the issues, but in the South, as a duck takes to the might, it is also my sad duty to _an­ about our personal well-being and con­ water. nounce to the House that the wife of stantly, constantly tried to make sure She immediately became immersed OUr dear friend, CLARENCE MILLER, that we could be in the best state of in all of the deliberations of this body, Helen Marie Miller, died this past mind to perform our tasks here. and I think all of us shared the chair­ weekend in a hospital over in Virginia. Our State and northern California man's joy when the Speaker agreed to There will be a service tomorrow and clearly the city of San Francisco have her serve on the Committee on night in Gawler's Funeral Home have suffered a great loss with the Rules. before the body is taken out to . passing of SALA BURTON. We will all miss SALA very much. So, again, we are reminded this past Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. This country will miss her. She loved week of the passing of two of our very Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman it as only a person could who has been dear friends. At the appropriate time I from Colorado [Mrs. ScHROEDER], who denied freedom in another system. am sure there will be occasion for us worked very closely with SALA on She loved this country passionately to have appropriate eulogies to Mrs. many important issues and was also a and she gave her whole life to its serv­ BURTON. close personal friend. ice. She was such a beautiful human I appreciate the gentleman from Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I being and she was so kind and gracious California yielding to me. thank the gentleman from California February 2, 1987 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2383 for yielding. I want to compliment the The people of San Francisco have 0 1225 gentleman from California and say lost a woman who loved the city and In the Chamber she was concerned that an awful lot of us wish we had a its people deeply, who represented about these people that do not have dean as compassionate as you have them wisely, loyally, and well. The what all of us have, and she was con­ been. We thank you. people of the have lost a cerned about making sure that the The first time I heard from SALA woman, born, as you have been told, BURTON was in 1972. I was running for elsewhere, at Bialystok, in ; poor and the less fortunate benefited. Congress, no one had ever heard of who grew up and was educated in the As one who has a handicap, I can say me, and no one ever thought I had a United States; was eventually elected that she was concerned that the chance of winning. I got a phone call to serve her adopted country with handicapped were part of the main­ from SALA BURTON and I thought, who great passion and distinction in the stream and participated, and that is this? highest counsels of its Government. nobody denied them these rights. She She said that she was sending her We here in the Congress have lost a felt that aggressively and encouraged husband out to help, and did he need truly lovely colleague, a good, good me as I tried to do things. She kept an overcoat? How cold was it in Colo- friend to all of us. pushing me to do more, and she felt rado? very strongly about it and I loved her Now that is SALA BURTON, by golly, We shall miss her very, very much. Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. for it. and the interesting thing about that Speaker, I yield to the distinguished I think the thing that was referred was not only was she worried about to earlier, though, was what I most him; she was worried about people majority whip, the gentleman from cherished about my relationship with who did not have coats, too. She was California [Mr. CoELHO], who was a SALA, and that was the feeling that worried about whether he had one and close associate and dear friend of SALA'S. you always knew where she was on the had it on, but she worried about every- Mr. COELHO. Mr. Speaker, I thank issues, you knew which side she was body and she was just tireless in that on, and there was never a question expansiveness. our dean for the recognition and for about it. But then you knew the com­ I must say as a human being, the taking this time to recognize a lady of passion she had for you as an individ­ thing, that amazed me the most about great compassion and concern for ev­ ual, how she was always concerned SALA BURTON is something that we all erybody that she knew and came into about whether or not you were taking struggle with. The thing that she contact with, but an awful lot of care of yourself, whether or not you could do that I have to fight everyday people that she only knew of, that she to do is that she kept growing. She wanted to make life just a little bit were working too hard, whether or not kept growing. She never went back better for them. you were taking time to be with your and said this is the way we did it when My sorrow goes out to her daughter family. She would always stop me to I was young, or this is the way it and to her brother-in-law, John, in make sure that I was doing that, and should have been done. She was never these particular hours. she based her judgments on her time rigid. She stayed in tune with what I remember going way back in the with Phil and what they did, how was happening and she. did not lecture 20-some years that I have been here, great their lives were but how much or preach. She changed. I think that is as a staffer when I first started, it did greater they could be if he would one of the hardest things any of us as not make any difference to SALA what spend more time with her. And she did human beings do, and she did it. you did, your station in life, if she not want to see any of us go too far Second, she came here, not a native- liked you, she liked you. I remember a that way. born American. She was born in story where my predecessor, Bernie That outreach to her colleagues was Poland, and there is such a tendency Sisk, and Phil Burton, as those of us in something that I will never forget. We when that happens to come to this the delegation note, did not quite get are going to miss her because she had country and to be so glad that you are along. Phil had a tendency to put ev­ this tremendous compassion for her here, and celebrating freedom, that erybody in a certain hole. If you even fellow man. you want to start taking freedoms . knew somebody 10 years ago, he eon­ Mr. Speaker, I thank the dean of our away, saying, oh, well, it is still not as sidered maybe that you were not delegation very, very much. bad as it was back there because we friendly. So I met SALA and she and I Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. are so afraid something will come in had this tremendous relationship. Speaker, SALA BURTON had treasured here. When I got elected, Phil decided friends from every part of the country. She understood that if you are going that I had to be considered an enemy I yield to the gentleman from Florida to have freedom, you have to have real because I used to work for Bernie. I [Mr. LEHMAN]. freedom and she could speak from a was at a party once and SALA hugged Mr. LEHMAN of Florida. Mr. Speak­ platform none of the rest of us knew me and kissed me and said to Phil, er, I thank my friend, the gentleman because we were so privileged, never "Here is a fellow that we really need from California. having to have gone through that. to work with and help out." He said, This House has often been referred She will, indeed, be missed. I think "No way; he is one of the other side." to as sort of a fraternity. If this frater­ we all should follow in her footsteps. SALA dressed him down right there and nity had a housemother, as fraterni­ I thank the gentleman from Califor- said, "He is our friend; he is my friend, ties do, SALA was the personification of nia [Mr. EDWARDS]. and we are going to work with him." that kind of a person. Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. She was that way. She never worried First impressions are not always the Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from about past associations. She never most reliable, but the first impression California [Mr. BEILENSON], who worried about what other people I had of SALA BURTON is one that I still worked very closely with SALA as a thought or did not think. She had her carry in my memory, and it has been fellow member of the Committee on own mind and she had her own com­ reaffirmed and reconfirmed ever since Rules. passion. She felt it strongly and lived I came here, ever since I have known Mr. BEILENSON. Mr. Speaker, I with it strongly. her. Fourteen years ago I came up to thank my good friend and colleague Here is a person who came from an­ Washington on a dreary, dark late No­ for giving me this opportunity to join other country, who adopted this land, vember evening after I had been elect­ with my colleagues here on the House and as a typical convert, she under­ ed for the first time. I was alone and floor to express my profound sorrow stood what we cherish here more than uncertain. I did not even know where for our loss of SALA BuRTON, and my we understood. She believed it and to check in. I was over at the Skyline deepest sympathies to her entire lived it more than many of our people Inn, which is not the most cheerful family, to whom our hearts all go out. believe it and live it. place in the world to be alone, and 2384 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE February 2, 1987 there was a note there for me to call That at such an untimely moment she 0 1235 SALA BURTON. would have been taken from us by Mr. EDWARDS of California. One I called SALA BURTON, and she intro­ cancer, that dread scepter, is beyond Member who worked in the vineyards duced herself. She said to me, "Come our capacity to fathom. The God in of politics in California and elsewhere over to the house tonight for dinner." His infinite wisdom has chosen such a I went over to their home on Consti­ for many, many years with both SALA time as this to take SALA to dwell with and Phil is the gentleman from Cali­ tution Avenue. It was bright and those in immortality is a judgment cheerful. I was made welcome in fornia [Mr. WAXMAN]. which we only must accept. But may Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle­ Washington. It was uplifting, it was re­ her spirit still reside with us, and may warding, and it was the beginning of a man from California [Mr. WAXMAN]. this Chamber echo still to her laugh­ Mr. WAXMAN. I thank the gentle­ long-time admiration on my part for ter and to the warmth and wonder of Phil and for, especially, SALA. Thank man for yielding and giving me this her personality. opportunity to try to, in some way you again, SALA. Mr. EDWARDS of California. I Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. thank our Speaker very much. that I know will be inadequate, ex­ Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle­ press the sense of loss we have in find­ Florida [Mr. LEHMAN]. man from California [Mr. PACKARD]. ing that SALA BURTON is no longer With Our former Speaker, the gentleman Mr. PACKARD. Mr. Speaker, I us. from Massachusetts, Mr. O'Neill, had thank my dear colleague, the gentle­ It is a loss for the city of San Fran­ a great relationship with SALA. They man from California, for yielding. cisco; it is a loss for this institution; it worked closely together, and our I did not find out about SALA's pass­ is a loss for our country and it is a loss present Speaker had the same rela­ ing until only a few moments ago as I for me in a personal way that is very tionship. I yield to the gentleman was walking here for another purpose. difficult for me to express. from Texas [Mr. WRIGHT], the Speak­ I have followed her illness with some I think it has been around 30 years er of the House. very personal interest, and to my deep since I have known Phil and SALA, Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I thank Before I was old enough to vote, they the gentleman from California for sorrow I find now that she has passed and left our midst. I certainly wish to took me under their wing and talked yielding. about what politics and public service SALA BuRTON, the gentlewoman from take this opportunity to express my deep sympathy and sorrow to the could be and should be. About what California, was in truth just that. She we needed to do in this country for the was in every true sense of the term a family and to the friends and constitu­ ents of SALA. disadvantaged, the dispossessed; how gentle woman-not gentle in the sense we could bring about some kind of jus­ of passivity, for she was fiercely com­ The Burtons have certainly had a profound influence upon their district, tice; how we can bring about some petitive, deeply dedicated, enormously kind of agenda that would lead to a committed to the things in which she upon the State of California, and cer­ tainly upon this institution. SALA more peaceful world. believed. Yet with it all she had such a Their ideals were the very highest gentle spirit about her that none could passes with, I am sure, deep remorse from all of us. She truly was a gentle and both Phil and SALA devoted them­ know her without admiring her, none selves together to try to accomplish as could be in her presence without re­ and a remarkable woman. To take the specting her, and none could come to place of Phil Burton was, I think, a much of those ideals as they possibly understand anything of SALA without very remarkable feat. could. I say Phil and SALA. SALA has profoundly feeling a sense of kinship. I only knew her husband for a very been a Member of this House for a rel­ SALA BURTON was, as has been com­ short time after I came here. He and I atively short period of time, but those mented, the wife of , served together on the Education and of us who knew both of them knew who was fiery, compulsively dedicated, Labor Committee for a very short that they worked together jointly, vigorously active, and intensely com­ time, but it did not take me long to committed to the same goals; cared petitive. learn of his imposing character and deeply about them and tried to see if Phillip Burton and I, as Members his ability to move and get things they, through the use of politics and will recall, were candidates for the ma­ done. When she came, I found, in my government, could try to bring society jority leader position some 10 years judgment and through my short expo­ to a better place and leave the world a ago. In that contest, as before and sure to him and to her at the time, a little better as a result of their efforts since, I came to appreciate the com­ rather sharp contrast in personalities. than they found it. mitment of Phil Burton, and I came to She truly was a gentle and a loving I cannot describe the loss of some­ understand that much of his strength woman, and she was a woman who one who was so close that I would derived from the unquestioned, unde­ wanted to participate in this institu­ have to say that she was as close as an viating support of the wonderful tion in a way that would bring about aunt to me. There was not a time woman who was his wife. accomplishment. But I did not see in when my wife, Janet, and I were not After Phil's death, SALA, of course, her the avid politician that I saw in invited to their home when we visited came to join us as a Member of our her husband. Maybe that is why I was Washington. They encouraged me per­ body. What a wonderful person she drawn to her a little bit more, not sonally, and there was never a time was. What a lilting spirit she brought. knowing her husband as long. But when they did not care; did not take It has been stated, I think, on occa­ since my own inclinations are not so the time to express their care about sion that we never get to know our col­ political, I certainly did appreciate the all of us. They saw my children over leagues well unless we have the oppor­ time that we have been able to spend the years grow; they commented and tunity to take a trip with them. My together. cared about us all so deeply. wife Betty and I had the great privi­ She was a classmate of mine in a Phil and SALA were a team. They lege the year before last of traveling sense, and I sincerely appreciate her always were a team fighting together with SALA BURTON to some of the service to the country and to this insti­ and I can only express in words, inad­ places in Europe that she knew far tution. Certainly her kindnesses to me equately, my feelings of loss and con­ better than we. SALA having been born personally will be remembered, and dolences to the family to Joy and her in Poland, was a person of an old her passing certainly will be remem­ husband and children. To John and world background but of a new world bered as the passing of one of the Bob Burton, her brothers-in-law, and spirit. We came to know and love and great ladies of the Congress. to all of us in this institution and in appreciate SALA for the person that Mr. Speaker, I sincerely express my this country who have suffered the she was and for the spirit that was deep sympathy to her family and to loss of a very dear and wonderful hers and that lives still in the world. her constituents. woman. February 2, 1987 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2385 Mr. EDWARDS of California. I all of us, but most importantly, her through the very, very exciting and thank the gentleman for his com­ sense of justice and honor; what this difficult times that they shared in ments. I am advised that the service country is really about. Congress. on Thursday in San Francisco will be Mr. EDWARDS of California. I Not all of their goals were achieved. at 1 p.m. in the afternoon in the ro­ thank the gentleman for his com­ Certainly Phil's greatest quest was not tunda of the city hall. ments. accomplished. But SALA knew no bit­ Mr. Speaker, I yield to another great Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle­ terness; she was a team player. She friend of SALA's, the gentleman from man from California [Mr. FAZIO], an­ was a great politician; someone who California [Mr. MATSUI]. other close associate of SALA's. would want the word "politician" used Mr. MATSUI. Thank you, DoN. I Mr. FAZIO. I thank our dean, DoN about her. She was a person who un­ would like to, first of all, as Congress­ EDWARDS, for not only this opportuni­ derstood political life and reveled in it woman BOXER has said, thank you on ty to have a few words about our de­ and did well at it. No one ever fought behalf of myself and other members parted friend, but also, as has so often more for her city of San Francisco or of our delegation for the care and been said for the kindness and sensi­ for the State of California, just as you comfort that you gave SALA the last tivity he shows to all of us, but par­ would expect of someone who appreci­ few months of her life. You were ticularly that he has shown to SALA in ated so much the opportunity to be really our link to SALA during that the last difficult months of her life. part of it and to make a new life in a period of time because you were in We know her as a dear friend, Phil new world. communication with her. The fact Burton, her husband, knew her as SALA is someone we will never forget that you had given her the oath of "Dear Heart." The term "heart" on a personal level; someone who I office for this 100th Congress will comes back to me at this point as so mean a lot to all of us. So we appreci­ much the epitome of all that SALA was think we should rededicate ourselves ate your time in which you did for us about because she was at the vital to understanding and appreciating in in giving SALA comfort. center of politics in San Francisco and the context of our own lives, dealing I just have a few words because I un­ in Washington for so many years. She with our own spouses. derstand at some future date we will had the heart of a lion. She was one My wife Judy and I will miss her be able to spend more time in a special who cared deeply about people and very much and we offer our condo­ order discussing our feelings about issues. Many of us find that a difficult lences to her daughter, her brothers­ SALA. I remember coming back here concept. We are either issue-oriented, in-law, John and Bob and to her many and spending some time with Phil perhaps oblivious to those around us, friends. Burton, and one evening in particular or we are so sensitive to individuals D 1245 was one that I will always remember. that we sometimes see the trees and Phil was giving me a bad time as he not the forest; not the fact that the in­ Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. has given all of our Democratic Mem­ dividual that we know well may be Speaker, I thank the gentleman from bers at various times in our careers, in epitomizing so many others. California [Mr. FAZIO]. his office late one night for some vote SALA could do both. She cared about Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle­ that perhaps I made and it must have people out of her own experience, her man from California [Mr. PANETTA], a been an hour-and-a-half into the meet­ family being impacted by the Holo­ close friend and an ally in many ing and SALA came in and said, "Phil­ caust. She cared about the need to worthy causes with SALA. lip, let BoB go home because his wife is take care of the homeless; the people Mr. PANETTA. Mr. Speaker, I probably waiting for him." with disabilities; the people of all races thank the gentleman from California I recall almost on every occasion and religions. She had known discrimi­ and I thank him also for allowing us that SALA BURTON WOUld always ask nation and she made her life with Phil these few moments to express our re­ me how Doris was or how my son was part of an ongoing effort to end it. grets and sympathies over the loss of a and how we as a family were getting As has been indicated, she is an im­ dear friend. along in Washington. That was her migrant to this country and she rev­ I guess it was about 4 years ago that main concern for each of us as Mem­ eled in representing a city built on im­ Phil died. I can remember at that time bers of Congress. migration, one that continues today; a taking the floor of the House to say After she became a Member of Con­ beacon for people throughout this that the delegation has truly lost a gress, SALA had still that very strong world, particularly from the Pacific. father, that Phil had wrapped himself compassion for us as individuals. But SALA was somebody who understood around the issues of the delegation to then she got involved in her own right what it was like to be from someplace the delegation itself and had truly on issues. I remember when we were else and not to know where you were. fought for the interests of all of us in discussing a bill that is very close to She wanted to make people feel at trying to advance the causes that he Congressman NORM MINETA and home and she did so. Among those was concerned about for California. myself, a bill dealing with compensa­ many were her colleagues here in Con­ He was without question the father tion for Americans of Japanese ances­ gress. She and Phil were a team; they of this delegation, and if that be true, try who were interned during World each had an edge, soft and hard. To­ and I think it was, then surely SALA is War II, and how SALA came up to me gether they were unbeatable. They the mother of the delegation. She on the floor of the House one day had integrated so many of us from cared about the family. I think she after the bill had been introduced and California, and, as PAT SCHROEDER said, always asked each of us about how our said we will do everything we can to from throughout the country, into the families were doing, how were we get that bill passed because she felt very difficult maelstrom that is Con­ doing, expressed concern for not only that it was a grave, terrible injustice. gress; that is life in Washington, DC, our spouses, but our children, our rela­ After SALA had finished that conver­ that likes to think of itself as the cap­ tionship. She cared about our individ­ sation with me I felt so comforted be­ ital of the world. ual concerns and how we are doing on cause knowing that she, in this Con­ She was the epitome of, as Mrs. an individual basis, and yet cared gress, as a colleague, felt so strongly BoGGs indicated, those who also serve, about the issues that we were working about that issue that I had every con­ congressional spouses. Men and on. fidence that however it came out it women who are really elected whether If there is anything that identifies would be done correctly and with jus­ they knew it or not, at the same time SALA BURTON and that identifies I tice. we are to this very difficult pressure guess any mother, it is that sense of So I suppose the thing we are going cooker. Some families are weakened; compassion. We sometimes struggle to be missing most about SALA BuRTON others are strengthened. SALA and Phil with the intricacies of the legislative is her, first of all, loving friendship of grew in maturity and strength process in trying to figure out who is 2386 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE February 2, 1987 going to do what to whom, but she was their's was one of the first private Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. always concerned about the compas­ homes that I was invited into. I re­ Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from sion in an issue. I saw that in the member the tenderness, the sweetness California [Mr. Bosco]. Select Committee on Hunger in hear­ and the caringness that I felt, and I Mr. BOSCO. Mr. Speaker, I want to ings that we held around the country am sure to many of the other mem­ thank the dean of our delegation, Mr. and particularly in California, her bers of the so-called Watergate babies EDWARDS, for this opportunity to join deep compassion about the problem. felt. It meant a great deal to me. with others in expressing my deep She brought that same sense of com­ I kind if lost track of SALA for a few sense of loss over the passing of our passion to the Rules Committee. The years. When she came back to Con­ colleague, SALA BURTON. Like her late Rules Committee often rules on issues gress, we were fortunate enough to husband, Phillip, SALA was a hands-on based on who is trying to do what to have her on the Rules Committee and active public participant in just about whom and what are the various she brought that same caringness and every issue that came before our State amendments that people are seeking; that same compassion and feeling for but there was always one person who those that she worked with and for and our country; yet in her illness and spoke about the compassion of the those that she served; that means ev­ in dying she was very private, almost issues that were before the Rules eryone, but I think primarily those not wishing to burden the rest of us Committee, and that was SALA. who were less deserving and probably with her personal trials. I worked with her very closely on needed the help of their Government Of the many legacies that SALA the offshore drilling issue and there more than others. leaves behind, I think mostly of the again was the sense of compassion, I do not think the Rules Committee Redwood Park which is in my district compassion about the resources of our or the House will be the same. I shall up in northern California. SALA and coastline and the need to protect our miss her very much. Phil were the architects and the engi­ great State; so it is that great sense of I thank the gentleman. neers of this park. Today these giant compassion that we lose with the loss Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. redwoods stand for the enrichment of SALA BURTON. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from and enjoyment of future generations As the son of immigrants, I can say Arkansas [Mr. ALEXANDER]. and almost everyone thinks that it was that she being an immigrant, I think I Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, I a good thing that this area was set felt a very special relationship to her thank the gentleman for yielding. aside, yet we forget that at the time because she brought all those instincts It is often said that Congress is a this was happening the public was that I saw in my parents to her job of mirror that reflects the images of the very angry about it. Many people in kindness, of toughness and again of American people, and inasmuch as we the different industries that benefit compassion. are a nation of immigrants those from using these lands targeted both So as we express our concerns here images are different as they reflect Phillip and SALA as public enemies. today, I think the one thing that will the regional, cultural, ethnic, and be with us forever is the fact that the racial differences that make up this D 1255 father and mother of this delegation great Nation of ours. It was their courage and their stead­ have passed, but we will remember SALA helped bring this Nation to­ fastness and their willingness to fight them and their memory will give us gether in that she brought regions to­ a very tough, long battle that will be strength to face the future. gether. She reached across the Rock­ their legacy, because those trees will My wife, Sylvia, joins with me in ex­ ies to the Middle South where I am be there for many generations to pressing our deepest sympathies to the from and the district that I represent come. family and our thanks for the example to help bring understanding of the dif­ SALA also was a member of our small that both of them set for us. ferences that exist between these re­ group that has been fighting the ex­ Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. gions of our country and to help us ploitation and development of off­ Speaker, I thank the gentleman very find a common denominator where we shore oil resources in California. It is much for those moving words. could build a consensus to work to­ reminiscent to all- of us of the fact As I said earlier, SALA had friends, gether. that our work must go on that just close friends, in every part of the As the Congress has a tendency to this very day we will be meeting with country, representatives from all over. become more and more parochial each the Secretary of the Interior to hear Mr. Speaker, I am honored to yield year, some say more like State legisla­ what plans the Department has for to the gentleman from South Carolina tures than the national assembly that [Mr. DERRICK]. it is, SALA was a reference for me and those areas. I think it will give us Mr. DERRICK. Mr. Speaker, I others, for the West and for Eastern greater impetus and renew our dedica­ thank the gentleman. I will be brief Europe where she originated. Not tion to go forward and protect these and hope to make further remarks at having had an opportunity to travel to resources, because we know that one a later time. that region of the globe, I often went of the great fighters in this battle I express my deep sympathy to the to SALA for information about Poland, would now want us to do that. Burton family and others who were Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, This is certainly the end of an era close to her. the nations of that region that we for the politics of San Francisco and You know, the gentleman from Cali­ need to know about, that she had a our State. All of us are thankful for fornia, Mr. PANETTA, said that she was wealth and abundance of information the opportunity to have worked with the mother of the California delega­ about. SALA BURTON. We are sympathetic to tion. Well, I want to tell you another It was just this past Saturday while her family, and we want to express our group that she was a mother, an aunt, we were attending our annual Demo­ thoughts to the country that this is an and a sister confessor and everything cratic Conference at the Greenbriar individual who will be very profoundly else to, and that is the freshman, the that I sat down and penned a note to missed. Democratic freshmen of the 94th Con­ SALA wishing her well from her cheer­ Mr. EDWARDS of California. I gress. ing section in Arkansas. She will not thank the gentleman very much. I came up here from a small south­ receive that note, but she will hear our Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. ern town to this city that I had visited words today. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? a couple of times before I got here. I SALA, we love you. We will remember Mr. EDWARDS of California. I yield can remember, of course, Phil Burton you always and you will be missed by to the gentleman from California. was that tower of strength and move­ all those who knew you. Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. ment in getting things done. I remem­ Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman Speaker, I thank the gentleman for ber when I first met SALA. I think for yielding. yielding. February 2, 1987 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2387 Mr. Speaker, I join with so many of that she knew, and about people that Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my other colleagues in thanking him she would never know. the gentleman from California [Mr. both for providing this time and for As others have indicated, she was EDWARDS] for his leadership of the the thoughtful consideration and care such an important influence on each California delegation as well as the that he has shown to all of us, but par­ of us, as apparently was the case with privilege that I have of representing ticularly to SALA, during the last sever­ so many of my colleagues and I who our area, an adjoining district to that al difficult months. find it fascinating listening today to of Mr. EDWARDS. I have only been in this Congress a how many people SALA expressed so Mr. BATES. Mr. Speaker, will the relatively short period of time; I am beautifully a concern not just about gentleman yield? beginning my fifth year. Yet I cannot them but about their families. SALA Mr. MINETA. I yield to the gentle­ help but reflect that after one of the would always in her relations with me man from California. first weekends that my wife and I left first ask me how Jan was and how the Mr. BATES. I thank the gentleman town in our first term, we came back kids were, and it was something that for yielding. to Washington and saw a flag at half­ SALA cared very deeply about. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the oppor­ mast, and did not know why the flag Jan and I used to participate with tunity to say a few words, to say on was at half-mast, and were shocked SALA periodically in a study group, and behalf of my wife and me how much and deeply saddened to learn that it SALA would attend that group reli­ we regret the passing of Congresswom­ was as a result of the passing of one of giously, not because it would provide an SALA BURTON. the giants in politics and in legislative SALA with any political benefit or not I first knew her husband and stood activity, not just from California, but because it provided SALA with any sig­ in awe of his abilities, and then from the country, Phil Burton. And nificant legislative opportunities, but watched her as he was struck down fill today as I came into the office I saw because it gave SALA an opportunity to his position and represent her district the flags at half-mast again, and was participate in something that enriched in this Congress so ably. again very saddened to realize that her life personally and gave SALA an these flags were flying at half-mast for opportunity to share with others of us 0 1305 the other half of that wonderful, ex­ who cared so much about her, her own She was just down the hall in the traordinary team, SALA BuRTON. experiences and her own personal con­ Longworth Building, and I had a So much has already been said, and cerns. chance to get to know her on a person­ there is little that I can add to the elo­ So on a family level, on a personal al basis. I think we will feel the void quence and touching comments of so level, on a legislative level, it is going and loss of her passing. many of my colleagues. Both Phil and to be extraordinarily different around I would just like to note that death SALA meant an extraordinary amount, here with SALA not being here phys­ is so final and perhaps in trying to as is evident from what we have al­ ically, but as others have mentioned, come to terms with the finality and ready heard and as we are reminded in the legacy that SALA leaves, the inspi­ loss and void that her death has cre­ so many respects almost on a daily ration that SALA provided, the impor­ ated that we can recommit ourselves basis. tance that SALA had for each of us in to the goals, the values that we shared I on a personal note could not help her own way, is something that has with her so the time we have left will last night but reflect during the few enriched all of our lives so significant­ be better spent. minutes that I happened to watch the ly that we are all and I certainly am I thank the gentleman. end of the very impressive show about the better for having had the privilege Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, I yield LBJ, I thought I was watching Phil of knowing SALA BuRTON and consider­ to our very fine colleague, the gentle­ Burton, as the man who played LBJ ing her a very, very close friend. woman from Ohio [Ms. OAKAR], vice demonstrated such an extraordinary I know that I am speaking for Jan chair of our Democratic caucus. ability to influence individuals and when I express my condolences to Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, I thank such an extraordinary grasp of the SALA's family and say on behalf of so the distinguished gentleman for yield­ legislative process. many of us that SALA has made San ing. Since Phil Burton's death I have Francisco, the country, this legislative First of all I want to thank my good thought so often about the legacy that body, and all of our lives much richer friend, the gentleman from California, he has left, and so many of us have than we would otherwise have known [DON EDWARDS], . WhO has been paid been touched so personally and so without the opportunity and privilege tribute to by his delegation. In a sense, deeply by the fact that SALA in her of calling SALA BURTON a very close you are kind of the overall dean of a own way has not only continued that and special friend. lot of us, and that takes nothing away legacy, but has added in her own per­ Mr. EDWARDS of California. I from my own dean, the gentleman sonal, thoughtful, caring fashion a thank the gentleman. from Ohio [Lou STOKES]. But we all very, very personal touch to the lives Those of us from San Jose have a look to you for your leadership. I espe­ of so many of us and to the legislative special relationship with San Francis­ cially want to thank DoN for his very activities in this Chamber. co, our glamourous sister city 30 or 40 special way of making sure that every­ SALA had a visceral opposition to dis­ miles north of us. The former mayor one understood SALA's wishes in this crimination. SALA had a visceral con­ of San Jose, I know, had a very special whole thing, because I think when you cern for people in need. SALA had a vis­ relationship with both Phil and SALA, see one of your dear friends who is ceral commitment to try to help those and I yield, with great pleasure, to the sick, and indeed passes on, you really in this country, and frankly around gentleman from California [Mr. think about your own loss. It is DoN the globe, who needed help and who MINETA]. who has given me I guess as much as needed assistance from the public The SPEAKER pro tempore