S140 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 21, 1997 can restore integrity to our electoral 1960’s and endured throughout his bril- Let us talk about a man who brought a re- system by enacting meaningful cam- liant career, including his 1992 Presi- markable wife to Lowell, and a father who paign finance reform legislation. dential campaign. raised three wonderful children in the city of I thank the Chair and yield the floor. As a Lowell city councilor, a county his birth. commissioner, Congressman, Senator, Because before all else—before all the poli- Mr. NICKLES. Madam President, I tics and the presidential campaigns—Paul know my colleagues have been waiting and Presidential candidate he had a Tsongas devoted his life to his beloved and patiently. Would they mind if I went special vision of America as it ought to cherished wife and daughters. And even if his ahead for a few minutes? be. Above all, he had an extraordinary journey consisted ‘‘only’’ of Nicola, Katina, Mr. GRAMS. That is fine. personal and political courage. It was a Ashley and Molly, he would have succeeded— (The remarks of Mr. NICKLES pertain- courage demonstrated during his long grandly—in making this city and this world ing to the introduction of S. 9 are lo- illness and in all aspects of his years in a better place in which to live. If a man’s legacy is first and foremost his cated in today’s RECORD under ‘‘State- public service. He often took stands that were unpopular. He had strongly family, Paul Tsongas’ journey has left us all ments on Introduced Bills and Joint with a living legacy to cherish and honor as Resolutions.’’) held beliefs and he fought hard for we do his own life. (The remarks of Mr. NICKLES, Mr. them regardless of the passing political For years, we in Lowell have needed Paul GRAMS, and Mr. HUTCHINSON pertaining cause. He cared more for the truth Tsongas. Now it is time for all of us to begin to the introduction of S. 9 are located than public opinion. And the people of to repay our debt to him by reaching out to in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Statements Massachusetts loved him all the more Nicola, Katina, Ashley and Molly with our because of it. arms, our hearts and our prayers. on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolu- They surely don’t need us to tell them, but tions.’’) President Kennedy would have called him a ‘‘profile in courage.’’ we should let them know just how proud we f One of his enduring legacies is the are of her husband and their father, and how much we, too, will miss him. 1996 YEAR END REPORT Lowell National Historic Park, which For those who knew Paul Tsongas—and so symbolized a great deal about his com- The mailing and filing date of the many in this city were privileged by his mitment to Lowell and to that entire friendship—we knew him first as a husband 1996 Year End Report required by the region of our State. He had the vision and a father. In these parts, he was not Sen. Federal Election Campaign Act, as to conceive the park and the skill to Tsongas. He was ‘‘just’’ Paul Tsongas, a guy amended, is Friday, January 31, 1997. achieve it. In a larger sense, it also who clearly was happiest not on the firing Principal campaign committees sup- typified his unique ability to find new lines of City Hall or Capitol Hill, but rather porting Senate candidates file their re- ways to see old problems. Where others in his back yard on Mansur Street. ports with the Senate Office of Public saw a fading mill town, Paul saw the ‘Our’ Paul Tsongas was not a politician or Records, 232 Hart Building, Washing- a presidential candidate. He was something opportunity for rebirth, growth, and a much more special than that. ton, DC 20510–7116. thriving new economy. He was Tsongy—our neighbor and our The Public Records office will be He applied that same dedication to friend. A guy who may have been better at open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the filing new ways of thinking in everything he driving his kids to school than he was at date to accept these filings. In general, did in our State, our country, and our driving legislation through the U.S. Senate. reports will be available the day after common planet, yet he had both a real- A hard-working environmentalist whose receipt. For further information, please istic and idealistic vision of a better most beloved contribution to the greening of contact the Public Records office on future and a powerful commitment to America was surely cleaning up and land- (202) 224–0322. scaping Kittredge Park, on his hands and reach it so no one would be left out or knees, as content as a man could be. f left behind. Let others applaud and exalt the contribu- He reminded me of Robert Kennedy. tions Rep. and Sen. Tsongas made to the REGISTRATION OF MASS As my brother often said, ‘‘Some peo- Commonwealth of Massachusetts—as they MAILINGS ple see things as they are and say, why. should and will. Let the national pundits and The filing date for 1996 fourth quarter I dream things that never were and politicians ponder what contributions a mass mailings is January 27, 1997. If a say, why not?’’ That was true of Paul President Tsongas would have made to the Tsongas as well. We will miss him very country—as surely he would have. Senator’s office did no mass mailings We in Lowell need only walk through our during this period, a form should be much. Our hearts go out to his wife city to celebrate—every day—what Paul submitted that states ‘‘none.’’ Niki, his sisters, Thaleia and Vicki, all Tsongas did for his hometown. Mass mailing registrations, or nega- the members of his wonderful family, A national park here, a Boarding House tive reports, should be submitted to his three daughters, Ashley, Katina, Park there. The Wang Towers over there, the Senate Office of Public Records, 232 and Molly. and an arena going up just over here. And Hart Building, Washington, DC 20510– Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- here’s one of our new middle schools, not too 7116. sent that editorials from the Lowell far from our downtown hotel. And just over Sun and the Boston Globe be printed in there, where the river bends, we’re going to The Public Records Office will be have a brand new ball park for Lowell’s own the RECORD. open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the filing minor league ball club. You know, the Spin- date to accept these filings. For further There being no objection, the mate- ners, the team Paul Tsongas brought to information, please contact the Public rial was ordered to be printed in the town. Records office on (202) 224–0322. RECORD, as follows: Let those on the national stage talk about [From the Lowell Sun, January 20, 1997] the bumpy, bizarre and truly incredible road f COMING HOME which Paul Tsongas nearly traveled to the TRIBUTE TO FORMER SENATOR When he stood in the raindrops at Board- White House. Here, in Lowell, we’ll walk and talk about PAUL TSONGAS ing House Park, Paul Tsongas spoke of em- barking upon his ‘‘journey of purpose’’ to be- the most important roads in Paul Tsongas’ Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, it is come the President of the United States. life—Highland Street, where he lived as a with great sadness that we learned last We in Lowell knew better. child. Gorham Street, where young Paul weekend of the death of our former col- We in Lowell knew Paul Tsongas’ purpose- toiled in his father’s dry cleaning store. And league from Massachusetts, Paul Tson- ful journey began long before he tossed his Mansur Street, where Paul Tsongas of Low- ell lived and raised his family. gas. Paul served in the House of Rep- hat into the presidential ring, and endured long after his candidacy came to an end. Let other congressmen and senators and resentatives for 4 years, from 1975 to For Citizen Paul Tsongas, his journey to presidents talk about the unique contribu- 1979, and in the Senate for 6 years, from make his city and his world a better place tion Paul Tsongas made to deficit reduction 1979 to 1985. All of us who knew him re- began as soon as he was old enough to make and our grandkids at the Concord Coalition. spected him and admired him. a difference, and continued—with as much Here, in Lowell, we’ll reminisce about the Paul was a great friend, a great Con- passion and purpose as ever—until it ended first and most important budget Paul Tson- gressman for the people of Lowell, a all too soon Saturday night. gas ever balanced in his life—the one in that dry cleaning shop on Gorham. great Senator for the State of Massa- Let others talk about Sen. Tsongas’ ex- traordinary contributions to the national We knew The Road from Here would al- chusetts. He had a special dedication to landscape—as they should and will. ways lead back to Lowell. public service that began as a Peace Let us in Lowell talk about contributions And even though his journey of purpose Corps volunteer in Ethiopia in the far more significant and enduring. often took Paul Tsongas to bigger cities and January 21, 1997 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S141 faraway lands, we all knew that his journey Administration and the Office of the cial shipbuilding orders has been gen- began here, drew its strength from here, and U.S. Trade Representative to fully con- erated in the United States. These will end, too soon, when he is buried here. sider the amendments to H.R. 2754 commercial orders are helping to sus- Paul Tsongas’ journey of purpose may have passed by the House last year. Those been all to brief, but like a meteor blazing tain our major builders of Navy ships. across the civic skyline he so loved, it was amendments, which were sponsored by Ms. SNOWE. In 1996, when the admin- the House National Security Commit- brilliant, intense and unforgettable. istration sought congressional ap- tee, were in response to major concerns ‘‘Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my proval of the OECD Shipbuilding first breath. It is where I will always derive regarding this agreement’s damaging Agreement, the Department of Defense a sense of place and a sense of belonging. impact on our national security inter- submitted a Navy shipbuilding budget ‘‘It is what I am.’’ ests, and on the Navy’s core shipbuild- request for the fewest numbers of ships Amen. ing industrial base. While preserving Think of Paul Tsongas whenever you take in more than 60 years. While the your kids to a Spinners game. We think he’d the underlying intent of the OECD agreement, the amendments adopted Navy’s Fiscal Year 1997 Future Years like that. Defense Plan called for an average of [From the Boston Globe Jan. 19, 1997] by the House provide some modest safeguards with respect to these na- only 5 ships per year, the Navy antici- PAUL TSONGAS OF LOWELL tional security concerns. pates that it will need to procure 10 to Paul Tsongas, 55, relished the uphill fight Ms. SNOWE. Those amendments were 12 ships per year beginning in the year but was unable to beat back his most for- 2002, if it is to maintain a 346-ship fleet. midable opponent and succumbed last night approved by an overwhelming majority in the House who felt that, without the The challenge for our Nation and the to complications from the lymphoma that Navy is to sustain the critical core dogged him since 1988. changes, the OECD Agreement failed to His seemingly inexhaustible ability to provide an effective mechanism for dis- shipbuilding industrial base during this rally from a battery of grueling medical pro- ciplining foreign shipbuilding subsidy alltime low in Navy shipbuilding and cedures, including two bone marrow trans- practices. I should add that a number still have the capability to meet future plants, was testimony to his grit and a spur of Members in this body who have ex- Navy building needs. to anyone tempted to complain about life’s amined the agreement also share this lesser challenges. Facing these circumstances, in 1989 Tsongas was a tough taskmaster in his po- view. The base agreement, coupled the U.S. shipbuilding industry sought litical life too, always willing to challenge with the many loopholes and special an international agreement to end for- conventional wisdom and unafraid to give concessions granted to foreign govern- eign government shipbuilding sub- people bad news if he felt it would fix an ail- ments, would continue to place U.S. sidies. The industry believed then, as it ing system. In 1980 he faced a hall full of doc- shipbuilders at a tremendous competi- does now, that it was essential to end trinaire liberals at a convention of the tive disadvantage. For this reason, the foreign government participation in Americans for Democratic Action and told largest U.S. shipbuilders, representing them it was time to ‘‘escape the ’60’s time the commercial shipbuilding market if capsule.’’ over 90 percent of all workers in the it was to have a fighting chance to Probusiness, open-minded about nuclear Nation’s major shipbuilding base, op- make the transition to building both power, a relentless deficit hawk but at the posed implementation of the agree- commercial and Navy ships, and thus same time unstinting in his support of civil ment even though they were the pri- survive this historic low in Navy ship- rights, gay and women’s issues and the envi- mary advocates of an effective dis- building. ronment, Tsongas was a ‘‘New Democrat’’ cipline on foreign government subsidy long before it became trendy. and dumping practices in the first Mr. LOTT. As negotiations dragged Since voting for the controversial Lowell place. on for over 5 years, the marketplace connector highway as a city councilor in his Mr. LOTT. In order to put into per- was changing dramatically and rapidly, hometown in 1972, Tsongas built a reputation spective the concerns of the U.S. ship- while the objective of the negotiators on following his political conscience despite seemed to remain static. There was a the odds. building industry, it may be helpful to He was a long shot in his successful 1978 review some of the background leading failure on the part of our negotiators U.S. Senate race against Ed Brooke and was up to this agreement. In 1981, the U.S. to recognize these changes and the ac- the first Democrat to challenge President Government terminated its subsidy tivities of the various participating George Bush. Asked about the near-empty program to the U.S. shipbuilding indus- parties during the negotiations. Democratic field for the 1992 presidential try. Thus, in 1989, the United States race, he replied: ‘‘Its a medical problem: go- China, which had no commercial nads, not lymph nodes.’’ went to the negotiating table as the shipbuilding market in 1990, began to Independent, thoughtful, passionate, he only nonsubsidizing shipbuilding coun- target shipbuilding to industrialize its was as devoted to his family as he was to try. The U.S. shipbuilding industry had economy. China now ranks third in the fighting the good fight. He quit the Senate in already lost all of its commercial ship- world for commercial shipbuilding, and 1984 so he could spend time with his wife building market share and was bracing it is not a signatory to this agreement. Niki and three daughters. ‘‘They’re going to itself for a dramatic decrease in Navy Other countries, such as the Ukraine lay me in the ground someday,’’ Tsongas shipbuilding orders. and Poland, are also not covered by said in a 1992 interview with the Globe. ‘‘I Ms. SNOWE. In 1993, 4 years after this agreement and have displayed a want to do the things I would have wanted to international negotiations had failed have done when that happens so my grand- renewed interest in their shipbuilding children will feel good about me.’’ to produce an agreement to end foreign sectors. Paul Tsongas has left all of us much to feel subsidies, Congress and President Clin- ton revived and amended a modest ship Ms. SNOWE. During the negotia- good about even as we mourn his passing. tions, Germany granted $4 billion in f loan guarantee program called Title XI. The purpose of this program was to shipyard modernization subsidies to OECD SHIPBUILDING AGREEMENT help U.S. shipbuilders recapture com- the former East German shipyards. Mr. LOTT. The 104th Congress was mercial market share in the face of South Korea approved close to a $1 bil- unable to reach a consensus on legisla- dramatic cuts in the Navy’s shipbuild- lion bailout of its largest shipbuilder tion to implement an OECD Shipbuild- ing plan and continued foreign govern- Daewoo. Other European countries con- ing Agreement. Opponents of the agree- ment subsidies in the commercial mar- tinued to grant billions in subsidies to ment, as negotiated, insisted that the ket. their shipbuilding industries to fill amendments passed by the House of Mr. LOTT. This modest loan guaran- their order books. Representatives be incorporated into tee program has begun the revival of Mr. LOTT. When an agreement was any implementing legislation. Support- commercial shipbuilding in the United finally reached in 1994, major U.S. ship- ers of the agreement found these States. For the first time in almost 40 builders expressed their objections amendments unacceptable. As a result, years, our major U.S. shipbuilders are with the terms of the OECD Shipbuild- no legislation was passed to put the building commercial ships for export. ing Agreement before it was signed by OECD Shipbuilding Agreement into ef- Environmentally safe oceangoing dou- the U.S. and other parties. These build- fect. ble-hulled oil tankers are being con- ers articulated to the Administration If the outcome is to be any different structed for our domestic trades. Over their concerns with the very generous in the 105th Congress, I would urge the a 2-year period, $1.7 billion in commer- transition concessions granted to the