S1786 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 22, 2010 is the Federal Government is causing Jill; his nephew, my friend and col- set the highest stand- Medicaid costs to continue to rise and league, , and his wife ards for public service and for decency Governors, therefore, make cuts and Maggie; and all the for as a human being. As Ben Jonson said tuition goes up. This bill will make this enormous loss. In several con- of Shakespeare, ‘‘he was not of an age, that worse. versations I had with Stewart in recent but for all time.’’ Stewart Udall had, as Then, on top of that, you have the years, it was clear that TOM’s own ex- he urged his grandchildren to have, ‘‘a last-minute takeover of the Federal emplary public service and I’m sure love affair with the wonder and beauty student loan program. Suddenly, 19 MARK’s as well, were a source of great of the earth.’’ We are all the richer for million students—well, 15 million of pride for him. it. those 19 million will go to the Federal Stewart Udall is best known for his EXHIBIT 1 Government to get their loan, begin- lifetime of service in preservation of [From the New York Times, Mar. 20, 2010] ning in July, instead of to 2,000 lenders our public lands. His accomplishments STEWART L. UDALL, 90, CONSERVATIONIST IN across the country. The Government is as Secretary of the Interior under KENNEDY AND JOHNSON CABINETS, DIES saying we are going to save money. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson are (By Keith Schneider) That may be true. But guess what the legendary. Those accomplishments Stewart L. Udall, an ardent conserva- Government is going to do with its were recounted yesterday in the New tionist and a son of the West, who as interior money. They are not going to say: Be- York Times. It said: secretary in the 1960s presided over vast in- cause the Government can borrow the creases in national park holdings and the . . . he presided over the acquisition of 3.85 public domain, died Saturday at his home in money at 2.8 percent it is going to cost million acres of new holdings, including four Santa Fe, N.M. The last surviving member of us less to operate the program, there- national parks Canyonlands in , Red- the original Kennedy cabinet, he was 90. fore, we are going to give students the wood in California, North Cascades in Wash- Mr. Udall had been in failing health after a savings. They are going to spend the ington, and Guadalupe Mountains in Texas— fall last week, according to a son, Senator savings. So they are going to borrow it six national monuments, nine national recre- of . ation areas, twenty historic sites, fifty wild- at 2.8 percent and loan it to the stu- Though he was a liberal Democrat from life refuges and eight national seashores. the increasingly conservative and Repub- dents at 6.8 percent. That is over- lican West, Stewart Udall said in a 2003 pub- charging America’s students to help I ask unanimous consent that the obituary from the Times be printed in lic television interview that he found in pay for the health care program. Washington ‘‘a big tent on the environ- These students are not Wall Street the RECORD, after my comments. ment.’’ financiers. They are working people, The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- The result was the addition of vast tracts some of them pretty grown up, in their pore. Without objection, it is so or- to the nation’s land holdings and—through thirties and forties, going back to Wal- dered. his strong ties with lawmakers, conserva- tionists, writers and others—work that led ter State Community College. They [See exhibit 1.] Mr. BINGAMAN. His commitment to to landmark statutes on air, water and land often have a job. They are not going to conservation. be very happy when they find out they and achievements in conservation and President Obama said in a statement Sat- are paying higher interest. The esti- preservation are unequaled in our urday night that Mr. Udall ‘‘left an indelible mate that we have made in our office is country. He was a moving force behind mark on this nation and inspired countless it might be $1,500–$1,700 dollars over 10 all of the landmark environmental leg- Americans who will continue his fight for islation of the 1960s, including the clean air, clean water and to maintain our years in more interest. That is the many natural treasures.’’ amount the Governor is going to be Clean Air Act of 1963, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1965, Few corners of the nation escaped Mr. overcharging them to pay for other Udall’s touch. As interior secretary in the government programs, including health the Wilderness Act of 1964, the Land Kennedy and Johnson administrations, he care. and Water Conservation Act of 1965, presided over the acquisition of 3.85 million The action that is being taken may the Endangered Species Act of 1966, the acres of new holdings, including 4 national be historic. But we believe that it is a National Trails System Act of 1968, and parks—Canyonlands in Utah, Redwood in the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968. California, North Cascades in Washington historic mistake and that throughout State and Guadalupe Mountains in Texas—6 the rest of this year the debate will not Long after leaving public office, he was instrumental in securing the enact- national monuments, 9 national recreation end about health care; but it will areas, 20 historic sites, 50 wildlife refuges change. It will be larger than just ment of the Radiation Exposure Com- and 8 national seashores. He also had an in- health care. pensation Act of 1990 which I was proud terest in preserving historic sites, and helped As the President himself said last to support. save Carnegie Hall from destruction. year, the health care debate is a proxy But his commitment to our public ‘‘Republicans and Democrats, we all worked together,’’ Mr. Udall said in a tele- for a larger debate about the role of lands was part of a larger lifetime com- mitment, a commitment to public vision interview with Bill Moyers. But by government in America’s life. We be- the time of that interview, Mr. Udall added lieve that is a debate our country service. that Washington had been overtaken by should have, and we believe the coun- With all the rancor and heated rhet- money and that people seeking public office try will soundly reject a policy of more oric that surround us in Washington fought for contributions from business inter- taxes, more spending, more debt, and today, it is easy to lose sight of what is ests that viewed environmental protection as good about our system of government. a detriment to profit at best. more Washington takeover. In his years in Washington, he won high re- I yield the floor. And one of the very best things about our great country, and our system of gard from many quarters for his efforts to Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I preserve the American landscape and to edu- heard my colleague’s comments about government, is that it has attracted to cate his fellow Americans on the value of health care. I will plan to return to the public service many of the best among natural beauty, points he made in his 1963 Senate floor to discuss health care in us to devote their lives to work for us book ‘‘The Quiet Crisis.’’ The book, whose some detail in the next couple days. all. aim, he wrote at the time, was to ‘‘outline The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Stewart Udall was one of those peo- the land and people story of our continent,’’ pore. The Senator from New Mexico. ple. He devoted his life to pursuing the sold widely. common good the greater good and left It was Mr. Udall who suggested that John f F. Kennedy invite Robert Frost to recite a this Nation a better place because of it. REMEMBERING STEWART UDALL poem at Mr. Kennedy’s inauguration. Mr. Stewart cared deeply about the peo- Udall accompanied Mr. Frost to the Soviet Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I rise ple of this great country and that car- Union in 1962, a trip meant to foster better to speak about a great American who ing was evident in each encounter that ties with Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. has inspired me and countless others he had. My wife Anne has fond memo- Mr. Udall also held evenings at the Interior with his leadership and commitment to ries of heartfelt conversations she had Department with the poet Carl Sandburg and public service. That great American is with Stewart where he spoke forcefully the actor Hal Holbrook. In addition, he in- vited the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wal- Stewart Udall. about the challenges we face. I myself lace Stegner to be the department’s writer in At the outset, I extend my condo- was fortunate to always hear from him residence. It was Mr. Stegner’s presence that lences to my friend and colleague, words of encouragement and construc- prompted Mr. Udall to write ‘‘The Quiet Cri- Stewart’s son, TOM UDALL, and his wife tive advice whenever we would visit. sis.’’

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:33 Jun 20, 2010 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD10\RECFILES\S22MR0.REC S22MR0 mmaher on DSKD5P82C1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE March 22, 2010 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1787 Mr. Udall was also an early supporter of That grew out of his representation of ate passed on Christmas Eve of last Rachel Carson, the biologist whose book ‘‘Si- thousands of uranium miners, nuclear weap- year. These fixes are being considered lent Spring’’ brought attention to the envi- ons industry workers and citizens exposed to because the American people over- ronmental hazards of pesticide use. radiation from atomic weapons manufac- whelmingly opposed that legislation. Mr. Udall stepped onto the national stage turing and testing in the West. Unfortunately, this bill, the reconcili- in 1954, when he was elected to Congress Though he won the first case in 1984 in from . In the hotly fought Demo- Federal District Court, an appeals court ation bill, does nothing to fix the prob- cratic presidential primary of 1960, he urged overturned the ruling and the lem that prompted this opposition. his fellow Arizona Democrats to support Supreme Court declined in 1988 to hear argu- Nothing in the bill we are going to be Kennedy. When Kennedy won the White ments. Mr. Udall then turned to Congress, considering will prevent $1⁄2 trillion House, he nominated Mr. Udall as interior working with lawmakers of both parties, from being cut from the Medicare Pro- secretary. particularly Senator Orrin Hatch, Repub- gram to create a brandnew entitlement After Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, lican of Utah, and Senator Edward M. Ken- program for the uninsured. If this bill Mr. Udall was kept on by Lyndon B. John- nedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, who died is passed, millions of Medicare bene- son. in August. ficiaries will lose the extra benefits ‘‘I think probably part of that was Lady In 1990, President George Bush signed the Bird,’’ Mr. Udall said, referring to Mr. John- Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. The they currently receive. In fact, this bill son’s wife, with whom he collaborated on law, administered by the Justice Depart- will actually make matters worse, cut- beautifying the nation’s capital and similar ment, provided up to $100,000 for those ting even more money than the provi- projects. ‘‘She treasured me, and we were sickened by radiation exposure, and issued a sions in the Senate bill. One out of wonderful friends,’’ he added. formal apology for harm done to those who every four Medicare beneficiaries is al- Roger G. Kennedy, who was director of the were ‘‘subjected to increased risk of injury ready enrolled in a Medicare Advan- National Park Service in the 1990s, said Mr. and disease to serve the national security in- tage plan, and every one of them will Udall ‘‘escaped the notion that all public terests of the United States.’’ see their benefits reduced. land was essentially a cropping oppor- Throughout his life he relished physical If this bill is passed, the care of Medi- tunity—the idea that if you cannot raise challenges. He was an all-conference guard timber on it or take a deer off it, it wasn’t care beneficiaries across the country on the University of Arizona basketball team will still be put at risk because of the valuable.’’ On the other hand, Mr. Kennedy and he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, in East said, Mr. Udall understood that public lands Africa, and Mount Fuji, in Japan, while unsustainable payment cuts to hos- like parks enhanced the economic value of heading American delegations to both re- pitals and nursing homes. The Presi- privately held land nearby. gions. When he was 84, at the end of his last dent’s own Chief Medicare Actuary said This lesson was sometimes communicated rafting trip on the River, Mr. Udall these costs could jeopardize Medicare’s with difficulty. For example, in the 1960s, hiked up the steep Bright Angel Trail from beneficiaries’ access to care. He said, when the Kennedy administration, with Mr. the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the south as a result of these cuts, roughly 20 Udall in the lead, began efforts to establish rim, a 10–hour walk that he celebrated at the percent of all hospitals and nursing the nation’s first national seashores, people end with a martini. homes in the country would become in regions including Cape Cod in Massachu- Mr. Udall’s wife, the former Irmalee Webb, setts, Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, and unprofitable which, of course, could died in 2001. Besides his son Tom, he is sur- lead them to end their participation in Point Reyes in California objected that tak- vived by his other sons, Scott, Denis and ing coastal land out of private hands would Jay, and his daughters, Lynn and Lori, as the Medicare Program. It is either end ruinously inhibit economic development. well as eight grandchildren. it or go broke. Instead, the parks have been beacons for At his death, Mr. Udall was a senior mem- If you can’t go to a hospital or get a lucrative tourism. ber of one of the nation’s last and largest po- doctor to treat you, you do not have On this and other fronts Mr. Udall pushed litical dynasties—in the West it was often health care. But this bill does nothing with a formidable combination of political said there were ‘‘oodles of Udalls’’ in poli- to fix the Medicare payment cuts in acumen and political allies—including his tics. His grandfather the Senate health reform bill passed on younger brother Morris K. Udall, who suc- served in the Arizona Territorial legislature; ceeded him in Congress and in 1976 ran for Christmas Eve. This bill will still cause his father, Levi Udall, was for decades an health insurance premiums to increase. president in a campaign that his older broth- elected judge in the Arizona Superior Court er managed. Many of the significant environ- and later a justice and chief justice of the The Congressional Budget Office said mental and land-protection statutes that be- Arizona Supreme Court; Morris Udall was the Senate bill would increase pre- came law in the 1970s and ’8os, including the followed to Washington by his son Mark miums by 10 percent to 13 percent for Endangered Species Act, bore their stamp Udall, elected in 2008 as a senator from Colo- individuals. They said that 10 percent and influence. rado, the same year that Tom Udall was to 13 percent increase is above what ‘‘That was a wonderful time, and it carried elected. through into the Nixon administration, into would happen if we do absolutely noth- But Tom Udall said that in recent years ing. Yes, escalating health care costs the Ford administration, into the Carter ad- his father had become greatly concerned ministration,’’ Stewart Udall said. ‘‘It lasted are a problem, but this bill passed by over the state of politics in the country, wor- the House last night, with these sup- for 20 years. I don’t remember a big fight be- rying ‘‘we were losing the bipartisanship in tween the Republicans and Democrats in the the environmental area.’’ posed fixes that are in here, will in- Nixon administration or President Gerald He added that Mr. Udall had recently writ- crease premiums 10 percent to 13 per- Ford and so on. There was a consensus that ten a letter to his grandchildren, urging cent for individuals over what would the country needed more conservation them to focus on ‘‘trying to transform our have been done if nothing would have projects of the kind that we were proposing.’’ society to a clean energy and clean job soci- happened. It does not sound like a solu- Stewart Lee Udall was born on Jan. 31, ety.’’ 1920, in St. Johns, Ariz., a small community tion to me. There are solutions out in Apache County in the northeast, into a f there. The bill also contains provisions that family with strong ties to the Mormon RECONCILIATION Church. His mother, Louise Lee Udall, was a will increase premiums for 85 percent granddaughter of John Doyle Lee, who was Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I rise in op- of Americans who already have health executed in 1877 for his involvement in the position to the reconciliation legisla- insurance. This bill does nothing to Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah, in tion the Senate will be considering stop health care costs from increasing which a wagon train of California-bound mi- later this week. Similar to many of my our national debt. The CBO estimates grants were killed in 1857. colleagues, I first read this legislation of the bill are required to ignore the Mr. Udall served as a Mormon missionary when it was hot filed in the House last in Pennsylvania and New York. During issue of Medicare payments to physi- World War II, he was a gunner in the 15th week. One of my first thoughts was, cians. Let’s see, how many times have Army Air Forces, serving in Europe. what a difference 15 months makes. we ignored the Medicare payments to He received bachelor’s and law degrees This week the Senate will debate legis- physicians? That is right, never. How from the University of Arizona. After grad- lation that will increase health care do we fix it? We just need to come up uating from law school in 1948, he started his costs for working Americans and wipe with 300 billion more dollars. We had a own law practice in Tucson, where he and out a successful bipartisan 45-year-old chance to do that through the bill, Morris later became partners. student loan program without a single After leaving Washington, he taught at keeping Medicare money for Medicare. Yale, practiced law and wrote several books, committee hearing or even a markup. But no, we took the Medicare money, including ‘‘The Myths of August,’’ an ac- This bill is an attempt to fix what is and we decided to put that into new count of the effects of uranium mining and perceived to be the problem with programs, new programs for the unin- nuclear weapons work in the Western desert. health reform legislation that the Sen- sured.

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