S1698 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 6, 2019 Peters Shaheen Van Hollen NAYS—46 est continuously serving Republican in Reed Sinema Warner Baldwin Hassan Sanders the Congress in U.S. history. Let me Rosen Smith Warren Bennet Sanders Stabenow Heinrich Schatz repeat that. Today, has be- Whitehouse Blumenthal Schatz Tester Hirono Schumer Wyden Booker come the longest, continually serving Schumer Udall Jones Shaheen Brown Kaine Sinema Republican in the Congress—Senate or NOT VOTING—1 Cantwell King Smith House—in the history of the United Cardin Klobuchar Manchin Stabenow States of America. He was already here Carper Leahy Tester Casey Markey when every single Member of Congress The nomination was confirmed. Udall Coons Menendez was sworn in. Think about that. For Van Hollen The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Cortez Masto Merkley Warner every Member who has been sworn in, the previous order, the motion to re- Duckworth Murphy Warren in the Senate or in the House, DON consider is considered made and laid Durbin Murray Feinstein Peters Whitehouse YOUNG was here. In fact, according to upon the table, and the President will Gillibrand Reed Wyden Roll Call, there are at least 75 Members be immediately notified of the Senate’s Harris Rosen of the House who were not even born actions. NOT VOTING—1 when DON YOUNG came to Washington. Manchin That is an amazing achievement. f He has served and our coun- The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this try so well for 46 years that it was only vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 46. CLOTURE MOTION right to feature him as the Alaskan of The motion is agreed to. the Week and to make a special Alas- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant f to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the kan of the Week poster with the young Senate the pending cloture motion, EXECUTIVE CALENDAR DON YOUNG and President Ford and which the clerk will state. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The many others and Don in uniform. We The bill clerk read as follows: clerk will report the nomination. just love DON YOUNG in Alaska. The bill clerk read the nomination of Congrats to DON. CLOTURE MOTION Where do we begin to talk about Con- Eric E. Murphy, of Ohio, to be United We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- gressman YOUNG and the enormous im- States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Cir- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the pact he has had on Alaska and Amer- cuit. Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby ica? Let me start in Central California, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- where he was raised on a small ranch. nation of Eric E. Murphy, of Ohio, to be ator from Alaska. He began the hard work of ranching Circuit Judge for the Sixth TRIBUTE TO DON YOUNG Circuit. young. ‘‘My dad was a good man,’’ Don Mitch McConnell, David Perdue, Roy Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, it is said, ‘‘but he believed that when you Blunt, John Cornyn, Joni Ernst, Alaskan of the Week time on the Sen- turned 7, you became a hired man.’’ So Lindsey Graham, John Boozman, Mike ate floor, my favorite time of the week he worked sunup to sundown. It was Rounds, Thom Tillis, Steve Daines, to talk about someone who has made a hot, riddled with snakes, and poison James E. Risch, John Hoeven, Mike difference in my State. As you know, ivy. When he was still young, his dad Crapo, Shelley Moore Capito, John and as all the pages know, I try to read him the book ‘‘The Call of the Thune, Pat Roberts, Jerry Moran. come down to the floor every week to Wild’’ by Jack London. Alaska sounded The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- talk about someone who is in Alaska really good to DON YOUNG. It was cold, imous consent, the mandatory quorum doing a great job for America, for their not hot, and there were lots of dogs. He call has been waived. community, for the State, and what I loved dogs. There were no snakes and The question is, Is it the sense of the believe is the best State in the coun- no poison ivy. Senate that debate on the nomination try. I know we can all debate that. After he got out of the Army in 1959, of Eric F. Murphy, of Ohio, to be Some of you might take issue a little the year Alaska became a State, he United States Circuit Judge for the bit with the characterization of the heeded the call of the wild and headed Sixth Circuit, shall be brought to a best State, but we certainly have some up the Alcan—much of it was still un- close? bragging rights on some elements that paved—in a brandnew Plymouth Fury. The yeas and nays are mandatory make us the most unique State in Alaska would never be the same. under the rule. America. For example, right now, the He fought forest fires. He owned a The clerk will call the roll. Iditarod, the Last Great Race, is under- skating rink for a short time, but the The senior assistant bill clerk called way, with 52 mushers and their dog BIA school needed a teacher in Fort the roll. teams—up to 14 dogs—barreling for Yukon, way up in the Interior on the Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the well over 900 miles across the State of Yukon River—a place he still, to this Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Alaska toward Nome in some of the day, calls home and has a home there. MANCHIN) is necessarily absent. most harsh, difficult, and rugged ter- In fact, he jokes that he is the only The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. rain in the world. That is just one of Congressman who uses an outhouse CRAMER). Are there any other Senators the many things that makes us unique. when he goes home. Anyway, he went in the Chamber desiring to vote? We have the Iditarod, the Northern to coach and teach fifth grade. He be- The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 53, Lights that dance in the sky, commu- came a trapper, a gold miner, and a nays 46, as follows: nities that still hunt whales to feed tugboat captain. Eventually, he met their villages, which they have been [Rollcall Vote No. 38 Ex.] Lou, his wife, who stayed by his side doing for centuries. We have the most for 46 years until she passed in 2009. YEAS—53 fish and the longest coastline. As a Now he has found another partner in Alexander Fischer Perdue matter of fact, our coastline is longer Ann. Thank you, Ann, for continuing Barrasso Gardner Portman than the rest of the lower 48’s coastline Blackburn Graham Risch to share him with all of us. Blunt Grassley Roberts combined. We have the tallest moun- DON, with Lou’s prompting, caught Boozman Hawley Romney tain in the world, and we have a moun- the political bug. He served in the Braun Hoeven Rounds tain of a Congressman named DON State House in Alaska. He served in Burr Hyde-Smith Rubio YOUNG. the State Senate in Alaska. He learned Capito Inhofe Sasse Cassidy Isakson Scott (FL) Usually, Alaskans of the Week are re- some good lessons there; namely, that Collins Johnson Scott (SC) served for people who aren’t so visible, his time in the State Senate taught Cornyn Kennedy Shelby Cotton Lankford who aren’t legends, who maybe are him that he was more of a House guy, Cramer Lee Sullivan doing something in their community where bills move fast, where elections Crapo McConnell Thune that not a lot of people are noticing. are right around the corner no matter Tillis Cruz McSally Today, March 6, 2019, I couldn’t resist what, and where the action is. Daines Moran Toomey Enzi Murkowski Wicker because DON YOUNG, the Dean of the Along the way, they had two wonder- Ernst Paul Young House, has officially become the long- ful daughters, which to DON are still

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Kissinger jurisdiction as the Environment and Due to a tragic airplane accident argued it should; DON YOUNG argued it Public Works Committee. that took the life of then-Congressman should not. Well, guess who won that So I remember going to Alaska with Nick Begich, DON YOUNG was appointed debate on Air Force One. Legend has it him and a bunch of our colleagues and to his seat in 1973. He won the next spe- that at the end, Henry Kissinger and just going through Prudhoe and just cial election, and because he has been DON YOUNG met for a martini after the seeing all kinds of places around the so effective for our State—he passed debate DON YOUNG won. They are still Senator’s beautiful State and going more than 90 bills, mostly to help Alas- good friends today. That is just an- back with my family years later. ka—and because he knows so many of other example. My colleague is also a colonel in the our fellow Alaskans by name because DON YOUNG has been good friends Marines. I call him ‘‘colonel.’’ He he is fiercely loyal, and because he has with Presidents and has discussed the knows that JOHN BARRASSO and I like helped hundreds of his fellow Alaskans issues of the day with some of the most music and that every now and then, we since 1973, he has been reelected every important people in the world, but will find some way to work some music year since. I can’t count how many through it all, he has never lost his lyrics into what we have to say. In lis- elections that is, but it is a lot. fundamental goodness, sense of fair tening to the Senator talk about DON He is consistently ranked among the play, honor, and his willingness to YOUNG, it reminds me of a great song Congress’s most effective legislators. reach across the aisle to help another by Bob Dylan, called ‘‘Forever Young,’’ He was just recently ranked the most Member. which is a classic song. You can find effective legislator, No. 1 in the House, He has never forgotten who he works anything on the internet these days, by the nonpartisan group the Center for. He works for the people of Alaska, and someone was nice enough to pull for Effective Lawmaking. Heck, even and he has remained a man of the peo- up the first verse of the lyrics of ‘‘For- in his freshman year, Ralph Nader said ple since he was elected. He has never, ever Young’’ by Bob Dylan. he was the most powerful Congressman not for a second, lost his love for our It goes something like this: in the Congress. I imagine that he great State. He could have done any- came to that conclusion with some May God bless and keep you always thing, and he chose to stay, year after May your wishes all come true trepidation. year, decade after decade, to serve the May you always do for others You will not hear DON YOUNG talk And let others do for you about these things because he doesn’t people of our State and the people of America. He recently said: May you build a ladder to the stars like to brag. He is a humble man, so let And climb on every rung me do a little bragging on his behalf. Every day I try to do something for some- May you stay forever young Nearly everything, and I mean every- body in some group. And every day I try to Forever young, forever young learn something new. We all go into the May you stay forever young thing, that has advanced Alaska legis- ground the same way. The only thing we can latively has DON YOUNG’s fingerprints leave behind [here on this Earth] are our ac- DON YOUNG, congratulations from on them, from the Trans-Alaska Pipe- complishments. your Delaware buddy and former col- line to the Ketchikan Shipyard, to the Well, he has notched numerous ac- league. Thank you. many land exchanges—kind of like complishments, and he is far from fin- What I really think we need to do is what we just did recently on the Sen- ished. If I had my guess, I would also to join hands here in the Senate and ate floor under Senator MURKOWSKI’s say he is far from finished with some of sing ‘‘Kumbaya’’ and get our act to- leadership—to the health clinics dot- his famous theatrics too: brandishing gether now that things have calmed ting our State, to the state-of-the-art walrus parts and steel traps on the down a little bit from earlier today. Alaska Native Medical Center in An- floor of the House, maybe an alterca- CLIMATE CHANGE chorage, DON YOUNG has played a crit- tion or two with colleagues that may Mr. President, I rise to speak this ical part in all of this. afternoon on the need for Congress to He is tenacious. Just last Congress, or may not involve a sharp weapon, and campaign commercials that border take some bold action in addressing DON YOUNG in the House, and Senator on the humorous. DON YOUNG is not fin- climate change. MURKOWSKI and I in the Senate, finally, Earlier today, a number of our Re- after 40 years, got ANWR opened in ished speaking his mind and giving us publican friends were here on the Sen- terms of the ability for responsible re- Alaskans his heart. ate floor to chastise the Green New source development in the 1002 area of It has been an honor to serve our Deal, which is a resolution that was in- our State. great State next to this historic figure. One of his biggest victories was the So Congressman YOUNG, for your serv- troduced by my good friend, the junior role he played in the Magnuson-Ste- ice, for your mentorship, and friend- Senator from Massachusetts. I came vens Act, which transformed the Amer- ship with me, thank you for all you down and listened for a bit. For a mo- ican fishing industry. Among other have done for all of us in Alaska and in ment there, the conversation got a lit- things, the act created a 200-mile limit America. tle bit heated, as our Presiding Officer to keep foreign fishermen from plun- Congratulations on being the longest may recall and, I am certain, as our dering our fish and to sustain our fish- serving Republican in the Congress in staff recalls. I listened as several of our eries. It wasn’t easy to get that bill U.S. history today, and even more im- Republican friends denounced the reso- passed through Congress. Congressman portant, thank you and congratula- lution and claimed it would bankrupt YOUNG worked it on the House side, tions on being our Alaskan of the the country and, in almost the same and , of course, worked it Week. breath, claimed that they supported in the Senate. I yield the floor. climate action without having pro- After it passed the Congress, he still The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- vided a whole lot of tangible details wasn’t finished. President Ford was ator from Delaware. about what actions they do support. considering vetoing this legislation. Mr. CARPER. Mr. President, before I On several occasions, I have heard His Secretary of State, Henry Kis- was elected Governor of Delaware in our friends on the other side of the singer, thought it would raise tensions 1992, I served in the House of Rep- aisle suggest that the Green New Deal with key allies, especially Japan and resentatives for five terms. We have is somehow preventing the Senate from Korea because they fished 3 miles right one congressional seat. Alaska is one of doing work to produce results on cli- off the shores of Alaska, and we pushed those States, as the Senator from Alas- mate action. If you had watched my them out to 200 miles with this legisla- ka knows, that also has one congres- Democratic colleagues and me during tion. sional seat. that debate, you would have noticed a So on Air Force One in 1974, I believe, I got to the House on January 3, 1983, little bit of frustration because we with a stopover at Alaska, DON YOUNG, and one of the first people I met there have long been eager to work with our

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