S11004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE September 4, 2007 together to get some work done. The left in the Senate. He shares that dis- It was a wonderful opportunity work- clock is ticking. It is getting late. But tinction with DANNY AKAKA, DANNY ing in that office, working together. it is not too late. There is no better INOUYE, FRANK LAUTENBERG, and TED There were countless long days, many time to shift course than now. STEVENS. very long nights. You learn a lot about The political path has been perhaps went to college on the a person when things get tough, when most in evidence on many of the Iraq GI bill. Then he entered the University the rubber meets the road. But I have votes we have had. More of the same of law school. But when the to tell you, in our case, when anything will only delay the cooperative work broke out, JOHN WARNER, was a little bit difficult, we did not we need to create a policy aimed at with his intense sense of patriotism, ever get personal, did not get upset, did protecting America’s vital long- and interrupted law school to fight for his not ever attribute ulterior motives to short-term security interests in the country again. This time he served as anybody; we decided we were going to Persian Gulf and Iraq. an officer in the Marine Corps. figure out how to get it done. A good first step away from the polit- After returning from , JOHN As I said earlier, there was a certain ical path would be to get the Defense WARNER finished law school, clerked on chemistry that came together with all appropriations bill to the floor of the the court of appeals, worked as an as- six of us working together, my staff, Senate in the next week or two and get sistant U.S. attorney and worked as a his staff, their staffs, and the six of us funding to our forces in the field. Ap- lawyer in private practice. He returned all together. It was wonderful. propriations should be an urgent pri- to public service in 1969 as Under Sec- I think I learned a lot from watching ority for us, as Democrats insisted retary of the Navy. Then, in 1972, he JOHN WARNER and , too, for when they were in the minority. Re- succeeded our former colleague, John that matter. They were two of the publicans are ready to start fresh, to Chafee, as Secretary of the Navy. He same. They both served as marines, begin again, in order to get many im- represented the Defense Department at and they both were Secretaries of the portant and necessary things accom- the Law of the Sea talks in Geneva. Navy. But JOHN WARNER was a person plished in the coming days and weeks. In the Senate, JOHN WARNER has who listens. He sat there and listened; We will call on our friends on the other served as chairman of the Rules Com- I had a point; John Chafee had a point. side to do the same. mittee. He has served as chairman and In other negotiations I have been in The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- ranking member of the Armed Services where JOHN WARNER has been there, pore. The senior Senator from Mon- Committee. He has come to be known JOHN WARNER is going to listen. JOHN tana. as one of the Congress’s most influen- WARNER will listen and say: ‘‘Okay, that is interesting. Let’s see how we f tial voices on matters of national de- fense. can make that work.’’ I might say also TRIBUTE TO SENATOR WARNER But I have come to know JOHN WAR- he is a very skilled statesman in that Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, last Fri- NER on the Environment and Public he cut to the core of matters pretty day the senior Senator from Virginia Works Committee. JOHN WARNER and I quickly. announced that he would not seek re- have worked together on that com- Not a lot of fuss or muss, never got election to the Senate. I speak today, mittee for more than 20 years. I joined wrapped around the axle in details, when things kind of got off tangent in therefore, in tribute to Senator JOHN the committee in 1981 and JOHN joined the wrong direction, but got to the WARNER. in 1987. There, for most of that time, core of the matter. He came to the core I have known JOHN WARNER for near- both of us have worked together as ly 30 years. In 1978, the people of Mon- chairman and ranking minority mem- of the matter. He would sum it all up in a very wonderful, sort of statesman- tana and Virginia sent us both to the ber of one subcommittee or another. Senate for the first time. I thank the We worked together on transpor- like, solid way, as only JOHN can. We people of Montana and Virginia for giv- tation bills. Those are the bills with all sat there saying, ‘‘Yes, that is about ing me the opportunity to serve with such colorful names as ISTEA, TEA–21, it. That is right.’’ That is kind of what JOHN said. ‘‘That is probably right. We JOHN WARNER. The election of 1978 SAFET–LU. For a while, we were will go on from there.’’ I learned a lot brought 20 new Senators to the Senate. chairman and ranking minority mem- from JOHN WARNER. I hope I can use From that class, many Senators moved ber of the Transportation and Infra- that in later years. on to other pursuits: Bill Armstrong, structure Subcommittee. We worked Both leaders spoke about how JOHN David Boren, Rudy Boschwitz, Bill on at least four renewals of the Water WARNER is not partisan, and it is true. Bradley, Bill Cohen, David Duren- Resources Development Act. I hope, frankly, that as we finish this I remember fondly working closely berger, Gordon Humphrey, Roger Jep- year and next year, a lot of us remem- with JOHN on the transportation legis- sen, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Larry ber the tone and the style with which Pressler, David Pryor, Alan Simpson, lation in 1997 and 1998, TEA–21. We JOHN WARNER conducts himself. Donald Stewart. worked with our late colleague, John It is also very important to mention From that class, three have gone to Chafee. The three of us were a wonder- JOHN WARNER spoke up courageously in their final rest. We all recall the mem- ful team. You will not believe the the State of Virginia; he did not sup- ory of colleagues now departed: Jim chemistry with which the three of us port his party’s nominee for the Sen- Exon, Howell Heflin, Paul Tsongas. worked together. We decided early on ate. That was a gutsy thing to do, but May their memories serve as a bless- we would stick together as a team: he did it in a very civil way, not in a ing. JOHN WARNER, basically the Southern negative way, not in a partisan way. He From that class, four remain in the donor States; John Chafee, basically spoke his mind about what was right. Senate: , , the New England States; and I, rep- It was very courageous and also the this Senator, and JOHN WARNER. resenting in some sense the Western tone made his message and his belief As a young man, JOHN WARNER donee States. We represented the three that much more important because fought forest fires in Montana. Very major components who put together people saw he was not personal, people often when I am talking to JOHN, he re- the Transportation bill. saw he meant it, people saw he was calls those times in Montana. His eyes We stuck together. We worked to- courageous and he was doing what he brighten up. He very much reminisces gether. I mean we worked together. thought was the right thing to do. about how much he enjoyed spending There is a lot of talk about we needing The same is true with respect to Sen- time in the State. Whether it was less partisanship around here. I have to ator WARNER’s decision about the war fighting fires or whether it was around tell you, JOHN WARNER, John Chafee in Iraq. It is not the party line, JOHN’s Bozeman, MT, it comes to him very and I, we sat down and worked things statements. He is saying what he clearly when he talks about Montana out. We had a terrific staff working for thinks is right. He is saying what he in his early years. us, JOHN, myself, and John Chafee. We thinks is the right thing to do. It is not At the age of 17, JOHN WARNER joined were all together in John Chafee’s of- partisan. It is courageous and said in a the Navy to fight in World War II, part fice, sometimes in JOHN WARNER’s of- very civil tone. of the ‘‘greatest generation.’’ JOHN fice, deciding what was best on how to That is why people have called him a WARNER is one of five World War II vets get a highway bill together. consensus builder. It is why people

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He is health benefits and vacation pay for Kent and I were colleagues in our a wonderful person. the first time and a small pension. freshman year debating the subject on I hope all of us, when we finish these At the other end of the State, in the negative: resolved that individual next 15 months or so working with Mentor, Roger Sustar speaks out every income should be limited to $25,000 an- JOHN, thank JOHN for what he is and day for American manufacturing. He nually. Shows you how times have also use JOHN as a kind of point of de- recognizes businesses similar to his, changed. parture, saying: ‘‘I wish to be more like small manufacturing companies, are Kent and I were on two high school JOHN WARNER. I wish to do what is vital to the economic security and the debating teams which won the State right; I wish to be courageous; I wish to national security for our country. On championship. In 1945, Russell was a be civil; and I wish to do what people of most Saturdays, he volunteers his time small school with fewer than 400 stu- our States ask us to do.’’ I salute JOHN to train students in the basics of manu- dents. We competed with schools our WARNER. facturing. size, then moved the next year to the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- In northwest Ohio, in the flatlands of big-school category, where high schools pore. The Senator from Ohio. Henry County, Mark Schwiebert is a had several thousand students across f highly productive farmer in an increas- Kansas, finished in second place, and LABOR DAY ingly competitive environment. He is lost by a speaker’s ballot. Then, in proud of his successful and tidy farm, 1947, we were on the team that won the Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, yester- to be sure, but he also takes seriously State AA championship with the big day Americans of all ages, from all seg- his role as a citizen. He is an advocate schools. ments of society, from hundreds of oc- for family farmers and for fair trade, Kent was the outstanding debater in cupations and professions, celebrated Russell High. He won the Kiwanis something uniquely American: Labor understanding the prosperity of our State depends on a vibrant rural Ohio, award, went on to the University of Day. Kansas, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, Our workers, tens of millions of hour- where young people want to stay and was the winner of the Perdue National ly wage earners and hundreds of thou- work in their community. Invitational Debate Tournament, com- sands of entrepreneurs, farmers and Sue Klein, another hero who cares so peted in the West Point National Tour- managers, tradesmen and saleswomen, much about our State, works at a large nament, served then in the Judge Ad- our workers have built a middle class daily newspaper. She too makes her vocate General’s office, and settled in larger, broader, and more prosperous employer a more profitable enterprise. Salt Lake City, UT in 1958, until 1997, than any in world history. She works hard. She gets rave reviews They all have one thing in common: from her coworkers, is uncommonly de- when Alice, his wife, passed away, and They are increasedly more productive, voted to her aging parents, and gives he then moved to Portland, OR. A few years back, Kent came to join creating greater wealth and larger back to her community in a dozen profits than ever for their employers. ways. me, working on the Senate staff. He Yesterday, the Columbus Dispatch re- On Labor Day, we salute American worked for 3 months. It was an honor ported that according to the Inter- labor and Ohio labor. We celebrate our and a pleasure to have my long- national Labor Organization, American State’s heroes: Dee Dee, Carlos, Mark, standing friend Kent Shearer work workers are the most productive in the Roger, and Sue. We thank them and so with me in the Senate. He brought a world. many others. level of legal insights and erudition The average U.S. worker produces I yield the floor and suggest the ab- which was rare for a Senate staffer. more than $63,885 of wealth each year. sence of a quorum. But then Kent himself might have been But increasingly, American workers The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- a Senator had his career path taken have not shared in the wealth they pore. The clerk will call the roll. one different shift. That was in 1994, in have created, in wages, in health bene- The assistant legislative clerk pro- January, when the staff was being or- fits, in a meaningful pension, that ceeded to call the roll. ganized on the President’s Commission highly productive workers in our coun- Mr. SPECTER. I ask unanimous con- to investigate the assassination of try used to enjoy. sent that the order for the quorum call President Kennedy, commonly known Ohio workers are fighting back to be rescinded. as the Warren Commission. We had one build a decent standard of living to The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- spot left among the young lawyers on provide opportunities for our children pore. Without objection, it is so or- the staff. The Commission was recruit- and to construct a more prosperous and dered. ing lawyers from all over the country egalitarian society. f in order to avoid having the Wash- But our Nation and my State have ington establishment conduct the in- struggled; struggled in part because of GREETINGS TO THE PRESIDING vestigation out of concern that there the Federal Government’s wrongheaded OFFICER might be some thought of a coverup if trade policy and tax policies, which all Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, at the the same crowd in did the too often encourage investors to move outset, permit me to greet the distin- investigation. There was concern about jobs overseas, and in part because of a guished Presiding Officer, Senator the integrity of Washington then as drifting State Government in Colum- CASEY, my colleague from Pennsyl- now. The staff was recruited from all bus which fell short in educating our vania. It is a pleasure to come back over the country. We had lawyers from young people and did little to erect a after the August break and see Senator Des Moines and Denver and Cleveland, manufacturing policy to prepare for CASEY looking so well and fit and in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles. I our future. the chair. called up Kent and urged him to apply In the spirit of Labor Day, let me f for the position. Unfortunately, he share the stories of a handful of hard- couldn’t do so because of his own ca- working often heroic Ohio workers who TRIBUTE TO KENT SHEARER reer plans at that time. I think had are making a difference. Dee Dee Till- Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I have Kent accepted a position as assistant man and Carlos Sanchez participated sought recognition to eulogize a friend counsel to the Warren Commission and in the negotiations representing 1,200 and a former member of the Senate come to Washington, his career might janitors in Cincinnati, 1,200 men and family, Kent Shearer, who died on Au- have been parallel to mine. women who are working hard, raising gust 23. Kent was active in Utah politics, was their children, contributing to their Kent Shearer and I were boyhood chairman of the State committee, was community, and earning not much friends from our early days in Russell, instrumental in the campaigns of Sen- more than the minimum wage. KS, when we were debaters at the high ator Garn and Senator HATCH and

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