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Vol. 148 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2002 No. 140 House of Representatives The House met at 11 a.m. where. Let us always have the courage sented to the President of the United The Reverend Emmett J. Gavin, and wisdom to lead the way in eradi- States, for his approval, the following Prior, Whitefriars Hall, Washington, cating this scourge upon the human bills. DC, offered the following prayer: family. Bring men and women of good H.R. 5651. To amend the Federal Food, Gracious and loving God, Author of will together in all corners of our world Drug, and Cosmetic Act to make improve- all creation and Source of all wisdom, so that we might in our own ways and ments in the regulation of medical devices, we once again come to You this day to in our own traditions worship and serve and for other purposes. seek the grace and guidance we need to You, our one true God. be a faithful people. Help us to use We make these prayers, Lord, con- f wisely the many gifts and blessings fident that You will hear and answer ADJOURNMENT You have given us as a Nation. Loving them today and always. Amen. The SPEAKER. Without objection, God, may we always be grateful for f Your goodness and generosity to us and the House stands adjourned until 11 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE always use the blessings You have a.m. on Thursday, October 31, 2002, in showered upon us to help bring peace, The SPEAKER. The Chair will lead respect of the memory of the late Hon- unity, and prosperity to all Your peo- the House in the Pledge of Allegiance. orable PAUL D. WELLSTONE of Min- ple throughout the world. The Speaker led the Pledge of Alle- nesota. It is with deep gratitude that we rec- giance as follows: There was no objection. ognize Your saving hand in the restora- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Accordingly (at 11 o’clock and 3 min- tion of peace and security in this re- United States of America, and to the Repub- utes a.m.), under its previous order, the gion surrounding our Nation’s Capitol. lic for which it stands, one nation under God, House adjourned until Thursday, Octo- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We continue to mourn the loss of the ber 31, 2002, at 11 a.m. in memory of the men and women who lost their lives in f late Honorable PAUL D. WELLSTONE of the senseless rampage of killing that ADJOURNMENT TO THURSDAY, Minnesota. held our people hostage in these recent OCTOBER 31, 2002 f days. We offer our prayers and our sup- The SPEAKER. Without objection, port to their loved ones who have been when the House adjourns today, it EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, left to bear the heavy burden of their shall stand adjourned until 11 a.m. on ETC. loss. Thursday, October 31, 2002; and further, Under clause 8 of rule XII, executive We also recognize with profound sor- when the House adjourns on that day, row the loss of the distinguished Sen- communications were taken from the it shall stand adjourned until 11 a.m. Speaker’s table and referred as follows: ator from Minnesota, and his wife and on Monday, November 4, 2002. daughter and staff. Our hearts go out There was no objection. 9753. A letter from the Administrator, De- to those who mourn their untimely partment of Agriculture, transmitting the f Department’s final rule — Codification of passing. Poultry Substitution and Modification of It serves to remind us, Lord, that we BILLS PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT Commodity Inventory Controls for Recipient live in a world where terror and danger Agencies (RIN: 0584-AD08) received October in many forms threaten the peace and Jeff Trandahl, Clerk of the House re- 17, 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the security of Your children every- ports that on October 25, 2002 he pre- the Committee on Agriculture.

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VerDate 0ct 09 2002 00:16 Oct 29, 2002 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 8633 E:\CR\FM\A28OC7.000 H28PT1 H8044 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 28, 2002 9754. A letter from the Congressional Re- TX; Port of Corpus Christi Inner Harbor, for printing and reference to the proper view Coordinator, Department of Agri- Corpus Christi, TX [COTP Corpus Christi-02- calendar, as follows: culture, transmitting the Department’s final 003] (RIN: 2115-AA97) received October 17, Mr. BURTON: Committee on Government rule — Cold Treatment of Fruits [Docket No. 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Reform. Problems with the Presidential 02-071-1] received October 17, 2002, pursuant Committee on Transportation and Infra- Gifts System (Rept. 107–768). Referred to the to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on structure. Committee of the Whole House on the State 9765. A letter from the Deputy Assistant Agriculture. of the Union. 9755. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Administrator for Ocean Services and Coast- Pension and Welfare Benefits Administra- al Zone Management, National Oceanic and f tion, Department of Labor, transmitting the Atmospheric Administration, transmitting PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Department’s final rule — Interim Final the Administration’s final rule — Natural Rule Relating to Notice of Blackout Periods Resource Damage Assessments [Docket No. Under clause 2 of rule XII, public to Participants and Beneficiaries (RIN: 1210- 990608154-2213-02] (RIN: 0648-AM80) received bills and resolutions were introduced AA90) received October 22, 2002, pursuant to October 21, 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. and severally referred, as follows: 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- By Mr. CRANE (for himself and Mr. Education and the Workforce. tation and Infrastructure. ROHRABACHER): 9756. A letter from the Regulations Coordi- 9766. A letter from the Regulations Coordi- H.R. 5702. A bill to provide for the privat- nator, Department of Health and Human nator, Department of Health and Human ization of the United States Postal Service; Services, transmitting the Department’s Services, transmitting the Department’s to the Committee on Government Reform. final rule — Compliance Alternatives for final rule — Medicare Program; Part A Pre- By Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD (for herself, Provision of Uncompensated Services (RIN: mium for 2003 for the Uninsured Aged and for Mr. SERRANO, Mr. FROST, Ms. Certain Disabled Individuals Who Have Ex- 0906-AA52) received October 21, 2002, pursuant MILLENDER-MCDONALD, Mr. SANDERS, hausted Other Entitlement [CMS-8015-N] to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ms. SOLIS, Ms. NORTON, Mr. WAXMAN, (RIN: 0938-AL69) received October 21, 2002, Energy and Commerce. Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- 9757. A letter from the Regulations Coordi- OWENS, Ms. LEE, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. mittee on Ways and Means. nator, Department of Health and Human MCDERMOTT, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. 9767. A letter from the Regulations Coordi- Services, transmitting the Department’s WEXLER, Mr. MENENDEZ, and Mrs. nator, Department of Health and Human final rule — Protection of Human Research NAPOLITANO): Services, transmitting the Department’s Subjects (RIN: 0925-AA14) received October H.R. 5703. A bill to amend the Public final rule — Medicare Program; Impatient 21, 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to Health Service Act to establish grant pro- Hospital Deductible and Hospital and Ex- the Committee on Energy and Commerce. grams to provide for education and outreach tended Care Services Coinsurance Amounts 9758. A letter from the Regulations Coordi- on newborn screening and coordinated fol- for 2003 [CMS-8013-N] (RIN: 0938-AL56) re- nator, Department of Health and Human lowup care once newborn screening has been ceived October 21, 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Services, transmitting the Department’s conducted, and for other purposes; to the 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ways and final rule — Medicaid Program; Use of Re- Committee on Energy and Commerce. straint and Seclusion in Psychiatric Resi- Means. 9768. A letter from the Chief, Regulations f dential Treatment Facilities Providing Psy- Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting chiatric Services to Individuals Under Age 21 MEMORIALS the Service’s final rule — Tax Shelter Dis- [HCFA-2065-IFC] (RIN: 0938-AJ96) received closure Statements [TD 9017] (RIN: 1545- Under clause 3 of rule XII, memorials October 21, 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. BB32) received October 23, 2002, pursuant to 5 were presented and referred as follows: 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Commerce. 372. The SPEAKER presented a memorial Ways and Means. of the Legislature of the State of Utah, rel- 9759. A letter from the Director, Regula- 9769. A letter from the Chief, Regulations tions Policy and Management Staff, Depart- ative to House Joint Resolution No. 15 me- Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting morializing the United States Congress to ment of Health and Human Services, trans- the Service’s final rule — Requirement to mitting the Department’s final rule — White urges Utah public school districts to ensure Maintain a List of Investors in Potentially that school curriculums promote financial Chocolate; Establishment of a Standard of Abusive Tax Shelters [TD 9018] (RIN: 1545- Identity [Docket Nos. 86P-0297 and 93P-0091] literacy among students; to the Committee BB33) received October 23, 2002, pursuant to 5 on Education and the Workforce. received October 21, 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 373. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- Ways and Means. the State of Utah, relative to House Joint ergy and Commerce. 9770. A letter from the Regulations Coordi- Resolution No. 22 memorializing the United 9760. A communication from the President nator, Department of Health and Human States Congress to urge school and rec- of the United States, transmitting the bi- Services, transmitting the Department’s reational sports officials, parents, and par- monthly report on progress toward a nego- final rule — Medicare Program; Negotiated ticipants to work together to curb the esca- tiated settlement of the Cyprus question Rulemaking: Coverage and Administrative lating incidences of violence against sports covering the period August 1, 2002 through Policies for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory officials; to the Committee on Education and September 30, 2002, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. Services [CMS-3250-F] (RIN: 0938-AL03) re- the Workforce. 2373(c); to the Committee on International ceived October 21, 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 374. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of Relations. 801(a)(1)(A); jointly to the Committees on the State of Utah, relative to Senate Resolu- 9761. A letter from the Chief Judge, United Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means. tion No. 4 memorializing the United States States Claims Court, transmitting certified 9771. A letter from the Regulations Coordi- Congress that this act designates the second copies of the Court’s reports regarding the nator, Department of Health and Human week of September 2002 as Adult Lifelong Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, et al; to Services, transmitting the Department’s Learning and Literacy week in the state of the Committee on the Judiciary. final rule — Medicare Program; Monthly Ac- Utah; to the Committee on Education and 9762. A letter from the Chief, Regulations tuarial Rates and Monthly Supplementary the Workforce. and Administrative Law, USCG, Department Medical Insurance Premium Rate Beginning 375. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of of Transportation, transmitting the Depart- January 1, 2003 [CMS-8014-N] (RIN: 0938-AL63) the State of Utah, relative to Senate Concur- ment’s final rule — Great Lakes Maritime received October 21, 2002, pursuant to 5 rent Resolution No. 2 memorializing the Academy — Eligibility of Certain Graduates U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); jointly to the Committees United States Congress to urge the Federal for Unrestricted Third-Mate Licenses on Energy and Commerce and Ways and Bureau of Land Management to allow broad- [USCG-2002-13213] (RIN: 2115-AG43) received Means. based vegetation management practices on October 17, 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 9772. A letter from the Regulations Coordi- Bureau of Land Management lands; to the 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- nator, Department of Health and Human Committee on Resources. tation and Infrastructure. Services, transmitting the Department’s 376. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of 9763. A letter from the Chief, Regulations final rule — Medicare and Medicaid Pro- the State of Utah, relative to House Joint and Administrative Law, USCG, Department grams; Hospital Conditions of Participation: Resolution No. 27 memorializing the United of Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Anesthesia Services [HCFA-3049-F] (RIN: States Congress to approve the settlement ment’s final rule — Drawbridge Operation 0938-AK08) received October 21, 2002, pursuant agreement to be reached between the state of Regulations; Passaic River, NJ [CGD01-02- to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); jointly to the Com- Utah, through the Department of Natural 116] (RIN: 2115-AE47) received October 17, mittees on Ways and Means and Energy and Resources, and the United States Depart- 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Commerce. ment of the Interior, through the Fish and Committee on Transportation and Infra- Wildlife Service, regarding the disposition of structure. f lands in question within the boundaries of 9764. A letter from the Chief, Regulations REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge; to the and Administrative Law, USCG, Department PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Committee on Resources. of Transportation, transmitting the Depart- 377. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of ment’s final rule — Security Zones; Port of Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of the State of Utah, relative to House Resolu- Port Lavaca-Point Comfort, Point Comfort, committees were delivered to the Clerk tion No. 3 memorializing the United States

VerDate 0ct 09 2002 23:45 Oct 28, 2002 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\L28OC7.000 H28PT1 October 28, 2002 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8045 Congress that this resolution modifies House Rules changing standing committee names ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Rules eliminating the requirement of stand- to bring them into compliance with the cur- ing committee review for certain bills; to the rent structure; to the Committee on Rules. Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors were added to public bills and resolu- Committee on Rules. 382. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of 378. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of tions as follows: the State of Utah, relative to House Resolu- the State of Utah, relative to Senate Joint tion No. 2 memorializing the United States H.R. 198: Mr. HOSTETTLER. Resolution No. 9 memorializing the United Congress that this act modifies the powers of H.R. 303: Mr. PORTMAN. States Congress that this act modifies in- the House Rules Committee, provides stand- H.R. 408: Mr. RANGEL and Ms. WOOLSEY. terim committee responsibilities relating to ards and requirements for the motion to lift H.R. 536: Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island. legislative audits, clarifies the germaneness H.R. 975: Ms. MCCOLLUM. rule, modifies rules relating to reservation of a bill from committee, and makes technical H.R. 1307: Mr. CROWLEY. bill numbers, and modifies rules governing corrections; to the Committee on Rules. H.R. 2908: Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD. legislative expenses for the Olympics recess; 383. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of H.R. 3337: Mr. MCINTYRE. to the Committee on Rules. the State of Utah, relative to House Joint H.R. 4646: Mr. SHOWS. 379. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of Resolution No. 2 memorializing the United H.R. 4720: Mr. COMBEST, Mr. CUNNINGHAM, the State of Utah, relative to Senate Joint States Congress that this joint resolution of and Mrs. BONO. Resolution No. 15 memorializing the United the Legislature revises joint rules by more H.R. 4728: Mr. QUINN. States Congress that the Legislative Man- precisely defining which committees qualify H.R. 4803: Mr. STUPAK. agement Committee assign to the appro- to have their recommendations printed on priate interim committee the duty to study bills as committee notes; to the Committee H.R. 5089: Mr. LARSEN of Washington. and make recommendations for legislative on Rules. H.R. 5250: Mr. SCHAFFER. action it considers necessary to the 55th Leg- H.R. 5359: Mr. CROWLEY. 384. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of islature prior to the 2003 Annual General H.R. 5383: Mr. STRICKLAND. the State of Utah, relative to House Joint Session; to the Committee on Rules. H.R. 5458: Mr. ENGLISH, Mr. UPTON, Mr. PE- Resolution No. 7 memorializing the United 380. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of TERSON of Minnesota, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. States Congress that this resolution modifies the State of Utah, relative to Senate Joint OLVER, Mr. QUINN, Mr. FRANK, Mr. CARSON of joint rules by amending the name of an ap- Resolution No. 1 memorializing the United Oklahoma, and Mr. LARSEN of Washington. propriations subcommittee; to the Com- States Congress that this act modifies the H.R. 5491: Mr. VISCLOSKY. mittee on Rules. Senate Rules changing standing committee H.R. 5613: Mr. FROST and Mr. KENNEDY of names to bring them into greater coordina- 385. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of Rhode Island. tion with the interim structure; to the Com- the State of Utah, relative to Senate Resolu- H.R. 5662: Mr. INSLEE. mittee on Rules. tion No. 2 memorializing the United States H. Con. Res. 164: Mr. LANTOS. 381. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of Congress that this act modifies Senate Rules H. Con. Res. 495: Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. MCNUL- the State of Utah, relative to House Resolu- by modifying requirements governing stand- TY, Mr. FROST, Mr. RYUN of Kansas, Mr. tion No. 1 memorializing the United States ing committee review of bills; to the Com- COSTELLO, Mr. KIND, Mr. HONDA, Ms. NORTON, Congress that this resolution modifies House mittee on Rules. and Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York.

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Vol. 148 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2002 No. 140 Senate The Senate met at 10:30 a.m. and was PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE DEATH OF PAUL WELLSTONE, A called to order by the Honorable CHRIS- SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF The Honorable CHRISTOPHER J. DODD TOPHER J. DODD, a Senator from the MINNESOTA led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: State of Connecticut. Mr. DAYTON. Mr. President, on be- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Today’s I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Repub- half of the majority leader, the Repub- prayer will be offered by our guest lican leader, all the Members of the Chaplain, Father M. John Farrelly, a lic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Senate, and myself, I ask unanimous Benedictine monk from St. Anselm’s consent that the Senate proceed to the Abbey in Washington, DC. Father f consideration of S. Res. 354, submitted Farrelly. earlier today. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- PRAYER APPOINTMENT OF ACTING pore. Without objection, it is so or- PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE Let us pray. dered. The clerk will report. As we gather together at the begin- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The legislative clerk read as follows: ning of this day may we, by Your clerk will please read a communication A resolution (S. Res. 354) relative to the grace, Lord, so live that we will stand to the Senate from the President pro death of PAUL WELLSTONE, a Senator from before You confidant in Your mercy, as tempore (Mr. BYRD). the State of Minnesota: we have shown mercy to those in need. Almighty and merciful God, we com- The legislative clerk read the fol- S. RES. 354 lowing letter: mend to You Senator PAUL WELLSTONE Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone who was taken away, along with his U.S. SENATE, taught at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, for more than 20 years in the wife and his daughter, so unexpectedly PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, Washington, D.C., October 28, 2002. service of the youth of our Nation; and suddenly from us, and who has left To the Senate: Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone many colleagues and others stunned Under the provisions of Rule I, paragraph served Minnesota in the United States Sen- and deeply saddened by their loss of a 3, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I ate with devotion and distinction for more highly valued coworker and friend. hereby appoint the Honorable CHRISTOPHER than a decade; May his legacy of voting according to J. DODD, a Senator from the State of Con- Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone his conscience and his concern for the necticut, to perform the duties of the Chair. worked tirelessly on behalf of America’s Vet- erans and the less fortunate, particularly ordinary citizen and the underprivi- ROBERT C. BYRD, President pro tempore. children and families living in poverty and leged endure in this Chamber. May the those with mental illness; manner of his death remind all of us Mr. DODD thereupon assumed the Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone that the control we have of our lives is chair as Acting President pro tempore. never wavered from the principles that guid- fragile and uncertain, and that our ed his life and career; lives can be called from us at any mo- f Whereas his efforts on behalf of the people ment. of Minnesota and all Americans earned him May PAUL WELLSTONE dwell in Your the esteem and high regard of his colleagues; RECOGNITION OF THE ACTING house, Lord, forever and ever, and may and MAJORITY LEADER Whereas his tragic and untimely death has You comfort his remaining family and deprived his State and Nation of an out- the many friends, supporters, and the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- standing lawmaker: Now, therefore, be it entire Senate family who are bereaved. pore. The Senator from Minnesota is Resolved, That the Senate expresses pro- Amen. recognized. found sorrow and deep regret on the deaths

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It is an record show that your grandchildren atives and transmit an enrolled copy thereof unspeakable tragedy and horror for all brought endless joy to you. And we say to the family of the deceased Senator, and of us in Minnesota, but it will be for all to the grandchildren, thank you for the the families of all the deceased. of us, on behalf of PAUL, to take a deep joy that you gave to grandma and Resolved, That when the Senate adjourns breath and carry on in behalf of our grandpa. today, it adjourn as a further mark of re- convictions and our causes—as he I want to say to the people of Min- spect to the memory of the deceased Sen- would want us to do. nesota, thank you, thank you for send- ator. I thank the Senate for this resolution ing PAUL to us, for sharing PAUL with Mr. DAYTON. Mr. President, I ask on behalf of PAUL. And for his two sur- us these past 12 years. He loved the that the Senate observe a moment of viving sons, David and Mark, and their people of his State: the farmers, the silence in tribute to Senator families I know it will be of solace to workers, the children, the elderly, the WELLSTONE and his family. them in their hours of terrible grief. sick, the disabled, the families. He (Moment of silence.) Mr. President, I yield to my col- fought for you all, so long and so hard, The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- league, the Senator from California. without stopping, in committees and pore. The Senator from Minnesota. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- subcommittees, in the Democratic cau- Mr. DAYTON. Mr. President, it is pore. The Senator from California. cus meetings, when he would get up with a profoundly heavy heart that I Mrs. BOXER. Thank you very much, and say: Just give me 30 seconds—just rise today to present this resolution Mr. President. 30 seconds—to make my point about honoring my colleague, PAUL Senator DAYTON, your remarks were the people of Minnesota. He stood up at WELLSTONE. This is not the occasion in beautiful and PAUL would have been so press conferences. He would grab Sen- this brief session for eulogies. There pleased to hear your tone and your ators, one by one, and fight for you, the will be other opportunities on the Sen- spirit. And I can tell you, Senator DAY- people of Minnesota, who were always ate floor for all of us to share our TON, how much he loved you, how in his thoughts and on his mind. And I memories and our perspectives. proud he was to have you here by his know he is now in your thoughts and For myself, I cannot begin to do side. on your minds. PAUL justice in a few minutes or even Mr. President, I have flown in from In my own State of California—so a few hours. He was such an extraor- California to be here on the Senate many thousands of miles away from dinary, such a remarkable man, and he floor today to make just a few remarks Minnesota—there are memorial serv- brought so much life and enthusiasm about our dear friend and colleague, ices being set up for PAUL. You see, his and passion and commitment to the Senator PAUL WELLSTONE. I want to compassionate voice reached thousands public life he lived, and he touched so start by reading two paragraphs writ- of miles, and many people in my State many thousands of Minnesotans and ten by his loyal and hardworking staff. are sending me condolence notes and others across this country who mourn After his plane went down, and they flowers because they know how much I his loss as we do here today. learned the worst, they wrote the fol- will miss working with PAUL He died fearlessly, as he lived his life. lowing: WELLSTONE, and so will all Senators on both sides of the aisle. In the resolution that was just read, Paul Wellstone was one of a kind. He was As Mark said, PAUL was never afraid the words ‘‘never wavered from the a man of principle and conviction, in a world principles’’ will be words that I will al- that has too little of either. He was dedi- to speak out when it might be unpopu- ways associate with PAUL WELLSTONE. cated to helping the little guy, in a business lar, nor was he afraid to be on the los- He never ever blinked in the face of ad- dominated by the big guys. We who had the ing side of a Senate vote. He had cour- versity. Courageous, difficult, perhaps privilege of working with him hope that he age. And when you told him that, when at times unpopular positions were arti- will be remembered as he lived every day: as you said: ‘‘PAUL, you have courage,’’ he a champion for people. shrugged it off. He would say some- cles of faith for PAUL because he be- His family was the center of his life and it lieved in them. thing like: ‘‘What else could I do? It’s breaks our hearts that his wife of 39 years just not right!’’ He would say that—de- It was not about polls. It was not and his daughter Marcia were with him. Our about pundits. It was about the convic- prayers are with Mark and David and the termined, brave. tion he had about what was right for grandchildren he and Sheila cherished so You see, PAUL WELLSTONE could not people, for his fellow citizens. much. vote against his conscience or for He was unpretentious, unassuming, That was posted on the Wellstone something he did not believe was in the best interest of the people he rep- just himself. He was no different as a Web site by Senator WELLSTONE’S staff. resented. He couldn’t; he wouldn’t—no Senator than as a man, than as a polit- Mr. President, Senator DAYTON, for matter what the consequences. ical activist all in one, he was extraor- me, the loss of PAUL WELLSTONE cuts He cared about the underdog always. dinary and he will never be replaced. In very deep. Kind, compassionate, self- He cared about the victim always. He the hearts and minds of Minnesotans, deprecating, a passionate voice for cared about peace always. And PAUL, he will never be forgotten. those without a voice, enthusiastic, a blessed are the peacemakers. PAUL, Yet, Mr. President, he loved this in- bundle of energy—this was a unique blessed are the peacemakers. stitution. He respected enormously the man of the people. PAUL was a humble man. When his traditions, the men and women who When we learned that the tragedy of longtime staffer, Mike Epstein, died— served here. They came to respect him PAUL’s death was magnified by the and many of us knew Mike—PAUL took for the courage of his convictions. I death of the two women he cherished to the Senate floor, and this is what he could see in the course of the 2 years I so much—his wife Sheila and his said, in part: have shared with him in the Senate daughter Marcia—the wounds in our Mike, I know you will not like me saying that he was respected by people who hearts cut deeper still, plus the loss of this, but I’m going to say it anyway because did not agree with him because they three staffers—Tom Lapic, Will it’s true. I believe from the bottom of my knew he was speaking from his heart, McLaughlin, and Mary McEvoy—and heart that everything I’ve been able to do as that he was speaking from his soul, the two pilots—Captains Richard a Senator that has been good for Minnesota that he was speaking what he truly be- Conroy and Michael Guess. and the country is because, Mike, you have lieved. Mr. President, no words—no words— been right by my side, 1 inch away from me. One could ask for no more, no less can possibly ease the pain of all the And he said: from any of us than the strength of our family members who were touched by Mike was my tutor. He was my teacher. He convictions and our willingness to this tragedy. No words can ease the was teaching me. speak out about them regardless of po- pain of David and Mark, PAUL’s two That was PAUL WELLSTONE. He never litical cost. sons, and their families. All we can do bragged about himself. He loved his

VerDate 0ct 09 2002 01:52 Oct 29, 2002 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A28OC6.006 S28PT1 October 28, 2002 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S10793 family so much. He loved his staff. He enough to know this was a very painful by that. And, he never took on the airs took time for all the Senate employ- moment for both of them—just as it is of one who was powerful. He would in- ees: the young people who work with for the distinguished Presiding Officer troduce himself to people: Hi, I’m PAUL us, the officers who protect us, the food and as it is for the Senator from WELLSTONE. And someone else would service people, the elevator operators— Vermont. have to say: That’s a U.S. Senator. all the Senate family, no matter what Mr. President, you and I have been I never went on an elevator with their status. here a long time in the Senate. With PAUL without him calling the elevator Mr. President, he wanted to give ev- the Senator from Minnesota, who is operator by name. He would talk with eryone—everyone he touched—his now—not at his choice—the senior Sen- the pages and give them tutorials. He sense of optimism, his energy, his ator from Minnesota, and the Senator knew everybody in the Senate and they strength. from California, I think we can all say knew and loved him. When PAUL learned he had multiple that there is no sadder sight than com- It is impossible to talk about our col- sclerosis, I worried and I said to him: ing on the floor and seeing a black league PAUL WELLSTONE without men- Are you OK? He said: I probably had it drape on a Senator’s desk. The distin- tioning Sheila Wellstone. They were for a long time. I’m just not going to guished Presiding Officer and I have inseparable. Whenever the Senate think about it. And off he went in his unfortunately seen that many times in would have a late night session Sheila usual rush. There was so much to do. our careers, for Senators on both sides would be in the galleries, waiting for Off he went to his desk in the Senate, of the aisle. In every instance when we PAUL to leave. his desk now incredibly shrouded in have entered the chamber and seen the Of all my memories of PAUL black. black drape we know that there has WELLSTONE, the one I may remember PAUL loved that aisle desk. It gave been a death in the family. the most is the last time I saw the two him a bird’s eye view of the Senate We are privileged in this body, 100 of them. It was a late night session. that he loved. And when he spoke from men and women—now 99 men and You know these gorgeous halls we his desk, he could come out from be- women—to represent the greatest na- have, with the chandeliers and every- hind it. He could leave his notes be- tion on Earth, a nation of a quarter of thing else, and here is this couple hind—arms gesturing, voice deter- a billion people. But because there are walking hand in hand down one of the mined—and talk from his heart. He only 100 of us, no matter our political halls about midnight—PAUL and Sheila would say something like: I don’t rep- differences, when one is lost we all feel WELLSTONE. I came around the corner resent big business or big anything. He it. When I heard the news in Vermont, and I said: ‘‘Hey, you teenagers,’’ and would say: I represent the people of I was at a restaurant in Burlington they laughed and hugged each other. I Minnesota. And that he did every with my son, Kevin. It was a small res- saw them go out, down the steps into the night, hand in hand. minute of his all-too-short life. taurant. There was a TV going but Let us hope that they have gone hand As our session wound down, PAUL with no sound. My back was to it. I saw and hand into the light and that they wanted to finish our business and go the look of shock on Kevin’s face. He are now together. home. He told us all: I want to be with spun me around and I saw the news. We Marcella and I also extend our my people. I need to touch them. I need both left that restaurant in tears. The thoughts and prayers to Marcia, PAUL to look them in the eye. I can’t wait to news spread quickly and as I walked and Sheila’s daughter, and her family. get home. down the street people—many of them And, as the Senate noted in the resolu- PAUL was a powerful man. His power I never met before—just came up and tion that was just passed a few mo- did not come from his physical stature. hugged me, because they, too, lost ments ago, we all grieve for the He was strong but he was slight of somebody. Wellstone staff who were on board the build. His power did not come from PAUL WELLSTONE had come to plane: Tom Lapic, Mary McEvoy and generations of family wealth. He was Vermont and was greeted with great Will McLaughlin. Our thoughts and not a man of moneyed wealth. His par- warmth. I vividly remember the prayer are with their families in these ents were immigrants: Leon and Min- evening he came to speak. Everybody trying times. Our condolences also go nie Wellstone. His power did not come came up to him. They didn’t want him out to the families of the pilots on the from political connections. His connec- to leave. PAUL WELLSTONE, like one of plane, Richard Conry and Michael tions were with regular people. his predecessors, my dear friend, Hu- Guess. Let me tell you from where his power bert Humphrey, was a happy warrior. If The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. came. It came from a fierce dedication people wanted to talk with him he did BOXER). The Senator from Connecticut. to justice and truth and honesty and not mind and would stay, the same way Mr. DODD. Madam President, first righteousness. He gave comfort and he Hubert would have. let me express my thanks to our col- gave hope to those he touched. And he There is an affinity, I believe, be- league from Minnesota, Senator DAY- gave them some of his power—the tween our State of Vermont and Min- TON, and express our sympathies to him power to see the possibilities of their nesota. That is why there was a bond and through him to the people of Min- own lives. PAUL died on his way to give Vermonters felt with PAUL WELLSTONE. nesota and to the Wellstone family, the comfort and hope to those facing PAUL could sense it. And, we worked on extended family, for all that they are death. He was flying to a funeral serv- many important issues as a team. Dur- suffering in this particular time, and to ice. ing the recent farm bill debate he met express my gratitude as well to my col- Today we say to PAUL: We will give with Vermont farmers and together we league from California, Senator BOXER, comfort and hope to those you have drafted a dairy provision that was ben- and my colleague from Vermont, Sen- left behind by doing all that we can to eficial to both of our States. I remem- ator LEAHY, for their very moving and continue your legacy and your dream. ber when he and JIM JEFFORDS and emotional remarks. I think they cap- Together, we can build an America of BERNIE SANDERS and I joined together tured to a large extent the sentiments fairness, of justice, of prosperity, a to have a milk toast. We were joking of all of us. world of tolerance and a world of peace. around. PAUL was not a tall man. I This is a difficult time. I suppose the And, PAUL, may you and yours rest in playfully stood blocking him from the American people see we are in session peace forever. cameras. And he said: ‘‘Hey, remember, and wonder why only a few of us are I yield the floor. I’m a wrestler,’’ at which point I quick- here. Obviously, with a week to go be- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- ly moved aside. Of course PAUL was far fore the congressional elections, not pore. The Senator from Vermont. more than a wrestler—but it is easy to many are here in Washington. But suf- Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I thank make the correlation to the way he fice it to say, were 96 or 97 other Sen- the Senator from Minnesota and the wrestled with issues here on the floor. ators here today, you would here much Senator from California for their He wrestled them down. I thought to the same sentiments that have been ex- words. I know and respect both the myself: What a man to have on your pressed already by the now-senior Sen- Senator from Minnesota, Senator DAY- side. What a man to be a friend. ator from Minnesota, the Senator from TON, and the Senator from California, PAUL WELLSTONE served with power- California, and the Senator from Senator BOXER. I know them well ful people but he was not intimidated Vermont.

VerDate 0ct 09 2002 23:59 Oct 28, 2002 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A28OC6.009 S28PT1 S10794 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE October 28, 2002 So I join my colleagues, and all wonderful editorial by David Rosen- in this country, matters that don’t Americans, in mourning the very trag- baum in the New York Times on Satur- seem terribly relevant to their daily ic and sudden loss of our dear friend day which I thought captured perfectly lives, and yet PAUL WELLSTONE never and colleague, Senator PAUL the image of PAUL WELLSTONE, who he let a day go by that he didn’t give WELLSTONE, who will be forever re- was and what he tried to do, better voice to the concerns of average Amer- membered as a friend and patriot and than any words I could possibly express icans or those who are, as Hubert Hum- true public servant, who fought each here today. phrey would talk about, in the shadows and every day of his public life—in The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without of life or the dawn of life or the dusk of fact, of his life—to the improve the objection, it is so ordered. life—PAUL WELLSTONE giving voice, lives of average Americans. We got to (See exhibit 1.) that great Minnesota voice to those know him here over the last 10 or 11 Mr. DODD, Madam President, Wil- who needed to have their concerns years as a Member of the U.S. Senate, liam Shakespeare once wrote, ‘‘No leg- raised in chambers such as this. And so but the people of Minnesota and the acy is so rich as honesty.’’ I have never for all of those people who are won- people of Carleton College, students met, let alone worked with, a more dering today whether or not their con- who had him as a professor, people who honest or noble man than PAUL cerns, their hopes, their fears will find knew him beforehand, they knew that WELLSTONE. expression, it is hard to find any silver PAUL WELLSTONE didn’t just become a His rich, rich legacy will be that of lining with the passage of someone you fighter when he arrived in the Senate an honest, passionate and tireless care about so much, but I suspect as we of the United States. He dedicated his fighter on behalf of justice and fairness reconvene here on November 12 and life to it. It is what his parents taught for all Americans, especially those less again with a new Congress coming in in him. It is what he believed in passion- fortunate than himself. January we will hear the words of ately as an American. We became wit- PAUL suffered a lot. He had this bad PAUL WELLSTONE repeated quite fre- nesses to that sense of passion and out- back. He would hobble around. He had quently. We will hear the passion that rage about wrongs in this country and this gait that if you didn’t know he was he brought to the issues raised maybe around the world as we served with our hurting was almost an affectionate more frequently than they otherwise colleague, PAUL WELLSTONE, for the gait. He sort of limped around at var- might be. That’s because we will re- last decade. ious times; he would stand a lot at member an individual we had the privi- So, like my colleagues, I was stunned times in meetings because sitting lege and honor of serving with who re- and deeply saddened by the enormous would be so painful for him as a result minded this institution of what its role scope and tragedy of this loss. Obvi- of injuries he suffered. He had MS ought to be, not just to those who are ously, the entire Wellstone family has which he sort of shrugged off, as my well heeled, those who can afford to ac- suffered an unfathomable loss, as have colleague from California said. He grew quire the access, but those who need to the families of other victims of this up in a situation where his family were have their issues raised—that their horrendous accident. His wife Sheila—I immigrants who came from Russia. concerns and their worries, their hopes, join my colleagues in expressing our They grew up actually in Arlington, their dreams for this country and their deep sense of loss. Sometimes, al- VA, a short distance from here. A own families will be once again a part though we get to know Members, we former staff member of mine was a of the mainstream of debate in the don’t get to know the spouses of our neighbor of theirs. He knew PAUL as a Senate. colleagues very well, but Sheila child growing up. They had their own PAUL WELLSTONE fought some aw- Wellstone really became a member of burdens to bear aside from being immi- fully tough battles. He fought a tough the Senate family aside from being a grants, problems of those newly arriv- battle to get here, a man who was told spouse. She was an unpaid volunteer in ing, with the language barriers. Trying he could not possibly get elected to the her husband’s office. to get acclimated to a new society such Senate, who was being outspent by If there are women today who are as ours is not easy. So PAUL understood overwhelming odds. suffering less because of domestic vio- I rode with him in that bus—I am lence—and they are many who are not, the issues of those who suffered more than in just an intellectual effort. This sure my colleague from Minnesota, but many who are—you can thank maybe my colleagues from California some colleagues here. But I suspect one was something he deeply felt and had grown up with and appreciated im- and Vermont remember—that rattly of the reasons they became so moti- old green bus, in the freezing cold, bit- vated about the issue was because mensely. ter cold, cold months of Minnesota. I there was a person by the name of When he came to this body and we remember going with him to some big Sheila Wellstone who arrived here a got to know him as someone who would fair or festival that he was holding on decade ago and wanted to make this a fight tirelessly on behalf of those who behalf of poor farmers and family farm- matter of the business of the U.S. Sen- did not have lawyers, lobbyists, and ers in Minnesota. Just a few weeks ago, ate. others to express their concerns, to So they became partners, not just bring their issues to the debate of the Madam President, I campaigned with over the almost 40 years of love and af- Senate, we found in this individual just him in Minnesota, with some of the fection for each other, but partners in a remarkable voice and a remarkable medical device companies around Min- their sense of idealism, sense of values, fight. Like many of my colleagues, I neapolis and St. Paul. This was sup- and sense of purpose. might be home or completed the posed to be about a 20-minute meeting Marcia I did not know very well but evening and turned on the television we were going to have at one of these certainly heard PAUL and Sheila talk and the Senate would still be in ses- firms to talk about the medical devices abut her with great admiration and af- sion, and there would be PAUL that PAUL played a major role in work- fection. In the loss suffered by her fam- WELLSTONE, standing at that desk in ing to see to it that they were going to ily, with young children, it is just dif- the rear of this Chamber, speaking to become a reality for people who would ficult to even come up with the words an empty place except for the millions use them. We were supposed to leave in to express the sense of grief that I feel of Americans tuned in to C–SPAN who 15 or 20 minutes but the room was for her and her family. And obviously would hear someone talking about sub- packed; the people wanted to talk the staff: Will McLaughlin, Tom Lapic, jects that were affecting their lives. about other things. And PAUL and Mary McEvoy, along with the pi- Single moms, working families, chil- WELLSTONE stayed for about 11⁄2 hours lots who have been mentioned already: dren without health care, the home- just engaging with the people in this Richard Conry and Michael Guess, we less, international victims of torture— room. They went far beyond the med- didn’t know, but I suspect on that these were among Senator PAUL ical device issues. The people in that flight up there they had gotten to WELLSTONE’s core constituencies, and room wanted to talk about health care; know the Wellstone family and the they could not have had a better they wanted to talk about education; staff. And so we want to express our spokesperson. they wanted to talk about the environ- deep sense of loss to their families. A lot of times we spend days here ment; they wanted to talk about pre- I ask unanimous consent to have talking about issues that might seem scription drugs and the elderly; they printed at the end of my remarks a terribly arcane to the average citizen wanted to talk about issues affecting

VerDate 0ct 09 2002 23:59 Oct 28, 2002 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A28OC6.002 S28PT1 October 28, 2002 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S10795 Native Americans and minority groups; For that, PAUL WELLSTONE, you Rudy Boschwitz. He beat Mr. Boschwitz in a they wanted to talk about foreign pol- ought to know that your service con- rematch in 1996. This year, he reneged on a icy. And he engaged, engaged and en- tinues and your words and your actions promise to limit himself to two terms, ran gaged for an hour and a half. He would will have a legacy borne out by those for re-election and seemed in the most re- cent public polls to have pulled slightly have stayed longer. Staff had to almost who come after you in the service of ahead of his Republican challenger, former drag him out of the room. But it was so your State and the thousands of young Mayor Norm Coleman of St. Paul. reflective, standing in the back of the people you motivated. His opponents always portrayed him as a room watching PAUL WELLSTONE with Madam President, if you could only left-wing extremist. Mr. Boschwitz’s tele- great passion and clarity expressing see, as many have, the hundreds of vision commercials in 1996 called Mr. where he stood. young people throughout Minnesota Wellstone ‘‘embarrassingly liberal and out of touch.’’ This year, Mr. Coleman said the sen- He didn’t sit there and try to figure who PAUL WELLSTONE energized and out where the question was coming ator was ‘‘so far out of the mainstream, so brought to the public life of this coun- extreme, that he can’t deliver for Minneso- from based on the tilt of their rhetoric. try, people who otherwise would not tans.’’ He answered them how he felt as their have paid any attention. PAUL But on the campaign trail, Mr. Wellstone Senator, their representative, so they WELLSTONE said: You ought to be in- appeared to be so happy, so comfortable, so would know where he stood. volved; there is a reason to be involved. unthreatening that he was able to ward off Madam President, I apologize for sort His ability to attract people to come the attacks. of meandering here, but it is how I feel. to a cause and to fight for the good For years, he had walked with a pro- I have a great sense of loss and also a nounced limp that he attributed to an old cause will live on. I suspect one day wrestling injury. In February, he announced sense of joy. PAUL WELLSTONE had a this Chamber will have people who will at a news conference that he had learned he great sense of humor. He cared deeply serve in it who cut their teeth in poli- had multiple sclerosis, but he said the illness about issues but he also had the won- tics working on a Wellstone campaign. would not affect his campaigning or his abil- derful ability to laugh at himself, to PAUL, the campaign goes on. Your ity to sit in the Senate. ‘‘I have a strong appreciate the humor that only this in- battles will go on, and we are going to mind—although there are some that might stitution can provide in some of the miss you. I yield the floor. disagree about that—I have a strong body, I have a strong heart, I have a strong soul,’’ he more bizarre moments, a wonderful re- EXHIBIT 1 lationship with virtually everyone told reporters. [From the New York Times, Oct. 26, 2002] Paul David Wellstone was born in Wash- here. It didn’t happen automatically or A DEATH IN THE SENATE: PAUL WELLSTONE, ington on July 21, 1944, and grew up in Ar- AUL initially. P came here determined 58, ICON OF LIBERALISM IN SENATE lington, Va. His father, Leon, left Russia as to change the world; if not the world, (By David E. Rosenbaum) a child to escape the persecution of Jews, change the United States; if not that, and worked as a writer for the United States maybe his Minnesota. Along the way WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Paul Wellstone Information Agency. His mother, Minnie, the often seemed out of step. He called himself a daughter of immigrants from Russia, worked and in the process he probably rubbed liberal when many used that word as a slur. some people the wrong way, but those in a junior high school cafeteria. He voted against the Persian Gulf war in his Growing up, he was more interested in very people became the people who first year in the Senate, and this month op- wrestling than politics, and he had some dif- cared most about him in many ways in posed using force against Iraq. ficulty in school because of what he later the final analysis because they realized Senator Wellstone, 58, who died in a plane found out was a learning disability. He that everything he said and everything crash today while campaigning for re-elec- scored lower than 800, out of a total of 1,600, he did was not about himself but about tion, fought for bills favored by unions and on his College Boards, and this led him as a the people he wanted to represent. And advocates of family farmers and the poor, senator to oppose measures that emphasized and against those favored by banks, agri- standardized test scores. In an interview, he so I know there are Members who are business and large corporations. This year he not here today because of other obliga- once said that even as an adult he had dif- was the principal opponent of legislation ficulty interpreting charts and graphs quick- tions, but who, when the opportunity supported by large majorities of Democrats ly but that he had learned to overcome his comes, will express their own thoughts and Republicans that would make it more disability by studying harder and taking and feelings, but don’t be surprised— difficult for people to declare bankruptcy. He more time to absorb information. Madam President, I know you will not argued that the measure would enrich credi- Partly because of his wrestling ability—he be, nor my colleagues from Minnesota tors at the expense of people ‘‘in brutal eco- was a conference champion at 126 pounds—he or Vermont—that some of the heartfelt nomic circumstances.’’ He advocated causes was admitted to the University of North like national health insurance that even Carolina and, galvanized by the civil rights remarks about PAUL will come from many of his fellow liberals abandoned as fu- people who disagreed with him vehe- movement, he turned from wrestling to poli- tile. tics. He graduated in 1965 and stayed in mently on substantive matters, but ap- Mr. Wellstone was a rumpled, unfailingly Chapel Hill for a doctorate in political preciated immensely his sense of con- modest man who, unlike many of his col- science. He wrote his thesis on the roots of viction, something we can do a lot leagues, lived on his Senate salary. He was black militancy. more of in politics in America today. married to the former Sheila Ison for 39 Married with children, he once said he did Frederick Douglass once said, ‘‘The years, having married at 19 when he was in not have time to participate in the student life of a nation is secure only while the college. His wife and their 33-year-old daugh- uprisings in the 1960’s. He is survived by two ter, Marcia, also died today in the crash. nation is honest, truthful, and vir- grown sons, David and Mark, of St. Paul, and When Mr. Wellstone arrived in the Senate six grandchildren. tuous.’’ For 58 years, PAUL WELLSTONE in 1991, he was a firebrand who thought little But while he was not a student rebel, Mr. lived a life that was honest, truthful, of breaking the Senate tradition of comity Wellstone did not fit in from the day in 1969 and virtuous. For 12 years, he person- and personally attacking his colleagues. He when he began teaching political science at ally lent those characteristics to the told an interviewer soon after he was elected Carleton College, a small liberal arts campus heart of the United States government. that Senator Jesse Helms, the conservative in rural Northfield, Minn. America, Minnesota, and this institu- North Carolina Republican, ‘‘represents ev- He was more interested in leading his stu- tion have suffered a terrible loss at the erything to me that is ugly and wrong and dents in protests than he was in publishing awful about politics.’’ death of PAUL WELLSTONE but there is in academic journals, and he was often at But as the years passed, Mr. Wellstone a silver lining in all of this; that as a odds with his colleagues and Carleton admin- moderated his personality if not his politics istrators. He fought the college’s invest- result of his service this country is a and became well liked by Republicans as ments in companies doing business in South better place, there are people who are well as Democrats. Bob Dole, the former Africa, battled local banks that foreclosed living better lives; this world with all Senate Republican leader who often tangled on farms, picketed with strikers at a meat- of its difficulties has been a better with Mr. Wellstone on legislation, choked up packing plant and taught classes off campus world because PAUL WELLSTONE was a today when he told a television interviewer rather than cross a picket line when part of it. that Mr. Wellstone was ‘‘a decent, genuine Carleton’s custodians were on strike. I am confident as I stand before you guy who had a different philosophy from al- In 1974, the college told him his contract today, Madam President, that in the most everyone else in the Senate.’’ would not be renewed. But with strong sup- Mr. Wellstone was also an accomplished port from students, the student newspaper weeks, months, and years ahead, his campaigner. Though he had never held elect- and local activists, he appealed the dis- memory and legacy will live on in the ed office, he pulled off a major upset in 1990 missal, and it was reversed. debates, the discussions, and actions when, running on a shoestring budget, he de- In 1982, Mr. Wellstone dipped his toe into we take in this body. feated the incumbent Republican senator, the political waters for the first time and

VerDate 0ct 09 2002 23:59 Oct 28, 2002 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A28OC6.011 S28PT1 S10796 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE October 28, 2002 ran for state auditor. He lost. But he had measured way, in concert with our allies, that our bill, as introduced, would pass made contacts in the Minnesota Democratic- with bipartisan Congressional support, would constitutional muster, but the House- Farmer-Labor Party, and he stayed active in be a sign of our strength.’’ passed bill would not. politics. In 1988, he was the state co-chair- Later, Mr. Wellstone told a reporter that man of the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s campaign in he did not believe his stance would hurt him I also placed S. 2520 on the Judiciary the president primary, and in the general politically. ‘‘What would really hurt,’’ he Committee’s calendar for the October election, he was co-chairman of the cam- said, ‘‘is if I was giving speeches and I didn’t 8, 2002 business meeting. I continued to paign of Michael S. Dukakis, the Democratic even believe what I was saying. Probably work with Senator HATCH to improve presidential nominee. what would hurt is if people thought I was Few thought he had a chance when he an- doing something just for political reasons.’’ the bill so that it could be quickly en- nounced that he would run for the Senate Mr. Wellstone briefly considered running acted. Senator HATCH circulated a against Mr. Boschwitz, Russell D. Feingold, for president in 2000, but he called off the Hatch-Leahy proposed Judiciary Com- now a like-minded liberal Democratic sen- campaign because, he said, the doctors who mittee substitute that improved the had been treating him for a ruptured disk ator from Wisconsin, today had this recollec- bill before our October 8 business meet- tion of dropping by to meet Mr. Wellstone in told him that his back could not stand the 1989: travel that would be required. ing. Unfortunately, the committee was ‘‘He opened the door, and there he was with Often, Mr. Wellstone was the only senator unable to consider it because of proce- his socks off, 15 books open that he was read- voting against a measure, or one of only a dural maneuvering that had nothing to ing, and he was on the phone arguing with few. He was, for instance, one of three sen- do with this important legislation, in- somebody about Cuba. He gave me coffee, ators in 1999 to support compromise missile and we laughed uproariously at the idea that defense legislation. He was the only one that cluding the refusal of committee mem- either of us would ever be elected. But he year to vote against an education bill involv- bers on the other side of the aisle to pulled it off in 1990 and gave me the heart to ing standardized tests, and the only Demo- consider any pending legislation on the do it in Wisconsin.’’ crat who opposed his party’s version of low- committee’s agenda. Mr. Feingold was elected in 1992, also with ering the estate tax. a tiny treasury. Mr. Wellstone was one of the few senators I still wanted to get this bill done. Mr. Boschwitz spent $7 million on his cam- who made the effort to meet and remember That is why for a week I have been paign, seven times Mr. Wellstone’s budget. the names of elevator operators, waiters, po- working to clear and have the Senate To counteract the Boschwitz attacks, Mr. lice officers and other workers in the Cap- pass a substitute to S. 2520 that tracks Wellstone ran witty, even endearing tele- itol. the Hatch-Leahy proposed committee vision commercials produced without charge James W. Ziglar, a Republican who was by a group led by a former student. In one sergeant at arms of the Senate from 1998 to substitute in every area but also made ad, the video and audio were speeded up, and 2001 and who is now commissioner of the Im- one improvement to the affirmative de- Mr. Wellstone said he had to talk fast be- migration and Naturalization Service, re- fense. That one improvement related to cause ‘‘I don’t have $6 million to spend.’’ membered today ‘‘the evening when he came the ability of defendants to assert an Mr. Wellstone toured the state in a bat- back to the Capitol well past midnight to affirmative defense to a charge of child tered green school bus, and in the end, he visit with the cleaning staff and tell them won 50.4 percent of the vote and was the only how much he appreciated their efforts.’’ pornography if they could actually challenger in 1990 to defeat an incumbent ‘‘Most of the staff had never seen a senator prove that only adults, and no chil- senator. and certainly had never had one make such dren—virtual or not—were used in He arrived in Washington as something of a meaningful effort to express his or her ap- making the material in question. Other a rube. On one of his first days in town be- preciation,’’ Mr. Ziglar said. ‘‘That was the than that, it was identical to the fore he was sworn in, he called a reporter for measure of the man.’’ Hatch-Leahy proposed committee sub- the name of a restaurant where he could get The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without stitute in every way. It did not change a cheap dinner. When the reporter replied objection, the resolution and preamble that he knew a place where a good meal was the definition of child pornography are agreed to. only $15, Mr. Wellstone said $15 was many from the PROTECT Act and it also did times what he was prepared to spend. The resolution (S. Res. 354) was He also made what he later conceded were agreed to. not change the tools provided to pros- ‘‘rookie mistakes.’’ At one point, for in- The preamble was agreed to. ecutors. All these provisions remained stance, he used the Vietnam Veterans Memo- f unchanged. Indeed, the substitute I of- rial as a backdrop for a news conference to ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS fered even adopted parts of the House oppose the war against Iraq. Veterans’ bill which would help the CMEC to groups denounced him, and he later apolo- work with local and state law enforce- gized. PROTECT ACT But he soon warmed to the ways of the ment on these cases. ∑ Senate and became especially adept at the Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I came to As I stated many days ago on the unusual custom of giving long speeches to an the Senate floor and joined Senator Senate floor, every single Democratic empty chamber. Probably no one in the Sen- HATCH in introducing S. 2520, the PRO- ate over the last dozen years gave more Senator cleared that measure. I then TECT Act in April, after the Supreme urged Republicans to work on their speeches at night after nearly all the other Court’s decision in Ashcroft v. Free side of the aisle to clear this measure— senators had gone home. Speech Coalition, Free Speech. Al- His strength was not in getting legislation so similar to the joint Hatch-Leahy though there were some others who enacted. One successful measure he spon- substitute—so that we could swiftly raised constitutional concerns about sored in 1996 with Senator Pete V. Domenici, enact a law that would pass constitu- Republican of New Mexico, requires insur- specific provisions in that bill, I be- ance companies in some circumstances to lieved—and still believe—that unlike tional muster. give coverage to people with mental illness, the Administration proposal it was a Instead of working to clear that bi- but he failed this year in an effort to good faith effort to work within the partisan, constitutional measure, how- strengthen the law. In a book he published last year, ‘‘The Con- First Amendment. ever, my colleagues on the other side of science of a Liberal’’ (Random House), Mr. It is important that we respond to the aisle have opted to use this issue to Wellstone wrote, ‘‘I feel as if 80 percent of the Supreme Court decision but it is play politics. They have redrafted the my work as a senator has been playing de- just as important that we avoid repeat- bill, changed crucial definitions, and fense, cutting the extremist enthusiasms of ing our past mistakes. Unlike the 1996 are now offering a totally new version. the conservative agenda (much of which Child Pornography Prevention Act, Worse yet, the new version is not like- originates in the House) rather than moving CPPA, this time we should respond forward on a progressive agenda.’’ ly to pass Constitutional muster. In- In a speech in the Senate this month ex- with a law that passes constitutional stead, if passed, it will lead to six more plaining his opposition to the resolution au- muster. Our children deserve more years of appellate litigation and yet thorizing the use of force in Iraq, Mr. than a press conference in on this another law struck down by the Su- Wellstone stressed that Saddam Hussein was issue. They deserve a law that will preme Court. That will help no one and ‘‘a brutal, ruthless dictator who has re- stick. certainly not help the children that pressed his own people.’’ After joining Senator HATCH in intro- But Mr. Wellstone went on to say: ‘‘De- ducing the PROTECT Act, I convened a these laws are intended to help. spite a desire to support our president, I be- Judiciary Committee hearing on the Senator HATCH is offering a new lieve many Americans still have profound version of the bill that experts have questions about the wisdom of relying too legislation. We heard from the Admin- heavily on a preemptive go-it-alone military istration, from the Center for Missing told us is plainly unconstitutional and approach. Acting now on our own might be a and Exploited Children, CMEC, and does not respect or heed the param- sign of our power. Acting sensibly and in a from experts who came and told us eters laid down by the Supreme Court

VerDate 0ct 09 2002 01:12 Oct 29, 2002 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A28OC6.015 S28PT1 October 28, 2002 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S10797 as does the original Hatch-Leahy bill scholar who testified at our hearing, an unlawful product or service is not pro- and the Hatch-Leahy substitute cir- that I will place in the record that con- tected by the Supreme Court’s commercial culated to the Judiciary Committee. firms that this change would render speech doctrine, as the Court made clear in First, the new Hatch proposal out- the provision pandering unconstitu- both Virginia Pharmacy and also in Pitts- laws precisely the thing that Justice burgh Press v. Human Relations Commission, tional. 413 U.S. 376 (1973). It is important to recog- Kennedy and at least 5 other members These are only some of the problems nize, however, that this feature of commer- of the Supreme Court said could not be with the new Hatch language. I am dis- cial speech doctrine does not apply to non- banned—wholly computer generated appointed that we could not work to- commercial speech, where the description or child pornography where no real chil- gether to clear the prior substitute advocacy of illegal acts is fully protected un- dren are involved in the making of the that I have been trying to clear less under the narrow circumstances, not ap- material. The Hatch proposal, in sec- through the Senate for almost a week. plicable here, of immediate incitement. tion 5, adds a totally new definition of That proposal was virtually identical The implication of this is that moving ‘‘child pornography’’ that covers non- away from communication that could be de- to the proposed Hatch-Leahy com- scribed as an actual commercial advertise- obscene ‘‘computer generated images’’ mittee substitute, and was approved by ment decreases the availability of this ap- not at all related to any real person, if every single Democratic Senator. If my proach to defending Section 2 of S. 2520. Al- they are ‘‘virtually indistinguishable’’ colleagues would have been willing to though it may appear as if advertising ‘‘ma- from an actual minor. That is the same do that, we would have had quick ac- terial’’ that does not exist at all (‘‘purported approach as the House bill, that we tion on a law that would stick. Instead, material’’) makes little difference, there is a heard so roundly criticized both at our we are being asked to consider a brand substantial risk that the change moves the Committee hearing and by other ex- new version of S. 2520 with considerable entire section away from the straight com- perts. At best, it addresses the con- mercial speech category into more general constitutional problems. That is not description, conversation, and perhaps even cerns of only Justice O’Connor—but the way to pass legislation quickly in advocacy. Because the existing arguments she was not the deciding vote in the the Senate. for the constitutionality of this provision Free Speech case. Unlike Senator HATCH’s prior pro- are already difficult ones after Free Speech Second, this new definition is par- posals that I cosponsored, this provi- Coalition, anything that makes this provi- ticularly problematic because the bill sion will only offer the illusion of ac- sion less like a straight offer to engage in a does not allow any affirmative defense tion. We need a law with teeth, not one commercial transaction increases the degree for defendants who can show that no with false teeth. In the end, this provi- of constitutional jeopardy. By including children at all were used in the making ‘‘purported’’ in the relevant section, the pan- sion will be struck down just as was dering locks less commercial, and thus less of the non-obscene image. Thus, even a the 1996 CPPA and we will have wasted like commercial speech, and thus less open defendant who can produce an actual 6 more years without providing pros- to the constitutional defense I outlines in 25-year-old in court to prove that the ecutors the tools they need to fight my written statement and oral testimony. material is not child pornography can child pornography and put in jeopardy I hope that this is helpful. be sent to jail under this new provi- any convictions obtained under a law Yours sincerely, sion. So too can the person who can that in the end is struck down as un- FREDERICK SCHAUER, prove in court that the image did not constitutional. I had hoped that we Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment.∑ involve real people at all, but only to- could work together to get a law that tally computer generated images. will clearly pass constitutional muster. f Again, that is precisely the problem This issue is too important for politics. VETERANS LONG-TERM CARE AND that Justice Kennedy and even Justice I ask that a letter from Frederick MEDICAL PROGRAMS ENHANCE- Thomas expressed concern about in the Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of MENT ACT OF 2002 Free Speech case in considering the af- the First Amendment, be printed in the ∑ Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I firmative defense in the CPPA. RECORD. Third, the new Hatch proposal sig- The material follows: am sincerely disappointed about the nificantly changes the definition of the There being no objection, the mate- placing of an anonymous hold on S. new crime of ‘‘pandering’’ from the rial was ordered to be printed in the 2043, the ‘‘Veterans Long-Term Care original version of S. 2520 that Senator RECORD, as follows: and Medical Programs Enhancement Act of 2002.’’ HATCH and I introduced. First, it re- HARVARD UNIVERSITY, moves the link to the long-standing ob- Cambridge, MA, October 3, 2002. There is no apparent reason why this scenity test despite the fact that con- Re S. 2520. important piece of legislation should be held up at this time. It was devel- stitutional experts tell us that this Hon. PATRICK LEAHY, link is necessary for the pandering U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, oped in a bipartisan manner and en- crime to be constitutional. This Washington, DC. compasses many vital pieces of legisla- changed definition does not address DEAR SENATOR LEAHY: Following up on my tion from both sides of the aisle. It is Justice Kennedy’s concern that child written statement and on my oral testimony my sincere hope that the Senator re- pornography should be linked to ob- before the Committee on Wednesday, Octo- sponsible for this hold will realize that ber 2, 2002, the staff of the committee has scenity. We do not want a situation this is certainly not the time to be asked me to comment on the constitutional playing politics with legislation that where people who present such movies implications of changing the current version as Traffic, American Beauty, and of S. 2520 to change the word ‘‘material’’ in affects our Nation’s veterans. Romeo and Juliet could be subjected to Section 2 of the bill (page 2, lines 17 and 19) I would like to share with my col- criminal prosecution, and this new to ‘‘purported material.’’ leagues some of the key provisions of pandering crime does that. In my opinion the change would push well S. 2043 that seek to improve the acces- Second, the new provision compounds over the constitutional edge a provision that sibility and quality of the VA health the constitutional problems by extend- is now right up against that edge, but prob- care system. ing the provision to ‘‘purported mate- ably barely on the constitutional side it. The centerpiece of this bill is an ef- As I explained in my statement and orally, fort to make VA’s prescription drug co- rial’’ in addition to actual material. the Supreme Court has from the Ginzburg Thus, not only need the pandering not decision in 1966 to the Hamling decision in payment policy a bit more equitable relate to ‘‘obscene’’ material, it need 1973 to the Free Speech Coalition decision in for lower-income veterans. Mr. Presi- not relate to any material at all. 2002 consistently refused to accept that dent, currently, veterans with incomes From a provision that criminalized ‘‘pandering’’ may be an independent offense, of less than $24,000 a year are exempt primarily commercial speech relating as opposed to being evidence of the offense of from copayments for most VA health to obscene material, the new proposal obscenity (and, by implication, child pornog- care services. However, when it comes has changed to criminalize pure raphy). The basic premise of the pandering to prescription drugs, the income ‘‘chat,’’ including over the Internet, prohibition S. 2520 is thus in some tension threshold for exemption is about $9,000 with more than thirty-five years of Supreme about non-obscene child pornography. Court doctrine. What may save the provi- a year. This bill would raise the exemp- That is protected speech. I have a let- sion, however, is the fact that pandering tion level for prescription copayments ter from Professor Fred Schauer, a na- may also be seen as commercial advertise- to make them the same as other VA tionally recognized First Amendment ment, and the commercial advertisement of health care copayments.

VerDate 0ct 09 2002 23:59 Oct 28, 2002 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A28OC6.020 S28PT1 S10798 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE October 28, 2002 Veterans earning just over $9,000— diagnosis programs, more PTSD com- rate Veterans Canteen Service, VCS, which is well below the poverty thresh- munity clinical teams, and more resi- employees to title 5 VA positions old, are required to make prescription dential substance abuse disorder reha- through internal competitive proce- copayments. These copayments place bilitation programs. The legislation dures. VCS hourly employees are fed- an enormous financial burden on our being blocked in the Senate would en- eral employees hired under the author- poorest veterans. To compound this sure that this funding remained ‘‘pro- ity of 38 U.S.C. 7802. While this author- problem, earlier this year, the Depart- tected’’ for three more years, and ity provides many of the same benefits ment of Veterans Affairs increased the would increase the total amount of that title 5 federal employees enjoy, copayment for prescription drugs from funding identified specifically for (i.e., workers compensation, health $2 to $7 per 30-day prescription. treatment of substance abuse disorders benefits, retirement, and veterans pref- Most of the veterans who will benefit and PTSD from $15 million to $25 mil- erence) there are benefits to which from this provision are older, are on lion. they are not entitled. For example, fixed incomes, and are on many dif- Additionally, the bill contains au- VCS hourly employees do not have the ferent medications, each requiring a thorization for four construction same transfer rights to other VA posi- separate copayment. Most of them projects. Two of these projects are tions that VCS managers have. have no health insurance except for much-needed seismic corrections for As a result, VCS hourly employees Medicare and so they must depend VA Medical Centers in the state of applying for VA food service positions, upon the VA for their medications. California. I think all of my colleagues VA housekeeping positions, and other With the lack of a Medicare drug ben- would agree that no veteran should VA positions—positions for which they efit, these veterans are now faced with ever be endangered by aging infrastruc- are well qualified—are not treated as a 350 percent increase in what they ture while in the care of VA should a internal competitive service can- must pay for life-sustaining medica- natural disaster, such as an earth- didates. Their years of service are ir- tions. quake, occur. I thank Senator BOXER relevant, as they cannot easily transfer Imagine the situation of a veteran for her leadership on the construction to another job at VA without first with an income of about $10,000 a year issue. The remaining two construction going through civil service competi- who takes ten medications a month projects in S. 2043 are for nursing tions. This legislation would change and it is not at all unusual for an elder- homes. One of these homes is in Beck- that and allow them to compete equal- ly person to take that many medica- ley, WV, of which the design plans have ly with other VA candidates. I wish to tions. With the increase in the pre- already been made. I am proud to be in- thank the American Federation of Gov- scription copayment rate, that veteran volved in helping to bring a long-term ernment Employees for bringing this now has to allocate over 8 percent of care facility to the veterans of my issue to my attention and for the as- this annual income just to pay for pre- home State who have been in need of sistance and leadership that they pro- scription drugs. And although the $7 such a home for quite some time now. vided. per prescription charge may seem like The other nursing home project is in S. 2043 will help thousands of vet- an insignificant amount to some, I can Lebanon, PA. erans across America, in a variety of assure my colleagues that to the vet- S. 2043 would also fix a longstanding ways. We cannot turn our backs on eran and his family living on a very problem faced by VA’s retired nurses. those who have sacrificed so much for limited income, it is quite significant. Last December, Congress passed the this country. I strongly urge my col- Of particular note, S. 2043 also con- Department of Veterans Affairs Health leagues to support this legislation.∑ tains mental health care provisions—a Care Programs Enhancement Act of f key element of caring for those who 2001. Enacted as Public Law 107–135, MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE have served on the battlefield—that this legislation gave VA several tools would ensure currently successful pro- to respond to the looming nurse crisis. grams across the country continue to In addition, it altered how part-time ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED get necessity funding. Congress pre- service performed by certain title 38 Under the authority of the order of viously enacted a provision to des- employees would be considered when the Senate of January 3, 2001, the Sec- ignate $15 million in VA funding spe- granting retirement credit. retary of the Senate, on October 23, cifically to help medical facilities im- Previously, the law required that 2002, during the recess of the Senate, prove care for veterans with substance title 38 employees’ part-time services received a message from the House of abuse disorders and PTSD. The funds prior to April 7, 1986, be prorated when Representatives announcing that the for these mental health grant pro- calculating retirement annuities, re- Speaker has signed the following en- grams, mandated by the Veterans Mil- sulting in lower annuities for these em- rolled bills: lennium Benefits and Health Care Act ployees. Section 132 of the VA Health S. 1210. An act to reauthorize the Native of 1999, will soon revert to a general Programs Enhancement Act was in- American Housing Assistance and Self-De- fund. tended to exempt all previously retired termination Act of 1996. Despite the slow start, this funding registered nurses, physician assistants, S. 1227. An act to authorize the Secretary has already increased the PTSD and and expanded-function dental auxil- of the Interior to conduct a study of the suit- substance abuse disorder treatment iaries from this requirement. However, ability and feasibility of establishing the Ni- programs available to veterans. More the Office of Personnel Management agara Falls National Heritage Area in the than 100 staff have been hired in 18 of State of New York, and for other purposes. has interpreted this provision to only S. 1270. An act to designate the United VA’s 21 service networks to treat sub- apply to those health care profes- States courthouse to be constructed at 8th stance abuse disorders. Nine new pro- sionals who retire after its enactment Avenue and Mill Street in Eugene, Oregon, grams—in Baltimore, Maryland; At- date. as the ‘‘Wayne Lyman Morse United States lanta, Georgia; San Francisco, Cali- The legislation being blocked in the Courthouse.’’ fornia; and Dayton, Ohio among oth- Senate would require OPM to comply S. 1533. An act to amend the Public Health ers—have initiated or intensified with the original intent of the VA Service Act to reauthorize and strengthen opioid substitution programs for vet- Health Programs Enhancement Act, the health centers program and the National Health Service Corps, and to establish the erans who have not responded well to and therefore to recalculate the annu- Healthy Communities Access Program, drug-free treatment regimens. Other ities for these retired health care pro- which will help coordinate services for the new programs, such as those in Tampa, fessionals. This clarification would not uninsured and underinsured, and for other FL; Cincinnati, OH; Columbia, MO; and extend retirement benefits retro- purposes. Loma Linda, CA put special emphasis actively to the date of retirement, but S. 1646. An act to identify certain routes in on treating veterans with more com- would ensure that annuities are cal- the States of Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, plex conditions that include PTSD and culated fairly from now on for eligible and New Mexico as part of the Ports-to- substance abuse. The additional fund- Plains Corridor, a high priority corridor on employees who retired between April 7, the National Highway System. ing has enabled VA to develop better 1986, and January 23, 2002. S. 2690. An act to reaffirm the references to outpatient substance abuse and PTSD Mr. President, the legislation would one Nation under God in the Pledge of Alle- treatment programs, outpatient dual- also provide transfer rights for hourly giance.

VerDate 0ct 09 2002 23:59 Oct 28, 2002 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A28OC6.018 S28PT1 October 28, 2002 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S10799 H.R. 2215. An act to authorize appropria- H.R. 3739. An act to designate the facility fornia, as the ‘‘Francis Dayle ‘Chick’ Hearn tions for the Department of Justice for fiscal of the United States Postal Service located Post Office.’’ year 2002, and for other purposes. at 6150 North Broad Street in Philadelphia, H.R. 5574. An act to designate the facility H.R. 2486. An act to authorize the National Pennsylvania, as the ‘‘Rev. Leon Sullivan of the United States Postal Service located Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Post Office Building’’. at 206 South Main Street in Glennville, Geor- through the United States Weather Research H.R. 3740. An act to designate the facility gia, as the ‘‘Michael Lee Woodcock Post Of- Program, to conduct research and develop- of the United States Postal Service located fice.’’ ment, training, and outreach activities relat- at 925 Dickinson Street in Philadelphia, H.R. 5651. An act to amend the Federal ing to inland flood forecasting improvement, Pennsylvania, as the ‘‘William V. Cibotti Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to make im- and for other purposes. Post Office Building.’’ provements in the regulation of medical de- H.R. 3253. An act to amend title 38, United H.R. 3801. An act to provide for improve- vices, and for other purposes. States Code, to enhance emergency pre- ment of Federal education research, statis- Under the authority of the order of tics, evaluation, information, and dissemina- paredness of the Department of Veterans Af- the Senate of January 3, 2001, the en- fairs, and for other purposes. tion, and for other purposes. H.R. 4015. An act to amend title 38, United H.R. 4013. An act to amend the Public rolled bills were signed by the Presi- States Code, to revise and improve employ- Health Service Act to establish an Office of dent pro tempore (Mr. BYRD) on Octo- ment, training, and placement services fur- Rare Diseases at the National Institutes of ber 25, 2002. nished to veterans, and for other purposes. Health, and for other purposes. f H.R. 4967. An act to establish new non- H.R. 4014. An act to amend the Federal immigrant classes for border commuter stu- Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect ENROLLED BILLS PRESENTED dents. to the development of products for rare dis- The Secretary of the Senate reported eases. H.R. 5542. An act to consolidate all black that on October 23, 2002, she had pre- lung benefit responsibility under a single H.R. 4102. An act to designate the facility offical, and for other purposes. of the United States Postal Service located sented to the President of the United H.R. 5596. An act to amend section 527 of at 120 North Maine Street in Fallon, Nevada, States the following enrolled bills: the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to elimi- as the ‘‘Rollan D. Melton Post Office Build- S. 1227. An act to authorize the Secretary nate notification and return requirements ing.’’ of the Interior to conduct a study of the suit- for State and local party committees and H.R. 4685. An act to amend title 31, Untied ability and feasibility of establishing the Ni- candidate committees and avoid duplicate States Code, to expand the types of Federal agara Falls National Heritage Area in the reporting by certain State and local political agencies that are required to prepare audited State of New York, and for other purposes. committees of information required to be re- financial statements. S. 1270. An act to designate the United ported and made publicly available under H.R. 4717. An act to designate the facility States courthouse to be constructed at 8th State law, and for other purposes. of the United States Postal Service located Avenue and Mill Street in Eugene, Oregon, H.R. 5647. An act to authorize the duration at 1199 Pasadena Boulevard in Pasadena, as the ‘‘Wayne Lyman Morse United States of the base contract of the Navy-Marine Texas, as the ‘‘Jim Fonteno Post Office Courthouse.’’ Corps Intranet contract to be more than five Building.’’ S. 1533. An act to amend the Public Health years but not more than seven years. H.R. 4755. An act to designate the facility Service Act to reauthorize and strengthen of the United States Postal Service located the health centers program and the National Under the authority of the order of at 204 South Broad Street in Lancaster, the Senate of January 3, 2001, the en- Health Service Corps, and to establish the Ohio, as the ‘‘Clarence Miller Post Office Healthy Communities Access Program, rolled bills were signed by the Presi- Building.’’ which will help coordinate services for the dent pro tempore (Mr. BYRD) on Octo- H.R. 4794. An act to designate the facility uninsured and underinsured, and for other ber 23, 2002. of the United States Postal Service located purposes. at 1895 Avenida Del Oro in Oceanside, Cali- f S. 1646. An act to identify certain routes in fornia as the ‘‘Ronald C. Packard Post Office the State of Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED Building.’’ New Mexico as part of the Ports-to-Plains H.R. 4797. An act to redesignate the facil- Under the authority of the Order of Corridor, a high priority corridor on the Na- ity of the United States Postal Service lo- tional Highway System. the Senate of January 3, 2001, the Sec- cated at 265 South Western Avenue, Los An- retary of the Senate, on October 25, geles, California, as the ‘‘Nat King Cole Post f 2002, during the recess of the Senate, Office.’’ SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND received a message from the House of H.R. 4851. An act to redesignate the facil- SENATE RESOLUTIONS Representatives announcing that the ity of the United States Postal Service lo- Speaker has signed the following en- cated at 6910 South Yorktown Avenue in The following concurrent resolutions rolled bills: Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the ‘‘Robert Wayne Jen- and Senate resolutions were read, and kins Station.’’ referred (or acted upon), as indicated. H.R. 669. An act to designate the facility of H.R. 5200. An act to establish wilderness By Mr. DAYTON (for himself, Mr. the United States Postal Service located at areas, promote conservation, improve public 127 Social Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Is- land, and provide for high quality develop- DASCHLE, Mr. LOTT, Mr. REID, land, as the ‘‘Alphonse F. Auclair Post Office ment in Clark County, Nevada, and for other Mr. NICKLES, Mr. AKAKA, Mr. Building.’’ purposes. ALLARD, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. BAU- H.R. 670. An act to designate the facility of H.R. 5205. An act to amend the District of CUS, Mr. BAYH, Mr. BENNETT, the United States Postal Service located at 7 Columbia Retirement Protection Act of 1997 Mr. BIDEN, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. Commercial Street in Newport, Rhode Is- to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to BOND, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. BREAUX, land, as the ‘‘Bruce F. Cotta Post Office use estimated amounts in determining the Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. BUNNING, Building.’’ service longevity component of the Federal Mr. BURNS, Mr. BYRD, Mr. H.R. 2245 An act for relief of Anisha Goveas benefit payment required to be paid under Foti. such Act to certain retirees of the Metropoli- CAMPBELL, Ms. CANTWELL, Mrs. H.R. 2733. An act to authorize the National tan Police Department of the District of Co- CARNAHAN, Mr. CARPER, Mr. Institute of Standards and Technology to lumbia. CHAFEE, Mr. CLELAND, Mrs. work with major manufacturing industries H.R. 5308. An act to designate the facility CLINTON, Mr. COCHRAN, Ms. COL- on an initiative of standards development of the United States Postal Service located LINS, Mr. CONRAD, Mr. CORZINE, and implementation for electronic enterprise at 301 South Howes Street in Fort Collins, Mr. CRAIG, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. integration. Colorado, as the ‘‘Barney Apodaca Post Of- DEWINE, Mr. DODD, Mr. DOMEN- H.R. 3034. An act to redesignate the facil- fice.’’ ity of the United States Postal Service lo- H.R. 5333. An act to designate the facility ICI, Mr. DORGAN, Mr. DURBIN, cated at 89 River Street in Hoboken, New of the United States Postal Service located Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. ENSIGN, Mr. Jersey, as the ‘‘Frank Sinatra Post Office at 4 East Central Street in Worcester, Massa- ENZI, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mrs. FEIN- Building.’’ chusetts, as the ‘‘Joseph D. Early Post Office STEIN, Mr. FITZGERALD, Mr. H.R. 3656. An act to amend the Inter- Building.’’ FRIST, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. national Organizations Immunities Act to H.R. 5336. An act to designate the facility GRAMM, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. provide for the applicability of that Act to of the United States Postal Service located GREGG, Mr. HAGEL, Mr. HARKIN, the European Central Bank. at 380 Main Street in Farmingdale, New Mr. HATCH, Mr. HELMS, Mr. H.R. 3738. An act to designate the facility York, as the ‘‘Peter J. Ganci, Jr. Post Office of the United States Postal Service located Building.’’ HOLLINGS, Mr. HUTCHINSON, at 1299 North 7th Street in Philadelphia, H.R. 5340. An act to designate the facility Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mr. INHOFE, Pennsylvania, as the ‘‘Herbert Arlene Post of the United States Postal Service located Mr. INOUYE, Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. Office Building.’’ at 5805 White Oak Avenue in Encino, Cali- JOHNSON, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr.

VerDate 0ct 09 2002 23:59 Oct 28, 2002 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A28OC6.023 S28PT1 S10800 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE October 28, 2002 KERRY, Mr. KOHL, Mr. KYL, Ms. ees of the Department of Energy who mitted the following resolution; which LANDRIEU, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. were exposed to toxic substances at De- was considered and agreed to: LEVIN, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mrs. partment of Energy facilities, to pro- S. RES. 354 LINCOLN, Mr. LUGAR, Mr. vide coverage under subtitle B of that Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone MCCAIN, Mr. MCCONNELL, Ms. Act for certain additional individuals, taught at Carleton College in Northfield, MIKULSKI, Mr. MILLER, Mr. to establish an ombudsman and other- Minnesota, for more than 20 years in the MURKOWSKI, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. wise reform the assistance provided to service of the youth of our Nation; NELSON of Florida, Mr. NELSON claimants under that Act, and for Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone of Nebraska, Mr. REED, Mr. other purposes. served Minnesota in the United States Sen- ate with devotion and distinction for more ROBERTS, Mr. ROCKEFELLER, f than a decade; Mr. SANTORUM, Mr. SARBANES, SENATE RESOLUTION 354—REL- Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. SESSIONS, ATIVE TO THE DEATH OF PAUL worked tirelessly on behalf of America’s Vet- Mr. SHELBY, Mr. SMITH of New WELLSTONE, A SENATOR FROM erans and the less fortunate, particularly Hampshire, Mr. SMITH of Or- THE STATE OF MINNESOTA children and families living in poverty and egon, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. SPECTER, those with mental illness; Ms. STABENOW, Mr. STEVENS, Mr. DAYTON (for himself, Mr. Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone Mr. THOMAS, Mr. THOMPSON, DASCHLE, Mr. LOTT, Mr. REID, Mr. never wavered from the principles that guid- ed his life and career; Mr. THURMOND, Mr. TORRICELLI, NICKLES, Mr. AKAKA, Mr. ALLARD, Mr. Whereas his efforts on behalf of the people Mr. VOINOVICH, Mr. WARNER, ALLEN, Mr. BAUCUS, Mr. BAYH, Mr. BENNETT, Mr. BIDEN, Mr. BINGAMAN, of Minnesota and all Americans earned him and Mr. WYDEN): the esteem and high regard of his colleagues; Mr. BOND, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. BREAUX, S. Res. 354. A resolution relative to the and death of Paul Wellstone, a Senator from the Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. BUNNING, Mr. Whereas his tragic and untimely death has State of Minnesota; considered and agreed BURNS, Mr. BYRD, Mr. CAMPBELL, Ms. deprived his State and Nation of an out- to. CANTWELL, Mrs. CARNAHAN, Mr. CAR- standing lawmaker: Now, therefore, be it f PER, Mr. CHAFEE, Mr. CLELAND, Mrs. Resolved, That the Senate expresses pro- CLINTON, Mr. COCHRAN, Ms. COLLINS, found sorrow and deep regret on the deaths ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS Mr. CONRAD, Mr. CORZINE, Mr. CRAIG, of the Honorable Paul Wellstone, late a Sen- S. 1828 Mr. CRAPO, Mr. DEWINE, Mr. DODD, Mr. ator from the State of Minnesota, his wife Sheila, their daughter Marcia, aides Mary At the request of Mr. LEAHY, the DOMENICI, Mr. DORGAN, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. name of the Senator from California McEvoy, Tom Lapic, and Will McLaughlin, EDWARDS, Mr. ENSIGN, Mr. ENZI, Mr. and pilots Richard Conry and Michael Guess. (Mrs. BOXER) was added as a cosponsor FEINGOLD, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. FITZ- Resolved, That the Secretary communicate of S. 1828, a bill to amend subchapter GERALD, Mr. FRIST, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. these resolutions to the House of Represent- III of chapter 83 and chapter 84 of title GRAMM, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. GREGG, Mr. atives and transmit and enrolled copy there- 5, United States Code, to include Fed- HAGEL, Mr. HARKIN, Mr. HATCH, Mr. of to the family of the deceased Senator, and eral prosecutors within the definition HELMS, Mr. HOLLINGS, Mr. HUTCHINSON, the families of all the deceased. of a law enforcement officer, and for Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. Resolved, That when the Senate adjourns today, it adjourn as a further mark of re- other purposes. INOUYE, Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. JOHNSON, spect to the memory of the deceased Sen- S. 2581 Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. KERRY, Mr. KOHL, ator. At the request of Mr. MILLER, the Mr. KYL, Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. name of the Senator from Virginia (Mr. LEVIN, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mrs. LINCOLN, f ALLEN) was added as a cosponsor of S. Mr. LUGAR, Mr. MCCAIN, Mr. MCCON- 2581, a bill to conduct a study on the ef- NELL, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. MILLER, Mr. fectiveness of ballistic imaging tech- MURKOWSKI, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. NELSON ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10:30 A.M., nology and evaluate its effectiveness as of Florida, Mr. NELSON of Nebraska, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2002 a law enforcement tool. Mr. REED, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. ROCKE- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under S. 3058 FELLER, Mr. SANTORUM, Mr. SARBANES, the previous order, and as a further At the request of Mr. BINGAMAN, the Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. SHEL- mark of respect to PAUL WELLSTONE, name of the Senator from Missouri BY, Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire, Mr. the Senate stands adjourned in his (Mrs. CARNAHAN) was added as a co- SMITH of Oregon, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. SPEC- memory until the hour of 10:30 a.m. on sponsor of S. 3058, a bill to amend the TER, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. STEVENS, Mr. Thursday, October 31, 2002. Energy Employees Occupational Illness THOMAS, Mr. THOMPSON, Mr. THUR- Thereupon, the Senate, at 11:11 a.m., Compensation Program Act of 2000 to MOND, Mr. TORRICELLI, Mr. VOINOVICH, adjourned until Thursday, October 31, provide benefits for contractor employ- Mr. WARNER, and Mr. WYDEN) sub- 2002, at 10:30 a.m.

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NO CORRELATION BETWEEN EDU- [From Pioneer Press, Oct. 18, 2002] Allowing parents to have the power to CATION SPENDING AND RESULTS MORE SPENDING DOESN’T ALWAYS TRANSLATE choose where they believe their children can INTO IMPROVED EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE best be educated is the way to get higher (By Cal Thomas) test scores and better learning. If competi- HON. BOB SCHAFFER tion improves the products we buy, it can Democrats lament that the presumptive improve the quality of education our chil- OF COLORADO war with Iraq has kept them from focusing dren receive—or, in this case, are not receiv- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the public’s attention on domestic issues. ing. How much more money will it take be- OK, let’s talk about one of their favorite fore the public awakens to the unnecessary Monday, October 28, 2002 domestic issues: education. Most Democratic and ineffective education spending? Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today candidates (and sometimes a few Repub- That would be one good question for the licans) promise that if elected, or re-elected, to urge my colleagues to take a look at the campaign trail in any debate about domestic they will fight to spend more money for edu- issues. facts about education spending and results. cation. They imply a relationship between The teachers’ unions and other alliances pro- increased spending and better academic per- f moting bureaucracy are constantly pressuring formance. The public has mostly accepted TRIBUTE TO CATHERINE HARRIS Congress to expand federal education spend- this line of thinking. ing by billions of dollars. But, what do the The federal government has spent $321 bil- lion on education since 1965. The worthless HON. ROBERT A. BRADY numbers show us about the effectiveness of Department of Education, which was estab- simply spending more money on education? OF PENNSYLVANIA lished in 1979 as President Jimmy Carter’s IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A recent scholarly article by Cal Thomas payoff to the teachers’ unions, has an annual pokes holes in the mantra that more education budget of $55 billion. Monday, October 28, 2002 funding will help improve students’ education. Yet on the DOE’s own Web page, there are Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I I have submitted the article for the RECORD. In some embarrassing facts. Promoting its ‘‘No rise to honor the lifelong service of Catherine the article, Mr. Thomas cites statistics from the Child Left Behind’’ agenda Harris. A dedicated civil service employee, (www.nochildleftbehind.gov/next/stats/ Department of Education to back his claims. index.html), DOE notes that education spend- Mrs. Harris has worked with the City of Phila- While the federal government has increased ing has increased 132 percent between 1996 delphia Department of Public Health for the education spending 132 percent between and the current fiscal year. As the watchdog past 40 years. 1996 and the current fiscal year, test scores group Citizens Against Government Waste Mrs. Harris began her exemplary service as have remained stagnant. The Department of notes, that compares to a 96 percent budget a Clerk-Typist in the Pharmacy Department. Education reports 32 percent of public school hike for the Department of Health and She eventually went on to become the only fourth-graders are proficient in reading, while Human Services and a 48 percent boost for Mortality Coder for the entire health depart- defense over the same period. ment. As a supervisor, she helped other staff only 26 percent are proficient in mathematics. What are our children and their parents These figures are a dismal commentary on the learn the methods and principles used to rank getting for this extra money? Not much. The importance of the cause of death for statistical state of education in the United States. DOE reports just 32 percent of public school In his article, Thomas cites a study by the fourth-graders are proficient in math. Of purposes. bi-partisan American Legislative Exchange those who can’t read well, 68 percent are mi- Mrs. Harris retired from the City of Philadel- phia Department of Public Health on October Council (ALEC), further revealing the lack or nority children, even though sharp increases 4, 2002. In recognition of her years of service correlation between education spending and in Title One spending ($10 billion in the cur- to the Philadelphia community, I ask that you better academic results. ‘‘Particularly troubling rent budget) directed at improving basic skills among black, Hispanic and American and my other distinguished colleagues rise to is the finding that of the 10 states that in- Indian children have failed to achieve those congratulate her on retirement. creased per-pupil expenditures the most over goals. f the past two decades, none ranked in the top If the federal government’s own figures are 10 in academic achievement. Additionally, of not persuasive enough, a new study by the SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRA- the top 10 that experienced the greatest de- American Legislative Exchange Council are. TION LOAN PROGRAMS SUBSIDY creases in pupil-to-teacher ratios over the past In the ninth edition of ‘‘Report Card on RATE MISCALCULATION two decades, none ranked in the top 10 in American Education: A State-by-State Anal- ysis,’’ the study of two generations of stu- academic achievement.’’ dents from 1976 to 2001 graded each state, HON. STEVEN R. ROTHMAN As the House works out appropriation levels using more than 100 measures of educational OF NEW JERSEY for federal education funding over the next resources and achievement. ALEC is the na- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES several weeks, I strongly urge it to take a look tion’s largest bipartisan, individual member- Monday, October 28, 2002 at the statistics. More money does not mean ship organization of state legislators. better student results. In a news release, the ALEC says, ‘‘A key Mr. ROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, small busi- finding of the report shows there is no imme- nesses are reeling from the downturn in the Instead, I commend the House to follow Cal diate evident correlation between conven- economy and are struggling to acquire the Thomas’ advice regarding how to improve tional measures of education inputs, such as capital needed to establish or expand their academic performance. Thomas states: ‘‘Al- expenditures per pupil and teacher salaries, businesses. These same small businesses are lowing parents to have the power to choose and educational outputs, such as average the backbone of our economy, and provide where they believe their children can best be scores on standardized tests.’’ Particularly troubling is the finding that of the 10 states much of the innovation and inventions of new educated is the way to get higher test scores concepts and products that large corporations and better learning.’’ that increased per-pupil expenditures the most over the past two decades, none ranked are unable to develop. The Small Business Mr. Speaker, I have introduced an education in the top 10 in academic achievement. Addi- Administration plays an important role in sup- tax deduction bill that is currently reported to tionally, of the top 10 that experienced the porting and assisting small businesses in our the House floor. It would empower parents greatest decreases in pupil-to-teacher ratios country by offering a variety of loan programs, with the ability to select the best education op- over the past two decades, none ranked in as well as counseling and training for all types tions for their children. Rather than spending the top 10 in academic achievement. of firms. more money on bureaucratic federal pro- The teachers’ unions and the rest of the The Small Business Administration and its grams, I recommend my colleagues pass the government education monopoly regularly affiliates, including Certified Development tell us that more spending and smaller class- Back to School Tax Relief Act, H.R. 5193, and rooms are the answer to improved test Company, not to mention small businesses in begin sending money back to the parents to scores. But the ALEC study, along with the general, have been struggling in recent years spend as they deem appropriate. Only when DOE statistics, proves that is not the case. with user fees on loan programs and de- we empower parents will we begin to see a (For a state-by-state breakdown go to creased assistance from Congress. Specifi- reversal in the negative test score trends. www.ALEC.org.) cally, the Administration and the Office of

∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. E1962 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks October 28, 2002 Management and Budget have been miscalcu- it celebrates 125 years of dedicated service to a protective order. In addition employers also lating the anticipated cost of loan programs to the academic enrichment and development of lose out. It is estimated that it costs employers the taxpayer, or the subsidy rates for loan pro- thousands of college graduates. The university $100 million a year as a result of higher turn- grams. and all of its faculty and staff are to be con- over, lower productivity, absenteeism and The Administration’s subsidy rate estimates gratulated on this momentous occasion. health and safety expenses. for the Small Business Administration’s 7(a) f To address the inadequacy of our current loan program and the 504 guaranteed loan laws, I have introduced the Victim’s Economic program have regularly been miscalculated, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS Security and Safety Act also known as leading to unnecessarily high fees charged to MONTH VESSA. This bill ensures that victims of do- the borrowers who use the Small Business mestic violence are allowed to take time off Administration’s loan programs. This is, in ef- HON. LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD from work to make necessary court appear- fect, a tax on small businesses, and must be OF CALIFORNIA ances, seek legal assistance, contact law en- rectified. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES forcement officials or make alternative housing The Administration and the Office of Man- arrangements, without the fear of being fired agement and Budget must re-estimate the Monday, October 28, 2002 or demoted. Further, to make sure victims can subsidy rate calculations to ensure that the Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise retain financial independence VESSA requires 7(a) loan program as well as the 504 guaran- to recognize October as Domestic Violence states to provide unemployment benefits to teed loan program are not threatened, and to Prevention Month and add my strong support women who are forced to leave work as a re- reduce the tax burden on our nation’s small to the struggle against domestic abuse. sult of domestic violence. In addition, VESSA businesses. Domestic Violence Awareness Month is an creates a workplace safety program tax credit f opportunity for us to remember those who for 40 percent of the costs incurred or paid by have been victims of abuse, to support those an employer who implements a domestic vio- 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF REGIS who are survivors, to educate ourselves about lence workplace safety and education pro- UNIVERSITY the barriers and hardships domestic violence gram. victims face, and to find effective and lasting Mr. Speaker, Anna’s story, although fiction, HON. BOB SCHAFFER solutions to this horrific crime. clearly illustrates how a comprehensive sup- OF COLORADO I would like to share a story with you about port system can help to break the cycle of vio- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a domestic violence survivor named Anna. lence as well as, benefit business and society Monday, October 28, 2002 Anna is married to an abusive man, who regu- as a whole. I am extremely pleased to an- larly harasses, threatens, and hits her. One nounce that VESSA has already garnered the Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today support of 115 of my colleagues in the House evening, he flew into a rage and brutally beat to recognize the 125th anniversary of Regis of Representatives. I’m hopeful that with the her, because she was considering leaving University, a highly acclaimed Jesuit institution increased support of my colleagues in Con- him. in Denver, Colorado. gress VESSA will soon become law, and help Anna came into work the next day and con- Founded in 1877 as Las Vegas College in turn victims of domestic abuse into survivors. Las Vegas, New Mexico, Regis University has fided to her supervisor that her injuries were f undergone three name changes, two moves the result of domestic violence. Her boss re- and significant growth since its inception one ferred her to the Human Resources office TRIBUTE TO MRS. MARIA LOUISE hundred twenty-five years ago. The university where the staff had training in working with BROOKS JONES now enrolls more than 13,500 students in employees who are victims of domestic vio- three constituent schools: Regis College, for lence. Human Resources helped Anna contact HON. ROBERT A. BRADY traditional liberal arts; School for Professional a local domestic violence service provider. OF PENNSYLVANIA Studies, with programs designed for working The employer gave Anna the rest of the day IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES adults; and School for Health Care Profes- off to meet with a counselor and figure out Monday, October 28, 2002 sionals, which houses Regis’ doctoral program other precautionary steps. When made aware Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I in physical therapy. An additional 15,000 stu- that she would need several days off to get a rise to honor and celebrate the accomplish- dents attend the university’s five branch cam- restraining order and move into a shelter, ments of Mrs. Maria Louise Brooks Jones, a puses in Colorado and one in Las Vegas, Ne- Anna called her boss who gave her additional time off. resident of Philadelphia for more than fifty vada. years. ‘‘Mom Jones’’ as she is affectionately As 1 of 28 Jesuit institutions of higher edu- Before returning to work, Anna was able to called, has been a blessing to many in the cation in the country, Regis University has de- develop a safety plan with her boss and coun- great city of brotherly love. She is a wife, veloped a reputation for academic excellence selor that included one afternoon off per week to attend group counseling sessions at the mother of nine children, grandmother of twen- and a commitment to the Jesuit mission of de- ty-six, great-grandmother of seventeen, and veloping leaders committed to the service of local service provider. Anna’s ability to get help and support from an adopted ‘‘mother’’ to a host of children and others. For seven consecutive years, U.S. grandchildren that have claimed her through- her employer had a significant positive impact News and World Report has ranked Regis out many years. Mom Jones gained some of on her life. Anna found a safe place to live University to be among its top tier of colleges these ‘‘children’’ because encouraging others and remained economically independent. and universities in the Western United States. is her way of life. The people in her commu- Anna’s boss also gained significantly by re- The University has also been recognized for nity know that they can get assistance from its leadership in the field of student character taining a productive and contributing em- her in the form of prayer, clothing, or shelter. development. The university was 1 of 100 col- ployee. Further saving the company time and Mrs. Jones joined the church at an early leges and universities honored in the money in not having to recruit and retrain a age, and from Richmond, VA via Baltimore, ‘‘Templeton Guide: Colleges that Encourage new employee. MD joined Second Pilgrim Baptist Church in Character Development.’’ Mr. Speaker, I use this story to underscore Philadelphia under the pastorate of the late As a U.S. Representative from Colorado, I the benefits of having a supportive system in Rev. R. L. Thomas. At Second Pilgrim Baptist know my Colorado colleagues join me in ex- place to help domestic violence victims break Church, she has actively served as a member pressing appreciation to Regis University for the vicious cycle of violence. Sadly, however, of the Combined Mass Choir and held various its significant contributions to the state, coun- this story is fiction rather than fact. Anna’s offices on the Jones Gospel Chorus, Senior try and world at large. It has hosted numerous story is a far cry from what most domestic vio- Choir, Hospitality Ministry, Nurses Ministry, world leaders to its Colorado campus, includ- lence victims currently encounter when they Widows’ Ministry, Youth Supervisor, and the ing, ten Nobel Prize winners, Mother Theresa seek help from their employers. Federal law Delaware Valley Hospitality Circle. and the historic meeting between Pope John does not specifically allow women to take Mom Jones is an activist and leader in the Paul II and the President in 1993. The school leave from work to effectively deal with abuse. education of children both in and around her has also produced an American Rhodes Nor do most states allow women who leave community and church. She worked in the Scholar, two Fulbright professors and two ath- work as a result of domestic violence to collect public and private schools of Philadelphia for letes named to USA Today’s College All-Aca- unemployment compensation. over fifty years, and remains active in the pri- demic Team. Instead, victims of abuse live with the added vate sector to this day. As far as she is con- Mr. Speaker and Members of the House, fear of losing their job and falling into poverty cerned, she’ll help educate children as long as please join me in honoring Regis University as if they take time off to go to a shelter or seek children need to be educated. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1963 Mrs. Jones is a true lady, full of grace, Initially celebrated by our forefathers, this his action. These calls to action include school honor, and respect. She has lived a life of holiday became a tradition of thanks for a violence, drought, wildfires, economic slow- honor and service. Along with her family, bountiful harvest, which provided colonists down, terrorism, and much more. friends, and community, I ask that you and my with enough food to last through the winter. Owens’ leadership skills are unmatched, other distinguished colleagues to join me in The observation was also a time to pray and and his ability to work in a bipartisan manner wishing Mrs. Jones a happy 77th birthday and give thanks for peace with their Native Amer- earns him daily praise. More importantly, Gov. commending her on her multiple accomplish- ican neighbors. In 1863, President Abraham Owens is firmly committed to making Colorado ments. Lincoln officially appointed a national day of a better place to live for present and future f Thanksgiving. Since then, each president has generations of Coloradans. I ask the House to issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation, des- extend its congratulations and sincere thanks TRIBUTE TO OFFICER BILL ignating the fourth Thursday of each Novem- to Governor Bill Owens for his success and CLEVELAND ber as the official holiday. accomplishment as Colorado’s Governor. As we take the time out of our busy lives to f HON. BOB SCHAFFER stop and give thanks for the food on our table, OF COLORADO our loved ones, the homes we live in and our CHANGING LIVES CHARACTER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES magnificent nation, let us also remember our EDUCATION PROGRAM forefathers and the sacrifices they made to Monday, October 28, 2002 HON. BOB SCHAFFER Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today build our great country and the freedoms by OF COLORADO to honor Officer Bill Cleveland of the United which we may celebrate and express our States Capitol Police. During my service in thanks. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Congress, Officer Cleveland has made a last- f Monday, October 28, 2002 ing, impression on me as a motivated public TRIBUTE TO THE HONORABLE Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today servant. BILL OWENS to recognize the Changing Lives character Often referred to as ‘‘Officer Fantastic,’’ Bill education program, an exceptional curriculum greets Members, staff and visitors at his Can- HON. BOB SCHAFFER being used throughout the country with proven non House Office Building post each morning results to improve individual lives and schools. with a smile and pleasant greeting. Every time OF COLORADO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The development of character among our an individual responds and asks how be is young people today is critical to the stability doing, Officer Cleveland replies, ‘‘Fantastic!’’ Monday, October 28, 2002 and success of our nation and society. John Although he works high intensity, twelve-hour Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Adams, the second President of the United days securing the building’s entrances and to express gratitude and congratulations to the States, recognized the immense importance of consistently directing visitors around the maze Honorable Bill Owens, Governor of Colorado. character and morality to our nation. ‘‘Our of hallways, Bill always remains upbeat and Four years ago, Gov. Owens promised to im- Constitution was made only for a moral and friendly. prove education for Colorado’s children, re- religious people,’’ he said in an address to the The more remarkable traits of Officer Cleve- duce the tax burden on families, and make military. ‘‘It is wholly inadequate to the govern- land’s public duties reach beyond the halls of transportation a top priority. Gov. Owens has ment of any other.’’ Congress. In 1988 Bill Cleveland became the not only kept his promises to Colorado, but Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, there is a real first black Republican since Reconstruction to has managed to accomplish much more in his vacuum of values in our culture today. Too be elected to the City Council in Alexandria, tenure as Governor. many of our youth are growing up without the Virginia. Furthermore, he currently serves as On education, Governor Owens has made guidance and modeling of basic, time-honored the Vice Mayor of Alexandria and is running schools more accountable for the academic character traits, which at one time were rein- for mayor in May 2003. If elected, Bill would achievements of children. He has expanded forced by one’s family, church, school and be the first black mayor of Alexandria. assessment testing to better measure the suc- community. When I first met Officer Cleveland, I wit- cess of children and has pushed for account- Two well-respected teachers and coaches nessed his motivating spirit and humble serv- ability reports that detail the safety and aca- have joined together to respond to this need ice. After countless encounters I have learned demic performance of Colorado schools. For for character development among elementary Bill’s actions are inspired by his deep Christian the first time in a decade, the state is fully and secondary students. Dennis Parker and faith. At work he not only serves the people, funding public education. Gov. Owens has D.W. Rutledge, in conjunction with Zig Ziglar, but he does so because of his fervor for the also managed to create smaller class sizes for have created a character curriculum called Lord. Officer Cleveland’s leadership, enthu- children in kindergarten through third grade ‘‘Changing Lives.’’ The curriculum involves siasm, and sense of duty have been extraor- and many full-day kindergarten programs. several innovative components, including dinary examples for my staff and me. Each Other impacts of the education reform include ‘‘Word of the Week’’ character concepts, a day be is a welcoming reminder of how truly a Read to Achieve grant to provide new pro- mission statement for the school, banners an great it is to serve in Congress. grams and new textbooks for many Colorado posters in the halls about character education, Mr. Speaker, Officer Bill Cleveland is a classrooms. books and readings, journal writing, and fo- great American and I ask the House of Rep- Governor Owens has also made history by cused activities facilitating student, parent, resentatives to join me in thanking him for pushing the state’s largest tax-relief package. teachers and community involvement in the such outstanding service. That effort has amounted to $1 billion in rate character education process. f cuts of personal income, sales, and capital While there are many character education TRIBUTE TO THANKSGIVING gains taxes. He also has eliminated the mar- programs on the market, the Changing Lives riage penalty tax. More over, Owens has man- curriculum is the only one I know which has HON. BOB SCHAFFER aged to keep the budget balanced by making received extensive study and evaluation. Two responsible decisions to veto $47 million in psychologists at the University of Dayton re- OF COLORADO line items. He then called on state agencies to cently conducted a scientifically based study IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cut an additional 4 percent from their budgets. of the Changing Lives program. They found Monday, October 28, 2002 As governor, Owens has paid special atten- that schools with the Changing Lives cur- Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today tion to Colorado’s long-neglected transpor- riculum demonstrated positive behavior to recognize the national holiday of Thanks- tation system. Under Owens’ leadership, the changes and results among the student body giving to be held this year on the 28th of No- state will invest more than $15 billion in Colo- in comparison with schools that did not incor- vember. rado’s highway system in the next 20 years. porate the curriculum into the classroom. This traditional holiday, bringing together Although this plan funds projects through the Teachers reported less frequent negative stu- families and celebrating what we are blessed state, Owens constructed it without raising dent behaviors and fewer disciplinary actions. with as individuals and as a country, takes on taxes. Colorado will now have better, cleaner, Students reported fewer unruly behaviors and an ever more important meaning now as and safer roads for years to come. a greater expectation from teachers for them Americans confront terrorism. For the nation to Governor Owens has managed to accom- to behave in positive ways. Parents were also give thanks to God is a hallowed custom, one plish all this under the pressure of other chal- more likely to attend school activities and which is truly American. lenges facing the state and nation demanding rated the schools more positively. E1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks October 28, 2002 Mr. Speaker, thank you for this opportunity TRIBUTE TO MR. FREDERIC PAUL TRIBUTE TO MR. ALAN FOUTZ to discuss the merits and benefits of the GRESKY Changing Lives character education program. HON. BOB SCHAFFER I would urge all school districts to consider OF COLORADO using this program as they apply for the Char- HON. BOB SCHAFFER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES acter Education grants distributed by the De- OF COLORADO Monday, October 28, 2002 partment of Education. It is a proven program IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with results that attest to its effectiveness in Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to rise today to express gratitude and con- changing student behaviors and transforming Monday, October 28, 2002 school environments. gratulations to one of Colorado’s outstanding Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor citizens, Mr. Alan Foutz of Akron, Colorado. Mr. Foutz, a graduate of the Colorado State f to rise today to express gratitude and con- gratulations to Mr. Frederic Paul Gresky, Colo- University’s department of Soil and Crop Sciences, was recently honored for his leader- RECOGNIZING JOHN MICHAEL rado, one of Colorado’s most outstanding citi- ship and contributions to agriculture. ROSE zens. Paul, a Colorado resident for over 30 Mr. Foutz received his bachelor’s and mas- years, is an individual who has made a posi- ter’s degrees in agronomy from Colorado HON. BOB SCHAFFER tive and lasting difference in the lives of oth- State in 1968 and 1970. Since owning Foutz ers. Farms in Akron, Alan has been an advocate OF COLORADO In 1971, he and his wife Carol moved to for relationships between Colorado State and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Colorado and have raised two wonderful chil- rural communities. Always working for the fu- dren, Ellen and Michael. His call to civic duty ture of agriculture, Mr. Foutz has pushed for Monday, October 28, 2002 began in 1974 when a neighbor of Mr. more student scholarships and awards for fac- Gresky’s left a loaded shotgun unattended and ulty members deserving recognition. His influ- Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today the neighbor’s son injured another boy. The ence in the agricultural industry has spanned to recognize a true friend of Colorado’s Arkan- injured boy happened to be the son of Paul’s many groups, including serving as president of sas Valley. John Rose is a good neighbor, co-worker. We all have pivotal events that af- the Colorado Farm Bureau and Colorado and he typifies the Western values I hold dear. fect our lives, Mr. Speaker, and this was defi- Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance. Additionally, John Michael Rose and his wife, Jolly, nitely Paul Gresky’s. Instead of reacting irra- Mr. Foutz has served on the board of directors for Western Farm Bureau Insurance, the moved to the Lower Arkansas Valley in Feb- tionally, Paul set out to make a difference. ruary of 1995. They settled near the town of American Farm Bureau Federation Wheat Ad- Since 1974, Paul Gresky has served as a Fowler, Colorado. John said, ‘‘We came down visory Committee and the National Sunflower volunteer hunter education instructor, teaching here to escape the metropolitan lifestyle, and Board. Mr. Foutz also serves on the Colorado the values of safe firearm handling and re- to enjoy the peace and quiet associated with State College of Agricultural Sciences advisory sponsible human-to-wildlife interaction. Mr. board and has been a university commence- living a rural lifestyle.’’ The Rose’s have raised Gresky has earned the title of Division of Wild- ment speaker. corn and alfalfa on their eighty-acre farm for life Master Instructor in 1983 and instructed an While his service with formal organizations two years. John switched the operation from astonishing 11,000 students. In 1985, he was has been impressive, Alan’s own peers recog- farming to ranching in 1997 and went into a named Colorado Instructor of the Year and in nize his valuable contributions. Mr. Jim Quick, cow-calf operation. They enjoyed living on the both 1987 and 1989 he was the Colorado the Soil and Crop Sciences Department Head land and learning about farming and ranching. Candidate for Winchester’s Instructor of the recently commented that Alan has made In October of 1998 John received a call Year. Paul is a Certified Instructor for the Boy ‘‘many valuable contributions to science and to from the local Soil Conservation District with Scouts of America and has been called on by the crop industry.’’ an offer to fill a vacant chair on the Board of the Poudre Valley School District to teach As a constituent of Colorado’s Fourth Con- Directors. John said, ‘‘That was just the begin- Home Safety for Firearms. gressional District, Alan Foutz not only makes ning of my reentry into public service.’’ In De- his community proud, but also his state and Paul Gresky’s commitment to wildlife has cember of 1999 the City of Aurora announced country. It is a true honor to have such an ex- been equally impressive. When the Kodak its intentions to purchase the remaining shares traordinary citizen in Colorado and we owe Company wanted to develop a watchable wild- of the Rocky Ford Ditch. John encouraged the him a debt of gratitude for his service and life site, they called on Mr. Gresky. His exper- dedication to the community. I ask the House Soil Conservation Board to become proactive tise resulted in one of only two watchable sites to join me in extending wholehearted con- and get involved with the process of objecting in Colorado, the only location where observers gratulations to Mr. Alan Foutz. to the sale and monitoring what would happen can walk through 41 acres and view natural f to the land when Aurora took the water and wildlife habits. dried up the land. The board held a water APPRECIATION FOR EDUCATION forum and John served as the moderator. The values that Paul Gresky holds should REFORM GROUPS John says this thrust him into the spotlight and never be ignored. If you have the privilege of thus began his involvement in water issues in attending one of his classes, you will hear him quote Victor Hugo saying, ‘‘Common sense is HON. BOB SCHAFFER the Lower Arkansas Valley. The Otero County OF COLORADO developed without regard to education, not as Commissioners created the Water Works IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Committee and asked John to be the coordi- a result of it.’’ The young children in his Monday, October 28, 2002 nator. This led to the creation of the Arkansas courses go home with a life-changing regard Valley Preservation Land Trust; the revival of to firearms, our country’s heritage, and the Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Arkansas Valley Conduit project, and the Ar- value of wildlife. to recognize the valuable contribution and tire- kansas Valley Water Preservation Group. Mr. Speaker, Paul Gresky’s service and less assistance of more than 30 organizations John is a frequent speaker throughout the val- dedication to teaching and serving his country committed to helping all children achieve aca- ley to community groups, service clubs, and to remind us of all that is good in America. Paul demic excellence through educational choice. other governmental agencies. is truly a shining example for all Americans. Over the past year, these groups have dem- onstrated a remarkable dedication—often John serves on the Board of Directors of As a constituent of Colorado’s Fourth Con- under difficult circumstances—to advancing Big Brothers-Big Sisters. He is active in the gressional District, Paul Gresky not only education tax credit legislation. Masonic Lodge and continues to serve on makes his community proud, but also his state During my time in Congress, no issue has West Otero Timpas Conservation District. He and country. It is a true honor to have such an captivated my time and attention more than is a valuable member of his community, and extraordinary citizen in Colorado and we owe education reform through school choice. Sev- I am proud to have represented such a vig- him a debt of gratitude for his service and eral years ago, a handful of my colleagues orous conservator in the Congress. John is a dedication to the community. I ask the House and I began meeting to work on a serious pa- man of integrity who does the right thing even to join me in extending wholehearted con- rental choice legislative effort. The result of when it isn’t the easiest thing to do. gratulations to Mr. Frederic Paul Gresky. our work was several education tax-related CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1965 bills, including the Education Freedom Act serve mention here in the House: Agudath Center for Home Education, North Carolina (H.R. 5192) and the Back to School Tax Relief Israel, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Amer- Education Reform Foundation, People Ad- Act (H.R. 5193), which I introduced earlier this ican Association of Christian Schools, Amer- vancing Christian Education, REACH Alliance, year. ican Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of As the 107th Congress draws to a close, I Reform, American Legislative Exchange Coun- America, United States Conference of Catholic am struck by the historic progress we made cil, Association of Christian Schools Inter- Bishops, United New Yorkers for Choice in toward advancing education tax credits. Doz- national, Catholic Vote, CATO Institute, Chil- Education, Washington Scholarship Fund. ens of education tax-related bills were intro- dren First America, Concerned Women for duced during the 107th Congress, and one Mr. Speaker and Members of the House, America, Center of the American Experiment, bill, H.R. 5193, passed the Ways and Means please Join me in commnending these organi- Committee and is currently awaiting floor ac- Council for American Private Education, Coun- zations for their fine work and dedication to tion in the House. Our President, George W. cil for Urban Renewal, Education Leaders improving the education of all children in Bush, offered his endorsement of education Council, Empower America, Family Research America. The battle for education freedom will tax credits and established a placeholder in Council, Heritage Foundation, Institute for Pol- not be easy, but it will be won someday soon his budget for such legislation. icy Innovation, Latino Coalition, Lexington In- with the sustained efforts of these committed Mr. Speaker, let me be the first to say, none stitute, Maryland Catholic Conference, Min- organizations. For me, it has been a true privi- of this progress could have been made with- nesota Catholic Conference, National Associa- lege to work alongside these fine organiza- out the relentless support of numerous individ- tion of Private Special Education Centers, Na- tions and the people they represent. May God uals and organizations. Several of them de- tional Catholic Education Association, National bless them all. Monday, October 28, 2002 Daily Digest Senate Chamber Action Additional Cosponsors: Page S10800 Additional Statements: Page S10796–98 Routine Proceedings, pages S10791–S10800 Adjournment: Senate met at 10:30 a.m., and as a Measures Introduced: One resolution was sub- further mark of respect to the memory of the late mitted, as follows: S. Res. 354. Pages S10799–S10800 Senator Paul Wellstone, of Minnesota, in accordance Measures Passed: with S. Res. 354, adjourned at 11:11 a.m. until Relative to the Death of Senator Wellstone: Sen- 10:30 a.m., on Thursday, October 31, 2002 in pro ate agreed to S. Res. 354, relative to the death of forma session. Paul Wellstone, a Senator from the State of Min- nesota. Pages S10791–96 Messages From the House: Page S10798–99 Committee Meetings No committee meetings were held. Enrolled Bills Presented: Page S10799 h House of Representatives Chamber Action Committee Meetings Measures Introduced: 2 public bills, H.R. No Committee meetings were held. 5702–5703, were introduced. Page H8044 f Reports Filed: The following report was filed today. Problems with the Presidential Gifts System (H. NEW PUBLIC LAWS Rept. 107–768). Page H8044 (For last listing of Public Laws, see DAILY DIGEST, of October 24, 2002, p. D1109) Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the guest Chaplain, Rev. Emmett J. Gavin, Prior, H.R. 2121, to make available funds under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to expand democ- Whitefriars Hall, of Washington, D.C. Page H8043 racy, good governance, and anti-corruption programs Meeting Hours—Thursday, Oct. 31 and Monday, in the Russian Federation in order to promote and Nov. 4: Agreed that when the House adjourns strengthen democratic government and civil society today, it stand adjourned until 11 a.m. on Thursday, and independent media in that country. Signed on Oct. 31 and that when the House adjourns on October 23, 2002. (Public Law 107–246) Thursday, it stand adjourned until 11 a.m. on Mon- H.R. 4085, to increase, effective as of December day, Nov. 4. Page H8043 1, 2002, the rates of compensation for veterans with Quorum Calls—Votes: There were no quorum calls service-connected disabilities and the rates of de- or recorded voted during the proceedings of the pendency and indemnity compensation for the sur- House today. vivors of certain disabled veterans. Signed on Octo- ber 23, 2002. (Public Law 107–247) Adjournment: The House met at 11 a.m. and ad- H.R. 5010, making appropriations for the Depart- journed at 11:03 a.m. in respect of the memory of ment of Defense for the fiscal year ending September the late Honorable Paul D. Wellstone, a Senator 30, 2003. Signed on October 23, 2002. (Public Law from Minnesota. 107–248) D1112 October 28, 2002 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D1113 H.R. 5011, making appropriations for military COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY, construction, family housing, and base realignment OCTOBER 29, 2002 and closure for the Department of Defense for the (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) fiscal year ending September 30, 2003. Signed on October 23, 2002. (Public Law 107–249) Senate No meetings/hearings scheduled. House No Committee meetings are scheduled. D1114 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST October 28, 2002

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