December 8, 2020 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S7277 works. We will fondly remember Ernie COVID–19, and pharmaceutical stock- than when he was driving Governor with a trademark cigar in hand and a pile development. John Lynch in 2012 and they witnessed smile on his face and the way his pres- Mr. Benor has received numerous an accident. A car had gone through a ence filled every room he entered. We awards throughout his career. In 2012, guardrail, fallen into an embankment, will remember his generous and kind President Barack Obama awarded Mr. and caught fire. Scott pulled over, and spirit, which lifted us all. Benor the Presidential Rank Award of along with an off-duty firefighter, freed Our deepest condolences go to Ernie’s Meritorious Executive, one of the high- a man who was trapped in the vehicle— beloved family, Sharon, Peter, and Jen- est awards that a career Senior Execu- just seconds before it was engulfed in nifer. We mourn your great loss. tive Service member may receive. flames. For his lifesaving action, Scott To Ernie, rest in peace, dear friend.∑ Dave Benor’s impact on public health was honored with a number of awards, f will be felt for years to come both including a Carnegie Medal, a national honor that recognizes those who risk TRIBUTE TO DAVID E. BENOR through his work on a wide variety of public health programs and by the in- their lives to an extraordinary degree Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. President, I spiring example he has provided for the while saving or attempting to save the am honored to thank and congratulate many attorneys with whom he worked lives of others. one of my constituents and one of the and mentored. I was pleased to have a Throughout his service, Scott ap- Federal Government’s unsung heroes, flag flown over the U.S. Capitol over proached everything with humor, kind- David E. ‘‘Dave’’ Benor, who is retiring the Thanksgiving holiday weekend as a ness, and patience. He never com- on January 3, 2021, after more than 48 symbol of our Nation’s thanks to this plained, and he always served with an years of service as a public health at- outstanding public servant. incredible amount of professionalism. torney at the U.S. Department of I ask my colleagues to join me in Above all, Scott’s main commitment Health and Human Services’ Office of paying tribute to Dave Benor for his was to his family. His service would the General Counsel, HHS–OGC. distinguished service to our country not have been possible without the sup- After graduating from Harvard Law and to wish him all the best in the port and love of his wife Susan, his School in 1972, Mr. Benor began his ca- coming years as he enjoys his well- sons Zachary and Matthew, and his ex- reer at HHS–OGC and never left, rising earned retirement. tended family. to positions of increasing responsi- I am grateful for Scott’s friendship bility throughout the years. Since 2004, f and his years of dedication to the peo- he has served as the Associate General ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS ple of New Hampshire. His retirement Counsel for Public Health. In this lead- is well-deserved, and I know that he ership role, he has led HHS–OGC’s Pub- will continue to look for ways to im- lic Health Division, a 100-person office TRIBUTE TO SCOTT FRYE prove his community and the entire within HHS–OGC that provides legal ∑ Ms. HASSAN. Mr. President, today I Granite State. services to the Assistant Secretary for rise to honor the career of New Hamp- I hope that you will join me in recog- Health, the Surgeon General, and mul- shire State Trooper Scott Frye, who nizing the years of service of State ∑ tiple agencies that comprise the Public recently retired from the force. Trooper Scott Frye. Health Service, including the National A native of Milford, NH, Scott served f Institutes of Health, the Centers for with the New Hampshire State Police REMEMBERING DEE BENSON Disease Control and Prevention, the In- for more than 22 years as a road troop- ∑ Mr. LEE. Mr. President, I rise today dian Health Service, the Health Serv- er, a member of the narcotics unit, and to honor Judge Dee Benson, who passed most recently as head of the executive ices and Resources Administration, the away this week after a heroic battle protection detail. During his time in Substance Abuse and Mental Health with cancer. Dee had a remarkable and executive protection, Scott served Services Administration, and the Agen- far-reaching legal career, making an under three Governors, including for 4 cy for Healthcare Research and Qual- impact throughout Utah and the coun- years during my time as Governor. ity. Mr. Benor has worked extensively try. But even more than that, he has on product liability, grant law, organ Through our work together, I saw made an indelible mark as a beloved transplant, and vaccine issues, and has firsthand Scott’s commitment to the teacher, mentor, role model, and particular expertise with the Public Granite State. He always sees the big friend. Health Service safety net programs, in picture; he can step into a room and Dee grew up on small farm in Jordan, public health emergency response immediately assess it and the people in UT, across from the old Jordan High issues, and in implementing regulatory it, both as a security risk, but also for School. He served a 2-year mission in and compensation programs. need. Scott can find a way to connect Sweden for the Church of Jesus Christ Mr. Benor has dedicated his entire with and put almost anyone at ease. As of Latter-day Saints and afterwards at- career to implementing HHS’s mission a result, he is greeted as a welcome tended BYU, graduating in 1973 with a to advance the health of all people. He friend wherever he goes in New Hamp- degree in physical education. After a has done this by providing authori- shire. brief stint as a student teacher and tative legal advice on major health ini- While Scott served for nearly a dozen soccer coach at Hillcrest High, he de- tiatives, including those related to bio- years on the security detail of Gov- cided to change career paths and on a terrorism preparedness, biomedical re- ernors, he never lost sight of his com- whim applied to law school. search, organ transplantation, vaccine mitment and obligation to protect the Dee stumbled onto what would be- development and liability, and the pro- safety of every person in New Hamp- come a brilliant vocation in law. He vision of healthcare to medically un- shire. was one of the very first law students derserved populations through such Scott’s experience and deep under- at Brigham Young University, when programs as the community health standing of the Granite State were an my late father, Rex Lee, was founding center program, the Ryan White HIV/ important benefit to those he worked BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. AIDS Program, and maternal and child with. When we would travel to sites of Dee quickly took to law, grasping legal health grants. He has been a key legal natural disasters during my time as concepts with speed and ease, and soon adviser on the Department’s inter- Governor, Scott always had a sense became a star of his class, even with- national health initiatives, including about who needed to be checked in out spending all his time in the libary. Afghan and Iraqi reconstruction, global with and what a community or a public He was an equally affable student, AIDS programs, and quarantine activi- safety official needed in challenging loved by all of his classmates. A gifted ties for diseases such as SARS, pan- times. Even when his day ended and he athlete, he still managed to participate demic influenza, and monkey pox, and was officially off-duty, if he were on his in school activities and sports while in has been part of multidisciplinary way home and an extra State trooper law school, even playing for the soccer teams working on the public health re- was needed, he would be there to help team during his final year and fin- sponse to the War on Terrorism, in- in any way that he could. ishing near the top of his class. cluding the response to anthrax at- Perhaps nothing exemplifies Scott’s After graduating in 1976, Dee spent a tacks, smallpox vaccine development, dedication, bravery, and heroism more few months playing professional soccer

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:47 Dec 09, 2020 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A08DE6.006 S08DEPT1 SSpencer on DSK126QN23PROD with SENATE S7278 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE December 8, 2020 with the Utah Golden Spikers of the Throughout the years, Dee retained December 8, 2020, he has signed the fol- American Soccer League, and then his passion for sports and zest for life. lowing enrolled bills, which were pre- turned to his law career. He started out He ran marathons, was an avid moun- viously signed by the Speaker of the in private practice, first at Marineau tain biker, and mastered every sport House: and Mack and then at Christensen and that caught his interest. He was a de- S. 910. An act to reauthorize and amend the Martineau. He would later be appointed voted father who, despite the many de- National Sea Grant College Program Act, to positions at the highest levels of law mands on his time, seemed to maintain and for other purposes. constant contact with each of his four S. 945. An act to amend the Sarbanes-Oxley by Presidents, Chief Justices, and Sen- Act of 2002 to require certain issuers to dis- ators. children, taking delight in every word close to the Securities and Exchange Com- He came to Washington first to work they uttered and every activity they mission information regarding foreign juris- as counsel for the Senate Judiciary pursued. dictions that prevent the Public Company Committee. Dee was then-Senator Even his cancer diagnosis would not Accounting Oversight Board from per- Orrin Hatch’s chief of staff for 2 years dampen his spirit or slow him down. forming inspections under that Act, and for and while there served as counsel on After being partially paralyzed and other purposes. the Iran-Contra Congressional Inves- bedridden this past May, by the end of S. 1069. An act to require the Secretary of the month he had returned to his Commerce, acting through the Adminis- tigating Committee. He worked as U.S. trator of the National Oceanic and Atmos- attorney from 1989 until 1991, when he chambers in Salt Lake City and had pheric Administration, to establish a con- was appointed by President George come into work as recently as last stituent-driven program to provide a digital H.W. Bush to serve on the U.S. District week—steadfast and strong until the information platform capable of efficiently Court for the District of Utah, where end. integrating coastal data with decision-sup- he served for nearly three decades. Judge Dee Benson was a true public port tools, training, and best practices and As Federal judge, he was appointed servant, a gift to Utah and to everyone to support collection of priority coastal who had the good fortune to meet him. geospatial data to inform and improve local, as one of the seven judges to the For- State, regional, and Federal capacities to eign Intelligence Surveillance Act For those of us who knew and loved Dee, the world will now seem incom- manage the coastal region, and for other Court by Chief Justice William purposes. Rehnquist, frequently flying to Wash- plete; but it has been an honor and a S. 1982. An act to improve efforts to com- ington to review requests for warrants blessing to call him a mentor and a bat marine debris, and for other purposes. ∑ and wiretaps against suspected spies friend. S. 4054. An act to reauthorize the United f States Grain Standards Act, and for other and terrorists. He was also appointed purposes. by Chief Justice John Roberts to serve MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT H.R. 3349. An act to authorize the Daugh- on the Judicial Conference of the A message from the President of the ters of the Republic of Texas to establish the United States, a policy-making body Republic of Texas Legation Memorial as a United States was communicated to commemorative work in the District of Co- within the Federal judicial system. the Senate by Ms. Ridgway, one of his Dee had a deep love of the law and lumbia, and for other purposes. secretaries. true impartiality as a jurist. In all of H.R. 3465. An act to authorize the Fallen f Journalists Memorial Foundation to estab- his duties, he never sought to impose lish a commemorative work in the District his own agenda but simply to get the EXECUTIVE MESSAGE REFERRED of Columbia and its environs, and for other law right—not according to his own In executive session the Presiding Of- purposes. personal beliefs or feelings but as he ficer laid before the Senate a message At 6:29 p.m., a message from the understood it. And as much as Dee from the President of the United House of Representatives, delivered by loved the law, he was loved by those States submitting a nomination which Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks around him. He brought kindness, was referred to the Committee on For- announced that the House has agreed humor, and fun to every environment. eign Relations. to the report of the committee of con- He was known to keep a bicycle in his (The message received today is print- ference on the disagreeing votes of the chambers and a dart board for his ed at the end of the Senate pro- two Houses on the amendment of the clerks. ceedings.) Senate to the bill (H.R. 6395) to author- I myself was lucky enough to have f him as my first boss when I clerked for ize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 him the year after I graduated from MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE for military activities of the Depart- law school. I learned more about the At 11:17 a.m., a message from the ment of Defense, for military construc- practice of law during that clerkship House of Representatives, delivered by tion, and for defense activities of the than I did during all 3 years of law Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, Department of Energy, to prescribe school combined. I will never forget announced that the House has passed military personnel strengths for such our countless conversations about the the following bill, without amendment: fiscal year, and for other purposes. law—deep dives on everything from S. 1153. An act to explicitly make unau- f compelled-speech doctrine , the cocon- thorized access to Department of Education MEASURES REFERRED spirator hearsay rule, and the require- information technology systems and the The following bill was read the first ments for authenticating so-called ‘‘an- misuse of identification devices issued by the Department of Education a criminal act. and the second times by unanimous cient documents’’ under the Federal consent, and referred as indicated: Rules of Evidence—in the courtroom The message also announced that the House has passed the following bill, H.R. 8428. An act to provide for temporary and in his chambers and sometimes protected status for residents of Hong Kong, even while mountain biking or during a with an amendment, in which it re- quests the concurrence of the Senate: and for other purposes; to the Committee on game of ping pong or darts. the Judiciary. S. 461. An act to strengthen the capacity Everyone at the courthouse—from f the prosecutors to the defense counsel, and competitiveness of historically Black colleges and universities through robust pub- ENROLLED BILLS PRESENTED from civil litigants to criminal defend- lic-sector, private-sector, and community ants, from probation officers to support partnerships and engagement, and for other The Secretary of the Senate reported staff—loved and learned daily from purposes. that on today, December 8, 2020, she Judge Benson. Despite his keen intel- The message further announced that had presented to the President of the lect and prominence, he was one of the the House has passed the following bill, United States the following enrolled most humble, genuine people I have in which it requests the concurrence of bills: ever known. He cared deeply about the the Senate: S. 910. An act to reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College Program Act, happiness of those around them and H.R. 8428. An act to provide for temporary and for other purposes. left everyone more happy and encour- protected status for residents of Hong Kong, S. 945. An act to amend the Sarbanes-Oxley and for other purposes. aged than when he found them. He Act of 2002 to require certain issuers to dis- treated each person who came into his ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED close to the Securities and Exchange Com- courtoom with dignity and respect, no The President Pro tempore (Mr. mission information regarding foreign juris- matter who you were. GRASSLEY) announced that on today, dictions that prevent the Public Company

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