July 27, 2021 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5091 The champions representing America I just want to share a couple He said: No. We have done it for sev- have taken Tokyo by storm. We have thoughts, if I could. I see the Senator eral years. won 25 medals, 9 gold medals so far. from Oklahoma is here to speak after I said: No kidding? But earlier today, we received word me, and I will be brief. He said: No kidding. that one of our great athletes, Simone I think maybe one of the last bills And, you know, when I think about Biles, was taking a step back from to- that Mike Enzi introduced, I was privi- that, I know we are going through a day’s competition. In announcing her leged to cosponsor with him. It was a tough patch right now with infrastruc- decision, she cited the need to ‘‘focus postal naming bill. We do those from ture and trying to figure out how to on my mental health and not jeop- time to time, as the Presiding Officer put together a bipartisan package with ardize my health and wellbeing.’’ knows. There is a post office in Wyo- water and water infrastructure, roads, There is no doubt that this is one of ming that under the bill would be highways, bridges, broadband, intercity the hardest decisions Ms. Biles has had named after the late father of Bobbi passenger rail, transit, and it is not to make in her young life, but it is not Barrasso, Senator ’s easy. It is not easy. only what she viewed as the right deci- wife. Her dad had served in the mili- As I heard about Mike’s death today, sion, it was a courageous decision. tary—I believe in World War II and the I thought about that spirit, the 80–20 She is the most decorated gymnast in Korean war, as I recall—with great rule. Maybe we can take a little bit of America’s history. She is an inspira- honor and courage. He was awarded a that and use that to get us across the tion to millions of aspiring athletes number of military awards, I think in- finish line on the legislation that is and fans around the globe. And she is cluding the Bronze Star, maybe the being worked on. I hope so. It is an im- by all means a living legend. But she is Purple Heart and others. I was privi- portant bill, and it is important legis- also a human, a young woman who leged to cosponsor that bill, and it got lation. A lot of people in this country today had the courage to step forward passed in wrap-up in Congress last De- are counting on us to do that. and share her humanity with the cember. On a personal note, you can’t think world. She is an inspiration to all of us, One of my first memories of serving of Mike Enzi without thinking of his on or off the mat, in competition or in the U.S. Senate also involved Mike wife Diana. They were inseparable. not in competition. Enzi. I was the Presiding Officer sitting They were here. They were in Over the past 18 months, the pan- right where you are sitting, Mr. Pre- and traveling all over the State to- demic has compelled each of us to ap- siding Officer, and Mike Enzi took the gether. As popular as he was, she might preciate our common humanity. floor and began to speak. He talked have been even more popular. I know COVID–19 has claimed the lives of too about something called the 80–20 rule, that is the case in my State with my many friends and family members. It and I didn’t know what he was talking wife and me. has prevented us from coming together about. I heard several iterations of an But I just want to say to her and to with people we cherish, and it has put 80–20 rule. But I listened to him talk. the Enzi family just a real thank-you many of our plans on hold. It has He talked a bit about how he and Ted for sharing not just with the people of caused and compounded unimaginable Kennedy, one of the most liberal Sen- Wyoming, but the people of this coun- stress, and it has exacted an unimagi- ators in the Senate, and Mike Enzi, one try, a very, very good man—a very nable toll. Job loss, not enough food on of the more conservative Members of good man. We are grateful for that gift the table, hardship, paying bills, racial the Senate, how they managed to work that you shared with us and mourn his injustice, all of these stressors on life together and get a lot done as senior death, untimely; he died too soon. I have been magnified. members of what would become the feel thrilled and privileged to have So if we can learn from Simone Biles’ Health, Education, Labor, and Pen- served with him. example today, it is that everyone has sions Committee, the HELP Com- With that, I yield the floor. a burden to carry, and the pandemic mittee, here in the Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- has made many of these burdens heav- I didn’t know Mike Enzi. I was brand ator from Oklahoma. ier, especially for working families. new here, and he had been here a cou- NOMINATION OF TRACY STONE-MANNING I happen to think we have a responsi- ple of years before that. bility—if we can—to help each other Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, a few When he was finishing up, I asked weeks ago, President Biden nominated carry those burdens. Here in Congress, one of the pages to give him a note. we—as lawmakers—have the power to Tracy Stone-Manning to be the leader The note said: Dear Senator Enzi, be- of the Bureau of Land Management. help people. For the single mother who fore you leave the floor, would you lost her job waiting tables because of Many people in my State don’t know come and chat with me? much about the Bureau of Land Man- the pandemic, we have the power to I was sitting right there. It was a help her pay her utility bills. For the agement. We don’t have a lot of areas slow day, so he finished up, and he actually managed in our State by recent graduate struggling to afford came up to chat with me while I was student loan payments and health in- BLM. It has more than 10,000 employ- sitting—presiding as Presiding Officer. ees. It manages roughly an eighth of surance, we have the power to make I said: Mike, what is the 80–20 rule, their life more affordable. For the the Nation’s land, including 65 million and how does it apply here? acres of our forests. The land holds 30 owner of a coffee shop who is consid- He talked about his relationship with percent of our minerals. Whoever leads ering laying off employees to stay in . He said: Ted Kennedy is this entity leads the issue of how we business, we have the power to help one of the most liberal Democrats in are managing our forests, how we are him keep those employees on the pay- the Senate, and I am one of the more handling our minerals, how we are han- roll. To me, this is what President conservative Republicans. He said: We dling our energy development, live- Biden’s plan to build back better is all get a lot done. about: eliminating the daily stressors And they really did. It was a very stock grazing, recreation, and, yes, that keep people up all night, giving productive committee. timber harvesting. people some breathing room so that I said: How does the 80–20 rule work? The individual President Biden nomi- they can focus on the things that real- He said: Ted and I agree on about 80 nated we now know was an Earth First! ly matter. percent of the issues that come before ecoterrorist. She actually typed out, as I yield the floor. our committee, and we disagree maybe she has admitted in the past, a threat- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- on another 20 percent. He said: What he ening letter that was sent out to lead- ator from Delaware. and I have agreed to do is just—we ers who were doing forestry in Idaho, REMEMBERING MIKE ENZI focus on the 80 percent where we agree, saying in her letter that she typed Mr. CARPER. Mr. President, like all and we just say the other 20 percent, out—and she has admitted that she of our colleagues, I was stunned to we will set that aside and take it up typed out the threatening letter—that wake up this morning and find out that another day. ‘‘we,’’ as she put it, drove 500 pounds of our friend and colleague Mike Enzi had I said: Is that what you do? spikes into the trees in the Idaho forest been killed in a tragic accident, I think He said: Yes. and then threatened them, to say: If involving a bicycle, and I think we are I said: Is this something you just you harvest those trees, it will not be still reeling from that. started doing recently? good for you.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:21 Jul 28, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G27JY6.032 S27JYPT1 ctelli on DSK11ZRN23PROD with SENATE S5092 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE July 27, 2021 The challenge that we have here is And it is not just spiking trees. It has I saw Mike via Zoom just last week that we have an individual who has ad- also been her environmental issues at the Senate prayer breakfast. Mike mitted that she actually was a part of about grazing land—understanding the got up a little earlier than the rest of a group to do tree spiking. Now, what Bureau of Land Management is respon- us to be able to join us over the inter- we don’t know is if she actually drove sible for millions of acres of grazing net from Wyoming. But he liked par- a spike. We have no idea. But we do pastureland across the West. Because ticipating in the prayer breakfast. And know that she turned evidence on the the Federal Government owns so much as we were reminded by some of our other people who did and admitted as a land across the West, many ranchers colleagues—I think Senator LANKFORD part of her plea bargain that she is the actually then lease out some of that may have mentioned it—Mike could al- one who actually did the letter from a land for grazing. She has been out- ways be depended on if somebody was a rented typewriter to be able to make spoken as an opponent against this. last-minute cancellation, which hap- sure she couldn’t be traced and even in That is not going to help our ranchers pened from time to time. the letter said: If you find me, it would across the West. Of course, it had only been a matter be ‘‘your worst nightmare.’’ And what was most stark to me was of a few months since Mike had retired, So what do we do about this? Typi- this presentation that she had years marking the conclusion of a storied ca- cally, when you are going to deal with ago, where she designed several of what reer in public service. Mike literally the person who handles forestry for the she considered to be environmental-fo- did it all. He served in the military and and the Bureau of Land cused advertisements, this being one of at every level of government, from the Management and you find out this per- them where she has a picture of a mayor’s office in Gillette to the State son has been involved in tree spiking, young girl, and the heading is: ‘‘Can legislature, to here in the U.S. Senate. which actually is designed to injure or you find the environmental hazard in And he always put the people of Wyo- kill people who are logging or people this photo?’’ And then she lists out at the bottom ming first. who are actually harvesting the lumber Mike was pretty unique in this place of it: ‘‘That’s right. It’s the cute baby in the sawmills and actually processing because he never sought the spotlight. that’s the environmental hazard.’’ that lumber, it would cause a pause. With this statement below that, she In many ways, it seemed like he was I cannot imagine what it is going to wrote: ‘‘We breed more than any other allergic to getting any sort of atten- be if she is actually confirmed in this industrialized nation.’’ tion from the press or otherwise. position, and the individuals who come Listen, I understand every President Whether he was in the midst of a high- to her to get a permit to be able to do has the right to pick their team, but pressure negotiation or celebrating a any kind of forestry work, because when the leader of the Bureau of Land big legislative victory, Mike did not they would have to actually come to Management considers this little girl run to the TV cameras or reporters in her office, what they would think when to be an environmental hazard, have the hallways. He preferred to work they actually walked through the door, we not crossed a threshold of saying quietly behind the scenes, effectively because the Bureau of Land Manage- our problem with our environment is resolving differences in a quiet, ment notices timber sales and signs off that we have too many little girls? thoughtful way. And once he suc- on timber sales for the country. The Honestly, is anyone else disturbed by ceeded, he didn’t claim the credit for Bureau of Land Management is the one this as a possibility to lead the Bureau himself. He claimed credit for others. that makes forest product sale plans. of Land Management, to make a deci- During Mike’s 24 years in the Senate, The Bureau of Land Management is the sion about how we are going to manage he certainly had a lot of successes to one that develops, maintains, and re- our forests, how we are going to handle celebrate, and he let me in on his win- vises the plans for all public manage- our grazing land, and what is going to ning formula not long after I got here. ment, including identifying areas for be the general attitude about permit- At the time, he and the liberal lion of timber sales. In fact, the Bureau of ting and people? the Senate, Teddy Kennedy, were Land Management is also the group Because, apparently, from what she chairman and ranking member of the who sends in the firefighters to the wrote, one of the biggest environ- Health, Education, Labor, and Pen- wildfires to be able to put out the fires, mental hazards we have as a country is sions Committee. I think they may which could be including some of these we breed too much. have swapped out as majorities same trees in the days ahead that ap- I don’t think that little girl is a haz- changed; one became chairman, and parently still have the spikes in them ard. I think it is a little girl. And I will the other became ranking member. from decades ago. Understanding this absolutely oppose Tracy Stone-Man- But I asked him how Mike, the is not just a loose issue. Individuals ning to lead the Bureau of Land Man- staunch Western conservative that he from the Biden administration just re- agement. And I would ask my col- was, could work so productively with cently have talked about how timber leagues, even one of my colleagues on somebody who shared very different harvesters and haulers are critical to the other side, to say: Do you not see a views. And he told me it is easy. It is forest management across the country. problem with this nominee? the 80–20 rule. You are not going to If so, let’s find another person. Sure- We need these individuals to help with agree or disagree with 100 percent of ly there is another Democrat out there our forest management. We have what someone has to say, but if you who doesn’t have this set of views, who wildfires in the areas that individuals can lead our forestry, our grazing area, focus on the 20 percent or that that you in the Biden administration have testi- and our mineral rights. Surely there is will never agree on, you overlook the fied because we are actually not main- one more Democrat who is out there 80 percent that you can agree on. taining our forest management enough. somewhere who does not share these Well, as simple as it may sound, it is We are not doing enough harvesting views, because I don’t think that little a winning formula for success here in and thinning in those areas, and so it is girl is a hazard. I think she is a bless- the Senate, and more of us should prac- actually a problem. ing. tice the 80–20 rule. At a time when In fact, Christopher French, the Dep- With that, I yield the floor. more attention is paid to what divides uty Chief of the National Forest Sys- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- us than what unites us, I hope the leg- tem, recently testified the Forest Serv- ator from Texas. acy of Mike Enzi and the 80–20 rule will ice research indicates we need to dra- Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask remain a constant in the Senate. matically increase the extent of im- unanimous consent to be able to speak As we honor the life and legacy of pact of fuels treatment, such as for 5 minutes and, following me, the our good friend, Mike Enzi, there is an- thinning, harvesting, planting, and pre- Senator from Wyoming be able to other favorite saying of his that has scribed burning across all landscapes. speak for 8 minutes. been on my mind. He used to say: You But yet the leader for the Bureau of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without have to have an attitude of gratitude. Land Management who has been rec- objection, it is so ordered. Well, Mike was always grateful— ommended is an individual who has REMEMBERING MIKE ENZI grateful to God, grateful to live in this been outspoken in opposition, so much Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I rise to great country, grateful to the people of so that she has been active in actually speak about the life and legacy of our Wyoming for the opportunity to serve promoting spiking trees. friend, Mike Enzi, and his sudden loss. them, and, of course, grateful for his

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