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The Senate met at 2 p.m. and was and that the remainder of the consent When Reagan first sought the Presi- called to order by the Honorable CHRIS- remain in effect: Calendar No. 6 would dency, Laxalt managed his campaign, TOPHER A. COONS, a Senator from the be first; Calendar No. 3 would be sec- and when President Reagan worked State of . ond. down the street at the White House, The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- worked here as ’s PRAYER pore. Without objection, it is so or- senior Senator. It was a special rela- The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- dered. tionship, a unique relationship, one so fered the following prayer: f close that some called Senator Laxalt Let us pray. SCHEDULE the First Friend, and he was that. Lord God, the center of joy, thank I was fortunate enough to see first- Mr. REID. Mr. President, following You for the privilege of prayer. In a hand President Reagan’s appreciation leader remarks there be a period of world filled with change and decay, for Nevada. After talking to Nevadans morning business until 3 p.m. At 3 Lord, we are grateful that we can al- in Ely and across eastern Nevada, I p.m., the Senate will resume consider- came to the conclusion that I should ways call to You, the changeless one. ation of the Federal Aviation Adminis- Today we ask You to guide our law- drop some wilderness I was going to tration bill. There will be a short re- put in place and instead form a na- makers. Shine the light of Your wis- cess around 4:20 p.m. in order to wel- dom and truth upon their path. Give tional park. Nevada did not have a na- come the Prime Minister of Slovenia to tional park, and we would call it the them patience to wait for Your clear the Senate floor. At 4:30 the Senate guidance and courage to follow where Great Basin National Park. After I in- will turn to executive session to debate troduced that legislation and it passed, You lead. Remove pride from their concurrently three district court nomi- hearts and replace it with a spirit of President Reagan’s Secretary of Agri- nations. Those nominations are Paul culture recommended that he veto humility and unity. We pray in Your Holmes of Arkansas, Diana Saldana of great Name. Amen. what would be Nevada’s only national Texas, and Marco Hernandez of Oregon. park. The Agriculture Secretary did f At 5:30 there will be two rollcall votes not much like the idea of a young on confirmation of the Saldana and PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Member of Congress from the other po- Holmes nominations in the order that litical party putting such a bill on the The Honorable CHRISTOPHER A. COONS was just entered. led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: President’s desk. f I was worried about that. Word came I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the to me that the President was going to of America, and to the Repub- 100TH BIRTHDAY OF RONALD lic for which it stands, one nation under God, REAGAN veto this bill that was important to indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. REID. Mr. President, Ronald me. I asked for a meeting with his Su- perintendent of Parks, the National f Reagan’s second inauguration was the first one I attended as a Member of Parks Director. He had been the Super- APPOINTMENT OF ACTING Congress. It was bitterly cold that day. intendent of Parks for PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE While the temperatures sank into the when Reagan was Governor of Cali- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The single digits, Reagan became the first fornia. His name was Penn Mott. When clerk will please read a communication and only President to take the oath of he came to see me, he had been in the to the Senate from the President pro office in the Capitol Rotunda. service of our country in many dif- ferent ways. He was an elderly man tempore (Mr. INOUYE). He said in an indoor inaugural ad- The legislative clerk read the fol- dress: when he came to see me. I explained to lowing letter: History is a ribbon, always unfurling. His- him what was happening and that I was tory is a journey. And as we continue our told that President Reagan, upon rec- U.S. SENATE, journey, we think of those that traveled be- President pro tempore, ommendation of one of his Cabinet fore us. Washington, DC, February 7, 2011. members, was going to veto my bill. To the Senate: Yesterday would have been President That man looked at me and he said: Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, Reagan’s 100th birthday. Today, we President Reagan is not going to veto of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby think of President Reagan and how he that bill. He said, when I was a young appoint the Honorable CHRISTOPHER A. steered America’s travels through his- park ranger in 1928, , who COONS, a Senator from the State of Dela- tory’s journey. I first met President was a famous Nevada Senator, very ware, to perform the duties of the Chair. Reagan when he was Governor of Cali- close to President Roosevelt, sent me DANIEL K. INOUYE, President pro tempore. fornia. I was the Lieutenant Governor to Nevada to find a place for a national of Nevada. We met in Heavenly Valley, park. He said: That is my park. I am Mr. COONS thereupon assumed the on the Nevada side of , to the one who said it would go there. chair as Acting President pro tempore. watch the first annual ‘‘hot-dogging’’ That is where it should go, and it never f skiing championship. As I said, I first made it legislatively. But because of that meeting I had, and Ronald Rea- RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY met him and we had a wonderful visit. gan’s understanding of what politics is LEADER I enjoyed that day very much. His own travels took him not only to all about, he did not veto my bill. He The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Lake Tahoe in my State but through overruled his Secretary, and together, pore. The majority leader is recog- the entire State. ’s Ronald and Ronald Reagan cre- nized. Reagan was a close friend of Nevada’s. ated the Great Basin National Park. f In his earliest days as an actor, he en- It was not the last time President tertained crowds at the Last Frontier Reagan and I worked together to pre- ORDER OF PROCEDURE on the strip. Decades later, serve our West. I introduced legislation Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- the same week Ronald Reagan became that was important legislation. It in- imous consent that the order of the , Paul Laxalt be- volved two Indian tribes, two endan- votes scheduled at 5:30 be as follows, came Governor next door in Nevada. gered species, it involved Lake Tahoe,

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It is why The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- It was a very important piece of leg- he viewed the challenge of immigration pore. The Republican leader is recog- islation, but I got it passed. I got it through a practical lens. It is why he nized. passed here. Then it went to the House knew America could be strong and f and got passed. Again, President Rea- would be stronger still in a world with- COLOMBIA FREE TRADE gan’s advisers recommended he veto out nuclear weapons. AGREEMENT that bill. Part of it was because of who He was not perfect. I did not agree pushed the legislation through. But with many of his politics or policies. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, ear- President Reagan knew how important But I always admired the way he cap- lier today, the President spoke to the it was to Lake Tahoe, and one of his tured our country’s imagination. I al- Chamber of Commerce in what some assistants, , talked to him. ways respected his honest assessment have described as an effort to make Sig is a long-time Nevadan, worked of his strengths and limitations alike. nice with the business community. I very closely with President Reagan and He was somebody who could look at will leave others to analyze what the with President Bush, and he talked to himself and we would all smile a little speech means politically. The first con- him about this important legislation. bit. cern of the American people is what it It was not vetoed. He signed this bill in One time he was running for Gov- will mean for the economy. As I have spite of people recommending that this ernor of California and someone asked said before, what the President says not be signed. him: Do you think you will be a good matters a lot less than what he does. President Reagan’s help in ending Governor? He said: I do not know. I So we will just have to wait and see this water war meant a lot to me be- have never acted the part. whether the administration’s actions cause he knew that when That is who he was. He honestly as- support its rhetoric. And it is in that are all in this together, even local sessed who he was, his strengths and spirit that I would like to suggest one issues, even statewide issues, are all of limitations, and I admired the way he thing the President could do imme- our concern. I remember how he signed humbly surrounded himself with good, diately, with Republican support, to my bill to establish this park because smart people. show he is serious about jobs and the his view of that national park em- A century after his birth Ronald Rea- economy. He could work with us to bodied his vision of the Nation. gan’s legacy remains as enduring as pass free trade agreements with Colom- He never looked at the legislation as anyone who has ever unfurled the long bia and that have been lan- a map of red States and blue States ribbon of our Nation’s history. That guishing for years now. and purple States but as a landscape of legacy lives not merely in his policies, We welcome the President’s support States colored by green forests and and to honor it, it is not enough to try for the South Korea Free Trade Agree- brown deserts and clear waters. to apply his solutions of 30 years ago to ment which has earned strong bipar- My legislation, entitled the Nego- the problems we confront today; rath- tisan support. But by failing to show tiated Settlement, has changed that er, we should remember how he re- the same commitment in passing these part of the country. Lake Tahoe is bet- spected his colleagues and his constitu- two other free trade agreements, the ter off. The Indian tribes are better off. ents. We should try to emulate the con- President is missing out on an impor- We preserved a lake, Lake Pyramid. It fidence he communicated. tant opportunity to do something good was landmark legislation. It could not Ronald Reagan was a proud neighbor for the economy and for jobs. have been done without his signature. of Nevada, who united and motivated The President says he wants to dou- He knew when the Sun breached the us by reminding us that all Americans ble U.S. exports in 5 years. Free trade horizon each day, the morning that live in the same neighborhood. That is agreements with Colombia and Panama dawned in America was a morning for a lesson I still remember today. That is would go a long way toward meeting all Americans and for families of all a lesson I remember best about our that goal—and creating jobs here in backgrounds. He said in that second in- 40th President, Ronald Reagan. America—by opening markets in Latin America. augural address, ‘‘we have worked and f acted together, not as members of po- In my view, the time for delay on litical parties, but as Americans.’’ RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME these two agreements is over. The Ronald Reagan was a Republican The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- President needs to do more than prom- President from the West, who cher- pore. Under the previous order, the ise to ‘‘pursue’’ these agreements, as he ished a famously close friendship with leadership time is reserved. did today. He should work with Con- Tip O’Neill, a Democratic Speaker of f gress to pass these two agreements and the House from the East. Ronald sign them into law. Reagan was a patriot who created a MORNING BUSINESS This should be an easy one. Colombia friendship with , the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- is a strong strategic ally in South leader of a nation he called an Evil pore. Under the previous order, the America, and it has made great strides Empire. He would make certain Amer- Senate will be in a period of morning in addressing the concerns of labor ica could defend herself but quietly business until 3 p.m., with Senators union critics here in the U.S. It has sent a diplomatic team to start negoti- permitted to speak therein for up to 10 come a long way. We should not walk ating with the Soviet Union the minutes each. away from Colombia now. As for Pan- minute he took office. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest ama, our two nations have had strong Ronald Reagan knew politics has al- the absence of a quorum. strategic and economic ties for years. ways been and always will be about The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- This agreement would only strengthen compromise, and that compromise can pore. The clerk will call the roll. those bonds and build on them. only happen when politicians share The legislative clerk proceeded to As America sits on the sidelines, our personal relationships. He knew public call the roll. competitors around the world, includ- servants worked better as partners Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous ing the EU and Canada, are moving for- rather than partisans. And as much as consent that the order for the quorum ward to lower barriers to trade and in- he criticized government, he knew it call be rescinded. crease access for their businesses and

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