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January 19, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 473 By misinterpreting the general wel- Will only gold and silver be called lege it was to serve under his leader- fare clause, the interstate commerce legal tender? ship. clause, and the ‘‘necessary and proper’’ Will we end all of the unconstitu- With the , Sargent Shriv- clause, Congress has justified every tional Federal departments, including er took President ’s vision of conceivable expansion of the Federal the Department of Energy, Education, service and optimism and built it into Government. Congress also has mis- Agriculture, Commerce, Health and one of America’s best institutions. interpreted the 14th Amendment and Human Services, Homeland Security, After 3 years as Director of the agency, legislated as though it had repealed the and Labor? the Peace Corps had more than 6,500 10th Amendment. Sadly, Congress has Will the Patriot Act be repealed and volunteers serving in more than 50 de- also systematically abdicated its pre- all of the warrantless searches stopped? veloping countries. He once told me the rogatives and responsibilities to the ex- Will TSA be restrained or abolished? story that in those days, with the ecutive branch over many decades. Will the IRS’s unconstitutional col- President’s own budgeting, they were Too many people, in and out of Con- lection powers end? able to place Peace Corps volunteers in gress, grew up being taught that the Will executive and judicial quasi-leg- Latin America and Africa before Con- Constitution was malleable. This has islative powers be ended? gress ever got around to authorizing allowed judicial, legislative, and execu- Will we end the Federal war on the program. tive flexibility to make the Constitu- drugs? These volunteers showed the world tion ‘‘a modern living document.’’ Will we end the Federal Govern- the true American values of peace, Though the authors allowed for ‘‘flexi- ment’s involvement in medical care? prosperity, and opportunity that had bility’’ through the amendment proc- Will we end all of the Federal Gov- been eclipsed by the Cold War. ess, this process has been ignored for ernment’s illusionary insurance pro- Over the past 50 years, through war the sake of speed and convenience. grams? and conflict, Sarge’s foundational work Will we ban secret prisons, trials of the Peace Corps has enabled volun- b 1820 without due process, and assassina- teers to show the world a hopeful, up- As a result, the Constitution now has tions? lifting side of America that reflects our little meaning since most Members pay Will we end our foreign policy of in- fundamental values of service and tol- only lip service when taking their oath vasion and occupation? erance. to obey it. For America to once again become Today, Sarge’s legacy lives on in a But I am encouraged by our growing the standard for a free society, our love quarter million Americans who have grassroots interest in the Constitution, of liberty and desire for peace must far served as Peace Corps volunteers in 139 especially among the younger genera- surpass any public display of fidelity to countries around the world, all in the tion. I am glad Congress is becoming the Constitution. We must first look to name of peace and goodwill. aware of it. strong moral character, respect for the Beyond the Peace Corps, Sargent Our Constitution should be viewed as rule of law, and an understanding of Shriver was actively engaged in civic law, and Members of Congress should the proper role of government in a free society. He served as Ambassador to be expected to follow the rule of law. society. France; leader of the War on Poverty But a document is just that, and it is f as the first Director of the Office of only as good as the character of those Economic Opportunity, which began who represent us and promise to obey REMEMBERING the program, which began it. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a VISTA, Volunteers in Service to Amer- Distorted interpretations come easily previous order of the House, the gen- ica; and as a Vice Presidential can- when the goal is opposite of what the tleman from California (Mr. FARR) is didate. His touch can be found on some original authors intended and what the recognized for 5 minutes. of our Nation’s finest efforts, including plain text provides. Mr. FARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise to- the and racial inte- If true liberty is not our goal, per- night very sadly to talk a little bit gration. sistent efforts to rationalize misinter- about one of the greatest Americans of But above all, Sarge’s devotion to pretations and circumvent the Con- our generation, a true American hero, public service was beyond reproach. stitution will continue. in my view, Sargent Shriver. Like his wife, Eunice, who really start- Without men and women of character I really have to say I am also very ed the Special Olympics—and I might in Congress, respect for the rule of law upset that the Republican leadership add that the Special Olympics is now and a love of liberty, the Constitution wouldn’t allow for a moment of silence in more countries than is the Peace becomes but a worthless piece of paper. in today’s session for such a distin- Corps—I can’t think of a married cou- Celebrating the Constitution without guished American. ple in America who have done more this understanding will do nothing to I rise today in honor of his life and worldwide than Eunice Shriver and restore the greatness of America. legacy. Sargent Shriver to help people in need. Simply praising the document dis- I got to meet Sargent Shriver when I I will always hold my special memo- tracts from the need for Members to was a Peace Corps trainee in 1963, ries of sharing Peace Corps stories with gain the courage to resist special inter- about 22 years old in a small, little Sargent Shriver—or Sarge, as we called ests; political self-interests; emergency town in New Mexico, Questa, New Mex- him. At various events that honored needs in times of crisis; fear-based eco- ico, and I was in awe that I, as a train- the agency, we both got to speak. And nomic myths; and the persistent temp- ee, could meet the first Director of the one of my most significant moments of tation to seek security over liberty Peace Corps. my life was the privilege of being pre- while ignoring personal responsibility He embodied the relentless spirit of sented with a Peace Corps Public Serv- and self-reliance. public service that makes America ice Award in 2006 by Sargent Shriver. Providing instruction in the Con- great. He will forever hold a special To all who knew him, Sargent Shriv- stitution for staff and/or Members begs place in our country’s history. I re- er was a man of tremendous heart and the question: Who will be the teacher? member just the vitality and spirit vision who leaves behind a living leg- I wonder, will this welcomed renewed that he had that drove me to want to acy of service and hope. That legacy of interest in the Constitution lead to a be a Peace Corps volunteer at a time public service lives on in the lives of healthy reassessment of all of our poli- when nobody really knew what they his children. Their mother died in 2009, cies? did because they hadn’t come home but today we have daughter Maria, who Will there be no more wars without yet. It was a risk, an adventure, and I is the first lady of California. We have an actual congressional declaration? was really not sure that it was the best their four other children: son Robert Will the Federal Reserve Act be re- thing to do. And yet I look back with Shriver of Santa Monica, who is an ac- pealed? pride and admiration and what a privi- tivist in California; former Maryland

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:19 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00073 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\H19JA1.002 H19JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 474 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 January 19, 2011 delegate, Mark Shriver of Bethesda, ‘‘this building I just bought in ’’—it public. He emerged in one instance to attend Maryland; Tim Perry Shriver of Chevy was the , the largest com- the funeral of his wife of 56 years, Eunice Chase—both involved in Special Olym- mercial building in the world at the time. By Kennedy Shriver, a sister of John F. Ken- pics; and Anthony Paul Shriver of then he had met the forceful Eunice Ken- nedy; she died in 2009 in Hyannis, Mass., at nedy, one of Joe’s nine children, by whom he the age of 88. Miami. Most of all, they have 19 chil- had been immediately smitten, but she gave As a Kennedy -in-law, Mr. Shriver dren. him a hard time for years before they finally was bound inextricably to one of the nation’s Sargent Shriver’s life reminds us of the married, in 1953. most powerful political dynasties. It was an value of distinguished public service, and that There wasn’t a tough job that Sarge did association with enormous advantages, it is incumbent upon all of us to renew his vi- not do well. When John F. Kennedy asked thrusting him to prominence in a series of sion of a better America for future generations. him to run the Peace Corps, he joked that seemingly altruistic missions. But it came My thoughts and prayers are with his chil- J.F.K. had no choice but to give the job to a with handicaps, relegating him to the polit- dren and grandchildren and the entire Shriver brother-in-law due to its enormous potential ical background and to a subordinate role in for failure. A few years later, Jacqueline the family history. and Kennedy families. Kennedy asked Sarge to arrange her hus- ‘‘Shriver’s relationship with [From Vanity Fair, Jan. 19, 2011] band’s funeral, and he did so flawlessly. was complex,’’ Scott Stossel wrote in SARGENT SHRIVER’S LASTING IMPACT: AN After heading the Chicago school board and ‘‘Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent APPRECIATION becoming a leading civil-rights advocate, he Shriver,’’ a 2004 biography. ‘‘They buoyed (By Maureen Orth) was frequently mentioned as both an him up to heights and achievements he At a Saint Patrick’s Day party at the gubernatorial and senate candidate. In 1964, would never otherwise have attained—and White House during Clinton’s first term, I Lyndon Johnson very much wanted Sarge to they held him back, thwarting his political bumped into Sargent Shriver and introduced be his running mate, but the Kennedys said advancement.’’ him to my husband as ‘‘the George Wash- absolutely not—it was Bobby’s turn first. The book, as well as reports in The New ington of the Peace Corps.’’ Shriver cor- Then it was Teddy’s turn. York Times, and other rected me. ‘‘No,’’ he said, holding out his Sarge loved running the very popular publications, suggested that Mr. Shriver’s arm waist high. ‘‘George Washington was Peace Corps, but he reluctantly quit when hopes to run for governor of Illinois in 1960 here.’’ Then he raised his arm above his head L.B.J. twisted his arm to head the War on and vice president in 1964 and 1968 were aban- and said, ‘‘In the Peace Corps, I’m here!’’ He Poverty. Democrat George McGovern turned doned to help promote, or at least not com- laughed so easily and so frequently, and he to Sarge to run with him as vice president, pete with, Kennedy aspirations. Mr. Shriv- had such enthusiasm and energy, that he in 1972, after Tom Eagleton dropped out er’s vice-presidential race in 1972, on a ticket made the idea of service pure fun. And he when it was revealed that he had undergone with Senator George S. McGovern, and a was right about where he stood with so many psychiatric treatment, but they lost big- brief primary run for president in 1976 were of us former Peace Corps volunteers—he was time. Sarge also served as ambassador to crushed by the voters. our founding father, an icon. All you had to France, and in the last decades of his life he Mr. Shriver was never elected to any na- do was utter his name—Sarge—and it imme- and Eunice founded the Special Olympics tional office. To political insiders, his calls diately stood for giving your all and being and made it a worldwide force for the intel- for public service in the 1960s seemed quix- your best. lectually disabled. He was the kind of hus- otic at a time when America was caught up I was recruited into the Peace Corps at age band who seriously thought his wife should in a war in Vietnam, a cold war with the So- 20, right off the Berkeley campus, by a loud be canonized by the ; Sarge viet Union and civil rights struggles and southern guy with a bullhorn—he was to be- himself was so devout that even as he was urban riots at home. But when the fogs of come the NBC reporter Douglas Kiker (years ravaged by Alzheimer’s in his later years, war and chaos cleared years later, he was re- later we met as colleagues). Sarge had the the two things he never forgot were his pray- membered by many as a last vestige of Ken- ability to bring together all sorts of talented ers and his manners. ‘‘You’re a good looking nedy-era idealism. and sometimes offbeat people, and to con- kid,’’ he said to my son a few years ago as he ‘‘Sarge came to embody the idea of public vince them to try something they weren’t stuck out his hand in greeting. ‘‘Are you my service,’’ President Obama said in a state- really planning to do. son?’’ ment. I served in the Peace Corps for two years in I loved spending time with Sarge—he was a Mr. Shriver’s impact on American life was Medellin, Colombia, and have remained in- wonderful father to Bobby, Maria, Tim, significant. On the stage of social change for volved with the community. I was in Mark, and , all of whom decades, he brought President Kennedy’s Medellin last week to help set up a third have distinguished themselves in service to proposal for the Peace Corps to fruition in school for poor kids that is run by a founda- others. For years they had to share him with 1961 and served as the organization’s director tion I created several years ago to provide thousands of Peace Corps volunteers for until 1966. He tapped into a spirit of vol- students at all three schools with computers whom he was both a touchstone and an ideal- unteerism, and within a few years thousands and training in English and leadership. It is ized father figure. It is hard to believe that of young Americans were teaching and work- a way for me to continue the work I did in today we can no longer have Sarge among ing on public health and development the Peace Corps, and I thank Sarge for giv- us, exhorting us to ‘‘serve, serve, serve!’’ projects in poorer countries around the ing me the means to get along in exotic world. [From , Jan. 18, 2011] places, to speak Spanish, and to be a much After the president’s assassination in 1963, better journalist, because I learned in the R. SARGENT SHRIVER, PEACE CORPS LEADER, Mr. Shriver’s decision to remain in the John- Peace Corps how to observe acutely and to DIES AT 95 son administration alienated many of the understand issues from other people’s points (By Robert D. McFadden) Kennedys, especially Robert, who remained of view. R. Sargent Shriver, the Kennedy in-law as the attorney general for Sarge was both brilliant and selfless—too who became the founding director of the months but whose animus toward his broth- selfless, some might argue, when it came to Peace Corps, the architect of President Lyn- er’s successor was profound. Mr. Shriver’s re- his own political career. His parents were don B. Johnson’s war on poverty, a United sponsibilities deepened, however. In 1964, Catholic intellectuals from aristocratic States ambassador to France and the Demo- Johnson persuaded him to take on the ad- Maryland stock. They lost their money dur- cratic candidate for vice president in 1972, ministration’s war on poverty, a campaign ing the Depression and ended up running a died on Tuesday in Bethesda, Md. He was 95. embodied in a vast new bureaucracy, the Of- Catholic bookstore where the ideas of social His family announced his death in a state- fice of Economic Opportunity. activists such as Sarge’s heroine, Dorothy ment. From 1965 to 1968, Mr. Shriver, who dis- Day, were profoundly influential. Sarge man- Mr. Shriver was found to have Alzheimer’s dained bureaucracies as wasteful and ineffi- aged to go to Yale for both his under- disease in 2003 and on Sunday was admitted cient, was director of that agency, a post he graduate and law degrees, but he was often to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, where he held simultaneously with his Peace Corps job like the proverbial kid with his nose pressed died. He had been in hospice care in recent until 1966. The agency created antipoverty against the candy-store —although months after his estate in Potomac, Md., was programs like Head Start, the , he was drop-dead handsome, everybody else sold last year. Volunteers in Service to America, the Com- had a lot more goodies. White-haired and elegantly attired, he at- munity Action Program and Legal Services After serving heroically in World War II as tended the inauguration of his son-in-law, for the Poor. (The Office of Economic Oppor- a naval gunnery officer—he was a deadly , as the Republican tunity was dismantled in 1973, but many of marksman whose ship, in one Pacific battle, governor of California in the fall of 2003. Mr. its programs survived in other agencies.) shot down 32 Japanese planes in three Schwarzenegger is married to , In 1968, Johnson named Mr. Shriver ambas- hours—Sarge dropped law to become an as- a former NBC News correspondent. sador to France. It was a time of strained re- sistant editor at . During that job But in recent years, as his condition dete- lations. President Charles de Gaulle had rec- he met Joe Kennedy, who asked him to run riorated, Mr. Shriver was seldom seen in ognized Communist China, withdrawn

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French forces from NATO’s integrated mili- Francis Spellman at St. Patrick’s Cathedral woman from Florida (Ms. ROS- tary command and denounced American in- in New York in 1953. LEHTINEN) is recognized for 5 minutes. volvement in Indochina. But Mr. Shriver es- In addition to his daughter, Maria, Mr. Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I Shriver’s survivors include four sons, Robert tablished a working rapport with de Gaulle rise tonight to recognize a great orga- and was credited with helping to improve re- Sargent Shriver III of Santa Monica, Calif.; lations. Timothy, of Chevy Chase, Md.; Mark, of Be- nization that has helped so many dis- Mr. Shriver returned to the United States thesda, Md.; and Anthony, of Miami; and 19 abled individuals: the Walkabout Foun- in 1970 to work for Democrats in the mid- grandchildren. dation. This terrific organization was term elections and to reassess his own polit- Mr. Shriver’s relationships with the Ken- founded by siblings Luis and Carolina ical prospects. His long-awaited break came nedys were widely analyzed by the news Gonzalez-Bunster. media, not least because of his own political two years later when Senator McGovern, the Sixteen years ago when he was 18 Democratic presidential nominee, picked potential. He looked like a movie star, with him as his running mate. Mr. McGovern’s a flashing smile, dark hair going gray and years old, Luis was in a car accident first choice, Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, the kind of muscled, breezy athleticism that that left him paralyzed from the chest was dropped after revelations that he had re- went with tennis courts and sailboats. Like down. Luis was not going to allow this ceived electroshock therapy for depression. the Kennedys, he was charming but not self- tragedy to define him or limit his abil- The McGovern-Shriver ticket lost in a revealing, a quick study but not reflective. ity to lead a full life. Just a few Associates said he could be imperious, but landslide to the incumbent Republicans, months after his accident, Luis moved Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew. Four his knightly public image became indelible. He took root in Chicago. In 1954, he was ap- to south Florida and enrolled at my years later, Mr. Shriver ran for the Demo- alma mater, the University of Miami. cratic presidential nomination, pledging a pointed to the city’s Board of Education, and a year later became its president. In 1955, he renewal of ethics after the Watergate scan- Soon after, Luis started driving again also became president of the Catholic Inter- dal that drove Nixon from the White House. and began to live on his own. racial Council, which fought discrimination But Mr. Shriver was knocked out in the pri- Leading an active lifestyle, which in- in housing, education and other aspects of maries and ended his political career. city life. By 1959, he had become so promi- cluded being an avid swimmer, Luis In later years, he was a rainmaker for an nent in civic affairs that he was being touted took advantage of the University of international law firm, Fried, Frank, Harris, as a Democratic candidate for governor of Il- Miami’s extensive and accessible facili- Shriver & Jacobson, retiring in 1986. He was linois in 1960. ties. However, during a trip to the Con- also active in the Special Olympics, founded Mr. Shriver did nothing to discourage re- by his wife for mentally disabled athletes, necticut YMCA a couple of years ago, ports that he was considering a run. But Luis could not access the indoor swim- and he continued his work with the Sargent with the rest of the Kennedy clan, he joined Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, an John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential cam- ming pool, so Luis and Carolina de- advocacy organization he founded in Chicago paign. As he and other family members ac- cided to take action. in 1967 as the National Clearinghouse for knowledged later, the patriarch, Joseph Ken- Not only did they promote awareness Legal Services. nedy, had told him that a separate Shriver of paralysis and disabilities in their In 1994, President awarded Mr. race that year would be a distraction. So he community, but they also made the Shriver the Presidential Medal of Freedom. resigned from the Chicago school board and Ten years earlier, President Connecticut YMCA accessible for all became a campaign coordinator in Wisconsin the disabled. conferred the same award on Eunice Shriver. and West Virginia and a principal contact They were the only husband and wife to win with minorities. b 1830 the nation’s highest civilian honor individ- As the election approached, the campaign ually. learned that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Out of this victory, the Walkabout In 2008, PBS broadcast a documentary, King Jr. had been sentenced in Georgia to Foundation was born. ‘‘American Idealist: The Story of Sargent four months of hard labor for what amounted The Walkabout Foundation’s mission Shriver.’’ A children’s book by Maria Shriv- to a minor traffic violation. Mr. Shriver sug- is twofold: first, to actively pursue a er, ‘‘What’s Happening to Grandpa?,’’ was gested that Senator Kennedy call a dis- cure for paralysis by helping fund re- published in 2004, explaining the effects of traught , who was terri- search programs; and, second, to pro- Alzheimer’s disease. In May 2009, HBO pre- fied that her husband might be killed in pris- sented a four-part documentary on Alz- on. His reassuring call, and another by Rob- vide wheelchairs to those who cannot heimer’s. Ms. Shriver was the executive pro- ert F. Kennedy to a judge in Georgia that led afford one. ducer of one segment, ‘‘Grandpa, Do You to Dr. King’s release, helped produce a wind- The foundation’s unique efforts have Know Who I Am?’’ fall of black support for Kennedy. garnered widespread support and atten- Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., known as Senator Kennedy broached the idea for a tion. What makes the Walkabout Foun- Sarge from childhood, was born in West- volunteer corps in a speech at the University dation singular is its drive to make minster, Md., on Nov. 9, 1915, the son of his of Michigan and crystallized it as the Peace sure that disabled individuals continue namesake, a banker, and Hilda Shriver. His Corps in an appearance in San Francisco. Mr. forebears, called Schreiber, immigrated from Shriver, who as a young man had guided to lead full and active lives. This is due in 1721. One ancestor, David Shriv- American students on work-and-learn pro- to Luis’ character and unyielding belief er, was a signer of Maryland’s 1776 Constitu- grams in Europe, seemed a natural to ini- that people should not be victims of tion. The Shrivers, like the Kennedys, were tiate it. their circumstances. Roman Catholics and socially prominent, After the inauguration, Mr. Shriver, who The Walkabout Foundation has not but not especially affluent. scouted talent for the incoming administra- limited its services and generosity to tion—people who came to be known as ‘‘the On scholarships, he attended Canterbury, a just our Nation. Last month, the foun- Catholic boarding prep school in New Mil- best and the brightest’’—was assigned to the ford, Conn.—John F. Kennedy was briefly a task of designing the Peace Corps, which was dation provided 200 wheelchairs to schoolmate—and , grad- established by executive order in March 1961. Haiti in addition to the 400 they had al- uating with honors in 1938. He earned a Yale As director, he laid the foundations for ready donated last year. law degree in 1941 and joined the Navy short- what arguably became the most lasting ac- As someone who has seen the devas- ly before the attack on Pearl Harbor, becom- complishment of the Kennedy presidency. As tation and the human tragedy that has ing an officer on battleships and submarines the Peace Corps approaches its 50th anniver- befallen the poor island nation of Haiti in the Atlantic and the Pacific and winning sary this year, more than 200,000 Americans have served as corps volunteers in 139 coun- since last year’s tragic earthquake, I a for wounds he sustained at know the impact and benefit the ef- . tries. After the war, he joined Newsweek as an Break mirrors, Mr. Shriver advised grad- forts of Luis and Carolina will bring to editor. He met Eunice Kennedy at a dinner uating students at Yale in 1994. ‘‘Yes, in- help the lives of so many disabled indi- party, and she introduced him to her father, deed,’’ he said. ‘‘Shatter the glass. In our so- viduals in Haiti. Joseph P. Kennedy. In 1946, Joseph Kennedy ciety that is so self-absorbed, begin to look They have also provided 100 wheel- hired him to help manage his recently ac- less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor chairs to the Dominican Republic. quired Merchandise Mart in Chicago, then and less about your own.’’ These wheelchairs will go to children, the world’s largest commercial building. In teenagers and adults afflicted by paral- f Chicago, Mr. Shriver not only turned a profit ysis, polio, cerebral palsy, muscular for the mart but also plunged into Demo- THE WALKABOUT cratic politics. dystrophy, as well as to amputees. After a seven-year courtship, Mr. Shriver The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a I commend Luis, Carolina and their and Ms. Kennedy were married by Cardinal previous order of the House, the gentle- Walkabout Foundation for all that

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