December 8, 2006 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11601 In that first campaign, I was a polit- know. That is where her values come be devastating to the United States, or ical novice. I was the underdog. I had from. That is where her sunny smile any country—ask Great Britain. They no political experience whatsoever. comes from. That is where her work will tell you. They signed onto the The pundits said I didn’t have a fight- ethic comes from. I can only imagine Kyoto Accord. In fact, if you look at ing chance. But Emily had faith in our how proud of her accomplishments her some of the countries, such as Canada, vision. She moved from Washington dad Clarence is, her sister Ellen, and 60 scientists who were advisers to the back home to Tennessee to join our her brother Ernie, and how proud her Prime Minister of Canada are saying if fledgling campaign. She believed in our mother Josephine would be, too. we had known back in the late 1990s mission. Clarence, you did good. You did well. the science of today, we would never When we set up our 24-hour-a-day Emily’s service to the Senate will have done that. Now they are peti- campaign headquarters over a res- surely be missed. As an institution, we tioning the Prime Minister to get out taurant in Nashville, Emily was there can only hope that she again returns to of the Kyoto Protocol. almost 24 hours a day. When I opened our body as she did after her service to It was kind of interesting. Al Gore, my first official Senate office, she was another Tennessee majority leader, who really believed this was his ticket there. And now, as I—as we all—carry Howard Baker. Yes. In fact, Emily Rey- to the White House back when he was our last boxes out of our offices and nolds worked in the very Republican the Vice President of the United out of this majority leader’s suite, she Leader’s office which I now occupy, States, went to a guy named Tom is there standing with me. from 1980 to 1984, where she worked for Quigley, a scientist, and said we would She served as my deputy campaign then chief of staff Jim Cannon, chief of like to know if all the countries—this director back in 1994, and as my state staff for Howard Baker. is back when they were trying to get us director at home in Tennessee, and as I cannot tell you how thankful I am in the United States to ratify the my campaign manager for my reelec- having had her at my side for the past Kyoto Protocol—said if all the coun- tion campaign in 2000, as chief of staff 13 years. She is a true friend and a tries of the developed world were to do of my Tennessee office here in Wash- trusted adviser. I cannot think of any- this, what effect would that have on ington, and for the past 4 years, she has one more fittingly described by Lin- the temperature over a 50-year period. served all 100 Senators as the 31st Sec- coln’s words. He had a neat chart to hold up. He said retary of the Senate. Great things lie ahead for Emily Rey- if all the countries in the developed To this day, the range of Emily’s ca- nolds. The sky is the limit. And while world, the United States of America pabilities astounds me. She is a gen- I don’t know exactly what direction and all the other developed nations did uine people person. People love her. she will travel, I am certain that, as al- this, over 50 years it would reduce the People are attracted to her warm per- ways, the people of Tennessee and the temperature by 6/100ths of 1 degree cen- sonality. She makes you smile. She entire United States of America will tigrade, which isn’t even measurable. makes you laugh. benefit. Now all these people agree with And what versatility. She is com- f that—all of the scientists who used to fortable shooting the breeze with farm- be on the other side of the issue. CLIMATE CHANGE ers down in rural Tennessee. But she is One of the witnesses there was a just as comfortable walking the Halls Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, the paleoclimate researcher, Bob Carter of the Senate and the Congress with hearing we had 3 days ago in the Envi- from Australia, the James Cook Uni- Senators, with diplomats and foreign ronment and Public Works Committee versity. He has gone back to Australia. heads of state. No matter what the sit- is one of the four hearings we have had Everyone recognizes him as being one uation, whether it is singing on the on climate change. It is probably the of the outstanding—in fact, he has been stage of the Grand Old Opry or stand- most misunderstood of all issues out on quite a few TV shows. He says there ing on the floor of the Senate, Emily’s there today—and the most alarming to is a huge uncertainty in every aspect of passion for people shines through that a lot of people. This hearing was to- climate change. warm smile. tally different. This hearing was about David Deming, a geophysicist, said: But beyond possessing the rare capa- how the media is skewing the results, Every natural disaster that occurs is now bility of being able to set just about how the media is hyping the anxiety of linked [by the media] with global warming, anybody at ease, Emily is a talented this thing and totally ignoring the no matter how tenuous or impossible the administrator. She juggles the de- science. connection. As a result, the public has be- mands of all 100 Senators, Democrat It is kind of interesting. A lot of peo- come vastly misinformed on this and other and Republican alike, and their staffs, ple are not aware that when you have environmental issues. a thankless task, while always wearing a hearing, you will have Republicans That is a significant thing. While we a friendly smile. She is loved and re- and Democrats each bringing in ex- recognize that we are going through a spected by Members on both sides of perts. We had five experts; two of them natural period where the climate is the aisle. were brought in by the Democrats and getting warmer, it was actually warm- Under her direction, the Senate has three by the Republicans. er in the 1930s than it is today. It was benefited from an ambitious overhaul It was interesting because one of the warmer in the fifteenth century than of our computer systems, bringing Democrat witnesses, Dr. Daniel Schrag today. them up to date with the latest in mod- of Harvard, believes that manmade But during this period of time, they ern technology. emissions are driving global warming. are trying to say it is due to man-emit- Emily humbly describes her job as Let me clarify this because it is not ted gases. They are called ‘‘making the trains run on time.’’ That understood by very many people. antigeometric gases, methane, CO2. is true. But it doesn’t give the com- The issue is not that the world is get- Now they are all realizing that CO2 has plete picture of who she is or what she ting warmer. Yes. It is. It is always ei- virtually nothing to do with it, and does. Within the Senate, she has fos- ther getting warmer or cooling. There that is why you are seeing so much of tered a stable environment of mutual is never any time when it is static. the panic in the media. Dan Gainor was respect and mutual trust. Her supreme So we are going through a warming one of the only nonscience witnesses. attention to detail has served the Sen- period. It increased to about 1998, and He approached it from an ethical per- ate and our Nation well. Whether she is then it stopped pretty much at that spective, talking about the one-sided collaborating with the Sergeant at time. But even their witness, who was climate coverage, saying it violates the Arms to develop crisis contingency a believer, said that the Kyoto Pro- ethical code of the Society of Profes- plans, or working with the Senate His- tocol is not the right approach to take sional Journalists which urges the torian’s Office to produce new publica- and agreed it had almost no impact on media to ‘‘support the open exchange tions that augment and preserve the the climate if all the nations complied. of views. Even views they find repug- Senate’s history, Emily is a born lead- Probably one of the most major nant.’’ That code calls for reporters to er. Her devotion is unmatched. breakthroughs that we have had is the distinguish between advocacy and news Emily comes from a very close fam- recognition by virtually all scientists reporting which, he says, they have not ily whom I have had the privilege to that the Kyoto Protocol, which would been doing.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 01:13 Dec 10, 2006 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G08DE6.120 S08DEPT1 ccoleman on PROD1PC71 with SENATE S11602 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE December 8, 2006 One of those individuals who is a the United Nations is doing, the fact I yield the floor. strong supporter of human gases caus- that they have gotten involved in The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- ing climate change, Mike Hulme, the things they should not be involved in. jority leader. director of the UK-based Tyndall Cen- She was one of the last stalwarts to f tre for Climate Change Research, is on hold out for sovereignty at the United TRIBUTE TO BILL HOAGLAND the other side of this thing and has Nations in the United States. now—talking about the media—chas- The Washington Times noted Jeane Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I rise to tised the media and environmentalists Kirkpatrick’s eyes twinkled at the pay tribute to one who is known as Mr. for choosing the ‘‘language of fear and mention of the August 1984 night at the Budget of the Senate. When I stepped terror’’ to scare the public. Hulme Republican National Convention in up to the position of majority leader 4 noted he has found himself ‘‘increas- Dallas when she eviscerated the liberal years ago, my first priority was to hire ingly chastised’’ by global warming ac- Democrats as the ‘‘blame America first a staff of capable advisers. When I tivists because his public statements crowd.’’ Boy, is she right. Look what stepped up, it happened very quickly, ‘‘have not satisfied the [activist] thirst has been happening. so I knew I wanted the best of the best. She was awarded the Medal of Free- for environmental drama and search I already had a wonderful staff devoted dom, the Nation’s highest civilian for exaggerated rhetoric.’’ to help the people of Tennessee, but A report in August of 2006 from the honor, in May of 1985. She received her what I needed was a core group of peo- second Department of Defense Distin- UK labor-leaning Institute for Public ple to help me with the larger picture, guished Public Service Medal and has Policy talked about the way the media to set an aggressive agenda and help received more medals than any other is handling it: me get it through. person I know in her field. In 1991, the I knew immediately who I wanted to A quasireligious register of doom, death, Kennedy School at Harvard University heaven and hell using words such as ‘‘catas- advise me on budget and appropria- trophe,’’ ‘‘chaos’’ and ‘‘havoc.’’ established the Kirkpatrick Chair in tions. In an ideal world, I knew exactly International Affairs. She served as The report also compared the media’s who that would be. And, of course, that senior fellow and director of foreign coverage of global warming to ‘‘the un- was Bill Hoagland. I had known Bill and defense policy studies at the Amer- and worked with Bill as a freshman reality of Hollywood films.’’ ican Enterprise Institute. She is fa- Another individual who was a sup- Senator when he was staff director of mous for her Kirkpatrick doctrine porter at one time, David Bellamy the Budget Committee, then chaired by which advocates United States support from Britain, has come around talking PETE DOMENICI, and I relied on him of anti-Communist governments through those early days again and about this. The one I am going to talk around the world. Along with the Em- about in January at some length is a again in private meetings and tutorials power America codirectors, Bill Ben- to show me and to introduce me and man named Claude Allegre, the French nett and Jack Kemp, she has been ac- geophysicist and a former Socialist my budget staff at the time the budget tive up to the present time. ropes, the process. So when that Party leader. He is the only one I know One of the things we worked on to- Christmas Eve 4 years ago came, I who is a member of both the French gether was the John Bolton nomina- picked up the phone and I called Bill and the United States Academies of tion. To me, the saddest day is when Science. Allegre now says the cause of we found that John Bolton was throw- Hoagland. I asked—I pleaded with warming remains unknown and the ing in the towel. He had been abused him—to become a part of my team. Bill came to the Senate Committee alarmism ‘‘has become a very lucrative enough. The only way to save the on the Budget in the early 1980s from business for some people.’’ In short, United Nations was with John Bolton. their motive is money. And he is right, She got behind him and pushed him the Department of Agriculture. He it is about money. and got him involved. started as a group leader and senior an- One by one, the people, scientists are A lot of people say she is too conserv- alyst and worked his way up through coming around. This hearing has had ative, but she has been recognized and the ranks to become staff director. more response throughout the Nation. compared to, of all people, former Sen- After more than two decades on the I have lists of newspapers that have ator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. A lot of Budget Committee under Senator editorialized as a result of this. That people do not realize this, but Pat Moy- DOMENICI, Bill was the acknowledged awakening is taking place, but that is nihan was also an Oklahoman. The Chi- expert on Senate floor procedure for not why I am here today. cago Tribune said on November 14 of budget resolutions and appropriations f this year, such distinguished ambas- measures. He was there during Gramm- Rudman-Hollings. He was staff director TRIBUTE TO JEANE KIRKPATRICK sadors as Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Republican Jeane Kirk- during the Balanced Budget Act of 1995. Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, our ma- patrick also were criticized for tough For 21 years, Bill had a voice in every jority leader has been paying tribute to talk on occasion, even when their pas- major Senate budget and appropria- some great people we work with, and I sion proved to be right on point. tions measure. I was certain his exper- agree with every word he said. How- In recent years, it was Jeane Kirk- tise would be a tremendous asset to my ever, we have somebody else who needs patrick who called my attention to team. And, indeed, it has been. tribute today. something happening—and I am not Bill has proven his worth time and A real American hero died yesterday. blaming anyone in this Senate. A trea- time again. While serving as my direc- That was Jeane Kirkpatrick. It hap- ty that was called the Law of the Sea tor of budget and appropriations, Bill pens I have been close to Jeane Kirk- Treaty received a 16-to-0 vote from the has played critical roles in ushering patrick for a number of years. People Senate Committee on Foreign Rela- forth the Deficit Reduction Act and the do not realize she was born in Duncan, tions. People did not realize that was a Tax Increase Prevention and Reconcili- OK, down in the oil patch. She was the treaty that would turn over to the ation Act of 2006, and many others. daughter of an oil field wildcatter. I United Nations the jurisdiction of two- During these negotiations, Bill’s knew her way back in the early stages thirds of the entire surface of the world voice is often the voice of reason, prac- before she was even brought up by Ron- and the air above it. I held hearings as ticality, of realism. His plain speaking ald Reagan to take the lofty positions a result of Jeane Kirkpatrick calling only enhances credibility as the pre- she held. She was Ronald Reagan’s for- this to my attention. We were able to eminent authority, the unquestioned eign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign stop it when it was ready to be passed preeminent authority on Senate budget and the first woman to hold the posi- in the next week. and appropriations. tion of U.S. Ambassador to the United I would say we lost a real hero, a real But Bill isn’t all business. The Sen- Nations. American hero, someone who has been ate Committee on the Budget fondly When someone was asking me in the fighting Communists and fundamental remembers him for genuinely caring media recently what is the one thing Islamic terrorists for her entire life. about his staff. They remember his in- you can say she made the greatest con- She has made a great mark. I love her formal Friday late-afternoon happy tribution in, I said, she is the first one dearly and will certainly miss Jeane hours where staff could share stories who called people’s attention to what Kirkpatrick. about the past week and learn things

VerDate Aug 31 2005 01:13 Dec 10, 2006 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G08DE6.122 S08DEPT1 ccoleman on PROD1PC71 with SENATE