S7484 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE December 15, 2020 RECESS TRIBUTE TO CORY GARDNER problem that still needs to be solved— The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Madam President, as for CORY GARD- that of balancing our Federal budget, CRUZ). Under the previous order, the NER, of Colorado, when he leaves the which, in the end, will require our find- Senate stands in recess until 2:15 p.m. Senate, it will become a little bit dim- ing a fair way to control the growth of Thereupon, the Senate, at 12:30 p.m. mer of a place because CORY GARDNER entitlements. recessed until 2:15 p.m. and reassem- has such cheerfulness. Everyone recog- TRIBUTE TO PAT ROBERTS bled when called to order by the Pre- nizes that. He wakes up happy, and he Madam President, PAT ROBERTS siding Officer (Mrs. CAPITO). goes to bed happy insofar as any of us came to the Senate in 1967 in the way f here knows, and he came to the Senate a lot of us have come—as a Senate with the same amount of enthusiasm. aide. I came the same year. He worked EXECUTIVE CALENDAR—Continued He came to me early on and wanted for Senator Baker, who was working in The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- to be and agreed to be the head of the the House of Representatives at the ator from Tennessee. America COMPETES effort. That legis- time. Yet we have seen in the Senate, ORDER OF PROCEDURE lation passed in 2005 and 2006—before through all of that time, its pluses and Mr. ALEXANDER. Madam President, he got here—to try to make our coun- its minuses, and we have learned our I ask unanimous consent that notwith- try more competitive in the world, but way. PAT learned his way especially standing rule XXII, all postcloture CORY took the leadership of that and well. time on the Kirsch nomination expire led the reauthorization of it. I suppose he served longer on the at 5 p.m. today; further, that if con- He spent 2 years heading the Repub- Ethics Committee and longer on the firmed, the motion to reconsider be lican Senatorial Committee and did a Agriculture Committee than anyone, considered made and laid upon the tremendously effective job. particularly if you count his service in table and the President be immediately Then, this year, he became a leader the House and the Senate on the Agri- notified of the Senate’s action; finally, in the Great American Outdoors Act. culture Committees. His good humor that the mandatory quorum call with Everyone agrees—there are not many and his resoluteness in terms of rural respect to the Crytzer nomination be times you can say that here, but every- America and making sure that the waived. one agrees, from the left to the right farmers of our country have an envi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without and up and down, that the Great Amer- ronment in which they can succeed are objection, it is so ordered. ican Outdoors Act is the most signifi- legendary. I suspect for all of us, when UNITED STATES SENATE cant piece of environmental and out- we go sleep at night, that if PAT ROB- Mr. ALEXANDER. Madam President, door recreation legislation in at least ERTS comes into our brains, the words in Jon Meacham’s biography of Presi- the last half century—since the Eisen- ‘‘crop insurance’’ come right along be- dent George W. Bush—actually, I be- hower years, really. It was a bipartisan hind him. lieve it is in the biography of President parade of Senators, the President, and TRIBUTE TO DOUG JONES George H. W. Bush—Meacham quotes House Members, which is the way you Madam President, DOUG JONES only Prescott Bush, H.W. Bush’s father and get things done here. Yet, if it were a served for a short period of time, like Senator Prescott Bush, of Connecticut, parade, you would have to say CORY, MARTHA MCSALLY, but he made his as saying that the Senate is the place along with STEVE DAINES, was the mark as well. where everybody in politics ultimately drum major in the parade. He deserves When he gave his farewell address, I wants to be. Senator Prescott Bush, of great credit for that, and generations was here, and I said he reminded me of Connecticut, said that the U.S. Senate will be grateful to him. Ted Kennedy in this way: He kept his is the place in politics where everybody TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL B. ENZI liberal principles. I didn’t ever see him in politics ultimately wants to be. Madam President, MIKE ENZI, of Wy- deviate from them, just like Ted Ken- I have noticed that over the years, oming, is retiring after 24 years. MIKE nedy. He would stand back there and after an election, usually we have lost is an unassuming fellow. He is the only roar about this, that, or the other and about 10 Members of the Senate—some- accountant in the Senate. He is impos- make great fodder for the Republican times a couple more, sometimes a cou- sible to defeat in Wyoming, apparently, Lincoln Day Dinners and Reagan Day ple less. This year, it is 7. If you look because he drives 200 or 300 miles every Dinners in Tennessee. I used to say, at Georgia and what one has to go weekend to every ice cream social that when I was elected, if they had elected through to stay here or to get here was invented, and if it had not been in- my opponent, my opponent would have given the amount of money being spent vented, he and Diana created it. come up here and moved Fred Thomp- and the number of things being said in While he has been here, he has cre- son’s desk over, and he would have set those two races, you would think that ated the 80-percent rule, which says: it right down between Ted Kennedy there might be a shortage of people Let’s not argue about the 20 percent we and Hillary Clinton and made it one today who would want to follow Sen- disagree on, and let’s look for the 80 vote harder for George W. Bush to have ator Prescott Bush’s advice but appar- percent we can work together on. led our country and represent our val- ently not. He was persistent in his work in the ues. Instead of 10 people leaving this year, Marketplace Fairness Act, which kept The Republicans liked that because it is only 7, and only 4 of us are retiring the Federal Government from telling they heard Ted Kennedy’s liberal voluntarily. I would like to take just a States what to tax and what not to tax speeches, but I also said, when I made minute or two about each of the other and allowed the States to collect sales my maiden address, that, without my six U.S. Senators who will not be com- tax for goods that were sold in their knowing it, Senator Kennedy had gone ing back in the next Congress. States from out of State. That passed around and gotten 20 Democratic co- TRIBUTE TO MARTHA MCSALLY the Senate thanks to MIKE’s work. It sponsors. He was always working to get Madam President, MARTHA MCSALLY didn’t pass the House, but the Senate a result where he could. DOUG JONES arrived with the same enthusiasm that agreed with Senator ENZI, and most has been the same way here, and I want she showed when she set records for States are grateful in this COVID pe- to congratulate him for that. women in combat as a pilot. She is a riod of time to have their revenues en- He had a distinguished record in civil warrior. She knows how to take a hill. hanced by the work of MIKE ENZI. rights in Alabama—a courageous If you listened to her maiden address, The Perkins Act—helping to create a record—in prosecuting the Klansmen. which I did, and to her farewell ad- better workforce in the United States— He worked with TIM SCOTT, Senator dress, which I did, she had a great was a difficult bill to pass, but MIKE PATTY MURRAY, and me—with Senator sense of purpose, and she had her usual ENZI was the one who put it together. TIM SCOTT last year to permanently effectiveness during her relatively Of course, he left his opportunity to fund historically Black colleges, which short period of time in the U.S. Senate. be chairman of the committee I now was a goal that had been sought for She was able to pass eight pieces of leg- chair—Health, Education, Labor, and many years—and he took a big step on islation and turn them into law. She Pensions—so that he could be the simplifying the FAFSA, the Federal made her mark during the time she chairman of the Budget Committee. aid application form that 20 million was here. While there, he worked hard to solve a American families fill out every year.

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