S4460 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE July 23, 2020 of Margie’s leadership for the sanctity Kentucky’s first responder whenever and thriving center for quality early child- of life. I ask unanimous consent that wherever human life is threatened, the full- hood education. Maria continued her the column by former Kentucky State throated voice for those who have no voice. fight for families as the director of Representative Bob Heleringer be She didn’t hesitate to use that voice when children services for the Illinois De- she confronted the very man who wrote the printed in the RECORD. infamous Roe decision: Justice Harry Black- partment of Human Services and then There being no objection, the mate- mun. When the University of Louisville law the senior program officer for the Chi- rial was ordered to be printed in the school favored Mr. Blackmun in 1983 with its cago Community Trust. In 2000, she be- RECORD, as follows: Brandeis Medal, Mrs. Montgomery was in at- came the president and CEO for Illinois [From the Louisville Courier-Journal, July tendance. Action for Children, which provides 14, 2020] When it was her turn in the receiving line, 150,000 children and families every year A DETERMINED MARGIE MONTGOMERY HAS as he extended his hand, she asked, ‘‘How can access to high-quality early care and BEEN DEFENDING THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN you sleep at night knowing how many lives education opportunities. LIFE FOR 50 YEARS have been lost because of your terrible deci- sion?’’ The associate justice of the United Under Maria’s leadership, Illinois Ac- (By Bob Heleringer) States Supreme Court audibly gasped and, as tion for Children expanded its scope. In 1970, a gentleman named Bob Schulman he withdrew his hand, Mrs. Montgomery She helped create the Healthy Food occasionally appeared during the late quietly said, ‘‘I will pray for you.’’ Program, which helps families stretch evening news on WHAS–TV to read on-air Thanks to those efforts, and those of thou- their dollars by reimbursing childcare editorials (‘‘One Man’s Opinion’’). Wearing sands of volunteer women and men from all providers for the cost of feeding chil- his trademark bow tie, he looked and spoke over this commonwealth, Kentucky can fair- like a college professor. One night, he said it dren with healthy food. Maria was in- ly be called America’s most pro-life state strumental in the development of Inno- was time to liberalize the abortion laws in with an overwhelmingly prolife congres- this country, to remove the legal restric- sional delegation and state legislature. vation Zones that connect critically tions that had made this medical procedure Elections have consequences, some good. important resources in some of Chi- a criminal offense. Pre-natal killings in our state have declined cago’s most underserved communities. Watching at home that evening was a 37- from a high of 11,000 a year to ‘‘only’’ 3,000. The Innovation Zones led to the year-old wife, mother, civic volunteer, Rose- Legislation Mrs. Montgomery advocated, the transformative Community Systems mont College graduate and former city edi- ‘‘Choose Life’’ license plates, finances more tor of the Irvington (New Jersey) Herald Statewide Supports Program, which than 50 crisis pregnancy centers in Kentucky newspaper, Margaret Anne ‘‘Margie’’ Mont- helps communities improve early that, if only a woman will assent to let her gomery. Alarmed, the then-president of the childhood services with training, plan- baby live, she will be sheltered, protected, League of Catholic PTA called the station ning, and collaboration. Maria also nurtured and financially supported. (As of the next morning and was cordially invited 2017, there are 2,752 of these life-affirming helped move Illinois Action for Chil- by Mr. Schulman himself to give a response. centers throughout the country.) dren into direct early childhood serv- After she gave the first of what became This, then, is Margie Montgomery’s most ices with its early learning program thousands of public, passionate addresses de- inspiring legacy: Her unwavering commit- fending the sanctity of all human life, her centers in Chicago’s South and West ment to preserve, protect and defend all telephone rang for a week—some were com- suburbs. human life has directly led to an untold and plete strangers but all agreed with Mrs. There was no one like Maria. Maria unknown number of human lives being saved Montgomery that ‘‘something had to be was tough, smart, passionate, and an by women in crisis who got a timely word of done.’’ authority on what needed to be done to encouragement and support, looked at a leaf- Right there in her kitchen, a national, best serve families in Illinois. I made it state and local Right-to-Life movement was let, spotted a billboard message, read an ad in a church bulletin, called a crisis hotline, a point to meet with her. She made born. (The ‘‘right to Life’’ is one of the ‘‘self- partnerships that mattered. Maria evident’’ unalienable rights proclaimed by saw their unborn baby move on a sonogram the Declaration of Independence.) This or ultrasound and blessed God’s creation by helped them launch the Lunch Bus Thursday evening, about 700 socially giving humanity one more life to marvel at, with the Greater Chicago Food Deposi- distanced people will gather at the Crowne appreciate, love and cherish. Those saved tory to provide free summer meals to Plaza hotel for the 47th annual ‘‘Celebration people walk among us every single day. As children. of Life’’ dinner that will also honor Margie the Talmud says (paraphrasing): ‘‘(S)he who Maria enjoyed reading, classical saves a life, saves the entire world.’’ Montgomery’s remarkable 50 years of service music, and spending time with her fam- on behalf of the greatest civil rights cause in f ily in Vermont. And she always loved a our beloved country since the abolition of REMEMBERING MARIA WHELAN good laugh. We will miss her smile, her slavery. wit, and her heart. She is survived by When the movement she began outgrew her Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, on June house, in 1973, Mrs. Montgomery opened a her husband Jack; her three daughters, full-time operation in St. Matthews, where 10, we lost an extraordinary advocate Catherine Mary, Ellen Rose, and Maeve she still today, from a tiny and cramped cor- for children and families in Illinois. Margaret; her three grandchildren, ner office in a nondescript office building, For more than four decades, Maria Teddy, Archie, and Evie; and her nine oversees the state’s lobbying efforts in Whelan fought to ensure equal access brothers and sisters. Frankfort and Washington, D.C., runs an an- to quality and affordable childcare. f nual statewide convention, organizes the an- Today, we pay tribute to her hard work nual pro-life rallies in Frankfort and down- and life. REMEMBERNG JOHN ‘‘JACK’’ town Louisville on the anniversary of Roe v. Maria was born on December 4, 1950, DUNFEY Wade, the pernicious Supreme Court decision that legalized the killing of our preborn sis- in East Hampton, NY. She was the Mr. LEAHY. Mr. Presient, the global ters and brothers, coordinates a double full- third of 12 children. Ten cousins lived community has lost one of our most page ad in this newspaper on that anniver- just down the road. Maria went to active advocates for peace. On June 22, sary with thousands of names of Clarke College and completed her mas- John Philip Dunfey passed away. Louisvillians, organizes the yearly dinner ter’s at the University of Chicago. She Known as Jack to his many friends with a national figure giving a keynote ad- supported herself working as a waitress around the world, he was a World War dress, presides over the annual Walk for Life and a janitor. It was in Chicago that II veteran, founder and CEO of Omni up and down Shelbyville Road, quarterbacks she met Jack Wuest. They married and Hotels International, and the owner of a political action committee that strives to elect pro-life candidates to public office (peo- raised three daughters in Chicago’s Parker House. His impact, however, ple like her that will ‘‘do something’’), and North Side neighborhood of Rogers was far wider. Jack was an ardent sup- still appears at every school and civic group Park. porter of social justice issues through- that will have her to give one of her ‘‘talks,’’ In 1976, Maria was working with edu- out his life. the central theme of which is ‘‘abortion cators and advocates to help families Jack lead human rights missions to stops a beating heart.’’ when the local afterschool program’s many corners of the world, helping to Now into the sixth decade of her vocation, sponsoring agency closed. Maria and free prisoners in Cuba, remove land- this soft-spoken but determined woman has some of these folks formed what would been the Gold Star Mother who won’t let mines in Angola and monitor the elec- America ever forget the staggering human later become the Carole Robertson tion in South Africa won by Nelson toll of this heretofore unknown constitu- Center for Learning. She served as the Mandela. tional ‘‘right:’’ the 61,628,584 babies’ lives center’s first executive director until Jack was the founder and chairman ‘‘terminated’’ (through 2017). She is still 1989. Maria helped the center become a of the Global Citizens Circle, fostering

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He was also a tended family and with the larger human gime. Over the fiscal year 2021–2030 pe- founding board member of the Amer- family. The missions to Cuba, for his meet- riod, P.L. 116–149 would increase spend- ican Ireland Fund, an organization ings with Fidel Castro, led to the release of ing by $21 million and revenues by $28 working to bring peace to Ireland. 87 prisoners, the removal of landmines in An- million for a total deficit reduction of These important organizations will far gola, and the freeing up of food supplies to $7 million. outlive Jack, continuing his legacy and enter Ethiopia. Budget Committee Republican staff helping to improve lives across the While a staunch Democrat, Jack was noted prepared Tables A–G. globe. for working across party lines to achieve his objectives. In 1984 President Ronald Reagan, Table A provides the amount by He lived a life true to his favorite a staunch Republican, appointed Dunfey as which each Senate authorizing com- saying, ‘‘We make a living by what we one of the nine-member commission founders mittee exceeds or falls below its alloca- get, but we make a life by what we of the United States Institute for Peace, tions for budget authority and outlays give.’’ Jack gave abundantly, and the tasked with promoting conflict resolution under the fiscal year 2020 and fiscal world owes him a debt of gratitude. and peace worldwide. Jack was also a found- year 2021 deemed budget resolutions. My thoughts are with Jack’s wife, ing board member of the American Ireland This information is used for enforcing Lisa, and their family during this dif- Funds. He and his brothers, Bob and Walter, committee allocations pursuant to sec- ficult time. were recognized as bridge-builders and advo- cates of cross-community dialogue during tion 302 of the CBA. Committee compli- I ask unanimous consent that the ance with allocation remains con- full obituary for John Philip Dunfey be the Troubles in Northern Ireland. When John Hume and David Trimble were awarded the sistent with last month’s report with printed in the RECORD. the exception of the Banking, Housing, There being no objection, the mate- Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, they invited Jack and Bob to travel with them and their fami- and Urban Affairs Committee. Passage rial was ordered to be printed in the lies to Oslo. That same year, Jack was also of the Hong Kong Autonomy Act led to RECORD, as follows: appointed an independent, international spending in excess of that committee’s DUNFEY, JOHN PHILIP FOUNDER AND CHAIR- monitor in South Africa’s historic first elec- allowable levels over the fiscal year MAN, GLOBAL CITIZENS CIRCLE; FOUNDER tion of Nelson Mandela as president. AND CEO, OMNI HOTELS INTERNATIONAL Jack is survived by his wife, Lisa Timpe´ 2021–2025 and fiscal year 2021–2030 peri- ALSO OWNED AND RENOVATED PARKER Dunfey, Boston, MA; three children, Susan ods by $4 million and $21 million, re- HOUSE (1968–1988) Dunfey, Rye, NH; David Dunfey, Sebastian, spectively. Spending in this bill is John Philip Dunfey, a World War II vet- Florida; Stephen Dunfey, Portsmouth, NH; largely due to increased receipts to the eran who dedicated much of his life to fos- and three siblings, Eileen Dunfey Robinson, United States Victims of State Spon- tering world peace and social justice, died at Bradenton, Florida; Jerry Dunfey and his sored Terrorism Fund that are then age 96 on June 22, 2020, in Hampton, NH. wife, Nadine Hack, Lutry, Switzerland; Elea- spent without further appropriation. Known as ‘‘Jack’’ to friends, he spent dec- nor Dunfey and her husband, James Tables B and C provide the amount ades of behind-the-scenes work in support of Freiburger, Exeter, NH; and many nieces, by which the Senate Committee on Ap- causes such as the peace process in Northern nephews and cousins whom he cherished. Ireland and human rights efforts in South Jack was preceded in death by his son, Phil- propriations is below or exceeds the Africa, Cuba, Central America, South Amer- ip; and Joan Lannan Dunfey, the mother of statutory spending limits. This infor- ica, and the Middle East. Notably, Dunfey his children, as well as eight siblings: Roy, mation is used to determine points of spearheaded his family’s efforts in 1974 to Paul, Kay, Mary, Bud ‘‘Bill,’’ Robert ‘‘Bob,’’ order related to the spending caps launch Global Citizens Circle. Originally Richard ‘‘Dick,’’ and Walter. Because of found in sections 312 and 314 of the known as New England Circle, the not-for- COVID–19 restrictions, the family plans a CBA. The tables show that the Appro- profit entity continues its mission almost 50 Memorial to celebrate Jack’s life at a later priations Committee is compliant with years later to ‘‘. . . gather diverse, intergen- date. erational voices addressing critical issues spending limits for fiscal years 2020 and and building the trust needed for sustainable f 2021. The figures included in Table C re- flect advanced and permanent appro- change in ourselves, our nation, and our BUDGET SCOREKEEPING REPORT world.’’ priations that have already been en- Dunfey was born in Lowell, MA, on Janu- Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I rise to acted but will become available for ob- ary 7, 1924, to former millworkers, Catherine submit to the Senate the budget ligation in fiscal year 2021. A. Manning and LeRoy W. Dunfey. The fifth scorekeeping report for July 2020. This Tables D and E display figures re- of twelve children, Jack began his work ca- is my second scorekeeping report since reer as did all his siblings at a very young lated to limits on the use of changes in age in his parents’ small luncheonette in the I filed the deemed budget resolution for mandatory programs, CHlMPs, in ap- Acre section of Lowell. After graduating fiscal year 2021 on May 4, 2020, as re- propriations bills. These $15 billion from Lowell’s Keith Academy, Jack joined quired by the Bipartisan Budget Act of limits, found in the fiscal year 2018 the U.S. Air Force in 1943, attaining the rank 2019, BBA19. The report compares cur- budget resolution for fiscal year 2020 of first lieutenant while serving as a B–24 rent-law levels of spending and reve- and section 207 of BBA19 for fiscal year and B–29 pilot instructor. nues with the amounts agreed to in 2021, currently show the Appropriations Following his honorable discharge in 1946, BBA19. In the Senate, this information he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Committee in compliance. business at the University of New Hampshire is used to determine whether budg- Tables F and G provide the amount in 1952. He also led his family’s business. etary points of order lie against pend- of budget authority enacted for 2020 From 1950 to 1988, the enterprise expanded ing legislation. The Republican staff of and 2021, respectively, that have been from New England-area luncheonettes, clam the Budget Committee and the Con- designated as either for an emergency stands, and pizza shops to the Dunfey Hotel gressional Budget Office prepared this or for overseas contingency operations, Corporation, whose hallmark became refur- report pursuant to section 308(b) of the OCO, pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of bishing downtrodden inner-city hotels. When Congressional Budget Act. The infor- the Corporation acquired Omni Hotels Inter- the Balanced Budget and Emergency national—with its dozens of properties mation included in this report is cur- Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. worldwide, including London and Paris— rent through July 17, 2020. Funding that receives either of these Jack kept the corporate headquarters rooted Since I filed the last scorekeeping re- designations results in cap adjustments in Hampton, NH, to help preserve the close port on June 4, 2020, three measures to enforceable discretionary spending employee-management relationship that was with significant enforceable budgetary limits. There is no limit on either so much a part of the early family business. effects have been enacted. Two of those emergency or OCO spending; however, The acquisition and restoration of the his- measures, the Paycheck Protection any Senator may challenge the des- toric Parker House Hotel in Boston in 1968— in the era of assassinations, the Vietnam Program Flexibility Act of 2020, P.L. ignation with a point of order to strike War, and Civil Rights Movement—provided 116–142, and the Emergency Aid for Re- the designation on the floor. Jack and his siblings a prominent base to ad- turning Americans Affected by In addition to the tables provided by vance their beliefs in social justice. Coronavirus Act, P.L. 116–148, were des- Budget Committee Republican staff, I

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