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Vol. 150 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2004 No. 79 House of Representatives The House met at 12:30 p.m. and was ‘‘We have lost Ronald Reagan, but ‘‘Ronald Reagan had and could ex- called to order by the Speaker pro tem- his ideas remain with us, as vital as press a clear and simple view of a com- pore (Mr. BOOZMAN). ever. We can remember the gifts he plex world. Every Sunday, he brought f gave us, his advocacy of freedom, his acorns down from Camp David to feed contributions to our security, his belief the squirrels outside the Oval Office. DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO in America and his restoration of our The squirrels at the White House TEMPORE belief in ourselves. hadn’t had it so good since Ike cleared The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- ‘‘When he took office as Governor of the area to put in a putting green. His fore the House the following commu- California, Ronald Reagan took respon- most endearing aspect was his funda- nication from the Speaker: sibility for a state that was in rocky mental decency. He appealed to peo- shape; when he left office, California ple’s best hopes, not their fears; to WASHINGTON, DC, was golden again. When Ronald Reagan June 8, 2004. their confidence, rather than their I hereby appoint the Honorable JOHN took office as the President of the doubts. BOOZMAN to act as Speaker pro tempore on United States, the country was adrift, ‘‘Ronald Reagan was a doer, a prag- this day. inflation was out of control, the econ- matist, a man who enjoyed hard phys- J. DENNIS HASTERT, omy was in the doldrums, and the Cold ical tasks, as in the ranch work he Speaker of the House of Representatives. War was as cold as it had ever been. loved to do. But that brush clearing f When he left office inflation was under and fence fixing was a symbol, too; he control, the economy was expanding, MORNING HOUR DEBATES wanted to be doing it himself because the Cold War was all over but the from the land came not only strength The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- shouting, and America once again and clarity, but a vision, the vision of stood tall. ant to the order of the House of Janu- the West and the endless horizon. The ary 20, 2004, the Chair will now recog- ‘‘Ronald Reagan brought so much to this country. He started with carefully American people liked Ronald Reagan nize Members from lists submitted by and reelected him in one of the biggest the majority and minority leaders for thought-out ideas and he put them to work effectively. He had a strong and landslides in history because he trusted morning hour debates. The Chair will them and he conveyed to them that alternate recognition between the par- constructive agenda, much of it labeled impossible and unattainable in the they need not be bound, tied down by ties, with each party limited to not to class or race, or childhood misfortune, exceed 30 minutes, and each Member, early years of his presidency. He chal- lenged the conventional wisdom: On or poverty, or bureaucracy. They, the except the majority leader, the minor- arms control, on the possibility of people, could make something of them- ity leader, or the minority whip, lim- movement toward freedom in the com- selves; indeed, they could remake ited to not to exceed 5 minutes. munist-dominated world, on the need themselves endlessly. The Chair recognizes the gentleman to stand up to Iran in the Persian Gulf, ‘‘But beneath this pragmatic attitude from California (Mr. DREIER) for 5 min- on the superiority of market and enter- lay a bedrock of principle and purpose utes. prise-based economies. The world with which I was proud to be associ- f learned when Ronald Reagan faced ated. He believed in being strong enough to defend our interests, but he REMEMBERING RONALD REAGAN down the air traffic controllers in 1981 that he could dig in and fight to win. viewed that strength as a means, not Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, not 24 The world learned in Grenada that he an end in itself. Ronald Reagan had hours after Ronald Reagan had passed would use military force if needed. He confidence in himself and in his ideas away, I had the opportunity to talk to did not accept that extensive political and was ready to negotiate from the a great American, Ronald Reagan’s opposition doomed an attractive idea. strength so evident by the mid-1980s. Secretary of State, George P. Shultz. He would fight resolutely for an idea, ‘‘He was a fervent anti-communist He already by Sunday afternoon had believing that, if it was valid, he could who could comprehend and believe that penned a statement, which was so mov- persuade the American people to sup- people everywhere would choose to ing that I asked him if I could share it port it. He changed the national and throw off the communist system if with my colleagues. Secretary Shultz international agenda on issue after they ever had the chance. And he agreed, so I would like to do that at issue. He was an optimist; he spoke the worked hard to give them that chance. this point, Mr. Speaker. vocabulary of opportunity. He had a vi- He favored open trade because he had He entitles this ‘‘Remembering Ron- sion of what he stood for and what we confidence in the ability of Americans ald Reagan.’’ It reads as follows: aspire to as a nation. to compete, and he had confidence that

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VerDate jul 14 2003 04:32 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A08JN7.000 H08PT1 H3788 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 an integrated world economy would My wife Anne and I had the privilege all here today as servants of Your will, benefit America. He stuck to his agen- of meeting President Reagan at the and that of this Nation’s people, in giv- da. White House for a St. Patrick’s Day ing honor for service to country, this ‘‘The points he made, however con- event in 1982. As we chatted for a few land of the free. And strengthen all summate the delivery, were unmistak- minutes, I remember being in the pres- here today in the work of this body, to ably real in his mind and heart, an ence of someone great. I told him that establish steadfast and righteous rules American creed: Defend your country, we were praying for him. He shook my of law to guide and direct the way of value your family, make something of hand, and in a genuine, soft-spoken this Nation. yourself, tell government to get off voice, he thanked us. O Lord God, that here would be fron- your back, tell the tyrants to watch His convictions guided him on social tiers of freedom just as there were in their step. Ronald Reagan conveyed issues as well. In 1983, on the tenth an- foreign fields on beachheads of libera- simple truths that were especially wel- niversary of Roe v. Wade, he wrote a 9 tion which are remembered and hon- come because ‘nowadays everything page article to the American people ored in these days. seems so complicated.’ What he said laying out his opposition to the abomi- O Lord God, before You, and gathered ran deep and wide among the people. nable practice of abortion. In it he here, we are met to lift up to You and ‘‘Reagan as president was a Repub- wrote: remember those who have given of lican, a conservative, a man of the ‘‘We cannot thrive as a free nation themselves in highest service to this right. But these labels will mislead his- when some men decide that others are Nation. O Lord, You have been our torians who do not see beyond them, not fit to live and should be abandoned dwelling place in all generations and for Americans could see some of Ron- to abortion and infanticide. My admin- now this House, this Chamber would ald Reagan in themselves. You couldn’t istration is dedicated to the preserva- prepare to receive under its dome, a figure him out like a fact, because to tion of America as a free land, and hallowed place of honor for one who Reagan, the main fact was a vision. He there is no cause more important for served as highest leader of this Nation. came from the heartland of the coun- preserving that freedom than affirming Prepare here now, O Lord, those assem- try, where people could be down-to- the transcendent right to life of all bled to give honor for service and dedi- earth, yet feel the sky is the limit, not human beings, the right without which cation to America of Ronald Reagan, ashamed of or cynical about the Amer- no other rights have any meaning.’’ that in honoring his service, that the ican dream. Our founders believed in the idea of service to Nation given by those here ‘‘Not far from Ronald Reagan’s small America. It was an idea of freedom and in this House might be rededicated and town of Dixon, Illinois, is Jane Ad- justice for all. Reagan believed in strengthened; that in honoring the dams’ small town of Cedarville; not far America, and, more significantly, he grace and goodness of a man who from Cedarville is Ulysses Grant’s believed in the American people. Rath- served his Nation’s people, that all small town of Galena. And not far from er than simply imposing his principles here would be renewed in their dedica- Galena is Carl Sandburg’s Galesburg. upon others, he redefined the main- tion to the good of all, and the building Reagan had something of them all: His stream by giving them something to up of all, and even then knowing, be- heart going out to the people; his will believe in. It was this quality of prin- fore You, O God, that if this earthly ready to fight for the country; his cipled, caring leadership that inspired house of a tabernacle were desolved voice able to move the nation. And, as many, including me, to act upon our that there is a building of God, a house Carl Sandburg wrote it, ‘The republic convictions, believing that the Amer- not made with hands, eternal in the is a dream. Nothing happens unless ican way was just and right. heavens. May you, O God, bless the first a dream.’’’ As we mourn the passing of our 40th work of our hands here today. Amen. f President, we must not allow his leg- f acy to die with him. His legacy is a THE JOURNAL TRIBUTE TO RONALD REAGAN continued belief in the idea of America. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- To carry it on, we must not only look The SPEAKER pro tempore. The ant to the order of the House of Janu- to what has been, but we must look for- Chair has examined the Journal of the ary 20, 2004, the gentleman from Kansas ward to what will be. Because of the last day’s proceedings and announces (Mr. RYUN) is recognized during morn- work of Ronald Reagan, the idea has to the House his approval thereof. ing hour debates for 5 minutes. prevailed. It is up to us to ensure that Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- Mr. RYUN of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, we continue his optimism for the fu- nal stands approved. Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to there are few leaders who we can look ture. President Reagan left us a legacy clause 1, rule I, I demand a vote on to who truly embody the characteris- to uphold. agreeing to the Speaker’s approval of tics of what a leader should be. Ronald f Reagan embodied them all. the Journal. He was a man of principle; he was a RECESS The SPEAKER pro tempore. The man of action. Unlike many who just The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- question is on the Speaker’s approval talk about their convictions, he was a ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair of the Journal. The question was taken; and the man who acted upon them. As a man of declares the House in recess until 2 Speaker pro tempore announced that deep faith, he brought conviction to p.m. today. the ayes appeared to have it. Accordingly (at 12 o’clock and 41 the presidency, knowing what he be- Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I object to minutes p.m.), the House stood in re- lieved and why he believed it. Yes, he the vote on the ground that a quorum cess until 2 p.m. was ‘‘Mr. President;’’ and indeed a role is not present and make the point of model, a man of conviction and cour- f order that a quorum is not present. age. b 1400 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- He once said, ‘‘A leader, once con- ant to clause 8, rule XX, further pro- AFTER RECESS vinced a particular course of action is ceedings on this question will be post- the right one, must have the deter- The recess having expired, the House poned. mination to stick with it and be un- was called to order by the SPEAKER The point of no quorum is considered daunted when the going gets rough.’’ pro tempore (Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin) at withdrawn. It was this conviction and courage 2 p.m. f that enabled him to lead the world out f of the Cold War into an age when com- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE munism no longer thrived. As he put it, PRAYER The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the ‘‘We did not seek the role of leadership The Reverend John Boyles, National gentleman from Virginia (Mr. WOLF) that has been thrust upon us. But Capital Presbytery, Washington, D.C., come forward and lead the House in the whether we like it or not, the events of offered the following prayer: Pledge of Allegiance. our time demand America’s participa- O Lord God, we come before You on Mr. WOLF led the Pledge of Alle- tion.’’ this day to ask that You would be with giance as follows:

VerDate jul 14 2003 01:58 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.002 H08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3789 I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the when I am gone, I hope it will record ragua. The Ayatollah Khomenini held United States of America, and to the Repub- that I appealed to your best hopes, not 52 American hostages for more than a lic for which it stands, one nation under God, your worst fears, to your confidence year at our embassy in Tehran. indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. rather than your doubts, and may all of Inflation stood at 13.5 percent and in- f you as Americans never forget your he- terest rates reached 21 percent. People MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE roic origins, never fail to seek divine in America had lost their optimism and guidance, and never, never lose your pride in our country, and it was Ronald A message from the Senate by Mr. God-given optimism.’’ Reagan that brought us back. It was Monahan, one of its clerks, announced Mr. Speaker, we thank God for the Ronald Reagan who turned it around. that the Senate has passed a bill and life of Ronald Wilson Reagan. He never lost faith in the American concurrent resolutions of the following f people, and he had enough optimism to titles in which the concurrence of the restore our lost confidence and get RONALD WILSON REAGAN— House is requested: America back on its feet. HELPING US REMEMBER S. 1887. An act to amend the Controlled That is what impressed me so much Substances Act to lift the patient limitation (Mr. PITTS asked and was given per- in those days, that tremendous turn- on prescribing drug addiction treatments by mission to address the House for 1 around from so many being down to medical practitioners in group practices. minute and to revise and extend his re- S. Con. Res. 5. Concurrent resolution ex- being proud again of America. He be- pressing support for the celebration in 2004 of marks.) lieved that we could cut taxes and re- the 150th anniversary of the Grand Excursion Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, last week as store our economy, and we did. By the of 1854. I reflected on the anniversary of D- end of his term, the U.S. economy had S. Con. Res. 115. Concurrent resolution au- Day, I recalled President Reagan’s grown by a third. thorizing the use of the rotunda of the Cap- speech on the 40th anniversary of that He believed we could stand up proud- itol for the lying in state of the remains of first day of liberation of Europe on ly for American values around the the late Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th Presi- June 6, 1984. President Reagan spoke of world and stand up to the Soviet dent of the United States. ‘‘the men of Normandy’’ who ‘‘had Union, and we did. It was President f faith that what they were doing was Reagan’s resolve that halted the march IN TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT right, faith that they fought for all hu- of Communism in Central America and RONALD REAGAN manity, faith that a just God would Afghanistan. It was Reagan’s resolve grant them mercy on this beachhead, that nurtured the Solidarity movement (Mr. WOLF asked and was given per- or on the next.’’ in Poland, and gave heart to the dis- mission to address the House for 1 As he so often did, his conviction and sidents of the Soviet Bloc. minute and to revise and extend his re- passion, his grace and sincerity con- Ultimately, it was President Rea- marks.) nected a distant event to the struggle gan’s faith in American ideals and his Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I join with each and every human being faces steadfast determination that led to the others in the House in expressing the every day, fighting to know what we fall of the Berlin Wall and the libera- deepest condolences to Nancy Reagan are doing is right. tion of Eastern Europe. and the Reagan family on the passing Later that day he told a different au- In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, it was of Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th dience, ‘‘We will always remember. We that leadership and vision for America President of the United States of will always be proud. We will always be that made Ronald Reagan special. And America, and in paying tribute to prepared so that we may always be now the country mourns and the world President Reagan as we remember his free.’’ remembers in the death of a great Presidency and what he meant to our Newsweek called this freedom, which world leader. country and, indeed, to the world. President Reagan mentioned in 1984, I deeply admired and respected Presi- the freedom ‘‘from self-doubt, from the f dent Reagan. I had the good fortune to Soviet threat, from uneasiness about RECESS run for the 10th Congressional District our national power and capacity to do The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- of Virginia seat in Congress in Novem- great things.’’ ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair ber of 1980 when he was elected to his This was Reagan’s gift to his coun- declares the House in recess subject to first term. Some called my victory try. He knew that America was great the call of the Chair. then ‘‘on Reagan’s coattails.’’ I have no and that our greatness had not come Accordingly (at 2 o’clock and 10 min- doubt that I am in Congress today be- without a price. Indeed, we will always utes p.m.), the House stood in recess cause of President Reagan. remember, Mr. President. We will al- subject to the call of the Chair. I will always be grateful that after ways remember so that we may always my two successful bids for Congress be free. f Ronald Reagan led the ticket I was on f b 1803 and I became a member of the class of 1980. I am sure all members of the class HONORING PRESIDENT RONALD AFTER RECESS of 1980 would agree, President Reagan REAGAN The recess having expired, the House made us feel good again. He gave us (Mr. SMITH of Michigan asked and was called to order by the Speaker at 6 hope. He inspired us. He gave us opti- was given permission to address the o’clock and 03 minutes p.m. mism because he was an optimist. His House for 1 minute and to revise and f legacy belongs not only to America but extend his remarks.) to the world. Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speak- COMMUNICATION FROM THE I saw a woman in California being er, I was farming and in the Michigan CLERK OF THE HOUSE interviewed. She was holding a bouquet legislature when Ronald Reagan took The SPEAKER laid before the House of flowers and tears were streaming office. With President Reagan, he not the following communication from the down her face. She had a broken only led the country but restored Clerk of the House of Representatives: English accent and identified herself as America’s confidence. He renewed our OFFICE OF THE CLERK a Russian immigrant. She said she had sense of America’s goodness and Amer- U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to come to the makeshift memorial ica’s greatness. And with that assur- Washington, DC, June 8, 2004. outside the funeral home where Presi- ance, the American people achieved Hon. J. DENNIS HASTERT, dent Reagan was resting because, ‘‘I great things. The Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives, owe my life to President Reagan.’’ When Ronald Reagan came into of- Washington, DC. Mr. Speaker, I will close by sharing fice, we had Watergate, defeat in Viet- DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the per- mission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II of his own words spoken in August 1992 nam, we surrendered control over the the Rules of the U.S. House of Representa- about how he wanted to be remem- Panama Canal. Vietnam fell to Com- tives, I have the honor to transmit a sealed bered. President Reagan said, ‘‘What- munism and Cambodia soon followed. envelope received from the White House on ever else history may say about me The Sandinistas took control of Nica- June 8, 2004 at 2:37 p.m. and said to contain

VerDate jul 14 2003 01:58 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.004 H08PT1 H3790 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 a message from the President whereby he no- therewith be paid out of the applicable ac- In his life, the United States pulled the tifies the Congress of the death of Ronald counts of the House. world through the Great Depression, Reagan. Resolved, That the Clerk communicate two great world wars, and back from these resolutions to the Senate and transmit With Best wishes, I am the brink of nuclear holocaust. And all Sincerely, a copy of the same to the family of the JEFF TRANDAHL, former President. the while, despite all the hardship, in- Clerk of the House. Resolved, That when the House adjourns deed perhaps because of it, America got today, it adjourn as a further mark of re- stronger, richer, and, as far as he was f spect to the memory of the former President. concerned, better. THE DEATH OF RONALD WILSON The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Reagan’s confidence and optimism in REAGAN, THE 40TH PRESIDENT Texas (Mr. DELAY) is recognized for 1 his country were simply extensions of OF THE UNITED STATES—MES- hour. his confidence and optimism in his SAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- countrymen. He knew the things Amer- THE UNITED STATES self such time as I may consume. icans had done, repelling the British, The SPEAKER laid before the House Mr. Speaker, he was a gift to us: the freeing the slaves, settling the West, the following message from the Presi- healthy, hearty child handed down liberating Europe, shooting the Moon, dent of the United States; which was from God to John and Nelle Reagan in and simply could not see this arc of read: Tampico, Illinois, in 1911; the strong, history as anything but the irresistible athletic young man handed up from the advance of freedom against oppression; To the Congress of the United States: bustling, laughing, big-shouldered Mid- or as Reagan sublimely put it: ‘‘We By this Message, I officially inform west of his youth; the underrated win, and they lose.’’ you of the death of Ronald Reagan, the actor, the underrated labor leader, the ‘‘We’’ are those who seek to defend fortieth President of the United States. underrated politician; and the vision- human dignity, and ‘‘they’’ are those Ronald Reagan was a great leader ary who foresaw America’s victory in who seek to stifle it. This was not a and a good man. He had the confidence the Cold War and brought about that mere political calculation. To Ronald that comes with conviction, the victory with wit, will, and undaunted Reagan, the innate dignity of man was strength that comes with character, valor for 8 heroic years. a spark of the Divine, a light created in the grace that comes with humility, Everything that America is, and ev- God’s image that the darkness could and the humor that comes with wis- erything that mankind can be, was in not overcome. He saw it as his role in dom. our 40th President: wisdom, mercy, our Nation and America’s role in the Through his leadership, spirit, and humor, honesty, honor, and courage. world, for that matter, to liberate peo- abiding faith in the American people, In an hour of doubt and fear, Ronald ple from the shackles of government, President Reagan gave our Nation a re- Reagan rose in the West, reminded his so that they might first enjoy their newed optimism. With his courage and Nation of its unique mission in history, right of self-determination, and then moral clarity, he enhanced America’s and with the help of a few million share with their neighbors the bless- security and advanced the spread of friends, worked the great miracle of ings of faith, hope, and charity. peace, liberty, and democracy to mil- the age. And he did it all smiling Reagan knew these were the virtues lions of people who had lived in dark- through the condescending insults of that built our Nation and remain the ness and oppression. As America’s his critics, who, bless their hearts, essential ingredients of American President, he helped change the world. could never quite get past his infuri- achievement, the tonic that has sus- The sun has now set on Ronald Rea- ating optimism. tained the United States for more than gan’s extraordinary American life. Just They said Ronald Reagan could ruin 200 years, in Emerson’s words, as ‘‘the as he told us that our Nation’s best the economy, but in fact he led it to country of tomorrow.’’ days are yet to come, we know that the heights of strength and prosperity Reagan loved that quote, and the same is true for him. never before witnessed in history. idea behind it; that even as we stand GEORGE W. BUSH. They said Reagan would provoke our today as the oldest democracy on THE WHITE HOUSE, June 8, 2004. enemies to war, but in fact he bent our Earth, we remain the youthful cham- f enemies to surrender without firing a pion of liberty and justice, best poised EXPRESSING PROFOUND REGRET single shot. of all nations to lead mankind in the AND SORROW OF THE HOUSE ON They said Ronald Reagan was an uncertain future. He believed it was THE DEATH OF RONALD WILSON ‘‘amiable dunce,’’ but in fact he was a true because he knew it had to be. REAGAN, FORMER PRESIDENT fearless intellectual warrior, who mar- He knew that without the American OF THE UNITED STATES OF shaled words like soldiers to fight bat- Nation, that is without the American AMERICA tles of ideas across a table or across a people and their steadfast adherence to continent, and won. the true and the good, the West could Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I offer a Which is why his death, even after a fail in the Cold War and fail the cause privileged resolution (H. Res. 663) and decade of slow, agonizing decline, of freedom around the world. And so he ask for its immediate consideration. comes as a shock to all of us. For Ron- never let failure become an option. The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- ald Reagan was not just a man. He was From the earliest days of his admin- lows: the personification of an idea. And not istration, President Reagan stood be- H. RES. 663 just an idea, but the idea: the irre- fore the world and proclaimed the Resolved, That the House of Representa- ducible American idea that this Na- United States’ commitment to free- tives has learned with profound regret and tion, founded by a generation of heroes dom. He called the Soviet Union the sorrow of the death of Ronald Wilson upon the self-evident truth of equality Evil Empire and declared that ‘‘re- Reagan, former President of the United under God, is possessed of a special gimes planted by bayonets do not take States of America. commission in the affairs of men. root.’’ He met with Pope John Paul II Resolved, That the House tenders its deep sympathy to the members of the family of According to Ronald Reagan, and ac- and pledged to assist and equip the Sol- the former President in their bereavement. cording to Washington, Lincoln, Roo- idarity movement in Poland. He called Resolved, That in recognition of the many sevelt, and Kennedy before him, Amer- the Soviet’s bluff at Reykjavik and virtues, public and private, of one who served ica is not just another Nation. Instead, went to the Brandenburg Gate to chal- with distinction as President, the Speaker we are the last, best hope on Earth; the lenge Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev shall appoint a committee of the House to torch of freedom guiding mankind to ‘‘tear down this wall.’’ join with such Members of the Senate as through the darkness; the living prom- Around the world, his words and may be designated, to attend the funeral ise to all times and men that despite deeds filtered down to the oppressed services of the former President. citizens behind the Iron Curtain who Resolved, That the Sergeant-at-Arms of the the relentless march of tyranny, the House be authorized and directed to take ultimate victory of liberty is assured. knew, for the first time, that the such steps as may be necessary for carrying And people wonder where he got his American President and his people out the provisions of these resolutions, and optimism. Of course Ronald Reagan were coming to the rescue; that the that the necessary expenses in connection was an optimist. He was an American. truth about the evils of Communism

VerDate jul 14 2003 01:58 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A08JN7.015 H08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3791 was being exposed to the world, and ican people. As Americans, we have al- And all Americans, and I know every- that the West had made a conscious de- ways dared to dream. And so President one who serves in the Congress of the cision that the Cold War was not to be Reagan appealed to the enduring belief United States for sure, have been managed, but fought and won. that sustains us as a people: That touched by the dignity, private To Ronald Reagan, the answers to America’s best days are yet to come. strength and public grace of Nancy the world’s problems were ‘‘not sim- We remember his leadership. Those Reagan and the Reagan family to plistic,’’ ‘‘but they were simple.’’ In of us on this side of the aisle may not whom we offer our prayers and deepest foreign policy, evil must be confronted. have always stood with him on matters condolences. Our Nation is in your debt Domestically, more government is not of policy, but we always knew where he for the care and love you gave our the solution; it is the problem. Pub- stood, as he did us, when it came to President and the dignity with which licly, honesty is the best policy. And matters of principle. And though firm you held his hands at the end. privately, follow the golden rule. in his convictions, President Reagan I hope it is a comfort to Mrs. Reagan This was not merely the recipe for a was not afraid of compromise. Indeed, and the Reagan family that the whole spectacular career, which dominated the lifelong crusader against com- world mourns their loss and is praying and forever altered the map of the munism will be remembered for signing for them at this sad time. world, or for the national pride he re- the first agreement with the Soviet For his eloquent defense of freedom, stored to an America that, under his Union to actually destroy nuclear for his leadership style of conviction watch, became freer, stronger, and weapons. and compromise, for his eternal opti- more prosperous than any nation in We remember his eloquence. After mism for the future, America pays history. It was also the recipe for a full the loss of our Challenger astronauts, tribute to President Ronald Wilson life of love and friendship, an ineffable President Reagan consoled a grieving Reagan. romance with his wife, Nancy. Nation. And whether in front of the May God bless Ronald Reagan, may In short, he left the world a better Berlin Wall, or overlooking the beaches God bless this country that he loved place than he found it and left his of Normandy, he echoed the democratic and led, may Ronald Reagan rest in country with policies in place to solve aspirations of freedom-loving people peace. problems great and small. It is for us, everywhere. The SPEAKER. Would the gentleman then, who inhabit the world he shaped, We remember his grace and humor. from Illinois (Mr. LAHOOD) please as- to finish the work he began. For we This is a story that perhaps our col- sume the Chair. honor him best not by our words today, league, the gentleman from California Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I yield but our deeds tomorrow, and the next (Mr. LEWIS), understands and appre- such time as he may consume to the day and the next, to do right by each ciates better than most in the Cham- gentleman from Illinois (Speaker other, right by our Nation, and right ber. When Ronald Reagan was Gov- HASTERT). by our responsibilities to history. ernor of California, he came to the leg- Mr. HASTERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise Though he may no longer be with us, islative chamber to deliver the State of today to honor the life and the legacy Mr. Speaker, we still live in an Age of the State Address. Because it was near of our Nation’s 40th President, Ronald Reagan. Come Friday afternoon, he the time of his birthday, they wheeled Wilson Reagan. will be laid to rest, after making one in a birthday cake and sang Happy He was born in the small town of final journey home to his beloved Cali- Birthday to then-Governor Reagan. I Tampico, Illinois, which is in my con- fornia coast. But even as we say our have to add at that time, the Speaker gressional district, and grew up in tearful goodbyes that evening, and the of the Assembly of California was a Dixon, another town some of my con- sun sets out West over the Pacific, we giant of a man, Jess Unruh, and who stituents call home. It was there that will find in ourselves the strength to sometimes did not see eye to eye with he learned the common-sense values carry on without our hero. then-Governor Reagan. They sang and virtues that helped him reshape We will simply do as Reagan did at Happy Birthday, and Governor Reagan not only our Nation, but also the the end of any long and difficult day. blew out the candles. Someone said, world. We will turn and look to the east with ‘‘Governor, did you make a wish?’’ When I first ran for public office in anticipation and wonder, and wait for Mr. Speaker, the Governor looked up 1980, for the Illinois Legislature, Ron- another hopeful dawn. and said, ‘‘Yes, I made a wish, but it ald Reagan was running for President. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she did not come true; he is still there,’’ as Back then people did not have a lot of may consume to the gentlewoman from he spoke to the then-speaker. faith in America and what America California (Ms. PELOSI), the minority At the end of the day, though, Presi- could do. What made him so special leader. dent Reagan knew whatever may di- was his willingness to step forward at a vide us by party is dwarfed by what time when the rest of the world was b 1815 unites us as Americans. Speaker Tip stepping back and remind us what Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I thank O’Neill famously told of how he and the made America ‘‘The Shining City on the gentleman for yielding me this President clashed by day, but were the Hill.’’ He restored our faith in time. friends after 6 p.m., prompting the America, and he made us proud to be Mr. Speaker, with the death of Ron- President to begin his phone calls, Americans again. ald Reagan and the dignity with which ‘‘Tip, is it after 6 p.m.?’’ His easy-going personality and a he left us, there is truly mourning in We remember Ronald Reagan’s faith sense of humor endeared him to the America. If the meaning of a life can be in his country, in his family, and in his people he served. His word was his measured by the hearts touched by God. In that poignant letter 10 years bond. It was genuine. His honesty and one’s death, the outpouring of grief at ago announcing his battle with Alz- sincerity were the foundation of his the death of our 40th President speaks heimer’s disease, President Reagan strength while working with Demo- to the distinctly American life that wrote, ‘‘When the Lord calls me home, crats and Republicans in both Houses was Ronald Wilson Reagan. whenever that may be, I will leave with of Congress. We Californians mourn Ronald the greatest love for this country of The world struggled against com- Reagan as our Governor; all Americans ours and eternal optimism for its fu- munism, but our country stood tall as mourn Ronald Reagan as our Presi- ture. I know that for America, there Ronald Reagan’s perseverance led the dent; and people the world over mourn will always be a bright new dawn world to freedom. As a former history Ronald Reagan, the passionate voice ahead,’’ that dawn referenced by the teacher, I have taught students about for freedom. gentleman from Texas (Mr. DELAY). George Washington and Thomas Jeffer- Today a grateful Nation remembers We remember Ronald Reagan’s dig- son. I have taught them about our fel- Ronald Reagan the man. We remember nity, the dignity with which he lived low Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, and I his indomitable optimism and abiding and led our country, and the dignity have taught them about FDR and JFK. love of country. Ronald Reagan under- with which he died, turning the long History has now called Ronald Reagan stood the greatness of America has al- good-bye of his final years into a lesson to take his place alongside the most ways been the character of the Amer- for all of us. noble of our countrymen. Here in the

VerDate jul 14 2003 01:58 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.012 H08PT1 H3792 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 People’s House, thousands of Ameri- Davis (CA) Jones (OH) Putnam Burns Gutierrez Ney cans will file in the Capitol Rotunda to Davis (FL) Kanjorski Quinn Capps Hastings (FL) Ose Davis (IL) Keller Radanovich Carson (OK) Houghton Payne honor the People’s President. Davis (TN) Kelly Ramstad Carter Jones (NC) Pombo He will be remembered as a symbol of Davis, Jo Ann Kennedy (MN) Rehberg Case Kaptur Rahall peace through strength, but most of all Davis, Tom Kennedy (RI) Renzi Clay Kilpatrick Rangel Deal (GA) Kildee Reynolds Collins King (NY) Regula we will remember him for the hope he DeFazio Kind Rogers (AL) Conyers Kingston Reyes gave to the rest of the world that free- DeGette King (IA) Rogers (KY) Cubin Kucinich Rodriguez dom was possible. His grit, his sheer DeLauro Kirk Rogers (MI) Delahunt Lampson Ros-Lehtinen willpower made it possible for more DeLay Kleczka Rohrabacher DeMint Larson (CT) Royce Diaz-Balart, L. Kline Ross Deutsch Lee Rush people to walk in freedom today than Diaz-Balart, M. Knollenberg Rothman Dingell Lofgren Sanders at any other time throughout history. Dicks Kolbe Roybal-Allard Dooley (CA) Lynch Shadegg Doggett LaHood Ruppersberger Doolittle Majette Skelton Not only was he an ambassador of the Dunn McCarthy (MO) Solis Doyle Langevin Ryan (OH) American people and the American English McDermott Souder Dreier Lantos Ryan (WI) Duncan Larsen (WA) Evans McInnis Spratt way of life, President Reagan was an Ryun (KS) Edwards Latham Fattah Menendez Stark ambassador of faith. He reminded us of Sabo Ehlers LaTourette Frost Millender- Stupak Sa´ nchez, Linda his faith when America grieved the loss Emanuel Leach Gephardt McDonald Tauzin T. of the seven astronauts of the Chal- Emerson Levin Gilchrest Miller, Gary Tiahrt Sanchez, Loretta Engel Lewis (CA) Gonzalez Mollohan Turner (TX) lenger space shuttle. He said, ‘‘We will Sandlin never forget them, nor the last time we Eshoo Lewis (GA) Graves Moran (VA) Wexler Etheridge Lewis (KY) Saxton Grijalva Murtha Woolsey saw them, this morning as they pre- Everett Linder Schakowsky pared for the journey and waved good- Farr Lipinski Schiff Schrock b 1855 bye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of Feeney LoBiondo Scott (GA) So the resolution was agreed. Earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’’’ Ferguson Lowey Filner Lucas (KY) Scott (VA) The result of the vote was announced Sensenbrenner Tonight, as we honor the man who Flake Lucas (OK) as above recorded. believed America was a ‘‘Shining City Foley Maloney Serrano Sessions A motion to reconsider was laid on on the Hill,’’ we should remember his Forbes Manzullo Ford Markey Shaw the table. words to the students of his alma Fossella Marshall Shays Stated for: mater, Eureka College in Illinois. He Frank (MA) Matheson Sherman Ms. SOLIS. Mr. Speaker, during rollcall vote said, ‘‘Live each day to the fullest. Franks (AZ) Matsui Sherwood Frelinghuysen McCarthy (NY) Shimkus No. 229 on the Bereavement resolution I was Live each day with enthusiasm, opti- Gallegly McCollum Shuster unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I mism and hope. If you do, I am con- Garrett (NJ) McCotter Simmons would have voted ‘‘yea’’. vinced that your contribution to this Gerlach McCrery Simpson Gibbons McGovern wonderful experiment we call America Slaughter f Gillmor McHugh Smith (MI) will be profound.’’ Gingrey McIntyre Smith (NJ) With Godspeed, Mr. President. God Goode McKeon Smith (TX) THE JOURNAL bless Ronald Reagan. God bless Amer- Goodlatte McNulty Smith (WA) The SPEAKER. Pursuant to clause 8 Gordon Meehan ica. Snyder Goss Meek (FL) Stearns of rule XX, the pending business is the Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I yield Granger Meeks (NY) Stenholm question of the Speaker’s approval of back the balance of my time. Green (TX) Mica Strickland the Journal. Green (WI) Michaud The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time Sullivan The question is on agreeing to the Greenwood Miller (FL) Sweeney has expired. Gutknecht Miller (MI) Tancredo Speaker’s approval of the Journal. Without objection, the previous ques- Hall Miller (NC) Tanner The question was taken; and the Harman Miller, George Tauscher Speaker announced that the ayes ap- tion is ordered on the resolution. Harris Moore Taylor (MS) There was no objection. Hart Moran (KS) peared to have it. Taylor (NC) Hastert Murphy The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Terry RECORDED VOTE Hastings (WA) Musgrave Thomas question is on the resolution. Hayes Myrick Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, Thompson (CA) The question was taken; and the Hayworth Nadler I demand a recorded vote. Thompson (MS) Hefley Napolitano Speaker pro tempore announced that Thornberry A recorded vote was ordered. Hensarling Neal (MA) the ayes appeared to have it. Tiberi The vote was taken by electronic de- Herger Nethercutt Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, on that I Herseth Neugebauer Tierney vice, and there were—ayes 318, noes 29, demand the yeas and nays. Hill Northup Toomey answered ‘‘present’’ 1, not voting 86, as Towns The yeas and nays were ordered. Hinchey Norwood follows: Hinojosa Nunes Turner (OH) The vote was taken by electronic de- Hobson Nussle Udall (CO) [Roll No. 230] Udall (NM) vice, and there were—yeas 355, nays 0, Hoeffel Oberstar AYES—318 not voting 80, as follows: Hoekstra Obey Upton Holden Olver Van Hollen Abercrombie Boehlert Chabot [Roll No. 229] Holt Ortiz Vela´ zquez Aderholt Boehner Chandler Akin Bonilla Chocola YEAS—355 Honda Osborne Visclosky Hooley (OR) Otter Vitter Alexander Bonner Clyburn Abercrombie Blackburn Cannon Hostettler Owens Walden (OR) Allen Bono Coble Aderholt Blumenauer Cantor Hoyer Oxley Walsh Andrews Boozman Cole Akin Blunt Capito Hulshof Pallone Wamp Baca Boswell Cooper Allen Boehlert Capuano Hunter Pascrell Waters Bachus Boucher Cox Andrews Boehner Cardin Hyde Pastor Watson Baird Boyd Cramer Baca Bonilla Cardoza Inslee Paul Watt Baker Bradley (NH) Crenshaw Bachus Bonner Carson (IN) Isakson Pearce Waxman Baldwin Brady (TX) Crowley Baird Bono Castle Israel Pelosi Weiner Ballenger Brown (OH) Culberson Baker Boozman Chabot Issa Pence Weldon (FL) Barrett (SC) Brown (SC) Cunningham Baldwin Boswell Chandler Istook Peterson (MN) Weldon (PA) Bartlett (MD) Brown, Corrine Davis (AL) Ballenger Boucher Chocola Jackson (IL) Peterson (PA) Weller Barton (TX) Brown-Waite, Davis (CA) Barrett (SC) Boyd Clyburn Jackson-Lee Petri Whitfield Bass Ginny Davis (FL) Bartlett (MD) Bradley (NH) Coble (TX) Pickering Wicker Beauprez Burgess Davis (IL) Barton (TX) Brady (TX) Cole Jefferson Pitts Wilson (NM) Bell Burr Davis (TN) Bass Brown (OH) Cooper Jenkins Platts Wilson (SC) Bereuter Burton (IN) Davis, Jo Ann Beauprez Brown (SC) Costello John Pomeroy Wolf Berkley Buyer Davis, Tom Bell Brown, Corrine Cox Johnson (CT) Porter Wu Berman Calvert Deal (GA) Bereuter Brown-Waite, Cramer Johnson (IL) Portman Wynn Berry Camp DeFazio Berkley Ginny Crane Johnson, E. B. Price (NC) Young (AK) Biggert Cannon DeGette Berman Burgess Crenshaw Johnson, Sam Pryce (OH) Young (FL) Bishop (GA) Cantor DeLauro Berry Burr Crowley Bishop (NY) Capito DeLay Biggert Burton (IN) Culberson NOT VOTING—80 Bishop (UT) Cardin Diaz-Balart, L. Bishop (GA) Buyer Cummings Blackburn Cardoza Diaz-Balart, M. Bishop (NY) Calvert Cunningham Ackerman Ballance Bilirakis Blumenauer Carson (IN) Dicks Bishop (UT) Camp Davis (AL) Alexander Becerra Brady (PA) Blunt Castle Doggett

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:49 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.014 H08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3793 Doyle Kind Putnam Conyers Jones (NC) Osborne the legislative day of June 9, 2004, Dreier King (IA) Quinn Crane Kaptur Ose Duncan Kirk Radanovich Cubin Kilpatrick Payne equally divided and controlled by the Edwards Kleczka Rehberg Cummings King (NY) Pombo Majority Leader and the Minority Ehlers Kline Renzi Delahunt Kingston Rahall Leader or their designees; Emanuel Knollenberg Reynolds DeMint Kucinich Rangel on each demand of the Majority Emerson Kolbe Rogers (AL) Deutsch Lampson Regula Engel LaHood Rogers (KY) Dingell Larson (CT) Reyes Leader or his designee, it shall be in Eshoo Langevin Rogers (MI) Dooley (CA) Lee Rodriguez order to debate the resolution on the Etheridge Lantos Rohrabacher Doolittle Lofgren Ros-Lehtinen legislative day of June 8, 2004, for an Everett Latham Ross Dunn Lynch Royce Farr LaTourette Rothman English Majette Rush additional hour equally divided and Feeney Leach Roybal-Allard Evans McCarthy (MO) Sanders controlled by the Majority Leader and Ferguson Levin Ruppersberger Fattah McDermott Shadegg Minority Leader or their designees; Flake Lewis (CA) Ryan (OH) Frost McInnis Skelton and, Foley Lewis (GA) Ryan (WI) Gephardt Meeks (NY) Solis Forbes Lewis (KY) Ryun (KS) Gilchrest Menendez Souder notwithstanding the operation of the Ford Linder Sa´ nchez, Linda Gonzalez Millender- Spratt previous question, the Chair at any Fossella Lipinski T. Graves McDonald Stark time may postpone further consider- Frank (MA) Lowey Sanchez, Loretta Grijalva Miller, Gary Stupak Franks (AZ) Lucas (KY) Saxton Gutierrez Miller, George Tauzin ation of the resolution until a time Frelinghuysen Lucas (OK) Schakowsky Gutknecht Mollohan Tiahrt designated by the Speaker. Gallegly Maloney Schiff Hastings (FL) Moran (VA) Turner (TX) The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Garrett (NJ) Manzullo Schrock Houghton Murtha Wexler the request of the gentleman from Gerlach Markey Scott (GA) Jefferson Ney Woolsey Gibbons Marshall Scott (VA) Texas? Gingrey Matheson Sensenbrenner b 1913 There was no objection. Goode Matsui Serrano f Goodlatte McCarthy (NY) Sessions So the Journal was approved. Gordon McCollum Shaw The result of the vote was announced HOUR OF MEETING ON TUESDAY, Goss McCotter Shays as above recorded. JUNE 15, 2004 Granger McCrery Sherman Stated for: Green (TX) McGovern Sherwood Ms. SOLIS. Mr. Speaker, during rollcall vote Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan- Green (WI) McHugh Shimkus imous consent that when the House ad- Greenwood McIntyre Shuster No. 230 on approving the journal, I was un- Hall McKeon Simmons avoidably detained. Had I been present, I journs on Monday, June 14, 2004, it ad- Harman McNulty Simpson would have voted ‘‘aye.’’ journ to meet at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Harris Meehan Smith (MI) June 15. Hastings (WA) Meek (FL) Smith (NJ) f Hayes Mica Smith (TX) The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Hayworth Michaud Smith (WA) PERSONAL EXPLANATION the request of the gentleman from Hefley Miller (FL) Snyder Texas? Ms. KILPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, personal Hensarling Miller (MI) Stearns There was no objection. Herger Miller (NC) Stenholm reasons prevented me from being present for Herseth Moore Sullivan legislative business scheduled for today, Tues- f Hill Murphy Sweeney Hinchey Musgrave Tanner day, June 8, 2004. Had I been present, I AUTHORIZING THE SPEAKER TO Hinojosa Myrick Tauscher would have voted ‘‘yea’’ on H. Res. 663, a DECLARE A RECESS ON TUES- Hobson Nadler Taylor (NC) privileged bereavement resolution for former DAY, JUNE 15, 2004, FOR THE Hoeffel Napolitano Terry Hoekstra Neal (MA) Thomas President Ronald W. Reagan (Rollcall vote PURPOSE OF RECEIVING IN Holden Nethercutt Thornberry No. 229), and ‘‘aye’’ on approving the Journal JOINT MEETING HIS EXCEL- Holt Neugebauer Tiberi (Rollcall vote No. 230). LENCY HAMID KARZAI, PRESI- Honda Northup Tierney Hooley (OR) Norwood Toomey f DENT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF Hostettler Nunes Towns THE TRANSITIONAL ISLAMIC Hoyer Nussle Turner (OH) PERSONAL EXPLANATION STATE OF AFGHANISTAN Hulshof Obey Upton Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Speaker, I was not Hunter Ortiz Van Hollen Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan- Hyde Owens Vela´ zquez present for rollcall vote No. 229, expressing imous consent that it may be in order Inslee Oxley Vitter the profound regret and sorrow of the House at any time on Tuesday, June 15, 2004, Isakson Pallone Walden (OR) of Representatives on the death of Ronald Israel Pascrell Walsh for the Speaker to declare a recess, Issa Pastor Wamp Wilson Reagan, former President of the United subject to the call of the Chair, for the Istook Paul Watson States of America (H. Res. 663); and rollcall purpose of receiving a joint meeting of Jackson (IL) Pearce Watt vote No. 230, a vote on the Journal. Had I His Excellency Hamid Karzai, Presi- Jackson-Lee Pelosi Waxman been present, I would have voted ‘‘yea’’ for (TX) Pence Weiner dent of the Government of the Transi- Jenkins Peterson (PA) Weldon (FL) rollcall vote Nos. 229 and 230. tional Islamic State of Afghanistan. John Petri Weldon (PA) f The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Johnson (CT) Pickering Whitfield Johnson (IL) Pitts Wicker MAKING IN ORDER AT ANY TIME the request of the gentleman from Johnson, Sam Platts Wilson (NM) CONSIDERATION OF H. RES. 664, Texas? Kanjorski Pomeroy Wilson (SC) There was no objection. Keller Porter Wolf MOURNING THE PASSING OF Kelly Portman Wynn PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN f Kennedy (RI) Price (NC) Young (AK) Kildee Pryce (OH) Young (FL) Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan- DISPENSING WITH CALL OF THE imous consent that it shall be in order PRIVATE CALENDAR ON TUES- NOES—29 at any time to consider in the House DAY, JUNE 15, 2004 Capuano Moran (KS) Taylor (MS) House Resolution 664: E Costello Oberstar Thompson (CA) Mr. D LAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan- Filner Olver Thompson (MS) the resolution shall be considered as imous consent that the call of the Pri- Gillmor Otter Udall (CO) read for amendment; vate Calendar be dispensed with on Hart Peterson (MN) Udall (NM) the previous question shall be consid- Tuesday, June 15, 2004. Johnson, E. B. Ramstad Visclosky Jones (OH) Sabo ered as ordered on the resolution to The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Waters final adoption without intervening mo- Kennedy (MN) Sandlin Weller the request of the gentleman from Larsen (WA) Slaughter Wu tion, except (1) 2 hours of debate on the Texas? LoBiondo Strickland resolution on the legislative day of There was no objection. ANSWERED ‘‘PRESENT’’—1 June 8, 2004, equally divided and con- f Tancredo trolled by the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader or their designees; (2) DISPENSING WITH CALENDAR NOT VOTING—86 one motion to adjourn offered by the WEDNESDAY BUSINESS ON Ackerman Brady (PA) Carter Majority Leader or his designee on the WEDNESDAY NEXT Ballance Burns Case Becerra Capps Clay legislative day of June 8, 2004; and (3) 3 Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan- Bilirakis Carson (OK) Collins hours of debate on the resolution on imous consent that the business in

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:49 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A08JN7.004 H08PT1 H3794 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 order under the Calendar Wednesday Resolved, That the House of Representa- Two years after that, a group of rule be dispensed with on Wednesday tives— seven Republican freshmen legislators next. (1) expresses its deepest appreciation for were invited to the Governor’s home The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the profound public service of President Ron- for a little dinner. They had a set of ald Reagan; the request of the gentleman from (2) expresses its condolences to Nancy card tables in the living room, a couple Texas? Reagan and to Patti, Michael, Ron, and the sat down at one card table, I sat on an There was no objection. entire Reagan family; extra chair, and, lo and behold, the f (3) calls on the people of the United States Governor sat down beside me. The gen- to reflect on the record of President Reagan tleman from California (Mr. WAXMAN) MOURNING THE PASSING OF during this national period of remembrance may remember that I was a bit more PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN and to remember always his encouraging brash in those days than I choose to be Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- words: ‘‘We have every right to dream heroic now. er, pursuant to the order of the House dreams.’’; and And so almost immediately, I raised of today and as designee of the major- (4) directs the Clerk of the House of Rep- the subject of interest to me to the resentatives to transmit a copy of this reso- ity leader, I call up the resolution (H. lution to the family of President Reagan. then-Governor Reagan. I asked him Res. 664) mourning the passing of what he thought about preschool and President Ronald Reagan and cele- b 1915 child care. It did not take 30 seconds brating his service to the people of the The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the for me to begin to understand that I United States and his leadership in order of the House of today, the resolu- had asked the right question, for Gov- promoting the cause of freedom for all tion shall be debatable on this legisla- ernor Reagan knew an awful lot more the people of the world, and ask for its tive day for 2 hours, equally divided about preschool and child care than I immediate consideration. and controlled by the Majority and Mi- ever thought of knowing. He and Nancy The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- nority Leaders or their designees which had been thinking about this subject lows: may be extended for an additional hour for some time. And indeed, as a result H. RES. 664 on each demand of the Majority Leader of that beginning point of working to- Whereas President Ronald Reagan re- or his designee. gether in this very special area of edu- minded us that our great Nation was founded The resolution shall be debatable on cation, the Child Development Act was and built by people with great dreams and the legislative day of June 9, 2004, for 3 signed in 1972 by Governor Reagan and the courage to take great risks; hours equally divided and controlled by became the first major State quality Whereas President Reagan reminded his the Majority and Minority Leaders or day care programming that included countrymen of the Nation’s calling in world their designees. health components and education com- history: ‘‘From our forefathers to our mod- The Chair at any time may postpone ponents and involved parental respon- ern day immigrants, we’ve come from every further consideration of the resolution sibilities as well. corner of the earth, from every race and until a time designated by the Speaker. The Governor was way ahead of the every ethnic background, and we’ve become curve, as one might see; for some 25 a new breed in the world. We’re Americans, The gentleman from California (Mr. and we have a rendezvous with destiny.’’; LEWIS), as the designee of the Majority years later, Washington discovered the Whereas President Reagan championed Leader, and the gentleman from Cali- importance of child care. freedom and democracy throughout the fornia (Mr. WAXMAN), as the designee Another illustration of an interesting world, bringing courage to millions of people to the Minority Leader, each will con- side of the Governor who by many was suffering the bondage of tyranny and oppres- trol 1 hour. considered to be some way out there, sion; The Chair recognizes the gentleman far out on the right; but quickly those Whereas on June 12, 1987, President Reagan from California (Mr. LEWIS). who would observe carefully recognized stood at the Brandenburg Gate, the symbol that this Governor was looking out for GENERAL LEAVE of communism’s brutal oppression, and de- the benefit of all people of California manded: ‘‘General Secretary Gorbachev, if Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- and because of that, shortly he became you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the er, I ask unanimous consent that all very well known as an environmental Soviet Union and eastern Europe, if you seek Members may have 5 legislative days Governor. He joined quickly with Gov- liberalization: Come here to this gate. Mr. within which to revise and extend their ernor Laxalt of Nevada, and together Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, remarks on the resolution under con- tear down this wall!’’; hand in hand they literally saved Lake sideration. Whereas on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Tahoe. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Wall was torn down, signifying the end of the A leader way ahead of his time, it Cold War; the request of the gentleman from was my privilege to spend so much Whereas President Reagan, and his wife California? time in those early days with Governor There was no objection. Nancy, brought dignity and respect to the Ronald Reagan. At another time in White House and dedicated their lives to pro- Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- this evening’s discussion I would like moting national pride and to bettering the er, I yield myself such time as I may to spend a moment discussing with all quality of life in the United States and consume. of you my first experience with Gov- throughout the world; Mr. Speaker, through the years of ernor Reagan when he became Presi- Whereas on May 16, 2002, Congress be- having the opportunity to know Presi- stowed the congressional gold medal in rec- dent of the United States. ognition of their service to the Nation; dent Ronald Reagan, one could go down Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of Whereas Ronald Reagan’s eloquence united many a pathway in recalling his great- my time. Americans in times of triumph and tragedy; ness. My first recollection of Ronald Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield Whereas on January 28, 1986, President Reagan, I can recall clearly I was lying myself such time as I may consume. Reagan comforted a grieving nation as on the living room floor, and he was Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay trib- Americans mourned the death of seven giving this speech on behalf of Barry ute to President Ronald Reagan. Presi- American astronauts who ‘‘slipped the surly Goldwater. The remarks in that speech dent Reagan has been a part of my en- bonds of earth to touch the face of God’’; entitled, ‘‘A Time For Choosing,’’ Whereas President Reagan spent the twi- tire political life. President Reagan got light of his life as he always lived, leading a never to forget, ‘‘You and I have a ren- his start in politics when he was elect- fight against Alzheimer’s disease with faith, dezvous with destiny. We will preserve ed Governor in 1966. Two years later, I courage, and dignity, with the greatest love for our children this, the last best hope got my start in politics when I was for the Nation and eternal optimism for its of man on Earth, or we will sentence elected to the California legislature. I future; them to take the last step into a thou- served in the State legislature until Whereas by opening his heart to the Na- sand years of darkness.’’ I will never 1974, the last year of Governor Rea- tion about his affliction with Alzheimer’s forget rolling over on the floor and say- gan’s term. And, of course, I served in disease, President Reagan promoted greater ing to my family, ‘‘This guy ought to awareness of this condition; and the Congress of the United States for Whereas President Reagan appealed to the be Governor of California.’’ And, by the entire 8 years of his Presidency. best hopes of the American people, not their golly, just 2 years later, he was: Gov- I knew from those early days that worst fears, and to their confidence rather ernor Ronald Reagan, elected in 1966 by President Reagan had remarkable po- than their doubts: Now, therefore, be it the people of California. litical skills. He is known as the Great

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:49 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.019 H08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3795 Communicator and, truly, he was. President Reagan came to Wash- Today America’s light shines a little President Reagan knew how to connect ington at a moment when our country dimmer because he is gone, but, Mr. with people. And he could articulate was in great malaise. Interest rates Speaker, it shines much brighter than values and resonate across America had risen as high as 211⁄2 percent. Infla- it would have if he had not been here. and around the world with his ideals. tion was raging the country. Jobs were He made a difference in America. He He was also likable and charming. very, very difficult to come by. And in made a difference in the world. Today For many years, President Reagan typical Ronald Reagan fashion, the people all over the world are remem- was actually my constituent. Holly- President for whom the glass was al- bering and recognizing that difference. wood, the place and the industry asso- ways more than half full, he began set- Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am ciated with it, had a great impact on ting forth policies that reduced inter- pleased to yield 4 minutes to the gen- his life. It refined his communication est rates, that impacted inflation, and tleman from Illinois (Mr. DAVIS), dis- skills and honed his sense of drama and created jobs. He set a stage for tomor- tinguished member of the Committee delivery. And it gave him something row that would lead us all to believe in on Government Reform, to offer his that many people do not fully appre- America again and have new hope and presentation on this resolution. ciate, an understanding that in Amer- opportunity within our country. Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I ica, with hard work and honest values, It is my privilege, Mr. Speaker, to want to thank the ranking member of Hollywood endings really can come yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from the Committee on Government Reform true. Missouri (Mr. BLUNT). for yielding me the time. President Reagan thought our Nation Mr. BLUNT. Mr. Speaker, I want to Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join with should be a shining example to the thank the gentleman from California my colleagues as we pay tribute to the world. And under his leadership, we (Mr. LEWIS) for yielding this time to life and legacy of President Reagan. A were really admired and respected me and leading this important recogni- bigger-than-life screen actor and tele- around the world. He viewed America tion today. vision personality, Ronald Reagan as a city on the hill, a beacon for free- I also want to thank you, Mr. Speak- moved from being Governor of Cali- dom and a model for democracy. er, for your special understanding of fornia in the 1960s to President of the And here is another thing many peo- President Reagan from your work in United States and dominating Amer- ple do not fully appreciate: President the military serving alongside him in ican politics in the 1980s. He was the Reagan was a pragmatic leader. He had his days in the White House. first President to be reelected to a sec- strong convictions, but if he learned What all of those that served with ond term since Dwight D. Eisenhower. that those convictions were taking the President or watched him from afar Media-made and media-presented, America in the wrong direction, he had were able to see was how his optimistic President Reagan got millions of the confidence and the wisdom to leadership reinvigorated the American Americans to feel proud of their Na- change course. tion. America’s 40-year Cold War with As everyone knows, President spirit and how it redefined the politics the Soviet Union cooled considerably Reagan was afflicted with Alzheimer’s of his time. Born in a small town near and perhaps actually ended during Rea- disease in the last 10 years of his life. the middle of America, this son of a gan’s Presidency. Many Americans President Reagan struggled with this shoe salesman rose to heights of gigan- credit him with having achieved that terrible condition with great dignity. tic proportion and lifted his country- significant outcome. And with great courage he and his wife men along with him. Born the son of a shoe salesman in Nancy shared his struggle with the After facing his last great challenge small-town Illinois, President Reagan’s American people. It is a true tragedy with courage and patience, Ronald impoverished but loving parents in- that this country lost the opportunity Reagan now takes his place where his stilled in him a sense of optimism that to have this elder statesman involved vision is once again clear, his faith re- carried him through college as an aver- and seek his advice and leadership in warded, and his storied sense of humor age student. After graduation, he the last years of his life. returned. He placed his faith in God I know that all of us in this body along with economic and permanent worked for a few years as a sports would like to find a fitting way to freedom. And the world is a better broadcaster in Midwestern radio before honor President Reagan’s life. For my place because of those beliefs. landing a film contract with Warner part, I can think of no better tribute President Reagan helped raise indi- Brothers, which took him to Hollywood than an accelerated effort to address viduals up and helped tear down the in 1936. the horrific disease known as Alz- Berlin Wall. He inspired us, and he was Over the next 30 years, President heimer’s. Mrs. Reagan, the President’s inspired by us. President Reagan’s Reagan made scores of films, including beloved wife, bravely spoke out about leadership inspired more current mem- Army films produced during World War this just last month. In her moving bers of our conference on my side of II. He hosted two popular television se- words she said, ‘‘Science has presented the aisle than any other political fig- ries and was actively engaged in poli- us with a hope called stem cell re- ure in the 20th century. tics as president of the Screen Actors search which may provide our sci- When I became the majority whip in Guild. entists with many answers that for so this Congress, I named the conference In the 1950s, President Reagan long have been beyond our grasp. We room in the whip’s office the Reagan changed from being a Roosevelt New have lost so much time already. I just Room for the brief time I am privileged Deal Democrat to a conservative Re- really cannot bear to lose any more.’’ to make that designation. And I hope publican. In 1966, he became Governor Well, it is past time for us to seize the many of my colleagues come by that of California and was reelected in 1970. potential that Nancy Reagan identi- room during this week on the third Using his popularity in California, he fied. There could be no important or floor of the Capitol and view the photo- unsuccessfully challenged President more lasting legacy to her husband. graphs there chronicling the life of this Gerald Ford for the Republican nomi- America has lost a devoted citizen remarkable man from his days as a nation in 1976. He tried again and won and a dedicated leader. I want Mrs. radio announcer to those that fore- the nomination in 1980 and thereafter Reagan and the Reagan family to know shadowed the end of the Soviet Union. defeated the incumbent Democrat they are in my heart and in my Jimmy Carter. With his 1984 reelection b 1930 thoughts. President Reagan’s passing victory, President Reagan became the is truly felt among Democrats and Re- President Reagan said, We are a pow- most politically successful Republican publicans, by all Americans, and people erful force for good. With faith and President since President Eisenhower. of goodwill all around the world. We courage we can perform great deeds In the last 7 years, as President will certainly miss him. and take freedom’s next step, and we Reagan battled Alzheimer’s disease, Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of will. our Nation went from having zero my time. America is taking freedom’s next drugs for this devastating disease to Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- step, and we are doing so in large part today having five new prescriptive er, I yield myself such time as I may because of President Ronald Wilson drugs to help manage and treat the consume. Reagan. progression of Alzheimer’s. Today it is

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:49 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.021 H08PT1 H3796 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 even possible to diagnose Alzheimer’s library stands. His grave overlooks the conversation when God called and said, with more than 90 percent accuracy. It farmlands, ranches and chaparral of who will go for us and whom shall we is clear that Alzheimer’s does not dis- the Tierra Rejada Valley. On a clear send, that great prophet Isaiah said, at criminate on whom it affects, regard- day, one can see the Channel Islands in no hesitation, here I am, Lord, send less of gender, ethnicity, socio- the Pacific Ocean more than 30 miles me. economic status, political ideology or away. It is a fitting place for America’s Ronald Reagan responded the same if one worked the fields, in the fac- greatest son. way. I can almost see it. When the tories or in the Oval Office. Mr. Speaker, it is the end of an era, Lord called and said, who will go for us With now more than 4.5 million peo- but it is the beginning of a legacy that and who will we send to perform that ple suffering from this disease, the up- will last forever. We will miss him. nobility of purpose in life that Ronald setting effects of Alzheimer’s is grow- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Reagan did, which is the legacy of his ing faster than modern medicine can KLINE). The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Presidency, I can see him getting to at- manage. This is only likely to become STENHOLM) is recognized as the des- tention and saying, here I am, Lord, more complicated with the aging of the ignee of the minority leader. send me. baby boomers, boosting the number of Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield God bless Ronald Reagan. Alzheimer’s patients to an astounding such time as he may consume to the Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- 11 to 16 million people by the middle of gentleman from Georgia (Mr. SCOTT). er, it is my honor to yield 6 minutes to the century. Mr. SCOTT of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from California (Mr. As a way to honor President Reagan, today we remember a true leader, a THOMAS), the chairman of the Com- let us make the greatest commitment statesman and a great man who led our mittee on Ways and Means. that we can to real investment in re- country with dignity, with grace and (Mr. THOMAS asked and was given search for Alzheimer’s disease and fol- with strength. President Reagan was permission to revise and extend his re- low through with clinical trials to the quintessential American who ex- marks.) translate the research into treatments. emplified unbridled optimism, a strong Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Speaker, we are We must now act to make the lives of sense of faith and the idea that our Na- all going to talk about President all Alzheimer’s patients more com- tion was a true beacon for the world. Reagan, Commander-in-Chief Reagan, fortable with a better quality of life, There is no doubt that among his leader of the free world Reagan. Some while hopefully being able to prevent greatest achievements was his resolve of us were privileged to know him in a this disease in the future. to end the Cold War so that other Na- different context. My friend from Cali- Mr. President, as one might say in a tions could experience the glory of fornia (Mr. LEWIS), the chairman, has western movie, you had a good ride and freedom and the power of democracy. talked about his relationship with him our country is proud to say, ‘‘Much His combination of political strength when he was Governor of California. obliged.’’ and personal appeal, his ability to com- I knew him in a number of different Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- municate set the forces in motion for contexts, and I was always amazed at er, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman the walls of communism to crumble, one thing, and that was he was the from California (Mr. GALLEGLY). and for this he will always be remem- same person regardless of the context Mr. GALLEGLY. Mr. Speaker, I bered. in which you met him, worked with thank the gentleman from California However, President Reagan should him and was led by him. (Mr. LEWIS) for bringing this resolution also be remembered, especially in this In 1974, I decided that I would run for to the floor today. House, for his willingness to fight in public office. He was then in the last President Reagan’s impact on Amer- the political arena with dignity, with year of his governorship, and he de- ica and the world is immeasurable. He respect for his opponents, and his cided to come to Bakersfield, and so I ended the Cold War and restored Amer- strong belief that democracy was for planned an event for the Governor. We ica’s confidence. His Republican ad- all of our citizens, even those with decided that we would charge what ministration rebuilt our economy with whom he might have disagreed. Presi- seemed to be an appropriate amount, the help and support of a Democratic dent Reagan exemplified civility and $25 a head, and almost 500 people came House of Representatives. honor in an arena that is often lacking to see the Governor. I had no doubts President Reagan achieved such suc- in both, and because of that he earned about why they were coming. cesses because when you sat in a room the goodwill not only of his supporters, We picked him up at the airport, and with him, there could be over 1,000 peo- but often of his friendly adversaries. In when we got in the car, he started quiz- ple in the room, yet you felt like there the end we remember a man, Ronald zing me about me, and so I was visiting was only the two of you, and his won- Reagan, not only as a great leader, but with him. But as we got closer, I said, derful wit would put you at ease. That as a good and decent man. well, do you want to take just a little was a tremendous gift. My condolences and prayers are with time now so that you can get ready for That is why some of his biggest polit- his family and with his wife Nancy, the event? He said, Bill, if I am not ical enemies were among his closest who shared him with our country. ready now, 5 minutes will not make personal friends. It is why a staunch Mr. Speaker, we are all called by God any difference. anti-Communist could negotiate with for a special purpose with this turn at the President of the Soviet Union. light that he gives us. Some nobility of b 1945 President Reagan reached across and purpose is embedded in each of us with He was always prepared. He was al- President Reagan connected with peo- that calling, and as it is the case with ways on time, whether it was a minor ple. Ronald Reagan, there will be on his event or if it was a debate with other President Reagan is now at rest. We tombstone 1911 to 2004, but the most leaders of the world. mourn his passing, but we are grateful important thing on his tombstone will And you see him in a bunch of dif- for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, be the dash in between. For the funda- ferent contexts and you say, well, of strong economic base, and a renewed mental call from God is always what course, because he was a movie star belief in America’s greatness. will we do with the dash. and he is supposed to carry himself. Mr. Speaker, President Reagan will Ronald Reagan did great things with And the point I want to make, if I do be laid to rest at his Presidential li- his dash. For those 93 years in that not make any other point, is he was brary in Simi Valley, California. It is dash was actor, head of a union, broke that way because of who he was, not where I began my political career as down the barriers of communism, the because of what he did. Because, frank- mayor and city councilman. It has Star Wars defense system, his legacy of ly, if you tried to write a script and been my home for more than 35 years. rebuilding the Republican Party. went to Hollywood on Ronald Reagan’s President Reagan often spoke about Yes, Ronald Reagan was a great man, life, you would last about 2 minutes in a shining city on a hill. The Ronald and he, as so many of us, have heeded the room. Because people are willing to Reagan Presidential Library is such a the call, and as I think of Ronald suspend belief, but not that much. place. President Reagan will be laid to Reagan, I am reminded of the great And what I like most about the jux- rest at the edge of a high hill where his prophet Isaiah who said in that great taposition of Ronald Reagan and his

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:49 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.023 H08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3797 career, which was kind of molded out particularly pleased that the gen- gentleman from California (Mr. LEWIS), of the context that he found himself in, tleman from Texas is managing the supported his efforts to build up our de- was that the American people were time, because I think if Ronald Reagan fenses, to deploy those Persian and wise enough, first of all to choose him were here, he would say, CHARLES cruise missiles, to, yes, even provide as Governor of California for the tradi- STENHOLM was one of those who stood for multiple warheads on the MX mis- tional two terms, had he chosen to run with me on principle, who believed that sile, and say to the Soviet Union, if for a third term he probably could have we needed to get this country moving, you want to compete, we are prepared gotten elected; and the American peo- and believed that we needed to have to compete; but we would rather seek ple chose him for two terms as Presi- sound policy; and CHARLES STENHOLM peace together. And he had the courage dent, a now constitutionally limited stood with me. And as the gentleman to build up, and he had the courage to period of time. Were it not for that from California (Mr. THOMAS) just re- make peace. constitutional limit, he may have been lated, for Ronald Reagan the concrete While Democrats disagreed with and elected again. cracked again, frankly, when he viewed strongly opposed much of his domestic And so when you watch people recog- the program adopted and thought that agenda, our political differences never nizing Ronald Reagan as they pass the perhaps some changes needed to be hardened into paralyzing personal ani- casket, as they did in California, many made. mosity on his side or on ours. We were people will have an individual memory, Mr. Speaker, like every Member of blessed by the fact that we were led by perhaps a general shared one, and per- this House, I offer my sincere condo- two great Irishmen, Ronald Reagan haps a personal one. For me, Ronald lences to the family and friends of and Tip O’Neill. They were friends. And Reagan’s life means that any American former President Reagan, particularly, they had a third friend, his name was can do anything any American wants of course, his beloved wife, Nancy, and Michel, Bob Michel, an extraordinary to do. For Ronald Reagan, the public his children. What a wonderful example leader of this House. And they, to- person, it means he made sure that he Nancy Reagan set for our country. gether, believed that country was more set up a structure which allows any Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan important than partisanship and party. American to do whatever any Amer- clearly loved one another deeply and For the most part, they worked to- ican wants to do; and his justification cared for one another, and Nancy gether. On those matters that they dis- and enabling of that is, he would tell Reagan has shown extraordinary cour- agreed on, they took their own sepa- you, because I did. age and fidelity not only throughout rate ways. But when they could agree, You are going to hear him called the the course of their marriage but par- they did. The Social Security reform of Great Communicator a lot. What you ticularly in the course of Ronald Rea- 1983 was probably the most stark exam- also need to know was he was a great gan’s final illness. ple of that cooperative spirit. It was compromiser. It can be put no more Mr. Speaker, Ronald Reagan loved good for the country, it was good for clearly than a comment he made when this Nation and served it with distinc- Social Security, and they came to- he was Governor of California, because tion; and he will ever be remembered gether, worked together, and succeeded he became Governor with an enormous for his humor, his grace, his irrepress- together. debt at that time for the State of Cali- ible optimism which mirrored the That was due in great measure to the fornia. California did not have a with- American spirit and buoyed it in peri- leadership styles and personalities of holding tax, and he needed to create a ods of difficulty. President Reagan and Speaker O’Neill. front load for money to solve the prob- The last decade, when this man who These two men, the most powerful po- lem that he was facing. He had, how- had lived life with such physical vigor litical figures in our Nation in the ever, made a statement earlier that his slowly slipped away, was an especially 1980s, one a Republican, the other a feet were in concrete over not having a cruel blow. However, let us be com- Democrat, demonstrated to all Ameri- withholding tax. Once he looked at the forted today that he has been sum- cans that our elected leaders could dis- options in front of him and he realized moned to a far better place. agree politically without being dis- he did not have any options other than Having been elected to Congress just agreeable personalities or personally. instituting a withholding tax, having 4 months after he took office, and just They reminded all of us that cynicism worked with the legislature, he then 6 weeks after an assassin’s bullet near- and mean-spiritedness are inimical to went to the microphone and said, ly claimed his life, I had a front-row American democracy, and that our real ‘‘That cracking sound you hear is the seat during President Reagan’s 8 years adversaries lie beyond our shores, not cement breaking away from my feet.’’ in Washington. He was a man I both here. And so when you wonder why Ronald liked and respected. I liked him for his The surest tribute that we can pay to Reagan could get along with so many warmth and for the respect that he ac- Ronald Reagan today is to commit our- different people in so many stages of corded others, and I respected him for selves to recapture the generosity of life, whether small or great, it was be- the honesty of his convictions and the spirit that always guided him. In a cause Ronald Reagan was the same per- intellectual integrity that he displayed very real way, Ronald Reagan’s life son regardless of the job the American in pursuing them. was the embodiment of the American people gave him. He was always pre- After signing into law what was then Dream. Both President Reagan and pared, he was always on time, and he the largest tax cut in American history President Clinton, like Harry Truman, was a very, very sincere man. He was in 1981, President Reagan had the for- gave credence to the promise that in also quite smart, in ways that many titude to face fiscal reality, just as the America neither privileged birth nor people never understand. gentleman from California (Mr. THOM- economic advantage is necessary to en- So what I want to do tonight is to AS) reflected upon. His policies caused able one to become the President of the just share briefly the memoirs of some- yawning deficits and spiraling debt, United States of America. It was, for one who, if you are looking for an ex- consequences that he subsequently them, and for millions to follow their ample, he certainly stands out, not just tried to address, although not as suc- example, the land of opportunity. in what he did but the way in which he cessfully as I am sure he would have President Reagan’s leadership re- lived his life and the way in which he hoped. Without question, Ronald newed the conviction that the future recognized his condition later in life Reagan held strong ideological beliefs. would be better, better than the past, and the way in which he concluded his But one of his real strengths was his and that America’s best days were still life. All of us should pause and remem- willingness to put pragmatism above ahead. That is a philosophy that all of ber that he was an amazing, amazing ideology, to make sure that his coun- us should embrace and convey to our person. He was an American. try had programs that were working. fellow citizens. I believe it is the case, Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield I also remember him as a person who Ronald Reagan believed it was the such time as he may consume to the early in life committed to equality and case, and may God bless his soul and gentleman from Maryland (Mr. HOYER). justice for all, and later in life to the comfort his beloved wife, Nancy. Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank success of freedom and democracy Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- the gentleman from Texas (Mr. STEN- around the world. I believed he was er, it is a great honor to yield 6 min- HOLM) for yielding me this time. I am right in that endeavor, and like the utes to the gentleman from California

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:49 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.026 H08PT1 H3798 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 (Mr. ROHRABACHER), who served Ronald frequently and taking people’s lives. I spent those years of his life making Reagan as a part of his staff before have sought help. I have read the scrip- this a better world for my children. I coming to Congress. ture, and I have talked to other people just had three children just 6 weeks Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, it about this, and I have come to the con- ago today, and I am so grateful that he is a blessing that Ronald Reagan did clusion that if we are executing people made it a better world for them. not die immediately after leaving of- for revenge, that it is inconsistent with Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield fice in 1989. In these last 16 years that the principles that Jesus Christ taught such time as he may consume to the we have had Ronald Reagan with us, it us, but if we are executing murderers gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. ALEX- has given America a chance to take a in order to deter people from killing ANDER). look at who Ronald Reagan was and other human beings, we are doing it (Mr. ALEXANDER asked and was what he meant to our country. And then to save people, to save innocent given permission to revise and extend now, with 16 years that have passed, we people, and that is totally consistent his remarks.) can look back and see what an enor- with Christianity. Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, I mous difference Ronald Reagan made At that point Evelle Younger who want to thank the gentleman from not only to our lives as Americans but was the attorney general of the State, Texas (Mr. STENHOLM) for this time. to the entire world. reaches over and grabs the mike and Mr. Speaker, it is with great sadness Let me note that Ronald Reagan was says, oh, this religious and philo- that we devote this week to honor the 56 years old when I first met him, and sophical stuff does not mean anything. memory and the contributions of our that was when he was running for the The voters of this State voted for the 40th President Ronald Reagan. My first time for public office. He ran for death penalty, and they are going to thoughts and prayers are with Presi- public office for the first time when he get it. Well, my opinion of Ronald Rea- dent Reagan’s family and all of the was 56 years old. And all of these gan’s sword, I knew that he was a man Americans who grieve this week. things we are talking about, a man who did not take these things lightly, Mr. Speaker, President Reagan was a who accomplished so much and a man of strong conviction, but a man true patriot, committed to the ideals of changed the world for the better, hap- who deeply cared about people enough a democratic Nation, and dedicated to pened after he was 56 years old. He had to think about it and to pray about de- maintaining the strength of America already had a successful life, a full ca- cisions like this. He was not just a as a world power. His abilities as a reer. great communicator, and I worked for strong leader and a communicator gave And he did come from a relatively him as a speechwriter for 7 years in the Americans confidence and strength poor family. I know his first job was White House. He was, yes, someone during a time of economic hardship and being a lifeguard. That affected his way who understood the fundamentals of struggling with the Soviet Union. of looking at things his entire life. He communication, but that is not what President Reagan once said, ‘‘There saved 77 people’s lives as a lifeguard. made him great. He was not the great is no limit to what a man can do or And having gotten to know him as communicator. He was America’s great where he can go if he does not mind President and also during his cam- leader. He had ideals that helped direct who gets the credit.’’ We should follow paigns, I think he always had that con- his decisions. this example and remember that public sciousness, that he was there to save We have heard about his strong con- service is not about partisan battles or the day for the people who were in victions. We know today that most taking credit, it is about serving the some type of a crisis. people with strong convictions are not American people to the best of our He was a sports broadcaster, and he very pleasant to be around. When they ability. was a moderately successful film actor. talk about people with philosophies, I am honored to be here in Wash- But all of that seemed to be over when there is a saying that you cannot ington during this week of memorial he was 50 years old. And then, when he change somebody’s mind, and he will services. I am grateful to all of those was 56, he jumped into political life. not change the subject. Ronald Reagan involved with arranging the safety and Now, why did he do that? Because Cali- was a person who taught me that you logistics during a week when thousands fornia was a mess in 1966. can have strong principles and have a of Americans will journey to our Na- solid philosophy, but be a pleasant per- tion’s Capital to pay their respects to b 2000 son and care about people at the same President Reagan. And he came and stepped forward be- time. It was that type of humane ap- Mr. Speaker, as we face a new decade cause he felt he had a contribution to proach that permitted Ronald Reagan and new challenges, let us honor the make. He jumped into the political wa- to capture the hearts of the American life and contributions and remember ters to save the day. people and inspire us. the debt of gratitude we owe our 40th I was a youth volunteer in that first When our country was in such ter- President, Ronald Reagan. campaign, and I got to meet him per- rible peril economically and in retreat Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- sonally, and it was one of the joys of internationally, and our spirit had er, I yield myself such time as I may my life. been destroyed, people were not even consume. Let me note that years later after I waving the American flag back in the Ronald Reagan became President in got finished with school, I became a late 1970s, Ronald Reagan dove into the 1981 after an election in 1980. At that journalist, and I covered Ronald Rea- political waters again to save the day. point in our history, our defenses had gan’s last 2 years as Governor as a And he saved us. He was the lifeguard been reduced to such significant levels, journalist. I remember that he had a who saved us, and he saved the world. all of us were concerned about the fu- press conference one day, it was near Jim Bruelte, a political person in ture of America’s ability to defend the end of his term, where he was an- California, noted on D-Day the Amer- itself. Indeed, there were great leaders nouncing the findings of his law and ican soldiers liberated half of Europe. who recognized the importance of order task force. One of their findings Ronald Reagan liberated the other half building our defenses. Among those was an expanded use of the death pen- of Europe and did it without firing a who have come here since President alty. And just as I am now, I was then shot. Reagan was with us is the gentleman always trying to get to the heart of the We live in a more prosperous coun- from California (Mr. CUNNINGHAM). matter and ask the tough questions, try, a safer country, and hundreds of Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the and I asked President Reagan, who was millions of people now live in relative gentleman from California (Mr. then Governor, well, how can you be in freedom than if he would not have been CUNNINGHAM). favor of expanding the use of the death here. We are so grateful to Ronald Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, we penalty when you are a committed Reagan for having dove in to save us, rise to honor and mourn Ronald Christian? And, you know, he sat for- and he did. He saved America, and he Reagan. ward, and he leaned forward to the saved us personally. But first I would like to thank Mrs. mike, he says, I take that question I am now 56 years old, the same age Nancy Reagan. The wisest of men very seriously. I prayed about this, Ronald Reagan was when he first en- knows it takes a good woman to make about using the death penalty more tered politics. I am so grateful that he a good man, and what a good wingman

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:49 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.028 H08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3799 she has been, both in sickness and in God bless you, Nancy Reagan, and your membered. He will be forever remem- health. This Nation also owes Nancy family and the President. bered for the warmth and the respect Reagan a debt of gratitude; both of Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield with which he accorded others. Fur- them good and decent people. Ronald such time as she may consume to the thermore, our thoughts and prayers are Reagan was one of the most respected gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. JACK- with Nancy and his children at this dif- and effective Presidents in American SON-LEE). ficult time. history. Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Strong beliefs and a love of our coun- Mr. Speaker, the Irish have a toast, Speaker, I thank the gentleman for try are the only way to bring this and it goes like this. It is to those who yielding me this time, my friend and country forward as we face a costly and support Ronald Reagan, and everybody colleague, and also thank the gen- difficult war in Iraq and a budget that lifts their glass; to those who may sup- tleman from California (Mr. LEWIS) for is struggling to survive. Strength and port Ronald Reagan, and everybody allowing us to come at this time. leadership is what we need now. lifts their glass; and to those that will I imagine this time is the reason why Strength and leadership will be re- never support President Ronald so many of us, in fact I would say this quired to bring this Nation back to the Reagan, may God strike them in their entire House, cherishes this body and standards by which we have always shins so we shall know them by their cherishes this institution, because it been known. I believe it is appropriate limping. But there are not many of allows us to come at a time like this to read his famous words: ‘‘We have those, Mr. Speaker. and shed our Democratic and Repub- every right to dream heroic dreams. President Reagan said, you know, the lican labels and simply approach this Those who say that we’re in a time United States was never meant to be tribute as Americans. I would imagine when there are no heroes, they just the second best Nation. We set our that is what these times, although sad, don’t know where to look.’’ sights high for the stars, and we are allow us to do. President Reagan himself admitted going for the gold. He said that back in I am proud as an American to come that he was an optimist and he be- the 1980s. He came to the job with one forward and to salute an American lieved that this Nation had an opti- President, and to be able to join the underlying goal, and that was freedom. mistic future, and so he was always millions of Americans mourning the Freedom for you, Mr. Speaker, and peo- able to rise to the occasion and share passing of President Ronald Reagan ple all over the world, much to the words of encouragement. President and celebrate his service to the people same challenges that we have today; Reagan always stressed that America of the United States and his leadership the freedom in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in is a ‘‘can do’’ country. I would say to in promoting the cause of freedom for Afghanistan and in Iraq, and with the you that we Democrats agree. We can all of the people of the world. United Nations signing a resolution Protest has its place, protest is good and will get back on the right track, today following in suit much as Ronald in life, but protest has no place in largely through his legacy of integrity Reagan guided us through troublesome death, and so this opportunity is to ac- and hard work. With strong leadership times when he was President. knowledge the principles by which this and a real commitment to confronting Ronald Reagan restored the economy President lived and stood for during his the problems facing American families, of a double-digital inflation, interest Presidency. The love that President we can improve upon our weaknesses. rates the same thing. He gave this Na- Reagan had for this Nation was infec- Optimism, the true challenge for all tion tax relief, much as President Ken- tious to the point that it reflected on Americans, something President nedy and President Bush. He increased everyone who listened to him, here in Reagan has left as his legacy. the coffers by three times the amount. America and abroad. He once said, ‘‘The house we hope to Unfortunately, it was Congress that Even when his actions did not agree build is not for my generation but for spent a lot of that money. with the policies and initiatives of yours. It is your future that matters. He followed his pledge to restore our many of us who wear a different polit- And I hope that when you are my age, military. Ronald Reagan believed in ical hat, he maintained himself with you will be able to say as I have been peace through strength, and I think it integrity and engaged in honest and able to say, we lived in freedom, we showed through. He eliminated an en- open debate. We have heard repeatedly lived lives that were a statement, not tire class of nuclear weapons. He is re- over these last couple of days that de- an apology.’’ sponsible for bringing down the Berlin spite partisan disagreements, former It was interesting to hear over these Wall, ended the Cold War, and chal- President Reagan followed the tenet last couple of days the number of lenged governments to have a new way that at 5 p.m., we are no longer Demo- young people, then young people, who of life to bring freedom to their people, crats or Republicans; rather, we are were amazed that they had the oppor- also a task that we face today in this Americans, families and friends. tunity to work in President Reagan’s body and in this Nation. I am reminded of the stories told administration. Sixty-nine years old For his imprint on history, for his about he and Speaker of the House Tip when he took office, it seemed that he legacy which will be felt for genera- O’Neill, who shared in their Irish herit- gravitated toward young people. Now tions to come, this Nation owes Presi- age a bit of good conversation and being able to recite their wonderful ex- dent Reagan and Nancy Reagan a debt maybe a little bit of drink. periences again, a tribute to a man who of gratitude. had a great history. The President’s many legacies. b 2015 We will always remember him as the Navy’s newest nuclear carrier, the USS The differences may have been real; man who tore the Iron Curtain down. Ronald Reagan, will reside in San but because of the way President He did it with a kind of leadership and Diego. That aircraft carrier will travel Reagan led, he taught us that there is integrity but sternness and all over the world, much as Ronald a big difference between strong beliefs determinedness. I will simply say no Reagan did, and serves as a symbol of and bitter partisanship. As the Com- one will ever forget him challenging the respect and elegance of his family. mander in Chief, he was the voice of Mr. Gorbachev by saying, ‘‘Open this Throughout his political career, Presi- America in imparting both good news gate’’ and, ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down dent Reagan always concluded his cam- and bad news. As we mourned the loss this wall.’’ We are better for it. He did paign in San Diego. He called it his of our brave astronauts in the Chal- it with a sternness but also with an at- lucky city. We feel fortunate that he lenger tragedy, it was President titude of peace. considered San Diego so. It is only fit- Reagan who reminded us, ‘‘Nothing I am grateful also for the shining ex- ting that this great new shining city on ends here. Our hopes and our journeys ample of the wonderful relationship be- the hill, San Diego, will be called the continue.’’ We in Texas at that time tween him and his wife Nancy, the home of the USS Ronald Reagan, our appreciated his strong leadership and great love that they shared and the latest and newest nuclear aircraft car- that in fact even in spite of the Chal- fact that they were married for some 52 rier. lenger tragedy at that time, we would years. Might I share with you some Mr. Speaker, we bid Ronald Reagan prevail and we would go forward. words that he wrote in 1983 on their adieu and thank the Reagan family for President Ronald Wilson Reagan was 31st wedding anniversary as he was what they have given to this Nation. an American who will always be re- riding on Air Force One, and might I

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:49 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.030 H08PT1 H3800 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 commend to you Nancy’s book, ‘‘I Love Despite partisan disagreements, former you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the You, Ronnie,’’ published in 2000, but President Reagan followed the tenet that ‘‘at 5 Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek hear these words. He wrote, ‘‘I more p.m., we are no longer Democrats or Repub- liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. than love you, I’m not whole without licans; rather we are Americans, friends, and Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, you. You are life itself to me. When family.’’ tear down this wall!’’ The speech was made to you are gone I’m waiting for you to re- The differences were real, but because of the free people of West Berlin, but it was turn, so I can start living again.’’ That the way President Reagan led, he taught us clearly audible on the East side of the Wall, is a true testament to the value of that there is a big difference between strong and soon those words would help make it pos- marriage and partnership and they did beliefs and bitter partisanship. sible that the people of East and West Berlin it unabashedly and without fear. As the Commander-in-Chief, he was the could finally hear each other. For all of his Mrs. Reagan wrote in 1989, ‘‘Some of voice of America in imparting both good news achievements and acclaim, I am certain that the reporters who wrote about me felt and bad news. As we mourned the loss of our President Reagan’s greatest accomplishment that our marriage was at least partly brave astronauts in the Challenger tragedy, it will be the demise of the Soviet Union. As an act. But it wasn’t and it isn’t.’’ And was President Reagan who reminded us that Margaret Thatcher said, he was the man who I believe her. ‘‘Nothing ends here; our hopes and our jour- ‘‘won the cold war without firing a shot.’’ Finally, in 1998 she told Vanity Fair neys continue.’’ The world President Reagan faced when he magazine: ‘‘Our relationship is very President Ronald Wilson Reagan was an came in to office in 1981 was very different special. We were very much in love and American icon. He will be forever remembered from the world we see today. Today the still are. When I say my life began with for the warmth and the respect he accorded United States is the unquestioned superpower Ronnie, well, it’s true. It did. I can’t others. Furthermore, our thoughts and prayers of the world, but two decades ago this world imagine life without him.’’ are with Nancy and his children at this difficult was dominated by the struggle between two Mr. Speaker, I started by saying that time. superpowers: the United States and the Soviet is why I cherish this institution, be- Strong beliefs and a love of our country are Union. President Reagan came in to office cause it allows us now to come to- the only way to bring this country forward as with his own vision on how this great struggle gether again, not wearing any partisan we face a costly and difficult war in Iraq, the could be dealt with. He succeeded in main- hat but simply saying that we are largest budget deficit in history, escalating taining the stand-off with the Soviet Union so Americans. I do not know if she would health care costs, and two million jobs lost that the world did not have to witness the con- mind me saying this, but my daughter over the past three years. Strength and lead- sequences of a brutal nuclear war. He fought is now 24, I remember her as a small ership will be required to bring this Nation the Soviet Union indirectly wherever they girl, very small, and she always used to back to the standards by which we have al- sought to threaten the freedom of the world’s refer to Ronald Reagan as the grand- ways been known. people. In Afghanistan he mobilized our allies father. I had to kind of clarify that for We must follow his famous words: ‘‘We and our resources in the region to ensure that her, but it was out of the mouth of a have every right to dream heroic dreams. the Soviet’s would not have a stranglehold on child that described him as such. Those who say that we’re in a time when the continent of Asia. The Reagan Doctrine And so I simply leave you with the there are no heroes, they just don’t know succeeded in a time where grave danger not idea of why we have come today to be where to look.’’—January 20, 1981 only threatened our Nation, but indeed the fate able to honor this American President. President Ronald Reagan always stressed of the world as we know it. It is because he did leave us with a that America is a ‘‘can do’’ country. We Demo- President Reagan used his great commu- sense of optimism and an ability to go crats agree. We can and will get back on the nication skills to help end the Cold War with- forward, to look at the troubles that right track, largely through his legacy of integ- out the necessity of another World War. As we might be facing both to the left and rity and hard work. With strong leadership and with his speech at the Brandenburg Gate, to the right and forward and back but a real commitment to confronting the problems President Reagan inspired people throughout yet to say that we are determined to facing American families, we can improve our the world to believe that freedom and pros- succeed. I would only say that in his weaknesses. perity were indeed possible. passing, let us maintain the legacy of The President once said: ‘‘The house we President Reagan made Americans believe optimism for this country. ‘‘We are the hope to build is not for my generation but for again that our Nation was the greatest on showcase of the future. And it is within yours. It is your future that matters. And I Earth and that we would indeed be victorious. our power to mold that future, this hope that when you are my age, you will be Finally, his words made the leadership of the year and for decades to come. It can be able to say as I have been able to say: We Soviet Union believe that they were fighting as grand and as great as we make it. No lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a from a side of weakness, that the good of our crisis is beyond the capacity of our statement, not an apology.’’ beliefs and our national system would prevail. people to solve, no challenge too So when we return to work next week, I His words were inspirational two decades ago, great,’’ the words of Ronald Reagan on hope this House will be inspired by the leader- but today they have been proven true. The January 5, 1974. ship of Ronald Reagan instead of mired in the Soviet Union no longer threatens our world, With that, Mr. Speaker, I simply say, partisan politics and a lack of integrity that and we must always pay tribute to President farewell, farewell. And though we say have too often affected our work as of late. Reagan for that accomplishment. farewell to a great and wonderful We should be inspired by his patriotism and REAGAN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH WIFE NANCY American President, his legacy will devotion to our country. Moreover, we should At a time when war and bloodshed are one live on that America’s future is found- remember his faith, his optimism, and his un- of the biggest thoughts on the minds of Ameri- ed in our optimism and our belief in wavering commitment to his convictions as we cans, the history of President Reagan’s rela- freedom and democracy and certainly do the work of the American people. tionship with his wife is a refreshing thought this day our understanding that we all THE SOVIET UNION AND THE COLD WAR that has restored a feeling of compassion in are Americans. President Reagan had a calm speaking our hearts. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the voice and forceful diction that earned him the Relationships—whether they be diplomatic, resolution offered by my colleague, Represent- title of ‘‘the Great Communicator.’’ This task spousal, or plantonic, have not been placed in ative LEWIS of California, to mourn the passing was surely the work of a leader of fortitude the greatest light as of late in America. We of President Ronald Reagan and to celebrate and commitment to the betterment of our dip- have been marred by accounts of human his service to the people of the United States lomatic relations with that Nation. rights abuse and other examples of a dis- and his leadership in promoting the cause of Mr. Reagan’s efforts and tenacity contrib- regard for the rights and personhood of our freedom for all the people of the world. uted greatly to the end of the Cold War. His neighbors. The love that President Reagan had for this policies included strong support of the U.S. In contrast, the relationship between Ronald Nation was infectious to the point that it re- military and the doctrine of ‘‘peace through and Nancy Reagan was one of the greatest flected on everyone who listened to him—here strength.’’ love stories in U.S. presidential history. The in America and abroad. Even when his actions In a few days it will be exactly seventeen two were utterly devoted to each other, and did not agree with the policies and initiatives years to the day that President Reagan stood Nancy was said to have been a key adviser of my Democratic colleagues, he maintained at the Brandenburg Gate in what was then and confidante during her husband’s two-term himself with integrity and engaged in honest West Berlin, Germany, in which he famously presidency from 1981 to 1989. Though they and open debate. proclaimed: ‘‘General Secretary Gorbachev, if were married 52 years, Nancy has told with

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President Reagan left messages Reagan stood for ideals that simply ues that he exuded which I do share of love for his wife at the White House and were not being expressed anyplace else. deeply: first, a respect for the demo- wrote a constant stream of love letters; some The appropriately named Reagan cratic process and the building of con- were published in Nancy’s book ‘‘I Love You, Revolution was precisely that. He was sensus to move us forward and to make Ronnie,’’ published in 2000. No matter where one of the main reasons I ran for polit- us safer; secondly, a fundamental belief he was in the world, he made sure he wrote ical office. In the late 1970s, we heard in a strong military and a strong de- to his wife. our leaders talk about lowering expec- fense; and, third, as we have heard be- In 1983, on the 31st anniversary of their tations and the good times are over fore, a boundless optimism about wedding, the President was on Air Force One and that our Nation is in a, quote, gen- America’s capacity and our potential when he wrote: ‘‘I more than love you, I’m not eral malaise. This was mirrored in high and our role in making the world safe whole without you. You are life itself to me. inflation that reached 10 to 12 percent, for democracy. When you are gone I’m waiting for you to re- unemployment rates that were over 10 I never had the privilege of person- turn, so I can start living again.’’ percent or more, and a prime interest ally meeting President Reagan, but I At official engagements, including even his rate that reached as high as 21.5 per- did work here in Congress during his swearing-in, the couple sometimes embar- cent. administration for a former Member of rassed their staff by just gazing at each other. But then in stepped Ronald Reagan Congress, and I have a sense that even In her 1989 autobiography, Mrs. Reagan saying America could do better and tonight, President Reagan and former wrote: ‘‘Some of the reporters who wrote America would do better. When Ronald Speaker Tip O’Neill are looking down about me felt that our marriage was at least Reagan said it, you believed it. His vi- upon this House with rather wry and partly an act. But it wasn’t, and it isn’t.’’ Fi- sion of the shining city on the hill gave proud smiles wishing us the best as we nally, in 1998 she told Vanity Fair magazine: hope to countless millions of Ameri- join together, as they join together to ‘‘Our relationship is very special. We were cans. Back then I, as a small business move our country not to the left, not very much in love and still are. When I say my owner who grew up on a ranch, the to the right but forward, and they life began with Ronnie, well, it’s true. It did. I American dream appeared endangered guide us not from the left, not from the can’t imagine life without him.’’ by high taxes and big government. In right, they guide us from above. CONCLUSION California, property taxes were dou- Several months ago, I had the privi- Mr. Speaker, again, I support Mr. LEWIS’ bling and tripling. With Ronald lege of participating in an issues forum resolution saluting a leader whose influence Reagan, there was someone we could in New York with Ronald Reagan, Jr. and positive legacy will live on with not only rally around. His hope, his direction, Tonight my thoughts and prayers are the American people but the entire inter- and his moral clarity gave us all re- with him and the entire Reagan family national community. Thank you, Mr. President, newed energy. Ronald Reagan had the as they mourn the loss of a father and and may you rest in peace. May your family great ability to say what so many of us a husband and as America mourns the find strength and courage through these very were thinking, what we were thinking loss of a President. difficult days. about our national budget, about our Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- I conclude now by reciting some of Presi- national defense, about taxes; and, yes, er, it is my privilege to yield 5 minutes dent Reagan’s spirited words to us as Ameri- about a better America. to the gentleman from California (Mr. cans: The first time I ever met Ronald DREIER), chairman of the Committee The house we hope to build is not for my Reagan was in 1980 when I was running on Rules. generation but for yours. It is your future for the State Assembly in California (Mr. DREIER asked and was given that matters. And I hope that when you are and I journeyed to Simi Valley to get permission to revise and extend his re- my age, you will be able to say as I have my picture taken with him. I can re- marks.) been able to say: We lived in freedom. We member growing up hearing my mother Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, let me say lived lives that were a statement, not an talking about President Franklin Roo- at the outset I think it is extraor- apology. dinarily appropriate that the gen- The challenge of statesmanship is to have sevelt, how she would listen to Presi- the vision to dream of a better, safer world dent Roosevelt on the radio during the tleman, the former mayor of Simi, and the courage, persistence, and patience to Great Depression and during World California, the home of the Ronald turn that dream into reality.—March 8, 1985 War II. President Roosevelt gave hope Reagan Library and what will be the We have every right to dream heroic to her generation. Ronald Reagan was final resting place for Nancy and Ron- dreams. Those who say that we’re in a time to my generation what FDR was to my ald Reagan, is presiding over this insti- when there are no heroes, they just don’t parents. tution at this moment. I would also know where to look.—January 20, 1981 In Congress I had the privilege to like to thank my friend, the true dean We are the showcase of the future. And it is within our power to mold that future—this meet Ronald Reagan six or seven of our California congressional delega- year and for decades to come. It can be as times. Just being around President tion, for yielding me this time. grand and as great as we make it. No crisis Reagan was inspiring. He lit up the A generation was inspired by Ronald is beyond the capacity of our people to solve; room. To those of us who believed Reagan is what we have been hearing, no challenge too great.—January 5, 1974 strongly in the American dream, in but it was really a generation and then Again, farewell, Mr. President. May your op- traditional values and the Judeo-Chris- some inspired by Ronald Reagan. The timism live on. tian faith, Ronald Reagan was indeed a gentleman from California (Mr. LEWIS) Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- shining light in the city when there heard Ronald Reagan’s speech in behalf er, the eloquence of our colleagues seemed to be none. His spirit will live of Barry Goldwater in 1964. Two years from both sides of the aisle reflect the on in the hearts of Americans. He was later, Ronald Reagan was elected Gov- best of Ronald Reagan. His leadership truly one of our Nation’s greatest ernor of California, and 2 years after indeed recognized that there was little Presidents. that the gentleman from California partisanship when you were really Ronald Reagan, thank you, thank (Mr. LEWIS) was elected to the Cali- working towards solving problems for you, for all you have done for me. fornia State Assembly, serving 6 of the America’s people. Thank you, thank you, for all you have 8 years that Ronald Reagan was Gov- Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege to done for our great Nation. ernor of California. In fact, he is the yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield only Republican Member here who did California (Mr. HERGER). such time as he may consume to the serve while Ronald Reagan was Gov- Mr. HERGER. Mr. Speaker, some of gentleman from New York (Mr. ernor of California. He went on to in- my first impressions of Ronald Reagan ISRAEL). spire many others. I am among them.

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:49 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A08JN7.031 H08PT1 H3802 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 I was pleased this morning to be able looked down there, and there was ev- into law an increase in the debt limit, to include in the RECORD very thought- erything just as I remembered it, the and so he invited me to meet with him. ful remarks that were provided by a south lawn, the rose garden, David Now, mind you, this was the first great American, George Shultz, who Gergen,’’ who was at that moment major piece of legislation of the Sunday afternoon read his statement working for President Bill Clinton. And Reagan administration. In the past, to me and I read it into the RECORD we knew then that even though the prior to President Reagan’s being this morning, and I would like to com- President was obviously not in the elected, Republicans had always op- mend it to my colleagues because it most robust of health, that sparkle posed increasing the debt limit. Repub- talks about the vision and the perspec- continued. He still had that amazing licans had denounced Democrats for tive that Ronald Reagan offered in a wonderful sense of humor. voting to increase the debt limit. So wide range of areas. Ronald Reagan I see my friend from San Diego Mr. here was the first Republican President made it very clear that the Republican Lowery here on the House floor. I was in many years coming to ask conserv- Party is the party of ideas. We con- very pleased to, along with Bill Lowery ative Democrats for support in passing stantly hear about Ronald Reagan and 51 others, be part of the Reagan this very thing into law, something being the Great Communicator, but he Revolution. We came here to the House members of his own party had opposed had a message to communicate. Mem- of Representatives, elected in Novem- on many occasions in the past. bers on both sides of the aisle have ber of 1980, and we made Ronald We had a lengthy talk. The twinkle talked about that message. Reagan an honorary member of our in the eye that many of those who had To me it embraced four very simple class in 1980, and that is because he was known him much better from Cali- points: his commitment to a free econ- leader of the revolution that brought fornia were there, and we finally omy, limited government, a strong na- all of us here and allowed us to vigor- struck a deal. We had an understanding tional defense, and personal freedom. ously pursue those goals that we that if the President could deliver 100 Those are the bases from which Ronald shared in common. votes from Republicans, then we would Reagan made his decisions on public We stand on his shoulders. George W. do our best to deliver the necessary policy issues, but he had those deeply Bush stands on his shoulders. The simi- Democratic votes. President Reagan rooted principles. And because they larities, to me, are so striking. The more than held up his end of the bar- were so deeply rooted, he was able to ‘‘ism’’ that Ronald Reagan stood up to gain. He ultimately delivered 150 Re- communicate them extraordinarily was communism. The ‘‘ism’’ that publican votes. So in the spirit of bi- well. Why? Because it came right from George W. Bush is standing up to is partisanship and on a very tough issue, the heart. It came right from his heart. terrorism. Ronald Reagan had broad, Reagan successfully secured the votes We have heard a lot of very serious across-the-board tax cuts to stimulate he needed, from Democrats and Repub- statements made about Ronald economic growth. That is exactly what licans, and got the increase in the debt Reagan; but, of course, one of the most we have done. He did it in 1981. George limit, just as he and we needed it. memorable things as people talked W. Bush has started it in 2001. The I was proud to have several opportu- about his ability to communicate was party of ideas is strong and vibrant. It nities to work with the President in his ability to communicate with that is doing extraordinarily well, and it is the months and years ahead to build amazing sparkle, that twinkle in his the vision that Ronald Reagan put for- bipartisan coalitions, especially on his eye. There were some wonderful things ward. economic agenda. I still proudly dis- that he said that were able to, in fact, And I thank my friend for taking this play a picture in my home in Abilene, break the ice and really entertain all of time, and I thank my colleagues on the Texas, of President Reagan signing the us. Remember, it was Ronald Reagan other side of the aisle who are joining 1981 tax bill. I got one of the pens and who said, ‘‘Hard work never killed any- in this very important recognition of one I treasure. body, but I figured, why take the one of our Nation’s greatest leaders. Reagan had very strong principles chance?’’ It was Ronald Reagan who Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield and very strong values. We know what after he had been hit by that bullet, myself such time as I may consume. they were. But he also understood that right up Constitution here at the Mr. Speaker, it is not just nostalgia in order to govern, it was important to Washington Hilton when the statement that makes us remember President find a middle ground. And I was lucky was made to him shortly thereafter Ronald Reagan especially so fondly enough to be in the middle of many of that the government was working as upon the occasion of his death. Poli- those compromises. usual and he looked up and said, ‘‘Why tics, ideology, geography aside, there is One of his greatest strengths was his would that make me happy?’’ a mark of leadership and charisma ability to communicate, a skill that he which undeniably stamps some men used to great effect when courting b 2030 and women. votes in Congress. His courting of There was, of course, his last speech Ronald Reagan was one of those men Members of Congress was the best of which really stuck with me. It was on whose leadership was felt by all who any President I have served with, and I February 3 of 1994, and the Republican encountered him. When President have now been privileged to serve with National Committee was having a din- Reagan first came to office, he quickly five. If the Members can imagine a sec- ner over here at the Pension Building, understood that enacting his economic ond-termer sitting in the Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan was obviously quite agenda would require bipartisan sup- Room in the White House talking elderly then, and the speech was deliv- port in Congress, which was under about some issues with the President’s ered literally months before he wrote Democratic control, 242–192 and 1 ab- Cabinet members and others and hav- his famous letter in November of that sent. It took 52 bipartisan votes to ing the President walk in unannounced year to the American people stating enact anything, and President Reagan and put his hands on his shoulder; some that he had Alzheimer’s. So when he understood that. telephone calls that we had many stood up at this meeting, I remember I met with the President on several times when there was a vote and the that Bill Clinton had been elected occasions as he sought to build that bi- President had to work the phones like President of the United States the year partisan coalition to pass his legisla- no President that I have seen since, before, and we as Republicans were tion. I met with President Reagan one rounding up the votes, and he was very gathering, we were poised to win our on one in the Oval Office as well as in effective at doing that. majority, and Ronald Reagan stood up Air Force One, and for a second-termer President Reagan’s private and pub- without a great deal of strength as he in 1981 that was pretty tall cotton for a lic demeanors was the same. What one got up for this speech. Jones County cotton farmer. saw was what one got. That is the He stepped up to the lectern, and he In 1981, I was just in my second term mark of a great leader. looked out at the audience, and he and was a member of the conservative Ronald Reagan was a very decent said, ‘‘Well, I flew into town today to Democratic forum better known as the man, and he understood how he could give this speech this evening, and as we Boll Weevils, the precursor to today’s use his office to make a difference in came in, we circled the White House, Blue Dogs. In the very first month countless lives. This aspect of his per- and as I looked out the window, I Reagan was in office, he had to pass sonality was always very clear to me

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In that his speech was a publicity ploy. continuing to look for a cure to the May of 1983, I was contacted by the The Soviets and East Germans called it terrible illness that plagued President grandfather of Ashley Bailey, a baby an infringement of East German sov- Reagan for his last 10 years of life and girl in Abilene, Texas, who needed a ereignty, an unwarranted meddling by promote and continue stem cell re- liver transplant to survive. At that the American President. search consistent with what this body time organ donations and organ trans- Two years later the wall came down. has passed would also be a tremendous plants were not as common as now, and Mr. Speaker, President Reagan was a addition to the Reagan legacy. leader with the foresight and strong the organ donation system was not or- b 2045 ganized to the extent it is today. conviction to get things done. He be- I spoke to President Reagan’s folks lieved in America so much that he I am determined to work for both of about it to ask for his help in getting made America believe in itself again. these, and I ask this body to take those the baby girl a new liver. Shortly after He valued freedom, especially for those steps to free those who were not freed receiving my letter, President Reagan who had none. He understood that for under President Reagan, and to com- used his weekly radio address to pub- America to be great, it first had to be mit itself to the research to end the licize Ashley’s situation and encourage good. He understood that America’s terrible illness that the Reagan family all Americans to fill out organ donor problems, the malaise of the years pre- has suffered under for 10 long years. cards. He also called Ashley’s mother, ceding his Presidency, were simply Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- Annette. America’s not understanding how great er, it is my privilege to yield 4 minutes Unfortunately, the President’s plea it was and how great it could be. to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania did not result in finding a liver in time Mr. Speaker, I was just a soldier dur- (Ms. HART). to save Baby Ashley, but it did end up ing the period leading up to Mr. Rea- Ms. HART. Mr. Speaker, I thank the saving the lives of dozens of other ba- gan’s becoming President Reagan, but I gentleman from California for allowing bies who needed liver transplants. was a businessman starting a business me to mix in with the Californians to- President Reagan later started a na- from scratch when President Reagan night. tional organ donor awareness program, came to office, and I recognized over- I think like most of us, we all have which led to the designation of Na- night that this was a special time to be our own different, but very similar, in- tional Organ Donation Awareness an American, a time when we had a spirations from President Reagan. I Week every April. To this day I con- President who was saying that an first heard about Ronald Reagan prob- sider this one of the highlights of my 25 American hero was somebody who took ably around the dinner table when I years in Congress. chances, who made a difference for the was a kid when he was Governor of Reagan knew how to disagree with- world, but particularly somebody who California and when he first decided to out being disagreeable, rise above poli- cared enough to work those extra run for President. But I had grown up tics, and these qualities, unfortu- hours and to care enough about his in an era that was pretty difficult. I nately, are rare today. President country. grew up thinking assassinations were Reagan and House Speaker Tip O’Neill, Ronald Reagan knew America. He normal, remembering the assassina- the Massachusetts liberal, were good knew what was right about our Nation. tions of Martin Luther King and Rob- friends who got along very well during What was right about our Nation and ert Kennedy; that government corrup- their years of service together. They what was right about America would tion was normal, remembering Water- never lost their philosophical convic- set the world in a better direction. gate; and that a failure of government tions, and they never let those philo- Ronald Reagan led America, and the to properly serve its people was nor- sophical convictions hijack their un- rest of the world became a freer place. mal. Very high inflation, for example. derstanding that America’s democracy Under his leadership we headed toward But I remember also the things that requires respect for all opinions and a more than 400 million people in 27 my dad and my mom and my grand- practical determination to work out countries finding a freedom they did father, who was an immigrant, told me our differences for the good of the not have. Today the soldiers of some of about America. They were patriotic country. those democracies now fight side by people. Ronald Reagan was a patriotic President Reagan spoke of hope and a side in Iraq and Afghanistan. man. And I heard his message, and it better tomorrow. He reminded us that President Reagan showed us that our resonated with me, because it was we live in the greatest country in the freedom and our determination can something that I had always heard at world, and he made us believe it and tear down walls. home, but, unfortunately, had not seen believe in ourselves. He believed that Many Speakers will come here to- much in practice in government. I be- we, as Americans, had a special duty to night, and they will talk of how pro- came interested, and, as I guess some- promote peace and freedom for the rest foundly President Reagan affected what of a precocious seventh-grader, of the world. He always told us that for them, and I would be no different, but wrote an editorial in my middle school America, the best was yet to come. perhaps I can be slightly different to- newspaper supporting Ronald Reagan It is good for all of us to remember night by saying that the only way to for President. He did not win that Ronald Reagan’s optimism, his kind- honor President Reagan’s legacy is to time, but it was not because I did not heartedness, and his cordiality. As we take it to the next step. Today we are try. But that legacy and what he stood remember this great man this week, it trying to do that for people in the Arab for stuck with me. would do us good to remember how we and Muslim world, and we have not fin- My family paid attention. I was very should behave today and in the future. ished that job. Today Communist fortunate. Our normal dinner conversa- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of China still denies rights to the people tion often dealt with politics. So when my time. of its own country and is attempting to I turned 18 in 1980, Ronald Reagan was Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- stifle the freedom and independence of running for President, and I volun- er, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman Hong Kong. Today Cuba, to our south, teered. I found out that politics is a from California (Mr. ISSA). is still a Communist nation, having lit- means of achieving a greater good and (Mr. ISSA asked and was given per- tle or no respect for the rule of law and could be respected. I was hooked. He mission to revise and extend his re- for its people. showed for us the America that we all marks.) All of these and more need to be part knew could exist. It was the America Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, on this sec- of the American struggle because, Mr. that my parents believed in. It was the ond week of June, 17 years ago, Presi- Speaker, only if we determine that America we knew we could get back. dent Ronald Reagan stood in the then- America’s greatness will be in our will- Ronald Reagan said, it is not my in- divided city of Berlin and called on So- ingness to set a course for the world in tention to do away with government, it

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It seems they have just gone important thing, and it is important me access to President Reagan. George out for an afternoon ride and will re- because it is the American dream. Bush, I had been a Navy pilot with turn at any moment. After 10 years of volunteering on George Bush. He was his Vice Presi- At purchase the ranch was a mere 600 campaigns, and after Ronald Reagan dent, so I had access to the President, square feet. Reagan labored diligently was elected that first time, through and I enjoyed that access, enjoyed vis- with his own hands to remodel and ex- law school, through the private prac- its with him over there. pand it. Even so, the only grand thing tice of law, it led me to take part in One time I went in and the President about it is the natural surroundings. the process in a big way, to dream big said, Congressman HALL, what would it Asked once to explain the ranch’s al- dreams, and to take some risks. So at take to get you to vote for my budget most magnetic appeal for him, Reagan 28 I ran for the State senate, unseated cuts? I said, well, Mr. President, I have replied with a quote from Psalms: ‘‘I an incumbent, and had the opportunity a brother that always wanted to be a look to the hills from whence cometh to pursue the same dream. Federal judge. He said, well, that my strength.’’ Ronald Reagan said America is too should not be any problem. He turned Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret great for small dreams. There are to George Bush and he turned to Jim Thatcher, and Queen Elizabeth were many of us here in Congress today who Baker and said, can you get one of among the notables that he hosted agree with him. Let us in government Ralph’s brothers, can you get him ap- there. Gorbachev is said to have been remember him and his legacy and act proved by the Senate and go through disappointed by the humble ranch, on that legacy. confirmation there? They said, I think knowing the lavish palaces of European Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- we can. I said, well, wait just a minute, leaders. However, it is fitting that the er, I could not feel more strongly than Mr. President; he is not a lawyer. And place at which Reagan felt most at I do about the gentlewoman’s remarks. the President got a big kick out of ease disarmed the world’s dignitaries. Indeed, one of the wonderful things that. He never really forgot that. Any He always related best with the com- that has happened in recent years in time he would see me out in a group, mon man, yet he was far from ordi- the House is the advent of young he would come shake hands with me. nary. To the contrary, he lived an ex- women like this stepping up to the But he liked me. Sometimes he really traordinary life which had a profound plate, running for Congress, and mak- could not think of my name, but he impact on the landscape of our Nation ing a big difference in the People’s would say, how is your brother. He and the greater span of human history. House. liked my brother because he was not a He left us on the eve of the 60th anni- It is my honor, Mr. Speaker, to yield lawyer. versary of the D-Day liberation, and al- such time as he may consume to the I just think that this country is most 20 years ago to the day of one of gentleman from Texas (Mr. HALL). stronger today and this country is his most beloved speeches on the cliffs Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, I came to great today because of the gifts of Ron- overlooking the beaches of Normandy. the United States Congress in 1981, the ald Reagan, for the time he gave us, for Looking out at faces wizened by time, same year President Reagan was sworn the honesty that he brought to the of- calling them the ‘‘boys of Point du in as our President. I examined the fice, for the common man background Hoc,’’ Reagan offered a compelling pic- brochures that he ran on and looked at that he had, that he understood frailty ture of how these young men, free- the brochures that I ran on, and I found of men and women and their need for dom’s army, struck a death knell to them to be almost identical: jobs and help. the nazism and fascism which had a security, and jobs meant dignity; a I am honored to have known him. I stranglehold on formerly-free Europe. strong military; a concern for the un- am very lucky to have been a friend of He extended this same moral clarity born; strong second amendment rights. Ronald Reagan. to the great conflict of his day, pos- All of those things we totally agreed Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- sessing a steadfast commitment not upon. At that time I was a Democrat. I er, we appreciate the comments of our just to containing communism, but to was a member of the Boll Weevils and colleague from Texas. I am reminded of transcend it, and transcend it he did. the Conservative Democratic Forum. that tragic day when Ronald Reagan, Bursting on the national political We have heard others speak here be- shortly after he became President in scene during the 1964 Presidential cam- fore us tonight and know of the respect March of 1981, and the assassination at- paign with his now famed ‘‘A Time For and admiration that we all had for tempt took place. As they rolled him Choosing’’ speech, he spoke to a di- President Reagan. I had the pleasure of on a gurney into the emergency room, vided and searching Nation: ‘‘You and I going out to Camp David with him and he looked up and said to his wife, I have a rendezvous with destiny. We spent times and hours, and had the op- guess I forgot to duck, honey. Ronald will preserve for our children this, the portunity for discussions, and we dis- Reagan, a man who was always ready last best hope of man on Earth, or we cussed everything from the problems of to try to calm down the other person will sentence them to take the first the day to his times in the movies. He and make sure they felt okay, our step into a thousand years of darkness. was a good, down-to-Earth guy that President. If we fail, at least let our children and you could talk to. Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to our children’s children say of us, we I just know that he knew of our yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from justified our brief moment here. We did needs. He knew that our military had Virginia (Mr. GOODLATTE), the chair- all that could be done.’’ atrophied away. He knew that we need- man of the Committee on Agriculture. These words reflected his eternal op- ed to have an injection there, and that Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, I timism not just in America, this great United Airlines could employ one of thank the gentleman from California experiment in self-governance, but in our pilots the minute they graduated (Chairman LEWIS) for yielding me this Americans. and had spent their time. He knew that time and for undertaking this great op- In 1979, we were in the throes of a na- the enlisted men, 35 percent of them portunity to honor President Reagan. tionwide recession, the Soviets had in- were eligible for food stamps, and he Asked in 1980 what Americans saw in vaded Afghanistan, and the hostage knew something had to be done there. him, Ronald Reagan replied, ‘‘Would crisis in Iran dominated the nightly I think he is responsible for the strong you laugh if I told you that I think news. Yet Reagan saw us as a ‘‘shining position that we have, the strong fi- maybe they see themselves?’’ Mr. city on a hill,’’ the hope of the world. nancial position we have, the strong Speaker, hardly would we laugh. Reflecting on his death, may we find geopolitical position we have in the A few years ago I had an opportunity consolation in his own words spoken to world. to visit Rancho del Cielo, President a grieving Nation in the wake of the

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Mr. Speak- permission to revise and extend his re- scribed how he envisioned the shining er, I was a young intern in 1984. I had marks.) city he had invoked countless times. been through medical school and col- Mr. BOEHLERT. Mr. Speaker, earlier He went on to observe this of his time lege and had not really followed poli- today I joined my colleagues in voting in office: ‘‘We weren’t just marking tics much, but I was rotating through for a resolution expressing the pro- time. We made a difference. We made the cardiologist service. And I remem- found regret and sorrow of the House of the city stronger, we made the city ber asking one of our attendees who he Representatives on the death of Ronald freer, and we left her in good hands. All was going to vote for in the 1984 elec- W. Reagan, former President of the in all, not bad, not bad at all.’’ tion. Ronald Reagan was running United States of America. I did not ‘‘Not bad’’ reflects the modesty of against Walter Mondale. He said he was cast that vote as one Member of this, the man, but not the magnitude of his voting for Ronald Reagan because he the people’s House, nor as a accomplishments. In rebuilding the had a wife and three kids at home and Congressperson for 654,000 New Yorkers military and facing down the tyranny the tax cuts that Reagan had put who it is my privilege to represent here of communism, calling the Soviet through were putting about $200 a in our Nation’s capital. Rather, that Union the evil empire that it was, and month more in his pocket. And it was vote reflected the profound regret and calling on President Gorbachev, calling just making it easier for him to take sorrow felt far beyond the borders of upon him to tear down the Berlin Wall, care of his family. one district, one State, one Nation. in restoring our faith in the free enter- I had not followed politics much, but It is illustrative of the sincere senti- prise system through cutting taxes and I was very much impressed by Rick ment of a world community in collec- encouraging innovation, and, most im- Monsor’s comments and began to read tive mourning. President Reagan was portantly, in raising our spirits, he more and more about the policies of so much more than a head of state. He made us proud to be Americans. Ronald Reagan. And over time I came was an inspiration to all whose lives he to realize, like millions of other Ameri- 2100 touched, not just by his words, which b cans, that his economic policies had He set this Nation on a new course reached across the great divides that been reducing taxes on Americans, ac- separate people, but by his deeds which that still inspires us today. We have a tually had precipitated a great eco- right to dream great dreams, he said, always sought to bring people together nomic recovery. It had resulted in a in common cause. because after all, we are Americans. doubling of revenue into the Federal The President’s noble achievements, Yes, Mr. President, we do see ourselves Treasury, a dramatic reduction in un- and there were so many, have been and in you. We still dream great dreams of employment. It was essentially the will continue to be chronicled by histo- freedom and opportunity around the right economic policy. And it is an eco- rians for time immemorial. world. And I am honored to pay tribute nomic policy that we still follow to So many of my colleagues who pre- tonight to President Reagan, the great- this day. est President of the last century. Of course, Ronald Reagan is most ceded and those who will follow have Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I yield well known for ending the Cold War, been and will be eloquent in their trib- myself such time as I may consume. precipitating the break up of the So- utes to the lasting legacy of this great Mr. Speaker, tonight, certainly, our viet Union, and allowing millions of man, and deservedly so. For my part, I prayers go out to Nancy Reagan and to people in Eastern Europe to taste free- simply want to add a listing of the the Reagan family. And in the true dom, freedom of speech, freedom of re- words which come immediately to spirit of the character that has been ligion, freedom of assembly for the mind when recalling President Reagan: exemplified over and over by those that first time in their lives. Millions of words like integrity, conviction, honor, have known President Reagan tonight, people besides those of us here in faith, grace, dignity, friendship, I yield the balance of my time to my America were positively affected by humor, values, honest, humble. The classmate and the gentleman from the policies of Ronald Reagan. list of positives in the life of this man California (Mr. LEWIS) to use in what- But what is most dear to my heart of principle and character is endless. ever manner he might see fit tonight. about Ronald Reagan was his indefati- To President Reagan and his beloved Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- gable optimism, belief in the power of partner, Nancy, who was always at his er, I yield myself such time as I may American ingenuity, the American side and in his heart, I am but one of so consume. spirit, the can-do attitude. At the time many who say a heart felt thank you Mr. Speaker, I very much appreciate that he took office, we were facing, as for leading by example and serving so my colleague from Texas joining with many of us know, terrible problems many so well for so long. You will al- us in this discussion this evening of with inflation and a declining economy ways be an inspiration and you will al- perhaps America’s greatest President, and as well our defenses were in de- ways be in our thoughts and prayers. Ronald Reagan. In his words, Ronald cline. It was not only his policies that Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- Reagan said, ‘‘Some argue that we moved us in a positive direction but his er, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman should encourage democratic change attitudes and beliefs that lifted our Na- from Texas (Mr. BARTON). and right-wing dictatorships but not in tion and helped us to move on to better (Mr. BARTON of Texas asked and communist regimes. Well,’’ he said, ‘‘to things. was given permission to revise and ex- accept this preposterous notion, as And he once said the following, tend his remarks.) some well-meaning people have, is to ‘‘Whatever else history may say about Mr. BARTON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, invite the argument that once coun- me when I’m gone, I hope it will record I was driving down to Corpus Christi tries achieve a nuclear capability, they that I appealed to your best hopes, not last Saturday afternoon with my wife, should be allowed an undisturbed reign your worst fears; to your confidence Terry, and her daughter Lindsey and of terror over their own citizens. We re- rather than your doubts. My dream is her cousin Jackie and Terry’s family ject this, of course.’’ that you will travel the road ahead for a brief family vacation when my As Ronald Reagan rebuilt America, with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps staffer Andy Black called me on the his defense budget designed to re- and opportunity’s arm steadying your telephone and said, Have you heard the strengthen our country’s ability to de- way.’’ news that President Reagan died this fend itself, he stared down the Evil Em- President Reagan, your desire has be- afternoon? And I said no, I have not pire and negotiated a nuclear arms come a reality. You did appeal to our heard that, but we immediately treaty with Gorbachev. As two enemies best hopes and not our worst fears. And switched on the radio; and sure enough,

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:53 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.040 H08PT1 H3806 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 there was a news bulletin from Cali- the Caribbean. Their largest export sessment of the legacy of Ronald fornia that President Reagan had crop is sugar. It would really help my Reagan. Conservative commentators passed away. job as Secretary of State if you allowed will credit him with the fall of the And so as we continued to drive down more sugar to come into the United former Soviet Union, new approaches to Corpus, I began to reminisce about States. And the President said, Thank to the economy, especially with tax the President. My mind went back to you, Mr. Secretary. cutting strategies. And, in large meas- the late 1970s when this country was He said, Is there any other discus- ure, the rise of today’s Republican mired in recession and interest rates sion? The rest of the Cabinet just sat Party can trace its roots to his leader- were sky high and we had hostages in there. The President said, Well, what ship. His was a strong voice for the Iran and there was a spirit of pes- we ought to do is take American wheat conservative perspective from cor- simism that America could not be and Caribbean sugar and create cookies porate spokesperson to the governor- great anymore. And Governor Reagan and create a cookie export, cookies for ship of our country’s largest State, to came out of California and announced peace program maybe, to the Third two terms as our President. for the Presidency and said that there World. The Cabinet chuckled about was hope, that not only could we be that; but he said, Really, I have heard b 2115 great again, but we would be great what is best for the State Department again. And that inspired me to cam- and I have heard what is best for the There were, of course, areas of policy paign for him to be President of the Agriculture Department, now I want disagreement, some of which I had United States in the 1980 election. you gentlemen to tell me what is best strong feelings about. There were also And the night that he won in Novem- for America. And there were no cam- areas of mistakes, blunders for which ber of 1980, I dusted off an old White eras and he really said that. President Reagan characteristically House Fellows application and changed And I just was absolutely inspired and clearly assumed personal responsi- the date and signed it and mailed it in. when he said it. I was sitting directly bility. White House Fellows is a program that across from him behind Vice President Balanced commentary will spotlight takes young men and women from all Bush. Of course, I had been told I could his pragmatic approaches as Governor over the country and puts them in po- not say anything, but when the Presi- and President; his ability to reach sitions to observe the workings of the dent said that, Gentlemen tell me what across party lines, to listen, to work, Federal Government either in the is best for America, it kind of jumped to add a human touch. There was his White House or in the Cabinet agen- out from me, I said, Right. That is why willingness to protect the economy and cies. The year that I applied there were I voted for you. And, of course, the Sec- work with moderates, for instance, in about 1,600 applications, and I was for- retary of Energy was aghast that I had both parties, even to the point of sig- tunate enough to be one of like 15 or 16 said something. But the President nificant tax increases when he was that got selected. looked over and he looked around the faced with spiraling budget deficits and I worked in the Department of En- Vice President, he looked at me with a felt that it was important for our coun- ergy as a White House Fellow for Sec- twinkle in his eye, did not say any- try. retary of Energy James P. Edwards. thing, he just smiled. And I knew then I personally am content for history The spring of 1982 the Secretary called that that is why the American people and the passage of time to sharpen the me into his office and said, Joe, I am trusted him, because he wanted to do focus and place his entire career in per- going over to the White House this whatever the issue was, what was right spective, but I am thinking this afternoon for a Cabinet meeting. Would for America. evening of how he became a leader and you like to go with me? I said, Mr. Sec- So when I finished my White House a symbol in his last years as he made retary I would love to go with you. He Fellows program, I went back to Texas. a stark admission that he suffered from said, There is one thing: you cannot And in 1984, John Tower announced Alzheimer’s disease. His wife Nancy be- say anything. You can only sit in the that he was not going to run for the came a champion in this great struggle back of the room and listen. So I said, U.S. Senate, and Congressman Phil to help lead the fight against Alz- I promise. Gramm of the 6th district announced heimer’s. So we went over to the White House, that he was going to run for the Senate At a time when there are some who and they walked us into the Cabinet and Joe Barton announced that he was would put ideology ahead of meeting room, and I was seated directly behind going to run for the 6th district as a the needs of victims and families, Vice President Bush, who was seated Republican. Because I wanted to be a Nancy Reagan stood tall and spoke out directly across from President Reagan. part of the Reagan revolution in Wash- forcefully on the needs and benefits of The President came in from the Oval ington. stem cell research. Because of the af- Office and shook hands with his Cabi- I was very fortunate that I got elect- fection for President Reagan and the net, and he reached over and got a ed that year. I primarily got elected strength of Nancy Reagan, millions handful of jelly beans out of a jar in because my entire campaign was will someday be spared this suffering. the middle of the cabinet table and ate Reagan-Gramm-Barton. And when peo- My personal memory of President the jelly beans and asked if anybody ple went to vote for President Reagan Reagan will be dominated by his al- wanted them. and Senator Gramm, they also voted Then he said, Gentlemen, what is the most magic ability to reach out and for me. touch the American people. Along with agenda for the day? And a Cabinet Sec- So now as a senior member of the Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, retary said it is the Caribbean Basin majority in the House of Representa- Ronald Reagan stands out as someone initiative and what to do about sugar tives, I simply hope that I can do what who could truly communicate with the quotas. The Secretary of Agriculture little I can to help foster the Reagan American people. Would that the Jack Block raised his hand, he said, vision for America, which is always do American public today would be able to Mr. President, you have tasked me to what is right for America. hear his calm, confident, friendly try to help the American farmers and Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- voice. we are doing the best that we can, but er, I appreciate my colleague yielding sugar prices are low in the world mar- his time back, and now we know why He has earned our respect and our ket. And I think it would be disastrous he is chairman of the Committee on thanks. The American people send for American farmers if you let more Energy and Commerce. their condolences and best wishes to sugar into our country. And the Presi- Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the Mrs. Reagan and the entire family. dent said, Thank you, Mr. Secretary. gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- Then the Secretary of State, I think BLUMENAUER). er, it is my honor to yield 3 minutes to it was General Haig, raised his hand Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, I the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. and said, Mr. President, I am the Sec- appreciate the gentleman’s courtesy in OSBORNE), my favorite coach. retary of State and you have tasked me permitting me to speak this evening. Mr. OSBORNE. Mr. Speaker, I thank with creating this Caribbean initiative As we observe the news, we have the gentleman for providing so many of to help the emerging democracies in commentators rushing to give an as- us with this opportunity.

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:53 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.043 H08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3807 I would like to express my apprecia- of the evil empire of the Soviet Union, was easily recognized. A fellow kept tion to President Reagan for his adher- I deeply thank President Reagan for re- inching close to him on the street ence to principle rather than to expedi- storing our Nation’s confidence and our wanting to say hello. Reagan saw him, ency; for standing firm against Amer- hope. looked over, reached out his hand and ica’s enemies when so many urged con- God bless you, Ronald Reagan, and said hello. The man said, ‘‘May I have tainment and conciliation; for dis- may God continue to bless the America your autograph, Mr. Milland?’’ Reagan playing a sense of humor when events whose spirit of eternal optimism you wrote Ray Milland on his paper and were grim; for being decent when inde- helped renew. walked on. Michael Deaver said, ‘‘Why cency was so common; for realizing Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- didn’t you tell him who you were?’’ that an offensive strategy is superior er, it is my pleasure to yield 5 minutes Reagan said, ‘‘I know who I am. He to defense when confronted by grave to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. wanted to meet Ray Milland.’’ danger; for restoring a troubled econ- LINDER). That was pure Ronald Reagan. He omy by putting more resources in the Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, I thank was not interested in making sure a people’s hands and less in the govern- the gentleman for yielding me the stranger knew of his importance. He ment’s hands; for promoting optimism time. cared about making this one stranger when many were discouraged; for his On an October evening in 1975, before happy. capacity to disagree without being dis- he announced that he would seek the Four years later he was President. He agreeable; for his willingness to reach Republican nomination for President, faced a military where one-third of our out to members of both parties in unit- Ronald Reagan addressed the 20th fleet was in dry dock, one-third of our ing, rather than dividing, this country; birthday celebration of The National planes could not fly for lack of spare for showing kindness in the face of hos- Review. It was an uplifting and humor- parts. Our soldiers were practicing tility; for communicating so clearly ous speech until the end, when he som- with pretend bullets. The economy had with words from his own heart and berly quoted Whittaker Chambers. Two a 21 percent interest rate and a 14 per- mind, written by his own hands; for in- decades earlier, Chambers had written, cent inflation rate, and we were in spiring courage in others through his ‘‘It is idle to talk of preventing the trouble. own courage; and finally, for displaying wreck of Western civilization, it is al- On January 20, 1981, President trust in God, rather than human insti- ready a wreck from within. That is Reagan addressed these challenges and tutions, through an unwavering faith why we can do little more now than then said this: ‘‘. . . together, with in God’s sovereignty and mercy. snatch a fingernail of a saint from the God’s help, we can and will resolve the Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- wrack, or a handful of ashes from the problems which now confront us. er, it is my pleasure to yield 5 minutes fagots, and bury them secretly in a ‘‘And, after all, why shouldn’t we be- to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. flower pot against that day, ages lieve that? We are Americans.’’ GINGREY). hence, when a few men begin again to Over the next 8 years, his economic (Mr. GINGREY asked and was given dare to believe that there once was policies took an economy from $2.5 tril- permission to revise and extend his re- something else, that something else is lion to $5 trillion. Revenues to the Fed- marks.) thinkable, and need some evidence of eral Treasury went from $519 billion to Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, I thank what it was, and the fortifying knowl- $1.054 trillion. We created 20 million the gentleman from California for edge that there were those who, at the new jobs, and on the foreign front yielding me the time. great nightfall, took loving thought to Reagan was the first President since Mr. Speaker, I am humble to be one preserve the tokens of hope and truth.’’ 1917 to ignore the bureaucracy and of the many Americans from all across Chambers spent 13 years in the serv- speak truth to evil. Eight years later our Nation who are paying tribute to ice of the Soviet Union as a spy. He al- President Ronald Reagan this week. the evil empire was crumbling, and the Members of Congress, including my- ways believed that the world was en- Cold War was over. self, came to this floor in February to gaged in a battle between the two great I always thought that the biggest celebrate President Reagan’s 93rd religions, communism and freedom. He missed opportunity of the past 60 years birthday, but it is with a sad heart to- believed that communism could not was to not have celebrated the end of night that we come to the floor of the survive in a world where people be- the Cold War. Ronald Reagan deserved House of Representatives to eulogize lieved in a higher power. Freedom, on that, and now he takes his leave. one of our greatest Presidents. the other hand, could not survive in a It has been a very difficult decade for It was appropriate that Ronald world where people did not. A nascent Mrs. Reagan and the family, but for Reagan, a small-town American from faith took hold in Chambers, and in those of us who love freedom, we re- Dixon, Illinois, would make a career 1937 he left communism for freedom. As member a man who dared to believe and a home in California, would rep- he did so, he told his wife that he that there once was something else, resent the very best of American life. feared they were moving to the losing that something else was thinkable. He As Governor of California, President side. gave us evidence of what it was in the Reagan became adept at representing This is what Ronald Reagan was fortifying knowledge that he would be the diverse nature of our country and thinking of in October of 1975. Com- there at the great nightfall to take lov- cared deeply for all Americans. munism was ascendant, and free people ing thought to preserve the tokens of As he is laid to rest, Ronald Reagan’s were losing their confidence, becoming hope and truth, and he was there. Not legacy for America will carry on eter- fearful and timid of the future, and a bad final act for a B actor from nally in the annals of history. Not over the following 4 years, the Soviet Dixon, not bad at all. since Lincoln and Roosevelt has one Union increased its influence in 14 sov- Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- man touched the core of what it means ereign nations around the globe. er, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman to be an American: Through unity and I was privileged to travel in his cam- from South Carolina (Mr. WILSON). strength, we can achieve peace; and paign plane in 1976 when he was in the Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. through self-determination, responsi- Southeast, and in several meetings Speaker, I would like to thank the gen- bility and character, we can live the thereafter, with large numbers of peo- tleman from California (Mr. LEWIS) for American dream. ple or small numbers of people, he al- his leadership tonight to pay tribute to Ronald Reagan restored faith in ways spoke less than anyone else in the the Gipper, President Ronald Reagan. America during one of our darkest room, enjoyed watching others have it Mr. Speaker, the world is grieving hours of self-doubt. He gave us hope out, and indeed, the next day he may this week over the loss of a true Amer- and promise when we needed it most. not have remembered the name of ev- ican hero, President Ronald Wilson Reagan’s true legacy is the restoration eryone in the room, but he never forgot Reagan. Words cannot describe the ad- of the dream that is America. Even who he was. He never forgot who he miration and respect that I have for with his passing, Reagan’s sense of was. this great man. He led a revolution for hope and strength lives on. Michael Deaver tells a wonderful free enterprise, for victory of democ- As someone who has been inspired by story about walking on a street with racy over communism and for national his leadership and courage in the face Ronald Reagan in 1978. By this time, he political realignment.

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:53 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.045 H08PT1 H3808 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 For many Americans in mourning, racies and American allies. The people and, indeed, that struggle is bound to including myself, Ronald Reagan was I have met over the years from last for years to come. It was the leg- not just a good President, he was our Bratislava, Slovakia, to Novosibirsk, acy of Ronald Reagan that laid the President. He defined the honor and Russia, regard President Reagan as foundation for America to best be pre- dignity of the office of the Presidency, their own hero, a man who was pared to defend itself for liberty and and he lifted the spirit of a Nation with unafraid to tell the truth about the for freedom. his hope and joyfulness that sprang evil empire. Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege to from an abiding faith in God and deep- While we mourn his passing, Presi- yield 5 minutes to my colleague, the ly held belief in the American dream. dent Ronald Reagan will never be for- gentleman from California (Mr. CAL- I am grateful to have lived the gotten. Children will read for centuries VERT). Reagan revolution as a foot soldier pro- to come about the ‘‘Happy Warrior’’ The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. moting his vision of a dynamic econ- who helped liberate tens of millions BURGESS). The gentleman from Cali- omy, creating jobs through tax cuts from totalitarian communism and re- fornia has 2 minutes remaining of his and free markets, his support of Amer- stored America’s position in the world original time. ica’s military to achieve success in lib- as ‘‘the shining city on a hill.’’ Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- erating millions by victory in the Cold er, pursuant to the order of the House b 2130 War, and his transformation of devel- today and as the designee of the major- oping the Republican Party which Democracy is more widespread today ity leader, I request an additional hour today holds the majority of State legis- in the world than any time in history of debate on the resolution. lative seats across America for the due to President Reagan’s success of The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- first time since 1952. He reinvigorated peace through strength. tleman from California (Mr. LEWIS) is the Republican Party with optimism We cannot help but be reminded of recognized for an additional 1 hour. and vision. his legacy as America faces similar The gentleman from California (Mr. He entered office during a time of battles today against the oppression of CALVERT) is recognized for 5 minutes. doubt and despair and malaise, with terrorism, and his critics deride our Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, I thank the economy sputtering in a looming President, much as they did President my good friend from California, our Cold War that threatened our families. Reagan 20 years ago. America is under dean, Chairman Lewis, our able chair- With these seemingly insurmountable attack because we are a symbol of lib- man of the Subcommittee on Defense, problems he faced, many critics under- erty in the world, and we must meet for yielding me this time. estimated the former California Gov- this challenge with the same courage Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay trib- ernor. Yet President Reagan brought and conviction that Ronald Reagan ute to one of the greatest Presidents in with him his conservative principles of had. the history of our Nation, Ronald Wil- individual freedom, limited govern- As he said in the 1964 Goldwater cam- son Reagan, the 40th President of the ment, personal responsibility, and paign in what has simply become United States. peace through strength. He also known as ‘‘the speech’’ and was earlier He was a leader when our country brought an optimism that America’s referenced by Chairman Lewis, ‘‘You needed it most, at a time when many greatest days were ahead of us. and I have a rendezvous with destiny. Americans, including myself, had found Proving all of his detractors wrong, We will preserve for our children this, ourselves disaffected by politics. His President Reagan won the Cold War, the last best hope of man on earth, or optimism gave our Nation the con- spurred the economy to robust growth we will sentence them to take the last fidence and motivation to resume its and restored our national confidence step into a thousand years of dark- place as a world leader. and patriotism. As author and former ness.’’ I well remember the 1970s after Presi- Presidential staffer Peter Robinson May God bless the Reagan family, dent Nixon’s resignation and the pes- said recently, ‘‘Ronald Reagan was God bless our troops, and may God con- simism that followed, when many great, because Ronald Reagan was tinue to bless America. Americans disassociated themselves right.’’ Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- from public service. Ronald Reagan His straightforward speeches began er, I yield myself such time as I may came onto the Presidential scene and to change minds across America, and consume. reminded us that the ‘‘best was yet to many became Reagan Democrats. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman come,’’ that we are not to blame for Today in my home State, Republicans from South Carolina (Mr. WILSON) very the world’s problems; and yet, as a hold most statewide offices, a complete much for those very eloquent com- great Nation, we had a place of respon- turnaround that has occurred through- ments. I am reminded of the fact that sibility and a role to play. out the South thanks to the leadership in very simple form, Ronald Reagan President Reagan believed, as our of Ronald Reagan. challenged the world on behalf of lib- Declaration of Independence states, all He started a revolution where in 1980 erty, on behalf of peace. He had this re- men are created equal, that they are Republicans in South Carolina held markable relationship that developed endowed by their creator with certain only 16 seats in the statehouse, and over time with Mikhail Gorbachev. unalienable rights, life, liberty and the now there is a Republican super- After he described the Evil Empire in pursuit of happiness. Additionally, he majority of 76 out of 124 members. In straightforward terms, they began to knew better than most that strength the State senate, Republicans soared communicate as leaders of two great comes from within, from the people. from three members in 1980 to now a countries. Indeed, together over time Therefore, first and foremost, Reagan supermajority of 27 of 46 members. they reduced the nuclear threat by used his first term as President to For 2 years I was honored to work in coming to agreement with one another. bring these rights back to Americans the Reagan administration as Deputy It has been said earlier, but let me starting with what was then known as General Counsel to the Secretary of repeat the words of Ronald Reagan: Reaganomics. Energy Jim Edwards. I am a proud ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if He sought to restore America to the Reagan alumni association member, you seek prosperity for the Soviet people by giving them back control of and in 1990, because of his efforts to Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek their pocketbooks. Uncle Sam was put win the Cold War and bring freedom to the liberalization, come here to this on a diet of lower taxes, sound money the oppressed people of the Soviet gate, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, and fewer regulations, allowing us the Union, I was asked by former Repub- tear down this wall.’’ benefits of hard work. By the time that lican National Committee Chairman And indeed, within a couple of years, Reagan left office, only two income Lee Atwater to observe the first demo- that wall came down. The East-West brackets existed, with a top rate of 28 cratic elections in Bulgaria. confrontation began to thaw; and be- percent, compared to the 14 income I saw firsthand the Reagan legacy of tween these two leaders, the world has brackets, with the top rate of 70 per- peace and freedom, as Central and seen a different kind of opportunity for cent, that existed when he took office. Eastern Europe rose from the ashes of peace. Today we face the challenge Additionally, government was scaled communism to become strong democ- that involves the war on terrorism; back and red tape eliminated, allowing

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:53 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.047 H08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3809 Americans to take care of themselves. Thank you, Mr. President, and God quote: ‘‘It is the Soviet Union that As Reagan was apt to say. ‘‘Govern- bless Ronald Reagan. runs against the tide of history. It is ment is not the solution to our prob- Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- the march of freedom and democracy lem; government is the problem.’’ er, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman which will leave Marxism-Leninism on He saw the rebuilding of America’s from North Carolina (Mr. HAYES). the ash heap of history, as it has left military. After years of low morale and (Mr. HAYES asked and was given other tyrannies which stifle the free- interest in the armed services, Presi- permission to revise and extend his re- dom and muzzle self-expression of the dent Reagan made a return to the pre- marks.) people.’’ Vietnam days of faith and professional Mr. HAYES. Mr. Speaker, first let me No truer words have been spoken. I appeal in our military. As Commander thank my dear friend and colleague, believed it then, and I believe it now. in Chief, he oversaw the largest peace- the gentleman from California (Mr. We all saw Reagan’s words validated time buildup of military spending in LEWIS), for his leadership tonight in when the Soviet Union fell apart short- history, leading to the collapse of the honoring such a wonderful man. Presi- ly after President Reagan left office. Soviet Union and the end of the Cold dent Ronald Reagan was a good man Finally, even when facing a dev- War. His revolutionary policies regard- who became a great President. His astating diagnosis, President Reagan ing investment in military technology, leadership has inspired me throughout still delivered the news with his typical good training, and pay laid the founda- my career in public service, as I am optimism for America and his belief for tion for a strong military that later sure Reagan inspired many folks pres- the American people. On November 5, claimed victory in Operation Desert ently serving in the public arena. 1994, he wrote a letter to the American Storm and continues to protect our na- One of my favorite Ronald Reagan people announcing that he had Alz- tional security well into the 21st cen- quotes comes from his 1986 State of the heimer’s disease: ‘‘In closing, let me tury and, now, in the war on terror. Union address, and I quote: ‘‘Govern- thank you, the American people, for Ronald Reagan lived a life worth liv- ment growing beyond our consent had giving me the great honor of allowing ing. He saw both the birth and death of become a lumbering giant, slamming me to serve as your President. When Communism. He won the hearts of shut the gates of opportunity, threat- the Lord calls me home, whenever that Americans and world leaders. How? He ening to crush the very roots of our day may be, I will leave with the great- believed in peace through strength, and freedom. What brought America back? est love for this country of ours and he lived his convictions based on expe- The American people brought us back, eternal optimism for its future. I now rience, intuition, and love of life. with quiet courage and common sense; begin the journey that will lead me I will end with one of my favorite with undying faith that in this Nation into the sunset of my life. I know that quotes: ‘‘Above all, we must realize under God the future will be ours, for for America there will always be a that no arsenal, no weapon in the arse- the future belongs to the free.’’ bright dawn ahead.’’ nal of the world is so formidable as the That is one of my favorite Reagan I do believe that the United States will and moral courage of free men and quotes for a number of reasons. First, does face a bright dawn. And President women.’’ it addresses one of the main reasons I Reagan and his leadership can take a Thank you, President Reagan. May switched parties. Like President large part of the credit for that fact. God bless you and your family, and Reagan, I began my career not as a Re- While I am saddened that President may God bless America. publican but as a Democrat; and, like Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- Reagan is no longer with us, I rejoice Reagan, I switched parties because I er, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman knowing that he has met his maker, felt that ‘‘big government was slam- from Indiana (Mr. CHOCOLA). and his maker is looking him in the Mr. CHOCOLA. Mr. Speaker, I thank ming shut the gates of opportunity, eye and saying, President Reagan, the the gentleman for yielding me this threatening to crush the very roots of Gipper, you are a good and faithful time, and I join my colleagues tonight our freedom.’’ servant. and rise in tribute to a great man, Ronald Reagan’s conservative prin- He is now in a far better place. He is President Ronald Reagan. ciples, put into successful action, looking down on the country and the In 1980, I turned 18, and the first per- changed our Nation’s attitude on the people that he loved. May God bless son I ever voted for was Ronald role of government and personal re- and protect America and the vision Reagan. With that vote, the world sponsibility. Without President that was Ronald Reagan’s for us and changed. It changed because President Reagan, there would not have been a our future; that the freedom belong to Reagan clearly understood that the bipartisan effort to reform welfare and the free. greatest strength of this Nation is the end that vicious cycle of government Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- American people. He believed in us so dependency. er, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman much that he inspired us to believe in The other thing I like about this from California (Mr. HUNTER), the ourselves. quote is that it reveals so much about chairman of the Committee on Armed And in his typical humble fashion, the character of Ronald Reagan: his Services, and I understand that some- during his last speech from the Oval unbridled optimism, his belief in the where in the building his son and his Office, he said, ‘‘I wasn’t a great com- American people, and his humbleness. son’s bride are wandering around. His municator, but I communicated great He was too humble to take sole credit son, Sam, was not born when the gen- things, and they didn’t spring full for the United States’ return to great- tleman came to these Chambers, so be- bloom from my brow; they came from ness, even though had his measures cause of family relations and other- the heart of a great Nation.’’ failed he would have assumed the wise, I now yield to him. Mr. Speaker, President Reagan cap- blame. Instead, he gave the credit to Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, I thank tured the hearts of the American peo- the American people, because he be- the gentleman from California (Mr. ple and he unleashed the power, the lieved in the American people. LEWIS) for yielding me this time, and I hope, and the optimism that comes One of his favorite quotes was: want to thank my great friend also for with a sincere understanding and love ‘‘There is no limit to what you can ac- not only helping to preside over this of freedom and democracy. President complish if you don’t care who gets the special tribute, but for everything that Reagan changed the world by simply credit.’’ And he lived that quote on a he did in helping to lead the California reminding us all of exactly who we are. daily basis. delegation to be a source of strength He inspired us to become the Nation we One of the other things I admired for President Reagan when he put forth were all along. He always saw the shin- about Ronald Reagan was his steadfast those monumental changes in the di- ing city on the hill, and he gave us the determination to stand up to com- rection of our government. vision to see it with him. munist aggression. Even though he I have listened to his statements and Although we deeply mourn his pass- knew such a determined view may not just now to the statement of the gen- ing, Ronald Reagan’s life was a gift to be popular, he never backed away from tleman from North Carolina (Mr. the world, a gift that will never be for- his firm belief that communism was HAYES), and many others, in talking gotten by all who love freedom and the wrong. In 1982, speaking before the about this wonderful American, Ronald shining example he gave us. British Parliament, Reagan said, and I Reagan; and I thought I might just

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I can remember in the 1980s, when member the picture of the cowboy that in front of us, his legs dangling from he responded to the Soviet Union’s the President drew for my other son the table, he has argyle socks on. ringing Western Europe with the SS–20 Duncan, who is now a United States He said, I was trying to think about missiles and he started to move those marine and deployed overseas. what I should say to you all. We have Persian missiles and ground launch I think the one thing that this Presi- not had a majority before. We have to cruise missiles into Europe to offset dent sold in boatloads was inspiration. govern, he said, and he said, it is pos- the Soviet strength of their strategic He was great at inspiration. He realized sible from time to time we may dis- programs and their intermediate range a little secret, and that is this country agree with each other as we go about ballistic missiles that they were mov- runs on inspiration. Whether it is the making decisions on public policy. ing in. And there were massive dem- markets or the economy or people de- As I was thinking about what to say onstrations against Ronald Reagan and ciding whether or not they are going to to you, I was reminded of my father-in- against those who supported him in join the uniformed services, inspiration law, who is a dentist. It seems he had Europe and lots of sniping by the press is the fuel that this country runs on, this fellow sitting in the chair, and the in this country. and that is something that Ronald guy had an abscessed tooth which had Reagan had an endless supply of. to come out. And my father-in-law b 2145 He was tough during the tough times. began to put this needle in his jaw. And yet because of that strength and You have to have good endurance to be About that time my father-in-law felt because he rebuilt national security, a good President, and he had great en- kind of a groping at the lower part of the Russians at one point, especially durance. He was able to handle the dif- his abdomen. He looked down startled, after the Reykjavik summit when he ficult times, the times when he was not and the fellow looked back up and said, refused to give up the Strategic De- real popular, and outlast his critics. It we are not going to hurt each other, fense Initiative, that is missile defense, has been kind of fun in the last couple are we, Doc? the right of Americans to defend them- of days to watch people who criticized For those who knew Ronald Reagan, selves against incoming ballistic mis- him very severely to seem now to re- he would get just to the edge of color, siles, after he did that, there was lots member that he was not such a bad guy but nonetheless, he knew how to make of hand-wringing among the elite after all. Not only was he not such a a point to bring people together in a media and lots of our European allies bad guy, but he brought this country very special way; a man never to be who said, there it goes, the last chance together as a family. He was, of course, forgotten, recognizing how important for peace, and lo and behold, the Rus- the head of the family. it is that we work together. sians picked up the phone and said, can It is a time for us to mourn this Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the we talk? President, but also to celebrate his gentleman from Texas (Mr. Ronald Reagan at that point started great life and the big piece of this life HENSARLING). to negotiate with the Soviet Union, that he gave to our Nation. I will never Mr. HENSARLING. Mr. Speaker, this and not just to negotiate a peace, but forget when I was first running for week millions of Americans and people to negotiate the disassembly of the So- Congress, I was practicing law on be- around the globe mourn the loss of one viet empire, the tear-down of the So- half of a barbershop on the waterfront of our Nation’s greatest heroes, Ronald viet empire, which is manifest today in in San Diego. My dad came in and said, Reagan. From the time that he took numerous free states where once there you can be a Member of Congress. He the oath of office until he left the was one state ruled by tyranny. said, Ronald Reagan is running. He is White House, few American Presidents Mr. Speaker, I remember the gen- going to run on a platform of national ever enjoyed the popularity, support tleman from California (Mr. LEWIS) was defense and jobs, and in San Diego that and love that Ronald Reagan engen- present as one of our senior members, is the same thing. I said, what do I dered. He developed a special bond with and the gentleman from California (Mr. need to start running? He said, we need the American people, and one can see HERGER) had not been elected yet, one thing; you need a picture with from the tremendous outpouring of along with the gentleman from Cali- Ronald Reagan, and we are going to go sympathy and support across our great fornia (Mr. THOMAS) and the gentleman up and get it, and we went up and got Nation that that special bond still en- from California (Mr. DREIER), and Bob it in L.A. That launched my foray into dures today. Lagomarsino, and John Rousselot, and politics. So many of us won that year More than any other person, Presi- Chip Pashayan, and my colleague Bill who had no chance of winning because dent Reagan is responsible for winning Lowery, and Bobby Fever, new Repub- we were riding along with a guy named the Cold War. He engaged his Com- licans who had come in in the Reagan Ronald Reagan. munist adversaries in the battle of win of 1980, and the President invited Let us take a message and a lesson ideas and achieved victory by winning us to Blair House. The President in- from this great American and proceed the war for the hearts and minds of vited us to Blair House even while ahead with optimism and with dedica- people. In his heart he knew these peo- President Carter was still in the White tion to the idea that you get peace ple. He knew the Bulgarian student House. We were standing in the foyer, through strength. That was a trade- who was never allowed to read Thomas celebrated this victory of our Com- mark of Ronald Reagan’s foreign pol- Jefferson. He knew the East German mander-in-Chief-to-be because he had icy. I think we are following it with mother who wanted a better life for her not been sworn in yet, and the Presi- this President. I think we need to stay children. He knew the Polish factory dent-elect came down the stairs, and he the course and stay steady. worker who longed to be free of Soviet talked to us about being up on his Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman subjugation. ranch in Santa Barbara and killing an from California (Mr. LEWIS) for letting One 65-year-old Czech who lived especially big rattlesnake the day be- me say a few things. under the Soviet regime said, ‘‘For us, fore while he was cutting brush. We Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- Reagan was important because we had a great time talking with the er, I yield myself such time as I may knew he was really anti-Communist, President-elect. After a while he said, I consume. emotionally anti-Communist. For us, am tired, I am going to go upstairs and Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from he was a symbol of the United States’ hit the hay. He said, you guys turn off California (Mr. HUNTER) reminds me of genuine determination to bring com- the lights when you leave. He went another time when Ronald Reagan was munism to an end.’’ right upstairs; we continued to have a trying to bring together Republicans to A Romanian man who was recently good time. That represented that west- form a majority. It was 1969, and there interviewed struggled to find the words ern hospitality, that great charm that was a majority for approximately 2 to describe President Reagan’s legacy,

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:53 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.050 H08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3811 and then he simply said, ‘‘It is due to serve as a reminder. As President Ronald Reagan and what he left to him that we are free.’’ Reagan also said, ‘‘There is much work America and to the world. Ronald Thanks to Ronald Reagan’s deter- before us. Not easy tasks perhaps, but Reagan will always be larger than life mined leadership, untold millions were I would remind you, they are not im- to millions of people around the world liberated from Communist tyranny and possible, because after all, we are who were freed from the shackles of from the palpable fear of nuclear anni- Americans,’’ and perhaps none more so Communism because he stood firm hilation. than Ronald Reagan. against what he so correctly called the America was fortunate to have Ron- Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- Evil Empire. Ronald Reagan’s deter- ald Reagan. At a time when our coun- er, I yield 2 minutes to the gentle- mination and leadership forced an end try needed a hero, Ronald Reagan was woman from Illinois (Mrs. BIGGERT), to the Cold War. His philosophy of cut- able to rekindle the American spirit. Ronald Reagan’s home State. ting taxes and easing Federal regula- He inspired us with his powerful words Mrs. BIGGERT. Mr. Speaker, unlike tions brought about one of the largest and unwavering optimism. He had a many other Members of this body, I periods of economic growth in Amer- steadfast belief in the goodness of never had the great privilege of serving ican history. And his eternal optimism America. No amount of pessimism, with Ronald Reagan. When President and hope for a brighter day lifted the strife or tragedy could discourage that Reagan was elected in 1980, I was rais- spirits of a Nation. thinking or blur his vision of America ing my four children and running a law Much has been said about Ronald as a ‘‘shining city on a hill.’’ practice out of my home in Hinsdale, Reagan’s charisma, quick wit and abil- I was one of perhaps hundreds of Illinois. Back then I did not follow ity to put people at ease. He was also thousands of people that had the privi- world events or political developments blessed with a great asset for anyone in lege to shake the hand of the former like I do now. In those days, it was all public life, a sense of timing. Whether President, look him in the eyes and I could do to keep up with kids’ soccer it was one of his famous one-liners or thank him for all he did for America. games, make it to the school board the ability to do just the right thing at Frankly, next to my marriage and the meetings on time, and ensure that I did the right time, he always seemed to birth of my children, it was one of the not miss a court deadline for an impor- disarm a tough national press corps or most profound moments in my life. An tant client. defuse a difficult political issue. earlier generation was inspired to pub- This week, like most Americans, I Mr. Speaker, I had the privilege of lic service by Barry Goldwater. Many revel in the stories that my colleagues witnessing an example of his instinc- in my generation were inspired to serve and others who knew him well have re- tive timing and humor in 1980 in Mis- by Ronald Reagan. counted about their special moments sissippi when then-candidate Ronald A woman in Santa Monica recently Reagan and his wife, Nancy, came to stated, ‘‘When I think of him, I think with our 40th President. Like most Americans, I cannot get enough of the Neshoba County Fair in Philadel- of America. What is that saying, Amer- phia, Mississippi. The Neshoba County ican, like Mom and apple pie. He Ronald Reagan. What strikes me as I think back Fair is called Mississippi’s largest should be in that, too, because he rep- house party and has been the premier resented what this country is all through the years of those Reagan times of the 1980s are two very impor- gathering for political speeches during about.’’ the hot Mississippi summers for more President Reagan was what this tant things. They are the things that than a century. Ronald Reagan’s visit country is all about. He believed in the he said that touched my life and my in- was the first ever by a Presidential American dream. He believed in the terests as a busy mother and a died-in- power of free men and free markets. He the-wool Republican. candidate to this most celebrated po- championed less government, lower First is what later became known as litical event in my home State. One of the issues that had surfaced in taxes and lifting regulation. He be- the Reagan 11th commandment. Ron- Mr. Reagan’s Presidential campaign lieved in our country’s ability to ald Reagan said, and practiced this was the question of his age. He was 69 produce boundless possibilities and principle, ‘‘Speak no ill of a fellow Re- years old. Some questioned whether he limitless opportunity. His policies ush- publican.’’ might be too old for the job. At the ered in a new age of entrepreneurship Second was the Reagan rule for suc- Neshoba County Fair an incident oc- and innovation, and led to one of the cess: ‘‘There is no limit to the good a greatest economic expansions in our man can do in this world if he does not curred which could have potentially ex- Nation’s history. care who gets the credit.’’ aggerated the issue of his age. After We believed in President Reagan be- Mr. Speaker, tonight my thoughts Mr. Reagan’s speech, a local craftsman, cause he believed in us. He always saw and prayers go out to the Reagan fam- Gary Harkins of Mississippi, presented the best in us, and he never stopped be- ily. It is true I never met him, but they Mr. Reagan with a rocking chair. I am lieving in the decency and ingenuity of will never know how much his words, sure some of the candidate’s advisers the American people. He believed deep- his deeds and his common sense have and staff were horrified to think of the ly in the strength of democracy and influenced and will continue to posi- prospect that the one image coming never lost hope of America realizing its tively affect the generations of leaders from this appearance was a picture of ‘‘rendezvous with destiny.’’ that will follow him. the 69-year-old former Governor sitting Our Nation will deeply miss Ronald in a rocking chair. But without hesi- b 2200 Reagan. Undoubtedly future genera- tation, Ronald Reagan sat down in the tions of Americans will remember him Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- chair, grabbed his wife, Nancy, by the among the pantheon of America’s great er, it is my pleasure to yield 5 minutes hand and pulled her onto his lap. They leaders, among the names of Wash- to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. appeared at that moment to be the ington, Jefferson and Lincoln, but WICKER), a member of the Sub- very picture of vitality and energy. there will never be another President committee on Defense of the Com- The widely distributed photograph and Reagan. mittee on Appropriations. film footage which followed went Let us remember his words the way Mr. WICKER. I thank the gentleman around the Nation and nobody seeing he wished to be remembered: ‘‘What- for yielding me this time, and I thank that image thought Ronald Reagan was ever else history may say about me him for controlling the time tonight too old to be President. when I am gone, I hope it will record and affording us the opportunity even Mr. Reagan’s quick thinking prob- that I appealed to your best hopes, not at this hour to pay tribute. ably boosted his candidacy and dis- your worst fears, to your confidence Mr. Speaker, I too rise and join so pelled doubts in the minds of some vot- rather than your doubts. My dream is many of my colleagues on both sides of ers. The incident also changed the life that you will travel the road ahead the aisle in paying tribute to Ronald of Greg Harkins, the craftsman who with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of made the rocking chair and whose and opportunity’s arm steadying your the United States. I agree with so fledgling business was energized by his way.’’ much of what has been said here today short encounter on the national stage. Mr. Speaker, today should serve and throughout the Nation in the past Mr. Harkins soon began receiving hun- more than just a memorial, it should few days about the incredible legacy of dreds of requests for chairs from across

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Mr. Speak- fraternity, the Sigma Nu house, got thing that I can be able to carry on for er, I yield such time as he may con- real energized about the campaign and the rest of my life.’’ sume to the gentleman from Tennessee by the convention when they had that Mr. Harkins represents just one (Mr. WAMP). strong conservative Governor from the small example of how Ronald Reagan Mr. WAMP. Mr. Speaker, I thank the West team up with maybe the best per- touched the lives of people in ways gentleman for taking the leadership to- son on paper that had run in 100 years, that are hard to quantify. We may not night. The previous speaker, the gen- George Herbert Walker Bush. It was know all of their names or their unique tleman from Virginia (Mr. GOODE), my- like that did it. That sealed the deal. stories, but his fellow citizens gained self, and President Reagan all shared What a great team. And on election inspiration from Ronald Reagan’s lead- one thing in common as many do in night in the fall of 1980 we loaded up in ership and his attitude that it really this House and that is we used to be cars from UNC. It was Lee Ives and was ‘‘morning in America.’’ Democrats and we are Republicans. Tom Nesbit and Tony Floyd and Allen Whether it was a young American an- That brings me to what I want to share Miller and Lyn Thornburg and a group swering a call to public service or be- tonight, which is the change in the po- of us, and we drove to Washington, D.C. coming involved in the growing con- litical landscape brought about by the and we were here that night in 1980 servative movement or simply taking life and service of Ronald Wilson when Ronald Reagan was elected Presi- the initiative to exercise their rights Reagan; but I want to start by saying dent of the United States. and register to vote for the first time, that I believe, and I think this honors I was a Southern conservative Demo- Ronald Reagan energized many Ameri- his memory, that neither party has an crat who became a Republican. Our en- cans to action. They followed him be- exclusive on integrity or ideas, neither tire family shifted from our party iden- cause they trusted this man of prin- party always has it right or always has tification over the hope, the oppor- cipled beliefs and because he captured it wrong and the two-party system con- tunity, the fresh start that Ronald their imagination, and they simply tinues to serve our country extremely Reagan brought to the political proc- liked him. well. ess. That changed the political land- Ronald Reagan, some people said, I am proud of the first half of my life scape in the United States of America, would be limited because he was only when I was a Democrat and proud of and it moved our country from what an actor. He was perhaps the best ex- the second half of my life as a Repub- was more left of center to slightly ample of an actor turned politician; lican, but the story in my life as a right of center. but he ended up being the real thing, Southern conservative Democrat goes The Founding Fathers did not want the true article, the genuine American; way back generations. My father’s things to change dramatically. This is and, Mr. Speaker, I believe he will be great great grandfather, Enoch like a big ship of state. If you turn it recorded as being the greatest Presi- Alldredge, served in the 19th century in one degree, you arrive at a different dent of our time. the Alabama General Assembly for in destination. The country went from Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- excess of 40 years. My mother’s great being left of center to right of center er, before I proceed any further, pursu- uncle Reuben Alldridge served in the over the leadership, the strength and ant to the order of the House of today 20th century in the Alabama General what I would say is the constancy of and as the designee of the majority Assembly for a number of years, both Ronald Reagan. He stood for some- leader, I request an additional hour of very prominent political figures from thing, and he simply articulated to this debate on the resolution. the northern part of Alabama, all as country what he stood for, and he The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Democrats. So I grew up honestly as a never wavered. When people elect a BURGESS). The gentleman is recognized Southern conservative Democrat. President, they want a strong leader for 30 minutes. As a matter of fact, my first real that can make a decision, that will Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- memory of it all as a young person was stand his ground. When the wind blows, er, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman watching my parents be involved in he stands firm. Ronald Reagan did from Virginia (Mr. GOODE). local campaigns and then, in the fall of that. Mr. GOODE. Mr. Speaker, first I 1976, going to Woolen Gym at the Uni- That is why the 8 years is a legacy want to thank the gentleman from versity of North Carolina at Chapel beyond measure. As the previous California for allowing me a couple of Hill as a 19-year-old freshman and vot- speaker said, in our lifetime, the minutes during this period of tribute. ing for Jimmy Carter as President of model, the great leader is Ronald The death of President Reagan re- the United States and then having my Reagan. I salute him. He made a Re- minded Americans and many around parents attend the inaugural in Wash- publican out of me, and I have been in the world of the achievements of his 8 ington here with Franklin and Emmy the House of Representatives as a Re- years in office. A significant part of his Haney, two of the biggest Democrats in publican elected official for 10 years. I legacy is that he helped the United the State of Tennessee and being proud ran once and lost to get here, and I am States to feel good about itself again that my parents were here and saluting proud of the whole story. I am very and the tax cuts that he advocated in the new President, Jimmy Carter. typical of a lot of Southern boll weevil the early 1980s stimulated the eco- But the years that followed in my conservatives that believed in that nomic boom that lasted until the end formative years certainly gave me an simple limited government, personal of the century. opportunity and hope when I saw Ron- responsibility, traditional values, History may well show that Presi- ald Reagan. I saw the malaise we were strong national defense, lower taxes, dent Reagan’s greatest accomplish- in. Let me say that Jimmy Carter has take care of yourself and your family ment was reestablishing our military proven what a fine and outstanding first and your extended family, look to strength and bringing about the col- man he is over these last 24 years since the government last, but do it with a lapse of the Soviet Union, which had leaving office. It was a low point in our smile on your face and love in your been the principal adversary of the free country’s history, but he is a good and heart. He is like a father, a big brother, world in the Cold War that had raged decent man; and frankly I will stand by a great leader who we could trust and since the close of World War II. The that vote as a Democrat at that time, have confidence in. Today we remem- strengthened military was the one that but over those next 4 years at the Uni- ber a truly great American President, waged Desert Storm successfully and versity of North Carolina, we saw a Ronald Wilson Reagan. laid the foundation for the United real low in our country’s history and Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- States military that is leading the war then all of a sudden there was a new er, I yield myself such time as I may on terrorism. President Reagan rekin- day in 1980, and it seemed like someone consume.

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:53 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.054 H08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3813 The gentleman from Tennessee, I forth by the waves. Not Reagan. He was dom and experience with us. He stated must say, reminds me a bit of my own like a battleship, always moving for- that ‘‘the future does not belong to the youth, for I was raised in a family ward in its destination, always certain fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.’’ where my father was a Republican, my of victory. I believe he would want us to continue mother was a Democrat. I was some- Though he has now left us, his im- to make this Nation great by pre- what confused. But the gentleman re- pact never will. Every time we see a serving its goodness. He would want us minds me of another thing. I remember free person in a foreign land vote in a to continue in the struggle between as a student at UCLA having the democratic election, Ronald Reagan is right and wrong and good and evil. chance to participate in a pre-Peace there. Every time we see a new job cre- Mr. Speaker, Ronald Reagan’s life Corps people-to-people program. I was ated through innovation and cre- was a transformed one, one that re- headed with a group of 11 other stu- ativity, Ronald Reagan is there. And flected the light from within, and he dents on our way to India to talk about every time we see an American taking shared that light with all of us in the freedom and hope and opportunity. pride in his country, Ronald Reagan is brightness and warmth of his smile and During that time, I was really con- there. in his grace and good humor. fused myself. Would I become a mem- Ultimately we mourn for ourselves, Mr. Reagan said this of his Savior: ber of one of our great parties, the not for Reagan, for his life was one of ‘‘He promised there will never be a Democratic Party, or would I become a victory. Like few other leaders in his- dark night that does not end, and by member of the Republican Party? It tory, he lived to see his vision vindi- dying for us, Jesus showed how far our was amazing what that summer did. I cated. Just as he had predicted, he saw love should be ready to go: all the made that decision for myself in the communism repudiated and freedom way.’’ Ronald Reagan’s dark nights on summer in India. Why? Because one of spread across the globe. this Earth have ended, and he is at this our great parties was of the view that Ronald Reagan always knew who he moment in the presence of his precious maybe individuals in our society need- was and what he believed. He knew Savior. And now for Mr. Reagan each ed a little help, maybe individual peo- why America was great and why Amer- day has a bright new dawn and a shin- ple could not do it for themselves and ica must lead. We recognize tonight his ing sunset, and while he was here, he government was a requirement. It was achievements and his legacy, but also went all the way. And, Mr. Speaker, if another of the great parties that let us also remember his style and his he could speak to us one last time, I thought the individual was critical, self-deprecating humor. We give him truly believe that he would tell us the made a difference in our future, and if the credit he did not seek or think im- same message that he told us so many you apply your spirit, your talent, your portant. times before when he said, you and I energy within that party, the survival At the end of his Presidency, Reagan have a rendezvous with destiny. We can of the individual was the key. That is was asked if he objected to all the fa- preserve this, the last best hope of how I made my decision. The gen- vorable press coverage that Mikhail mankind on Earth, for our children, or tleman from Tennessee reminded me a Gorbachev got. ‘‘Good Lord, no,’’ we can sentence them to take that lot of that tonight. It is a pleasure to Reagan responded. ‘‘I co-starred with very last step into a thousand years of be with him. Errol Flynn once.’’ darkness. If we do fail, at least let our Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- children and our children’s children er, it is my pleasure to yield such time er, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman say of us that we justified our brief mo- as she may consume to my dear friend, from Arizona (Mr. FRANKS). ment here. We did all that could be the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Mr. Speak- done. GRANGER). er, tonight it is my deepest heart-felt Thank you, Mr. President, for your Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Speaker, I am honor to remember and to celebrate life, and thank you for reminding us all tempted to begin by saying that I come the life of Ronald Wilson Reagan. of our rendezvous with destiny. to honor the life of Ronald Reagan; but President Reagan was a man of unfet- Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- the truth is nothing I can say, nothing tered principle. He was not afraid to do er, I yield 3 minutes to the gentle- anyone can say can speak more loudly what was right. And not only was he woman from Tennessee (Mrs. than Reagan’s own achievements do. not afraid, he was tenaciously com- BLACKBURN). His legacy will endure and his memory mitted to doing only that that he Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, I will remain. thought was right in his own heart. thank the chairman for yielding me Mr. Speaker, President Reagan this time. b 2215 warned us all to beware of the tempta- It is an amazing thing to join our col- Many leaders have changed history. tion to ignore the facts of history and leagues tonight and to thank President Ronald Reagan changed the future. the ‘‘aggressive impulses of any evil Reagan and his family for their decades How soon we forget the environment he empire, to simply call the arms race a of service. And as I have listened to our inherited in 1981, double-digit inflation, giant misunderstanding and thereby colleagues tonight, I thought about the high interest rates at home, and Soviet remove ourselves from the struggle be- first time I had the opportunity to see aggression combined with American tween right and wrong, good and evil.’’ and hear President Reagan, and this malaise abroad. Yet through his con- Mr. Reagan understood that some was back in the early 1970s, and he had viction, his courage, and his commit- things were worth fighting, even dying, come into Jackson, Mississippi, for a ment, Ronald Reagan changed the Na- for, and he was resolute about them in Republican Party event. And I at- tion and the world. his heart. tended that event with my parents and The story of Ronald Reagan is the President Reagan made us all believe was absolutely amazed at several story of America. He was an ordinary that America still had what it takes to things as I listened to and watched man who led a most extraordinary life. be victorious, to rise above and out of Ronald Reagan. It was his warmth, his Born in poverty, Reagan rose to the difficult circumstances, and to face ability to communicate, the way he greatest political office in the world. devastating challenges. He said, used simple words for a very strong Along the way he did not merely argue ‘‘Every promise, every opportunity, is message, one that really showed his for American values, he lived them. His still golden in this land. And through principle and his commitment in those determination was matched only by his that golden door, our children walk still convictions that never ever decency, his leadership equaled only by into tomorrow with the knowledge wavered. his love of country. that no one can be denied the promise And one of the things that really im- He was a great President who was that is America. Her heart is full, her pressed me was that this was a man also a good man, and he was a man so future bright. She has arms big enough who really loved America. He loved ev- unlike any other in politics. Politics is to comfort and strong enough to sup- erything that America stood for. And I filled with people who go with the flow, port.’’ By the grace of God, those words think that it is fitting that we have a change with the times, and exchange are still true today. world that stands in awe today as they principles for polls. These politicians Mr. Speaker, President Reagan on so look back and they remember those are like tugboats, pushed back and many occasions simply shared his wis- commitments in and accomplishments.

VerDate jul 14 2003 02:53 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.057 H08PT1 H3814 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 Mr. Speaker, I had the opportunity Mr. Speaker, President Reagan was and is Great Depression. Despite these challenges, to return today with some of my col- today the personification of all that is good in he put himself through college by earning a leagues from being in Normandy to cel- America. All that knew him have commented scholarship, washing dishes, waiting tables, all ebrate and to commemorate the 60th on the eternal optimism he exuded, much like while sending some of his earnings home to anniversary of D-Day and the fight for the hope America presents to the rest of the his parents to help support his family. His freedom that was so important to our world. strong character was forged by hard work. allies and also to our Nation, and to He was a beacon of light for freedom and Driven by the belief that all people should have an opportunity to share with so for freedom loving people everywhere. The be able to live freely, Ronald Reagan joined many of those individuals their love of fact is that today there are not hundreds, not the American people and the world community President Ronald Reagan. And I think thousands, but millions of people in the world to rally against the tyrannical oppression of the they all saw in him something that we who live in freedom, and these people are free Axis powers and to defeat Nazism in Europe. appreciated and maybe could not al- because of the leadership of President Ronald United behind the many brave soldiers fighting ways put into words. But he promised a Reagan. He had a vision that set this nation for freedom in Europe and the Pacific, Ronald renewal of American spirit for us, and down a path of greatness that historians shall Reagan volunteered his talents to create in- by sheer willpower, he made that hap- look back on as a vital turning point for not structional videos critical to the training of pen. And I think, yes, that he believed only this country, but indeed the world as well. Army recruits during World War II. A staunch in us more than we believed in our- There is an old military axiom that there are defender of freedom and democracy, Ronald selves as he became the President of no bad battalions only bad leaders. As a cor- Reagan would, after the defeat of the Axis this great country, and he taught us ollary, I propose that there are no great na- powers, turn his attention to vanquishing from how to enact that belief. tions, only great leaders. the world another threat to liberty: Com- He also taught us that tax relief President Reagan was indeed one of this munism. would make our economy boom, and country’s greatest leaders. During the eight Ronald Reagan began his political ascend- that indeed happened with an unprece- years he was President, he turned this country ancy in 1966 during his campaign for Gov- dented economic expansion. He also around militarily, economically and diplomati- ernor of California. He would go on to win the showed us how one could say, I am not cally. And as a result, he stands with many of first of two terms as California’s governor be- going to hide behind diplomatic plati- the great leaders of our country’s past—like fore reaching the White House in 1980. His tudes, and I am not going to allow the George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Frank- conservatism appealed to many across polit- Soviet Union to slowly eat away at the lin Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. ical and cultural lines. We will always remem- What he left most importantly was a legacy West. He simply communicated the ber his optimism and confidence in America’s of optimism and a restored faith in the Amer- truth about communism and exposed it future. ican presidency. In 1984, the year I was elect- for what it was: a cruel system built by From ‘‘sea to shining sea,’’ President ed to Congress, President Reagan said while thugs and murderers. Reagan, recognized the importance and value speaking to students at Fudan University in And President Reagan truly was the of every individual and every community to our Shanghai, China, ‘‘We’re an optimistic people. quintessential American hero, the country’s strength. On two separate occa- Like you, we inherited a vast land of endless small-town boy with the can-do atti- sions, President Reagan visited Guam, Amer- skies, tall mountains, rich fields, and open tude who set out with a dream and ica’s most distant Territory. On these occa- prairies. It made us see the possibilities in ev- ended up changing the world. He had sions, I had the honor of hosting President erything. It made us hopeful.’’ He made us courage, he had wisdom, and he be- Reagan as First Lady of Guam along with my hopeful even in the face of adversity. lieved in the best that there was with Who can forget that cold, grim day the husband Governor Ricky Bordallo, experi- America. God bless, Ronald Reagan. He hours after the Challenger disaster, when our ences I remember fondly. Donning ‘‘island- was a true American original. nation was stunned and weeping? He com- wear’’ rather than more formal business attire, Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- forted us with a poem: President Reagan was approachable and per- er, I yield myself such time as I may ‘‘We will never forget them, nor the last time sonable and put those around him at ease. consume. we saw them this morning, as they prepared His charm and grace left a lasting impression Mr. Speaker, from the days I knew for their journey, and waved goodbye, and on those he came into contact with. He was Ronald Reagan as Governor, and he slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the as genuine and real in person as he was be- was a key leader who sponsored early face of God.’’ hind the podium or in front of the camera. development of child care in our State, And today, we as American people, are He recognized the importance of Guam in recognizing the importance of quality comforted for it is most certain that as he promoting American values in the region, call- daycare in terms of the future of Amer- heads on his final journey, we wave goodbye ing our island ‘‘America’s flagship in the west- ica’s children, the environmental gov- to our fortieth President and he ‘‘slips the surly ern Pacific.’’ President Reagan declared: ‘‘It’s ernor who saved Lake Tahoe, to the bonds of earth to touch the face of God.’’ Well said that it’s here on Guam each morning that days that I had a chance to watch him done, Mr. President. I will miss you and Amer- the Sun first casts its rays upon the Stars and rebuild America’s strength by building ica will miss you, but we will never forget you. Stripes. Well, my friends, I can’t think of a our defense, he always was straight- Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today more beautiful way for America’s day to forward, candid with the American peo- to pay tribute to Ronald Reagan—a beloved begin.’’ While these words are recorded in his- ple. President who changed America and the tory, it is the grace and sincerity with which he And not so long ago he was heard to world. delivered those words that are remembered by say: ‘‘In closing let me thank you, the I first want to express my deepest condo- the people of Guam. American people, for giving me the lences to Former First Lady Nancy Reagan The outpouring of love and affection Presi- great honor of allowing me to serve as and the Reagan family. An entire nation dent Reagan has received from family, friends your President. When the Lord calls shares your sadness over the loss of our and the entire American family is a testament me home, whenever that may be, I will former President; a man of humble beginnings to his life and all of those he touched. Through leave with the greatest love for this who rose to capture our hearts and minds, our courage, clarity and compassion, he led the country of ours and eternal optimism hopes, and our aspirations. people of this great nation and the entire world for its future. I now begin the journey Ronald Reagan embodied the spirit of what from the perils of the Cold War to the hope of that will lead me into the sunset of my it means to be an American. As much as he liberty, freedom and dignity. His spirit will con- life. I know that for America there will was a leader of the people, he was also a tinue to live in the hearts and minds of all of always be a bright dawn ahead.’’ product of the people, which helped him to re- us for whom he dedicated his life of public God bless you, Ronald Reagan. To late with people from all different backgrounds. service. The advent of freedom in the former Nancy and their family, all of us share He was born to a working family in a small Soviet Bloc and the spread of democracy with you our prayers for our great rural town, and brought up to respect tradi- throughout the world will forever be linked to President, Ronald Wilson Reagan. tional values such as family, hard work, God his famous challenge, ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear Mr. SAXTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to and country. Blessed with an unmistakably en- down this wall!’’ On behalf of myself and the support this resolution, a fitting tribute to a trepreneurial spirit, he set out to pursue the people of Guam, I want to say ‘‘Adios, esta personal hero of mine, the fortieth President of American Dream. ki.’’ Goodbye until we meet again. these great United States, President Ronald Ronald Reagan lived through and endured Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Ameri- Wilson Reagan. tremendous economic hardship during the cans and people across the world respect and

VerDate jul 14 2003 04:32 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.059 H08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3815 admire Ronald Reagan. My greatest admira- sense of duty inspired several generations of The enemies of the United States never for- tion is for his steadfast opposition to com- Americans to do great things. gave him for his firmness, for his character, for munist threats to our national security and the In life, President Reagan enjoyed the affec- his faith in the people of the United States and security of our allies. tion of a grateful nation. We all join together in the cause of liberty. Even in his death they Many credit Ronald Reagan for winning the to mourn the passing of this great American. continue to attack him. This hatred is evi- Cold War, a bipartisan war begun under Presi- Mr. BACA. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the denced by the declaration made by the tyran- dent Truman and lasting forty-five years under life of Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the nical regime in Havana yesterday, ‘‘He, who bipartisan U.S. governments. When President United States. I am proud to be a cosponsor never should have been born, has died.’’ That Reagan spoke out against the evils of com- of Congressman LEWIS’ resolution. Today, Re- monstrous statement illustrates the ultimate munism, as he often did, he spoke out for all publicans and Democrats alike honor in unity evil of the tyrant who has enslaved the Cuban Americans: Republican, Democratic, and Inde- the life of a man who left a permanent mark people for over 45 years. President Reagan pendent. on the history of our nation and the world. knew that Castro, and every Communist tyr- In this long running struggle, President Today we praise the life and accomplish- anny, represents the antithesis of liberty, free- Reagan excelled by working with America’s ments of the Great Communicator, and we dom and human dignity. strong belief in freedom and our patriotic love give our condolences to Nancy, and the entire At home, Ronald Reagan forever changed for our country. Reagan family. President Ronald Reagan was the political landscape of America. He was a He was instrumental in keeping the nation a man who meant much to all free peoples in union leader. In fact, he was the only presi- united against the threat that Soviet com- the world through his many noble accomplish- dent in the history of the United States to have munism posed to our national security, an im- ments. President Reagan’s policies, many of been a union leader. He was also at first a portant and difficult task after the domestic which I disagreed with, were nevertheless mo- member of the Democratic Party, having cam- and foreign policy conflicts of the 1960s and tivated by a commitment to preserve and en- paigned for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Tru- 1970s. hance our nation’s greatness. I remain firm in man. However, ideas and times change. President Reagan’s ability to lead a united my admiration of this great leader whose intel- When he became a Republican at the age of America, during eight years of bipartisan gov- lectual integrity was always unquestioned. 52, he convinced millions of members of his ernment is conclusive proof that he was a nat- As the oldest serving president in American former party that the superior ideas and the ural leader who knew to treat all Americans history, President Reagan was an inspiration better reforms of our age belonged to the Re- with dignity and respect. The sincerity of his for seniors. He showed us that youthfulness publican Party. Inspired by his leadership and patriotism and his beliefs were crucial for unit- can be found in people of all ages, and that his example, my brother, Congressman MARIO ing America against the threats of com- life does not expire at 65. When President DIAZ-BALART and I proudly became Repub- munism. Any American leader could learn Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s dis- licans. from him. ease, he brought awareness and under- May Ronald Wilson Reagan, apostle of free- Reagan was also inspiring for an America standing to an illness that is too often ignored. dom, democracy and human rights, rest in hit by tragedy. His underlying faith in America President Reagan will be remembered for peace. and Americans shone through in a powerful his dedication to the American dream. Al- Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, on this second week speech after the Challenger tragedy. though many Americans may have disagreed of June, 17 years ago, President Ronald He made it clear, when directly addressing with his policies, they were still inspired by his Reagan stood in the then divided city of Ber- the millions of American schoolchildren who enthusiasm and optimism. lin, and called on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorba- had watched the disaster, that tragedy was a President Reagan should be remembered chev to, ‘‘tear down this wall.’’ President Rea- painful setback, but was no reversal. The not just for his role in Washington, but for his gan’s critics at home called his speech a pub- President said on January 28, 1986: ‘‘The fu- hard work in the State of California as well. As licity ploy. The Soviets and East Germans ture doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it be- Governor of California for eight years, he led called it an infringement of East German sov- longs to the brave. The Challenger crew was the state with dedication and commitment to ereignty—unwarranted meddling by the Amer- pulling us into the future, and we’ll continue to his convictions. As an actor, he provided us ican President. Two years later, the wall came follow them.’’ That also applies today. with entertainment in over 50 motion pictures. down. By bringing America to common terms dur- On behalf of myself, the residents of the President Reagan was a leader with fore- ing international tyranny and national tragedy 43rd Congressional District in California, and a sight and strong conviction. He believed in reinforced the strong, shared goals of the grateful world that is safer and freer, I pay America—then he made America believe in American people: to live in freedom, to excel homage to President Ronald Reagan—leader, itself again. He valued freedom—so he in technology, and the belief in something statesman, actor, father, husband and Amer- brought it to those who had none. larger than ourselves. ican hero. Through wise policies, force of will, and a Today we mourn the passing of an Amer- And now, let’s make this resolution ‘‘one for kind demeanor, President Reagan conveyed ican giant. the Gipper.’’ strength and determination alongside reason Mr. HOLDEN. Mr. Speaker, this weekend Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. and optimism to America and those who marked the passing of one of the most influen- Speaker, I rise today to honor a man who I yearned for freedom behind the Iron Curtain. tial Presidents of our era. Our thoughts and believe to be the greatest President of the He never doubted what America could do— prayers are with his wife, Nancy, and his chil- 20th Century. and he wouldn’t let us doubt ourselves. When dren at this difficult time. President Ronald Reagan succeeded in de- tragedy struck, he told us to move forward— President Reagan was an American icon. feating the most powerful and dangerous mili- and we listened. No matter what your politics, he had a special tary empire in the history of humanity, without Ronald Regan knew America. He knew way of making every citizen feel good about firing a single shot. Reagan knew instinctively what was right about our Nation, what was their country. He made us proud to be Ameri- that, despite the imperfections inherent in right for our Nation, and what America could cans. He will be forever remembered for his every human enterprise, the United States of set right in the world. Ronald Reagan led warmth and the respect he accorded others. America represents good and communism America and the rest of the free world against Even when he disagreed with those who did represents evil. communism. When his work was finished, the not share his political philosophy, President President Reagan never wavered in his con- free world had expanded by over 400 million Reagan lived by the noble ideal that at the viction that freedom is the birthright of all man- people in 27 countries. end of the day, partisanship ended and we are kind. His firm belief that freedom is the inalien- Today, soldiers from these new democ- all fellow Americans and friends. He taught us able right of all people changed the world, and racies fight side by side with Americans that there is a big difference between strong is his most enduring legacy. However he also against the new enemies of freedom in Iraq beliefs and bitter partisanship. realized the liberties we hold sacred must be and Afghanistan. President Reagan showed President Reagan is credited with many constantly protected against the forces of tyr- us that freedom can tear down walls. He re- great accomplishments, not the least of which anny and oppression. President Reagan affirmed for us that America is a force for is ending the Cold War. In spite of all he proved that when one fights for justice, for good in the world, and that our proudest achieved, he once said that the greatest lead- human rights, and for the liberty of those suf- achievements will never come without criticism er is not the one who does great things—it is fering under repression, one must persevere or sacrifice. the one who gets the people to do the great- in spite of the strength of the opposition and I never had the opportunity to meet Ronald est things. Ronald Reagan’s glass was always the apparent magnitude of the obstacles one Reagan, but knew him, like most Americans, half full. His optimism, his patriotism and his must confront. as someone who had faith in our ability to

VerDate jul 14 2003 03:36 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN7.023 H08PT1 H3816 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 achieve great things for ourselves and the From that day, I knew America was back. compromise, but let us honor Ronald Reagan world. You see many people speak of the Reagan by standing firm, with resolve, in this time of Mr. Speaker, history will remember Ronald Revolution, I like to think of it as the Reagan war. Reagan for bringing freedom to more people restoration. Reagan restored our optimism, our We can do it. Why? As Reagan would say, throughout the world than has ever been done belief in our ability to create, and the belief ‘‘After all, we are Americans.’’ before. The America and the world Ronald that God put man on this earth to be free and Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I Reagan leaves behind is a better place be- made America to prove it. share with my colleagues a poem by Albert cause of him. I was in Washington the day Reagan was Carey Caswell. President Reagan, we still carry the con- shot. I held my breath and was glued to the AND TO THIS END fidence you gave our Nation and will never TV. The humor, strength and courage that And to this end forget what we accomplished together. A were Reagan’s came through and, along with Approach Heaven, our True American Hero grateful Nation thanks you. the rest of America, I laughed when he said . . . America’s finest of all true friends Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise today ‘‘honey, I forgot to duck.’’ Rest now . . . our Great American Patriot to honor the memory of President Ronald Ronald Reagan changed the paradigm. He . . . as up to Heaven your magnificent Reagan. changed America’s foreign policy from one of soul as so ascends. Ronald Reagan leaves an enduring legacy benign containment to active confrontation and And to this end of character and a dedication to the American for the first time since communism began ex- And oh, what to this our Country you have so been ideal of liberty. His philosophy and values tending its sinister reach, we saw its hand were not political calculation; they were in- With that, your warm smile and that thick pushed back, and that gave us hope. brown hair . . . and what your heart of scribed in his heart. Reagan confronted the evil he saw in the I recognize Ronald Reagan as a true leader gold has so meant. world and he did it without apology. He battled that remained true to American principles of And to this end communism. He armed the resistance in Af- the individual over government, sense of duty The promise, and your gift . . . the pride and ghanistan; he sent troops to Grenada; Leb- the respect . . . believing in us as if toward neighbors, and expansion of freedom. . . . as you’d begin Moreover, Reagan was a man with vision anon; and Pershings to Europe. In a coura- geous move he walked away from negotia- Bringing your Nation back to shore, our sav- on a grand scale. He knew America’s greatest ior . . . rescuing & seeing the light that achievement was spreading democracy tions at Reykjavik. To the cries of the left and chattering classes he held firm to the belief others so ignored. throughout the world. He was resolute in this And to this end endeavor and faced each challenge with both that America never should and never would surrender her right to defend herself. Mikhail Breaking down walls, hearing the children’s vigilance and grace. No American did more to calls . . . wearing your heart on your spread the gift of liberty and respect for Gorbachev has said Reykjavik was the turning sleeve human dignity to people who had never en- point. His strength broke the back of the Sovi- To believe . . . In God and Country, and in joyed them. No American did more to per- ets. all of those things which made us free suade our Nation that the contribution of de- Before the British Parliament, Reagan envis- . . . all in you we see. mocracy and human rights to all is the proper aged that the last pages of communism were And to this end goal of the United States. being written and in those famous words pre- To dream . . . to start from nothing, as it Throughout our history, when evil and iniq- dicted that totalitarianism would be consigned would so seem uity has been the common enemy, Americans to the ‘‘ash heap of history.’’ He was derided. As was yours . . . this The Great American Yet few could know how prophetic his words Dream . . . as is this, our Nation’s have displayed a resolve to create a better greatest of all themes. country and a better world. Ronald Reagan would be, or how fast the fall would come. personified that American trait. Reagan’s serv- In 1989, Soviet citizens voted for the first And to this end Returning and The Pride and The Respect ice is considered recent in history’s timeline, time. Pro-democracy demonstrations were held in Tiananmen Square. Lech Walesa was . . . to America’s greatest of all assets but his character and deeds are a model of Her fighting Women & Men . . . her one true leadership for all time. We need to remember elected president of Poland. Shortly thereafter, fine reason why we all can dream, in our hearts the dedication to higher purpose. the Eastern European Soviet Bloc closed the you’d not let us forget. We are duty-bound to advance each society to door on communism for democracy. In No- And to this end Ronald Reagan’s shining city on the hill. vember, the Berlin Wall was opened and, as As you brought the light, into that battle Thank you Mr. Speaker. I conclude by say- Reagan would have it, an anonymous German against the darkness . . . this your ing that this week’s passing should not be struck the first blow at tearing down wall. The courageous fight seen as the loss of a man but rather the be- following year, in free elections defeated the As you have brought us hope, where there ginning of a legend. communist Sandinistas and the Soviet Union was none . . . as your journey begun Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. was dissolved. The light of freedom extended . . . for what was right. Speaker, I rise today to add my voice to the its reach. And to this end chorus extolling the life of Ronald Reagan. On Reagan has been so often called the Great Yes, Ron . . . there are jelly beans up in a similar occasion over a century ago, Lincoln Communicator, but I like to think about his Heaven my dear friend time in office and his legacy in a different way. And to you, I so salute . . . this one’s for you said of Washington, ‘‘How do you add glory to Gipper . . . as the swollen tear drops so the sun?’’ And I must confess, I feel same fu- His victory was not of communication, but a roll down my chin. triumph of content—the content of his ideas. tility at trying to add my few words to a life And to this end . . . ‘‘Well, There You Go and legacy that shines so bright. He reignited the light of freedom. He cut taxes Again’’ Ronald Reagan came to the stage when it and regulation and in 8 years created 19 mil- And now, and forever . . . whenever, I look appeared that America was grasping at the lion jobs. He reminded us that the path to into our flag . . . I’ll see your face complexities of modernity. Inflation, recession, prosperity was one of individual freedom and For such men of heart, such men of warmth and unemployment appeared permanent and personal responsibility. As Reagan has said, & character & grace, Heaven . . . so the light of freedom appeared to be dim. Eu- these were not his ideas, but they were Amer- surely holds a place. rope was enthralled with socialism and com- ican ideas. Reagan thought his revolution was Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, peo- munism and the American exception was de- ‘‘more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery ple say that a truly great athlete is not only nounced as arrogant and on the edge of fail- of our values and our common sense.’’ gifted himself, he makes those who play with ure. Much like today, we were told what we So, as we honor President Reagan let us him better. The same is true of President needed was more government not less; higher remember his humility, his dignity, his kind Reagan, who not only led the country, but re- taxation, not less; more regulation, not less. words and most of all his courage. Let us stored America’s confidence. He renewed our Reagan saw all of this and he smiled. honor the legacy of President Reagan with a sense of America’s goodness and America’s I was at his inauguration. When he said ‘‘It renewed commitment to the exceptionalism greatness. And with that assurance, the Amer- is time for us to realize that we’re too great a that makes us American. Let us renew free- ican people achieved great things. nation to limit ourselves to small dreams,’’ my dom’s promise to those who live in oppressive When Reagan came into office, America spine stiffened. I got goose bumps when he tyranny. Let us renew our determination, our was demoralized. President Carter had even called out ‘‘that peace is the highest aspiration courage, and our strength. And let us renew spoken of our ‘‘malaise.’’ Watergate and our of the American people. We will negotiate for our faith and our hope. defeat in Vietnam shook our self-confidence. it, sacrifice for it; we will not surrender for it, There are many who stand against freedom We surrendered control over the Panama now or ever.’’ and peace. There are many who criticize and Canal which we had built.

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The Soviets invaded Afghanistan in As we remember President Reagan today, I fied herself as a Russian emigrant. She said 1979 and were in the process of suppressing have been moved by the outpouring of love she had to come to the makeshift memorial the Solidarity movement in Poland. and support we have been seeing over the outside the funeral home where President At the same time, the Shah fell in Iran, and past few days across our Nation and espe- Reagan was resting because, ‘‘I owe my life to supporters of Ayatollah Khomenini held 52 cially in California, where he served the Gold- President Reagan.’’ Americans hostage for more than a year at en State as governor for two terms. I was also reminded of how President our embassy in Tehran. Worse, the American ‘‘Thank you, President Reagan. You made Reagan gave hope to the persecuted peoples military expedition to free them failed in the us proud again.’’ of the world when I read an opinion article That was the sentiment on one of the many desert, with the crash of two helicopters and from the June 6 edition of The Jerusalem Post posters and other mementos in memory of the death of eight servicemen. written by former Soviet political dissident President Reagan placed outside the entrance The economic situation was just as dire. In Natan Sharansky. I will insert the entire text of to his presidential library in Simi Valley, Cali- 1980, inflation stood at 13.5 percent, and in- that article for the RECORD. Mr. Sharansky fornia, the day after his death on June 5. And terest rates reached 21 percent. The turmoil in wrote: the Middle East sparked gasoline shortages. that sentiment could well sum up the legacy of President Reagan, who lost his 10-year battle In 1983, 1 was confined to an eight-by-ten People waited for hours in line just to fill up foot prison cell on the border of Siberia. My with Alzheimer’s disease at age 93. their cars and worried about people stealing Soviet jailers gave me the privilege of read- He was the leader of our Nation when the gas out of their cars. ing the latest copy of Pravda. Splashed Americans needed to know and more impor- People lost their optimism. America no across the front page was a condemnation of tantly to believe that indeed it was ‘‘morning longer seemed special, or a world leader. It President Ronald Reagan for having the te- again in America,’’ and the best was yet to merity to call the Soviet Union an ‘‘evil em- felt like the divine spark at the center of the come for our great country—that we could be pire.’’ American experiment had gone out. proud to stand up and be called an American. Tapping on walls and talking through toi- It was Ronald Reagan who turned it around. He made us feel good again. He gave us lets, word of Reagan’s ‘‘provocation’’ quickly He never lost faith in the American people. hope. He inspired us. He gave us optimism spread throughout the prison. We dissidents And he had enough optimism to restore our were ecstatic. Finally, the leader of the free because he was an optimist. lost confidence and get America back on its world had spoken the truth—a truth that And when we needed to be comforted at a feet. burned inside the heart of each and every time of our own Nation’s mourning in the wake He believed we could restore our econ- one of us. of the space shuttle Challenger disaster in omy—and we did. By 1990 the U.S. economy Who will ever forget Ronald Reagan calling 1986, he was there for us, speaking to us had grown by a third, or roughly the size of the Soviet Union ‘‘an evil empire’’ and his much like a father, telling us it would be all the entire German economy. And 35 million challenge to then-Soviet Premier Mikhail right: ‘‘It’s all part of the process of exploration jobs were created. Gorbachev outside the Brandenburg Gate in and discovery. It’s all part of taking a chance He believed we could stand up proudly for Berlin: ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’’ and expanding man’s horizons. The future American values around the world and stand And who would ever have imagined the re- doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs up to the Soviet Union—and we did. It was lationship President Reagan forged with Mr. to the brave. . . . Nothing ends here; our President Reagan’s resolve that halted the Gorbachev which ultimately led to the fall of hopes and our journeys continue.’’ march of communism in Central America, and communism and indeed, the tearing down of The June 7 edition of National Journal’s in Afghanistan. It was Reagan’s resolve that the Berlin wall. Mikhail Gorbachev will honor Hotline headlined, ‘‘Ronald Wilson Reagan,’’ nurtured the Solidarity movement in Poland, that legacy of President Reagan by his attend- described Mr. Reagan’s presidency well: and gave heart to the dissidents of the Soviet ance at Mr. Reagan’s funeral service at the The optimism of Morning in America left bloc. Ultimately it was President Reagan’s little room for mourning in America. So in- National Cathedral in Washington on Friday, faith in American ideals that led to the fall of stead of grief, there is respect for the man, June 11. the Berlin wall and the liberation of Eastern celebration of his boldness, relief for his Ronald Reagan was a remarkable man and Europe and the Soviet Union. widow, and memories of leadership with pur- I believe will be remembered by history as one It was that leadership and vision for America pose, grace and humor. of the greatest presidents of our Nation. I will that made Ronald Reagan special. Like FDR He literally disarmed his enemies aboard close by sharing his own words spoken in Au- during the depression, he taught us that there with his tenacity. He gently disarmed his po- gust 1992 about how he wanted to be remem- litical enemies at home with his modesty. If was nothing to fear but fear itself. Like Win- he was overestimated as an actor, he was un- bered: ston Churchill during World War II, he spoke derestimated as a political leader. Because Whatever else history may say about me for an entire nation at a time of stress. It re- he never quite fit in with official Wash- when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I stored our confidence, and that made all the ington, he stayed connected inseparably with appealed to your best hopes, not your worst difference. the people. And for an entire generation of fears, to your confidence rather than you Let us remember Ronald Reagan. Let us re- Americans, he defined the Presidency. doubts, and may all of you as Americans member what Ronald Reagan wanted for He dreamt, acted out, and embodied the never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek divine guidance, and never, never lose America. He wanted us always to be that shin- American dream. He was a leader. Those who agreed with his policies cherished his prin- your God-given optimism. ing city on a hill. And he wanted us to know ciples. Those who doubted his capacities that America’s best days always lie ahead. We thank God for the life of Ronald Wilson wondered at his accomplishments. Reagan. May God bless Ronald Reagan and Mrs. Friend and foe have come to see him as an Reagan and may God bless America. American icon, whose light may forever Republican Members who were elected in Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I join today with shine from his city on the hill. 1980 on the ticket with President Reagan: Wendell Bailey, Missouri; Cleve Benedict, others in the House in expressing deepest In many ways, President Reagan’s profound West Virginia; Tom Bliley, Virginia; Hank condolences to Nancy Reagan and the conviction that every human being had the Brown, Colorado; Greg Carman, New York; Reagan family on the passing of Ronald Wil- right to live in freedom inspired my work for Gene Chappie, California; Dan Coats, Indi- son Reagan, the 40th President of the United humanitarian and human rights causes. While ana; Jim Coyne, Pennsylvania; Larry Craig, States of America, and in paying tribute to he didn’t always outwardly show it, he was a Idaho; Hal Daub, Nebraska; Larry DeNardis, President Reagan as we remember his presi- man of deep faith. He said in a speech before Connecticut; David Dreier, California; Jim dency and what he meant to our country and the House of Commons in 1982: ‘‘We must be Dunn, Michigan; Bill Emerson, Missouri; T. indeed to the world. staunch in our conviction that freedom is not Cooper Evans, Iowa; Bobbi Fiedler, Cali- fornia; Jack Fields, Texas; Steve Gunderson, I deeply admired and respected President the sole prerogative of a lucky few, but the in- Wisconsin; and Judd Gregg, New Hampshire. Reagan. I had the good fortune to run for the alienable and universal right of all human James Hansen, Utah; Tommy Hartnett, 10th District of Virginia seat in Congress in beings.’’ South Carolina; Bill Hendon, North Carolina; November 1980 when he was elected to his I saw a poignant television news report from John (Jack) Hiler, Indiana; Duncan Hunter, first term. Some called my victory then ‘‘on southern California on Sunday evening which California; Gene Johnston, North Carolina;

VerDate jul 14 2003 04:32 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A08JN7.036 H08PT1 H3818 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 John LeBoutillier, New York; Bill Lowery, nadze,’’ he said, ‘‘I just spoke with Soviet aster, ‘‘We will never forget [him], nor the last California; Bill McCollum, Florida; Bob Foreign Minister Sharansky, and I said you time we saw [him] . . . as he prepared for McEwen, Ohio; Ray McGrath, New York; better let those Jews go.’’ [his] journey, and waved good-bye, and David Martin, New York; Lynn Martin, Illi- Not wanting to embarrass the president nois; Guy Molinari, New York; Sid Morrison, over his mistake, I quickly asked him about ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the Washington; John Napier, South Carolina; the rally, outlining the concerns raised by face of God.’’’ and Jim Nelligan, Pennsylvania. some of my colleagues. His response was im- Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- Mike Oxley, Ohio; Stan Parris, Virginia; mediate: ‘‘Do you think I am interested in a er, I yield back the balance of my time. Clint Roberts, South Dakota; Pat Roberts, friendship with the Soviets if they continue f Kansas; Hal Rogers, Kentucky; Marge Rou- to keep their people in prison’’ You do what kema, New Jersey; Claudine Schneider, you believe is right.’’ COMMUNICATION FROM THE HON. Rhode Island; Clay Shaw, Florida; Mark Sil- Reagan may have confused names and EDWARD L. SCHROCK, MEMBER jander, Michigan; Joe Skeen, New Mexico; dates, but his moral compass was always OF CONGRESS good. Today’s leaders, in contrast, may know Albert Lee Smith, Alabama; Chris Smith, The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. New Jersey; Denny Smith, Oregon; David their facts and figures, but are often woe- ROHRABACHER) laid before the House (Mick) Staton, West Virginia; Ed Weber, fully confused about what should be the sim- Ohio; Vin Weber, Minnesota; Frank Wolf, plest distinctions between freedom and tyr- the following communication from the Virginia; and George Wortley, New York. anny, democrats and terrorists. Honorable EDWARD L. SCHROCK, Mem- The legacy of president Reagan will surely ber of Congress: [From the Jerusalem Post, June 6, 2004] endure. Armed with moral clarity, a deep CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, faith in freedom, and the courage to follow THE PRISONERS’ CONSCIENCE June 3, 2004. his convictions, he was instrumental in help- Hon. J. DENNIS HASTERT, (By Natan Sharansky) ing the West win the Cold War and hundreds Speaker, House of Representatives, In 1983, I was confined to an eight-by-ten- of millions of people behind the Iron Curtain Washington, DC. foot prison cell on the border of Siberia. My win their freedom. DEAR MR. SPEAKER: This is to formally no- Soviet jailers gave me the privilege of read- As one of those people, I can only express tify you, pursuant to Rule VIII of the Rules ing the latest copy of Pravda. Splashed my deepest gratitude to this great leader. of the House of Representatives, that I have across the front page was a condemnation of Believe me, I will take moral clarity and been served with a criminal subpoena for President Ronald Reagan for having the te- Shevardnadze any day. documents, issued by the United States Dis- merity to call the Soviet Union an ‘‘evil em- Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Mr. Speaker, I rise trict Court for the Southern District of Illi- pire.’’ Tapping on walls and talking through today to pay tribute to former President Ron- nois. toilets, word of Reagan’s ‘‘provocation’’ ald Reagan who passed away on Saturday After consulting with the Office of General quickly spread throughout the prison. We Counsel, I have determined that compliance dissidents were ecstatic. Finally, the leader June 5, 2004. At this time, I extend my deep- est condolences to his loving wife, Nancy, and with the subpoena is consistent with the of the free world had spoken the truth—a privileges and rights of the House. truth that burned inside the heart of each his children, and I join with our Nation in Sincerely, and every one of us. mourning the loss of a great leader. EDWARD L. SCHROCK, At the time, I never imagined that three Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tam- Member of Congress. years later, I would be in the White House pico, Illinois to Nelle Wilson and John Edward f telling this story to the president. When he ‘‘Jack’’ Reagan. In 1928, Ronald Reagan summoned some of his staff to hear what I graduated from Dixon High School where he LEAVE OF ABSENCE had said, I understood that there had been served as student body president. From 1928– By unanimous consent, leave of ab- much criticism of Reagan’s decision to cast the struggle between the superpowers as a 1932, Reagan attended Eureka College, a sence was granted to: battle between good and evil. small liberal arts institution in Illinois. He ma- Mr. BECERRA (at the request of Ms. Well, Reagan was right and his critics were jored in economics and sociology. PELOSI) for today on account of per- wrong. In 1937, Reagan enlisted in the Army Re- sonal reasons. Those same critics used to love calling serve as a Private and was soon promoted to Mr. CASE (at the request of Ms. Reagan a simpleton who saw the world 2nd Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps PELOSI) for today and the balance of through a primitive ideological prism and of the Cavalry. While in the Army, an agent for the week on account of personal rea- who would convey his ideas through jokes Warner Brothers discovered Ronald Reagan. sons. and anecdotes. In our first meeting, he told Mr. FROST (at the request of Ms. me that Soviet premier Brezhnev and Kosy- In 1940, Reagan wed Jane Wyman. gin, his second-in-command, were discussing In 1942, the Army Air Force called Reagan PELOSI) for today on account of per- whether they should allow freedom of emi- to active duty. He was assigned to the 1st Mo- sonal reasons. gration. ‘‘Look, America’s really pressuring tion Picture Unit in Culver City, California Ms. KILPATRICK (at the request of Ms. us,’’ Brezhnev said, ‘‘maybe we should just where he made over 400 training films. PELOSI) for today on account of per- open up the gates. The problem is, we might Reagan was discharged from the Army in sonal reasons. be the only two people who wouldn’t leave.’’ 1945 at the rank of Captain. Mr. LAMPSON (at the request of Ms. To which Kosygin replied, ‘‘Speak for your- After the war, Reagan resumed his acting PELOSI) for today and the balance of self.’’ career and in 1952 wed Nancy Davis. In 1956, the week on account of a death in the What his critics didn’t seem to understand family. was that the jokes and anecdotes that so en- Reagan campaigned as a Democrat for Eisen- deared Reagan to people were merely his way hower. In 1960, he campaigned for Richard Mr. MENENDEZ (at the request of Ms. of expressing fundamental truths in a way Nixon. In 1962, he officially changed his party PELOSI) for today on account of official that everyone could understand. registration to Republican. business in the district. Reagan’s tendency to confuse names and In 1966, Reagan was elected Governor of Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD (at the re- dates, something I, too, experienced first- California and was re-elected in 1970. On No- quest of Ms. PELOSI) for today on ac- hand, also made him the target of ridicule. vember 4, 1980, Ronald Reagan Wilson be- count of personal reasons. In September 1987, a few months before a came the 40th President of the United States. Mr. REYES (at the request of Ms. summit meeting with Gorbachev in Wash- Ronald Reagan wished to be remembered PELOSI) for today and the balance of ington, I met with Reagan to ask him what the week on account of family medical he thought about the idea of holding a mas- as the President who wanted Americans to sive rally of hundreds of thousands of people believe in themselves. We will remember him reasons. on behalf of Soviet Jewry during the sum- for much more. Ms. SOLIS (at the request of Ms. mit. Some Jewish leaders, concerned that if We will remember Ronald Reagan as a po- PELOSI) for today and the balance of the rally were held Jews would be accused of litical leader who worked diligently to stimulate the week on account of official busi- undermining a renewed hope for peace be- economic growth, increase employment and ness in the district. tween the superpowers, had expressed res- strengthen national defense. He was ‘‘The Mr. STUPAK (at the request of Ms. ervations about such a frontal challenge to Great Communicator’’ whose words and ac- PELOSI) for today on account of family the Soviet premier. tions spoke of honor and peace. reasons. Seeing me together for the first time with Through his convictions, we witnessed the Mr. TURNER of Texas (at the request my wife Avital, who had fought for many years for my release, Reagan greeted us like fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold of Ms. PELOSI) for today and June 9 on a proud grandparent, knowing he had played War. ‘‘Peace through strength’’ is what he account of a funeral in the district. an important role in securing my freedom. sought and achieved. Mr. KING of New York (at the request He told us about his commitment to Soviet In his own words taken from 1986 as he of Mr. DELAY) for today on account of Jewry. ‘‘My dear Mr. and Mrs. Shevard- sought to comfort us after the Challenger Dis- being detained on official business.

VerDate jul 14 2003 03:36 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A08JN7.038 H08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3819 Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California (at ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee Nonattainment Area [VA 148-5078a; FRL- the request of Mr. DELAY) for today on Agriculture. 7671-1] received June 4, 2004, pursuant to 5 and June 9 on account of illness. 8416. A letter from the Acting General U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- Counsel, Department of Defense, transmit- ergy and Commerce. Mr. TAUZIN (at the request of Mr. ting the Department’s legislative initiatives 8426. A letter from the Deputy Associate DELAY) for today and the balance of for inclusion in the National Defense Au- Administrator, Environmental Protection the week on account of medical rea- thorization Bill for FY 2005; to the Com- Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule sons. mittee on Armed Services. — Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality 8417. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- Implementation Plans; Virginia; Revisions f ment of Health and Human Services, trans- to Regulations for General Compliance Ac- SENATE BILL REFERRED mitting a report to Congress on the Native tivities and Source Surveillance; Correction Hawaiian Revolving Loan Fund (NHRLF) for [VA133-5066a; FRL-7670-8] received June 4, A bill of the Senate of the following Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001, pursuant to Sec- 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the title was taken from the Speaker’s tion 803A(g)(1) of the Native American Pro- Committee on Energy and Commerce. table and, under the rule, referred as grams Act of 1974, as amended; to the Com- 8427. A letter from the Deputy Associate follows: mittee on Education and the Workforce. Administrator, Environmental Protection S. 1887. An Act To amend the Controlled 8418. A letter from the Regulations Coordi- Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule Substances Act to lift the patient limitation nator, Department of Health and Human — Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality on prescribing drug addiction treatments by Services, transmitting the Department’s Implementation Plans; Commonwealth of medical practitioners in group practices; to final rule — Medicaid Programs; Provider Virginia; VOC Emission Standards for Sol- the Committee on Energy and Commerce; in Qualifications for Audiologists [CMS-2132-F] vent Metal Cleaning Operations in the Met- addition to the Committee on the Judiciary (RIN: 0938-AM26) received May 28, 2004, pur- ropolitan Washington, D.C. Ozone Nonattain- for a period to be subsequently determined suant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- ment Area [VA149-5076a; FRL-7671-6] received by the Speaker, in each case for consider- mittee on Energy and Commerce. June 4, 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); ation of such provisions as fall within the ju- 8419. A letter from the Director, Regula- to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. risdiction of the committee concerned. tions Policy and Management Sta., FDA, De- 8428. A letter from the Deputy Associate partment of Health and Human Services, Administrator, Environmental Protection f transmitting the Department’s final rule — Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule Antidiarrheal Drug Products for Over-the- ADJOURNMENT — National Primary Drinking Water Regula- Counter Human Use; Amendment for Final tions: Analytical Method for Uranium [OW- Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speak- Monograph [Docket No. 1978N-036T] (RIN: 2003-0067; FRL-7668-9] (RIN: 2040-AE62) re- er, I move that the House do now ad- 0910-AC82) received June 4, 2004, pursuant to ceived June 2, 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. journ. 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and The motion was agreed to; accord- Energy and Commerce. Commerce. 8420. A letter from the Deputy Associate 8429. A letter from the Deputy Associate ingly (at 10 o’clock and 29 minutes Administrator, Environmental Protection Administrator, Environmental Protection p.m.), pursuant to House Resolution Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule 663, the House adjourned until tomor- — Revisions to the California State Imple- — Rulemaking on Section 126 Petitions from row, Wednesday, June 9, 2004, at 10 a.m. mentation Plan, Great Basin Unified Air New York and Connecticut Regarding in memory of the late Honorable Ron- Pollution Control District and Ventura Sources in Michigan; Revisions of Definition ald Wilson Reagan, former President of County Air Pollution Control District [CA of Applicable Requirement for Title V Oper- the United States. 295-0441a; FRL-7667-8] received June 4, 2004, ating Permit Programs [FRL-7669-6] (RIN: pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- 2060-AJ36) received June 2, 2004, pursuant to f mittee on Energy and Commerce. 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 8421. A letter from the Deputy Associate EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, Energy and Commerce. Administrator, Environmental Protection 8430. A letter from the Secretary, Federal ETC. Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule Trade Commission, transmitting the Com- Under clause 8 of rule XII, executive — Delegation of National Emission Stand- mission’s final rule — Label for Email Mes- communications were taken from the ards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source sages Containing Sexually Oriented Material Speaker’s table and referred as follows: Categories; State of Nevada; Nevada Division (RIN: 3084-AA96) received May 11, 2004, pursu- of Environmental Protection — Bureau of ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee 8411. A letter from the Director, Regu- Air Pollution Control [NV053-0076a; FRL- on Energy and Commerce. latory Review Group, Farm Service Agency, 7670-1] received June 4, 2004, pursuant to 5 8431. A letter from the Director, Office of Department of Agriculture, transmitting the U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- Congressional Affairs, Nuclear Regulatory Department’s final rule — 2002 Farm Bill ergy and Commerce. Commission, transmitting the Commission’s Regulations — Loan Eligibility Provisions 8422. A letter from the Deputy Associate final rule — Inspection of Alloy 82/182/600 Ma- (RIN: 0560-AG81) received June 7, 2004, pursu- Administrator, Environmental Protection terials Used in the Fabrication of Pressurizer ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule Penetrations and Steam Space Piping Con- on Agriculture. — Capacity Building for Morocco NGOs and nections at Pressurized-Water Reactors — 8412. A letter from the Deputy Associate the Department of Environment — received received June 4, 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Administrator, Environmental Protection June 4, 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Commerce. — Indoxacarb; Tolerances for Residues; 8423. A letter from the Deputy Associate 8432. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- Technical Correction [OPP-2004-0169;FRL- Administrator, Environmental Protection ment of Energy, transmitting the semi- 7362-4] received June 4, 2004, pursuant to 5 Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule annual report on the activities of the Office U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ag- — Approval and Promulgation of State Im- of Inspector General for the period October 1, riculture. plementation Plans; Minnesota [MN79-3; 2003 to March 31, 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 8413. A letter from the Deputy Associate FRL-7620-5] received June 4, 2004, pursuant to app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 5(b); to the Administrator, Environmental Protection 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Committee on Government Reform. Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule Energy and Commerce. 8433. A letter from the Administrator, — Humates; Exemption from the Require- 8424. A letter from the Deputy Associate Agency for International Development, ment of a Tolerance [OPP-2004-0166; FRL- Administrator, Environmental Protection transmitting the Inspector General’s Semi- 7361-6] received June 4, 2004, pursuant to 5 Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule annual Report for the period ending March U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ag- — Approval and Promulgation of Implemen- 31, 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. riculture. tation Plans; Nevada — Las Vegas Valley Act) section 5(b); to the Committee on Gov- 8414. A letter from the Deputy Associate PM-10 Nonattainment Area; Serious Area ernment Reform. Administrator, Environmental Protection Plan for Attainment for the Annual and 24- 8434. A letter from the Chairman, Board of Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule Hour PM-10 Standards [NV-040-0075; FRL- Governors of the Federal Reserve System, — Streptomyces Iydicus WYEC 108; Exemp- 7663-4] received June 4, 2004, pursuant to 5 transmitting the semiannual report on the tion from the Requirement of a Tolerance U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- activities of the Office of Inspector General [OPP-2004-0041; FRL-7361-3] received June 2, ergy and Commerce. for the six-month period ending March 31, 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the 8425. A letter from the Deputy Associate 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Committee on Agriculture. Administrator, Environmental Protection Act) section 5(b); to the Committee on Gov- 8415. A letter from the Deputy Associate Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule ernment Reform. Administrator, Environmental Protection — Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality 8435. A letter from the Acting Assistant Agency, transmitting the Agency’s final rule Implementation Plans; Virginia; VOC Emis- Secretary for Management, Department of — Novaluron; Pesticide Tolerance [OPP-2004- sion Standards for Portable Fuel Containers the Treasury, transmitting purusant to Sec- 0125; FRL-7359-2] received June 2, 2004, pursu- in the Metropolitan Washington, DC Ozone tion 647(b) of Division F of the Consolidated

VerDate jul 14 2003 03:36 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K08JN7.061 H08PT1 H3820 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 8, 2004 Appropriations Act, FY 2004, Pub. L. 108-199, Department’s report entitled, ‘‘Buckle Up Richi James Lesley (Rept. 108–530). Referred a report on the Department’s competitive America: The National Initiative for Increas- to the Private Calendar. sourcing efforts; to the Committee on Gov- ing Safety Belt Use, Sixth Report To Con- Mr. SENSENBRENNER: Committee on the ernment Reform. gress and Fourth Report to the President’’ Judiciary. H.R. 867. A bill for the relief of 8436. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- June 2004, as required by House Report 105- Durreshahwar Durreshahwar, Nida Hasan, ment of Homeland Security, transmitting 188 and Executive Order 13043; to the Com- Asna Hasan, Anum Hasan, and Iqra Hasan the semiannual report of the Inspector Gen- mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc- (Rept. 108–531). Referred to the Private Cal- eral for the period October 1, 2003 through ture. endar. March 31, 2004, pursuant to Public Law 95— 8448. A letter from the Administrator, Mr. SENSENBRENNER: Committee on the 452, section 5; to the Committee on Govern- Small Business Administration, transmit- Judiciary. S. 103. An act for the relief of ment Reform. ting the Annual Report on Minority Small Lindita Idrizi Heath (Rept. 108–532). 8437. A letter from the Acting Assitant Business and Capital Ownership Develop- Referrred to the Private Calendar. Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Depart- ment for Fiscal Year 2003, pursuant to 15 f ment of State, transmitting the Depart- U.S.C. 636(j)(16)(B); to the Committee on ment’s report concerning minority employ- Small Business. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ment and recruitment submitted pursuant to 8449. A letter from the Comptroller, De- Sections 324 and 325(c) in the Foreign Rela- partment of Defense, transmitting notifica- Under clause 2 of rule XII, public tions Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 tion of an intent to transfer funds from the bills and resolutions were introduced (Pub. L. 107-228); to the Committee on Gov- Defense Working Capital Funds to the Oper- and severally referred, as follows: ernment Reform. ation and Maintenance Appropriations of the By Mr. RENZI (for himself and Mr. 8438. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, Army, pursuant to Public Law 108–87, section DAVIS of Alabama): Department of Transportation, transmitting 8006; jointly to the Committees on Armed H.R. 4521. A bill to amend section 502 of the a report pursuant to the Federal Vacancies Services and Appropriations. Housing Act of 1949 to allow borrowers under Reform Act of 1998; to the Committee on 8450. A letter from the Regulations Coordi- the rural single family housing guaranteed Government Reform. nator, Department of Health and Human loan program to finance the amount of the 8439. A letter from the Acting Assistant Services, transmitting the Department’s guarantee fee; to the Committee on Finan- Administrator, Environmental Protection final rule — Medicare Program; Elimination cial Services. Agency, transmitting the Agency’s 2003 Com- of Statement of Intent Procedures for Filing By Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas: petitive Sourcing Report, as required by Sec- Medicare Claims [CMS-1185-F] (RIN: 0938- H.R. 4522. A bill to provide for the estab- tion 647(b) of Division F of the Consolidated AK79) received April 28, 2004, pursuant to 5 lishment of an independent, Presidentially- Appropriations Act, FY 2004, Pub. L. 108-199; U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); jointly to the Committees appointed Commission to assess the safety of to the Committee on Government Reform. on Energy and Commerce and Ways and the International Space Station and its 8440. A letter from the Chairman, Federal Means. crew; to the Committee on Science. Housing Finance Board, transmitting the By Mr. ANDREWS: semiannual report on the activities of the f H.R. 4523. A bill to provide that children’s Office of Inspector General ending March 31, REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON sleepwear shall be manufactured in accord- 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ance with stricter flammability standards; Act) section 5(b); to the Committee on Gov- to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. ernment Reform. Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of 8441. A letter from the Chairman, National committees were delivered to the Clerk By Mrs. KELLY: Credit Union Administration, transmitting for printing and reference to the proper H.R. 4524. A bill to expand the Central Command Rest and Recuperation Leave Pro- the semiannual report on the activities of calendar, as follows: the Inspector General for October 1, 2003, gram to cover transportation by members of Mr. YOUNG of Alaska: Committee on through March 31, 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. the Armed Forces who are stationed inside Transportation and Infrastructure. H.R. 4226. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 8G(h)(2); to the or outside of the United States, but not in an A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, Committee on Government Reform. area previously designated for inclusion in to make certain conforming changes to pro- 8442. A letter from the Chairman, National the program, and are granted leave in antici- visions governing the registration of aircraft Endowment for the Arts, transmitting the pation of deployment overseas in connection and the recordation of instruments in order Semiannual Report to the Congress of the with a contingency operation; to the Com- to implement the Convention on Inter- Inspector General and the Chairman’s Semi- mittee on Armed Services. national Interests in Mobile Equipment and annual Report on Final Actions Resulting By Mr. MILLER of Florida (for himself, the Protocol to the Convention on Inter- from Audit Reports for the period of October Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. BRADLEY of national Interests in Mobile Equipment on 1, 2003 through March 31, 2004, pursuant to 5 New Hampshire, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment, U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 5(b); to FOLEY, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. PENCE, known as the ‘‘Cape Town Treaty’’; with an the Committee on Government Reform. Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Mr. SOUDER, 8443. A letter from the Chairman, National amendment (Rept. 108–526). Referred to the Mr. WELDON of Florida, Mr. FEENEY, Endowment for the Humanities, transmit- Committee of the Whole House on the State Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida, ting pursuant to Section 647(b) of Division F of the Union. Ms. HARRIS, and Mr. JONES of North of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, FY Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia: Committee on Carolina): 2004 (Pub. L. 108-199), a report stating that Government Reform. H.R. 4012. A bill to H.R. 4525. A bill to require the Secretary of the Endowment did not undertake any com- amend the District of Columbia College Ac- the Treasury to redesign the half dollar coin petitive sourcing activities in FY 2003, nor is cess Act of 1999 to permanently authorize the to commemorate Ronald Wilson Reagan, and it conducting any such competitions in the public school and private school tuition as- for other purposes; to the Committee on Fi- current fiscal year; to the Committee on sistance programs established under the Act nancial Services. Government Reform. (Rept. 108–527). Referred to the Committee of By Mr. PALLONE: 8444. A letter from the Chairman, National the Whole House on the state of the Union. H.R. 4526. A bill to ensure the coordination Science Board, transmitting the semiannual Mr. SENSENBRENNER: Committee on the and integration of Indian tribes in the Na- report on the activities of the Office of In- Judiciary. H.R. 1731. A bill to amend title 18, tional Homeland Security strategy and to es- spector Generalfor the period October 1, 2003 United States Code, to establish penalties for tablish an Office of Tribal Government through March 31, 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. aggravated identity theft, and for other pur- Homeland Security within the Department app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 5(b); to the poses; with an amendment (Rept. 108–528). of Homeland Security, and for other pur- Committee on Government Reform. Referred to the Committee of the Whole poses; to the Committee on Resources. 8445. A letter from the Director, Peace House on the state of the Union. By Mr. PALLONE: Corps, transmitting the semiannual report f H.R. 4527. A bill to enhance the criminal on the activities of the Office of Inspector penalties for illegal trafficking of archae- General for the period October 1, 2003 REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRI- ological resources, and for other purposes; to through March 31, 2004, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. VATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addi- app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 5(b); to the Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of tion to the Committee on Resources, for a Committee on Government Reform. committees were delivered to the Clerk period to be subsequently determined by the 8446. A letter from the Assistant Secretary Speaker, in each case for consideration of for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Department for printing and reference to the proper such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- of the Interior, transmitting a draft bill ‘‘To calendar, as follows: tion of the committee concerned. modify the boundary of the Harry S. Truman Mr. SENSENBRENNER: Committee on the By Mr. NEY (for himself and Mr. National Historic Site in the State of Mis- Judiciary. H.R. 530. A bill for the relief of LARSON of Connecticut): souri, and for other purposes’’; to the Com- Tanya Andrea Goudeau (Rept. 108–529). Re- H. Con. Res. 444. Concurrent resolution au- mittee on Resources. ferred to the Private Calendar. thorizing the use of the rotunda of the Cap- 8447. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- Mr. SENSENBRENNER: Committee on the itol for the lying in state of the remains of ment of Transportation, transmitting the Judiciary. H.R. 712. A bill for the relief of the late Honorable Ronald Wilson Reagan,

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the fortieth President of the United States; H.R. 1231: Ms. WATERS and Mr. DOGGETT. H.R. 4113: Mr. MATSUI and Mr. KINGSTON. to the Committee on House Administration. H.R. 1306: Mr. DEFAZIO. H.R. 4123: Mr. MCGOVERN. By Mr. PALLONE: H.R. 1532: Mr. CHOCOLA. H.R. 4147: Mr. SCOTT of Georgia. H. Con. Res. 445. Concurrent resolution rec- H.R. 1639: Mr. DOGGETT. H.R. 4150: Mr. KLINE. ognizing the invaluable contribution of Na- H.R. 1708: Mr. TIERNEY. H.R. 4154: Mr. HINCHEY. tive American Veterans and honoring their H.R. 1716: Ms. HARRIS. H.R. 4191: Mr. FATTAH, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. service to the Nation; to the Committee on H.R. 1919: Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. CLYBURN, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Ms. CORRINE Armed Services. H.R. 2069: Mr. PAYNE. BROWN of Florida, and Mr. KILDEE. By Mr. DELAY: H.R. 2096: Mr. GRAVES, Mr. DAVIS of Ala- H.R. 4214: Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. ACA H. Res. 663. A resolution expressing the bama, and Mr. B . H.R. 4236: Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. MCDERMOTT, H.R. 2135: Mr. COLLINS. profound regret and sorrow of the House of and Mr. MCINNIS. H.R. 2176: Mr. BOOZMAN and Mr. BARTLETT Representatives on the death of Ronald Wil- H.R. 4237: Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. MCDERMOTT, of Maryland. son Reagan, former President of the United and Mr. MCINNIS. States of America; considered and agreed to. H.R. 2260: Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. MOORE, H.R. 4248: Ms. HARRIS. By Mr. LEWIS of California (for him- and Mr. MICA. H.R. 4255: Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. STARK, Ms. self, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. DREIER, Mr. H.R. 2387: Mr. CONYERS, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, and Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. CAPUANO, and Mr. VAN HOLLEN. MICHAUD. COX, Mr. THOMAS, Mr. HUNTER, Mr. H.R. 2404: Mr. CUNNINGHAM, Mr. JONES of H.R. 4256: Ms. BERKLEY and Mr. MCNULTY. GALLEGLY, Mr. HERGER, Mr. ROHR- North Carolina, Mr. SMITH of Washington, H.R. 4260: Mr. PAYNE. ABACHER, Mr. CUNNINGHAM, Mr. DOO- Mr. TANNER, and Mr. BALLANCE. H.R. 4261: Ms. LINDA T. SA´ NCHEZ of Cali- LITTLE, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. MCKEON, H.R. 2464: Mr. EMANUEL. fornia, Mr. FROST, Mr. FATTAH, and Mr. Mr. POMBO, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. FARR, Mr. H.R. 2494: Mr. CASTLE. MCNULTY. RADANOVICH, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ H.R. 2509: Mr. RAMSTAD. H.R. 4262: Mr. TOWNS, Mr. OWENS, and Mr. of California, Mrs. BONO, Mrs. CAPPS, H.R. 2621: Ms. DELAURO, Mr. STARK, Mr. RUSH. Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California, JACKSON of Illinois, and Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. H.R. 4343: Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr. WICKER, and Mr. OSE, Mr. ISSA, Mr. NUNES, Ms. H.R. 2680: Mr. SCHIFF and Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. HAYES. LOFGREN, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. CARDOZA, H.R. 2699: Mr. NUSSLE, Mr. JOHN, and Mr. Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. BROWN of South Carolina. H.R. 4357: Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. COSTELLO, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. BERMAN, H.R. 2762: Mr. PAYNE and Mr. KINGSTON. ROSS, Mr. OBERSTAR, and Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mrs. DAVIS of Cali- H.R. 2932: Mr. CUMMINGS. H.R. 4363: Mr. DEUTSCH, Mr. SIMMONS, and fornia, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. FILNER, Mr. H.R. 2956: Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. MARSHALL. SHADEGG, Ms. ESHOO, and Mr. MAT- H.R. 3133: Mr. CARDIN. H.R. 4370: Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. BEREUTER, SUI): H.R. 3190: Mr. NUSSLE. and Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. H. Res. 664. A resolution mourning the H.R. 3203: Mr. VAN HOLLEN. H.R. 4376: Mr. ALLEN, Mr. MOORE, Mr. passing of President Ronald Reagan and cele- H.R. 3266: Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas and BURR, and Mr. COOPER. brating his service to the people of the Mr. PASCRELL. H.R. 4379: Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. DAVIS of Illi- United States and his leadership in pro- H.R. 3308: Ms. BALDWIN. nois, and Mr. MARSHALL. moting the cause of freedom for all the peo- H.R. 3350: Mr. ISRAEL. H.R. 4387: Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, ple of the world; to the Committee on Gov- H.R. 3425: Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. CONYERS, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. MCCOL- ernment Reform. H.R. 3429: Mr. TERRY. LUM, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, By Mr. BURTON of Indiana: H.R. 3432: Mr. CUMMINGS. and Mr. GRIJALVA. H. Res. 665. A resolution providing for en- H.R. 3459: Mr. MATSUI. H.R. 4414: Mr. SERRANO, Mr. BECERRA, Mr. closing the visitors’ galleries of the House of H.R. 3473: Mr. GRIJALVA. GUTIERREZ, and Mr. ACEVEDO-VILA´ . Representatives with a transparent and sub- H.R. 3474: Mr. GOSS and Mr. GALLEGLY. H.R. 4420: Mr. BAKER, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. stantial material; to the Committee on H.R. 3545: Mr. ABERCROMBIE and Mr. SHAYS. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. HALL, and Mr. House Administration. H.R. 3558: Mr. ISSA. KENNEDY of Minnesota. By Mr. BURTON of Indiana (for him- H.R. 3574: Ms. MCCOLLUM and Mr. HALL. H.R. 4425: Mr. ETHERIDGE. H.R. 3575: Mr. DAVIS of Florida, Mr. MEEKS self, Mr. WEXLER, and Mr. H.R. 4449: Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. VAN of New York, Mr. SNYDER, Mr. ROSS, and Mr. BLUMENAUER): HOLLEN, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. ANGEL H. Res. 666. A resolution congratulating R . WEINER, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. WYNN, H.R. 3582: Mr. CUMMINGS. the people and Government of the Republic Mr. ETHERIDGE, Mr. FOLEY, and Mr. BELL. H.R. 3615: Mr. RAHALL. of Indonesia on successfully completing elec- H.R. 4450: Mr. BERMAN and Mrs. LOWEY. H.R. 3633: Mr. MILLER of Florida. tions for national, provincial, and regional H.R. 4468: Mr. UDALL of New Mexico. H.R. 3634: Ms. NORTON. parliamentary representatives, and praising H.R. 4498: Ms. NORTON. H.R. 3704: Mr. TERRY. the growing friendship between the United H.R. 4499: Mr. VITTER. H.R. 3729: Mr. HOLT, Mr. KING of New York, States and Indonesia; to the Committee on H.J. Res. 56: Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. PLATTS, Mr. GEORGE International Relations. Mr. BURR, and Mr. BONILLA. MILLER of California, and Mr. DEUTSCH. H. Con. Res. 213: Mrs. MCCARTHY of New f H.R. 3800: Mr. STEARNS. York. ADDITIONAL SPONSORS H.R. 3809: Mr. MEEHAN. H.R. 3816: Mr. VAN HOLLEN and Mr. FILNER. H. Con. Res. 298: Mr. GARRETT of New Jer- Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors H.R. 3831: Mr. CUMMINGS and Mr. HOLT. sey and Mr. SCHROCK. were added to public bills and resolu- H.R. 3924: Mr. ENGLISH. H. Con. Res. 405: Ms. HART, Mr. COOPER, tions as follows: H.R. 3936: Ms. HARRIS. Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. BURNS, Mr. KINGSTON, and Mr. SNYDER. H.R. 122: Mr. DEUTSCH. H.R. 3953: Mrs. BIGGERT and Mr. KIND. H. Con. Res. 425: Mr. FROST, Mr. MCINTYRE, H.R. 623: Mr. BOEHLERT and Mr. GORDON. H.R. 3968: Mr. FILNER, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. and Mr. ADERHOLT. H.R. 645: Mr. DUNCAN. EMANUEL, and Mr. MICHAUD. H. Con. Res. 434: Mr. MCDERMOTT. H.R. 716: Mr. OLVER. H.R. 3988: Mr. CUMMINGS and Mrs. DAVIS of H. Con. Res. 443: Mr. BARTLETT of Mary- H.R. 742: Mr. SCOTT of Georgia. California. land and Mr. FLAKE. H.R. 745: Mr. LANTOS. H.R. 3999: Mr. GORDON. EEHAN H.R. 756: Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia. H.R. 4011: Mr. DEUTSCH. H. Res. 38: Mr. M . H.R. 897: Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. H.R. 4022: Mr. GREEN of Texas and Mr. H. Res. 60: Mr. CUMMINGS. H.R. 977: Mr. INSLEE. FROST. H. Res. 363: Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts. H.R. 1002: Mr. RAMSTAD. H.R. 4026: Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ, Mr. UDALL of H. Res. 466: Mr. NADLER. H.R. 1039: Ms. ESHOO. New Nexico, Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota, Mr. H. Res. 485: Mr. QUINN. H.R. 1043: Mr. EVANS. LATHAM, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. H. Res. 550: Ms. BALDWIN and Mr. KENNEDY H.R. 1083: Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. LARSON of BACHUS, and Mr. KELLER. of Rhode Island. Connecticut, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. WOLF, and H.R. 4067: Mr. FARR, Ms. WOOLSEY, Ms. H. Res. 570: Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. SCHROCK. MCCOLLUM, and Mr. EVANS. H. Res. 604: Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. PAYNE, and H.R. 1084: Mr. UPTON. H.R. 4082: Mr. COOPER, Mr. MEEHAN, Mr. Mr. CUMMINGS. H.R. 1102: Mr. UPTON. MCINTYRE, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. SANDERS, and H. Res. 632: Mrs. MALONEY and Mr. H.R. 1155: Mrs. BLACKBURN and Mr. PAYNE. Mr. ROTHMAN. KUCINICH. H.R. 1205: Mr. ENGEL. H.R. 4101: Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. H. Res. 662: Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin and H.R. 1214: Mr. DEUTSCH. CARDIN, and Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. KLECZKA.

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Vol. 150 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2004 No. 79 Senate The Senate met at 9:45 a.m. and was Father, help the Senators to know SCHEDULE called to order by the Honorable KAY that many in this Nation pray for them Mr. FRIST. This morning and BAILEY HUTCHISON, a Senator from the and their faithfulness to their most throughout today’s session, Members State of Texas. solemn obligations. May they bow will have the opportunity to give re- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Today’s their knees before You so they may marks and pay tribute to President prayer will be offered by the guest know what is right for our country. Reagan. I announced yesterday and Chaplain, Dr. Prentice Meador, of Lord, sanctify this assembly by dwell- again last night that the Senate would Prestoncrest Church of Christ, Dallas, ing in the hearts of each of these re- delay its work on the pending Defense TX. spected leaders. May glory, honor, and bill until Monday next week. The filing dominion be Yours forever and ever. deadline for amendments to that bill PRAYER In Your most holy Name. Amen. passed at 5 p.m. yesterday. Now the The guest Chaplain offered the fol- f two managers of the legislation will be lowing prayer: able to look over the legislative lan- Shall we pray. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE guage of those submitted amendments. Holy Father, we affirm You as Lord The Honorable KAY BAILEY We will start Monday and work aggres- of our lives and our Nation. We are HUTCHISON led the Pledge of Alle- sively on that bill and will likely have comfortable to come into Your pres- giance, as follows: multiple votes on Monday. ence on this special moment because I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the For the remainder of this week, in You have invited us before Your United States of America, and to the Repub- throne. Gratitude and praise flows addition to today’s morning business lic for which it stands, one nation under God, period, Senators will have until 3 p.m. from our hearts for giving our Nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. blessings that would have astonished tomorrow to come to the floor to speak our ancestors. f on the life and legacy of our 40th Presi- dent, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Lord, in this historic week, our Na- APPOINTMENT OF ACTING tion mourns the death of President PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE The Senate will honor that life Ronald Reagan. Father, we celebrate through a Senate resolution, which is The PRESIDING OFFICER. The his patriotism, optimism, and courage. deserving of a rollcall vote. However, clerk will please read a communication Bless Mrs. Reagan, her family, and our that vote will not occur until tomor- to the Senate from the President pro Nation with peace from Your heart. row. tempore (Mr. STEVENS). And, Father, may we never forget our I will talk to the Democratic leader The legislative clerk read the fol- heritage. Sovereign Lord, we are keen- about the precise timing and we will lowing letter: ly aware that 60 years ago today, he- let our colleagues know as that is roic men were fighting their way off U.S. SENATE, scheduled for Wednesday. Therefore, we PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, the beaches of Normandy. Lord, we Washington, D.C., June 8, 2004. will not have any rollcall votes today. shall never forget places like ‘‘Bloody To the Senate: As a reminder, we will recess today Omaha,’’ Carentan, Sainte-Mere- Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, from 12:30 until 2:15 for our weekly pol- Eglise, Caen, Bastogne. Keep in our of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby icy luncheons. memory those who fought together and appoint the Honorable KAY BAILEY Today we will also pass an adjourn- now lie together in death that we HUTCHISON, a Senator from the State of ment resolution which will allow both Texas, to perform the duties of the Chair. might be free. Father, may their voices Houses to adjourn on Wednesday and to of valor be heard in this Chamber in TED STEVENS, President pro tempore. reconvene on Monday to accommodate clear, crisp tones. the ceremonies and services relating to Mrs. HUTCHISON thereupon assumed Merciful Father, in a world that the death of President Reagan. sometimes drowns out such voices, em- the Chair as Acting President pro tem- pore. power the women and men of this great f body to hear again words from our f past: integrity, faith, bravery, sac- RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY rifice, and godliness. At this special RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY LEADER time, I pray that each Senator might LEADER recommit to the clarity of Your truth, The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. the depth of Your wisdom, and the pore. The majority leader is recog- SNOWE). The minority leader is recog- power of Your love. nized. nized.

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If I could, I ask unanimous is a regular television contributor, in- dedicated primarily to remarks on the consent that after the Senator from cluding as a weekly panelist on the floor by colleagues and Members in Texas completes her remarks the Sen- American Religion Town Hall, which is tribute to the President. Then begin- ator from New Hampshire be recog- a national program. ning as early as noon—is it on Wednes- nized for 10 minutes, the Senator from Dr. Meador has received numerous day?—we will not anticipate any ses- Maine for 10 minutes, and the Senator awards for his leadership and citizen- sion. Then at 7 o’clock Wednesday from California, Mrs. BOXER, for 10 ship. It is an honor to have him with us night, it is my understanding the me- minutes. today. morial service here in the Capitol be The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without I was so pleased to be able to be with will held for Members only. objection, it is so ordered. him this morning. We had a good visit The Senator from Texas. Mr. FRIST. Madam President, we can at our prayer breakfast about what we talk about earlier than 3 o’clock, but f do in the Senate. I thank Dr. Meador for sharing his blessing on us at a very right now it is until 3 o’clock tomor- GUEST CHAPLAIN, DR. PRENTICE important time in our country. row. At 3 o’clock, we will recess. MEADOR Thank you, Madam President. I yield Mr. DASCHLE. Is it the majority Mrs. HUTCHISON. Madam President, the floor. leader’s intention to be in session on it is my pleasure to introduce our The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Thursday? guest chaplain, Dr. Prentice Meador, the previous order, the Senator from Mr. FRIST. Madam President, we from Dallas, TX, the minister at New Hampshire is recognized. will not be in session on Thursday or Prestoncrest Church of Christ. Dr. f Friday. Meador hails from Nashville, TN. Our Mr. DASCHLE. Madam President, majority leader and Dr. Meador have TRIBUTE TO FORMER PRESIDENT then we have the official memorial known each other for a long time. RONALD REAGAN service in the National Cathedral at He is a graduate of David Lipscomb Mr. GREGG. Thank you, Madam 11:30 on Friday morning. Is that cor- College and holds a Ph.D from the Uni- President. rect? versity of Illinois. He and his wife Bar- I rise today, as many Americans, to Mr. FRIST. That is correct. That is bara, a registered nurse, have three pay my respect and thanks, and also to by invitation. Of course, our colleagues married children and 10 grandchildren. celebrate the life of Ronald Reagan, an and spouses are invited. Dr. Meador served at the South Na- extraordinary man who has had such a Mr. DASCHLE. Senators should be tional Church of Christ in Springfield, huge impact on our generation and the aware they have all day today and up MO for 14 years before moving to Dal- generations to come in the world—es- until 3 o’clock tentatively tomorrow to las in 1988. There he started serving as pecially Americans’ place in the world. come to the floor to make presen- a pulpit minister for the Prestoncrest I have a lot of fond and personal tations. Obviously, Senators are wel- Church of Christ. memories about Governor and Presi- come to speak about any issue. Not only did our distinguished leader dent Reagan. First, I had the oppor- My hope is we would want to accom- come over to say hello to our chaplain tunity to meet him with my wife modate Senators who wish to speak in this morning, but also Senator BOND Kathy when he and Nancy Reagan memory of President Reagan and per- from Missouri, who when he was Gov- came to New Hampshire to campaign haps defer other remarks unrelated to ernor worked with Dr. Meador on a in 1976. He was running against a sit- these tributes to next week. Obviously, summit for children. Dr. Meador has ting Republican President, Gerald as I say, it is every Senator’s preroga- been very active in that regard as well. Ford, appointed, of course, coming out tive to make that decision. So we came in today, and not only of the Watergate era. Some in our I appreciate the majority leader’s was he there with me as his hometown party thought maybe it was time to clarification on the schedule. Senator but also the Senator from Ten- move on, put a new face on our party, f nessee and the Senator from Missouri and put someone forward who had a certain charisma and attitude which RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME came to greet him, which I think shows what a great impact he has wherever was a little different. Certainly Reagan The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under he goes. met that test. the previous order, leadership time is Dr. Meador has in fact adopted a As we traveled around New Hamp- reserved wonderful philosophy of the modern shire, he was not the national figure he f church. He offers grace to imperfect is today, although he was a significant people. He doesn’t want to save the figure. In fact, he was a movie star. MORNING BUSINESS world and lose our own families. He of- People were flocking to meet him and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under fers God to people entangled in the web see him. They wanted to hear what he the previous order, there will be a pe- of today’s culture. had to say. But as we traveled around, riod for the transaction of morning That take on the urban church has a fairly small contingent in a bus and business with Senators permitted to attracted large audiences of young a few cars, we had a chance to get to speak for up to 10 minutes each. adults. In fact, the average age in his know him a little bit. What came The Senator from Texas. church in Dallas is 28. Dr. Meador has through most apparently to myself and f done an excellent job of cultivating Kathy was he was a genuine person their interest by emphasizing relation- who had a real sense of self and who ORDER OF PROCEDURE ship building, mentoring, and account- had a way of making people feel at ease Mr. REID. Madam President, will the ability groups. around him. He had a charisma, to say Senator yield for a parliamentary in- He is a member of the board of trust- the least. quiry? ees of a great university, Abilene Then I had the great fortune of being Mrs. HUTCHISON. Certainly. Christian University in Abilene, TX, elected to Congress in 1980. Prior to Mr. REID. Madam President, there and he is on the chancellor’s council of that, ironically I had been at the fa- are a number of people who wish to another great university, Pepperdine mous national debate in January of speak. I know Senator HUTCHISON wish- University in California. Dr. Meador is 1980 where President Reagan actually es to speak regarding our prayer this listed in ‘‘Who’s Who in Religion’’ as set the course for getting the nomina- morning. But it is my understanding well as ‘‘Who’s Who in the Southwest.’’ tion and moving on to become the

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On those first two issues, he But in 1990, along with 54 other Re- and special time to have a chance to led the world and delivered the results publicans, I was elected to the House of serve under a President such as Presi- which said unequivocally that democ- Representatives, and we came here dent Reagan. racy and market-oriented economies with President Reagan. We had a pur- Going to the White House with Kathy were the future for mankind and that pose. We had a definite purpose. People and our two oldest children, I remem- individual rights meant something. will recall at that time coming out of ber a lot of fond personal memories of In accomplishing that, he passed on the 1970s the inflation rate was 12 per- how kind he was. Our daughters were to our generation and all the genera- cent, interest rates were 22 percent, then quite young. I think they were 4 tions to come a gift of freedom and a and we had American citizens being and 5 or maybe 5 and 6. He took them gift of possibility in the area of eco- held captive in Iran. The President— aside and got hotdogs for them; he got nomic well-being that was not nec- then-President Jimmy Carter—said we popcorn for them. essarily a given. It would not nec- were in a period of national malaise. He was just a wonderful, inclusive in- essarily have occurred without him. It We didn’t feel that way. We felt Amer- dividual and had a naturalness about is possible the Soviet Union and cer- ica was a great and wonderful Nation. him that was extraordinary and made tainly the mutations of the Soviet Ronald Reagan epitomized that view of everybody who was around him, when Union could have proceeded for a con- the future being bright rather than they had the chance, feel good. It was siderable amount of time. We could dark—the future being one of unlim- that personality that I think caused still be dealing with that issue today ited opportunities rather than one of a him to be able to be President during a had he not been willing to stand up, be- decreasing pie. So 54 of us arrived in time when there was a fair amount of cause he had unequivocal confidence in the House of Representatives. strident partisanship. At the same our Nation and in the values that drive It was a unique situation because the time, there was less of a personal vin- our Nation, had he not been willing to House of Representatives was being dictiveness in the atmosphere, which stand up and say essentially that we controlled at that time—and people do was nice at that time, to have at least were going to compete in that race at not appreciate it today, but it had been that sort of atmosphere where people a level that would essentially make it controlled by the Democratic Party for were not into the personal assassina- impossible for the Soviet Union and 26 years; continuously controlled by tion level that we sometimes see occur Communist-style regimes to compete the same party, and it produced a lot of in politics, although it did happen to with us. That is what he did. very interesting and very aggressive some degree. He did it first in the military where and strong individuals to manage the The fond memories are there from an he essentially said to the Soviet Union, House. The strongest, of course, was individual standpoint, but the real we are just simply going to outbuild ‘‘Tip’’ O’Neill, who was then the Speak- memory, the real force of President you and we are going to exceed your er. He was not going to tolerate those Reagan goes beyond the personal con- ability to compete, so they crumbled 54 new Republican Members who ar- tact. It goes to what his mission was, from within. Second, he did it by estab- rived in the House of Representatives what he accomplished for our Nation, lishing, once again, that the basic val- and were carrying the water for Presi- which was so extraordinary, and what ues of democracy far exceeded any val- dent Reagan. We were treated with an he accomplished for the world. It has ues that were being put forward, and experience in education on how politics been discussed. There is nothing unique clearly our much better lifestyle than really works by ‘‘Tip’’ O’Neill, as we about the discussion because it is so anything being put forward by a Soviet were exposed to what real power can do broadly accepted now what he did ac- Communist state. and how it can be managed in a con- complish. So we owe him a great debt of thanks gressional body. That was, essentially, this: He took a and we certainly owe his family a great We continued to charge the Hill, nation which was, as I said by its own debt of thanks. We thank Nancy however, for the President, because definition, by its then leader, Jimmy Reagan for her wonderful service to President Reagan had a clear and de- Carter, in a period of national malaise this Nation. We thank his family for fined agenda. He intended to fundamen- and he turned us and reawakened our the gift of this great man to our coun- tally shift this country. The shift was natural optimism. We are a nation of try. going to be toward strengthening our optimists. We are a nation that be- I yield the floor. national defense capabilities, toward lieves we can accomplish whatever we The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under reducing the burden of Government, to- seek to pursue, whatever goal we set. the unanimous consent, the Senator ward reducing the burden of taxation, He made us believe in that again. His from Maine is recognized. and toward reestablishing our con- ‘‘city on the hill’’ belief in our Nation Ms. SNOWE. Our Nation mourns the fidence as a nation. There was a lot of was deep in him, but, more impor- passage of a man who called Americans legislation brought forward, with very tantly, he was able to project it across to their economic purpose and renewed difficult battles over the budget, very our country and give people a sense of our age-old faith in the limitless possi- difficult battles over issues of making self and a sense of purpose that was op- bilities of freedom. our defense capability stronger once timistic and upbeat, that was essential With heavy but immensely grateful again. to our country at that time. hearts, our country grieves the passing We became known as ‘‘Reagan’s ro- Probably equally important to the of President Ronald Reagan and ex- bots.’’ That was a derisive term used world, he set America back on a course tends our collective thoughts and pray- by some of our friends in the media and of leading us in what was then the true ers to his extraordinary wife Nancy it was thrown at us. As Reagan’s eco- great confrontation of the 20th cen- and the entire Reagan family. nomics were called Reaganomics, a de- tury, which was the question of wheth- Reflecting today on the hope that risive term put out in the er Communist, Socialist economics, President Reagan inspired in America, intellegentsia community by our and a totalitarian state would domi- I am reminded of the story of Benjamin friends who saw it as inappropriate ec- nate or whether democracy and mar- Franklin near the close of the Con- onomics and saw it as water bearers for ket-oriented economies would domi- stitutional Convention. Franklin a President who they considered to be nate. pointed to the painting behind Wash- superficial, and in some cases a carica- There were three major trends of the ington’s chair, a landscape of the Sun ture, but we took that as sort of a red 20th century that were tested. The just on the horizon and remarked: badge of courage, those who came in first, of course, was the issue of the I have often . . . looked at that sun behind that class. We enjoyed the fact we were philosophy of Communist versus mar- the President without being able to tell tweaking the institution of the House ket-oriented economies. The second, of whether it was rising or setting. But now

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He brought a passionate belief in States of America and the Soviet Actually, he gave life to what he once American ideas to bear in advancing Union. He said: You know, it tells said: ‘‘If I can get 70 or 80 percent of freedom as a force for good in the world something about a country when more what it is I’m trying to get . . . I’ll and heralded a new dawn of confidence people want to leave the country than take that and then continue to try to at home. want to come in. His simple logic was get the rest in the future.’’ Like so many Americans, I remember indeed compelling. He certainly did live by that axiom well the steep challenges facing the President Reagan was a conservative throughout his tenure of 8 years, irre- Nation in 1980. At that time, having al- Republican from California, and I, of spective of the differences. Ultimately, ready served 2 years in the House of course, was a moderate Republican he wanted to achieve the great things Representatives, we could look back to from New England. Obviously, there he set out to do when he became Presi- the late 1970s as an incubator of were times—and many times, in fact— dent and also to make sure he could be change. when we might differ on policy. Yet I resolute in implementing his vision for Before President Reagan, we had be- can also recall meeting with him and this country. come conditioned to accept limitations other members of the Republican cau- He was entirely comfortable with on what we might aspire to as individ- cus, as well as Democrats. We had nu- stepping outside of others’ conven- uals and as a nation. But out of those merous meetings at the White House tional perception of himself and his days of national disillusionment and either in the Cabinet room or within politics. He was also extremely cred- political drift came a bold leader to in- the Oval Office itself. We were able to ible as Commander in Chief, as leader spire confidence. negotiate our differences, whether it of this country when he set about to As I said, I had just completed my was within our party or across party build up our military and to defy the Soviet Union and to ultimately bring freshman term as a Member of Con- lines. The issues ranged from defense down the Wall. The fact is, he also, on gress, and this was a period of self- policy, to the MX missile, to Central the other side of the coin, ultimately doubt for America. Internationally, our America, to the budget. We had numer- negotiated the first pact to reduce the country was mired in the cold war and ous budget discussions where we nego- United States and Soviet nuclear arse- reeling from the Iranian hostage crisis. tiated the actual budget resolutions nals—he negotiated that with Mikhail On the domestic front, our economy and the budget numbers themselves. Gorbachev—because, again, he under- had been sapped by double-digit infla- And I spearheaded an effort to meet stood what needed to be accomplished tion, double-digit prime interest rates, with the President to talk about wom- and stifled by massive tax burdens, in- in the end. en’s issues, to close the gender gap His legacy will forever be his vision cluding a top tax rate of 70 percent. We which at that time was affecting the that brought about the end of the cold also had been undercut by a serious en- Republican party. In fact, it led to ulti- war because, again, he saw the dif- ergy crisis at that point in time. In mately passing the landmark child sup- ference between dictatorships and de- fact, we had gasoline lines here in port enforcement legislation, that mocracy and our ability to foster lib- Washington and all through the coun- heretofore had not been part of the erty in the dark corners of the world. try at that point. So suffice it to say, Federal lexicon, much less part of Fed- Some thought his bold descriptions these were not bright days in Wash- eral policy. and his plans to bridge the wide chasms ington or America. As I said at the And to this day I have on my wall a that separated democracy from des- time, whoever won the White House letter of appreciation from President potism were ill-considered. Yet he would bear the responsibility for mak- Reagan for my efforts to help develop viewed the world through that crystal ing America productive once again, and and pass the 1986 Omnibus Diplomatic clear prism of, in the words of Shake- President Reagan did. With his convic- Security and Antiterrorism Act, which speare, ‘‘simple truth miscalled sim- tion that the greatest untapped poten- he signed and which contained a provi- plicity.’’ I believe that says it all be- tial lie in the American people them- sion I authored to create an account- cause I think President Reagan under- selves—by embracing hope, not res- ability review board within the State stood that in order to be an effective ignation, and by projecting an opti- Department to investigate all incidents leader, to be a strong President, to be mism in our Nation and her people that involving serious security failures. the leader of this country who was a was as genuine as the man himself—he With regard to trade policies, we had force for good and to project that force charted a course for America for great- a number of meetings. In fact, my hus- for good, you ultimately had to move er prosperity and security. band and I met in the Oval Office with the process, and you had to work with- As President, as we know, he con- the President to discuss the impact of in the system and with the other fronted the world’s only other super- international trade policies, particu- branch of Government to make that power, laying the foundation for vic- larly as they affected Maine’s indus- happen. tory in the cold war. He campaigned to tries, whether it was the potato indus- Another great of the 20th century re- reduce the size of the Federal bureauc- try, shoe industry, or the lumber in- fused praise for having lent his lion- racy, to return tax dollars to the fami- dustry. hearted strength to an entire nation. lies that had earned them, and to de- He was always respectful of divergent Instead, Winston Churchill remarked, volve out of Washington and back to views and willing to keep his Oval Of- it was his nation that had the ‘‘lion’s local governments—all ideas whose fice door open, even as he always knew heart’’ all along, and it fell to him only time had come, just as President Rea- what he believed. In terms of his prin- to ‘‘give the roar.’’ gan’s had. Not only that, but he rein- ciples, his compass was steady. At the So it was with President Ronald vigorated America with his unabashed same time, he was certainly committed Reagan. His words summoned our re- faith in her essential goodness. to the fine and, in Washington, rare art solve and our goodness, and his steady The other night, I had the oppor- of listening. He was also willing to seek hand guided America to a triumph for tunity to recount the Reagan era with consensus, even though we surely had a all free people. As providence would my husband, Jock McKernan, who also partisan environment at that time. have it, President Reagan gave Amer- served 4 years in Congress. He served We had a divided Government, with ica’s roar during what would become— the other congressional district in the the Democrats controlling the House in no small part, thanks to him—the State of Maine. He was there for 4 and the Republicans controlling the last decade of the cold war. With peace years as well under the Reagan Presi- Senate, and obviously a Republican through strength, Ronald Reagan dency. We were recalling a time in Presidency. But again, he was willing called America to a purpose he de- which we visited the White House, re- to forge consensus because he believed scribed in his own hand in 1980 when he garding the shaping of defense policy. that was the only way you could get wrote:

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For this legacy, the American people ratify and sign important arms control I personally believe that 50 years and free people everywhere are in his agreements, increasing funds for math from now, if not now, President Reagan debt, just as he is in our hearts and his and science education, reauthorizing will be remembered for his focus on family, as well, in our prayers. the Superfund hazardous waste cleanup freedom for the people behind the Iron Mr. President, I yield the floor. program, which is so important. The Curtain. He saw in Soviet President The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under basis of the program is the polluter Mikhail Gorbachev a man he could suc- the previous order, the Senator from should pay. Interestingly, we don’t cessfully challenge to step to the plate. California is recognized for 10 minutes. seem to have that kind of support And when President Reagan said, tear Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I rise today. down this wall, he said it directly to today to pay my respects to one of President Reagan once said: ‘‘There Mr. Gorbachev. He touched Mr. Gorba- California’s own, President Ronald is no limit to what a man can do or chev, and he touched America. He Reagan. where he can go, if he doesn’t mind touched people around the world. I first met President Reagan right who gets the credit.’’ And how impor- In a moving eulogy in yesterday’s after I was elected to Congress in 1982. tant that quote is when it comes to New York Times Mr. Gorbachev wrote: We were a large Democratic freshman politics. President Reagan was a con- Reagan was a man of the right but while class, and when I was invited to the servative. He was not an ideologue. He adhering to his convictions, with which one White House, I wondered how President fulfilled a campaign promise to appoint could agree or disagree, he was not dog- matic. He was looking for negotiations and Reagan would greet us. After all, he the first woman to the Supreme Court. had campaigned hard for a Republican for cooperation. He chose Sandra Day O’Connor as the In that, you have to understand that Congress, and having lost an election first woman Justice of the U.S. Su- myself I knew the feeling of dis- respect for other people and their preme Court, even though she was con- ideas, the ability to step into their appointment. When we arrived at the sidered too moderate by many conserv- White House, President Reagan could shoes is very important. atives. He tried to abolish the National We name buildings and rooms and not have been more gracious to us; the Endowment for the Arts but, after los- public places after leaders, and we have same for Mrs. Reagan. I still have the ing that fight, he moved on. I remem- named many public places after Ronald photo from that evening hanging in my ber that. He moved on without trying Reagan. But I truly believe that now home office. to force the issue through the back- the greatest thing we can do in Ronald Twenty-two years ago, Ronald door. I respect that. Reagan’s memory is to find a cure for Reagan taught me that you can dis- I remember the fight to keep the Na- the disease that took his life and took agree without being disagreeable, that tional Endowment for the Arts. Many him away from his loved ones and the you could set aside those disagree- Republicans in my State didn’t agree world stage long before his physical ments even though they were deep. with President Reagan. They mobilized life ended. President Reagan once said: with the Democrats. President Reagan Alzheimer’s disease is a plague that A lot of trouble in the world would dis- said, Well, this is what I think. He ravages millions of Americans and appear if we were talking to each other in- went forward, and when he lost, that those who love them. Caused by abnor- stead of about each other. was it. mal plaques and tangled nerve fibers in He believed if we were all respectful Of course, there are other issues of the brain, the disease attacks the cells and pleasant to one another, we could disagreement—from offshore oil drill- that control thought, memory, and find those areas of common ground. We ing to the role of the national Govern- language. The brain, if you look at it, can reach across the aisle. We can get ment, to the fight against AIDS, to becomes more and more like a child’s things done. Believe me, that was a policies in Central America. Those dis- brain. It kills nerve cells that are vital good lesson for me and for all of us agreements were deep, but they were to memory. If you think about it, when that evening because clearly, in the never taken personally by President you lose your memory, you lose who Senate, with the rules of the Senate, Reagan. He and House Speaker Tip you are. And to see someone like Ron- the only way to get things done is by O’Neill were genuinely fond of each ald Reagan, who held all the power for working together. I look at the occu- other. They often shared a drink after 8 years that anyone could ever dream pant of the Chair, and I know that with work, and they laughed after a day of to hold, and to have him not be able to our disagreements on many issues, we locking horns. Their good nature was remember that is a tragedy. have come together on a few occasions, infectious. It raised the level of comity Alzheimer’s lowers the level of and we have won for our constituents throughout the Nation’s Capital. How I chemicals that carry messages between and for this country. long for those days. It is time that in nerve cells and the brain. The progress When I look back to President Rea- the spirit of Ronald Reagan and Tip of Alzheimer’s is usually slow, but it is gan’s record, I realize that not only did O’Neill, we see more bipartisan spirit inexorable. Beginning with mild symp- he bring this kind of an attitude of in our work. toms, such as forgetfulness, Alz- working together to Washington, but In California, there are tributes to heimer’s gradually robs its victims of that had been his hallmark in Cali- Ronald Reagan running around the the ability to think clearly, speak fornia as well. As a Republican Gov- clock. I know it is true nationally, but clearly, understand others, or care for ernor, he was working with a Demo- because he was our Governor and we themselves in any way. cratic State legislature. So it seems are so proud he is part of our legacy, Ten years ago Ronald Reagan knew President Reagan had to learn how to we are seeing and listening to Ronald he was battling Alzheimer’s. He knew do this both in the State and in the Na- Reagan’s stories and Ronald Reagan he was losing the battle. In an act of tion’s Capital. quotes. I found one of these very inter- tremendous courage and in a hand- In those years as Governor, in keep- esting. written open letter, he told the Amer- ing with the values and wishes of most There was a question asked to Presi- ican people he was suffering from the Californians, he helped to establish the dent Reagan after he had completed his illness. He wrote: Redwood National Park. He regulated 8 years in office. The question was: I now begin the journey that will lead me auto emissions to reduce pollution. He What do you most want to be remem- into the sunset of my life. signed a bill that liberalized a woman’s bered for? His answer was this: The And he movingly wrote: right to choose. He opposed the State millions of jobs that were created while I know that for America there will always proposition that discriminated against he was President and America regain- be a bright dawn ahead. teachers based on sexual orientation. ing respect in the world. Millions of So even in his darkest hour, Presi- You can see Governor Reagan was will- jobs created and America regaining re- dent Reagan’s eternal optimism shone ing to reach across and find consensus. spect in the world. You think about through. Ronald Reagan, of course, did con- how universal those two achievements Nancy Reagan stood by her husband tinue to reach across the aisle when he are because right now that is a lot of throughout this long ordeal, protecting

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His personality came through as head of the Screen Actors Guild, he wrote an open letter to her praising her in that meeting. I have often repeated gave as Governor, he give as President. for her strength and moving forward to the story of my visit there. He was a certified anti-Communist. So use her considerable influence to push A Congressman asked Ronald Reagan who could better make a deal with the forward stem cell research. at the time: Mr. President, I’m afraid Communists than Ronald Reagan? To honor Ronald Reagan and relieve you are going to invade Nicaragua. No one could question his creden- the suffering of millions of American President Reagan did not wait a sec- tials, no more than they could question families, we must pursue every avenue ond. He came back so quickly, with the credentials of Menachem Begin. of research and treatment for Alz- that smile on his face, and said: I’m Had it been Jimmy Carter or Bill Clin- heimer’s and other diseases. not going to invade Nicaragua, but I ton, it would not have happened. But In memory of Ronald Reagan and all want those SOBs going to bed every no one could question his Communist- of the families who have lost loved night thinking I’m going to. fighting credentials, and, therefore, ones to Alzheimer’s, let us seek a That was Ronald Reagan. His views people accepted the deal we made with brighter dawn for Alzheimer’s victims of the world were views that all of us the Soviet Union, which was good for and their families. could understand. He made it very the world and good for our country. So, Mr. President, Californians are clear to us that he was not going to in- Ronald Reagan has been a good speaking across party lines for a man vade Nicaragua but he was not about to neighbor to the State of Nevada. The who was able to set aside ideology to show any weakness to the Nicaraguans. State of Nevada shares a national make progress, to work with those who That is exactly how he said it. From treasure. It is called Lake Tahoe. might not have agreed with him on where I come, that was talk that I un- There is only one other lake like it in every point. I think it is a terrific les- derstood. the whole world, and that is in Russia, son to all of us in this time and in this I have fond memories of Ronald Lake Baikal. I acknowledge that Lake place in our Nation’s history. Reagan. Ronald Reagan, of course, is Tahoe is smaller than Lake Baikal, but I yield the floor and suggest the ab- someone we all watched on TV, ‘‘Death so is every other lake in the world. But sence of a quorum. Valley Days.’’ But those in Nevada re- it is an alpine glacial lake that is a The PRESIDING OFFICER. The member him also, and the papers in Ne- wonder of beauty. Ronald Reagan iden- clerk will call the roll. vada have been full the last few days tified that something needed to be done The assistant legislative clerk pro- about his entertainment qualities in about this beautiful lake. I spoke yesterday to Paul Laxalt. ceeded to call the roll. Las Vegas. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- He came to Las Vegas as an enter- Paul Laxalt and I have been political imous consent that the order for the tainer. He appeared on the Las Vegas adversaries all of my adult life and a lot of his life. But I do not have a bet- quorum call be rescinded. strip as an entertainer. We were dis- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. cussing what he did. I don’t know what ter friend than Paul Laxalt. We are he did, but he came all the time. He friends. We call each other all the ENZI). Without objection, it is so or- time. We have done that for many dered. was a headliner. I don’t know if he sang Mr. REID. Mr. President, Ronald or danced. I don’t know what he did. He years. Even though we have been polit- Reagan is seen by the State of Illinois made money and they kept bringing ical adversaries, we are friends. Anyway, I called Paul Laxalt yester- as being his birthplace, as well it him back. He was born in the Midwest but he day and said: Talk to me about your should. They feel very strongly about was really a son of the West. He stood relationship with Ronald Reagan. Ev- the legacy of Ronald Reagan in Illinois. for a lot of what we now identify with eryone in Nevada knows and most ev- California, of course, is where Ronald Ronald Reagan. He believed in free- eryone knows in Washington—my dis- Reagan became famous. They have tre- dom, independence, and opportunity. tinguished friend from New Mexico is mendous ties to Ronald Reagan. The These are the values that all Ameri- in the Chamber who served with Sen- State of Nevada has lots and lots of cans share. We probably understand ator Laxalt in the Senate—Ronald Rea- ties to Ronald Reagan. Not only are we them a little better in the West. gan’s No. 1 guy in the Senate was Paul a neighbor to the State of California, He handled the Soviet Union much as Laxalt, period. I do not say that say- but the history of Ronald Reagan and he handled the situation in my first ing, oh, somebody may question that. the State of Nevada are intertwined. I meeting in the Oval Office. He was di- That is a fact of life. Ronald Reagan come to the Senate today to join a pro- rect and to the point with us about how said it. That is the way it was. cession to praise Ronald Reagan as a he felt about Nicaragua. In the situa- Paul Laxalt said Ronald Reagan great leader and a fine man. tion with the Soviet Union, he was di- should be remembered for two things My first trip to the Oval Office was rect and to the point. by Nevadans. No. 1 is the bi-State com- to meet with Ronald Reagan. I was a The first breakthrough in peace for pact to which the two Republican Gov- young Congressman and I was called to Israel in the Middle East came as a re- ernors, Laxalt and Reagan, agreed. the Oval Office to discuss with the sult of a hawk by the name of They sent it to the California and Ne- President the situation in Nicaragua, Menachem Begin. Menachem Begin was vada State legislatures, and it was aid to the contras. I was joined there the leader of the underground against ratified eventually by both legisla- by three other Members of Congress. the British. He was someone who tures. They recognized that something Vice President Bush, at the time, was fought the British as no one else did. had to be done to preserve Lake Tahoe. there. It is the first time I had the op- He did it in secret. But he was the lead- No. 2 is what he did to stop the MX portunity to visit with, in any depth, er. And Menachem Begin’s own family missile from coming to the State of Ronald Reagan as President of the did not know that he was the leader of Nevada. The MX missile—most people United States. the underground until after the British don’t know what that means—but it There was a time when I was Lieu- announced that he was. It took was a missile, the MX, with 10 war- tenant Governor of Nevada, and Gov- Menachem Begin, somebody who was heads on each missile. It was to cover ernor O’Callaghan was unable to go to very hawkish, to make a deal with hundreds and hundreds of square miles an event at Lake Tahoe. I represented Egypt. None of the other Israeli leaders through Nevada and parts of Utah. the State. Governor Reagan, at the could have done it because they would That would have been a blight to the time, and I spent time together, but it have been seen as capitulating to the environment there, but it was also was in a public setting and really not a Egyptians. deemed to be wasteful moneywise. So time where you got to know anyone The same with President Reagan. No Ronald Reagan personally intervened, well. one could take away his Communist- and that never came to be.

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His amazing gave every one of his nominating the President, and the President said: journey was the American dream come speeches, the time he did not win and Dick Richards is retiring as chairman true. He helped bring the dream a little the two times he won. Paul Laxalt of the National Republican Party. He closer to all of us. gave his nominating speeches. He said said: We have here Frank Fahrenkopf The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Ronald Reagan was such a forgiving who has said he is going to think about ator from New Mexico. man that he never held a grudge. They it. Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I was were campaigning in some north- So he knew right then he was going privileged to become chairman of the eastern State, and somebody had given to be the national chairman because Senate Budget Committee at the same a speech—somebody Ronald Reagan the President asked him to do it. So time Ronald Reagan was sworn in as had helped a lot—and he gave a speech Frank Fahrenkopf became the national President. I never thought I was going blasting Ronald Reagan’s economic chairman of the Republican Party. to have that job, but with his victory, program. He was a Republican, and ev- But my favorite Ronald Reagan me- we took over the Senate. I recall Sen- erybody around Reagan was mad at mento—I have always been opposed to ator Howard Baker called me at home, him. So he was getting ready to give term limits. I have opposed term limits and his greeting was ‘‘Mr. Chairman.’’ this speech, and he says to Paul: I can’t for the House and Senate. I have al- I kind of wondered what he was talking remember, why am I mad at this guy? ways spoken forcefully against that. I about, and then he told me. That was It was because he did not hold grudges. think it is wrong. It is wrong that we quite startling because I knew I was It was not in his nature. have the 22nd amendment to limit the going to be chairman when Ronald So it is wonderful we had someone Presidents to two terms. Reagan would be asking that we carry like Paul Laxalt who had such close Ronald Reagan agreed with me. He out his program. contact with the President of the did not like term limits. He thought From January of 1981 until President United States. But not only did he the 22nd amendment was bad. I offered Reagan left office in January of 1989, it have contact with Paul Laxalt, Presi- a resolution to do away with the 22nd was my privilege to work closely with dent Reagan did many other things for amendment. I spoke out against term him and his senior advisers, as with the people in Nevada. limits. President Reagan, after he had any President before or since. I suspect Sig Rogich was a special assistant to retired as President of the United I saw President Reagan exhibit all his the President. Because of Ronald States, wrote me a handwritten note. legendary traits: the man of principle, Reagan, Sig Rogich developed a great Here is what he said: ‘‘Dear Harry, I’m the man of strength, the man of strong personal friendship with the first Presi- glad . . .’’—it is in Ronald Reagan’s convictions, the man of humor, and, in dent Bush. They are friends. People handwriting, and I have that in my one famous case, a man with an Irish wonder why President Bush always scrapbook. I love my scrapbook and temper on occasion. comes back to Nevada. It is to see his have this in it. I had announced that I Even before he was sworn in, Mr. friend Sig Rogich. He, of course, made supported repeal of the 22nd amend- Reagan asked Cap Weinberger to head Sig Rogich an Ambassador to Iceland, ment. Here is what he wrote: up his transition team for the Reagan where Sig Rogich was born. I’m glad you are moving on repeal of the budget and fiscal policy. I worked Sig Rogich is an extremely successful 22nd Amendment. I’ve made a number of closely with Cap and then Dave Stock- businessman. But people should also speeches to national business groups. . . . In man, whom I knew when he was a understand Sig Rogich was head of the every speech I’ve announced my support for Member of the House. He was an- Tuesday Team that developed that repeal and have received an ovation from nounced to be the incoming OMB Di- great campaign slogan for President every audience. I charge that the 22nd is a rector. Reagan: ‘‘It’s morning in America.’’ violation of the people’s right to vote for Rogich wrote and directed most of whomever they want. I was impressed by the three prin- those pieces. He was heavily involved Signed: ‘‘Ronald Reagan.’’ ciples that Ronald Reagan insisted on in the life of President Reagan. He Here is the guy. He believed in States in my budget that I would prepare: Re- came and moved back here. But, as a rights. He believed in people being able straint of domestic spending, long result, not only do we have Rogich to make their determination, not some overdue increases in defense spending, back here, but Frank Fahrenkopf be- arbitrary law that we passed saying: and tax cuts to stimulate the economy. came chairman of the National Repub- You can’t serve in the Senate because The economy was a dormant economy. lican Committee. I talked to Frank you have been there two terms. He be- Those three principles guided every de- Fahrenkopf today. He said Reagan did lieved the people have the right to cision that I had with the President this in typical fashion. He had been of- choose their representatives. and his senior staff. He was not going fered the job in 1980. He had a great law I have a number of pictures with to compromise on these three prin- practice in Nevada and did not want to Ronald Reagan. I liked him as a per- ciples. come to Washington. son. I did not agree with everything he I saw his strength on many occa- Jim Baker called him and said: The did politically, as we all know, but I sions, most notably, of course, after President wants you to give a report liked him as a person. the assassination attempt. But I also about what happened in the 1982 elec- So I stand here today honored that I saw his strength when he insisted that tions—where the Democrats did very had a chance to work with President the air traffic controllers either go to well; the Republicans did very poorly. Ronald Reagan, someone with whom I work or lose their jobs. That signal, He was asked to come back and give a knew and felt comfortable. He sur- clear and strong, persuaded me this report. rounded himself with good people. man was, in fact, a man who would risk Frank said: Well, I have to fly all They were not mean-spirited. They political standing in order to stand for night because I’m going with 10 State were good people. They were prag- the good of the public. chairs. We are going to China. matists. I liked the people with whom I saw his humor time and time again. And Baker said: I think it would be a he surrounded himself. Once when I showed up late for a meet- good idea if you came. The President He is going to be remembered in his- ing with him, there were other Sen- wants you to come back here. tory, of course, as one of our great ators present. It was very embar- So he got back here. And Senator Presidents. This is a time to mourn his rassing. He was amused. And when my Laxalt said to Frank Fahrenkopf: death, but it is more important to ap- good friend, Senator Howard Baker, be- Would you reconsider being the na- preciate his life. came Chief of Staff to the President, he tional chairman of the Republican I can remember a person with whom told me one of his jobs was to try to Party? I practiced law when Ronald Reagan come up with a good joke to tell the

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S6602 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 8, 2004 President, that Reagan’s humor came for fiscal year 1992, we had room for all aisles, because the foodstuff had to go from the same sense of perspective that the President’s defense spending in- up day by day, week by week. Can you produced his strength and commitment creases to which he ended up agreeing. imagine what Americans would think to the American people. Some Members of the Senate ex- about that today? But we had to take I learned firsthand that the Irish in pressed dismay and even anger over the it back then and we had to wait for President Reagan also included a bit of use of this process called reconcili- something else to work. That some- an Irish temper. In 1993, I had the deli- ation. Even some Republicans were thing else was Ronald Reagan’s policy, cate task of telling the President that perplexed by its complications and his approach to lower taxes, which I would not put off my budget for the wondered how it would really work. I stimulated this economy. upcoming fiscal year, and that I would know the President and his staff relied So it is with deep regret that I join not be able to supply him with the en- on us in the Senate and on the com- with many others and many in the tire increase in defense spending for mittee to carry out what we promised. Senate who will have words to say the upcoming fiscal year. Cap Wein- It is to President Reagan’s credit about him. Again, my best to his wife berger had made that request on behalf that he supported us every step of the Nancy and his family. I understand of the President. I would not put in my way. Perhaps that was one of the their great grief. But they had him for budget in the upcoming year that en- things I admired most of this man. He a very long time, and I am sure with tire defense request. Cap Weinberger made a decision, entrusted it to those the passage of time they will begin to and I discussed this for weeks, and we on whom he relied, and used all of his understand that. I hope they can and I put off this action over the Easter holi- power to make a plan succeed. hope they will. day and for weeks to give them a I cannot tell you how complimented I Mr. President, I yield the floor and chance to work on their defense budg- felt when Howard Baker came to me suggest the absence of a quorum. et. and said: The President says if you and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The Senate Armed Services Com- I think we can do this, then he will clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to mittee chairman, Senator John Tower, back us all the way. And he did. What a great President. What a great call the roll. and I discussed it, and Senator Tower Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I ask American. What a great man. It was knew we couldn’t get the entire re- unanimous consent that the order for truly my privilege to work with him. I quest. Finally, just as the markup of the quorum call be rescinded. the budget was to occur, at about 10 think history will record that our work The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without minutes until 10 in the morning, the was of historic importance as the objection, it is so ordered. President called me on the telephone President moved toward making this Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I have in the back room of the Budget Com- economy stronger than ever, this Na- sought recognition to comment about mittee’s hearing. tion more secure than ever, and the the passing of President Ronald ‘‘Hello,’’ I said to the President. world safer than ever. Reagan, and to comment about the ‘‘Hello, Pete,’’ he said pleasantly. In closing, let me say I honestly wish great legacy he has left and the occa- ‘‘You know, I really need you to put off I had had occasion to know him even sions when I had an opportunity to the markup of the budget until we can better. I didn’t have the opportunity to meet and deal personally with Presi- get an agreement on the defense spend- get to know him on a personal basis. dent Reagan. ing.’’ Most of what I learned of him is ex- While I had met him prior to the 1980 ‘‘Mr. President, I really appreciate pressed and explained in the remarks I election cycle, I had an opportunity to and am honored by your call, but I have made. But the wonderful stories I work with him during that Presi- have delayed this for too long and just have heard about him are clearly be- dential election year when he was cannot get the full number that you lievable, because what I saw of him was elected President of the United States have requested for defense.’’ remarkable. What I saw of him in the and I was first elected to the Senate. I ‘‘Well, will you postpone the mark- numerous meetings was truly incred- recollect his presence in Philadelphia up?’’ he asked with little amiability in ible. on one August day, when the timing for his voice. Some spoke ill of him during those his presentation was to coincide with ‘‘No, sir; I cannot do that,’’ I replied. days. It is wonderful to note that most the beginning of the 6 o’clock news At that point, the President said of those have forgotten those days and cycle, so he would be carried live over goodbye. At least I think that is what are now part of this great chorus in our the broadcast stations. I recollect he said. I was told later by someone country that is praising him as one of standing behind the curtains at the who was present in his office during our greatest. Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, where he was the call that the President turned a lit- I knew most about the economic sit- later to be the guest of honor at a fund- tle red in his face and threw the phone uation because of the Budget Com- raiser on my behalf. on the floor. Yet he was absolutely mittee, but it is easy for me to see how What a sense of expectation there wonderful to me after that. He cam- he succeeded in foreign affairs. It is was by then-Governor Reagan and Mrs. paigned for me. He turned his budget clear no one could have accomplished Nancy Reagan, with Mrs. Reagan ex- over to me for implementation. And I with the Soviet Union what he did, be- pressing the question: Do you really had a great relationship not only with cause most Presidents would not be be- think it is possible we will be success- him but with those who served him, in lieved, and most Presidents would not ful in this Presidential bid? I com- particular Dave Stockman. be permitted to propose and make the mented that I thought the chances Let me note something about the kind of agreements with the Soviet were excellent. Precisely at 6 o’clock, first budget exercise. The President Union that he did. the curtain was pulled back, and the and his staff had some thoughts about To sum it up, he made a stronger President-to-be stepped forward and the proper legislative approach. I dis- America. Our economy grew some- made an eloquent speech. agreed and argued for something we where between 18 million and 20 mil- He traveled to Pittsburgh where now know and have learned to use, and lion jobs. Think of that. We are now again he was the guest of honor at a we understand it well. But it was truly talking about 2.2 million jobs. He took fundraiser. I recollect attending that historic, the use of a process called rec- an economy that was in terrible shape. event, and at one appropriate moment onciliation. That was the first time we Does anybody remember 21-percent in- he demonstrated his insight into the ever did it. Nobody understood it. The terest? We have grown so accustomed drama and to the field by grabbing my President, with the guidance of Leader to low inflation and low interest rates hand by the wrist and lifting it high in Howard Baker, went along with our in the last few years that most of us a traditional victory celebration. recommendation. Senator Fritz Hol- don’t understand inflation was so Watching him as a campaigner was a lings joined me in this historic rec- rampant and interest rates so high very instructive opportunity. onciliation effort. We had all the Presi- that, in our grocery stores, those who The day after the election, when he dent’s budget restraints in it. We had filled the shelves would also bring was victorious, I, along with the other his tax cuts in that extraordinary doc- along a stamp and they would change 15 Republican Senators who were elect- ument. And in the budget resolution the price as they walked down the ed on that same day, 16 of us were

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6603 elected, and Republicans took control sought a meeting with the President. One final note. When President of the Senate in the 1980 election with That was a bill, which has been enacted Reagan came to Independence Hall on a 53 Senate majority, was called by into law, that provides for mandatory the 200th anniversary of the signing of President Reagan to congratulate us sentences of 15 years to life for career the Constitution on September 17, 1987, and to hear words of congratulations. criminals who have three or more we arrived at the Hall and there was an President Reagan’s sense of cheer and major felonies on their record. enormous wheel with George Wash- sense of optimism was with him at all When I described it and discussed it ington and then sequenced, John times. I was to learn as I got to know with President Reagan, he referred to a Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the him better that he really liked to make James Cagney movie in which there wheel came all the way around and congratulatory phone calls when there was a three-time loser, immediately re- Ronald Reagan was situated right next was good news in the offing. As Presi- lating that to his own experience, and to President George Washington. I dent, he had the practice of calling became a supporter and ultimately asked President Reagan how it felt to every nominee to the Federal bench to signed that bill into law. be on that wheel right next to Presi- personally tell the nominee that he, President Reagan traveled frequently dent Washington. He said: Arlen, it is a the President, had nominated the indi- to Pennsylvania and on those occasions humbling experience. vidual to be a Federal judge, and, of would invite Senator Heinz and I to I think the humility of President course, that is great news, but that was join him. One such occasion was ex- Reagan in the context of his great the sort of moment that President traordinarily memorable. It was on the achievements is another addition to a Reagan relished. 200th anniversary of the signing of the really great legacy. When we were sworn in, in January U.S. Constitution. It was a real experi- Mr. President, in the absence of any of 1981, Senator Howard Baker, the ma- ence to ride with the President in Air other Senators seeking recognition, I jority leader, designated me as spokes- Force One and in a limousine and to suggest the absence of a quorum. man for the group. He did that because have a chance to talk with him and dis- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The I was last in seniority. Seniority at cuss with him some of the major clerk will call the roll. that time among Republican Senators issues. The legislative clerk proceeded to was decided on the basis of alphabet- He had made a comment that when call the roll. ical listing, after the preference was we develop the strategic defense initia- Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I ask given to former Members of the House tive, we would share it with other na- unanimous consent that the order for and former Governors. tions. I asked him about those plans the quorum call be rescinded. As the spokesman for the class, I had and how he could carry that forward The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. the honor of sitting next to the Presi- since the strategic defense initiative CRAIG). Without objection, it is so or- dent during our frequent luncheon was not likely to be accomplished for dered. meetings. At one of the meetings, Sen- many years and it would require an act Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, we ator Mack Mattingly was seated across of Congress to share one of our na- have heard many remembrances of the table. This was after the President tional assets. The President’s reply was President Reagan these last 3 days. had been reelected in 1984. Senator that this was a matter of leadership, One of my own favorite stories about Mattingly said to the President: Why is and that in moving toward the stra- President Reagan appeared in the Bos- it, Mr. President, that you don’t age at tegic defense initiative, we wanted to ton Globe on St. Patrick’s Day, 1983. It all? assure other countries we would not begins: President Reagan was fast with one use it only for ourselves but would In his corner office, House Speaker Thomas of his famous stories. He said: Well, make it available to others. P. O’Neill Jr. has proudly hung a photograph of President Reagan. It shows the two men, Mack, it is like the two psychiatrists At that time, the mutual assured de- their faces agitated in the heat of a argu- who came to work the same time every struction doctrine was operative with ment over jobs and the economy, each jab- day. Both were immaculately dressed. the stalemate between the United bing a finger at each other. When they left in the afternoon at the States and the Soviet Union, each Underneath, a puckish inscription from same time, one psychiatrist was to- knowing that if there were to be an ag- ‘Ron Reagan’ to ‘Tip’ reads, ‘From one Irish- tally disheveled, and the other contin- gressive act, it would be responded to. man to another—Top o’ the morning to you.’ ued to be immaculately dressed. After So the mutual assured destruction doc- That photograph conveys the flavor of per- haps the most important political relation- day after day, week after week, month trine was in effect, and to move to a ship in Washington, for it juxtaposes the after month of this happening, finally strategic defense initiative required as- sharp partisan confrontations between the one day when they left, the disheveled surances that this kind of defense two men with the personal cordiality that psychiatrist said: How is it that we would be shared. suits the current mood of bipartisanship. come to the office the same time every President Reagan leaves a phe- The headline on that article read: day to see our patients, and day after nomenal legacy. Perhaps his greatest ‘‘Reagan and O’Neill: Each One Needs day, week after week, month after achievement was presiding over the the Other.’’ month, you leave immaculately end of the Cold War, in which the Ronald Reagan was many things in dressed and I am disheveled? The im- United States defeated the Soviet life: An actor, a Governor, the Presi- maculately dressed psychiatrist looked Union. When the United States was re- dent. at his colleague and said: Who listens? armed, the Soviet Union could not For countless millions throughout This was President Reagan’s way of keep up and ultimately was bankrupt. the world, he was the voice and the saying he can take all of the tough President Reagan led the arms con- image of American confidence and op- spots of the Presidency and still retain trol talks with Soviet President Gorba- timism. his composure and still retain his vigor chev. With his famous words at the Even those who disagreed strongly and his freshness. Berlin Wall to tear the wall down, and with many of his policies admired his I was very much impressed with ultimately with the demise of the So- sunny disposition, his easy grace and President Reagan when he was near the viet Union, all of Eastern Europe was charm, his quick wit, and his end of his first term and he was asked free, and liberty and democracy has unshakable conviction, as he said so a question about whether he was going come to so much of Eastern Europe and often, that America’s best days are just to run for reelection. His answer was: to so many people in the world because ahead of us. The people will tell me whether I of President Reagan’s leadership. He was a self-made son of small- should run for reelection. I have been His optimism and sense of buoyancy town, middle America who loved this asked the same question from time to were just what the United States need- Nation because of the chance it gave time. I have used President Reagan’s ed when he came to office in 1981. His him—and generations of Americans be- answer because I believe it is a really emphasis on less Government, his de- fore and after him—to go as far in life terrific answer. termination to lower taxes, and his as their talents and ambitions could The first legislation which I proposed spirit of determination to defeat com- take them. after being elected to the Senate in- munism were trademarks and legacies Historians will still be taking the volved the armed career criminal bill. I which will last forever. measure of Ronald Reagan and his

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The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. FITZ- and bring about the end of the Soviet A newspaper reporter asked him GERALD). Without objection, it is so or- Union. For that, the world owes Ronald what he thought he needed to do next. dered. Reagan a great debt of gratitude. He replied that he wanted to dispel f Americans, and friends of America the notion that he was a hard-nosed TRIBUTE TO FORMER PRESIDENT throughout the world, are saddened by radical who would oppose compromise RONALD REAGAN President Reagan’s death. on principle. As he put it: Our hearts go out to the Reagan fam- You know, there are some people so im- Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I rise ily, especially Mrs. Reagan and the bued with their ideology that if they can’t today to pay tribute to the life and the Reagan children and grandchildren, as get everything they want, they’ll jump off legacy of former President Ronald well as to President and Mrs. Reagan’s the cliff with the flag flying. As governor, I Reagan. President Reagan served our friends. Even when someone has been found out that if I could get half a loaf, in- country with honor and distinction, stead of stalking off angrily, I’d take it. slipping away for a long time, as Presi- and I feel privileged to have the oppor- dent Reagan did, the final goodbye is Perhaps because he himself was a tunity to reflect on the contributions still heartbreaking. We wish them Democrat early in his life, President he made to our country and to the comfort in this time of great sorrow. Reagan never demonized his political world. In his 1987 autobiography, ‘‘Man of opponents—even when he disagreed Upon hearing the news of his death, I the House,’’ Tip O’Neill recalled the profoundly with them. thought back to the footprints he left When Tip O’Neill turned 70, President time President-elect Reagan visited on my memory. He was, indeed, one of Reagan hosted a reception for him at him in his office in early 1981. The the greatest leaders, I believe, of our the White House. There they were: the Speaker told the man who was soon to time, and I was honored to know him. opposing champions of laissez-faire ec- be President that in the House, Demo- President Reagan provided our coun- onomics and New Deal liberalism. crats and Republicans ‘‘are always try with an enormous amount of hope President Reagan toasted Tip O’Neill friends after 6 o’clock and on week- following a period of national remorse by saying: ends.’’ and confusion about the direction of For the next 6 years, until he retired, Tip, if I had a ticket to heaven and you our country and about its place in the Tip O’Neill recalled, President Reagan didn’t have one too, I would give mine away world. Let us not forget the context and go to hell with you. always began their phone conversa- into which he emerged to seize his tions by asking, ‘‘Tip, is it after 6 President Reagan and Tip O’Neill, I place in history and to move the o’clock?’’ am convinced, are reunited in heaven United States forward with a deter- It has been nearly 10 years since now. mination and an optimism about the As we prepare here in the Capitol to President Reagan wrote his courageous future that was so recently lacking. say our final goodbye to President letter to America telling us that he The ghost of Vietnam haunted our Reagan, let us remember his capacity had Alzheimer’s disease. foreign policy and the specter of Water- In the decade since President Reagan to see the best in everyone, including gate informed our politics. began his quiet withdrawal from public those whose political views differed The election of Ronald Reagan, how- life, the civility and personal decency starkly from his own. Let us remember ever, truly changed America. He in- that we associate with him seems, at that there is no dishonor in accepting a stilled hope that every American could times, to have all but disappeared from half a loaf. be optimistic about his or her future; In the months ahead and for as long much of our public discourse. The el- hope that communism would not en- as we are given the honor of serving in bows in politics have become sharper, dure and that freedom and democracy Congress, let us search and work for the words have become meaner—and could ultimately vanquish the forces principled compromises that serve the the accomplishments have become that sought to pull our country, and interests of the vast majority of Amer- scarcer. many others, into the abyss of despair icans. In that way, we can help to pre- Sadly, there is a tendency today to and hostility that permeated much of serve President Reagan’s great belief assume ill will and bad motives of the world; hope that personal freedom and hope that America’s best days are, those who belong to the other party— without the encumbrances of big gov- indeed, just ahead. or even another wing of one’s own ernment would revitalize the economy; I suggest the absence of a quorum. hope that the rejuvenated armed forces party. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The he would lead as Commander-in-Chief This decline of civility in politics and clerk will call the roll. public discourse is not good for Amer- The assistant legislative clerk pro- could make the United States once ica. It does not make us safer, or ceeded to call the roll. again truly the leader of the Free stronger. The PRESIDING OFFICER. In my World in a struggle for survival against President Reagan spoke to all that capacity as a Senator from the State of the Soviet Union. was good and decent in America. We Idaho, I ask unanimous consent that President Reagan’s eternal optimism would honor him by restoring decency the order for the quorum call be re- gave our country a renewed sense of to our politics. scinded. self, a belief that the American dream Ronald Reagan was a man who be- Without objection, it is so ordered. was possible and that every individual lieved deeply in his core principles. He had the opportunity to create his or f would not want any of us to com- her own success. Ronald Reagan be- promise our own core principles in his RECESS lieved that each new day was filled memory. But there is such a thing as The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under with high purpose and opportunity for principled compromise. President the previous order, the Senate stands accomplishment. He gave America Reagan understood that. He knew that in recess until the hour of 2:15 p.m. back the hope we had lost for many accommodation was needed to make Thereupon, the Senate, at 12:30 p.m., years. the system work. recessed until 2:16 p.m. and reassem- President Reagan’s leadership and Like many conservatives, President bled when called to order by the Pre- courage were central to ending the Reagan had some basic philosophical siding Officer (Mr. INHOFE). Cold War. He was certain that freedom qualms about Social Security. But he The PRESIDING OFFICER. The and democracy could prevail in all cor- appointed a bipartisan commission to Chair, in his capacity as a Senator ners of the globe if only the one coun- find ways to save Social Security from from the State of Oklahoma, suggests try with the capacity to do so would imminent insolvency—and he backed the absence of a quorum. step in and show the way.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6605 Many Americans who were not yet sense of political and social responsi- life of the greatest leader of the 20th born or were too young to understand bility. century and to express my sympathy to could not appreciate what this man ac- I was just a second-term congress- his wonderful and loyal family—in par- complished. The first half of the 20th man when President Reagan came into ticular, his loving wife and partner Century was marked by warfare on a office. Although a Democrat at the Nancy. global scale. The First World War—the time, I closely identified with his com- Nancy Reagan has always been an war to end all wars—had decimated mitment to lower taxes, limit govern- outstanding and inspirational role much of Europe. A generation was lost ment and rebuild the military. I shared model for our entire Nation. And that to the trenches and newly introduced President Reagan’s conservative phi- has never been more clearly displayed technologies of destruction such as the losophies, and he helped me, and mil- than through her wonderful courage machine gun and the tank. lions of other Americans, have a re- and love during the difficult journey The war that followed, World War II, stored faith in the purpose of our Gov- she and President Reagan traveled dur- managed to go well beyond its prede- ernment. ing the past decade. cessor, as the failure of European diplo- I also recall a time when President Like so many, I was inspired to actu- macy once again dragged the continent Reagan asked me to breakfast at the ally answer the call of public service into the horrors and devastation that White House. I, a second-term Con- because of then-Governor Ronald Rea- man continued to wrought. The epic gressman at the time, was certainly gan’s positive, principled message. In struggle against the forces of fascism, impressed. I had always been a conserv- 1976, I began as a young lieutenant in a struggle we remembered this past ative Democrat, and he had hoped that the Reagan revolution when I was weekend with the anniversary of the I would change parties, as he had done asked to chair Young Virginians for Normandy landings, was a fight when the Democratic Party ceased to Reagan. Today, I am still motivated to against evil in every sense of the word. represent the values he held dear. I de- work to advance his individual-empow- Its ending, however, set the stage for a clined his offer to do so at the time, ex- ering philosophy in government. new type of conflict—a conflict that plaining my strong desire to work to Ronald Reagan entered the political would take the second half of the cen- fix the Democratic Party from within. stage in 1964 with a speech which tury to resolve, mercifully without the The President knew better, telling me summed up a philosophy that would nuclear war that existed as the logical that the party was in the midst of a guide him through his Presidency two culmination of the stand-off that came transformation that would not be re- decades hence, and which turned the to be known as the cold war. versed any time soon. It took me more tide of world history. The skills, strengths and enormous years to fully appreciate the Presi- Mr. Reagan said in 1964, ‘‘You and I fortune that kept the cold war from dent’s wisdom. But appreciate it, I did, have a rendezvous with destiny. We can turning hot transcended, of course, and I followed his lead in abandoning preserve for our children this, the last multiple presidential administrations. the party of my youth in deference to best hope of man on Earth, or we can It was brought to its successful resolu- another. While I took a little longer to sentence them to take the first step tion, however, through the vision and change than he would have liked, he into a thousand years of darkness. If strength of exactly one man: President did provide me with much of the foun- we fail, at least let our children say of Reagan. Decades of conflict manage- dation as to why I needed to leave the us we justified our brief moment here. ment, in which experienced diplomats Democratic Party. I have always ap- We did all that could be done.’’ and elected officials sought primarily preciated his guidance, humility and Indeed, Ronald Wilson Reagan did to prevent nuclear war and to contain humor. have a rendezvous with destiny. Presi- the Soviet threat, had succeeded in I believe history will treat Ronald dent Reagan rejuvenated the spirit of preventing nuclear war. That was an Reagan well. He uplifted a frustrated America. His determined, optimistic incredible feat, to be sure. country through his optimism and leadership lit the torch of liberty and What set Ronald Reagan apart, how- hope. He changed a troubled world with allowed it to shine in the dark recesses ever, was his vision of a world without his devotion to the spread of freedom. of oppressed countries around the the nuclear stand-off that had become Ronald Reagan embodied the American world. an indelible image in the public psyche spirit, and our country and the world Ronald Reagan believed in the innate of virtually the entire world. What set are forever grateful for his service. goodness of mankind. He believed and Ronald Reagan apart was his visceral I offer my condolences to Mrs. advocated the wisdom of our country’s belief that the United States, and the Reagan and the entire family. They foundational principles. He believed freedom and prosperity it represented, have endured much heartache with his that given the opportunity, all men had to, and could, not just contain the illness, much grief with his passing, and women would seek freedom and lib- threat but eliminate it without the and much joy with his life. My erty and with it unleash creativity, in- awful specter of nuclear war coming to thoughts and prayers are with them in genuity, hard work, and economic fruition. this difficult time. growth. Derided by his opponents both here May God bless Ronald Reagan and He touched deeply the hearts and and abroad as a dangerous cowboy, his memory. minds of Americans through his genu- President Reagan stood firm in his be- Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. President, I inely believed, commonsense conserv- liefs and led the country to victory. He suggest the absence of a quorum. ative words of encouragement—from believed, correctly, and at variance The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. his first inaugural speech in 1981, to his with the views of many a university CRAPO). The clerk will call the roll. inspirational State of the Union Ad- professor and politician, that the The assistant legislative clerk pro- dresses, to his moving memorial trib- United States could force the Soviet ceeded to call the roll. ute to our lost Challenger explorer, to Union over the cliff on which it rested, Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, I ask his strong demand to tear down the buttressed on the backs of the millions unanimous consent that the order for wall of oppression, to his passionate it held in its tyrannical grip. the quorum call be dispensed with. tribute to the defenders of liberty at This was a truly great man. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Normandy 20 years ago this week. Limited government, lower taxes, objection, it is so ordered. Those were the words he delivered. and individual responsibility will also Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, I rise to Those words which he delivered are be part of President Reagan’s legacy. speak as if in morning business. now as much a part of the fabric of He believed that each American and The PRESIDING OFFICER. We are in America as the threads of our flag, Old each community were the best prob- morning business. The Senator is rec- Glory. Lee Greenwood’s song, ‘‘God lem-solvers. Rather than making Gov- ognized. Bless the U.S.A.,’’ was an anthem to ernment bigger to address the chal- Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, my col- Ronald Reagan’s renewed America. lenges our country faced, Reagan stood leagues and Americans, President Ron- Historians will surely discuss and de- firm in his commitment to the con- ald Reagan will be returning to Wash- bate the impact of Ronald Reagan’s 8 tributions that could be made through ington tomorrow for the very last years as President for generations to personal empowerment and a renewed time. I rise to honor the memory and come. But there is no doubt his legacy

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I He said as follows, ‘‘We have come to his convictions, exported and advanced don’t think anyone at that time could this field to celebrate the triumph of democracy to continents, countries, have predicted the sweeping changes an idea—that freedom will eventually and people yearning to taste the sweet that were about to take place. When triumph over tyranny. It is and always nectar of liberty. Ronald Reagan was elected, he ushered will be a warning to those who would He knew the evil communistic em- in a new era of government so profound usurp the rights of others. Time will pire could not be sustained and would it became known as the ‘‘Reagan Revo- find them beaten. The beacon of free- collapse under the weight of a deter- lution.’’ That was an exciting time in dom shines here for all who will see, in- mined effort to challenge the Soviets Washington. spiring free men and captives alike, on their failed policies, both foreign As I became assistant majority lead- and no wall, no curtain, nor totali- and domestic. He reversed decades of er and began a new life—Howard Baker tarian state can shut it out.’’ policy calling for containment of that was the majority leader. The day be- To put this in context, when Ronald oppressive tyrannical system, and he fore I was to marry my wife Catherine, Reagan became our 40th President, boldly asserted that the advancement Howard called and asked me to replace Americans had lost their faith in our of freedom and liberty must be Amer- him on a trip to China because Deng leaders and in the role of America in ica’s No. 1 foreign policy objective. In- Xiaoping wanted to understand what the world. Government at home was re- deed, he believed that it is our solemn ‘‘Reaganism’’ meant. My wife Cath- straining its citizens with oppressive moral obligation to do so. erine and I were married on December taxation and burdensome regulations. Now we are seeing his greatest leg- 30, and we left for China on December Our national malaise led to histori- acy. Hundreds of millions of free peo- 31. To prepare for those talks, I re- cally high unemployment, high inter- ple, from the Baltics in Lithuania, Es- viewed all of President Reagan’s ac- est rates and inflation, low produc- tonia, Latvia through Poland, Hun- tions as Governor of California and his tivity, and a stagnant stock market. gary, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Re- promises made during the election. I Our moral authority around the public, Bulgaria and Romania, all peo- was honored to be offered the oppor- world had been eroding, and confidence ple once repressed behind the Iron Cur- tunity to explain and defend his record. in the ideals of liberty and democracy tain are now joining NATO. They are When Congress convened in 1981, were replaced by the fear of expanding true friends and allies. Yes, they are those of us in the Senate leadership tyranny, communism, and repression. breathing that invigorating wind of went down almost weekly for meetings America yearned for a leader who freedom. at the White House. Occasionally, could change the direction of our Na- One of the last public statements President Reagan came up to Howard tion and make them proud of our herit- Ronald Reagan made was in 1983. He Baker’s office as Majority Leader to age once again. Ronald Reagan an- provided us with a vision which will meet with us. I don’t think any other swered that call. guide us now and in the future. Ronald President has done that as often as Many tributes this week rightfully Reagan said, ‘‘History comes and his- point to President Reagan’s unwaver- Ronald Reagan. President Reagan al- tory goes, but principles endure and en- ways tackled very serious subjects in ing optimism and belief in the inner sure future generations to defend lib- strength of Americans, and indeed all these meetings, but he kept us relaxed. erty—not as a gift from the govern- He usually began our discussions in the human beings. He understood that they ment, but a blessing from our Creator. Cabinet room with a joke or a story. could be motivated and inspired to Here in America the lamp of individual His leadership brought out the best of higher ideals with our competitive na- conscience burns bright. By that I ture. No more hand-wringing. He want- all of us. know we will all be guided to that During his administration we were ed action. Indeed, he challenged us to dreamed of day when no one wields a look no further than his administra- able to accomplish a lot for the Amer- sword and no one drags a chain.’’ ican people and set the Nation and the tion and ourselves for solutions. He It is Ronald Reagan’s inspiring char- world on a new course. Much has been said, ‘‘If not us, who? If not now, acter, courage, unflinching adherence said already about the mark President when?’’ to principles, policies, and eloquence Reagan left on our national defense Beyond his unshakable faith in man- that brought forth a renaissance for kind was his consistent adherence to the United States of America, a rebirth and foreign policy. Those were his principles which were unfashionable of freedom, and the world also experi- greatest contributions as President, and often scorned when he came to of- enced that renaissance at a crucial and I viewed those decisions from a fice but today which are solidly em- juncture in history. He fanned the unique advantage point. I was sworn in as chairman of the braced and winning the minds of people flames of freedom and that torch of lib- Senate Appropriations Defense Sub- across our country and throughout the erty will continue to burn brightly by committee just days before President world. He acted on his beliefs that gov- his inspiration and example. We all Reagan took the oath of office. He im- ernment interference should be re- thank God for blessing the United mediately began to move toward a 600- strained and that free people should be States and the world with Ronald ship Navy, new aircraft development, unrestrained, without limits. We pros- Reagan. pered and we thrived with the creation President Reagan, as you finally and space-based missile defense sys- of jobs and opportunities. enter the gates of that shining city on tems. President Reagan understood One of my very favorite principles of the hill you always talked about, rest that the first thing we had to do was President Reagan was declared in his peacefully, knowing you left the world restore our military capability. The 1985 State of the Union address when he a much better place than it was when Soviets were outspending us at that said, ‘‘Every dollar the government you arrived. For that, the free people time and stealing our secrets. The does not take from us, every decision it of your Nation are eternally grateful. President took control of that situa- does not make for us, will make our I yield the floor. tion, and in the years since President economy stronger, our lives more The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Reagan left office, either Senator abundant and our future more free.’’ ator from Alaska. INOUYE or I have been chairman of the And so it is. Through tax cuts that Mr. STEVENS. I ask unanimous con- Appropriations Defense Subcommittee. return tax dollars to those whose hard sent that following my remarks Sen- Each of us has carried forth the vision work and ingenuity earned them, to re- ator KYL be recognized and then Sen- President Reagan had for our military. ducing burdensome regulations, Presi- ator BROWNBACK. History has overlooked President dent Reagan presided over the begin- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Reagan’s personal commitment to ning of the most robust peace expan- objection, it is so ordered. arms control, however. In 1985, the sion of our economy in the history of Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I come President supported the creation of the our Nation. to the Senate today to join others to Arms Control Observer Group in the

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California, he was raised on the words arms control treaties were unable to Under President Ronald Reagan, the of Robert Service, our favorite poet. achieve ratification in the Senate. Our freeze on the transfer of Alaskan lands One of my fondest memories of Presi- group went to Geneva 3 or 4 times a to our new State and to the Alaskan dent Reagan is, strangely enough, a year and came back and briefed the Native people was finally lifted, and we phone call I received from him as President, Secretary Shultz, and the began to receive the land that right- chairman of the Appropriations Sub- Senators who were involved in arms fully belonged to us under the State- committee on Defense. The President control matters. hood Act that admitted Alaska into called to ask me if I had placed funding The President encouraged the Sovi- our Union. President Reagan in- in the Defense bill that year to procure ets to decrease the size of their arse- structed the Department of the Inte- a new pair of Air Force I airplanes. I nals and to reduce the size of our nu- rior to move quickly as possible on told him that I had. President Reagan clear forces. This was one of the most that. I do not believe it would have told me that he had not requested that significant parts of the Reagan agenda, happened that fast had he not been funding and would veto the bill. the overall concern with arms control. elected. He said: ‘‘Ted, I’m the President.’’ Under President Reagan, the Village The President also created a revolu- I said: ‘‘Sir, I understand that, but Built Clinic Program began, and we set tionary new approach to defense space you won’t be President by the time the out to establish Indian health service research. He brought down the walls new planes arrive.’’ clinics in every Native village in Alas- between isolated research projects and There was silence on the other end of ka. advocated a more comprehensive ap- the line, and when he finally spoke, the Under President Reagan, we finally President said: ‘‘Ted, do you have a de- proach. A lot of the aspects of the mis- addressed the injustice of Aleut intern- sile defense system, which he called sign for these planes?’’ ment during World War II by awarding I will never forget that because the Star Wars, were based upon the re- reparations to Aleuts who had been search he put into effect then. first time a President flew in those new taken from their homes and sent to planes was when one of them took the When President Reagan passed away what were called ‘‘duration villages’’ in retired President and Nancy back to on Saturday, I noted that his death co- southeastern Alaska for the duration California in 1989. incided with another sad day in Amer- of the war. This week, President Reagan will fly ican history: On June 5, 36 years ago, President Reagan understood Alas- back to Washington for the last time. another great American leader, Sen- ka’s military and geopolitical signifi- ator and Presidential candidate Robert cance better than any other President. Thousands of Americans will pay trib- Kennedy, was struck down by an assas- The modernization of Alaska’s military ute to him in the Capitol Rotunda and sin’s bullet in Los Angeles. Although bases accelerated during his adminis- millions more will reflect on his life. they were from different generations tration. Catherine and I extend our deepest and different political parties, Robert What most Alaskans probably re- sympathies to Nancy and the Reagan Kennedy and Ronald Reagan had a lot member best about President Reagan is family, as all of us will mourn the loss in common. Both men were leaders who how well he understood our State and of a true American hero. did more than just point the country in our way of life. When he came to Fair- I yield the floor. the right direction. In the words of banks to meet Pope John Paul II, he The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Bobby Kennedy, they inspired Ameri- told the crowd that every time he came ator from Arizona. cans to envision a ‘‘world that never to Alaska he thought of the poet Rob- Mr. DORGAN. Will the Senator was and ask ‘Why not?’ ’’ ert Service and threatened to recite yield? On June 12, 1987, President Reagan ‘‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew.’’ In Mr. KYL. I am happy to yield. inspired all of us to envision a new fact, he did that just that one night Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, my un- world when he gave his famous speech when Catherine and I were attending a derstanding is, by unanimous consent, at the Brandenburg Gate. I will never dinner in Chicago. We had just flown in Senator BROWNBACK will follow Sen- forget the image of President Reagan from Fairbanks, and I told the crowd ator KYL. I ask unanimous consent standing before that gate demanding that was present that the 20-degree that I be allowed to follow Senator that Gorbachev ‘‘Tear down this wall!’’ weather in Chicago could not compete BROWNBACK. Weeks before he gave that speech, with the harsh weather back home, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the President learned that his remarks where the temperature was 50 below. objection, it is so ordered. would be carried in East Germany over Ronald Reagan got up to give his re- The Senator from Arizona. the radio, and in one part of the speech marks, and he recited Robert Service’s Mr. KYL. Mr. President, America he spoke directly to the people of East poem ‘‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew’’ mourns the loss of an epic-making Germany. One can only imagine the from memory. leader, Ronald Wilson Reagan. hope the people on the other side of I distinctly remember him saying As the biographer Lou Cannon has that wall must have felt when they this phrase from Service’s poem: said, Reagan ‘‘possessed a special heard the President of the United When out of the night, which was fifty ‘something’ that transcended the ap- States declare in their native tongue: below, and into the din and the glare, there peal of ordinary politicians,’’ and he ‘‘There is only one Berlin.’’ stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog- knew it. Even so—and this is an impor- dirty, and loaded for bear. Here at home, President Reagan tant point—he was neither a vain man built, as he called it, a ‘‘shining city On the plane ride home, the Presi- nor in love with power. In not misusing upon a hill.’’ He borrowed that phrase dent told my wife Catherine that his that special appeal that he had, he from John Winthrop, an early Pilgrim mother had kept a first edition of Rob- showed such character and goodness. who used it to describe the kind of ert Service’s poetry by his bedside and He could have been, but was not, a America he envisioned. read those poems to him as a child. demagog. He was trying to accomplish For Reagan, the idea of a ‘‘shining Catherine later sent him a first edition his exalted vision of this country, only city’’ was: of Robert Service that she found in a that. And in large measure, he suc- bookstore in New York, and he wrote ceeded. A tall proud city built on rocks stronger Militarily, he rebuilt America’s ca- than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and her a nice letter back telling her he teeming with people of all kinds living in planned to memorize ‘‘The Cremation pacity to defend itself and its allies. harmony and peace, a city with free ports of Sam McGee’’ once more. Reagan’s defense buildup led to U.S. that hummed with commerce and creativity, I tried many times to get the Presi- victories in the cold war, the Persian and if there had to be city walls, the walls dent to come back to Alaska, but, un- Gulf war, and beyond. In fact, dealing

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And Soviet Union, our adversary for most munist power that was ailing economi- history will remember him that way. of the last century, an accord that cally but still aggressive. The Soviet We can say of Ronald Reagan what eliminated whole classes of nuclear Union had last invaded a country the Lincoln said in praise of his, Lincoln’s, weapons from the stockpiles of both year before he was elected, Afghanistan personal role model Henry Clay: countries. in 1979. The U.S.S.R. was engaged in He loved his country partly because it was Politically, he enabled us to regain the 1970s in a rapid military buildup. his own country, but mostly because it was confidence in America. His confidence The prevailing nuclear standoff be- a free country. in his country and his goodness was ut- tween the two superpowers when The role model of our time is Ronald terly unshakeable, so he was just the Reagan came into office was fright- Reagan. His principles are the prin- right leader to rise to the fore when ening. They were locked in a decades- ciples we now embrace. They will help the national spirit had been battered old equilibrium under which neither at- us to keep this free country and to help by our withdrawal from Vietnam, the tacked the other because each could, at others who want to be free. scandal of Watergate, and the malaise the push of a button, destroy the oth- As we continue in the wake of Sep- that his predecessor identified but er’s populations with nuclear weapons. tember 11 to fight the war on terror, we could not seem to counteract. President Reagan once commented all take comfort and inspiration from Economically, he slew the dragon of that this nuclear standoff, which was the jaunty optimism and the serious- double-digit inflation. He braved called mutual assured destruction, was ness of purpose of Ronald Reagan. unpopularity to stay the course with ‘‘a sad commentary on the human con- President George W. Bush practices Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal dition.’’ Reagan’s doctrine of peace through He had the courage and the imagina- Reserve, in tightening the money sup- strength. He has done so by con- tion to think of a way out of it: erect- ply. This steadfastness saw the United fronting and defeating tyranny in Af- ing a defense against nuclear arms. States through its worst economic cri- ghanistan and Iraq, by pursuing de- This would end the practice of holding sis in 50 years. The economy slid deep ployment of missile defenses, by lead- civilian populations hostage to the into a recession before recovering in ing the international community to atomic bomb. It was, he believed, both late 1982. stop the spread of weapons of mass de- militarily and morally necessary to Along with tightening the money struction, and by demonstrating to the strike off in this new direction. As he supply to kill inflation, Reagan was world that the United States is willing pointed the way, he endured heavy convinced that marginal tax rates to rally free peoples in defense of our criticism and even ridicule, but it must be cut to stimulate growth. These civilization and our democratic way of anti-inflation and tax policies defied didn’t faze him. His idea was brilliant, for even if em- life. the conventional wisdom of that time. Thank you, Ronald Reagan, for show- But they worked. They gave us what barking on this high-tech shield against missiles did not lead to a ing the way. the late, great journalist Robert The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Bartley called ‘‘the seven fat years,’’ a deployable U.S. system right away, he knew the Soviets would pour their re- ator from Kansas. time of unprecedented job creation and Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, I sources into matching our progress to- economic expansion in America. rise to pay tribute to Ronald Reagan, ward missile defense. It was a competi- Even as Ronald Reagan won through my political guiding light. I came to tion they could ill afford. The extra in domestic policy, he was a statesman Congress on the second Reagan wave in burden economically and even psycho- who left his mark on the world. the 1994 election, when Republicans logically of keeping up with missile de- During his two terms in office, early took over the House of Representa- 1981 to the end of 1988, he championed fense and the entire Reagan military buildup hastened the collapse of the tives. Many of us were raised on Ron- the cause of human rights in the Soviet ald Reagan. His was my first Presi- Union and Central and Eastern Europe, Soviet economy and the Communist system itself. dential campaign in 1976, when I was standing up for freedom, democracy, still a student at Kansas State Univer- and civil society. He spoke passion- People who didn’t agree with Presi- dent Reagan called him a saber rattler sity. I was riding in a tractor in Kansas ately of God-given rights and said self- when I heard the Evil Empire speech. I government and free markets were the and worse. Opponents wrung their hands at this peace-through-strength started pounding on the dashboard, only way to vindicate those rights. He approach, insisting a buildup of U.S. saying: That is right, that is right. wanted the people who were living military capabilities couldn’t possibly Then all the pundits came on afterward under oppression to regain their dig- help us if the goal was a safer and more and said how terrible it was. I was a bit nity, and his words gave hope to mil- peaceful world. Yet the critics were confused but decided Reagan was right lions. and the pundits were wrong. He went In his 1982 Evil Empire speech before wrong. President Reagan, the saber rattler, sat down with Soviet leader on to prove that. the British House of Commons, Presi- He was a great contributor to our dent Reagan said: Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington in December of 1987 and the two men time and our legacy. I only had the While we must be cautious about forcing signed the Intermediate Nuclear Forces pleasure of meeting Ronald Reagan the pace of change, we must not hesitate to once. I was a White House fellow in the declare our ultimate objectives and to take Treaty which abolished the use of all concrete actions to move toward them. We intermediate and shorter range mis- Bush 1 White House. We met him in must be staunch in our conviction that free- siles by the United States and the So- southern California. People had always dom is not the sole prerogative of a lucky viet Union. given examples of his legendary humor. few but the inalienable and universal right of The following year the Reagan ad- This meeting was no exception. We all human beings. ministration created the On-Site In- were having a meeting for a period of The Reagan administration fostered spection Agency to conduct U.S. in- time, and then one of the people with democracy around the world in the spections of Soviet military facilities whom I was traveling asked him a 1980s, in Central America, South Amer- and to aid Soviet inspections at our fa- question: What one thing didn’t you ica, Asia. The Philippines, Taiwan, and cilities. The Reagan-Gorbachev diplo- get done as President that you wish South Korea all liberalized their soci- macy set the stage for the 1990 signing you had gotten done. I think he had eties in ways that may not have been between NATO and the Warsaw Pact of heard this question before and he had possible without the Reagan adminis- the Conventional Forces in Europe given this line before, but he tilted his tration’s support. Treaty. head back, and you could see the glint President Reagan will go down in his- One of the well-known personal traits in his eye and the smile comes across tory for his doctrine of peace through of Ronald Reagan was he didn’t care the face, and he said: I wished I had

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In other words, he was not freedom for people who had been in op- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- full of himself. He considered this pressed societies for their entire exist- ator from North Dakota is recognized. country great. He considered the posi- ence, and that was Ronald Reagan. He Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I would tion of President to be great. But he understood the source of our national like to extend my deepest sympathy to wasn’t full of the feeling of greatness greatness was not our wealth or our the Reagan family, and to send a thank for himself, and he always had self-dep- military power but, rather our belief in you from a grateful Nation to someone recating humor. That was part of him. the dignity of the individual and in the who served this country so well. And I Following on the previous speaker, God-given freedom of ordinary people know that the citizens I represent in Senator KYL, I had a chance several to order their lives as they wished. North Dakota feel the same way. years back to talk with Eduard That was the source of his view of the President Reagan had a profound im- Shevardnadze, Foreign Secretary under United States being a shining city on a pact on the demise of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, about when hill and a model to people the world and the end of the cold war. I recall in Reagan and Gorbachev were negoti- over, and an inspiring example of a po- the 1980s, in the middle of the cold war, ating on missile reduction and nuclear litical system that put power in the when the lives of two men intersected: weapons reduction. This was a meeting hands of the people, not bureaucrats or Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. that took place within the last 3 or 4 judges. That was Ronald Reagan. These two men were very different in years with Mr. Shevardnadze. I asked We remember President Reagan for many ways, but they changed the him to reflect on that time period restoring our national confidence at a course of history. Together, President when we were having a military de- time when our country was on the Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sat fense buildup here under Ronald heels of the Vietnam war and the im- down together to reduce the threat of Reagan and what took place in the So- peachment of a President, uncertain nuclear weapons, to reduce the stock- viet Union in that time period. I want- about the way forward. We remember pile of nuclear weapons in both coun- ed to get a measure from him on that. him for his staunch defense of inno- tries. He said of Reagan: Reagan saw the cent, unborn human life—an issue on The Soviet Union no longer exists. central weakness of the Soviet Union. which he never wavered—and for the Eastern Europe and the Warsaw Pact That was its inability to produce goods extraordinary step he took in author- no longer exist. The Communist threat and services. They were spending some- ing a book as President, entitled and cold war that stemmed from them where between 60 to 80 percent of the ‘‘Abortion and the Conscience of a Na- is gone. And much of the credit, in my GDP of the Soviet Union on the mili- tion,’’ because he felt so strongly about judgment, belongs to President Ronald tary. Along comes Reagan and says: I the pro-life cause. We remember his Reagan. am moving more chips on the table. brave challenge to a new Soviet leader We all recall the historic occasion You will have to match me if you want to ‘‘tear down this wall,’’ because it when he stood at the wall in Berlin and to stay in this race. was an affront to human dignity. We said, ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this The Soviet Union then was looking remember his vital role in bringing the wall.’’ It was a moment I will never around saying, how do we stay in the cold war to an end—an end hastened by forget. race when we are putting virtually both President Reagan’s military But President Reagan was defined by every chip we have right now into this buildup and his revitalization of the more than this moment. military buildup for the cold war. And American economy. When hundreds of American troops it was a long way from secure at that In all of Ronald Reagan’s political were killed in Lebanon, it was Ronald point in time that the Soviet Union life was his passionate belief in two Reagan who went to the press room was going to fall any time soon. This core principles: human freedom and and said: I am accountable. You don’t was a very well-established, militarily human dignity, both inalienable be- see many in politics do that, but he strong country. What it forced in the cause they were given by God. He be- did. Soviet Union was for them to restruc- lieved in the unbounded inventiveness In 1986, I served on the House Ways ture their economy and move to open- and ingenuity of the individual freed and Means Committee, in which we ness to try to get more chips on the from the tyranny of government but provided the most significant tax re- table to grow their economy. firmly rooted in our recognition of a form that had been done in many dec- They introduced the likes of glasnost higher moral authority. He understood ades in this country—under the leader- and perestroika, openness and restruc- that, in his words, ‘‘The city of man ship of a President who said let’s re- turing of the economy. But when you cannot survive without the city of God, duce tax rates for all Americans and looked at the totalitarian Communist that the visible city will perish with- get rid of some of the tax loopholes. system, glasnost and perestroika were out the invisible city.’’ This President led and the Congress inherent inconsistencies and led to the President Reagan recognized that the followed. I was proud to be a part of demise of the Soviet Union, that along vitality of our society and culture has that. with Ronald Reagan’s words. These always been dependent on the religious His Presidency was not without sub- words are from Eduard Shevardnadze. faith and practice of the people. As he stantial controversy and difficulty. I Many talked about star wars and how said, ‘‘Those who created our country felt his fiscal policy would produce the Soviet Union, at that time when . . . understood that there is a divine very large budget deficits, and it did. Reagan announced star wars—the So- order which transcends the human And the Iran-Contra scandal was a seri- viet Union’s leadership sent its best order. They saw the state, in fact, as a ous problem for the administration. scientists to come back and appraise it form or moral order and felt that the Yet, despite those problems and set- and tell the political leadership if the bedrock of moral order is religion.’’ backs and controversies, I think Presi- Americans could do this. The Soviet Ronald Reagan was never reticent in dent Reagan provided leadership in scientists came back after a few speaking about his own faith and the some very important areas. months of studying the American pro- primary place it held in his life. In all The charm of President Reagan was posal—the Reagan proposal—for star of these things, President Reagan was, considerable. He had that cowboy hat wars and said we could not. They spent and continues to be, an inspiration to kind of cocked back on his head. He another few months looking at it and millions, and certainly to me. He had movie-star good looks. He had that then returned to the Soviet leadership transformed the world for the better, famous smile. He was a great story- and said if the Americans are willing to and we are thankful he graced this Na- teller with a gleam in his eye. He told stay on this path and put the money tion with his life, his example, and his the story often about the pile of ma- into doing it, they can do it. divine calling. nure and the child who insisted that if

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S6610 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 8, 2004 there is a pile of manure, there must be ment, in which he described his illness peal. His belief in small Government a pony somewhere. The President loved and its consequences. and cutting taxes to allow people to de- to regale people with stories. This is a man who served his country cide how best to spend their own I don’t pretend to have known him with great distinction, someone with money have been two of my guiding well, but I sat behind him on the west whom I had disagreements from time principles since I was first elected to front of the Capitol in 1981, when he to time, but someone who I believe is public office. I believe him to be the fa- gave his inaugural address. I recall owed the admiration of an entire na- ther of the modern Republican Party. that he announced to the country that tion. My wife Joan and I never had the op- planes had just left the tarmac in Iran I am reminded of a book that David portunity to meet Ronald Reagan until with the American hostages, now freed. McCullough wrote about another Presi- he came to Colorado in 1988. Talking to It was a gray, cold day and the first in- dent, John Adams. In the book, you him one on one was an emotional high augural of President Reagan. As he learn that John Adams wrote to his point of my life. We smiled all the way began to speak, the clouds began to wife Abigail, as our Founding Fathers back home to Loveland, CO. I have part and rays of sunshine began to tried to put this country of ours to- kept his picture hanging in my office, come through. It was a remarkable mo- gether—and he asked these questions: first in the U.S. House of Representa- ment. From where will the leadership come? tives and now in the Senate, ever since. And I was a freshman member of the Who will be the leaders? How will the It is hard to describe to the young House when, one day, I was called to leadership emerge to create this new people who live in our vibrant economy the bank of telephones in the Demo- country of ours? And then he would and confident culture just how unsure cratic cloakroom. They told me it was plaintively say to his wife: There is and discouraged Americans were in the President Reagan calling. only us. There is me. There is Ben late 1970s. Everything that could go The President wanted my vote for a Franklin. There is George Washington. wrong had. America seemed to be policy he was proposing to the Con- There is Thomas Jefferson and James shrinking before our eyes. Those in gress. I listened to him, but in the end, Madison. There is George Mason. charge of our Government had appar- I felt he was not right on that par- Of course, in the rearview mirror of ently given up on winning the cold war. ticular issue, and I said I could not sup- history, we recognize that these men The Soviet Union loomed dangerous port him on it. He said: Well, you are a were some of the greatest human tal- and, we were told, invincible. We were good man, and thanks for taking my ent ever assembled on Earth. But every being admonished to get used to a dys- call. It was just like him to frame it generation has asked that same ques- functional economy that combined that way. tion for this great democracy. From high inflation with low growth, a de- I had the opportunity to have break- where will the leadership come? Who moralized military, an ever more in- fast with him, along with a handful of will be the leaders? And this country trusive and intruding Government, a my colleagues, one morning in the has been fortunate that, in generation depressed and depressing spiritual mal- White House. Once again, he regaled all after generation, men and women of aise that left many in doubt about our of us with wonderful, charming stories. virtually all political persuasions have fundamental values. No one offered a I have always said that if you could stepped forward to say: Let me serve way out. Ronald Reagan’s fresh voice of opti- have dinner with anyone, you could not this great country. mism was like manna to our hungry do better than Ronald Reagan or Tip Ronald Reagan was one of those lead- spirits. He talked about how our idling O’Neill, both Irish, both wonderful peo- ers. He served in California as Gov- economy could regain its formidable ple with a wit and a charm, and both ernor and then served two terms as power. He talked about how great our great storytellers. President of the United States. He had, country was and how much greater it I believe that for President Reagan, in my judgment, a kind of a peculiar could be. He talked about facing down politics was not bitter or rancid. In quality, a quality that gave him an al- our foes and our fears. He talked about fact, he used to talk about the ‘‘11th most quenchless hope, boundless opti- restoring American pride and patriot- commandment’’ for his party: Thou mism, an indestructible belief that ism. He, more than any other indi- shalt not speak ill of someone in his something good was going to happen, vidual in the second half of the 20th own political party. It is a command- and he communicated that to a grate- century, brought America back from ment that has been long forgotten, re- ful nation. the brink of self-imposed defeat and de- grettably. I am afraid that today’s pol- So today we say thank you. Thank spair. He made us proud once again. itics have taken a turn for the worse. you for your service. God bless your Ronald Reagan was a monumentally President Reagan was aggressive in memory, and God bless your family. gifted man, and a man of many gifts. debate but always respectful. I believe I yield the floor. To those in doubt, he brought the gift he personified the notion that you can The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- of optimism. disagree without being disagreeable. ator from Colorado. To his supporters and allies, he He was a man of great strength. After Mr. ALLARD. Mr. President, some brought the gift of confidence and as- he was shot during an assassination at- people have the capacity to change surance. tempt—seriously wounded—he was your life. For me, Ronald Reagan was To an audience, he brought a mag- wheeled into the hospital emergency one of those people. Ronald Reagan’s nificent gift of humor. room, and he was ready with a quip for message of strengthening individual To his opponents, he brought the gift the doctors. liberties, maintaining a strong na- of disagreeing without being disagree- He was a remarkable person. When tional defense, cutting through the able. the Challenger accident occurred and thicket of Government regulations and His gift to the world was even more this country was horrified by seeing lowering taxes inspired me to run for significant. He brought about the end the explosion of the Challenger and the public office in the 1980s. He made me of a cold war that had cast a 50-year death of those astronauts, it was Ron- believe it is possible to bring about shadow of fear over all the people on ald Reagan who came on television and change for the better. the planet. talked about that ill-fated flight. But I first ran for the Colorado State sen- Ronald Reagan never doubted his he did it in such an inspiring way, and ate in 1982, the second year of Reagan’s country’s need to defend itself from all finished with the refrain from that Presidency, and fought to pass resolu- foes. ‘‘Of the four wars in my lifetime,’’ poem: They have slipped the surly tions there supporting the policies that President Reagan said, ‘‘none came bonds of Earth and touched the face of the President advocated, such as the about because the United States was God. balanced budget amendment. too strong.’’ Later in life, as President Reagan I was a small businessman. I operated It is of paramount importance for us lived in retirement in California, he a private veterinary practice. So Ron- to remember, during this period of began a long journey into the darkness ald Reagan’s vision of strengthening threat and conflict, the wisdom of one of a devastating illness called Alz- America’s small businesses, because of his favorite phrases: ‘‘Peace through heimer’s. His last statement to the they are the backbone of our economy strength.’’ Among his greatest achieve- American people was a poignant state- and way of life, had a great deal of ap- ments was to rearm us, to reinvigorate

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The keys to those ily’s grief, and keep them in our pray- Nation was guided by his clarity of victories were highly motivated and ers. purpose, understanding of the purpose skilled combat personnel fighting with In his memory, let us recommit our- of power and the limitations of govern- unmatched military equipment and selves to President Reagan’s goal of en- ment. employing unprecedented tactics. suring that America always remains Since President Reagan left the How did this renewed and reinvigo- the ‘‘bright, shining city on the hill.’’ American political stage, we have rated American military might come Mr. President, I yield the floor and missed his imagination and creativity. about? suggest the absence of a quorum. Since his days of sitting in a radio stu- Let’s look back to Ronald Reagan’s The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. dio doing play-by-play broadcasts for acceptance speech at the 1980 Repub- CHAFEE). The clerk will call the roll. baseball games from news wire service lican nominating convention. As only The legislative clerk proceeded to copy, he had a genuineness that served the Great Communicator could, he laid call the roll. him well. He was a masterful story- out his vision for us with not only clar- Mr. HAGEL. Mr. President, I ask teller. In today’s age of processed poli- ity, but with a conviction that rings unanimous consent the order for the tics and politicians, President Reagan’s true and is still good counsel today. quorum call be rescinded. candor and humor are sorely lacking. He said: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Ronald Reagan was a child of humble We are awed—and rightly so—by the forces objection, it is so ordered. beginnings who never forgot the little of destruction at loose in the world in this nuclear era. But neither can we be naı¨ve or Mr. HAGEL. Mr. President, on Janu- guy. He believed every American had foolish. . . . We know only too well that war ary 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan, after being something special to contribute. comes not when the forces of freedom are sworn in as the 40th President of the Reagan let people know that each strong, but when they are weak. It is then United States, looked out over The thread of the American fabric tyrants are tempted. Mall and addressed the Nation. He told mattered. In late September of 1980, I He added: us that the challenges of our day re- was working as an adviser on the Let our friends and those who may wish us quired: Reagan-Bush campaign. ill take note: the United States has an obli- Our best effort, and our willingness to be- One evening, I was part of a group in- gation to its citizens and to the people of the lieve in ourselves and to believe in our ca- vited to an estate near Middleburg, VA, world never to let those who would destroy pacity to perform great deeds; to believe where then-Governor and Nancy freedom dictate the future course of human that together, with God’s help, we can and Reagan were staying. They wanted to life on this planet. . . . This nation will once will resolve the problems which now con- again be strong enough to do that. thank us for the work we had done for front us. And, after all, why shouldn’t we be- the campaign with a wonderful dinner. He was, of course, as good as his lieve that? We are Americans. As the evening was ending, an aide to word. Once assuming office, President I remember the celebrations that Reagan launched a military renais- Governor Reagan asked me to remain evening as if they happened yesterday. after the dinner because Governor sance that not only led to the demise It was a bitterly cold evening. As our of the Soviet Union, Soviet com- Reagan wanted to speak with me. I was Nation celebrated a new beginning, it taken into the house where Governor munism, and the cold war, but also set was as if the cold January winds swept the course for our military leadership Reagan was staying. He sat down next away a nation’s doubts and fears and to me and told me he wanted to talk that continues to this day ensuring our replaced them with a renewed Amer- safety. about Vietnam. He wanted to know ican spirit. about my experience and what I President Reagan’s initiative was Ronald Reagan was a unique Amer- threefold: upgrade our military equip- thought about the war. That was the ican leader who understood the great- ment; improve the training and morale kind of man he was. He wanted to un- ness and the goodness of America. He of our service men and women to im- derstand things. He wanted to know knew who he was and what he believed. prove recruitment and retention; and things and he wanted to make the Over the last century, no American restore national pride in—and global world better than it was. President was as well grounded as Ron- respect of—the United States’ military. Though his individual accomplish- A major accomplishment of Presi- ald Reagan. He had faith and con- ments are great, Ronald Reagan will be dent Reagan’s was the development of fidence in the people of America, and remembered for something far greater a credible, modern strategic deterrent. that trust was reciprocated. than the sum of his individual accom- He reinvested in our strategic ballistic As much as anyone who came before plishments; he will be remembered for missile weapons inventories, modern- or after him, Ronald Reagan possessed renewing the American spirit. He was a ized a complement of land, sea, and air- an innate understanding of the signifi- true American original. We will never craft-based platforms to project our cance of the American Presidency. see one like him again. strategic force. Ronald and Nancy Reagan set the gold- Over the last decade as we struggled This display of offensive force proved standard for grace, dignity and class in to meet the challenges of our time, to be an effective deterrent, but Presi- the White House. Reagan understood Ronald Reagan slipped away from us. dent Reagan envisioned a world with the weight and consequences of his of- He now belongs to the warmth of eter- far fewer of these destructive weapons, fice beyond the borders of the United nity and the pages of history. However, and pressed throughout his Presidency States. The world looked to him as a he has not left us to meet our chal- for significant reductions of nuclear standard bearer of freedom. Reagan lenges alone. The lessons of his leader- weapons. In 1983, President Reagan also understood the importance of the ship and the strength of his spirit that launched the Strategic Defense Initia- Presidency to young people. The re- swept across our country on a cold day tive in the hopes of one day rendering sponsibility of being a role model to a in January 24 years ago, guide us still all such ballistic missiles ‘‘impotent nation’s youth rested easily on his today. and obsolete.’’ shoulders. I yield the floor. I suggest the ab- Today we are building on his legacy Ronald Reagan is known as the great sence of a quorum. by deploying strategic missile defenses communicator. While he certainly was The PRESIDING OFFICER. The and aggressively eliminating excessive one of the best communicators ever to clerk will call the roll. nuclear stockpiles. President Reagan’s hold the Presidency, he was far more The assistant legislative clerk pro- legacy to us, of a safer world, is one we than just a talented communicator. ceeded to call the roll. must constantly guard and honor. Reagan was a thinker and a writer. He Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask There is no doubt that President was constantly writing beautiful let- unanimous consent that the order for Reagan was one of the greatest Presi- ters and his speeches in long-hand. the quorum call be rescinded.

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It is with sadness that he has Ronald Reagan came in with such that had been suppressed and under the recently passed away. But I have great great enthusiasm, such an optimist. He reins of the Iron Curtain of com- confidence he has passed away and did not say, ‘‘let’s moan about it,’’ but munism began speaking up, exercising moved on to a better home. I express ‘‘let’s do something about it.’’ He had their rights, and demanding freedom my condolences and sympathies to his an economic game plan for which we and obtaining it. family and also thank them for their fought, and we passed in the House and Ronald Reagan was the leader in win- generosity in sharing Ronald Reagan the Senate. These were remarkable ac- ning the fight in the cold war. As Mr. with us in the public life, both as Gov- complishments when I think about it. Gorbachev said, probably no one else in ernor of the great State of California, He actually was responsible for push- the world could have done it, but Ron- and also as President of the United ing Congress, Democrats and Repub- ald Reagan did it. And he was able to States for eight wonderful years. licans, to pass enormous changes in the do it with Mr. Gorbachev. Many times I had the privilege, in the same year Tax Code. I happened to enjoy working they were political adversaries in nego- as Ronald Reagan was elected Presi- on taxes, and during his 8 years he ac- tiating arms control treaties and so on. dent, to be elected to the Senate. I tually moved the maximum tax rate Yet they still became friends as only have many fond memories of Ronald from 70 percent to 28 percent. That is a Ronald Reagan could do. He could be- Reagan. I remember very well during phenomenal accomplishment. Phe- come friends with his adversaries and his Inaugural Address when the rumors nomenal. And he was able to do it with eventually that kind of friendship and were coming out, and then later con- a bipartisan majority. It was not a bond would lead to arms control reduc- firmed, that the American citizens who strictly partisan House and Senate. As tion, would lead to a significant reduc- were held hostage in Iran for 444 days a matter of fact, the House was always tion in nuclear weapons, would lead to were released. I remember the euphoria controlled by the Democrats. ‘‘Tip’’ agreements with our NATO allies and that came across the stage. I remember O’Neill, who was the Democrat leader, other countries to expand freedom. the euphoria that came across Amer- the House Speaker at the time, was op- Ronald Reagan, probably more than ica. It was such an exciting, positive posed. So we had big confrontations, any individual since Churchill or Roo- change. Americans really felt great. political confrontations, big battles sevelt, was responsible for expanding This was suppressing our country, the over the tax cuts, and over the budgets. freedom throughout the world. I com- very fact that we had American citi- Yet they passed them. pliment him for his great contributions zens held hostage for over a year, in Even though we had big battles, we in doing so. many cases being beaten or tortured or had a certain dignity and respect in He became somewhat of a role model abused, with American flags burning in large part because of Ronald Reagan. for many of us. I was elected with this Tehran continually. It was such a great And because of his affection for indi- group in 1980. Many of us called our- day when they were released. I happen to think it was because, in viduals, Democrats and Republicans, selves Reaganites and considered our- many respects, the leadership of Iran even political adversaries who would selves part of the soldiers in the field decided they did not want to worry have political battles still had a colle- trying to get an agenda done to expand about this new President, Ronald gial, working relationship. They re- freedom. I am proud to have been part Reagan, and what actions he might spected each other and respected indi- of that. I am proud to have had the op- take. I think they made a very good de- viduals regardless of their political portunity to serve with such a great in- cision. I was very pleased they did so. philosophy. As a result, he was able to dividual. I was very euphoric at the time and enact enormous changes in the Tax I remember many times going down probably could not have been much Code and budgets, and increase defense. to the White House, talking issues. I more excited at that time. Ronald Reagan came in with an agen- remember Ronald Reagan almost al- When we were sworn in, there were 18 da, and he largely accomplished those ways having humor, almost always not new Senators elected in 1980 and sworn objectives. The result has been eco- caring who got the credit as long as we in early in 1981. Of the 18, 16 were Re- nomic freedom in this country. accomplished our objective. publicans. The leadership of the Senate He was not satisfied, frankly, with I remember many times he let other changed for the first time, I believe, just expanding and improving the eco- people wrestle with the details, but he since 1954. So we had new committee nomic lot of Americans. He wanted to knew where he wanted to go. He knew chairmen; we had new leadership. How- improve the economic lot and the free- the course he was trying to direct our ard Baker assumed the responsibility dom of people throughout the world. ship of state, and he managed it very and role as majority leader and did an Ronald Reagan was the leader of the well. outstanding job. The Senate was a free world, and he spoke eloquently and I have a lot of fond memories. I re- great place to work and to serve, and often and encouraged freedom through member Ronald Reagan coming in to to work with a President as generous, the world and countless countries that campaign for me in 1986. We had him as humorous, and with such strong have been oppressed or suppressed visit Norman, Oklahoma, the Univer- leadership as Ronald Reagan. through Communist leadership. Ronald sity of Oklahoma, Lloyd Noble Arena. I look at the economy that Ronald Reagan was speaking to them. He We packed the place. It was more than Reagan inherited, and I see great ac- would go right over the leaders of Con- packed. The fire marshal had to turn complishments. A lot of people do not gress. If he wanted to get something down people who could not get in. We remember that in 1980 the inflation done budget-wise, tax-wise, or defense- had thousands and thousands of people. rate was 13.5 percent and it fell to 4.8 wise, and if Congress was not listening, I told President Reagan: This is percent by 1989. The interest rate in he would go to the American people. Reagan country. They love you here. 1980 was 15.27 percent and fell to 10.87 And when he would travel internation- You don’t need to make a prepared percent by 1989. Actually, the interest ally he would go over the leadership of speech. You can say whatever you rate had risen to 18.87 percent in 1981. I those countries and speak to their peo- want. They will applaud. They love you remember that now. Interest rates ple with great success. here. were at 18 and 19 percent. The unem- We all remember his speech when he There was a nice, big sign: ‘‘This is ployment rate in 1980 was over 7 per- was in Berlin, the speech that says: Reagan country.’’ Very positive. The cent. In 1981 it reached 7.6 percent but ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’’ entire rally speech could not have gone by 1989 it was down to 5.3 percent. The favorite picture of all my memo- better from my standpoint. There were So we had record high inflation rates, rabilia that I have in my home is a pic- thousands and thousands of people. It record high interest rates, and maybe ture of me standing before the Berlin was great.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6613 Ronald Reagan concluded his speech. from this disease. And, my family and catch-all term. Today, doctors diag- He said: ‘‘That is why we need Don I know what the long goodbye meant. nose Alzheimer’s with 90-percent accu- Rickles in the Senate.’’ And I thought: So, I speak for my family, and I think racy. Every day NIH is making Did he really say that? I told him to all families who have endured this dis- progress to identify risks, looking at wing it, and he did. I have had that ease when we salute Nancy Reagan as new kinds of brain scans for appro- honor of being able to call myself Don we pay our respects to our President. priate detection, and understanding Rickles for a long time. NATIONAL REAGAN ALZHEIMER’S what this disease does to the brain. But Ronald Reagan leaves a legacy. BREAKTHROUGH ACT OF 2004 How did we get this far, this fast? He leaves a legacy of decency. He Mr. President, as our country reflects With a bipartisan commitment like the leaves a legacy of integrity. I think he on President Reagan’s life, many will one represented by Senator BOND, Sen- helped restore so much pride in Amer- ask, how should we honor him? I be- ators SPECTER and HARKIN, the Alz- ica. He was a true patriot, a patriot lieve the greatest tribute we could give heimer’s Task Force that is lead by who loved this country from the very to President Reagan and the Reagan Senators COLLINS and CLINTON, and all inner core of his being. And it was con- family is a living memorial, something of us who are working on this issue. tagious. It was contagious through the that he would want to see us do, not With a bipartisan commitment of the fact that not only did he love America, something we would like to do, and authorizers and appropriators, we have but he made Americans feel better something that would have lasting been working to increase the funding about our country. value. Therefore, I would like to issue for the National Institute on Aging. He made other people envy us to a bipartisan call to support legislation Remember, there are 19 institutes at some extent. They wanted to be like that Senator KIT BOND and I will be in- the NIH. One of them is the National us. They wanted to be free. What does troducing next week, legislation to cre- Institute of Aging. America have that we don’t have? They ate breakthroughs for Alzheimer’s dis- In 1998 the National Institute on have freedom, optimism. And that free- ease. Aging was funded at approximately dom would be economic freedom, per- Let’s honor President Reagan’s life $500 million. Thanks to our bipartisan sonal freedom, and political freedom. with new research and new initiatives effort, it is at $1 billion. Now is the Ronald Reagan wanted to expand it on how to prevent Alzheimer’s, how to time to do more. all for all people. He believed every- care for those who have it, how to sup- That is why I want to join with my body—even if they lived in China or port the gallant caregivers, and how, esteemed colleague, Senator KIT BOND, Russia or North Korea or El Salvador— ultimately, to find a cure. who himself has been a very strong ad- if people were trying to take that free- President Reagan was a man of vigor. vocate for research and breakthroughs, dom away, he was freedom’s friend. He Let’s attack Alzheimer’s with the same to introduce the Ronald Reagan Alz- carried that banner very well. type of vigor that President Reagan heimer’s Breakthrough Act of 2004. He helped people learn to love and re- demonstrated during his life. We want to strengthen our national spect the United States. I can honestly The time to act for real break- commitment to Alzheimer’s research, say I have the greatest admiration and throughs is now. Just last month, Sen- to increase and double the funding of respect for Ronald Reagan. I loved ator BOND and I held a hearing on Alz- research at NIA, to give them the re- Ronald Reagan. He has moved this heimer’s research. Expert after expert sources they need to make those break- country forward in a way that I think told us: We are on the verge of amazing throughs they say they are on the hori- all of us can be very proud. breakthroughs; we will lose opportuni- zon of doing. This will mean more clin- Again, I express my condolences and ties if we don’t move quickly; we are at ical trials to test the best way to de- sympathy to Nancy Reagan and to the a crucial point where NIH funding can tect, prevent, and treat Alzheimer’s. family. Nancy Reagan was one great make a real difference. NIH is looking at a range of behav- First Lady. The love and affection she Researchers, families, and advocates iors and therapies that can make an in- showed toward her husband throughout all said the same thing, we need to do credible difference. not only his Presidency and governor- more, we need to do better. In our legislation, we also call for a ship but, frankly, throughout the last Let’s answer that call by introducing national summit on Alzheimer’s to 10 years is more than commendable, and passing the Ronald Reagan Alz- bring together the best minds to exam- and it is the kind of role model that, heimer’s Breakthrough Act of 2004. ine current research, to look at prior- frankly, we expect from Nancy Reagan. Friends, we are on the brink of some- ities, and also to look at how we can She is a first-class First Lady, a first- thing that could make a huge dif- help families. class lady for all of us. ference in the lives of American fami- While we are looking at research to Again, my condolences and sympathy lies. We know that families face great find the cure or the cognitive stretch to her. And I thank her and her family difficulties when a loved one has Alz- out, we have to support the caregivers. for allowing us to share Ronald Reagan heimer’s. There is great emotional cost God bless the caregivers. These are for many years as the leader of our as well as financial cost. We know that family members, often spouses, who country. He has made this country and, for our public investment we could get take care of someone with Alzheimer’s. frankly, this world a much better place new treatments that would prolong a The first caregiver is always the fam- to live. patient’s cognitive abilities. ily. We saw that with Nancy Reagan Mr. President, I yield the floor. Each month we delay admission to a who went from being First Lady to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- long-term care facility is important to first caregiver. ator from Maryland. the family and to the taxpayer. Every- We need to support families. We need Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I, too, body wants a cure; that is our ultimate to give help to those families prac- rise in memory of President Ronald goal. But even if we keep people at ticing self-help. We now have legisla- Reagan. President Reagan will be re- home for 1 or 2 more years, to help tion on the books to do that. But, we membered for his strong convictions, them with their memory, their activi- need to add more to the Federal check- his unfailing optimism, and his deep ties of daily living, it would be an in- book. Most families don’t know where and abiding patriotism. credible breakthrough, and what a to turn to get what services are avail- My heartfelt condolences go out to great tribute it would be to President able. I have a family caregiver tax the Reagan family. They have been Reagan. credit that would reimburse families through so much in the last 10 years. It is amazing how far we have come. for prescription drugs, home health Our former First Lady, Nancy From the time President Reagan took care, and specialized daycare. Too Reagan, has met one of the greatest office in 1981 until the time he wrote often, for families with Alzheimer’s, challenges that one can face with that incredibly moving goodbye letter family responsibility brings them to grace, dignity, and dedication. Her to the Nation—and I note it with great the brink of family bankruptcy. courage is a model for the Nation. I emotion because, again, I know how There are other things we want to be know how tremendously difficult it is my own father felt. Back in the early able to do with this legislation, such as for a family when a loved one has Alz- 1980s, when President Reagan first providing news people can use. The leg- heimer’s. My own dear father suffered came to office, Alzheimer’s was a islation would establish a network so

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S6614 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 8, 2004 information can get out people about Alzheimer’s disease. What a tragic fig- President of the United States, Ronald the advances, and things that could be ure. There is something we must do, Reagan. done right now to slow the onset of and we believe this legislation is one We mourn his loss. We pray for com- symptoms. We need to get the word way of making a major effort, showing fort for his family. But most of all, we out, such as the wonderful program de- a commitment, reaching out a hand of give thanks for his life, his leadership, veloped by the Alzheimer’s Association hope to the families of those who have and his contributions. Truly, he is a called ‘‘Maintain Your Brain.’’ But, Alzheimer’s, providing information to man who changed the mood of the private philanthropy cannot be a sub- all of us on what we might be able to country. He changed the economy of stitute for public policy and public do to lessen the likelihood we will be the country. And in many ways, he funding. We have to fund these initia- struck with Alzheimer’s. changed the mood and the attitude of tives. As Senator MIKULSKI said, this bill the world. I believe very strongly in this. There will serve as a tribute to President People talk about President Reagan are 4.5 million people with Alzheimer’s. Reagan by doubling the funding for as the Great Communicator. Nobody They live in every State, in cities and Alzheimer’s research at the National could deliver a line better than he suburbs and on farms. They are from Institutes of Health. It would increase could. But do you know something every walk of life, like my father, who funding for the National Family Care- about communication? Communication owned a small grocery store, or a man giver Support Program to $250 million. is only as good as the message you who was the President of the United It would reauthorize the Alzheimer’s have to communicate. The power of States. Alzheimer’s is an all-American demonstration grant program that pro- Ronald Reagan was that he delivered disease. It affected an all-American vides grants to States to fill in gaps in with enthusiasm, with optimism, with President. Now we need an all-Amer- Alzheimer’s services, such as respite cheer, with love, a message of hope, ican effort to find the breakthroughs. care, home health care, and daycare. freedom, and opportunity, not just for I encourage everyone to consider this I have done a fair amount of work in Americans but for the world. when Senator BOND and I introduce home care and daycare. I can tell you I had the pleasure of getting to know this legislation. This research and that a family living with a patient Ronald Reagan. He was a genuinely op- treatment is very important. I do not with Alzheimer’s needs a break. They timistic person who brought the spirit want to be so bold as to speak for Mrs. need someone to care for that loved of optimism and hope to us as Ameri- Reagan, but based on what I know she one so they can get out and renew their cans and to enslaved peoples around has gone through and what other fami- batteries, refresh their view on life. the world. Ronald Reagan was a man lies have gone through, I believe the This can help. who took disappointment and moved legacy she would approve of is an all- We would authorize $1 million for a on. He was a man of unfailing good American effort. An effort to speed up safe return program to assist in the humor, care, and thoughtfulness. Even the day when no family ever has to identification and safe, timely return people who disagreed with his policies have that very long goodbye. of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease across the board could not help but I yield the floor. and related dementias who too fre- like him. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- quently wander off from their care- And those of us who may have dis- ator from Missouri. givers. We hear the tragedies where appointed him found it did not inter- Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I thank they can’t find their way home and fall fere with his friendship. He campaigned and commend my colleague from Mary- victim to natural or even automobile for me in 1972 when I was a 33-year-old land who has been a great champion of accidents while they are gone. We kid running for Governor of the State the effort to deal with the terribly dis- would establish a public education pro- of Missouri. I had never seen anything tressing and fatal disease of Alz- gram to educate members of the public like it. When he came into town, we heimer’s in proposing—and I am happy about prevention techniques, how you had all of the security and escorts. But to join her—a measure to honor Ronald can maintain your brain, as you age, it wasn’t until he went up on stage and Reagan, his memory, his life, his work, based on the current research being un- started making his presentation that I and his family with a living tribute, a dertaken by NIH. saw what it was that had brought so redoubled effort on behalf of this Na- We would establish a $5,000 tax credit many people from southwest Missouri tion to deal with Alzheimer’s. to help with the high health costs of in to hear this leader. He had a mes- Senator MIKULSKI and others who caring for a loved one at home. sage then—the same message—of opti- have lived with and lost a loved one Today, as Senator MIKULSKI said, mism, growth, and hope for the future. from Alzheimer’s can say very clearly about 4.5 million Americans have Alz- I was fortunate enough to be elected how difficult it must have been for heimer’s, costing about $100 billion a and to serve with him for 2 years. Two Mrs. Reagan and the Reagan family as year. But if current trends continue, years after that, I hosted the Repub- this true leader went through the final and as more of us age, by 2050, 11 to 16 lican National Convention, and I had stages of his life, crippled and debili- million individuals could have this dis- made a commitment to our President tated by Alzheimer’s, to see this man ease. at the time, who selected our State for who was so vigorous, who had contrib- Over the past 20 years tremendous the national convention. So I sup- uted so much be reduced to the indig- progress has been made in the preven- ported him and not President Reagan. nities of Alzheimer’s. tion, diagnosis, and treatment of Alz- But about 10 years later, when I was His life and legacy can be honored in heimer’s. It is now possible to diagnose running for the Senate, he came to many ways. People will remember him Alzheimer’s with more than 90-percent Missouri three times and he put on the for many reasons. I will speak of those accuracy. There are new drugs, new most amazing campaign rallies I ever in a moment. But by increasing re- treatments introduced each year, and had. We still talk about it, because search for Alzheimer’s disease, helping investments in research have set the people came to hear his message. I to limit the number and maybe even stage for scientific and medical ad- stood there, side by side with Jack eliminate Alzheimer’s, providing as- vances to prevent or slow down the Danforth, and we smiled and glowed in sistance to families who must deal progression of Alzheimer’s. Quite the wonderful feeling he generated. He with patients with Alzheimer’s, and frankly, most of the successful re- helped me a great deal. providing assistance in identifying and search to date has been in slowing the President Reagan helped the United preventing Alzheimer’s is vitally im- impact, not preventing it. But this re- States. He came to the Presidency at a portant. search offers hope for the 4.5 million time when a lot of people were saying One of the facts that struck me as we people and their families who suffer maybe the Presidency cannot work, listened to the experts was that as we from the disease today. maybe nobody can govern this country, get older more and more of us are These are some of what we can do as maybe it is too much to expect some- going to suffer from Alzheimer’s dis- an honor to the President. It is my body to lead. Well, he led very boldly. ease. We were told in our hearing about great pleasure to speak in this Cham- Quite simply, he thought that if you a month ago that if you reach 85, you ber about the life and leadership and returned tax dollars to the average have a 50-percent chance of getting the truly remarkable legacy of the 40th American and took off the fetters on

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6615 small business, you would create jobs Mr. SMITH. Mr. President, in the People ask how I feel about leaving. And and build the economy. By the signifi- elections of 1980 and 1984, the State of the fact is, ‘‘parting is such sweet sorrow.’’ cant lowering of the tax rates, as my Oregon sent its electors to the elec- The sweet part is California and the ranch and freedom. The sorrow—the goodbyes, of friend from Oklahoma, Senator NICK- toral college to vote for Ronald course, and leaving this beautiful place. LES, said, he put money back into the Reagan. He was the last Republican to You know, down the hall and up the stairs pockets of small businesses, and small win the State of Oregon in a Presi- from this office is the part of the White business became the engine of eco- dential election, and he did so at a House where the President and his family nomic growth, creating three-quarters time of great peril both for my State live. There are a few favorite windows I have of the new jobs. He built an economy, and our country. up there that I like to stand and look out of and that economy allowed us to put When that occurred, America was in early in the morning. The view is over the money into defense. economic malaise, communism seemed grounds here to the Washington Monument, He tried to negotiate with the Sovi- and then the Mall and the Jefferson Memo- to be in its ascendency, and America rial. But on mornings when the humidity is ets. He asked Mr. Gorbachev if he was struggling for leadership. Winston would sit down and talk with him low, you can see past the Jefferson to the Churchill once said of a predecessor as river, the Potomac, and the Virginia shore. about how we could end the competi- British Prime Minister, ‘‘He had had Someone said that’s the view Lincoln had tion between Soviet communism and the misfortune to live in a time of when he saw the smoke rising from the Bat- the United States. Mr. Gorbachev great men and small events.’’ When tle of Bull Run. I see more prosaic things: didn’t respond. So he built up our de- you think of where America was and the grass on the banks, the morning traffic fenses and showed the Russians, the where it ended after 8 years of the ad- as people make their way to work, now and then a sailboat on the river. Soviets, that they could not defeat us. ministration of Ronald Reagan, truly He went boldly to Berlin and called on I’ve been thinking a bit at that window. it can be said that all free men and Mr. Gorbachev—much to the distress of I’ve been reflecting on what the past 8 years women are better and freer, more pros- the State Department, I might add, have meant and mean. And the image that perous and more at peace because Ron- comes to mind like a refrain is a nautical and some of his own team—‘‘Mr. ald Reagan was a great man called to a one—a small story about a big ship, and a Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’’ great time. refugee, and a sailor. It was back in the early Well, that wall came down literally eighties, at the height of the boat people. and figuratively. He had a message As I contemplated what I could do in my small way to add some measure of And the sailor was hard at work on the car- that went far beyond Mr. Gorbachev. rier Midway, which was patrolling the South That message went to the enslaved tribute to the life of Ronald Reagan China Sea. The sailor, like most American peoples behind the Iron Curtain. I had and to express to Nancy Reagan and servicemen, was young, smart, and fiercely the pleasure of visiting some of those her family my heartfelt condolences, I observant. The crew spied on the horizon a countries right before and right after thought I should keep my words to a leaky little boat. And crammed inside were they fell, a few years after President minimum and focus, instead, on the refugees from Indochina hoping to get to warm and wise words of President America. The Midway sent a small launch to Reagan had set in motion the inex- bring them to the ship and safety. As the ref- orable machine of freedom. His mes- Reagan in his farewell address. It has been the practice of the Senate for the ugees made their way through the choppy sage of hope, freedom, and opportunity seas, one spied the sailor on deck, and stood continues to reverberate around the last 140 years that on or around the up, and called out to him. He yelled, ‘‘Hello, world. I have had the pleasure of meet- birthday of George Washington, a Sen- American sailor. Hello, freedom man.’’ ing with people and traveling to other ator is selected to read Washington’s A small moment with a big meaning, a mo- countries and seeing how this mes- farewell address. I thought I would ment the sailor, who wrote it in a letter, sage—the American dream—he cham- begin that tradition this day, with couldn’t get out of his mind. And, when I saw it, neither could I. Because that’s what it pioned is taking hold. He wasn’t the President Reagan’s great speech, to come to the floor on or around Presi- was to be an American in the 1980’s. We only one responsible for it, but we stood, again, for freedom. I know we always never had a better proponent of it. I be- dent Reagan’s birthday, and share his have, but in the past few years the world lieve this message of the American speech—or if one of my colleagues again—and in a way, we ourselves—redis- hopes and the American ideals, for would like to do so, I would offer them covered it. which Ronald Reagan spoke so elo- the opportunity. I believe that this new It’s been quite a journey this decade, and quently, is winning the battle. tradition would be a fitting tribute to we held together through some stormy seas. Finally, in his last and boldest move, Ronald Reagan, to let Ronald Reagan’s And at the end, together, we are reaching our destination. when Ronald Reagan learned he had words speak again to the American The fact is, from Grenada to the Wash- Alzheimer’s—a disease which was not people, far more eloquently than I ington and Moscow summits, from the reces- spoken about often because people could on an occasion when we all strug- sion of ’81 to ’82, to the expansion that began hated to think of what would happen to gle to find the right superlatives to say in late ’82 and continues to this day, we’ve their loved ones, so they didn’t talk thank you to him. made a difference. The way I see it, there about it—he said, ‘‘I have Alzheimer’s So with the Chair’s indulgence, I will were two great triumphs, two things that disease,’’ and Americans woke up and read the farewell address of President I’m proudest of. One is the economic recov- they thought, this is a world leader Ronald Reagan, given shortly before he ery, in which the people of America cre- left the Oval Office and George Herbert ated—and filled—19 million new jobs. The who is suffering from this disease; let’s other is the recovery of our morale. America do something about it. Let’s get seri- Walker Bush became the President. is respected again in the world and looked to ous about Alzheimer’s disease. That The words of President Reagan: for leadership. public announcement gave us a push This is the 34th time I’ll speak to you from Something that happened to me a few that I believe we can continue by car- the Oval Office and the last. We’ve been to- years ago reflects some of this. It was back rying on with his work with a living gether 8 years now, and soon it’ll be time for in 1981, and I was attending my first eco- memorial. me to go. But before I do, I wanted to share nomic summit, which was held that year in So as we say goodbye to this remark- some thoughts, some of which I’ve been sav- Canada. The meeting place rotates among ing for a long time. the member countries. The opening meeting able American, we join in our prayers It’s been the honor of my life to be your was a formal dinner of the heads of govern- and thoughts with Mrs. Nancy Reagan President. So many of you have written the ment of the seven industrialized nations. and her family, and we celebrate the past few weeks to say thanks, but I could say Now, I sat there like the new kid in school life of a great American who made a as much to you. Nancy and I are grateful for and listened, and it was all Francois this and real difference for people throughout the opportunity you gave us to serve. Helmut that. They dropped titles and spoke the world. Let us honor his memory by One of the things about the Presidency is to one another on a first-name basis. Well, at helping millions more whom we might that you’re always somewhat apart. You one point I sort of leaned in and said, ‘My be able to save from the scourge of Alz- spent a lot of time going by too fast in a car name’s Ron.’ Well, in that same year, we someone else is driving, and seeing the peo- heimer’s disease and the burdens and began the actions we felt would ignite an ple through tinted glass—the parents holding economic comeback—cut taxes and regula- the sorrow that imposes on their fami- up a child, and the wave you saw too late and tion, started to cut spending. And soon the lies. couldn’t return. And so many times I wanted recovery began. I thank the Chair. to stop and reach out from behind the glass, Two years later, another economic summit The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- and connect. Well, maybe I can do a little of with pretty much the same cast. At the big ator from Oregon is recognized. that tonight. opening meeting we all got together, and all

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What it all boils down to is this: dits said our programs would result in catas- in the entertainment world, but I ultimately I want the new closeness to continue. And it trophe. Our views on foreign affairs would went into politics because I wanted to pro- will, as long as we make it clear that we will cause war. Our plans for the economy would tect something precious. continue to act in a certain way as long as cause inflation to soar and bring about eco- Ours was the first revolution in the history they continue to act in a helpful manner. If nomic collapse. I even remember one highly of mankind that truly reversed the course of and when they don’t, at first pull your respected economist saying, back in 1982, government, and with three little words: ‘We punches. If they persist, pull the plug. It’s that ‘The engines of economic growth have the People.’ ‘We the People’ tell the govern- still trust by verify. It’s still play, but cut shut down here, and they’re likely to stay ment what to do; it doesn’t tell us. ‘We the the cards. It’s still watch closely. And don’t that way for years to come.’ Well, he and the People’ are the driver; the government is the be afraid to see what you see. other opinion leaders were wrong. The fact is car. And we decide where it should go, and I’ve been asked if I have any regrets. Well, what they call ‘radical’ was really ‘right.’ by what route, and how fast. Almost all the I do. The deficit is one. I’ve been talking a What they called ‘dangerous’ was just ‘des- world’s constitutions are documents in great deal about that lately, but tonight perately needed.’ which governments tell the people what isn’t for arguments, and I’m going to hold And in all of that time I won a nickname, their privileges are. Our Constitution is a my tongue. But an observation: I’ve had my ‘The Great Communicator.’ But I never document in which ‘We the People’ tell the share of victories in the Congress, but what thought it was my style or the words I used government what it is allowed to do. ‘We the few people noticed is that I never won any- that made a difference: it was the content. I People’ are free. This belief has been the thing you didn’t win for me. They never saw wasn’t a great communicator, but I commu- underyling basis for everything I’ve tried to my troops, they never saw Reagan’s regi- nicated great things, and they didn’t spring do these past 8 years. ments, the American people. You won every full bloom from my brow, they came from But back in the 1960’s, when I began, it battle with every call you made and letter the heart of a great nation—from our experi- seemed to me that we’d begun reversing the you wrote demanding action. Well, action is ence, or wisdom, and our belief in the prin- order of things—that through more and more still needed. If we’re to finish the job. Rea- ciples that have guided us for two centuries. rules and regulations and confiscatory taxes, gan’s regiments will have to become the They called it the Reagan revolution. Well, the government was taking more of our Bush brigades. Soon he’ll be the chief, and I’ll accept that, but for me it always seemed money, more of our options, and more of our he’ll need you every bit as much as I did. more like the great rediscovery, a redis- freedom. I went into politics in part to put Finally, there is a great tradition of warn- covery of our values and our common sense. up my hand and say, ‘Stop.’ I was a citizen ings in Presidential farewells, and I’ve got Common sense told us that when you put a politician, and it seemed the right thing for one that’s been on my mind for some time. big tax on something, the people will a citizen to do. But oddly enough it starts with one of the produce less of it. So, we cut the people’s tax I think we have stopped a lot of what need- things I’m proudest of in the past 8 years: rates, and the people produced more than ed stopping. And I hope we have once again the resurgence of national pride that I called ever before. The economy bloomed like a reminded people that man is not free unless the new patriotism. This national feeling is plant that had been cut back and could now government is limited. There’s a clear cause good, but it won’t count for much, and it grow quicker and stronger. Our economic and effect here that is as neat and predict- won’t last unless it’s grounded in thoughtful- program brought about the longest peace- able as a law of physics: As government ex- ness and knowledge. time expansion in our history: real family pands, liberty contracts. An informed patriotism is what we want. income up, the poverty rate down, entrepre- Nothing is less free than pure com- And are we doing a good enough job teaching neurship booming, and an explosion in re- munism—and yet we have, the past few our children what America is and what she search and new technology. We’re exporting years, forged a satisfying new closeness with represents in the long history of the world? more than ever because American industry the Soviet Union. I’ve been asked if this isn’t Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age became more competitive and at the same a gamble, and my answer is no because we’re grew up in a different America. We were time, we summoned the national will to basing our actions not on words but deeds. taught, very directly, what it means to be an knock down protectionist walls abroad in- The detente of the 1970’s was based not on ac- American. And we absorbed, almost in the stead of erecting them at home. tions but promises. They’d promise to treat air, a love of country and an appreciation of Common sense also told us that to preserve their own people and the people of the world its institutions. If you didn’t get these the peace, we’d have to become strong again better. But the gulag was still the gulag, and things from your family you got them from after years of weakness and confusion. So, the state was still expansionist, and they the neighborhood, from the father down the we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year still waged proxy wars in Africa, Asia, and street who fought in Korea or the family who we toasted the new peacefulness around the Latin America. lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a globe. Not only have the superpowers actu- Well, this time, so far, it’s different. Presi- sense of patriotism from school. And if all ally begun to reduce their stockpiles of nu- dent Gorbachev has brought about some in- else failed you could get a sense of patriot- clear weapons—and hope for even more ternal democratic reforms and begun the ism from the popular culture. The movies progress is bright—but the regional conflicts withdrawal from Afghanistan. He has also celebrated democratic values and implicitly that rack the globe are also beginning to freed prisoners whose names I’ve given him reinforced the idea that America was special. cease. The Persian Gulf is no longer a war every time we’ve met. TV was like that, too, through the mid-six- zone. The Soviets are leaving Afghanistan. But life has a way of reminding you of big ties. The Vietnamese are preparing to pull out of things through small incidents. Once, during But now, we’re about to enter the nineties, Cambodia, and an American-mediated accord the heady days of the Moscow summit, and some things have changed. Younger par- will soon send 50,000 Cuban troops home from Nancy and I decided to break off from the en- ents aren’t sure that an unambivalent appre- Angola. tourage one afternoon to visit the shops on ciation of America is the right thing to The lesson of all this was, of course, that Arbat Street—that’s a little street just off teach modern children. And as for those who because we’re a great nation, our challenges Moscow’s main shopping area. Even though create the popular culture, well-grounded pa- seem complex. It will always be this way. our visit was a surprise, every Russian there triotism is no longer the style. Our spirit is But as long as we remember our first prin- immediately recognized us and called out back, but we haven’t reinstitutionalized it. ciples and believe in ourselves, the future our names and reached for our hands. We We’ve got to do a better job of getting across will always be ours. And something else we were just about swept away by the warmth. that America is freedom—freedom of speech, learned: Once you begin a great movement, You could almost feel the possibilities in all freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. there’s no telling where it will end. We that joy. But within seconds, a KGB detail And freedom is special and rare. It’s fragile meant to change a nation, and instead, we pushed their way toward us and began push- it needs production [protection]. changed a world. ing and shoving the people in the crowd. It So, we’ve got to teach history based not on Countries across the globe are turning to was an interesting moment. It reminded me what’s in fashion but what’s important—why free markets and free speech and turning that while the man on the street in the So- the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doo- away from the ideologies of the past. For viet Union yearns for peace, the government little was, and what those 30 seconds over them, the great rediscovery of the 1980’s has is Communist. And those who run it are Tokyo meant. You know, 4 years ago on the been that, lo and behold, the moral way of Communists, and that means we and they 40th anniversary of D-day, I read a letter government is the practical way of govern- view such issues as freedom and human from a young woman writing to her late fa- ment: Democracy, the profoundly good, is rights very differently. ther, who’d fought on Omaha Beach. Her also the profoundly productive. We must keep up our guard, but we must name was Lisa Zanatta Henn, and she said, When you’ve got to the point when you can also continue to work together to lessen and ‘we will always remember, we will never for- celebrate the anniversaries of your 39th eliminate tension and mistrust. My view is get what the boys of Normandy did.’ Well, birthday you can sit back sometimes, review that President Gorbachev is different from let’s help her keep her word. If we forget your life, and see it flowing before you. For previous Soviet leaders. I think he knows what we did, we won’t know who we are. I’m

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For those of us he found the support he needed to win at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in who observed his service as our Presi- the Republican nomination. The con- the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And dent and admired his leadership, those test for the Presidency put him up children, if your parents haven’t been teach- questions had been long since an- against an incumbent who talked ing you what it means to be an American, let swered. For us, his place in history was about the serious problems facing the ’em know and nail’em on it. That would be a long ago determined by his place in our very American thing to do. Nation. Ronald Reagan, on the other And that’s about all I have to say tonight, hearts. hand, spoke with passionate certainty except for one thing. The past few days when Many of those who will examine his that working together the Nation I’ve been at that window upstairs, I’ve life in detail will tell a story about a could overcome them. When the votes thought a bit of the ‘shining city upon a man who was born without the great were counted, Ronald Reagan had won hill.’ The phrase comes from John Winthrop, privileges and trappings you might ex- the presidency in a landslide. who wrote it to describe the America he pect of such a successful life. That is As President, Ronald Reagan proved imagined. What he imagined was important true, but there is so much more to the himself to be a man of principle, some- because he was an early Pilgrim, an early story. one who said what he believed and be- freedom man. He journeyed here on what Ronald Reagan was born in Illinois, today we’d call a little wooden boat; and like lieved what he said. He had excellent the son of a traveling shoe salesman. communication skills, and his speeches the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a Growing up he was strongly influenced home that would be free. I’ve spoken of the on television were extremely effective. shining city all my political life, but I don’t by his mother who taught him how to When he took the oath of the office know if I ever quite communicated what I read at an early age. She urged him to as our 40th President, he took over the saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a read good books that would encourage reins of a country that had great prob- tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than him to dream and set goals in his life. lems. He had often referred to our eco- oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming She knew that he could be anything he nomic woes as the ‘‘misery index.’’ with people of all kinds living in harmony wanted to be if he was willing to work and peace; a city with free ports that There was high inflation, high interest hard and expect more of himself than rates, and high unemployment. Per- hummed with commerce and creativity. And anyone else had any reason to expect. if there had to be city walls, the walls had haps worst of all, the Nation seemed to That, more than anything else, really doors and the doors were open to anyone have lost its confidence in its ability to with the will and the heart to get here. determined his character and ulti- dare to do great things—and succeed. That’s how I saw it, and see it still. mately mapped his destiny. There was a lot of doubt and cyni- And how stands the city on this winter His natural confidence and deter- cism that any one individual could do night? More prosperous, more secure, and mination began to show itself during much to change things and re-energize happier than it was 8 years ago. But more his school years and again, later, when the Nation. Again, Ronald Reagan than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she he began his career as an actor. He was proved the doubters wrong. As Presi- still stands strong and true on the granite a natural leader and he took a leader- dent, his spirit of optimism, patriotism ridge, and her glow has held steady no mat- ship role at virtually every stage of his ter what storm. And she’s still a beacon, still and personal pride in his country life. In his college days he served as a magnet for all who must have freedom, for proved to be infectious. Before long, student body president. In his acting all the pilgrims from all the lost places who there was a new spirit in the United days he served as the president of the are hurtling through the darkness, toward States, a renewed sense of pride and ex- Screen Actors Guild. In between he home. citement about our Flag and our Na- We’ve done our part. And as I walk off into worked hard and built a career as a tion that hadn’t been around for a the city streets, a final word to the men and successful actor in film and on tele- women of the Reagan revolution, the men vision. while. Ronald Reagan was just what we and women across America who for 8 years If that had been all he had done, it needed. He inspired a generation to did the work that brought America back. My would have been a remarkable life. He look toward the future with hope and a friends: We did it. We weren’t just marking renewed commitment to the principles time. We made a difference. We made the would have earned the rags to riches label and inspired others to follow his upon which our Nation was founded. It city stronger, we made the city freer, and we is still alive today. It is his legacy that left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not path just by his success in Hollywood bad at all. and on television. That would have he left with us, his gift to the younger And so, goodbye, God bless you, and God been enough for just about everyone. It generations of the Nation. bless the United States of America. was not, however, enough for Ronald During his two terms in the White I would only add, God bless Ronald Reagan. House, Ronald Reagan spoke the truth, and Nancy Reagan, and God bless the With his beloved wife, Nancy, by his regardless of the sensitivities of those United States of America. side, Ronald Reagan began to pursue who might not want to hear it. It was I yield the floor. his dream. He wanted to make a great- over the objections of much of his staff The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. er impact on the world than he could that he challenged Soviet leader Mi- VOINOVICH). The Senator from Wyo- by being a television and movie star, so khail Gorbachev to ‘‘tear down this ming. he began to take a more active role in wall’’ when he was in Berlin. It was Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, this past politics. He discovered he had a talent against the advice of much of his staff weekend, the news quickly made its for that, too. After a great deal of to refer to the Soviet Union as an ‘‘evil way across the country and around the thought and deliberation, he decided to empire.’’ For Ronald Reagan, it was world. Ronald Reagan, our 40th Presi- put his vision for America to the test. simple. If it was the truth, it must be dent, had died. For many of us, we re- He took his case to the people and said. For him, there was good guys and ceived the news with a mixture of sad- began a run for Governor of California. bad guys in the world. If the good guys ness together with a sense of relief that People thought it was an impossible worked hard and were determined to his long battle with illness was now dream and he could never win a State succeed, they won. In Ronald Reagan’s over and he had now found peace at the like California. Ronald Reagan proved world, we were the good guys. And, end of his life. them wrong. He put together a coali- during Ronald Reagan’s Presidency, I first met Ronald Reagan when I was tion of both Republican and Demo- more often then not, we won. president of the Wyoming Jaycees at cratic voters and, when all the votes For historians and the history books, the national convention which was were counted, he had made it happen Ronald Reagan will be remembered as held in California, and he was the Gov- and he was elected Governor by almost the President who brought a successful ernor. I next met the President when I a million votes. end to the cold war; had a great deal to was mayor of Gillette, WY, and the Na- Reagan then set his sights on the do with the collapse of communism in tional League of Cities held its na- Presidency of the United States and, the Soviet Union and the destruction

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He was a great leader and a great technological and scientific prowess thing I wanted to tell the President. American. His words and his actions had suddenly disintegrated in front of There was a 6-month-old infant in my will long be remembered. our eyes on our television screens. hometown of Melbourne, FL, who was Ronald Reagan dared to do the im- At a time of a grieving nation, there dying because he needed a liver trans- possible, not because it was easy but can be only one person who can speak plant. Mind you, this is 20 years ago. because it had to be done. The chal- for the country. That is the President. Twenty years ago we did not have the lenges he encountered in his life President Reagan rose to the occasion. very sophisticated system we have set brought out the best in him, and the That speech on television that night, up today which allowed people to ex- challenges we faced as a Nation under delivered from the Oval Office, was a change information about organ do- him brought out the best in all of us. masterpiece, in which he ends up nors. Twenty years ago it was catch as His is a legacy that we will always quoting a Canadian pilot from World catch can. Twenty years ago, if a donor cherish. We will miss him. War II—a pilot who had experienced became available, it was just almost I yield the floor. the joys of flying—and those immortal accidental that you found out if there The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- words that ended the poem that he had was a donor of a particular organ. And ator from Oklahoma. reached out and he had touched the when it involved an infant, like a 6- Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, does the face of God. month-old infant, you not only had to Senator from Florida wish to speak President Reagan applied that poem match the blood type for a liver trans- about the subject of the day? to the feelings of the country at the plant, but the liver had to be the exact Mr. NELSON of Florida. That is cor- time about what the seven astronauts size in order to successfully transplant. rect. had experienced. That is political ge- You can see the difficulty. You can see Mr. INHOFE. I yield for the Senator this child lie dying, with only hours to and ask unanimous consent that I fol- nius. That is a leader. That is a leader who has the ability through commu- live. low the Senator from Florida. The preparation had been made for nication to connect, to inspire, and in The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the jet airplane to fly the child to the this particular case, on January 28, objection, it is so ordered. University of Pittsburgh Medical Cen- 1986, to help the Nation through the The Senator from Florida. ter where all the surgeons were stand- process of grieving, to accept what had Mr. NELSON of Florida. I will be ing by. They kept waiting and waiting happened and then pick up and move very brief. I thank the Senator from for a donor. No donor was produced be- on, which we have. Oklahoma. cause we did not know when any be- And of course, 17 years later, we had Mr. President, on this occasion, when came available. There was not an ex- another very similar kind of experience the Nation is mourning the loss of change of information. President Reagan, I wish to bring to when we lost an additional seven astro- So at my home in Melbourne, on a the attention of the Senate a couple of nauts. weekend, the call from the President of stories which are fresh in my memory That speech, in my mind, was only the United States came. He said: Bill, about President Reagan. exceeded by the speech that occurred 3 this is President Reagan. We are going I had the privilege during his two days later by President Reagan at the to have a close vote and I need your terms as President of serving in the Johnson Space Center in Houston in a vote. I said: Mr. President, I have al- House of Representatives, representing memorial service for the astronauts, ready decided that I am voting with a district from the State of Florida. the astronauts, whose bodies at that you. Now there is something that I The first story I wish to share is of a point still had not been recovered from would like to ask you, to help in the time of great loss to this country, the the floor of the Atlantic Ocean where, saving of the life of a child. I told him loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger. hopefully, they had perished before the story, and he said he would have The American people could hardly be- they ever hit the water. Hopefully, Margaret Heckler, the Secretary of lieve it. The entire technological prow- somehow that crew compartment had HHS, call me the next day and get the ess of our country was symbolized by been punctured at that altitude and particulars, which he did. America having a very successful space therefore there would have been in- Margaret Heckler immediately held a program. We were the first to the stant decompression and there would press conference, and because of that Moon. This new contraption called a have been instant loss of conscious- press conference, within 3 days, a trag- space transportation system was reus- ness. ic death of a child on the west coast of able, with new technologies that had But with all of that swirling in all of the United States that we would have been developed. America was quite our minds, with all of that swirling in never known about was known, and the proud. the minds of that NASA community— parents donated the child’s liver, which I had the privilege of flying on the NASA really is a family—again, the was of the same blood type and the 24th flight of the space shuttle, 6 days leader of the Nation had to rise to the same size. That liver was packaged and in orbit, returning on January 18, 1986. occasion to summarize and to continue cooled and flown to Pittsburgh, arriv- Only 10 days later, the crew that we the process of healing in the time of ing at the same time Ryan Osterblom had stayed with in quarantine—we had grief. arrived, as they wheeled him into sur- been one of the most delayed flights in I saw rough, tough test pilots who gery. the history of the space program—was were some of the best of the best of our Mr. President, as you can see, I have the crew of the Challenger. astronaut pilots grabbing each other a catch in my voice because that little We all know the story. Ten miles and hugging in that time of grief. And boy is going to college this year. He high in the Florida sky, the Chal- President Reagan, in the moment, gave wants to be a surgeon. After that suc- lenger’s solid rocket booster had hot comfort to all of those, especially to cessful transplant, the President had gasses escaping from a field joint in the families of that crew who were lost, called the mother, Karen Osterblom, that rocket. They happened to come led by the commander of that mission, and for years he continued to cor- out at a place where the strut was Dick Scobee. respond with them. burned. That caused the solid rocket Another story I wish to tell about It is going to be my pleasure to have motor to then cantilever and it punc- President Reagan is very personal to the family come up here on Thursday tured the big apricot-colored fuel tank me as well. It was just about the mid- as the President is lying in state and that held all of the liquid hydrogen and dle of the decade of the 1980s. I was a have them walk through the line in the liquid oxygen. The whole space shuttle Member of the House of Representa- Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol to show then disintegrated. tives. There was a particular vote com- their respects to President Reagan.

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We must man, the Gipper, and none of them are going to run for Governor of California, also have wider use of nuclear power within surprising because he was always such my father became one of his first large strict safety rules, of course. There must be a gentle person. I have to share with contributors. Again, the friendship had more spending by the energy industries on you that I had the honor, about a never stopped at any point. So he won. research and development of substitutes for month ago, of giving the commence- At the time, after he served in that fossil fuels. ment address at Oral Roberts Univer- capacity and ran for President—I know And on and on and on. That speech sity. When I did, I used a lot of the 1964 that the Presiding Officer right now very well could have been made today speech ‘‘A Rendezvous With Destiny.’’ I knows what I am talking about be- because the problem still exists today. said it should be required reading for cause he and I were both mayors of And he knew it was coming. anyone to graduate at any level in major cities back at the same time in When he talked about the SDI, the America to read ‘‘A Rendezvous With 1980 when Ronald Reagan was elected Strategic Defense Initiative, that was Destiny.’’ It is a speech that changed President. I was the mayor of Tulsa, something no one seemed to care my life. Ronald Reagan gave it in 1964. OK, for 4 years. Ronald Reagan and I about. They did not see there was any I remember I almost memorized that were closer together than we had ever great risk facing the American people. speech. In fact, I still have most of it been before—I was out in Oklahoma— Yet he saw that risk. The risk was memorized. As a result of that, the because he had me do his domestic pol- there. We all know now the risk is very next year I decided, well, if he did it, if icy stuff. He would have me on TV. At real, even today. So he looked back at he really feels this concerned, I should, that time, they did not have CNN and the ABM treaty that was put in place too, and I went and filed for office and Fox, but they had ‘‘Good Morning in 1972. ran for the State legislature. So that is America’’ and the ‘‘Today’’ show. So I He said: This is senseless now. It may how I happened to get started. would be debating all these liberal have made sense in 1972 when Henry But that is not as far back as we go. Democrat mayors on the Reagan pol- Kissinger and Richard Nixon put this I believe I have had the honor of know- icy, which was the dynamics of the free in, but the policy of mutual assured de- ing Ronald Reagan longer than any enterprise system as opposed to the struction is not a good policy. So he other Member of this U.S. Senate. In Government doing everything, and said: What we will have to do is have a fact, I am sure that is true. Even they worked beautifully. So I am sure very strong country. And he was quite though I represent the State of Okla- I spent 10 times as much time with him scriptural. He quoted from Luke: If a homa, I moved to the State of Okla- at that time than I do with George W. strong man shall keep his court well homa when I was 8 years old. I moved today, and I am here in Washington. guarded, he shall live in peace. And from Des Moines, IA. We were enjoying But it was a real pleasure. that is exactly what he was doing in the poverty of the Depression at that Those of us present—and right now I his rebuilding of the defense system of time. Everyone was poor, not just us. see in the Chamber the Senator from America. We are so thankful he did My dad was an insurance adjuster. Minnesota, Mr. NORM COLEMAN, and the that in those days. But he was saying Ronald Reagan was a sports announcer Senator who is presiding, Mr. VOINO- we must do away with the ABM treaty. for WHO Radio in Des Moines, IA, and VICH—all three of us were mayors. We Finally, after all this time, we recog- they shared the same office. They be- understand what a hard job it is. When nized 2 years ago he was right, and we came very close friends, and they used I was mayor, I was able to build a low- got rid of the ABM treaty—how pro- to play the pinball machine at that water dam, and President Reagan re- phetic. time. You guys would not know what ferred to it in his speeches as the larg- Tax cuts, this is something that he that is. I guess they don’t have those est totally privately funded public gave credit to his predecessors. He said: anymore. On Saturdays they would project in America. That was the dy- We do need more money. The best way play cards for a couple hours. All I namics of Ronald Reagan. That is what to get more revenue for Government is know is, it was a room above the drug- he thought, that Government should be to reduce tax rates. He said: That is store. But the man I had seen occasionally doing less, people doing more. And it what President Kennedy did 25 years at that time I thought of as a giant. He worked. ago. He said: He reduced tax rates. And was a very large person. We were not What a visionary the guy was. When keep in mind, that was a Democratic all that large. I remember that when I I see things that are going on today President. And by reducing tax rates, was growing up. and I remember things that he said he almost doubled the revenue coming Well, we moved to Tulsa, OK, shortly many, many years ago—right now, we in at the end of his term. It gave people after that. But we did not lose contact. have a serious problem in America. the freedom and money to invest and As the years went by, Ronald Reagan, Probably one of our most serious prob- to breathe and to reinvest in the coun- who my dad affectionately referred to lems is we do not have an energy pol- try. So that is the problem. That is as ‘‘Dutch,’’ ‘‘Dutch Reagan’’—every icy. So we make speeches. All of us what this President George W. Bush time there was a ‘‘Dutch’’ Reagan make speeches on a regular basis about has been trying to do. That is the rea- movie we would see it. You see, we why we do not have an energy policy son we are out of the recession he in- never went to movies. In those days, and why we should have one. I would herited, and we are now coming out be- we just didn’t go to movies except like to read to you what Ronald cause we have reduced some of those when there was a ‘‘Dutch’’ Reagan Reagan said. This was in 1979. Listen marginal rates. We know we need to do movie. It did not matter what it was carefully because this applies to today, more. This is what the President did. conflicting with. but it was 1979: If you remember, in 1980, the total One time we went to Durant, OK, in Solving the energy crisis will not be easy, amount of revenue that was generated the southern part of Oklahoma. My but it can be done. First we must decide that from marginal rates, taxes paid by peo- home was in the northern part. I re- ‘‘less’’ is not enough. Next, we must remove ple, was $244 billion. In 1990, it was $446 member driving on those roads at that government obstacles to energy production. billion. It almost doubled in that 10- time. I say to my good friend from And we must make use of those techno- year period. Yet that 10-year period logical advantages we still possess. Minnesota, the roads were—if you It is no program simply to say ‘‘use less en- was the period where we had the larg- could average 30 miles an hour, you ergy.’’ est reduction in taxes, thanks to Ron- were doing well. So we drove 5 hours Sound familiar? ald Reagan, of any 10-year period or 8- down, watched a ‘‘Dutch’’ Reagan Of course waste must be eliminated and ef- year period in our Nation’s history: movie, and drove 5 hours back. We ficiency promoted, but for the government marginal rates going down from 70 per- never would consider missing a simply to tell the people to conserve is not cent to 28 percent. Yet it had the effect ‘‘Dutch’’ Reagan movie. an energy policy. At best it means we will of doubling the revenues. This guy

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Military phisticated, powerful people who live solemn occasion how grateful we are historians have looked at us and said on the coast. But we know places like now to have had a President who was there is no way we could have won the that are the heartland, strong, simple, so prophetic. Revolutionary War. Here we were, a and true. That was Ronald Reagan. In talking about the freedom of our handful of farmers and trappers with What we love about the Midwest is country, he told a story about Castro crude weapons and the greatest army what America and the world came to and how a Cuban had escaped Cuba in a on the face of the earth was marching know and understand and love about small craft and had floated over to the toward Lexington and Concord, and Ronald Reagan. south shores of Florida. As his small they fired the shot heard round the To go on and on in flowery rhetoric craft came up there was a lady there, world. about Ronald Reagan would not fit the and he told the lady about the atroc- As Ronald Reagan would reflect on subject matter. Like he did so well, his ities of Castro’s Communist Cuba. that great speech by Patrick Henry, he life deserves a few well-chosen words. After he was through, she said: I guess said there are three sentences in that Oscar Wilde once said: we don’t know how lucky we are in the speech that answer the questions of Life is not complex. We are complex. Life United States. military historians, but people have is simple and the simple thing is the right thing. He said: How lucky you are? We are forgotten about it. We are not weak the ones who are lucky. We had a place when we make the proper use of those Ronald Reagan could have said that to escape to. means which the God of nature has because, surely, he lived it. Democracy is superior to com- That is what Ronald Reagan said, placed in our power. Armed in the holy munism. America is the world’s best that we would be the beacon of free- cause of liberty in such a country as hope. Liberty requires limited govern- dom, the last place in the world to es- that which we possess, we are invin- ment. The best is yet to come. Those cape to. If we lose it here, there is no- cible by any force our enemy will send where else to escape to. were Ronald Reagan’s moral anchors against us. And besides, we will not from the start of his public life to the On the recognition of the dynamics fight our battles alone. There is a just of the free enterprise system, he said: end. Without deviation, they shaped God who reigns over the destiny of na- his outlook and actions for half a cen- They also knew, those Founding Fathers, tions who will raise up friends to fight that outside of its legitimate functions, gov- tury. our battles with us. He certainly didn’t originate any of ernment does nothing as well or as economi- Those are the favorite three sen- cally as the private sector of the economy. them, but we all know they are far tences out of the ‘‘give me liberty, give He practiced that. It worked. His do- more prominent in the fabric of Amer- me death’’ speech Patrick Henry made. ican life today because of the power of mestic policies worked. For me, I think about the honor to be He was prophetic. He accurately de- his witness, as he lived his life, the able to stand here in the Senate and, scribed such things as: power of what he did with those moral on behalf of the American people and anchors as part of him. We have so many people who can’t see a fat on behalf of my wife and myself and man standing beside a thin one without com- In the last few days, we are hearing a ing to the conclusion that the fat man got our family of 20 children and grand- lot about Reagan as the Great Commu- that way by taking advantage of the thin children, to say we thank Ronald nicator. I think we put too much em- one. Reagan for his sacrifices. We thank phasis on the craft. As far as Ronald Ronald Reagan talked about bureauc- God for Ronald Reagan. We thank God Reagan was concerned, the key to racy, how difficult it would be for him for his life. We thank God for allowing being a good communicator was having to cut down the size of Government. He us to share that rendezvous with des- something to say. He was the message is the one who said, in that very fa- tiny with Ronald Reagan. he delivered, and so he touched hearts mous speech in 1964, there is nothing I yield the floor. and changed minds. closer to life eternal on the face of this The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- He understood the key to American Earth than a Government agency once ator from Minnesota. progress was our spirit. Resources, formed. And he went on to explain the Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. President, I wealth, and past accomplishments have reason for it. The reason for it is very share that sense of humility that has ruined more people and nations than simple. Once a Government agency is been so eloquently expressed by my they have made. He knew we needed a formed to respond to a problem, the friend from Oklahoma, to be able to sense of the heroic, a stirring of our problem goes away, and the bureauc- stand on this Senate floor and to thank souls to rise above selfishness, division, racy stays there. The longer they stay God for Ronald Reagan, for what he and fear. He inspired us. there with nothing to do, the stronger gave us and what we learned from him. He restored our confidence in the they become. So that happens. He was I must admit to being a bit envious to idea of leadership. Vietnam, Water- able to cut that down by reminding be in the Chamber with my friend from gate, inflation, gas lines, and the hos- people that that problem did exist. Oklahoma who knew Ronald Reagan tage crisis were causing many to won- He said in 1964: when he was a young man. der if the American hour had passed. Let’s set the record straight. There is no My friend, the Presiding Officer, on Not Ronald Reagan. He stubbornly held argument over the choice between peace and the way to the Chamber—again, we onto a wonderful vision of the future war, but there is only one guaranteed way were all fellow mayors—talked about rather than focus on temporary nega- that you can have peace—and you can have when he was mayor of Cleveland. There tive circumstances. He led us. it in the next second—surrender. were some difficult times, and he And perhaps of greatest importance, That was the message he had. You talked to the President. He talked by his own choice, Ronald Reagan was had to be strong. You had to have a Na- about what a good man the President not the star of our dramatic national tion that believes in God, and you had was. What a good man, that he really resurgence. Neither was Government. to stand up for those things and not lie cared, that he listened, and that he In Reagan’s mind and words, the heroes down and surrender. That is what peo- wanted to do things, wanted to make a who restored the American economy ple were trying to do at that time. difference. Sometimes when those and won the cold war were ordinary He said in that speech: around him were not making a dif- Americans doing simple things, doing There is a price we will not pay. There is ference, he took care of it and got it their duty—kind of like a national a point beyond which they must not ad- done. I think my colleagues were part bond raising. He united us. vance. of history being made. Mr. President, I also grew up as a That was his rendezvous with des- I was able to watch history during Democrat. President Reagan deeply in- tiny. that time. But I am honored and hum- spired me, and he had a lot to do with

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He understood eloquent voice to the convictions we fice having increased the national debt that. He showed the power of it. I un- believed we had been sent to war to ad- $1.7 trillion. Under Bush 41, in 4 years derstood that. It wasn’t just about pol- vance. In the more than 30 years that the debt increased $1.4 trillion. Presi- icy, it was about optimism. have passed since I first met him, I dent Clinton over 8 years slowed the in- When I ran for mayor in St. Paul in have never lived a day that I wasn’t crease of the debt to $1.6 trillion with 1993, my slogan was ‘‘St. Paul’s best grateful for the privilege of the Rea- spending cuts and tax increases, leav- days are yet to come.’’ When I switched gans’ friendship, and the strength of ing a projected surplus. President parties in 1996, Jack Kemp came over his faith in America that inspired my George W. Bush, with three tax cuts or to my house, and I made the announce- own, and so many others. Reagan ‘‘voodoos,’’ has eliminated the ment. It was that spirit of hope, opti- His accomplishments in office were surplus and increased the debt over $2 mism, entrepreneurship, and oppor- historic, and will be long remembered trillion in 4 years. As his chief coun- tunity that he showed worked. That as will the humility, grace and decency selor Vice President CHENEY said, was the key, by the way. For him, it with which he achieved them. It was an ‘‘Deficits don’t matter.’’ Since the be- was not about politics; it was about re- honor to have known him, and Cindy ginning days, this country has shown sults. and I shall miss him very much. We sacrifice at a time of war by adopting My friend from Oklahoma quoted offer our sincerest condolences to a tax measure to pay for the war. But President Reagan saying that solving Nancy, and to Michael, Patti and Ron, not for the War on Terrorism. We in the energy crisis wasn’t easy, but that and pray that God grants this good the Congress need a fourth tax cut, it can be done. He understood the im- man eternal life, reunites him with his voodoo, to get reelected. Today the GI portance of getting it done. daughter, Maureen, and with all his fighting the war is also going to have I think Ronald Reagan would be hon- loved ones who have preceded him. to pay for the war. At this time of re- ored to know we are shutting down the Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, at a membrance, let’s not forget that Federal Government on Friday. His luncheon with Bernard Baruch, Mr. Ba- Reagan dignified ‘‘voodoo.’’ only concern might be that we are ruch commented that Harry Truman Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, on starting it again on Monday. He ‘‘had a good memory’’ and ‘‘he also had Saturday, our Nation lost a strong changed us and transformed the world, a good bad memory.’’ We are hearing leader and the State of California lost without a doubt. Some days, Mr. Presi- both at the passing of former President an adopted son. dent, I get concerned that we are Ronald Reagan. There is no question As a citizen, Ronald Wilson Reagan changing back. that if a President is to be credited for embodied the American dream. He per- As we remember his life, I hope we the end of the Cold War that credit sonified the image of California—can- all remember that the simple things should go to Ronald Reagan. We were do, risk-taking, cutting-edge. Ronald are the right things: Freedom, hope, anxious about the depletion of our de- Reagan was all of those things. liberty, and optimism. fenses in the U.S. Senate in the year As a President, he unified a country I thank God that he gave us Ronald preceding President Reagan’s adminis- and helped bring an end to the cold Reagan when we needed him most. tration so we passed a 5 percent across- war, the premier struggle of his time in Now, this is our time. I pray that we the-board increase in the Defense budg- public life. will courageously follow his example et. But President Reagan came on My fondest memory of President and embrace America’s destiny in this board and really moved to strengthen Reagan took place while I was mayor challenging hour. our defenses, building a 600-ship Navy of San Francisco at a March 1983 din- I yield the floor. and not hesitating to deploy inter- ner the President and First Lady Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, the mediate missiles in Europe. He also hosted for Queen Elizabeth II in San strength of Abraham Lincoln’s resolve moved to formalize our ballistic mis- Francisco. The Queen was thrilled to to restore the Union, whatever the ter- sile defense system, calling it the Stra- visit California for the first time and rible cost to do so, was his unshakeable tegic Defense Initiative and increasing especially pleased to be welcomed by a faith that in America any father’s its support. President Reagan can also President from California. child could come to occupy the same be credited with a competitive trade During that trip the Queen quipped place that his father’s child had at- policy. Though he had the power to re- at one point that she knew England tained. That uniquely American con- scind the anti-dumping order on the had exported many traditions to the viction also inspired Ronald Reagan to importation of motorcycles, he let the United States, but she hadn’t realized reach his great place in our country’s order stand; reviving as we all know the weather was one of them. history and in the hearts of his coun- the Harley Davidson industry. More- San Francisco’s London-like weather trymen. I doubt Ronald Reagan was over, he imposed voluntary restraint aside, as Mayor I was enormously much surprised to become President, agreements in steel, semiconductors, proud of the wonderful welcome we had despite his humble origins. And I know machine tools and automobiles. There provided for the Queen of England. for certain he never took for granted a is no question, for example, that Intel Growing up in small-town central Il- single day he occupied the office. He would have had a hard time surviving linois in the years leading up to the believed such an honored privilege was had it not been for Sematech and Rea- Great Depression, President Reagan within the reach of any American with gan’s VRA on semiconductors. was instilled with the values that principles, industry and talent, and But at this time of praise, those with would guide him as a person and as a that once attained, it was to be held ‘‘good bad memory’’ forget it was Ron- leader. There he learned the impor- with great care to preserve for suc- ald Reagan who started supply side ec- tance of hard work and optimism as ceeding generations the blessings of onomics. Former Senator Bob Dole led the key ingredients for success. liberty that had so enriched his own the opposition to its forerunner, Kemp- It was this optimism combined with life. His patriotism, which he expressed Roth, and former President George his ever-present sense of humor that eloquently and often in his public re- Herbert Walker Bush characterized characterized him best, enabling him marks, was never affected. He believed this cutting revenues to increase them to both ‘‘fill the screen’’ and make a every word. Nor was his unfailing good as ‘‘voodoo.’’ With Reagan looking for stellar entrance wherever he went. humor and optimism an actor’s per- an issue at a low point in his adminis- After 4 years at Eureka College, formance. He lived in a shining city on tration, he locked onto supply side, ig- where he was known as a gritty, a hill, and he never forgot it. noring his campaign pledge to ‘‘balance though undersized tackle on the foot- I first met President Reagan and his the budget within one year.’’ It is good ball team, he began searching for a job lovely wife, Nancy, not long after I re- to note that in this country after 200 in broadcasting. In 1932, at the height

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And, as cities and covering University of Iowa football day. mayors across the country were reeling games and later recreating Chicago While in Sacramento, he generally from the advent of AIDS—no place suf- Cubs’ games based on telegraph re- approached fiscal policy as a moderate, fered more than San Francisco—Presi- ports, a young Ronald Reagan traveled first presiding over a $1-billion tax in- dent Reagan failed to act. He would not to California to cover the Cubs’ spring crease to balance the State budget and even publicly comment on the AIDS training. another subsequent increase. He even- crisis. It was his first trip west of Kansas tually lowered taxes, but in his two Though people did not always agree City and it nurtured his fascination terms as Governor, State spending dou- with his policies, it cannot be denied with Hollywood. While he was there, he bled overall and the State’s workforce that President Reagan redefined poli- used his considerable charm to con- grew by 34,000. tics through his tremendous skills as a vince a movie agent to arrange a As President, he was a unifier and an communicator. In particular, his abil- screen test for him at Warner Brothers optimist. His infectious, upbeat atti- ity to define clear goals and persuade Studios. tude rallied people to his goals. He was others to support those goals earned Before long, he returned to the Mid- extremely successful in passing legisla- him the admiration of many Ameri- west, packed his bags and started the tion by joining that optimism with a cans. quintessential American journey west- willingness to compromise with a As we all know, President Reagan ward in search of opportunity. Of Democratic Congress. suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease dur- course, he found it as a movie star. In his dealings, he was tough, but ing the last decade of his life. He won many fans through his on- ready to negotiate. There is no better As we honor his memory in the days screen charisma. The optimism he in- example of this than his relationship and weeks to come, it is my hope that spired was exemplified by his role as with former Soviet leader Mikhail we will consider what we can do here in Notre Dame football player George Gorbachev. He often used harsh rhet- Congress to battle this terrible disease. Gipp in the film ‘‘Knute Rockne—All- oric in challenging the actions of our A good first step would be to approve American.’’ Years after Gipp’s death, cold war adversary, but it was always legislation that supports embryonic Coach Rockne gave a pep talk to his backed by his core beliefs. stem cell research. This research offers Once, as he prepared for his first team urging them to ‘‘win one for the tremendous hope, not only to those summit with the Soviet leader, he met Gipper’’ one of the more memorable who suffer from Alzheimer’s, but also with a room full of foreign policy advi- lines in American sports history. the millions of people with cancer, dia- sors, each offering their suggestions But President Reagan’s greatest im- betes, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis about what he should say. After a half- pact on the world was as a politician. and spinal cord injuries. What a fitting hour of discussion, President Reagan As a labor leader with the Screen Ac- tribute passage of this bill would be to turned to his advisors and said, ‘‘Gen- tors Guild, his roots as an activist were President Reagan. tlemen, I’ve been thinking about what shaped significantly by a deep concern In closing, there probably is no I’m going to say to this man my whole about communism. American who has more fully lived the life. And I know exactly what I’m Yet despite his strongly anti-com- American dream from actor to Gov- going to say.’’ munist views, he condemned the unfair Gorbachev described Reagan as ‘‘a ernor to President than Ronald smearing of many liberals by Senator great President, with whom the Soviet Reagan. Today, we mourn his loss, but Joseph McCarthy and the House Un- leadership was able to launch a very recognize that his was a full life. American Activities Committee. He re- difficult but important dialogue.’’ Thank you for your service to this fused to reveal names publicly, but ex- His tough negotiating stance yielded country, President Reagan. posed some people to the FBI privately. some important accomplishments in- Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, today As Governor of California he had a cluding signing treaties reducing inter- I pay my respects to a beloved leader strong record of environmental protec- mediate-range nuclear missiles and who, with grace, wit, and charisma, led tion: adding 145,000 acres to the State’s limiting strategic arms. These acts of our country through some of the great park system, protecting Lake Tahoe diplomacy combined with his relentless challenges of the twentieth century. from rampant development, blocking advocacy for freedom played a major President Ronald Wilson Reagan was a the construction of dams on the Dos role in bringing about an end to the dedicated public servant whose con- Rios and Eel rivers, and stopping the cold war. fidence and optimism reinvigorated the paving of a federal highway through At the same time, Reagan had a American people and made him one of the Sierra Nevada Mountains that tendency to overreach in the area of the most honored and respected Presi- would have cut through the John Muir foreign policy. The invasion of Gre- dents in our Nation’s history. Trail. nada, the intervention in Lebanon that Although he lived most of his life in He also signed legislation to protect left American soldiers uncertain of California, President Reagan was a fel- rivers on California’s north coast and their role and vulnerable to attack, low Midwesterner. Born in 1911 in Tam- approved strict car emissions standards and, above all, the Iran-Contra scan- pico, IL, Ronald Wilson Reagan at- that forced the Nation’s automakers to dal—were all cases in which the tended high school in nearby Dixon and manufacture cleaner-burning cars. But Reagan Administration went too far in worked his way through Eureka Col- he lobbied against the Coastal Protec- seeking to reshape the world. lege. There he earned his B.A., played tion Act approved by voters in 1972 and At home, President Reagan sought to on the football team, and participated resisted air pollution controls imposed limit the size of government and tap in school plays. He eventually won a by the federal government. the entrepreneurial spirit of the Amer- contract in Hollywood and appeared in Despite his personal opposition to ican people. And though he was famous 53 films over two decades. abortion, Governor Reagan loosened an for cutting taxes, he approved two tax The father of four children became 1872 statute to allow abortion in cases increases during his first term in the increasingly involved in politics and in of rape, incest, when a mother’s health White House. 1966 was elected the governor of Cali- was at stake, or when there was a high Unfortunately, the tax cuts were cou- fornia, and was reelected in 1970. His risk that a baby would be born with pled with sharp increases in defense optimistic message, at a time when the birth defects. Many States followed spending that resulted in massive defi- country was beset by inflation and by Governor Reagan’s lead on this impor- cits. The Federal budget finally recov- the taking of American hostages in tant issue. ered from those years of deficit-spend- Iran, helped him to win the presidency However, his move to close down ing during the late 1990s, but the sur- in 1980. Four years later, he was re- mental health facilities in California pluses that were generated disappeared elected in a 49-state sweep. resulted in widespread homelessness in in the blink of an eye under the cur- In foreign affairs, it is impossible to urban areas. Though he sought to steer rent administration’s fiscal policies. separate President Reagan’s legacy

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His services for those suffering from Alz- Years ago, President Reagan and words and actions energized dissidents heimer’s. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill used and activists struggling for change and President Ronald Wilson Reagan to joke that, ‘‘between 9 and 5 we are for justice in the face of Communist re- helped to transform America and the enemies, but at 5 o’clock let’s go have pression and tyranny. His optimism world. He and his achievements will a cocktail together.’’ To truly honor helped to give them confidence that forever be honored and remembered. and remember President Reagan—this they were, indeed, on the right side of Mr. PRYOR. Mr. President, the Cap- man of great accomplishment, opti- history. itol today is overflowing with visitors, mism, and oratory—perhaps we could President Reagan not only recog- flags stand at half-staff, and the Nation find ways to work better together for a nized the monstrous nature of Com- has collectively stopped this week—all better tomorrow. munist totalitarianism, but he also un- to honor a remarkable man who ac- I extend my deepest sympathies to derstood the horror of a geopolitical re- complished remarkable things during a the Reagan family in their time of sor- ality that made the entire world hos- remarkable time. row, and I hope it is of some comfort tage to the threat of nuclear annihila- President Ronald Reagan gave his that Americans and many others tion. He had the courage to act, to life to public service and has left a leg- throughout the world mourn by their reach out to the Soviet leadership and acy of leadership that will always be side. to craft landmark arms control agree- remembered. I suggest the absence of a quorum. ments, including one that, for the first We remember President Reagan’s The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time, eliminated a class of nuclear strong vision for political and eco- clerk will call the roll. weapons. nomic freedom which was instrumental The legislative clerk proceeded to On the domestic front, it was under in the fall of communism and the call the roll. the leadership of President Reagan spread of democracy in Eastern Eu- Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. President, I ask that the solvency of the Social Secu- rope. The world held its breath as unanimous consent that the order for rity program was extended through re- America stared communism in the the quorum call be rescinded. forms to the existing program. Al- face, but in the end we peacefully won The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without though modest in their overall scope, over the respect and cooperation of our objection, it is so ordered. those reforms were seen by many as po- enemy. Less than a year after Reagan f litically risky, and President Reagan left office, Mr. Gorbachev stepped GEORGE TENET provided critical leadership that helped down, the Berlin Wall fell and the cold assure both a reluctant Congress and war ended. Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, we all an uncertain public. Today, we should I will never forget President Rea- learned recently that an outstanding build on the Reagan reforms, and gan’s historic speech on June 12, 1987, public servant, the Director of Central strengthen the existing program, as he in front of the Brandenburg Gate near Intelligence, George Tenet, has decided did. the Berlin Wall when he called on Mi- to step down. I am personally saddened Another significant domestic policy khail Gorbachev to ‘‘Open this gate! by this announcement because I believe challenge that President Reagan tack- Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’’ the country has been well served by led was the simplification of our tax Today, the United States is working Mr. Tenet. code. In the face of special interest with Russia to replace tyranny and George Tenet started his career in pressures, and under the leadership of fear in Iraq with peace and stability. public service as part of the Senate his Secretary of Treasury, Donald Of President Reagan, Gorbachev said, family working for the late Republican Regan, as well as a bipartisan group of ‘‘A true leader, a man of his word and Senator John Heinz. He served on the members of the House and Senate, an optimist, he traveled the journey of professional staff of the Senate Intel- President Reagan was able to push his life with dignity and faced coura- ligence Committee rising to become through the last significant reforms to geously the cruel disease that darkened the committee staff director for my our increasingly complex tax code in his final years. He has earned a place in good friend Senator David Boren. 1986. history and in people’s hearts.’’ I was the chairman of the Senate Ap- At the time, I was the Chairman of We also remember Dutch, the Great propriations Defense Subcommittee the Taxation Committee in the Wis- Communicator, the Gipper as a man of during that period. Our committee consin State Senate and we were hold- great optimism and humor. My kids’ works closely with the Intelligence ing a variety of hearings around the history books recall the dates and facts Committee in determining the funding State, addressing parallel reforms. of this time, but they do not convey for our classified programs. So I be- These hearings and reforms were driv- this Hollywood actor turned Presi- lieve I can speak with some authority en by President Reagan’s proposal. dent’s good-natured spirit or genuine in saying that George was a top-notch Though far from perfect, that reform optimism for a better tomorrow. Nor staff director. And, I believe his tenure effort is another model for action we can they express his unyielding dedica- in the Senate prepared him well for the need to undertake again. And policy- tion and love for our country. However, position of Director of Central Intel- makers in Congress and the executive I believe the outpouring of respect and ligence. branch would do well to follow Presi- affection shown by the American pub- I have known every CIA Director dent Reagan’s example in this matter. lic this week says we will forever re- since Allen Dulles. I have worked Of course, no review of President member his character and personality. closely with each Director for the past Reagan’s legacy would be complete Finally, we remember a man who 30 years. All of them have been honor- without acknowledging his Alzheimer’s never stopped believing, never stopped able men, well-meaning and decent disease which, sadly, defined the last 10 advocating America’s ability to suc- public servants, but none was a better years of his life as well as the lives of ceed and prosper. He stuck to his con- Director of Central Intelligence than his family. As the author of Wiscon- victions and his visions for America, George Tenet. sin’s Alzheimer’s program, I have be- whether popular or not. Intelligence is a critical part of our come all too aware of the heart- Ronald Reagan’s initiatives didn’t national security. Obviously it does breaking tragedy that this dread dis- please all Americans and Democrats not get the public scrutiny that most ease brings to a family. and Republicans did not always agree Government functions receive. To do so President Reagan’s brave, public ac- on President Reagan’s foreign policy or would jeopardize the lives of countless knowledgment of the disease, and the domestic agenda, but he never encour- agents and analysts who serve this Na- wonderful efforts of his wife Nancy, aged or played the biting partisan tion. We limit the number of people

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This same 30-pa- When the CIA breaks up a terrorist with the Nation’s secrets as partners in tient limit applies to medical groups as cell in Albania or Egypt it cannot be national security, not adversaries or to individual physicians. For example, disclosed. When critical information is impediments. the physician members of the Duke discovered by our intelligence commu- I know the Director has his critics, University Medical School faculty nity about weapons trafficking on the but they do not come from the Defense practice plan may treat only 30 pa- high seas, the weapons can be con- Subcommittee. I think I can speak for tients at one time, even though they fiscated, but the American people are my chairman when I tell you we both may have 10 individual physicians not told. had the utmost confidence in George trained and willing to treat patients Unfortunately, only the operations Tenet. And, no one in the Senate or the and more than 30 patients would ben- that fail become public. So our CIA Di- House has spent more years overseeing efit from newly available treatment. rectors are generally not known for the intelligence community than Ted The difficulties that have arisen, in- their successes, only for their failures. and I. cluding the dashed hopes for treatment It is an historical fact that there has George Tenet is depicted today by of many, due to the patient limitation been great temptation to use intel- some as the Director of Intelligence on group practices, are detailed in a ligence operations and analysis to who failed to stop the tragedy of 9/11 May 30 article in the Boston Globe, by achieve political objectives. and criticized for the description by au- Peter DeMarco. I would like to share a As most of my colleagues know, the thor Bob Woodward that the case for few excerpts from that article with my Senate established the Select Com- weapons of mass destruction in Iraq Colleagues, as follows: mittee on Intelligence in the mid-1970s was a ‘‘slam dunk.’’ Both of those miss When buprenorphine became available as a to review intelligence activities in re- the point. treatment for OxyContin and heroin addic- sponse to improprieties which occurred George Tenet should be remembered tion 18 months ago, many medical profes- in the 1960s and 1970s. During that pe- sionals and addicts hailed it as a miracle as one of the finest Directors in the drug, bringing addicts back from the brink riod, I was fortunate to serve as the history of Central Intelligence. He first Chairman of the Senate Intel- and helping them lead normal lives when all should be remembered as the most hon- ligence Committee. else had failed. But for many addicts, est and forthright of any CIA Director. There have been other unfortunate buprenorphine remains one of the hardest incidents when individuals in the exec- He should be thought of as the Director drugs to obtain. Approved by the Federal who took an agency from the cold war Food and Drug Administration in 2002, utive branch have circumvented the buprenorphine is an opiate like heroin or the law to further their objectives. We all mentality and started to reshape it for the 21st century. I know he will be re- painkiller OxyContin. Unlike those drugs or remember the Iran-contra scandal methadone, the prescribed drug it’s meant to when rogue elements ran an extra legal membered by the thousands of CIA em- replace, buprenorphine doesn’t cloud the operation out of the White House. ployees as a great leader who did his minds of patients, allowing them to work or Some have suggested that intel- very best to support them and the en- study as if they’re not on any drug at all. ligence was recently politicized to jus- tire intelligence community. Nearly all who take buprenorphine, mean- tify the war on Iraq. I will remember him as a tremendous while, say they lose all physical cravings for It is my view, and I think history public servant who served honorably, street drugs. But a combination of federal limits on the will one day prove that any effectively and tirelessly. Mr. President, someday when the distribution of buprenorphine, and reluc- politization of intelligence that might tance on the part of some physicians to offer have occurred on Iraq did not come records are declassified and the anal- it to patients has kept thousands of opiate from George Tenet. ysis is completed, historians will likely addicts from receiving the drug in Massachu- Those who are charged with over- remember George with great regard. It setts and across the country. At the heart of sight of intelligence for the Congress is my view that he should not have to the issue is federal legislation passed in have a difficult task. We must review wait. We should all thank him for his 2000—two years before the drug was approved intelligence activities and practices, dedication to duty and his service to by the FDA—that restricts individual clin- but the universe is truly enormous. our country. ical practices from treating more than 30 pa- tients with buprenorphine at a time. There are not enough hours of the day f While many substance-abuse experts say for us to know all the details of intel- ELIMINATION OF THE 30-PATIENT the 30-patient figure is too low for some ligence. We could never amass enough LIMIT FOR GROUP PRACTICES practices, their main quarrel with the Drug staff to monitor every action of the in- Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 is its failure telligence community. Therefore, we Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, S. 1887, to differentiate single-physician practices, need to be able to trust our intel- which the Senate adopted yesterday, hospitals, and health care organizations. For ligence leaders. ensures that all appropriately trained example, all the doctors who work for Tufts The Senate could trust George Tenet group practice physicians may pre- Health Plan can treat a combined 30 pa- to tell the truth and be forthright with scribe and dispense certain recently ap- tients—the same total as can be seen by a physician practicing alone. this institution. Perhaps it was be- proved drugs for the treatment of her- Boston health officials, along with their cause of his background as a Senate oin addiction. It addresses the unin- counterparts in the State and Federal gov- staff member, but George was always tended effect of the Drug Addiction and ernments, say the Federal legislation erred eager to inform and consult with the Treatment Act of 2000, DATA, that on the side of caution, and needs to be Senate to share important information hinders access to new treatments for changed to allow wider access to regardless how sensitive it might have thousands of individuals who seek such buprenorphine. Boston Medical Center’s main practice has been. help. When Congress passed DATA as Title 200 or more general internal-medicine doc- My experience with the CIA has been tors, and within that practice, we can only that many past Directors were reluc- XXXV of the Children’s Health Act of treat 30 people. It’s the craziest loophole,’’ tant to provide detailed information to 2000, Public Law 106–310, it allowed for said Colleen Labelle, nurse-manager of the the Congress. Perhaps it was the in- the dispensing and prescribing of hospital’s Office-Based Opioid Treatment grained culture that protects secrets, Schedule III drugs, like buprenorphine/ Program. ‘‘We get 20 calls a day from across or perhaps it was the lack of trust be- naloxone, in an office-based setting, for the state. People are begging, desperate to tween the executive and legislative the treatment of heroin addiction. As a get treated, who we can’t treat.’’ result of DATA, access to drug addic- The Federal Substance Abuse and Mental bodies, but for whatever reason, they Health Services Administration has begun didn’t want to tell the Congress any tion treatment is significantly ex- an internal process to increase the 30-patient more than they had to. panded; patients no longer are re- cap. But because any proposed change would With George it was different. He stricted to receiving treatment in a be subject to the public-review process, ap- would take time to explain controver- large clinic setting, but now may re- proval could take as long as two years, said

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She has allied health professionals support the DATA that individuals seeking treat- been an influential leader in my office, nation’s health care system in this dec- ment have less access to new medica- and her contributions have been many. ade and beyond. tions simply because they receive care Many staff and interns have passed The bill has a number of supporters. from a physician practicing in a group, through the doors of my office over the I would particularly like to express my or from a group-based or mixed-model years. All have benefitted from appreciation to the Association of health plan. Nevertheless, this is the Lorraine’s caring guidance, common Schools of Allied Health Professions, effect it is having and it is a severe ef- sense, and expertise. ASAHP, for its support of the legisla- fect. The problem is addressed by re- Lorraine studied international rela- tion as well as its ongoing efforts to moving the 30-patient aggregate limit tions at American University and sub- address the need for allied health pro- on medical groups. The patient limita- sequently worked at Dartmouth Col- fessionals and allied health faculty. tion would remain on individual treat- lege in charge of foreign study pro- ASAHP, founded in 1967, has a mem- ing physicians. This is achieved in the grams. Through a contact there, she bership that includes 105 institutions of bill, S. 1887, which I introduced along learned of an opening in the office of higher learning throughout the United with Senators HATCH and BIDEN. It Senator John Durkin, Democrat from States, as well as several hundred indi- simply removes the statutory limit on New Hampshire, and thus began her vidual members. ASAHP publishes a the number of patients for whom doc- Senate career in March 1977. Following quarterly journal and also conducts an tors in medical groups may prescribe her work in Senator Durkin’s office, annual survey of member institutions. certain newly available, FDA-approved Lorraine built her career in the Senate This annual survey, called the ‘‘Insti- medications to treat heroin addiction. setting up offices for newly elected tutional Profile Survey,’’ is used for, I would like to close with another ex- Members, including Senator CARL among other purposes, collecting stu- dent application and enrollment data. cerpt from Mr. DeMarco’s article re- LEVIN, Democrat from Michigan, in These data substantiates that there is garding the positive impact 1979, Senator FRANK LAUTENBERG, buprenorphine treatment has had on an Democrat from New Jersey, in 1982, a pressing need to address existing al- lied health workforce shortages, which individual who sought help with his ad- and, of course, myself in 1989. Lorraine have been further exacerbated by de- diction, and was fortunate enough not is an expert at creating attractive, clines in enrollment that have occurred to be turned away. It is as follows: functional and comfortable work spaces, not an easy task given our lim- for 4 straight years. Timothy Tigges says his addiction began Using data from the Institutional ited space and resources. She is re- after he wrenched his back and bummed a Profile Survey, as well as the General few Percocet pills, a prescription analgesic, spected and beloved among her office Accounting Office, U.S. Census Bureau, from a friend to dull the pain. Before he manager colleagues and throughout and other sources, ASAHP has com- knew it, he was hooked on opiates, alter- the Senate community, where she has nating between OxyContin and shooting up piled what I believe to be a compelling made many friends. rationale in its support for the Allied heroin as his life went to pieces. For the past few years, Lorraine has In October, Tigges, a 27-year-old East Bos- Health Reinvestment Act that I intro- been faced with many serious health ton carpet installer, began taking duced. Mr. President, I ask unanimous problems. She has faced these personal buprenorphine, placing an orange pill the consent that the text of this Rationale challenges with great courage. Despite size of a dime under his tongue until it dis- for an Allied Health Reinvestment Act her suffering and hardship, she has con- solves, four times daily. He hasn’t touched from the Association of Schools of Al- an illegal drug since the day he started the tinued to do her utmost in service to lied Health Professions be printed in program, has put on 80 pounds from lifting me and the citizens of Connecticut. the RECORD. weights at the gym, and has yet to miss a Lorraine has been an inspiration to us day of work. For the first time in three There being no objection, the mate- all. rial was ordered to be printed in the years, Tigges hopes to see his 5-year-old I know it is difficult for Lorraine to daughter, whose mother has refused to let RECORD, as follows: him visit. leave my office and her extended Sen- ate family; she often speaks of the Sen- RATIONALE FOR AN ALLIED HEALTH I’ve had clean urines, 100 percent, for nine REINVESTMENT ACT months now. There’s nothing I’m prouder of ate as ‘‘home.’’ It is difficult for us, as Led by the Association of Schools of Allied than that,’’ he said, choking back emotion. well, for we will miss her kindness, Health Professionals, a Washington-DC based ‘‘What I read on the front page of the paper warmth, and wise counsel. But hers is a organization with 105 colleges and univer- every day is 18- and 20-year-old kids dying of retirement well earned, and Lorraine sities as members, a coalition of 30 national garbage drugs. There’s just no need for it. I can be very proud of her public service organizations supports the enactment of an would take every ounce of heroin off the and contributions to the work of the Allied Health Reinvestment Act. S. 2491 was street and give them this stuff. You watch introduced in the 108th Congress by MARIA the crime rate go down. Senate. As she completes her Govern- ment career, I wish Lorraine good CANTWELL (D–WA), JEFF BINGAMAN (D–NM), Mr. President, I thank my colleagues OSEPH IEBERMAN health and every happiness. I know she and J L (D–CT) and H.R. 4016 for their wisdom in adopting this was introduced in the House by CLIFF has a great deal to look forward to much-needed legislation. STEARNS (R–FL) and TED STRICKLAND (D– with her husband, Bernie Rooney, and OH). f lovely daughter, Shannon, and I wish The well-being of the U.S. population de- pends to a considerable extent on having ac- TRIBUTE TO LORRAINE PERONA them all the best. I extend to Lorraine Perona my per- cess to high quality health care, which re- Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I sonal thanks and congratulations for quires the presence of an adequate supply of rise to express my deep gratitude to more than 27 years of exemplary serv- competently-prepared allied health profes- my long-time office manager, Lorraine sionals. Workforce, demographic, and epi- ice to the U.S. Senate. demiologic imperatives are the driving Perona, who, after more than 27 years f forces behind the need to have such legisla- of outstanding and dedicated service to tion enacted. the U.S. Senate, is retiring on June 30, ALLIED HEALTH REINVESTMENT ACT THE WORKFORCE IMPERATIVE 2004. Many allied health professionals are char- When I first took office as a U.S. Sen- Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, last acterized by existing workforce shortages, ator from the State of Connecticut on week I introduced S. 2491, the Allied declining enrollments in academic institu- January 3, 1989, Lorraine was one of a Health Reinvestment Act, with my col- tions, or a combination of both factors. Hos- small group of staff members I had as- leagues, Senators BINGAMAN and LIE- pital officials have reported vacancy rates of sembled to assist me as I began my BERMAN. As I mentioned at that time, 18 percent among radiologic technologists service. I was fortunate to have a per- the Allied Health Reinvestment Act and 10 percent among laboratory tech- son of Lorraine’s extensive knowledge will encourage individuals to seek and nologists, plus they indicated more difficulty in recruiting these same professionals than and years of Senate staff experience to complete high quality allied health two years prior. set up my office. She did a wonderful education and training by providing Fitch, a leading global rating agency that job and has kept my office running for additional funding for their studies. provides the world’s credit markets with

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From 1900 to 2000, the proportion of on curative forms of care, additional efforts The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) persons 65 and over went from 4.1 percent to must be devoted to slowing the progression projects that in the period 1998–2008, a total 12.4 percent. of disease and its effects. of 93,000 positions in clinical laboratory In the 20th century, the total population f science need to be provided in the form of more than tripled, while the 65 years and creating 53,000 new jobs and filling 40,000 ex- older population grew more than tenfold, ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS isting vacancies. Of the 9,000 openings per from 3.1 million in 1900 to 35.0 million in 2000. year, academic institutions are producing Among the older population, the cohort 85 only 4,990 graduates annually. BLS projec- years and over increased from 122,000 in 1900 IN REMEMBRANCE OF HAROLD tions in 2004 show that nine of the 10 fastest to 4.2 million in 2000. Since 1940, this age ‘‘HAL’’ RUBIN growing occupations are health or computer group increased at a more rapid rate than 65- ∑ Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, it is my (information technology) occupations. to-74 year olds and 75-to-85 year olds in every honor to speak in memory of Harold Accredited respiratory therapy programs decade. As a proportion of the older popu- in 2000 graduated 5,512 students—21% fewer lation, the 85 and over group went from ‘‘Hal’’ Rubin, a professor and activist than the 6,062 graduates in 1999. In 2001, the being four percent of the older population to who will always be remembered for his number of graduates from these schools fell 12 percent between 1900 and 2000. love of family, politics and the envi- another 20% to 4,437. The BLS expects em- THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE ronment. ployment of respiratory therapists to in- Hal Rubin was an excellent example The baby-boom generation’s movement crease faster than the average of all occupa- into middle age, a period when the incidence of a citizen who consistently worked to tions, increasing from 21% to 35% through of heart attack and stroke increases, will make his community a better place. 2010. The aging population and an attendant produce a higher demand for therapeutic Mr. Rubin’s love for politics motivated rise in the incidence of respiratory ailments, services. Medical advances now enable more his involvement in numerous local including asthma and COPD, and patients with critical problems to survive. issues and political races in Placer cardiopulmonary diseases drive this demand. These patients may need extensive therapy. Employment growth in schools will result County. He was passionate about issues According to Solucient, a major provider from expansion of the school-age population such as campaign spending limits, the of information for health care providers, pro- and extended services for disabled students. environment and preserving the rural found demographic shifts over the next twen- Therapists will be needed to help children characteristics of Placer County. ty-five years will result in significant in- with disabilities prepare to enter special creases in the demand for inpatient acute Hal had an exceptional career as a education programs. care services if current utilization patterns professor. He began his teaching career The American Hospital Association has do not change. An aging baby boom genera- as a professor of English and Political identified declining enrollment in health tion, increasing life expectancy, rising fer- Science at Sierra Community College. education programs as a factor leading to tility rates, and continued immigration will At Sierra, he was voted by the students critical shortages of health care profes- undoubtedly increase the volume of inpa- sionals. That assessment is buttressed by as their favorite professor. He contin- tient hospitalizations and significantly alter data from 90 institutions belonging to the ued his teaching career as a professor the mix of acute care services required by Association of Schools of Allied Health Pro- of journalism at California State Uni- patients over the next quarter century. Na- fessions. The following professions were un- tionwide, demographic changes alone could versity, Sacramento. able to reach enrollment capacity over a result in a 46 percent increase in acute care His strong writing skills coupled three-year period: cardiovascular perfusion bed demand by 2027. Total acute care admis- with his concern for the environment technology, cytotechnology, dietetics, emer- sions could also increase by almost 13 mil- led him to a job as a senior technical gency medical sciences, health administra- lion cases in the next quarter century—a writer for what is now GenCorp Incor- tion, health information management, med- growth of 41 percent from the current num- ical technology, occupational therapy, reha- porated, where he wrote about nuclear ber of national admissions. Currently, the bilitation counseling, respiratory therapy, propulsion in the Nation’s space pro- aged nationwide account for about 40 percent and respiratory therapy technician. gram. Those traits combined with his of inpatient admissions and about 49 percent Given the level of anxiety over the possi- interest in politics also led him to a of beds. By 2027, they could make up a major- bility of terrorist attacks occurring in this ity of acute care services—51 percent of ad- freelance writing career, with articles country, in a study released by the General missions and 59 percent of beds. published in various California maga- Accounting Office (GAO) on April 8, 2003 that Along with the aging of the population zines. focused on the nation’s adequacy of pre- came an increase in the number of Ameri- In addition to his dedication to poli- paredness against bioterrorism, it was re- cans living with one, and often more than tics, teaching and the environment, ported that shortages in clinical laboratory one, chronic condition. Today, it is esti- personnel exist in state and local public Hal was devoted to serving his country. mated that 125 million Americans live with a health departments, laboratories, and hos- His service during World War II as a chronic condition, and by 2020 as the popu- pitals. Moreover, these shortages are a major member of the Army Air Force was an lation ages, that number will increase to an concern that is difficult to remedy. act of selfless dedication to protecting estimated 157 million, with 81 million of Laboratories play a critical role in the de- them having two or more chronic conditions. our Nation. He also served as a member tection and diagnosis of illnesses resulting Twenty-five percent of individuals with of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post from exposure to either biological or chem- chronic conditions have some type of activ- 1942. ical agents. No therapy or prophylaxis can be ity limitations. Two-thirds of Medicare Hal Rubin committed his life to his initiated without laboratory identification spending is for beneficiaries with five or community, his Nation and most of all and confirmation of the agent in question. more chronic conditions. Laboratories need to have adequate capacity his family. He touched the lives of Many individuals with chronic conditions and necessary staff to test clinical and envi- many, and his impact on his commu- rely on family caregivers. Approximately ronmental samples in order to identify an nity will be long remembered.∑ nine million Americans provide such serv- agent promptly so that proper treatment can ices, and on the average, they spend 24 hours f be started and infectious diseases prevented a week doing so. Caregivers age 65–74 provide from spreading. TRIBUTE TO HAROLD O. DAVIES an average of 30.7 hours of care per week and Meanwhile, the U.S. population continues ∑ individuals age 75 and older provide an aver- Mr. BUNNING. Mr. President, today I to become more racially and ethnically di- age of 34.5 hours per week. would like to take the opportunity to verse. A health care workforce is needed that Women are more likely than men to have honor Mr. Harold O. Davies, a Seaman better reflects the population they serve. chronic conditions, in part because they Practitioners must become more attuned to on the USS Yorktown in the Battle of have longer life expectancies. These same cultural differences in order to facilitate Midway during World War II. women are caregivers to other chronically ill communication and enhance health care During the Memorial Day holiday, we persons. In addition, 65 percent of caregivers quality. have honored many of our service men are female, and of all caregivers, nearly 40 and women who risked their lives for THE DEMOGRAPHIC IMPERATIVE percent are 55 years of age and older. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that rapid Physicians report that their training does their country. We have especially hon- growth of the population age 65 and over will not adequately prepare them to care for this ored what Americans call ‘‘our greatest begin in 2011 when the first of the baby boom type of patient in areas such as providing generation’’—the men and women who generation reaches age 65 and will continue education and offering effective nutritional fought in WWII—and Mr. Davies is an

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6627 extraordinary addition to this genera- young people of our State. David’s par- then Father Donald Clark, followed by tion. ents and educators also deserve a great Father Ronald Kurzawa, succeeded by Mr. Harold Davies fought on the USS deal of credit for David’s success. Their Bishop Moses Anderson and now led by Yorktown at the Battle of Midway. support and encouragement through- Deacon Wyatt Jones, has experienced Shortly after the attack on Pearl Har- out David’s schooling have been crit- great transition, encountered enor- bor, the United States’ retaliation ical to his success and will continue to mous challenges, overcome monu- emerged in a grueling war of the Pa- play an important role in his future mental obstacles and celebrated cific. The Battle of Midway was the academic achievement. wonderous victories to become the major turning point in the Pacific in I am honored to enter the name of oasis, the Hidden Treasure, in Detroit’s which Japan lost all four aircraft car- David Tidmarsh into the CONGRES- northwest community. riers and all of the airmen and planes SIONAL RECORD, to officially congratu- For 75 years, the Church of the Pre- in the battle. On June 4, 1942, before late him on his accomplishment as cious Blood has been committed to the last Japanese aircraft carrier sunk, champion of the 2004 National Spelling ministering to a diverse community, it struck the USS Yorktown, leaving Bee.∑ ethnically, culturally, socially, eco- the ship dead in the water. The crew f nomically, providing the kind of sup- worked diligently to repair the damage port and encouragement necessary to TRIBUTE TO WILMINGTON’S and returned the ship to fully oper- confirm the spirit of faith and hope in REVOLUTIONARY MAYOR ational. The USS Yorktown, also known humankind and our ability as nur- as the ‘‘Fighting Lady,’’ launched ∑ Mr. BIDEN. Mr. President, I rise turing and loving individuals to make fighters for three more days, gaining a today to pay tribute to a mayor of Wil- this world a better place. Sunday’s major victory for the United States be- mington, DE, who created a revolu- celebration is a major milestone on fore sinking on June 7. tionary government and was beloved Precious Blood’s committed journey on Mr. Davies never left his post during by all. the path of fostering spiritual and eco- this battle. He remained courageous Mayor John E. Babiarz Sr. was a leg- nomic growth, raising educational and loyal to his crew and duties. As the end in his native city of Wilmington. standards and providing a multitude of ship was sinking, he refused to board He was first elected to office in 1948, services to the women, men and chil- the lifeboat until all the wounded were then served as president of city council dren in the area. aboard. After the ship sank, he re- before being elected to Mayor in 1960. It is an honor and a pleasure for me mained in the water for two and a half His reign was made all the more re- to ask my colleagues to join in extend- hours before being picked up by a markable because he was the city’s ing our congratulations and the sincere whaleboat. Mr. Davies was not injured leader throughout the turbulent 1960s. wish for even greater victories over the in the battle. He lives today as a He was a voice of calm and reason next 75 years for the members and com- prominent member of his community when Delaware’s Governor ordered the munity of the Church of the Precious and church in Hebron, KY and is able National Guard to patrol the streets of Blood.∑ to share the story of the legendary Wilmington in 1968 after Martin Luther f Battle of Midway. This type of valor King Jr.’s death. should not go unrecognized. Therefore, Despite the troubled times in which MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT I join my fellow Kentuckians to honor he served as mayor, he will be forever Messages from the President of the Mr. Harold O. Davies and thank him remembered and credited with creating United States were communicated to for his service in the United States a revolution toward a modern form of the Senate by Ms. Evans, one of his Navy.∑ government for Delaware’s largest city secretaries. f and corporate hub. He changed the old commission form of government into a f HONORING DAVID TIDMARSH modern, merit political system. EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED ∑ Mr. BAYH. Mr. President, I wish On a personal note, I owe my start in As in executive session the Presiding today to recognize David Tidmarsh politics to the integrity, guidance, and Officer laid before the Senate messages from South Bend, IN, as the champion friendship of Mayor Babiarz. He was a from the President of the United of the 77th annual National Spelling confidant and a friend. States submitting sundry nominations Bee. On June 3, 2004, David became the Mayor Babiarz’ best friend in life was which were referred to the appropriate first Hoosier to win the National Spell- his wife of 65 years, Adele. She and committees. ing Bee in more than 75 years. their two sons, John Jr. and Francis, (The nominations received today are In his quest to be the Nation’s top were the joys of his life. printed at the end of the Senate pro- seller, David triumphed over 265 of the Wilmington has truly lost one of its ceedings.) best spellers from across the Nation. greatest native sons.∑ He successfully disposed of his com- f f petition in 15 rounds over three days IN RECOGNITION OF THE CHURCH A COMMUNICATION FROM THE and claimed victory with the correct PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED spelling of ‘‘autochthonous.’’ David and OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD ∑ STATES OFFICIALLY NOTIFYING his fellow top spellers, including four- Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, today I THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED teen other from Indiana, emerged from invite my colleagues to join in recog- STATES OF THE DEATH OF a pool of more than 9 million 9- to 15- nizing a wonderful celebration that FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD year-olds through winning their local will take place in my hometown, De- REAGAN—PM 84 spelling contests. troit. On Sunday, June 13, 2004, the David’s achievement is a testament Church of the Precious Blood will cele- The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- to his perseverance and dedication. brate its 75th Anniversary. fore the Senate the following message This was David’s second time partici- Founded in 1929 by Father William from the President of the United pating in the competition. He tied for Hermes with a congregation of only 94, States, together with an accompanying 16th place in last year’s National Spell- the church grew to a membership of report; which was ordered to lie on the ing Bee. His hard work and commit- nearly 900 families. Its numbers are table: ment to his goal of winning the Na- moderately lower today, but the work To the Congress of the United States: tional Spelling Bee will serve as an ex- performed in the community by the ac- By this message, I officially inform ample and inspiration to students tive members has never waned and is you of the death of Ronald Reagan, the across the country and around the no less vital. fortieth President of the United States. world. The Church of the Precious Blood, Ronald Reagan was a great leader Hoosiers throughout Indiana can under the outstanding and accom- and a good man. He had the confidence take immense pride in David’s accom- plished leadership of Father Hermes, that comes with conviction, the plishment, as he represents the full succeeded by Father Marvin Young, strength that comes with character, academic potential that exists in the succeeded by Father Leo Priemer and the grace that comes with humility,

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With his courage and AB00) received on May 26, 2004; to the Com- stallation of hydrogen fueling stations and moral clarity, he enhanced America’s mittee on Health, Education, Labor, and to exclude earnings from hydrogen fuel sales security and advanced the spread of Pensions. from gross income; to the Committee on Fi- peace, liberty, and democracy to mil- EC–7839. A communication from the Direc- nance. lions of people who had lived in dark- tor, Regulations Policy and Management By Mr. DOMENICI (for himself and Mr. ness and oppression. As America’s Staff, Food and Drug Administration, trans- BINGAMAN): mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule President, he helped change the world. S. 2511. A bill to direct the Secretary of the entitled ‘‘Medical Device Reports; Reports of Interior to conduct a feasibility study of a The sun has now set on Ronald Rea- Corrections and Removals; Establishment Chimayo water supply system, to provide for gan’s extraordinary American life. Just Registration and Device Listing; Premarket the planning, design, and construction of a as he told us that our Nation’s best Approval Supplements; Quality System Reg- water supply, reclamation, and filtration fa- days are yet to come, we know that the ulation; Importation of Electronic Products; cility for Espanola, New Mexico, and for same is true for him. Technical Amendment; Correction’’ received other purposes; to the Committee on Energy GEORGE W. BUSH. on May 26, 2004; to the Committee on Health, and Natural Resources. THE WHITE HOUSE, June 8, 2004. Education, Labor, and Pensions. By Mr. CONRAD: EC–7840. A communication from the Assist- S. 2512. A bill to amend title XVIII of the f ant Administrator for Procurement, Na- Social Security Act to simplify the medicare EXECUTIVE AND OTHER tional Aeronautics and Space Administra- prescription drug card program, and for COMMUNICATIONS tion, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- other purposes; to the Committee on Fi- port of a rule entitled ‘‘Clauses Authorized nance. The following communications were for Use in Commercial Acquisitions’’ f laid before the Senate, together with (RIN2700–AD00) received on May 26, 2004; to accompanying papers, reports, and doc- the Committee on Commerce, Science, and SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND uments, and were referred as indicated: Transportation. SENATE RESOLUTIONS EC–7841. A communication from the Asso- EC–7831. A communication from the Regu- ciate Attorney General, Department of Jus- The following concurrent resolutions lations Coordinator, Centers for Medicaid tice, transmitting, pursuant to law, the 2003 and Senate resolutions were read, and and Medicare Services, Department of report relative to certain activities per- referred (or acted upon), as indicated: Health and Human Services, transmitting, taining to the Freedom of Information Act; pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled By Mr. INOUYE (for himself and Mr. to the Committee on the Judiciary. COLEMAN): ‘‘Medicaid Program; Provider Qualifications EC–7842. A communication from the Dep- for Audiologists’’ (RIN0938–AM26) received S. Res. 372. A resolution designating Janu- uty Assistant Administrator, Office of Diver- ary 1 of each year as ‘‘Global Family Day’’; on June 1, 2004; to the Committee on Fi- sion Control, Drug Enforcement Administra- nance. to the Committee on the Judiciary. tion, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- By Mr. FRIST (for himself and Mr. EC–7832. A communication from the Direc- port of a rule entitled ‘‘Schedules of Con- DASCHLE): tor, Regulations Policy and Management trolled Substances; Placement of 2,5– Staff, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- S. Con. Res. 116. A concurrent resolution Dimethoxy–4–(n)– providing for conditional adjournment or re- port of a rule entitled ‘‘Food Additives Per- propylthiophenethylamine[2C–T–7] and B– mitted in Feed and Drinking Water of Ani- cess of the Senate and the House of Rep- Benzylpiperazine [BZP] Into Schedule I of resentatives; considered and agreed to. mals; Natamycin’’ (Doc. No. 1995F–0221) re- the Controlled Substances Act’’ () received ceived on June 1, 2004; to the Committee on on June 1, 2004; to the Committee on the Ju- f Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. diciary. ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS EC–7833. A communication from the Chair- EC–7843. A communication from the Dep- man, National Foundation on the Arts and uty Assistant Administrator, Office of Diver- S. 98 the Humanities, transmitting, the Founda- sion Control, Drug Enforcement Administra- At the request of Mr. ALLARD, the tion’s Annual report on the Arts and Arti- tion, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- name of the Senator from New Mexico facts Indemnity Program for Fiscal Year port of a rule entitled ‘‘Schedules of Con- (Mr. BINGAMAN) was added as a cospon- 2003; to the Committee on Health, Education, trolled Substances; Extension of Temporary Labor, and Pensions. Placement of Alpha-methyltryptamine and sor of S. 98, a bill to amend the Bank EC–7834. A communication from the Direc- 5–methoxy–N,N–diisopropyltryptamine Into Holding Company Act of 1956, and the tor, Corporate Policy and Research Depart- Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act’’ Revised Statutes of the United States, ment, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corpora- () received on June 1, 2004; to the Committee to prohibit financial holding companies tion, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- on the Judiciary. and national banks from engaging, di- port of a rule entitled ‘‘Benefits Payable in EC–7844. A communication from the Assist- rectly or indirectly, in real estate bro- Terminated Single-Employer Plans; Alloca- ant Attorney General, Department of Jus- tion of Assets in Single-Employer Plans; In- kerage or real estate management ac- tice, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report tivities, and for other purposes. terest Assumptions for Valuing and Paying relative to the Department’s activities under Benefits’’ received on May 26, 2004; to the the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons S. 985 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Act; to the Committee on the Judiciary. At the request of Mr. DODD, the name Pensions. EC–7845. A communication from the Direc- of the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. EC–7835. A communication from the Sec- tor, Office of National Drug Control Policy, DOMENICI) was added as a cosponsor of retary of Health and Human Services, trans- Executive Office of the President, transmit- S. 985, a bill to amend the Federal Law mitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled ting, pursuant to law, the Fiscal Year 2003 ‘‘Access to Information for Performance of Accounting of Drug Control Funds report; to Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 1990 to Radiation Dose Reconstructions’’; to the the Committee on the Judiciary. adjust the percentage differentials pay- Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and EC–7846. A communication from the Chair- able to Federal law enforcement offi- Pensions. man, Naval Sea Cadet Corps, transmitting, cers in certain high-cost areas, and for EC–7836. A communication from the Assist- pursuant to law, the 2003 Audit of the Naval other purposes. ant Secretary for Administration and Man- Sea Cadet Corps; to the Committee on the S. 1411 agement, Department of Labor, transmit- Judiciary. At the request of Mr. KERRY, the ting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a f final rule to implement the Age Discrimina- names of the Senator from Massachu- tion Act of 1975; to the Committee on Health, INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND setts (Mr. KENNEDY) and the Senator Education, Labor, and Pensions. JOINT RESOLUTIONS from California (Mrs. BOXER) were EC–7837. A communication from the Assist- The following bills and joint resolu- added as cosponsors of S. 1411, a bill to ant Secretary, Employee Benefits Security tions were introduced, read the first establish a National Housing Trust Administration, Department of Labor, trans- Fund in the Treasury of the United mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule and second times by unanimous con- entitled ‘‘Final Rules Relating to Health sent, and referred as indicated: States to provide for the development Care Continuation Coverage’’ (RIN1210–AA60) By Mr. HAGEL: of decent, safe, and affordable housing received on May 26, 2004; to the Committee S. 2509. A bill to extend the water service for low-income families, and for other on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. contract for the Ainsworth Unit, Sandhills purposes.

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Res. 81, a concurrent res- name of the Senator from Minnesota States Code, to authorize the Secretary olution expressing the deep concern of (Mr. DAYTON) was added as a cosponsor of Veterans Affairs to furnish care for Congress regarding the failure of the of S. 1700, a bill to eliminate the sub- newborn children of women veterans Islamic Republic of Iran to adhere to stantial backlog of DNA samples col- receiving maternity care, and for other its obligations under a safeguards lected from crime scenes and convicted purposes. agreement with the International offenders, to improve and expand the S. 2421 Atomic Energy Agency and the engage- DNA testing capacity of Federal, At the request of Mr. KENNEDY, the ment by Iran in activities that appear State, and local crime laboratories, to name of the Senator from New Jersey to be designed to develop nuclear weap- increase research and development of (Mr. CORZINE) was added as a cosponsor ons. new DNA testing technologies, to de- of S. 2421, a bill to modernize the S. CON. RES. 110 velop new training programs regarding health care system through the use of At the request of Mr. CAMPBELL, the the collection and use of DNA evidence, information technology and to reduce names of the Senator from Wisconsin to provide post-conviction testing of costs, improve quality, and provide a (Mr. FEINGOLD) and the Senator from DNA evidence to exonerate the inno- new focus on prevention with respect Maryland (Ms. MIKULSKI) were added as cent, to improve the performance of to health care. cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 110, a con- current resolution expressing the sense counsel in State capital cases, and for S. 2425 of Congress in support of the ongoing other purposes. At the request of Mr. COCHRAN, the S. 1900 work of the Organization for Security name of the Senator from Alabama and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in At the request of Mr. LUGAR, the (Mr. SESSIONS) was added as a cospon- combating anti-Semitism, racism, xen- name of the Senator from Louisiana sor of S. 2425, a bill to amend the Tariff ophobia, discrimination, intolerance, (Ms. LANDRIEU) was added as a cospon- Act of 1930 to allow for improved ad- and related violence. sor of S. 1900, a bill to amend the Afri- ministration of new shipper adminis- S. CON. RES. 111 can Growth and Opportunity Act to ex- trative reviews. At the request of Mr. FEINGOLD, the pand certain trade benefits to eligible S. 2426 sub-Saharan African countries, and for name of the Senator from Wisconsin At the request of Mr. NELSON of Ne- (Mr. KOHL) was added as a cosponsor of other purposes. braska, the name of the Senator from S. Con. Res. 111, a concurrent resolu- S. 2015 North Dakota (Mr. CONRAD) was added tion expressing the sense of the Con- At the request of Ms. CANTWELL, the as a cosponsor of S. 2426, a bill to gress that a commemorative stamp names of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. amend title XVIII of the Social Secu- should be issued in honor of the centen- REID), the Senator from Washington rity Act to clarify the treatment of nial anniversary of Rotary Inter- (Mrs. MURRAY) and the Senator from payment under the medicare program national and its work to eradicate California (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) were added for clinical laboratory tests furnished polio. as cosponsors of S. 2015, a bill to pro- by critical access hospitals. S. CON. RES. 113 hibit energy market manipulation. S. 2496 At the request of Mr. SMITH, the S. 2056 At the request of Mr. BAYH, the name name of the Senator from Alabama At the request of Mr. BROWNBACK, the of the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. (Mr. SESSIONS) was added as a cospon- name of the Senator from Montana LANDRIEU) was added as a cosponsor of sor of S. Con. Res. 113, a concurrent (Mr. BURNS) was added as a cosponsor S. 2496, a bill to provide for the relief of resolution recognizing the importance of S. 2056, a bill to increase the pen- Helen L. O’Leary. of early diagnosis, proper treatment, alties for violations by television and S.J. RES. 36 and enhanced public awareness of radio broadcasters of the prohibitions At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the Tourette Syndrome and supporting the against transmission of obscene, inde- name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. goals and ideals of National Tourette cent, and profane language. REID) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Syndrome Awareness Month. S. 2138 Res. 36, a joint resolution approving S. RES. 221 At the request of Mr. GRAHAM of the renewal of import restrictions con- At the request of Mr. SARBANES, the South Carolina, the names of the Sen- tained in Burmese Freedom and De- names of the Senator from Texas (Mrs. ator from South Carolina (Mr. HOL- mocracy Act of 2003. HUTCHISON), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. CHAMBLISS) and the Senator from LINGS), the Senator from New York S.J. RES. 39 Florida (Mr. GRAHAM) were added as (Mrs. CLINTON), the Senator from Cali- At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the cosponsors of S. Res. 221, a resolution fornia (Mrs. BOXER) and the Senator name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. recognizing National Historically from North Dakota (Mr. DORGAN) were REID) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. added as cosponsors of S. 2138, a bill to Black Colleges and Universities and Res. 39, a joint resolution approving the importance and accomplishments protect the rights of American con- the renewal of import restrictions con- sumers to diagnose, service, and repair of historically Black colleges and uni- tained in the Burmese Freedom and versities. motor vehicles purchased in the United Democracy Act of 2003. States, and for other purposes. S. RES. 269 S. CON. RES. 74 At the request of Mr. LEVIN, the S. 2283 At the request of Mrs. CLINTON, the names of the Senator from Wisconsin At the request of Mr. GREGG, the names of the Senator from Utah (Mr. (Mr. FEINGOLD) and the Senator from name of the Senator from Mississippi HATCH), the Senator from New Mexico South Dakota (Mr. JOHNSON) were (Mr. LOTT) was added as a cosponsor of (Mr. BINGAMAN), the Senator from Mas- added as cosponsors of S. Res. 269, a S. 2283, a bill to extend Federal funding sachusetts (Mr. KERRY) and the Sen- resolution urging the Government of for operation of State high risk health ator from Connecticut (Mr. DODD) were Canada to end the commercial seal insurance pools. added as cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 74, hunt that opened on November 15, 2003. S. 2298 a concurrent resolution expressing the S. RES. 357 At the request of Mr. BREAUX, the sense of the Congress that a postage At the request of Mr. CAMPBELL, the name of the Senator from Virginia (Mr. stamp should be issued as a testimonial name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. ALLEN) was added as a cosponsor of S. to the Nation’s tireless commitment to FITZGERALD) was added as a cosponsor 2298, a bill to amend the Internal Rev- reuniting America’s missing children of S. Res. 357, a resolution designating enue Code of 1986 to improve the oper- with their families, and to honor the the week of August 8 through August ation of employee stock ownership memories of those children who were 14, 2004, as ‘‘National Health Center plans, and for other purposes. victims of abduction and murder. Week.’’ S. 2417 S. CON. RES. 81 AMENDMENT NO. 3400 At the request of Mr. COLEMAN, the At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the At the request of Mr. FEINGOLD, the name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. name of the Senator from New Mexico name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr.

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Hydrologists have deter- filtration facility to treat its San Juan partment of Defense, for military con- mined that, because of absence or dete- Chama Project water. struction, and for defense activities of rioration of sewer and water infra- The bill I introduce today would pro- the Department of Energy, to prescribe structure in the basin, an alarming 75 vide the sum of $3 million at a 25 per- personnel strengths for such fiscal year percent of well samples taken had sig- cent Federal cost share to complete for the Armed Services, and for other nificant contamination of both total this critically necessary project. purposes. coli form and fecal coli form. Their in- These are two problems are rep- AMENDMENT NO. 3432 dividual wells are further tainted by resentative of many we have just begun At the request of Mr. ALLEN, his high levels of total dissolved solids. Be- to address. There are no easy answers name was added as a cosponsor of cause of the unreliability of the well or solutions to the western state’s amendment No. 3432 intended to be pro- water, many residents use water from water woes. New Mexico and much of posed to S. 2400, an original bill to au- irrigation ditches for drinking. This the Western United States will face thorize appropriations for fiscal year water, too, was found to have high lev- these and other problems for years to 2005 for military activities of the De- els of fecal coli form contamination. come. However, preserving the liveli- partment of Defense, for military con- The water contamination in Chimayo hood of my home state requires that struction, and for defense activities of is so desperate that in 2001, then-Gov- we address these issues instantly and the Department of Energy, to prescribe ernor Gary Johnson declared the re- vigorously. I hope the Senate will give personnel strengths for such fiscal year gion an emergency area and had the this bill its every consideration. for the Armed Services, and for other National Guard bring in tanker trucks I ask unanimous consent that the purposes. to provide potable water to the area text of the bill be printed in the every other day. Chimayo is still in AMENDMENT NO. 3437 RECORD. ‘‘emergency status’’ and the tanker At the request of Mr. BUNNING, the There being no objection, the bill was trucks still provide the only potable name of the Senator from Alaska (Mr. ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as water to many of the citizens. This STEVENS) was added as a cosponsor of follows: state of affairs is clearly unacceptable amendment No. 3437 intended to be pro- S. 2511 in the most technologically advanced posed to S. 2400, an original bill to au- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- and wealthy country on earth. thorize appropriations for fiscal year resentatives of the United States of America in The bill I introduce today would pro- Congress assembled, 2005 for military activities of the De- vide emergency water treatment as- partment of Defense, for military con- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. sistance to Chimayo so that its com- This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Chimayo struction, and for defense activities of munities’ citizens no longer have to the Department of Energy, to prescribe Water Supply System and Espanola Filtra- rely on water tankers for their water. tion Facility Act of 2004’’. personnel strengths for such fiscal year In addition, it would direct the Interior TITLE I—CHIMAYO WATER SUPPLY for the Armed Services, and for other Secretary to perform an assessment of purposes. SYSTEM water resources in the area and to help SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS. f the city of Chimayo to make good deci- In this title: STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED sions about a regional water system. (1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ Ever decreasing water supplies in BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS means the Secretary of the Interior, acting Espanola, New Mexico have also through the Commissioner of Reclamation. By Mr. DOMENICI (for himself reached critical levels and require im- (2) STUDY AREA.—The term ‘‘study area’’ and Mr. BINGAMAN): mediate action. means the Santa Cruz River Valley in the S. 2511. A bill to direct the Secretary The city of Espanola’s current water eastern margin of the Espanola Basin. of the Interior to conduct a feasibility system produced approximately 1,000 (3) SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘system’’ means a water supply system described in section study of a Chimayo water supply sys- gallons per minute less than is needed tem, to provide for the planning, de- 102(a). to provide for its current population. (4) TOWN.—The term ‘‘Town’’ means the sign, and construction of a water sup- This production shortfall has resulted town of Chimayo, New Mexico, located in ply, reclamation, and filtration facility in insufficient water pressure through- Rio Arriba County and Santa Fe County, for Espanola, New Mexico, and for out the city. The chronic lack of pres- New Mexico. other purposes; to the Committee on sure is prevalent especially in the por- SEC. 102. CHIMAYO WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM FEA- Energy and Natural Resources. tion of the city where the Espanola SIBILITY STUDY. Mr DOMENICI. Mr. President, my Hospital is located. The city has twice (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in co- home State of New Mexico is currently declared a state of emergency due to operation with appropriate State and local facing the greatest threat to its pros- lack of adequate water and water pres- authorities, shall conduct a study to deter- perity that I have witnessed during my mine the feasibility of constructing a water sure. As a result, the city has called on supply system for the Town in the study area 31-year tenures as a United States Sen- the National Guard to supply water to that includes potable water transmission ator. The threat is one that we all too the hospital. lines, pump stations, and storage reservoirs. often take for granted: the availability Further exacerbating the problem, (b) SCOPE OF STUDY.—In conducting the of water. the city has been unable to make good study under subsection (a), the Secretary I rise today to introduce a bill that use of its water resources. Although it shall— would address New Mexico’s most ur- has been allocated 1,000 acre feet per (1) consider operating the system in con- gent water needs. annum of San-Juan Chama Project nection with the Espanola Water Filtration The water problems facing New Mex- Facility; and water by the Bureau of Reclamation, (2) consider various options for supplying ico are twofold. The State faces both the city is unable to divert this water water to the Town, including connection to a water supply shortages and the con- due to inadequate water infrastructure. regional water source, local sources, sources tamination of the scarce water re- Instead of making use of its available distributed throughout the Town, and sources it does have. This has resulted San Juan Chama water, the city has sources located on adjacent Bureau of Land in inadequate water supplies to meet been depleting its limited groundwater, Management land; our State’s needs, causing great hard- a resource which the city needs to save (3) consider reusing or recycling water ship to New Mexico communities. for years of reduced surface flows. from local or regional sources; New Mexico faces significant con- I commend the efforts of Espanola to (4) consider using alternative water sup- plies such as surface water, brackish water, tamination of both surface and sub- secure funding for infrastructure nec- nonpotable water, or deep aquifer ground- surface water stores. Nowhere is this essary to make use of its San-Juan water; and more evident than in the centuries-old Chama Project water. To date, the city (5) determine the total lifecycle costs of community of Chimayo. The 3,000 citi- has secured funding for a necessary di- the system, including—

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Espanola, New Mexico, for the construction (c) DEADLINE FOR STUDY.—As soon as prac- of an Espanola water filtration facility con- formation is often incomplete or out- ticable after the date of enactment of this sisting of projects— of-date, or pharmacy access informa- Act, but not later than 3 years after the date (1) to divert and fully use imported water tion is incorrect. of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary to meet future demands in the greater The bottom line is that the program, shall complete the study. Espanola, New Mexico region, including con- as implemented, overwhelms seniors (d) COST SHARING.—The Federal share of struction of— with too many choices. Don’t get me the cost of the study shall be 75 percent. (A) presedimentation basins for removal of (e) EASEMENTS; DRILLING.— sediments; wrong. I like choice. But when it comes (1) EASEMENTS.—The Secretary may re- (B) an influent pump station to supply to 60,000 different drugs purchased with serve any easements on Bureau of Land Man- water into treatment facilities; 73 discount cards at over 50,000 phar- agement land adjacent to the study area (C) a pretreatment facility; macies, the combinations seem endless that are necessary to carry out this section. (D) filtration facilities; for a senior with several different pre- (2) DRILLING.—The Secretary, in coopera- (E) finished water storage facilities; scriptions to be filled. On top of that, tion with the Director of the United States (F) a finished water booster pump station; the prices can change weekly. Geological Survey, may drill any explor- (G) sludge dewatering facilities; and atory wells on Bureau of Land Management Besides the number of cards, seniors (H) potable water transmission lines to also hesitate to purchase a card be- land adjacent to the study area that are nec- connect into the water distribution facilities essary to determine water resources avail- of the city of Espanola, New Mexico; and cause they are concerned about the able for the Town. (2) to use reclaimed water to enhance lack of reliability in coverage and (f) REPORT.—The Secretary shall submit to groundwater resources and surface water available discounts. Congress a report on the results of the feasi- supplies. Once seniors choose a card, they are bility study as soon as practicable after the (b) PARTICIPATION.—The Secretary may locked into that card until the open en- date of enactment of this Act, but not later provide financial assistance to the Santa rollment period at the end of the year. than the earlier of— Clara and San Juan Pueblos of New Mexico During the time when they are locked (1) the date that is 1 year after the date of and the non-Federal sponsors of the facility completion of the feasibility study; or for the study, planning, design, and con- in, the drug card program sponsor is al- (2) the date that is 4 years after the date of struction of a water delivery resource and in- lowed to reduce the discounts provided, enactment of this Act. frastructure development for the Santa drop coverage of a drug, or even drop SEC. 103. EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLY DEVELOP- Clara and San Juan Pueblos as a component its program altogether—leaving seniors MENT ASSISTANCE. of the facility. without drug coverage and forcing (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may enter (c) COST SHARING.—The Federal share of them to go through the sign up proce- into contracts with water authorities in the the total cost of the facility and the compo- dure over again. I don’t think this is study area to provide emergency water sup- nent shall not exceed 25 percent. ply development assistance to any eligible (d) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—Funds fair for seniors or a wise policy for person or entity, as the Secretary deter- provided by the Secretary may not be used Medicare. mines to be appropriate. for the operation or maintenance of the fa- Faced with this complexity, seniors (b) ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary cility or the component. are simply choosing not to sign up. So may provide assistance under subsection (a) SEC. 203. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. far, of the 15 million seniors estimated for— There is authorized to be appropriated for to be eligible for the drug card pro- (1) hauling water; the construction of the facility $3,000,000 for gram, fewer than 500,000 have signed up (2) the installation of water purification the period of fiscal years 2005 through 2009. technology at the community wells or indi- voluntarily. Another 2.4 million have vidual point-of-use; By Mr. CONRAD: been signed up automatically by their (3) the drilling of wells; S. 2512. A bill to amend title XVIII of HMO. (4) the installation of pump stations and the Social Security Act to simplify the If seniors want anything, it’s sim- storage reservoirs; medicare prescription drug card pro- plicity, consistency, and reliability. (5) the installation of transmission and dis- gram, and for other purposes; to the That’s why I am introducing the Drug tribution pipelines to bring water to indi- Discount Card Simplification Act. My vidual residential service connections; Committee on Finance. (6) the engineering, design, and installa- Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, today I bill has three provisions. tion of an emergency water supply system; am introducing the Drug Discount First, my bill would require the Sec- and Card Simplification Act, which will retary to select the best three discount (7) any other eligible activity, as the Sec- take needed steps to improve the Medi- cards in each region. The Secretary retary determines to be appropriate. care-approved drug discount card pro- would choose among the existing ap- (c) COST SHARING.—The Federal share of gram. proved cards and base his decision on the cost of any activity assisted under this The drug discount card program was the following three factors: (1) which section shall be 75 percent. designed to provide seniors with tem- cards give the deepest discounts; (2) SEC. 104. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. which cards cover the widest range of (a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be porary relief from high drug costs until appropriated— the full Medicare drug benefit starts in drugs; and (3) which cards make it easi- (1) to carry out section 102, $2,000,000 for 2006. This program has the potential to est for seniors to get their drugs by the period of fiscal years 2005 through 2008; give real help to low income seniors in having the widest network of partici- and particular, because it will give them up pating pharmacies. (2) to carry out section 103, $3,000,000 for to $600 both this year and next year to- Second, my legislation would pro- the period of fiscal years 2005 through 2010. ward their prescription drug purchases. hibit drug card sponsors from offering (b) LIMITATION.—Amounts made available Unfortunately, the way the program discounts that are less than the dis- under subsection (a)(1) shall not be available for the construction of water infrastructure has been implemented is unnecessarily counts seniors are promised during the for the system. confusing. In talking to North Dako- sign-up period. TITLE II—ESPANOLA WATER FILTRATION tans, I have heard repeatedly that sen- Finally, the bill I introduce today FACILITY iors are finding it extremely difficult will protect seniors’ access to drugs by SEC. 201. DEFINITIONS. to figure out which card, if any, is requiring discount drug card sponsors In this title: right for them. And no wonder. The to continue offering coverage of a drug (1) COMPONENT.—The term ‘‘component’’ media are full of stories detailing how throughout the duration of the pro- means a water delivery resource or infra- difficult it is to get accurate informa- gram. structure development described in section tion about the program. By simplifying the program, my bill 202(b). The 1–800–MEDICARE phone help line will increase participation, ensuring (2) FACILITY.—The term ‘‘facility’’ means is continuously busy. When someone fi- that seniors can benefit from the dis- the Espanola water filtration facility de- scribed in section 202(a). nally answers the phone, the operators counts that are being provided. And it (3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ often can’t answer seniors’ questions will help smooth the path for success- means the Secretary of the Interior, acting or, even worse, give incorrect informa- ful implementation of the drug benefit through the Commissioner of Reclamation. tion. itself in 2006.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S6632 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 8, 2004 Now, some may argue that my bill of a holiday devoted to peace and un- House and the Minority Leader of the Sen- will eliminate competition. I disagree. derstanding amongst the global com- ate, shall notify the Members of the House My bill will increase competition by munity. They envisioned a day to cele- and the Senate, respectively, to reassemble encouraging sponsors to offer the best brate life and extend hands in friend- at such place and time as they may des- discounts available in order to be ap- ignate whenever, in their opinion, the public ship, rather than in violence, in an ef- interest shall warrant it. proved as one of the three cards. In ad- fort to overcome world events that dition, my idea is not new; in fact it is have produced fear, hate, and grief. f consistent with the Administration’s In the years leading up to the turn of proposal to limit the PPO options in the new millennium, this small group TEXT OF AMENDMENTS the Medicare Modernization Act MA to of children and their mothers peti- PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED just three per region. tioned Congress and the United Na- I believe my legislation will provide tions for the establishment of a one- SA 3375. Mr. VOINOVICH (for him- better discount drug cards for seniors day peaceful celebration. As a result of self, Mr. AKAKA, Ms. COLLINS, and Mr. and make it easier for them to sign up their efforts, ‘‘One Day of Peace Janu- LIEBERMAN) submitted an amendment for these benefits. I urge my colleagues ary 1, 2000’’ was officially designated by intended to be proposed by him to the to support this legislation. the United Nations General Assembly bill S. 2400, to authorize appropriations f and supported by more than 1,000 orga- for fiscal year 2005 for military activi- ties of the Department of Defense, for SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS nizations, more than 100 governments, and 25 U.S. Governors. ‘‘One Day of military construction, and for defense Peace January 1, 2000’’ was a 24-hour activities of the Department of Energy, SENATE RESOLUTION 372—DESIG- period during which the people of the to prescribe personnel strengths for NATING JANUARY 1 OF EACH world united for a virtually violence- such fiscal year for the Armed Serv- YEAR AS ‘‘GLOBAL FAMILY free day devoted to positive inter- ices, and for other purposes; which was DAY’’ actions amongst different races and ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Mr. INOUYE (for himself and Mr. cultures. SA 3375. Mr. VOINOVICH submitted COLEMAN) submitted the following res- The U.S. Congress unanimously ap- an amendment intended to be proposed olution; which was referred to the proved a resolution recognizing ‘‘One by him to the bill S. 3400, to authorize Committee on the Judiciary: Day of Peace January 1, 2000.’’ appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for The resolution I am submitting S. RES. 372 military activities of the Department today will give our nation’s citizens an Whereas in this perilous time of inter- of Defense, for military construction, opportunity to renew the teachings of national unrest, it is vital that all means and for defense activities of the De- ‘‘One Day of Peace January 1, 2000’’ by possible for the restoration of peace and the partment of Energy, to prescribe per- reduction of hate, terror, hunger, and disease designating January first of each year sonnel strengths for such fiscal year be pursued with diligence; as Global Family Day. Congressional for the Armed Services, and for other Whereas the people of the world are inex- recognition of Global Family Day will purposes; which was ordered to lie on tricably linked as 1 human family; provide an opportunity for Americans Whereas the people of the world are in need the table; as follows: of a shared tradition to acknowledge and cel- to discuss and educate themselves on how to end inter-cultural fear, mis- At the appropriate place, insert the fol- ebrate mutual kinship; lowing: Whereas shared holidays strongly influence trust and alienation. I invite my colleagues to join me in SECTION 1. PAYMENT OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEE the creation and maintenance of bonds HEALTH BENEFIT PREMIUMS. among faiths and cultural and national support of Global Family Day and the (a) AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE BENEFIT COV- groups, and the lack of such bonds may in- designation of January first of every ERAGE.—Section 8905a of title 5, United vite mistrust and conflict; year as a day to appreciate and learn States Code is amended— Whereas the United Nations General As- about other cultures and communities, (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘para- sembly, through the passage of United Na- in an effort to bring people all over the graph (1) or (2) of’’; tions General Assembly Resolution 54/29 of world closer together. (2) in subsection (b)— November 18, 1999, and United Nations Gen- (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘and’’ eral Assembly Resolution 56/2 of October 30, SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLU- at the end; 2001, and many foreign heads of state have (B) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking the pe- recognized the importance of establishing an TION 116—PROVIDING FOR CONDI- riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and annual shared global tradition of 1 day of TIONAL ADJOURNMENT OR RE- (C) by adding at the end the following: peace; CESS OF THE SENATE AND THE ‘‘(3) any employee who— Whereas the Congress, through the unani- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ‘‘(A) is enrolled in a health benefits plan mous adoption on December 15, 2000, of Sen- Mr. FRIST (for himself and Mr. under this chapter; ate Concurrent Resolution 138, 106th Con- ‘‘(B) is a member of a Reserve component gress, has encouraged the adoption of a day DASCHLE) submitted the following con- of the armed forces; dedicated to all those members of the human current resolution; which was consid- ‘‘(C) is called or ordered to active duty in family who are suffering and to the develop- ered and agreed to: support of a contingency operation (as de- ment of strong global family values; and Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep- fined in section 101(a)(13) of title 10); Whereas on this 1 day of peace and sharing, resentatives concurring), That when the Sen- ‘‘(D) is placed on leave without pay or sep- now commonly called ‘‘Global Family Day’’, ate recesses or adjourns on Wednesday, June arated from service to perform active duty; people around the world are called to recog- 9, 2004, on a motion offered pursuant to this and nize and celebrate its mission by gathering concurrent resolution by its Majority Leader ‘‘(E) serves on active duty for a period of with their family, friends, neighbors, faith or his designee, it stand recessed or ad- more than 30 consecutive days.’’; and communities, and with people of another journed until noon on Monday, June 14, 2004, (3) in subsection (e)(1)— culture, to share food, traditions, and mu- or at such other time on that day as may be (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘or’’ tual pledges of nonviolence: Now, therefore, specified by its Majority Leader or his des- at the end; be it ignee in the motion to recess or adjourn, or (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the pe- Resolved, That the Senate— until the time of any reassembly pursuant to riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and (1) designates January 1 of each year as section 2 of this concurrent resolution, (C) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘Global Family Day’’; and whichever occurs first; and that when the ‘‘(C) in the case of an employee described (2) requests that the President issue a House adjourns on the legislative day of in subsection (b)(3), the date which is 24 proclamation calling upon the people of the Wednesday, June 9, 2004, it stand adjourned months after the employee is placed on leave United States to observe this day of peace until 12:30 p.m. on Monday, June 14, 2004, for without pay or separated from service to per- and sharing with appropriate ceremonies and morning-hour debate, or until the time of form active duty.’’. activities. (b) AUTHORITY FOR AGENCIES TO PAY PRE- Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, I am any reassembly pursuant to section 2 of this concurrent resolution, whichever occurs MIUMS.—Subparagraph (C) of section pleased to submit a resolution to des- first. 8906(e)(3) of such title is amended by striking ignate January first of each year as SEC. 2. The Speaker of the House and the ‘‘18 months’’ and inserting ‘‘24 months’’. Global Family Day. Majority Leader of the Senate, or their re- (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments More than 30 years ago, a small spective designees, acting jointly after con- made by this section shall take effect on group of inner-city children conceived sultation with the Minority Leader of the March 1, 2003.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6633 SA 3409. Mr. DASCHLE submitted per capita baseline amount equal to the per- search or other analysis to find a pattern in- and amendment intended to be pro- centage by which— dicating terrorist or other criminal activity. posed by him to the bill S. 2400, to au- ‘‘(i) the Consumer Price Index (all Urban (2) DATABASE.—The term ‘‘database’’ does not include telephone directories, informa- thorize appropriations for fiscal year Consumers, United States City Average, Hos- pital and related services, Seasonally Ad- tion publicly available via the Internet or 2005 for military activities of the De- justed), published by the Bureau of Labor available by any other means to any member partment of Defense, for military con- Statistics of the Department of Labor for the of the public without payment of a fee, or struction, and for defense activities on 12-month period ending on the June 30 pre- databases of judicial and administrative the Department of Energy, to prescribe ceding the beginning of the fiscal year for opinions. personnel strengths for such fiscal year which the increase is made, exceeds (c) REPORTS ON DATA-MINING ACTIVITIES.— (1) REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT.—The head of for the Armed Services, and for other ‘‘(ii) such Consumer Price Index for the 12- month period preceding the 12-month period each department or agency of the Federal purposes; which was ordered to lie on Government that is engaged in any activity the table; as follows: described in clause (i). ‘‘(c)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), to use or develop data-mining technology SA 3409. Mr. DASCHLE submitted an the purposes for which amounts made avail- shall each submit a public report to Congress amendment intended to be proposed to able pursuant to subsection (a) shall be all on all such activities of the department or amendment SA 2400, submitted by Mr. programs, functions, and activities of the agency under the jurisdiction of that offi- Veterans Health Administration. cial. GRASSLEY (for himself and Mr. BAUCUS) (2) CONTENT OF REPORT.—A report sub- ‘‘(2) Amounts made available pursuant to and intended to be proposed to the bill mitted under paragraph (1) shall include, for subsection (a) are not available for— S. 1072, to authorize funds for Federal- each activity to use or develop data-mining ‘‘(A) construction, acquisition, or alter- technology that is required to be covered by aid highways, highway safety pro- ation of medical facilities as provided in sub- the report, the following information: grams, and transit programs, and for chapter I of chapter 81 of this title (other (A) A thorough description of the data- other purposes; which was ordered to than for such repairs as were provided for be- mining technology and the data that will be lie on the table; as follows: fore the date of the enactment of this section used. At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the through the Medical Care appropriation for (B) A thorough discussion of the plans for following: the Department); or the use of such technology and the target SEC. 1068. FUNDING FOR VETERANS HEALTH ‘‘(B) grants under subchapter III of chapter dates for the deployment of the data-mining CARE TO ADDRESS CHANGES IN 81 of this title.’’. technology. POPULATION AND INFLATION. (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of (C) An assessment of the likely efficacy of (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 3 of title 38, sections at the beginning of such chapter is the data-mining technology in providing ac- United States Code, is amended by adding at amended by adding at the end the following curate and valuable information consistent the end the following new section: new item: with the stated plans for the use of the tech- ‘‘§ 320. Funding for veterans health care to ‘‘320. Funding for veterans health care to ad- nology. address changes in population and infla- dress changes in population and (D) An assessment of the likely impact of tion inflation.’’. the implementation of the data-mining tech- nology on privacy and civil liberties. ‘‘(a) For each fiscal year, the Secretary of Mr. LEAHY submitted an the Treasury shall make available to the SA 3411. (E) A list and analysis of the laws and reg- Secretary of Veterans Affairs the amount de- amendment intended to be proposed by ulations that govern the information to be termined under subsection (b) with respect him to the bill S. 2400, to authorize ap- collected, reviewed, gathered, and analyzed to that fiscal year. Each such amount is propriations for fiscal year 2005 for with the data-mining technology and a de- available, without fiscal year limitation, for military activities of the Department scription of any modifications of such laws that will be required to use the information the programs, functions, and activities of the of Defense, for military construction, Veterans Health Administration, as specified in the manner proposed under such program. and for defense activities of the De- (F) A thorough discussion of the policies, in subsection (c). partment of Energy, to prescribe per- procedures, and guidelines that are to be de- ‘‘(b)(1) The amount applicable to fiscal veloped and applied in the use of such tech- year 2005 under this subsection is the amount sonnel strengths for such fiscal year nology for data-mining in order to— equal to— for the Armed Services, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on (i) protect the privacy and due process ‘‘(A) 130 percent of the amount obligated rights of individuals; and by the Department during fiscal year 2003 for the table; as follows: (ii) ensure that only accurate information the purposes specified in subsection (c), is collected and used. minus SA 3411. Mr. LEVIN submitted an (G) A thorough discussion of the proce- ‘‘(B) the amount appropriated for those amendment intended to be proposed by dures allowing individuals whose personal in- purposes for fiscal year 2004. him to the bill S. 2400, to authorize ap- formation will be used in the data-mining ‘‘(2) The amount applicable to any fiscal propriations for fiscal year 2005 for technology to be informed of the use of their year after fiscal year 2005 under this sub- military activities of the Department personal information and what procedures section is the amount equal to the product of are in place to allow for individuals to opt the following, minus the amount appro- of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the De- out of the technology. If no such procedures priated for the purposes specified for sub- are in place, a thorough explanation as to section (c) for fiscal year 2004: partment of Energy, to prescribe per- why not. ‘‘(A) The sum of— sonnel strengths for such fiscal year (H) Any necessary classified information in ‘‘(i) the number of veterans enrolled in the for the Armed Services, and for other an annex that shall be available to the Com- Department health care system under sec- purposes; which was ordered to lie on mittee on Governmental Affairs, the Com- tion 1705 of this title as of July 1 preceding the table; as follows: mittee on the Judiciary, and the Committee the beginning of such fiscal year; and on Appropriations of the Senate and the At the appropriate place, insert the fol- ‘‘(ii) the number of persons eligible for Committee on Homeland Security, the Com- lowing: health care under chapter 17 of this title who mittee on the Judiciary, and the Committee are not covered by clause (i) and who were SEC. ll. DATA-MINING REPORTING ACT OF 2003. on Appropriations of the House of Represent- provided hospital care or medical services (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be atives. under such chapter at any time during the cited as the ‘‘Data-Mining Reporting Act of (3) TIME FOR REPORT.—Each report required fiscal year preceding such fiscal year. 2003’’. under paragraph (1) shall be— ‘‘(B) The per capita baseline amount, as in- (b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: (A) submitted not later than 90 days after creased from time to time pursuant to para- (1) DATA-MINING.—The term ‘‘data-mining’’ the date of the enactment of this Act; and graph (3)(B). means a query or search or other analysis of (B) updated once a year and include any ‘‘(3)(A) For purposes of paragraph (12)(B), 1 or more electronic databases, where— new data-mining technologies. the term ‘per capita baseline amount’ means (A) at least 1 of the databases was obtained f the amount equal to— from or remains under the control of a non- ‘‘(i) the amount obligated by the Depart- Federal entity, or the information was ac- NOTICES OF HEARINGS/MEETINGS ment during fiscal year 2004 for the purposes quired initially by another department or COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL specified in subsection (c), divided by agency of the Federal Government for pur- RESOURCES ‘‘(ii) the number of veterans enrolled in the poses other than intelligence or law enforce- Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I Department health care system under sec- ment; would like to announce for the infor- tion 1705 of this title as of September 30, (B) the search does not use a specific indi- 2003. vidual’s personal identifies to acquire infor- mation of the Senate and the public ‘‘(B) With respect to any fiscal year, the mation concerning that individual; and the postponement of a hearing sched- Secretary shall provide a percentage in- (C) a department or agency of the Federal uled before the Committee on Energy crease (rounded to the nearest dollar) in the Government is conducting the query or and Natural Resources.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S6634 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 8, 2004 The hearing which was previously Senate Office Building, to hear testi- tist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, scheduled for Thursday, June 10 at 10 mony on Medicare Drug Card: Deliv- Washington, DC. a.m. has been postponed until Tuesday, ering Savings for Participating bene- Panel III: Professor Richard W. Gar- June 15th at 10 a.m. in Room SD–366 of ficiaries. nett, Associate Professor of Law, Notre the Dirksen Senate Office Building in The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Dame Law School, South Bend, IN; Washington, DC. objection, it is so ordered. Professor Vincent Phillip Mun˜ oz, The purpose of the hearing is to re- COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS Civitas Fellow, American Enterprise ceive testimony regarding crude oil Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I ask Institute, Assistant Professor of Polit- supply, gasoline demand and the effects unanimous consent that the Com- ical Science, North Carolina State Uni- on prices. mittee on Indian Affairs be authorized versity, Washington, DC; Professor Me- Because of the limited time available to meet on Tuesday, June 8, 2004, at 10 lissa Rogers, Wake Forest University for the hearing, witnesses may testify a.m. in Room 485 of the Russell Senate Divinity School, Winston-Salem, NC. by invitation only. However, those Office Building to conduct a hearing on Witnesses are listed in alphabetical wishing to submit written testimony S. 2436, a bill to reauthorize the Native order, not necessarily in order of testi- for the hearing record shall send two American Programs Act. mony. copies of their testimony to the Com- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without THE PRESIDING OFFICER. Without mittee on Energy and Natural Re- objection, it is so ordered. objection, it is so ordered. sources, United States Senate, SD–364 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARKS Dirksen Senate Office Building, Wash- Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I ask Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I ask ington, DC 20510–6150. unanimous consent that the Com- unanimous consent that the Sub- For further information, please con- mittee on the Judiciary be authorized committee on National Parks of the tact Lisa Epifani at 202–224–5269 or to meet to conduct a hearing on Tues- Committee on Energy and Natural Re- Shane Perkins at 202–224–7555. day, June 8, 2004 at 10 a.m. on ‘‘DOJ sources be authorized to meet during COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL Oversight: Terrorism and Other Top- the session of the Senate on Tuesday, RESOURCES ics’’ in the Dirksen Senate Office June 8, 2004 at 2:30 p.m. Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I Building Room 226. The Honorable The purpose of the hearing is to re- would like to announce for the infor- John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General, ceive testimony on the following bills: mation of the Senate and the public will testify. S. 931, to direct the Secretary of the In- that the following hearing has been The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without terior to undertake a program to re- scheduled before the Committee on En- objection, it is so ordered. duce the risks from and mitigate the effects of avalanches on visitors to ergy and Natural Resources: SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE The hearing will be held on Thursday Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I ask units of the National Park System and June 17th at 10 a.m. in Room SD–366 of unanimous consent that the Select on other recreational users of public the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Committee on Intelligence be author- land; S. 1678, to provide for the estab- Washington, DC. ized to meet during the session of the lishment of the Uintah Research and The purpose of the hearing is to re- Senate on June 8, 2004 at 2:30 p.m. to Curatorial Center for Dinosaur Na- ceive testimony regarding the Environ- hold a closed hearing. tional Monument in the States of Colo- mental Management Program of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without rado and Utah, and for other purposes; Department of Energy and Issues Asso- objection, it is so ordered. S. 2140, to expand the boundary of the ciated with Accelerated Cleanup. Mount Rainier National Park; S. 2287, SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGING Because of the limited time available to adjust the boundary of the Barataria Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I ask Preserve Unit of the Jean Lafitte Na- for the hearing, witnesses may testify unanimous consent that the Com- by invitation only. However, those tional Historical Park and Preserve in mittee on Health, Education, Labor, the State of Louisiana, and for other wishing to submit written testimony and Pensions, Subcommittee on Aging for the hearing record should send two purposes; and S. 2469, to amend the Na- be authorized to meet for a hearing on tional Historic Preservation Act to copies of their testimony to the Com- Arthritis: A National Epidemic during mittee on Energy and Natural Re- provide appropriation authorization the session of the Senate on Tuesday, and improve the operations of the Ad- sources, United States Senate, SD–364 June 8, 2004, at 10 a.m. in SD–430. Dirksen Senate Office Building, Wash- visory Council on Historic Preserva- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tion. ington, DC 20510–6150. objection, it is so ordered. For further information, please con- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, CIVIL tact Dr. Pete Lyons at 202–224–5861 or objection, it is so ordered. RIGHTS, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS Shane Perkins at 202–224–7555. SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNMENT Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I ask MANAGEMENT, THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE, f unanimous consent that the Com- AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO mittee on the Judiciary Subcommittee Mr. SELBY. Mr. President, I ask MEET on the Constitution, Civil Rights and unanimous consent that the Com- Property Rights be authorized to meet mittee on Governmental Affairs Sub- COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL to conduct a hearing on ‘‘Beyond the committee on Oversight of Government RESOURCES Pledge of Allegiance: Hostility to Reli- Management, the Federal Workforce Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I ask gious Expression in the Public Square’’ and the District of Columbia, be au- unanimous consent that the Com- on Tuesday, June 8, 2004, at 2 p.m. in thorized to meet on Tuesday, June 8, mittee on Energy and Natural Re- SD–226. 2004 at 2:30 p.m. for a hearing entitled, sources be authorized to meet during Panel I: The Honorable CHET ‘‘Dietary Supplement Safety Act: How the session of the Senate on Tuesday, EDWARDS, United States Representa- is FDA Doing 10 Years Later?’’ June 8 at 10 a.m. to consider the nomi- tive, (D–TX); The Honorable MARY The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without nation of Suedeen G. Kelly, to be a LANDRIEU, United States Senator, (D– objection, it is so ordered. member of the Federal Energy Regu- LA); The Honorable RICHARD SHELBY, f latory Commission for the term expir- United States Senator, (R–AL). ing June 30, 2009. Panel II: William ‘‘Barney’’ Clark, PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Balch Springs, TX; Nashala Hearn, Mr. ALLARD. Mr. President, I ask objection, it is so ordered. Muskogee, OK; The Honorable Roy unanimous consent that Patricia COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. Moore, Former Chief Justice, Supreme Kimpan, a fellow in Senator BUNNING’s Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I ask Court of Alabama, Birmingham, AL; office, be given the privilege of the unanimous consent that the Com- Steven Rosenauer, Bradenton, FL; floor during consideration of the De- mittee on Finance be authorized to Kelly J. Shackelford, Chief Counsel, partment of Defense authorization bill. meet during the session on Tuesday, Liberty Legal Institute, Plano, TX; J. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without June 8, 2004, at 10 a.m. in 215 Dirksen Brent Walker, Executive Director, Bap- objection, it is so ordered.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:48 Jan 29, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2004SENATE\S08JN4.REC S08JN4 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S6635 ORDER OF PROCEDURE PROGRAM To be rear admiral Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. President, I ask Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. President, to- REAR ADM. (LH) WILLIAM V. ALFORD JR., 0000 REAR ADM. (LH) JAMES E. BEEBE, 0000 unanimous consent that at 11:30 a.m. morrow, the Senate will be in a period REAR ADM. (LH) STEPHEN S. OSWALD, 0000 tomorrow, the Senate proceed to a res- of morning business throughout the THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT olution introduced by Senator FRIST, day. Senators who have not had a IN THE UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE TO THE GRADE the text of which is at the desk, rel- chance to deliver their statements INDICATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: ative to the death of former President commemorating President Reagan are To be rear admiral Reagan. I further ask the Senate then encouraged to do so tomorrow. REAR ADM. (LH) PAUL V. SHEBALIN, 0000 proceed to a vote on the resolution’s In addition to tribute statements, at IN THE ARMY adoption; provided that there be no 11:30 a.m. tomorrow, the Senate will THE FOLLOWING NAMED ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF amendments in order to the resolution vote on a resolution honoring our THE UNITED STATES OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT TO or preamble, and no intervening action THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE ARMY former President. That vote will be the UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12211: or debate prior to the vote. first and only vote of tomorrow’s ses- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without sion. To be colonel objection, it is so ordered. As the majority leader stated this ROBERT J. BLOK, 0000 f morning, when we adjourn early to- IN THE MARINE CORPS CONDITIONAL ADJOURNMENT OR morrow afternoon, we will remain ad- THE FOLLOWING NAMED SERVICE MEMBER FOR TEM- journed until next Monday to accom- PORARY APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN RECESS OF THE SENATE AND THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES modate the services and ceremonies U.S.C. SECTION 6222: surrounding President Reagan’s fu- To be first lieutenant Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. President, I ask neral. We will be back on the Defense unanimous consent that the Senate bill next week, and Senators should ex- MICHELLE A. RAKERS, 0000 proceed to the immediate consider- pect rollcall votes to occur Monday IN THE NAVY ation of S. Con. Res. 116, which is at evening. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT the desk; further, that the resolution TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY be agreed to and the motion to recon- f UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: sider be laid upon the table. ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 9:30 A.M. To be captain The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without TOMORROW TOBIAS J BACANER, 0000 objection, it is so ordered. CHRISTOPHER M CULP, 0000 Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. President, if LOUIS A DAMIANO, 0000 The concurrent resolution (S. Con. there is no further business to come be- RONALD F DOMMERMUTH II, 0000 Res. 116) was agreed to, as follows: ANN P FALLON, 0000 fore the Senate, I ask unanimous con- RUSSELL C GILBERT, 0000 S. CON. RES. 116 sent that the Senate stand in adjourn- WILLIAM M HALL, 0000 Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep- BRETT HART, 0000 ment under the provisions of S. Res. JERRY J HODGE III, 0000 resentatives concurring), That when the Sen- 371 as a mark of further respect for ROBERT B HUNTER III, 0000 ate recesses or adjourns on Wednesday, June JOHN S KELLOGG, 0000 9, 2004, on a motion offered pursuant to this President Ronald Wilson Reagan. JAMES E LAMAR, 0000 DAVID A LANE, 0000 concurrent resolution by its Majority Leader There being no objection, the Senate, MICHAEL R MADDOX, 0000 or his designee, it stand recessed or ad- at 6:10 p.m., adjourned until Wednes- SHAWNO E MAY, 0000 journed until noon on Monday, June 14, 2004, GEORGE J MCKENNA, 0000 day, June 9, 2004, at 9:30 a.m. MICHAEL F MCNAMARA JR., 0000 or at such other time on that day as may be f ROBERT MORALES, 0000 specified by its Majority Leader or his des- CHARLES R NIXON II, 0000 ignee in the motion to recess or adjourn, or PHILIP W PERDUE, 0000 NOMINATIONS LORING I PERRY, 0000 until the time of any reassembly pursuant to JAMES K RADIKE, 0000 section 2 of this concurrent resolution, Executive nominations received by PETER D SHERROD, 0000 whichever occurs first; and that when the the Senate June 8, 2004: JOSEPH B SLAKEY, 0000 MARK D TURNER, 0000 House adjourns on the legislative day of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GREGORY UTZ, 0000 MICHAEL S WENZEL, 0000 Wednesday, June 9, 2004, it stand adjourned LUIS LUNA, OF MARYLAND, TO BE AN ASSISTANT AD- SCOTT W ZACKOWSKI, 0000 until 12:30 p.m. on Monday, June 14, 2004, for MINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION morning-hour debate, or until the time of AGENCY, VICE MORRIS X. WINN. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY any reassembly pursuant to section 2 of this MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: concurrent resolution, whichever occurs KENNETH FRANCIS HACKETT, OF MARYLAND, TO BE A To be captain first. MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MILLEN- SEC. 2. The Speaker of the House and the NIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION FOR A TERM OF THREE CHARLENE M AULD, 0000 Majority Leader of the Senate, or their re- YEARS. (NEW POSITION) DANIEL P CLIFFORD, 0000 CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN, OF NEW JERSEY, TO BE A MARK V COLAIANNI, 0000 spective designees, acting jointly after con- MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MILLEN- EDWIN R CONNELLY, 0000 sultation with the Minority Leader of the NIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION FOR A TERM OF THREE DANIEL O ELLERT, 0000 House and the Minority Leader of the Sen- YEARS. (NEW POSITION) JOHN E FREEMAN, 0000 RICHARD E GERHARDT, 0000 ate, shall notify the Members of the House DEPARTMENT OF STATE DOUGLAS E HOBAUGH, 0000 and the Senate, respectively, to reassemble CHARLES GRAVES UNTERMEYER, OF TEXAS, TO BE AM- ANN L LAGRECO, 0000 at such place and time as they may des- BASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF PAUL G LUEPKE, 0000 JEROME MCSWAIN JR., 0000 ignate whenever, in their opinion, the public THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE STATE OF QATAR. MERLIN P OHMER, 0000 interest shall warrant it. DOUGLAS L. MCELHANEY, OF FLORIDA, A CAREER ROBERT J PETERS, 0000 MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF NANCY L REEVES, 0000 f MINISTER-COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAOR- PHILIP J RINAUDO, 0000 DINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES MICHAEL F ROCKLIN, 0000 ORDERS FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, OF AMERICA TO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. SCOTT M SMITH, 0000 2004 ALDONA WOS, OF NORTH CAROLINA, TO BE AMBAS- THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT SADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. President, I ask THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC OF UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: unanimous consent that when the Sen- ESTONIA. WILLIAM T. MONROE, OF VIRGINIA, A CAREER MEMBER To be captain ate completes its business today, it ad- OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF MINISTER- COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND DON C B ALBIA, 0000 journ until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GREGORY M BEAVERS, 0000 June 9. I further ask that following the TO THE KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN. WILLIAM P BRADLEY, 0000 MITCHELL DUKOVICH, 0000 prayer and pledge, the morning hour be IN THE ARMY ELAINE C EHRESMANN, 0000 deemed expired, the Journal of pro- THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT LINO L FRAGOSO, 0000 ceedings be approved to date, and the AS THE CHIEF, ARMY NURSE CORPS AND FOR APPOINT- GAIL L HATHAWAY, 0000 MENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., WILLIAM M HENDERSON, 0000 time for the two leaders be reserved for SECTION 3069: CYNTHIA J HILL, 0000 DIANE L HOOVER, 0000 their use later in the day, and that the To be major general BRIAN G KERR, 0000 Senate begin a period of morning busi- PETER E KOPACZ, 0000 COL. GALE S. POLLOCK, 0000 ness with Senators permitted to speak BRYCE E LEFEVER, 0000 IN THE NAVY JEFFREY A MACDONALD, 0000 therein for up to 10 minutes each. MICHAEL MATHIEU, 0000 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT SHARON M MCDONALD, 0000 IN THE UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE TO THE GRADE JOHN R MORRISON, 0000 objection, it is so ordered. INDICATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: MARTIN A PETRILLO, 0000

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DAVID E PRICE, 0000 PAUL R WRIGLEY, 0000 MICHAEL L THRALL, 0000 CORLEY E PUCKETT, 0000 DANIEL J RYAN, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT THOMAS J SAWYER, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY DAVID P SMITH JR., 0000 UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: DAVID B STRATTON, 0000 To be commander To be commander STEPHEN D TELA, 0000 WILLIAM J UPHAM, 0000 EDWARD L. AUSTIN, 0000 MICHAEL D BOSLEY, 0000 EILEEN D F VILLASANTE, 0000 NICHOLAS BALICE, 0000 SUSAN K CEROVSKY, 0000 DANIEL G WHALEN, 0000 JANE E. CAMPBELL, 0000 KIMBERLY D COBB, 0000 LEIGH M WICKES, 0000 DARRYN C. JAMES, 0000 DONALD E ELAM, 0000 SHARON K WINKLERPEISER, 0000 DAVID C. SIMS, 0000 THOMAS M ERTEL, 0000 GREGG W ZIEMKE, 0000 DORA U. L. STAGGS, 0000 KARLA J NEMEC, 0000 JOSEPH A. SURETTE, 0000 DOUGLAS A POWERS, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT DAVID H. WATERMAN, 0000 LAMIA ROLLINS, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY KENNETH L WEEKS III, 0000 UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT STEVEN G WELDON, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY KEVIN D ZIOMEK, 0000 To be captain UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: BRENDA C BAKER, 0000 To be commander THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT LINDA M BROWNVIDAL, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY JAIME A CARROLL, 0000 CARLA C BLAIR, 0000 UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: PAMELA G GRANT, 0000 KAREN M BONABY, 0000 To be commander KRISTE J M GRAU, 0000 ANN M BURKHARDT, 0000 ANNETTE N HASSELBECK, 0000 ERIC D CHENEY, 0000 WILLIAM H ANDERSON, 0000 LINDA A IRELAND, 0000 JOANNE T CUNNINGHAM, 0000 MITCHELL APPEL, 0000 PAULA M JONAK, 0000 RUSSELL J DELANEY, 0000 JAMES L BOCK JR., 0000 RANDOLPH J KIRKLAND, 0000 HOPE E DOLAN, 0000 ERIC E BORIO, 0000 RUTH A LONGENECKER, 0000 CHRISTOPHER A HARRIS, 0000 STEVEN V BROCK, 0000 JAIME A LUKE, 0000 MARION W D JACOBS, 0000 MICHAEL A BROOKES, 0000 CRUZ MATA, 0000 RONI S JOHNSON, 0000 GARY M BRUCE, 0000 MARYALICE MORRO, 0000 MARY C KELLY, 0000 LLOYD V CAFRAN, 0000 JOSEPH E PELLEGRINI, 0000 RICHARD T KING, 0000 GEOFFREY D COGAN, 0000 MARY K PERDUE, 0000 SHERRY L KIRSCHE, 0000 JOHN P COLES, 0000 SONJA M PYLE, 0000 MARY E LEWELLYN, 0000 ROBIN A Y DAHLIN, 0000 VANESSA M SCOTT, 0000 THERESA A LEWIS, 0000 SUSAN V DENI, 0000 DANETTE M SVOBODNY, 0000 CATHERINE M MASAR, 0000 GARRY W DILDAY, 0000 MICHAEL VERNERE, 0000 DEBORA R MONROE, 0000 JOSEPH A ELLENBECKER, 0000 DEBRA M WILBERT, 0000 JULIE J ONEAL, 0000 VICTORIA L GNIBUS, 0000 MAUREEN J ZELLER, 0000 MARY J O PERRY, 0000 PAUL T HARASTY, 0000 JOHN P RAFFIER, 0000 MARK A HOOPER, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT ANN H RENNIE, 0000 DARRYL F JACKSON, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY KARAN A SCHRIVER, 0000 VINCENT M KAPRAL, 0000 UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: PAUL G SIMPSON, 0000 BRYAN S KOHN, 0000 To be captain SHANNON E M THAELER, 0000 ERIC H LAW, 0000 KARIN A VERNAZZA, 0000 PATRICK W LUEB, 0000 MICHAEL J ARNOLD, 0000 PAT L WILLIAMS, 0000 DAVID H MCALLISTER, 0000 ALLEN D BOOKER, 0000 CYNTHIA M WOMBLE, 0000 LANCE A MONTGOMERY, 0000 MARK E BOWER, 0000 JANE M MORASKI, 0000 GARY A BROADWELL, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT DOUGLAS A PEABODY, 0000 JESUS V CANTU, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY DAVID A QUACKENBOS, 0000 MORRIS A CAPLAN, 0000 UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: STEPHEN G RADY III, 0000 JAMES R DOLAN, 0000 To be commander CATHERINE M READ, 0000 MARION A EGGENBERGER, 0000 SHERYL S RICHARDSON, 0000 ROBERT J A GILBEAU, 0000 NORA A BURGHARDT, 0000 KELLY A ROBINSON, 0000 CARL R HATHCOCK, 0000 WILLIAM W EDGE, 0000 JAMES R RONKA, 0000 JOSEPH P HENNESSY, 0000 DANIEL P GRANADOS, 0000 KENT E RUSHING, 0000 CRAIG L HERRICK, 0000 MICHAEL R HUFF, 0000 MARK N RUSSELL, 0000 JOHN G KING, 0000 JOHN G KEMNA, 0000 DION M SARCHET, 0000 JAMES J KRNC, 0000 LANCE E MASSEY, 0000 ERIC M STEPHENS, 0000 JAMES E MARLER JR., 0000 SCOTT E ROBILLARD, 0000 MARK A STROH, 0000 LESLIE D MARTIN, 0000 WILLIAM B SEBRING, 0000 PAUL J TORTORA, 0000 PATRICK O MCCABE, 0000 THOMAS L STRAUB, 0000 MATTHEW WAKABAYASHI, 0000 MARK A OHL, 0000 CRAIG J WASHINGTON, 0000 FRANK D WHITWORTH, 0000 DANIEL A PALKO, 0000 DAVID A PRY, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JEROME L D REID JR., 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TOMMY L RICHARDSON, 0000 UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: RAYMOND J RODRIGUEZ, 0000 To be commander To be commander BRIAN D SHEPPARD, 0000 JAMES L SHIELDS III, 0000 TERRY S BARRETT, 0000 THOMAS W ARMSTRONG, 0000 JOHN S SPICER, 0000 RALPH R BRAUND III, 0000 WALTER L BANKS, 0000 JOSEPH L SPRUILL, 0000 BEAU V DUARTE, 0000 KENNETH L BARKER, 0000 MARK A STILES, 0000 DAVID M ECCLES, 0000 WILLIAM D BLACKBURN, 0000 ROBERT W THERRIAULT, 0000 JEFFREY T ELDER, 0000 GUNTER I BRAUN, 0000 DANA S WEINER, 0000 JAIME W ENGDAHL, 0000 FRANK V BULGES, 0000 SEAN P FULLER, 0000 ALDEN E CARVER, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT BRENT K GEORGE, 0000 CHRISTOPHER N COLLINS, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY PAUL A GHYZEL, 0000 MARCUS CULVER, 0000 UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: EDWARD W KNELLER, 0000 MICHAEL R CURTIS, 0000 To be captain TODD G KRUDER, 0000 DAVID L DILLENSNYDER, 0000 DARRELL D LACK, 0000 JAMES C DYKEMA, 0000 STEPHEN S BELL, 0000 PATRICK J MCKERNAN, 0000 HILARIO A ESTRADA, 0000 KENNETH W BRANCH, 0000 NIGEL A NURSE, 0000 PIERRE A FULLER, 0000 DONALD B CAMPBELL JR., 0000 DONALD J PARKER, 0000 PAUL HARVEY, 0000 WILLIAM F CORDS, 0000 ROBERT D PORTER, 0000 ROGER J LERCH JR., 0000 THOMAS W CUNNINGHAM, 0000 CARLOS M RIPPE, 0000 JANET K MAHN, 0000 HENRY V DOBSON JR., 0000 DONALD B SIMMONS II, 0000 ROBERT L MEEKER JR., 0000 ROBERT G FAHEY, 0000 ROBERT E STEVENS II, 0000 PHILIP J MORAN, 0000 ROBERT J GIBBS, 0000 MICHAEL J VANGHEEM, 0000 PATRICK R MUELLER, 0000 PAZ B GOMEZ, 0000 DEAN A WILSON, 0000 JOHN P NEWCOMER, 0000 EDUARD GONZALEZ, 0000 HAROLD O OAKLEY, 0000 SHAWN K HAMILTON, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT EDWARD OLEYKOWSKI, 0000 JOSEPH D HEDGES, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TIM RAINWATER, 0000 JOHN J HEINZEL, 0000 UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: RANDALL B SHOCKEY, 0000 CHRISTOPHER H KIWUS, 0000 To be commander MICHAEL J SINGLETON, 0000 CAMERON A MANNING, 0000 JOHN P SIPES JR., 0000 CLIFFORD M MAURER, 0000 DANELLE M BARRETT, 0000 EHRICH W STEINMETZ, 0000 BRET J MUILENBURG, 0000 BRUCE J BLACK, 0000 BENJAMIN J STEVENS, 0000 GEORGE A PREGEL, 0000 GISELE M BONITZ, 0000 EDWARD J STOCKTON, 0000 JAMES A WORCESTER, 0000 LEDA M L CHONG, 0000 RICHARD A THIEL JR., 0000 RONALD J HANSON, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT LETITIA D HAYNES, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY RODNEY HEARNS, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: LEE A HEATON, 0000 UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: To be captain CHRISTINE Y HEISER, 0000 To be commander JOEL T HICKS, 0000 WILLIAM D DEVINE, 0000 ALAN L KOLACKOVSKY, 0000 JOSEPH R BRENNER JR., 0000 JONATHAN M FRUSTI, 0000 JULIE M LAPOINT, 0000 GERALD J CAVALIERI JR., 0000 JAMES W JOSLYN, 0000 LYNN T MACKOVICK, 0000 JOHN L DUMAS, 0000 MICHAEL W LANGSTON, 0000 REECE D MORGAN, 0000 ASHLEY D EVANS, 0000 TIMOTHY S LANTZ, 0000 YVONNE D NORTON, 0000 DAVID M HONE, 0000 EMILIO MARRERO JR., 0000 PATRICK M OWENS, 0000 RICHARD A JEFFRIES, 0000 ROBERT W MARSHALL, 0000 VERA PARKER, 0000 PATRICK J MURRAY, 0000 WILLIAM G PERDUE JR., 0000 DANELLE T SADOSKI, 0000 DAVIS B REEDER, 0000 FRANK A PUGLIESE, 0000 SANDRA J SCHIAVO, 0000 ARTHUR J REISS, 0000 BRYAN J WEAVER, 0000 JULIE A 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STEVEN P SOPKO, 0000 TODD A MAYFIELD, 0000 JONATHAN M BUTZKE, 0000 GREG A ULSES, 0000 CHRISTOPHER P MERCER, 0000 BRIAN M A CHILES, 0000 JOHN J PARK, 0000 BRADY J DRENNAN, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT DARREN R PLATH, 0000 VINCENT D GARCIA, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY VICTOR RECK JR., 0000 UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: BRET M GRABBE, 0000 ANTONIO P SANJOSE JR., 0000 JEFFREY L HAAS, 0000 WAYNE F SLOCUM, 0000 To be commander MICHAEL J HARRIS, 0000 MICHAEL W TEMME, 0000 SCOTT B HATTAWAY, 0000 TODD S BOCKWOLDT, 0000 THOMAS A TRAPP, 0000 JAMES W COFFMAN, 0000 PHILLIP H TURNER, 0000 FRANKLIN R HUBBARD, 0000 WALTER A COPPEANS III, 0000 RAJAN VAIDYANATHAN, 0000 DANIEL W KURIGER, 0000 BRUCE A DICKEY, 0000 SALLY A VANHORN, 0000 JASON R LEACH, 0000 MICHAEL E ELMSTROM, 0000 JON D WALTERS, 0000 CLAYTON E MASON, 0000 DAVID C FADLER, 0000 ROBERT A WILLIAMS, 0000 CAROL E MCKENZIE, 0000 GARRETT J FARMAN, 0000 FORREST YOUNG, 0000 KEVIN O MOLLER, 0000 DENNIS E FLORENCE, 0000 JEFFREY A NESHEIM, 0000 DAVID L FORSTER, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR TEMPORARY WILLIAM S NICOL, 0000 APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE JOHN V FUNN, 0000 BRIAN J NOWAK, 0000 UNITED STATES NAVY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION JOSEPH D GOMBAS, 0000 JEFFREY M ODONNELL, 0000 5721: JAMES E HASSETT JR., 0000 MICHAEL B ODRISCOLL, 0000 DAVID S HUNT, 0000 To be lieutenant commander GREGORY J OSTDIEK, 0000 JOSEPH Y C KAN, 0000 SAMUEL E PENNINGTON, 0000 JOHN J KEEGAN, 0000 STEVEN W ANTCLIFF, 0000 QUINTEN M KING, 0000 RONNY W ARMSTRONG, 0000 HARRY T PHELPS, 0000 BRYAN J KLIR, 0000 WILLIAM M BEGLAU, 0000 JAMES M PYLE, 0000 DAVID K KOHNKE, 0000 BYRON K BENARD, 0000 BLANE T SHEARON, 0000 ANDREW S LAMBLEY, 0000 JERRIS L BENNETT, 0000 ORLANDO A TEOFILO, 0000 JAMES H LEE, 0000 JERRY S BLACKWELL, 0000 JOHN T VOLPE, 0000 MATTHEW B LONG, 0000 DARRYL BROWN, 0000 MATTHEW J WUKITCH, 0000 FERNANDO MALDONADO, 0000 DAVID V BUSH, 0000 MARK W YATES, 0000

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A PROCLAMATION HONORING APPOINTMENT OF CONFEREES ON daughters and 7 grandchildren. I urge the LANCE CLIFFORD ON HIS 85TH H.R. 3550, TRANSPORTATION EQ- House to join me in remembering Ronald BIRTHDAY UITY ACT: A LEGACY FOR USERS Freel for his service to the community and ex- tending our condolences to his family. SPEECH OF HON. ROBERT W. NEY f OF OHIO HON. JOE BACA A PROCLAMATION FOR DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA WILLIAM F. EMLICH Tuesday, June 8, 2004 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. NEY. Mr. Speaker: Thursday, June 3, 2004 HON. ROBERT W. NEY Whereas, Lance Clifford was born on May Mr. BACA. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of OF OHIO 18, 1919; and the Oberstar Motion to Instruct Conferees on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whereas, Lance Clifford is celebrating his the Safe Routes to Schools program. Tuesday, June 8, 2004 85th Birthday; and The Safe Routes to Schools is a good pro- Mr. NEY. Mr. Speaker: Whereas, Lance Clifford, an American gram designed to save the lives of children Whereas, Doctor William F. Emlich has World War II veteran who served in the China- and the many commuters that drive near served continuously as the Medical Director Burma theater of war, is to be commended for schools. This program helps create infrastruc- for the Central Ohio Joint Fire District and its his great service to our Nation; and ture so that children can safely walk or bike to predecessor Hilliard Township/Centerburg Vol- Whereas, Lance Clifford is loved and appre- school. unteer Fire Department since July 1959; and ciated by all his family members; and Our children will also be safer while walking Whereas, Doctor Emlich provided his serv- Therefore, I join with the family of Lance to school because the Safe Routes to Schools ices as Medical Director continuously since and the residents of the entire 18th Congres- program also encourages greater enforcement 1959; and sional District of Ohio in wishing Lance Clifford of traffic laws, educates the public, and ex- Whereas, Doctor Emlich’s service to the a very happy 85th birthday. plores ways to create safer streets. people of the Centerburg and the surrounding As a nutrition advocate, I am also con- area displays his dedication to helping those f cerned about the growing obesity epidemic in need. He should be commended for the that is affecting our children. Sedentary life- COMMEMORATING THE TWENTY- help that he provided to the people of styles, too much television, and far too many FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF SANTA Centerburg and the surrounding area. non-athletic activities are causing our chil- BARBARA’S EASY LIFT TRANS- Therefore, I join with the Ohio’s entire 18th dren’s waistlines to grow out of control. That PORTATION Congressional District in celebration Doctor is why I support this program. We need to pro- William F. Emlich’s forty-five years of service mote walking and biking to school as alter- to the Central Ohio Joint Fire District. HON. LOIS CAPPS natives. f OF CALIFORNIA Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to please IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES support this Motion to Instruct the Conferees TRIBUTE TO ARMSTRONG MIDDLE SCHOOL’S SCIENCE OLYMPIAD Tuesday, June 8, 2004 so that our children can live safer, healthier, and happier lives. TEAM Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to f pay tribute to Easy Lift Transportation as they HON. JAMES T. WALSH celebrate their 25th anniversary of providing HONORING THE LATE REVEREND OF NEW YORK transportation services to the disabled and el- DOCTOR RONALD FREEL IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES derly in the Santa Barbara area. Easy Lift Transportation is a charitable, non- HON. JON C. PORTER Tuesday, June 8, 2004 profit organization dedicated to helping the OF NEVADA Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in disabled and frail elderly live independently IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tribute to Armstrong Middle School’s Science while remaining in their own homes. Easy Lift Olympiad Team which won first place in the Tuesday, June 8, 2004 has been providing wheelchair accessible New York State Science Olympiad Tour- transportation services in southern Santa Bar- Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to nament and 18th place at the national tour- bara County since 1979. Beginning with one remember the late Reverend Doctor Ronald nament, a truly exceptional accomplishment. motor home in 1979, Easy Lift Transportation Freel. Dr. Freel was a pillar of the community The Armstrong Middle School team is com- has grown to operate eighteen vehicles, eight- in Southern Nevada and a friend and inspira- prised of sixteen members and coached by een hours a day, 363 days per year. tion to all who knew him. Paulette Bodak. Team members are Allison Easy Lift Transportation provides door-to- Dr. Freel was born in Detroit, Michigan in Kritall, Emily Hoogesteger, Gage Howard, door transportation to individuals in the com- October, 1931 and served in the United States Jamie Wisner, Stephan Wagner, Ashley Stan- munities of Goleta, Santa Barbara, Montecito, Army for 12 years. He received advanced de- ley, Brianna Kelleher, Jessica Bellingham, Summerland and Carpinteria. Easy Lift Trans- grees in education and ministry and, after Julie Weidner, Ryan Lattanzio, Ben Mears, portation is preparing to serve its one-millionth leaving the army, became the principal of Dan Frederes, Emma Fink, Eric Frauel, Randy rider. They currently provide over sixty thou- Gaylord St. Mary’s School in Michigan. Subse- Mason and Paul Whitmire. sand rides a year. quently he served as the Wolverine, MI, The team won the regional and the New In addition to helping many Santa Barbara School Superintendent and as pastor of York State competitions to qualify for the na- area residents gain independence by ensuring Topinabee Community Church. Dr. Freel also tional level where they competed against other that they can get to doctor’s appointments and served as the health education coordinator for teams from the United States. At the national other events, Easy Lift helps the broader the Cheboygan, Otsego, and Presque Isle In- level, medal winners from the Armstrong Mid- Santa Barbara community as well. Easy Lift termediate School District in Indian River, MI. dle School were Ben Mears and Dan Transportation provides transit services and Dr. Freel moved to Henderson, Nevada 12 Frederes, first place in Meteorology; Ben driver training to other non-profit organizations years ago and served as the senior pastor at Mears, Dan Frederes, and Julie Weidner, in the Santa Barbara area. I would like to Grace Community Church in Boulder City for fourth place in Experimental Design; and Paul commend Easy Lift Transportation of Santa the last 5 years. There he was instrumental in Whitmire, fourth place in Compute This. Barbara for their work and congratulate them the founding of Grace Christian Academy. Dr. I would like to express my congratulations to on their twenty-fifth anniversary of operation. Freel is survived by his wife Ellen Anne, 3 the team for such an outstanding achievement

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VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.001 E08PT1 E1062 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 8, 2004 and wish them luck in all their future endeav- afternoon with a student until her parents ar- gress have failed to create jobs. They have ors. rived, or inviting a child to her home for after failed to respond in thoughtful way to the f school tutoring. In addition to her extensive needs of the American workers or the basic work with the students, Ann also assisted needs of our sluggish economy. Where is the RECOGNITION OF DR. MANUEL members of the Santa Barbara community by compassion in the White House’s conserv- CEREIJO washing all of the school’s unclaimed ‘‘lost atism for the 1.5 million Americans that have and found’’ clothes so that they could be given exhausted their unemployment benefits? HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN to needy families. H.R. 444 is a misguided response to the OF FLORIDA Ann Rudolph has served the Hollister great needs of our country. We need more IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES School community in so many ways over her jobs, not to privatize the job training. Millions Tuesday, June 8, 2004 18 years of employment. She has touched the need to put food on the table with their unem- lives of many and will be missed by each par- ployment checks, not a tax cut that rewards Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, today I ent, teacher and student who had the privilege corporations that move jobs overseas. I have would like to recognize a truly remarkable of knowing her. Dedicated and devoted people had enough of nonsense legislation from this member of the Florida community, Dr. Manuel like Ann are what make our community so White House and Republican Congress. I will Cereijo. A proven leader in the fields of special. I wish Ann the best as she begins re- not vote for a bill that will result in cuts to the science, engineering, education and tech- tirement and thank her for all that she has very job-training that will help people get a job. nology, Dr. Cereijo was previously acknowl- done. In sum, this bill siphons money away from edged in 1991 for his Lifetime Achievement f job training programs, limits people’s access Award by the Hispanic Engineer National to that training, and does not even fund the Achievement committee and his exceptional A PROCLAMATION HONORING pilot project. The motivation for this bill must dedication to the advancement of his profes- JOHN THOMAS O’ROURKE, JR. have been, ‘‘why help people, when you can sion and students. just pretend.’’ Dr. Cereijo currently serves as President of HON. ROBERT W. NEY I urge my colleagues to reject this ineffec- the Professional Advancement Corporation OF OHIO tive and purely cosmetic bill. and Lecturer of Engineering at the University IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f of Miami, while simultaneously presiding as member of the Board of Directors on several Tuesday, June 8, 2004 HONORING THE LATE ROGER prominent business, research, and engineer- Mr. NEY. Mr. Speaker: PELTYN ing organizations in the Miami area. Whereas, John and Carolyn O’Rourke are Dr. Cejeiro has furthermore received several celebrating the arrival of their son, John HON. JON C. PORTER reputable awards such as the Faculty Teach- Thomas O’Rourke Jr.; and OF NEVADA ing Award at Florida International University in Whereas, John Thomas O’Rourke, Jr. was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1999 and his induction into the Hall of Fame born in the second day of April, 2004 and of the National Association of Hispanic Engi- weighed seven pounds and twelve and a half Tuesday, June 8, 2004 neers in 1998. ounces; and Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Dr. Manuel Cereijo consistently employs his Whereas, John and Carolyn O’Rourke are remember Roger Peltyn, who passed away expertise through means beneficial to his col- proud to welcome their new son into their suddenly last Thursday at the age of 60. leagues and students and is an outstanding home; and Roger Peltyn helped build the modern Las representative of the state of Florida. It is my Whereas, John Thomas O’Rourke, Jr. will Vegas that has become one of the wonders of honor to recognize him and thank Dr. Cereijo be a blessed addition to his family, bringing the world, and will be remembered by all who for his incredible service and dedication. love, joy, and happiness for many years to knew him, and admired by everyone who sees f come; the marvelous buildings he created. Therefore, I join with members of Congress Roger Peltyn was born in Brooklyn, New PAYING TRIBUTE TO ANN and Congressional Staff in celebrating with York in 1944 and moved to Las Vegas to work RUDOLPH John and Carolyn O’Rourke and wishing John as a structural engineer at the Golden Nugget. Thomas O’Rourke, Jr. a very Happy Birthday. From this work Roger Peltyn’s genius was rec- HON. LOIS CAPPS f ognized, and he went on to serve as an engi- OF CALIFORNIA neer at the Bellagio, Mirage, Venetian and BACK TO WORK INCENTIVE ACT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES many other world class resorts in Las Vegas. OF 2003 Tuesday, June 8, 2004 Roger Peltyn was also a major contributor to our community in other ways, and helped SPEECH OF Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to raise more than $4 million for various char- pay tribute to a very special resident of the HON. JOE BACA ities. 23rd Congressional District, Ann Rudolph, as OF CALIFORNIA Thanks to Roger Peltyn, the Las Vegas sky- she retires from Hollister School. As Office IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES line has become one of the great symbols of Manager, Ann has touched the lives of count- America, whose beauty, strength, and success Thursday, June 3, 2004 less Hollister School students, parents and are reminders of everything our nation stands faculty over the past 18 years. Mr. BACA. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition for. I urge the House to join with me in hon- One of the Principals who worked with Ann to H.R. 444. H.R. 444 authorizes a pilot pro- oring Roger Peltyn and extending our condo- described her as the centerpiece of the gram to allow unemployed workers to receive lences to his wife Sandy and his two sons on school. Her caring nature and generosity ex- job-training vouchers. his untimely passing. tended well past her job description as she Unfortunately, the bill does not even fund f corralled stray dogs, helped paint office walls the voucher program. The funding must come and provided after-school academic assist- from existing job-training programs. These HONORING THE NCAA NATIONAL ance to students in need. In addition to pro- vouchers could be as small as $500 and as CHAMPIONSHIP VICTORIES OF viding countless hours of her time to school large as $3000. Voucher recipients could pur- LE MOYNE COLLEGE AND SYRA- projects and to helping each student succeed, chase job-training and child-care services, or CUSE UNIVERSITY Ann assisted in jog-a-thons, created a scholar- use the funds to cover some transportation ex- ship fund for sixth grade science camp and penses. However, job-training services would HON. JAMES T. WALSH contributed to the school band. Ann provided no longer be free, but would have to be pur- OF NEW YORK for the Hollister School community as if each chased for a one-year period. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES child were her own. She valued every indi- We are stealing Peter’s training money to vidual, working with parents and teachers to give Paul a voucher. Tell me how this im- Tuesday, June 8, 2004 make each student’s experience at Hollister proves job training in our country? This is not Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, I rise in honor of the best it could be. the solution for the millions of Americans that two NCAA national championship athletic pro- When talking about Ann to students, one don’t have a job and can’t put food on the grams from Syracuse, NY. This past weekend, might hear a story of Ann waiting until late table. The White House and Republican Con- both the Syracuse University and Lemoyne

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.006 E08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1063 College Men’s Lacrosse teams won NCAA ti- work they do and the honor and dignity they Whereas I hereby offer my heartfelt condo- tles in Baltimore, MD. bring to Central New York. lences to the family and friends of Richard W. Though Central New York is known as a Lemoyne College, the only Jesuit institution Sandy of New Philadelphia; and breeding ground for the nation’s finest la- of higher learning in Syracuse has emerged Whereas, Richard W. Sandy was a caring crosse players, never before has Syracuse on the national scene in recent years as a and loving individual. Sandy was active in his been the home of two reigning NCAA National NCAA Division II powerhouse. The small, yet church, the Special Olympics program as a Champions in the sport. I am extremely proud distinguished college has maintained a tradi- state champion bowler and as a client of Star- of both teams and applaud the determination tion of athletic success, though since being light Enterprises, Inc.; and and skill they showed throughout the 2004 chartered in 1946 had never won a national Whereas, Richard W. Sandy will certainly be season. championship in any sport. remembered by all those who knew him; and Syracuse University has been a dominant That all changed May 30th, 2004 when the Whereas, Richard W. Sandy touched many force in NCAA Division I lacrosse for decades Lemoyne Dolphins defeated Limestone Col- lives and his memory will stand as a monu- under the leadership of Roy Simmons, Roy lege 11–10 in double overtime, before nearly ment to a truly fine person; and Simmons, Jr. and current skipper John Desko. 20,000 fans at M&T Bank Stadium. The stun- Therefore, while I understand how words The program has built a tradition of excellence ning win, led by Junior Brandon Spillett’s cannot express our grief at this most trying of and produced the finest individual players in amazing performance on attack, gave times, I offer this token of profound sympathy the history of collegiate lacrosse. Lemoyne and Head Coach Dan Sheehan the to the family and friends of Richard W. Sandy. The current team is a proud extension of first NCAA National Championship in the his- f the SU lacrosse legacy and under the leader- tory of the school. This achievement has brought a great measure of pride to the FAREWELL SPEECH FOR TAI- ship of Coaches John Desko, Kevin Donahue, WANESE AMBASSADOR C.J. CHEN Roy Simmons III and Ryan Powell; they have friends, faculty and alumni of Lemoyne Col- proven their dominance once again. lege, all of whom had watched the men’s la- Mike Powell, the undisputed leader of the crosse program develop from obscurity to na- HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN OF FLORIDA SU Lacrosse team, along with his teammates tional prominence in only a few years. The NCAA Division II National Champion- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES carried on throughout the 2004 season in the ship title for the Dolphins Men’s Lacrosse spirit of the Gait Brothers, Tom Marachek, Tuesday, June 8, 2004 team means a great deal to Central New York, Charlie Lockwood and the other great team- home to most members of the Dolphin La- Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, we are mates and talents who gave rise to the for- crosse team, but also to the Lemoyne College honored to be here today to bid farewell to a midability of SU Lacrosse. family as well. All of the students, faculty and great statesmen and friend, Ambassador C. J. The Orangemen came into the NCAA tour- staff of Lemoyne endured a difficult year that (Chinn-Jen) Chen. The Taiwanese govern- nament with a number 4 seed. Some consid- saw the College bond together in support of ment has much to be proud of from the Am- ered that lower ranking to be an affront to the senior midfielder Adam Carne, who nearly bassador’s long career of selfless service to depth and talent the program had dem- died last summer after a brutal and senseless his country. He is a distinguished diplomat onstrated during the course of the season. It attack by a stranger. Adam’s remarkable re- who has served Taiwan’s foreign service for became obvious as the tournament pro- covery and presence on the sidelines during thirty-seven years, and in many ways served gressed, however, that any weaknesses per- the 2004 season inspired the Dolphin La- all of us, and the world. Ambassador Chen ceived in the 2004 team were gone. crosse team to achieve a level of success un- has spent much of his career strengthening With Mike Powell, the leading scorer in the imaginable just a few years ago. the close and friendly ties between Taiwan history of SU lacrosse on the crease, a strong I am immensely proud of Coach Dan and the United States. group of senior leaders including Dan DiPietro, Sheehan, his assistants Brian Datellas, Kevin He first came to Washington, D.C. in 1971 Nick Donatelli, Kevin Dougherty, Sean Lind- Michaud and Bradley Carr, as well as the as a Third Secretary assigned to the Republic say, Brian Nee, Michael Powell, Andy Shin, members of the Lemoyne Dolphins Men’s La- of China Embassy in the United States where Steve Vallone and Alex Zink, underclassmen crosse team including seniors Travis Morgia, he served through 1979. By then, he had John Bone, Andrew Boyle, Evan Brady, Danny Corey Sullivan, Adam Carne, Rob Trowbridge, been promoted to First Secretary, and from Brennan, Steven Brooks, Brett Bucktooth, Pat Hooks, Chris Geng, Joel Dorchester and that position, he was able to play an important Crian Crockett, Chris DiMarco, Scott Ditzell, Justin Wnuk; underclassmen Brannan Karg, role in the formulation of a new framework for Zack Fields, John Gallagher, Kevin Gowin, Travis Tarr, Ryan Fennell, Brandon Spillett, improved relations between the people’s of Ryan Hogan, James Hsiao, Jon Jerome, Geoff Travis Ames, Chris Doran, Collin Knowles, Taiwan and the United States. Keough, Steve Lykudis, Mike MacDonald, Kie- Nate Evans, Chris Moore, Matt Juriga, Kyle During the 1980’s and 1990’s, as the Am- ran Murphy, Brooks Neal, Dustin Palmer, Ste- Reichel, Jared Corcoran, Ben Lanman, Ted bassador earned a series of promotions to ven Panarelli, Jarett Park, Jay Pfeifer, Jake Rund, Ed Street, Jordan Witt, Matt Emerson, posts of greater and greater responsibility— Plunkett, Timmy Raschdorf, Greg Rommel, Eric Roberts, Ryan Lewis, Kevin Kohl, both in Taipei and in Washington—he contin- Andrew Sullivan, Thomas Theodorakis, Donn Brendan Flynn, Joe Maslak, Joe Weaver, Matt ued to serve as an effective bridge from bring- Vidosh, Hank Vohrer, Scott Wallace, Zack Holdridge, Craig Rosecrans, Jeff Norton, Russ ing Taiwan and the United States closer to- Wallace, John Wright and supporting staff Oechsle, Mike Lindstrom and support staff gether. As Taiwan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Troy Gerlt, Katherine Hatch, Gary Audet and Mike Wilson, Rachel Russell, Carissa and then Foreign Minister, he insured that his Judy Quattrone the Orangemen beat very Barallaro and Shannon Holliday. country’s foreign policy reflected that tremen- strong Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Lacrosse is a way of life in Central New dous economic progress and democratic de- squads to advance once again to the NCAA York and has been since the Iroquois Federa- velopment taking place on Taiwan. And, by Division I title game. tion created the game centuries ago. I feel emphasizing the common values and joint in- With their stunning 14–13 victory over the privileged to represent such outstanding col- terests that the United States and Taiwan Midshipmen of the U.S. Naval Academy, the lege athletic programs in my Congressional share, Ambassador Chen has fostered mutual Syracuse University Men’s Lacrosse Team District and once again express my sincere trust and cooperation between successive ad- won their 9th national championship and the congratulations to the Syracuse University and ministrations: from Ronald Reagan to George third NCAA Division I title in the 5 year tenure Lemoyne College Men’s Lacrosse teams for W. Bush in the United States; and from of Coach Desko. their great efforts this season and NCAA Na- Chiang Ching-kou to Chen Shui-bian in Tai- The consistency and talent of the Syracuse tional Championship titles. wan. University Men’s lacrosse program deserves f Over the last four years, the Ambassador the recognition of this House and the nation at A PROCLAMATION IN MEMORY OF has, in his capacity as Taiwan’s chief rep- large. Very rarely has collegiate sport seen RICHARD W. SANDY OF NEW resentative in the United States, endeavored such a shining legacy and I am extremely PHILADELPHIA to further enhance the military, political, cul- proud to represent Syracuse University in the tural and economic aspects of our bilateral re- House of Representatives. lationship. Apart from his personal friendships Chancellor Kenneth ‘‘Buzz’’ Shaw, the stu- HON. ROBERT W. NEY with a number of high-ranking administration OF OHIO dents, faculty, alumni and fans of Syracuse officials, he has built quite a following in Con- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES University deserve praise for their continued gress. He strongly encouraged and supported dedication to the Orangemen lacrosse legacy. Tuesday, June 8, 2004 the establishment of the House Taiwan Cau- I would like to extend my thanks for the great Mr. NEY. Mr. Speaker: cus and the Senate Taiwan Caucus. Working

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Mr. Speaker, I rise today still benefit from better relations, and I’m sure that those in our history who will be remembered afraid for our Nation’s security. Not because of his work has made Taiwan a better place. for dedicating themselves to the greatest of all terror alerts, but because our borders remain Mr. Speaker, as Ambassador Chen con- ideals that we as Americans hold dear. porous. The enforcement of our immigration cludes his tour of duty in Washington and his America is eternally grateful to these and all policy is impotent, resulting in a continued returning to Taipei, I bid him a fond farewell of our soldiers for their courageous and dedi- flood of illegal immigrants across our borders. and wish him all the best. He has been a true cated service to our great nation and their It is time for the federal government to stop friend, a man of principle and integrity, and we valor in bringing freedom to the Iraqi and letting unchecked mass immigration under- will surely miss him. Afghani people. They have not only worked to mine the wages, safety, and benefits in one f bring liberation and justice to these oppressed occupation after another. It is time for the fed- people, but have also made America safer eral government to moderate immigration and FALLEN HEROES from the threat of terrorism by rooting out evil to treat American workers, citizen and immi- grant, with the respect they deserve. SPEECH OF where it is hiding around the globe. I am ex- tremely impressed by the poise and sense of Our constituents did not elect us to help HON. FRANK R. WOLF duty and purpose with which all our young cheapen the quality of their lives by importing OF VIRGINIA men and women in the armed forces conduct foreign workers at six to eight times the histor- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES themselves. Their resolve to finish the job, be- ical average. There is no getting around the fact that when we cheapen labor with un- Thursday, May 20, 2004 cause it means doing the right thing for the world even in the face of making the ultimate checked illegal immigration, we cheapen our Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure sacrifice, is truly inspiring. neighbors, both citizens and immigrants alike. today to recognize those hereos who have This Memorial Day, I will reflect on the sac- If we moderate immigration in the context of made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. rifices made by these soldiers and the long list an historical average, we will remain the most There is no tribute too great that we can offer of men and women who viewed their lives as open society in the world, and begin to halt these courageous men and women. subject to the preservation of liberty. May God America’s slide from a middle class, to a pov- These men and women join a lengthy list of bless our troops, and may God continue to erty class, society. hereos from the 10th District of Virginia who bless the United States of America. I call on my colleagues to join me in working have fought and died so that others might be to reform our immigration policies and to halt free. Starting with the French and Indian War f the cheapening of America’s citizen and immi- before our nation was formed to those serving grant workers. Without real immigration re- today in hostile environments in the War on A PROCLAMATION IN MEMORY OF form, our borders will not be safe and our citi- Terrorism, our district has proudly served the RAMA MAE GROVES STEEN zens will be at risk. Armed Forces of the United States. f I take this opportunity today not only to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice HON. ROBERT W. NEY RECOGNIZING MARO EMPLOYMENT but to honor the loved ones they left behind OF OHIO AND TRAINING ASSOCIATION and let them know that this nation has not for- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gotten the pain they must endure. Tuesday, June 8, 2004 HON. MIKE ROGERS The fallen lived and died with a nobility of Mr. NEY. Mr. Speaker: OF MICHIGAN purpose which those of us left behind have a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sacred duty to carry on. Each one of us must Whereas, I hereby offer my heartfelt condo- Tuesday, June 8, 2004 fight to keep this nation free and worthy of lences to the family and friends of Rama Mae sacrifice. There is no greater love for humanity Groves Steen; and Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I than to give one’s life for the freedom we all Whereas, Rama Mae Groves Steen was a rise today to recognize MARO Employment cherish. loving sister, daughter, aunt, and wife to the and Training Association. This organization I ask that everyone pray for the men and members of her family. Rama Mae was a will be celebrating thirty years of community women in uniform who are in harm’s way in member of the Alpha Rho Chapter of Delta service in June 2004. MARO Employment and Iraq, in Afghanistan and other parts of the Kappa Gamma Society International of Guern- Training Association represents 60 not-for- world where we have a military presence. sey and Noble County, a National Teachers profit community organizations, providing vo- They need and deserve our support. Honorary, life member of the Ohio retired cational training, employment and support Teachers Association, Caldwell Woman’s Lit- f services for people with disabilities and other erary Club, Order of the Eastern Star, Order of barriers to employment and community ac- FALLEN HEROES the White Shrine of Jerusalem, Rosa Shrine 8 cess. of Zanesville; and MARO Employment and Training Associa- SPEECH OF Whereas, Rama Mae Groves Steen served tion assists members by sharing information HON. DEBORAH PRYCE in the past as chairman of the Central and Ex- with community organizations regarding how ecutive Committees of Noble County Repub- OF OHIO to serve people with a number of varying dis- lican Party, Noble County Republican Wom- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES abilities. The group works on both the state an’s Club; and and federal level to increase opportunities for Thursday, May 20, 2004 Whereas, Rama Mae Groves Steen will cer- people with barriers to employment. Members Ms. PRYCE of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, there are tainly be remembered by all those who knew are offered affordable Workers’ Compensation no words that can lessen the intensity of fami- her because of her loving nature towards her Insurance and prescription drug coverage lies’ grief and profound loss after learning that family, friends, and community; and through self-insured programs as well an array a son, daughter, or relative serving in the Whereas, the understanding and caring to of networking opportunities. Armed Forces has fallen in the line of duty. I which she gave to others will stand as a MARO Employment and Training Associa- have recently written to five central Ohio fami- monument to a truly fine person. Her life and tion works together with the Michigan Commu- lies who have suffered such a loss as Part of love gave joy to all who knew her; and nity Mental Health agencies, the Department Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation En- Therefore, while I understand how words of Labor and Economic Growth, Michigan Re- during Freedom, and each time it weighs cannot express our grief at this most trying of habilitation Services, Michigan Works! agen- heavily on my heart. times, I offer this token of profound sympathy cies, the Michigan Department of Corrections, Army Pfc. Kevin Ott, Army Pfc. Branden to the family and friends of Rama Mae Groves the Michigan Commission for the Blind, and Oberleitner, Pfc. Nicholaus Zimmer, Army Steen. with local schools.

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.016 E08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1065 MARO Employment and Training Associa- They will be greatly missed here in Wash- oping programs to attract and educate visitors tion provides a critically important service. The ington. about the rich heritage and contribution that work the organization does is respected f each state made during this era of conflict. throughout the state and it has proven to be Governors who signed the Memorandum of a great asset in Michigan for 30 years. COMMEMORATING THE 250TH ANNI- Understanding have pledged to continue work- I urge my colleagues to join me in recog- VERSARY OF THE FRENCH AND ing to create French and Indian War trails, nizing MARO Employment and Training Asso- INDIAN WAR AND THE KICK-OFF new marketing strategies to inform the public ciation for the service and opportunities the or- OF THE CELEBRATION of this exciting initiative and educational pro- ganization has provided for Michigan citizens. grams to aid teachers in the classroom. f HON. JOHN P. MURTHA In commemoration of the French and Indian OF PENNSYLVANIA War’s 250th anniversary celebration and the HONORING AMBASSADOR C.J. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Memorandum of Understanding regarding the CHEN Tuesday, June 8, 2004 importance of this celebration and the impor- tance of recognizing the sacrifices made in HON. PETER T. KING Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to battle, I respectfully request that the French OF NEW YORK recognize the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War Memorandum of Under- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Indian War and the commemorative activi- standing be printed in the CONGRESSIONAL ties planned to revisit this important time in Tuesday, June 8, 2004 RECORD. I thank the Speaker and I yield the our Country’s history. floor. Mr. KING of New York. Mr. Speaker, today As a former soldier, I believe that remem- Memorandum of understanding between the I rise and join my colleagues in honoring a bering and recognizing the bravery and cour- State of Connecticut, the State of Delaware, unique man and a graceful diplomat. age of those who fought before us is essential the State of Illinois, the State of Indiana, the After 4 years of exemplary service as the to keeping history alive and fully appreciating State of Maine, the State of Maryland, the head representative of the Taipei Economic the freedom we now enjoy. Today, our troops Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the State of and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), are faced with the conflict in Iraq. As we com- Michigan, the State of New Hampshire, the the quasi-embassy of the Republic of China memorate the 250th anniversary of the French State of New Jersey, the State of New York, (ROC), Ambassador C.J. Chen is returning to and Indian War, let us remember that it is the State of North Carolina, the State of Ohio, Taiwan. In fact, since joining his country’s for- through the bravery of the young men in Iraq the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the State eign service 37 years ago, Ambassador Chen that there will be a new country, new govern- of Rhode Island, the State of South Carolina, has continuously been involved with U.S.-Tai- ment, and new opportunities, much like the re- the State of Tennessee, the State of Vermont, wan relations in his many job assignments sult of the French and Indian War 250 years the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of both in Taiwan and in the United States. ago. West Virginia, and War for Empire, Inc d/b/a In 1979 when the United States severed Beginning in 1754, the French and Indian French and Indian War 250, Inc. diplomatic relations with Taipei and recognized War changed everything. The political climate The following represents an understanding Beijing, Ambassador Chen was then working during and after the war directly resulted in the between the State of Connecticut, the State of in Taiwan’s embassy in Washington. He spent American Revolution and the creation of the Delaware, the State of Illinois, the State of In- days and nights negotiating and commu- United States as an independent nation. The diana, the State of Maine, the State of Mary- nicating with U.S. government officials and war also gave America its first introduction to land, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, lawmakers in helping draft the Taiwan Rela- George Washington, the beginning of a friend- the State of Michigan, the State of New tions Act (P.L. 96–8). Signed into law on April ship that would help to build this great Nation. Hampshire, the State of New Jersey, the State 10, 1979, this important legislation has en- Laura Fisher, the Executive Director of the of New York, the State of North Carolina, the abled Taiwan to grow both economically and French and Indian War 250, Inc., along with State of Ohio, the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- politically during the last quarter century. former Pennsylvania First Lady Michele Ridge, vania, the State of Rhode Island, the State of In subsequent years, Ambassador Chen has National Co-Chair of the French and Indian South Carolina, the State of Tennessee, the played many key roles in Taiwan’s foreign War Advisory Committee, and Chuck State of Vermont, the Commonwealth of Vir- ministry. He has encouraged the U.S. to act Queenan, Chairman of the Board of the ginia, the State of West Virginia (hereinafter as a balancer and facilitator in handling its re- French and Indian War 250, Inc., have helped ‘‘the States’’) and War for Empire, Inc., d/b/a lations with both Taiwan and the People’s Re- to build the national commemoration of the French and Indian War 250, Inc. (hereinafter public of China (PROC). In addition, Ambas- French and Indian War from a regional event ‘‘French and Indian War 250’’). sador Chen and other leaders in Taiwan have to a multi-state initiative that spans a twenty- Whereas, the States represent the geo- been successful in urging the U.S. to continue state area from Maine to South Carolina. graphical area in which the French and Indian to provide Taiwan with military aid necessary Official commemoration activities began in War historical sites are located and French for its self-defense. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 16–18, 2004, and Indian War 250 represents the official During the last 4 years, Ambassador Chen at the historic Point Park. The Point was the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of has aimed to strengthen U.S.-Taiwan relations site of Fort Duquesne, later Fort Pitt, and one the French and Indian War. which are now at their highest point since of the most sought after locations thanks to Whereas, the 250th anniversary of the 1979. While there have been no major the accessibility of the Ohio, Allegheny, and French and Indian War is fast approaching, changes in U.S. policy toward either side of Monongahela Rivers. spanning the years from 2004 to 2010, and the Taiwan strait recently, the U.S. stance to- The next several years will commemorate the opportunity exists to connect the unparal- ward Taiwan has improved significantly, large- the anniversary through large-scale re-enact- leled collection of historic sites in these States. ly due to Taiwan’s democratic government. ments at historic sites, exhibitions of rare his- Whereas, by developing a common In addition to the Bush Administration’s torical artifacts, educational symposia and a storyline, educational materials and marketing goodwill towards Taiwan, support on Capitol major public television series, and I encourage strategies, these important, but mostly rural, Hill continues to grow. Since the start of the my colleagues and their constituents to partici- sites in the States will be given new visibility. 108th Congress, both the House and Senate pate in remembering some of the most impor- Wheareas, the occasion of this major anni- have introduced and/or passed various resolu- tant milestones and sacrifices made leading to versary will serve as a springboard in the tions relating to Taiwan including support for: America’s founding. States for tourism, education and economic (1) Taiwan’s participation in the World Health The National Governor’s Association meet- development as we develop new programs Organization (WHO); (2) A U.S.-Taiwan free ing held recently in Washington, D.C., was a and projects to attract visitors, educate the trade agreement and; (3) Taiwan’s security. great victory for the French and Indian War general public about the lasting importance of Ambassador Chen has played a critical role in 250th Anniversary as several of the nation’s this conflict, and elevate this regional story to building support for each and every one of governors reaffirmed their support of the im- national prominence. these resolutions. portance of the commemoration by signing Whereas, commemorative plans revolve Mr. Speaker, while Ambassador Chen is in- their name to the French and Indian War around four basic goals: to improve and con- deed leaving Washington, I have no doubt that Memorandum of Understanding. I applaud nect the battle sites, both regionally and na- he will continue to contribute to the enhance- Governor Ed Rendell of my state of Pennsyl- tionally; to create programming to attract visi- ment of U.S.-Taiwan relations in the future. I vania, and all the Governors who have tors and educate the public; to stage com- wish C.J. and his wife Yolanda all the best. pledged their continued commitment to devel- memorative events nationwide over the life of

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.021 E08PT1 E1066 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 8, 2004 the anniversary period; and to elevate the visi- evidenced their good faith intent of the under- through the Key Club and Students Against bility and significance of the commemoration. signed to work toward the goals herein enu- Destructive Decisions (SADD). Rather than Whereas, connecting battle sites, located in merated. taking a back seat, Andrew actively and admi- the States, from the spread of the war through f rably becomes involved. southwestern Pennsylvania to its neighboring Andrew combines his interest in service and colonies and related sites from Pontiac’s Re- IN HONOR OF ANDREW D’AMICO ability to lead by volunteering at the Glouces- bellion, which occurred on the frontier as the ter County Camp that focuses on Asperberger immediate aftermath of the war, gives greater HON. ROBERT E. ANDREWS Syndrome. Those exhibiting symptoms of this context for a new understanding of the critical OF NEW JERSEY condition show signs of deficient socialization and difficulty in coping with changes in routine. role played in this era by Native American na- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions. This 4-week program aims to comfortably in- Whereas, the States’ large network of battle Tuesday, June 8, 2004 crease social interaction amongst its partici- sites from the French and Indian War can Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, with this pants. Andrew, a two-year veteran, decided to offer visitors a living historical storyline. The month being Autism Awareness Month, I ask take another step up and reach out to those National Park Service has already begun pro- that you join me in recognizing the efforts of willing to put out a hand. The construction of grammatic efforts at several sites, including Andrew D’Amico and his parents, Mr. Frank this tight network offers a foundation for the in- the well-known national battlefield Fort Neces- D’Amico and Mrs. Nancy D’Amico in sup- dividuals of the camp to gain support from. Mr. sity, and is supportive of the efforts to link porting this cause. With autism occurring in 1 D’Amico described his son’s incredible ripple these activities to the French and Indian War in every 250 births nationwide, more scientific effects when he commented, ‘‘Andrew has commemoration. research in regard to causes and treatments made our family stronger and each of us a Whereas, it is important to translate the would prove to be beneficial. The D’Amicos stronger person. We were all blessed on the story into specific exhibit and public presen- participate in the National Alliance for Autism day he was born.’’ Andrew chooses not to tation strategies, including development of a Research (NAAR), an organization that as its view his state as a heavy weight or crutch. He shared logo, brochures and marketing plans to name suggests funds and promotes scientific instead aspires to not only take care of himself reach new audiences with targeted and effec- research to determine both the biological ori- and his responsibilities but to also touch and tive messaging. gin and possible cure for this condition. In invigorate those around him. For a myriad of Whereas, a major centerpiece of the cele- 1994, NAAR became the first association in reasons, Andrew D’Amico unquestionably de- bration will be a four-hour public television the United States to uphold a mission dedi- serves acknowledgment. special, aimed at a broad general audience cated to research concerning autism. More re- f and aired as a national prime time television cently, on April 1st of last year, the D’Amicos HONORING THE MEMORY OF THE event. The reach and lasting effect of this na- along with other representatives of NAAR lob- REV. DONALD WINHOLD tional television event can be extended with bied on NAAR’s Hill Day for increases in the cutting-edge technological tools to reach NIH budget specifically geared towards re- teachers and students nationwide with cur- searching this condition. HON. BART GORDON ricula and other related materials. In addition to boosting financial resources OF TENNESSEE Whereas, Parkman Prize winning historian for research, NAAR builds a supportive com- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fred Anderson is authoring an heavily illus- munity of friends and family connected to au- Tuesday, June 8, 2004 trated popular book based on the film, which tism. This group’s major fundraiser, Walk Mr. GORDON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to will also encourage new interest in the States’ F.A.R. for NAAR, takes care of both bases by recognize the memory of the Rev. Donald A. sites. raising funds and by connecting many individ- Winhold, the father of Laura Sue Gaines. Whereas, the States will enjoy tourism op- uals through one powerful goal of spreading Laura Sue is a former staff member of mine portunities through regional and multi-state awareness and deepening knowledge. NAAR whom I highly regard. Her father passed away tour and thematic guides that will be distrib- hosts this special 4-mile long walk in numer- on May 24, 2004. uted at the 40-plus National Park Service Rev- ous locations throughout the Nation. Since Laura Sue’s father was a man of strong olutionary War/18th century sites. Also, a new May 2000, 150,000 walkers have together convictions, untiring dedication and infinite national French and Indian War thematic trail raised over $15 million. The dedication and compassion. He was a devout Christian who will be developed, linking the States and their care of those involved in the walk survive any dedicated his life to serving the Lord and help- sites. obstacle, as is evident in last year’s Delaware ing his fellow man. As a Southern Baptist min- Whereas, a national calendar of commemo- Valley Walk. Rain drenched this site, but ister and area missionary, Rev. Winhold rations, reenactments and public programming 2,000 supporters completed every bit of the 4 helped charter five churches during his tenure. in the States will generate and sustain interest miles and collected $204,000. The commit- Those churches are the First Christian Mis- for the life of the anniversary period. A na- ment of NAAR’s members simply shines. sionary Alliance Church in Sioux City, Iowa; tional media strategy will be developed, includ- Walkers can take part in this event separately the Trotwood Baptist Church in Trotwood, ing a press tour, to reach diverse markets. or within a team. Andrew and his parents Ohio; the First Baptist Church in Napoleon, Now therefore, the States and French and formed Team Andrew, a team that at fifty Ohio; the First Baptist Church in Azle, Texas; Indian War 250 have established a working re- walkers strong donated $10,000 alone last and the Greeneville Baptist Church in lationship and agree in good faith to work to- year at the previously mentioned walk. Andrew Greeneville, Ohio. He also was responsible for gether to focus on the commemoration of the along with the rest of his team intends to con- establishing the first public library in Raymond, 250th anniversary of the French and Indian tinue their strong showing and partake in the Illinois. War and commence the aforementioned activi- 2004 Delaware Valley Walk on June 12th, ex- Rev. Winhold used every means at his dis- ties as of February 22, 2004 and continue actly two months before his 18th birthday. posal to spread the gospel, including through these activities until 2010 or terminated by any Aside from his activities with NAAR, Andrew his television and radio ministries. He was party. devotes himself to high achievement within his truly a man of vision who understood the na- In witness whereof, the State of Con- high school and surrounding communities. ture of the people he ministered. necticut, the State of Delaware, the State of Il- Currently a junior at West Deptford High Rev. Winhold was also a man who valued linois, the State of Indiana, the State of Maine, School, he has earned upstanding academic family life and service to his country. He was the State of Maryland, the Commonwealth of marks and the esteem of the faculty. Such ac- a U.S. Navy veteran who served during the Massachusetts, the State of Michigan, the complishment secured for Andrew the Prin- Korean War. And he was married 46 years to State of New Hampshire, the State of New cipal’s Award for the second marking period of his beloved wife, Rosalie. They had four chil- Jersey, the State of New York, the State of the current school year and an invitation to dren: Michael Winhold, Michelle Hopkins, Wil- North Carolina, the State of Ohio, the Com- apply for membership to the West Deptford liam Winhold and Laura Sue. monwealth of Pennsylvania, the State of Chapter of the National Honor Society. Ac- I commend Rev. Winhold for his full and re- Rhode Island, the State of South Carolina, the ceptance into this society revolves around warding life. He will be remembered as a true State of Tennessee, the State of Vermont, the scholarship, service, character, and leader- servant of God, and he will be sorely missed Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of West ship. Further solidifying his involvement within by his family, his church and the communities Virginia and French and Indian War 250 have West Deptford High School, Andrew serves for which he worked.

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.025 E08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1067 HONORING CONTRIBUTIONS OF Coastal Division, which encompasses ten area Home in Bennington, the facility and its staff WOMEN, SYMBOLIZED BY ‘‘ROSIE offices and two inspection facilities from Santa serves the primary health care needs of eligi- THE RIVETER,’’ WHO SERVED ON Cruz to Ventura. Prior to being appointed ble veterans in the region of southwestern THE HOMEFRONT DURING Chief of the Division he served as Assistant Vermont. Over 1800 veterans in Vermont get WORLD WAR II Chief of Coastal Division from December 1986 exceptional medical care from Dr. Peter King through February 1989. From 1975 through and his colleagues in the clinic. As a sign of SPEECH OF 1986, Commissioner Helmick was assigned to their remarkable dedication to the health and HON. LORETTA SANCHEZ the Office of Special Representative to the well-being of veterans, the Bennington VA Clinic was rated among the top ten clinics in OF CALIFORNIA Legislature and commanded that office begin- ning in 1981. He also served in the South Los the nation in ten of twelve categories. Ranking IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Angeles and Glendale Areas. On November 1, so highly among the more than 850 commu- Wednesday, June 2, 2004 1995, ‘Spike’ Helmick was appointed Commis- nity-based VA clinics is a clear indication of Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California. Mr. sioner of the CHP, commanding 6,730 uni- the extraordinary work done by the Speaker, I rise today to offer my support of H. formed and 3,200 nonuniformed personnel, lo- Bennington staff, Con. Res. 413, which honors the contributions cated in 8 field divisions, 99 area commands, Established in 1998, the Bennington VA of Rosie the Riveter—the brave women who 16 commercial vehicle inspection facilities, 6 Clinic affords veterans a single primary care served on the home front during World War II. communications centers, and headquarters provider to coordinate their care on an ongo- Over six million women served this county staff and executive offices. Mr. Helmick’s du- ing basis. It, along with the Fort Ethan Allen during World War II by taking on jobs that had ties ranged from heading up the state’s home- CBOC in Colchester, the CBOC in Rutland, been traditionally held by men. They served land security programs in the aftermath of and the CBOC in Littleton, NH (which serves as welders, and engineers, and helped September 11, 2001, to assisting in riot control veterans in the St. Johnsbury area), makes produce planes, trucks, guns and ammunition and aiding local departments in the fight primary medical care more accessible to those that were crucial to helping the U.S. achieve against street gangs. who cannot always make the long journey to victory. As Commissioner, Mr. Helmick initiated the our excellent VA facilities in White River Junc- These brave women opened the doors to- concept of High Performance Policing within tion. ward equal rights and new employment oppor- the CHP. Under his guidance, each CHP com- We in Vermont are proud both of our vet- tunities, and highlighted the needs of working mander assesses the needs and expectations erans, and of the dedicated people who honor mothers, which in turn led to the creation of of the community served by their command. them by meeting their medical needs. child care programs. Their efforts helped Delivery of service is tailored to satisfy both f change social attitudes of traditional gender community and statewide needs. HONORING KEN HAMLIN roles and allowed the women greater opportu- Commissioner Helmick has continually em- nities and independence. phasized the importance that the CHP work- HON. DALE E. KILDEE I would like to join my colleagues in hon- force be representative of the state’s diverse OF MICHIGAN oring the life and work of these great women population so that the best services will be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and thank them for their contributions to this provided to all Californians. To this end, re- nation. cruitment, hiring and promotion of women and Tuesday, June 8, 2004 f ethnic minorities have been established as de- Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise before you partmental priorities. today on behalf of the members of American ON OCCASION OF THE RETIRE- Support for Commissioner Helmick is widely Legion Post 18 of Bay City, Michigan to pay MENT OF DWIGHT (SPIKE) based throughout California. His genuine con- tribute to their past Commander and life-time HELMICK cern for the needs of our state’s citizens is member, Mr. Ken Hamlin. The Legion will evidenced by such diverse Department pro- honor Mr. Hamlin during a special recognition HON. MIKE THOMPSON grams as Spanish language instruction of ceremony to be held in Bay City. OF CALIFORNIA CHP employees, inclusion of cultural aware- Ken Hamlin was born in Bay City on June IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ness training modules in recurrent training, 15, 1928. He served in the U.S. Naval Re- serve during World War II and the Korean Tuesday, June 8, 2004 and direction of Department resources to ad- dress specific crime and public safety issues. War. He retired honorably from the Reserve in Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. Speaker, There is no doubt that D.O. ‘Spike’ Helmick 1966. Ken has spent the majority of his life today I rise in honor of the retirement of Mr. has been an outstanding public servant for the serving and protecting. His commitment to the D.O. ‘Spike’ Helmick Commissioner of the people of California. His distinguished career U.S. Navy and American Legion Post 18 is California Highway Patrol (CHP). Mr. Helmick record speaks for itself. It has been my honor without doubt commendable. Ken has been a has served the state of California in the Cali- to work with Commissioner Helmick as both a member of the American Legion Post 18 of fornia Highway Patrol for 35 years. Mr. State Senator and now as a Congressman. Bay City for 29 years. During his 29 years of Helmick has served as commissioner for the He is my friend and a friend to everyone in the service with the Post he has had the honor of last 9 years and was appointed as the State’s California Highway Patrol. For these reasons I being a post service officer for 23 of those first director of Homeland Security. move that we recognize and honor D.O. years. Ken’s dedication to the post and its vet- Born in Texas in 1945 and raised in Cali- ‘Spike’ Helmick for his outstanding achieve- erans have not gone unnoticed. In 1994 he fornia, Commissioner Helmick graduated from ments and service to the people of the State was named Post 18 Commander, and later Oroville High School. He is a graduate of the of California. was granted Life Membership status for out- FBI’s National Executive Institute and has standing service. Also during 1994 he was f completed graduate work in public administra- awarded the Bay County Veteran of the Year tion through Golden Gate University. He holds AMERICA’S BEST VA CLINIC award. Aside from Post 18, Ken is also a a Bachelor of Arts degree in Administration of member of VVA Chapter 494 and a lifetime Justice from Golden Gate University and re- HON. BERNARD SANDERS member and Past Commander (5 times) of ceived Associate of Arts degrees in Police OF VERMONT AMVETS Post 22. He was the Past Chef Science and Business Administration from IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DeGear Voiture 690 Bay County, and Past Yuba and Glendale Colleges. Mr. Helmick, President Bay City Bowling Association. He who left his job in a clothing store in his North- Tuesday, June 8, 2004 was elected to the Bay City Bowling Hall Of ern California hometown of Oroville to join the Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Speaker, I want to call Fame in 1998, is a member of Post 18 Base- California Highway Patrol, graduated from the the nation’s attention to the exemplary work ball committee, and a member of the Bay training academy in 1969. His first assign- done by the staff of the Department of Vet- County Naval Ship Committee. One of his ments were patrol duty in Glendale and other erans Affairs Clinic in Bennington, Vermont. most noted contributions to the Bay City Vet- parts of Los Angeles County. Recently, the Federal Executive Association erans Council was the assistance he provided Commissioner Helmick has held every rank gave its ‘‘Federal Employee of the Year in forming the Bay County Color Guard with from Cadet to Deputy Commissioner. Prior to Award’’ to the entire Bennington VA Clinic the late George Rowell. Ken’s strength, pride appointment as Commissioner in 1995, he staff. and steadfastness in getting the job done served as Deputy Commissioner for six years. As the Community Based Outpatient Clinic whenever and however will always be remem- Before that he served as Chief of the CHP’s (CBOC) housed at the Vermont Veterans bered. He is a leader of high moral standards.

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.030 E08PT1 E1068 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 8, 2004 Many veterans are thankful for his generosity IN HONOR OF MICHAEL W. DAVIS’S Middle Tennessee State University and and kindness. Without his guidance and the DEDICATION TO THE BURBANK earned a bachelors degree in international re- assistance that the many veterans’ organiza- FIRE DEPARTMENT lations prior to his deployment to Iraq. tions provide, many of our American Heroes Lt. Ken Ballard comes from a proud tradition would be forgotten. HON. ADAM B. SCHIFF of military service. He is the fourth generation Mr. Speaker, as a Member of Congress, I OF CALIFORNIA on both sides of his family to serve our coun- ask my colleagues in the 108th Congress to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES try in uniform going back to World War I. Lt. please join me in paying tribute to an out- Ballard served courageously and with honor Tuesday, June 8, 2004 standing veteran, Mr. Ken Hamlin, for his past through unimaginable circumstances, acting service to our Nation and his continued com- Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bravely to protect the lives of those with whom mitment to assisting veterans. congratulate Michael Davis for 35 years of he served. dedicated service to the Burbank Fire Depart- Ken Ballard gave his life at the age of 26 f ment. with a bright and promising future ahead of Mike Davis joined the Burbank Fire Depart- him. It is with both sorrow and pride that we NATIONAL GREAT BLACK AMERI- ment as a probationary firefighter in 1969. He remember Lt. Ballard. As many in his home- CANS COMMEMORATION ACT OF promoted through the ranks of the Fire De- town of Mountain View and across the Bay 2003 partment and has served as Fire Chief for the Area gather to mourn his loss, we honor Lt. past 14 years. He has held positions including Ballard’s leadership, selfless sacrifice, and SPEECH OF Fire Engineer, Fire Captain, Fire Battalion courageous service to our nation. Lt. Ballard Chief and finally Fire Chief. He has worked in was an outstanding American and a great Cal- HON. BENJAMIN L. CARDIN all divisions of the department including Fire ifornian. OF MARYLAND Suppression, Fire Prevention, Fire Training, Our thoughts and condolences go out to his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Emergency Medical Services, Disaster Pre- mother Karen Meredith and father Tom Ballard paredness and Fire Administration. and all his family. Tuesday, June 1, 2004 His education includes an A.A. Degree in f Mr. CARDIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in enthusi- Fire Science from Los Angeles Valley College, RECOGNIZING 60TH ANNIVERSARY astic support of the National Great Black and a B.S. Degree in Fire Protection Adminis- OF ALLIED LANDING AT NOR- Americans Commemoration Act of 2003, and tration and Technology from California State MANDY DURING WORLD WAR II I want to thank my distinguished colleagues University Los Angeles. His background also includes seven years of experience as a foot- from Maryland, Senator BARBARA MIKULSKI SPEECH OF and Representative ELIJAH CUMMINGS, for their ball player while at L.A.V.C. and Utah State leadership on this legislation. University. He played professionally with the HON. CIRO D. RODRIGUEZ The bill before the House, S. 1233, provides Toronto ‘‘Rifles’’ of the now-defunct Conti- OF TEXAS key funding for an important Baltimore institu- nental Football League as well as the New IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion. The National Great Blacks in Wax Mu- York ‘‘Jets’’ organization of the American Foot- Tuesday, June 1, 2004 seum will help preserve our nation’s history. ball League. Chief Davis is a proud member of the Inter- Mr. RODRIGUEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Located in East Baltimore, the Museum fea- to honor the 60th Anniversary of D–Day, the tures nearly 200 exhibits and commemorates national Association of Fire Chiefs where he serves on the Elections Committee. He is a Allied landing at Normandy during World War Black Americans in the fields of government, II by American, British, Canadian and other Al- law, military service, science and religion. member of the Western Fire Chiefs’ Associa- tion and has faithfully served on the board of lied troops. Our nation’s enduring gratitude More than 300,000 visitors each year view its goes out to the courageous veterans whose exhibits and participate in its programs. I have directors for the California Fire Chiefs’ Asso- ciation for 11 years. In addition, he maintains foresight and sacrifice brought the Allied visited the museum several times, most re- forces perhaps the most crucial victory of cently for the unveiling of the image of our a membership in the Los Angeles Area Fire Chiefs’ Association where he serves on sev- World War II. friend and former House colleague, Kweisi The 60th anniversary of D–Day commemo- Mfume. eral subcommittees, the Foothill Fire Chiefs’ Association, and the Burbank Chapter of Ro- rates a pivotal point in the war and a unique In the words of noted historian Carter G. moment in time when coordination and valor Woodson, ‘‘If a race has no history, if it has tary International. Michael Davis is one of Bur- bank’s shining role models and outstanding forged unprecedented advancement of the Al- no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible lied forces against the Nazis and their Axis factor in the thought of the world, and it stands citizens. He has brought prestige to the Bur- bank Fire Department’s past, present, and fu- powers. Operation Overlord, the most exten- in danger of being exterminated.’’ If Dr. Wood- sive amphibious operation ever to occur in- son were alive today, he would applaud the ture. I ask all Members of Congress to join me volved 153,000 members of the Allied Expedi- work of Drs. Elmer and Joanne Martin. Back today in congratulating Michael Davis for an tionary Force who stormed five separate in 1983, these two pioneers recognized the exemplary professional and public service ca- beaches at Normandy. It was a battle labeled importance of going beyond textbooks to ex- reer, and for his immense commitment to the ‘The Great Crusade in Europe’ by Allied Su- pand the horizons of young minds, to stimu- City of Burbank and its residents. preme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower. late their imaginations, to bring historical fig- Facing exceptional danger, 800 planes, full of f ures to life. The National Great Blacks in Wax airborne paratroopers carrying ninety to one Museum has helped preserve and celebrate HONORING U.S. ARMY hundred twenty pounds of extra weight on the legacy of Black America, which I would LIEUTENANT KEN BALLARD their back, invaded occupied Normandy with a emphasize is important for all Americans, in- mission to secure crucial high grounds, roads cluding nascent immigrant communities. HON. FORTNEY PETE STARK and bridges. In close succession, 30,000 vehi- Enactment of this bill will also expand the OF CALIFORNIA cles charged the five separate beaches at educational opportunities provided by the Mu- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Normandy, carrying soldiers who became the seum, which works in coordination with reli- first to cross the formidable English Channel gious and art groups to offer after-school and Tuesday, June 8, 2004 since 1688. community activities in East Baltimore. This Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Poised to attack the disciplined German bill also authorizes $15 million for expansion U.S. Army Lieutenant Ken Ballard who was Army and seized with the loss of most of their of the Museum’s existing facilities through a tragically killed on Sunday, May 30th in Najaf, radios and 60% of their supplies during land- grant from the Department of Justice, and it Iraq. Lt. Ballard served as a platoon leader in ing, the men at D–Day could not rely on supe- will establish the Justice Learning Center. the U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion, 37th Armored rior technology. In one of history’s defining This bill has passed the Senate unani- Regiment, 1st Armored Division. moments, the liberation of occupied France mously and I look forward to its passage in Lt. Ballard grew up in the Bay Area of Cali- depended on human skill and will power, on the House and enactment. I urge my col- fornia. After graduating from Mountain View anticipating the enemy and charging coura- leagues to visit the Great Blacks in Wax Mu- High School in 1995, he joined the Army geously forward. Ultimately, on D–Day, brav- seum, to recommend it to their constituents, where he served in Germany, Bosnia, and ery in combat changed history. The soldiers of and to vote in favor of S. 1233. Macedonia. He won an ROTC scholarship to six valiant divisions met the most uncertain of

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.034 E08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1069 risks to defend the freedom we cherish today, ocean and the waves that crash on his be- organizers in the country. In particular, he is at suffering close to 9,000 casualties. As Winston loved beaches. Both his personality and his the forefront of the national movement to pro- Churchill said of his British troops, ‘Never in column will be sorely missed. I invite my col- mote and protect the rights of immigrant work- the field of human conflict was so much owed leagues to join me in paying tribute to him, ers. by so many to so few.’ and all that he meant to family, friends, and For over a decade, Mr. Sickler has served Today, as we remember the invasion of neighbors on the Peninsula. as Chair of the University of California at Los Normandy as the turning point of World War f Angeles (UCLA) Labor Center’s Advisory II, we commemorate what the defeat of Hitler’s Committee. His dynamic and compassionate army symbolized to the United States and to IN HONOR OF THOMAS REEFE leadership on the Committee make him an ex- the world, a landmark in the struggle for Lib- cellent role model for people of all ages who erty and Democracy. HON. SAM FARR seek social justice in their communities. June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the OF CALIFORNIA The celebration of the 40th anniversary of end of Hitler’s ambition for world domination. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the UCLA Labor Center is a testament to the In honoring the anniversary of this demo- Tuesday, June 8, 2004 hard work and tireless leadership of David cratic touchstone, we acknowledge the legacy Sickler and so many others who have dedi- of America’s historic charge—wars fought for Mr. FARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to cated their lives to advancing the causes of truly just causes. We etch this day into our honor Thomas Q. Reefe, whose lifelong dedi- working families in this nation. I salute David Nation’s profound memory so that we may cation to the Santa Cruz community consists Sickler, and other great labor leaders such as convey to new generations the respect that of over 35 years of volunteerism and leader- Dolores Huerta, Reverend James Lawson, liberty commands and the gratitude we owe to ship with local organizations. Tom will be retir- and Tom Rankin, for their commitment and courage. ing from his current position as Executive Di- determination to bring social justice to our A TRIBUTE TO PAUL AZEVEDO rector of Leadership Santa Cruz County where country. he has diligently worked to advance the inter- Mr. Speaker, I urge the body to recognize ests of the organization for the betterment of labor leaders of the past, the UCLA Labor HON. TOM LANTOS the community for over 13 years. OF CALIFORNIA Center, and all union organizers throughout Tom first became involved in local politics America. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES while attending UC Berkeley in the 1960’s. He Tuesday, June 8, 2004 was soon recognized by many as a commu- f Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay trib- nity organizer and anti-war activist. His edu- ute to Paul Azevedo, a resident of Pacifica, cation was interrupted by military service while TRIBUTE TO ARMY RESERVE SPE- California, located in my Congressional dis- he served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. After CIALIST MICHAEL J. WIESEMANN trict, who passed away on May 9th. Mr. a distinguished tour, Tom returned to receive Azevedo was a popular columnist at the his PhD in African History in 1974. Following HON. PETER J. VISCLOSKY Pacifica Tribune, a local paper, a historian of the receipt of his degree, Torn taught History OF INDIANA his beloved town, and above all, a family man. at the University of North Carolina. After a Mr. Azevedo was born in Sonoma County, fruitful career as a professor, Tom accepted a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES California on March 20, 1931. He served in position at the University of California Santa Tuesday, June 8, 2004 the U.S. Army and earned a degree from San Cruz as Director of Career Services where he Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, It is with Jose State University. Mr. Azevedo moved worked until 1993. great pride and respect that I pay tribute to with his wife Lydia to picturesque Pacifica 41 Beyond his extensive professional experi- Army Reserve Specialist Michael J. years ago where they raised four children, ence, Tom has been an integral part of the Wiesemann for his bravery in the field of battle Mike, Rena, Martin and Joane, in this pictur- local Santa Cruz community as well. A mem- and his willingness to fight for his country. esque Peninsula town. ber of the first graduating class of Leadership Mr. Azevedo joined the Pacifica Tribune in Santa Cruz in 1986, Tom has remained loyal Specialist Wiesemann lost his life Saturday, 1966 as an ad salesman and proceeded to to the organization since its inception. Due to May 29, 2004, in a non-combat related injury, hold almost every imaginable job at the paper his innovative and sustainable proposals, while bravely serving in Operation Iraqi Free- before eventually settling into his role as a col- Leadership Santa Cruz has blossomed into a dom for the United States Army. His sacrifice umnist. Known as ‘‘The Reactor’’, Mr. much relied upon organization within our com- will be remembered at funeral services on Azevedo eloquently opined on all matters that munity. Under his tutelage, over 600 members Wednesday, June 9, 2004, by a community affected the Peninsula. Sometimes he merely of our community, including members of my that has been struck hard by the devastating related historical anecdotes that he thought district staff, have been guided through an ex- loss of one of its own. relevant to the present day. A bit of a mav- tensive course intended to outline the various Specialist Wiesemann, 20, was born in erick, he did not always write the conventional facets that make up Santa Cruz County. Valparaiso, Indiana. He later moved to North column, but inspired praise nonetheless for Mr. Speaker, I wish to congratulate Tom on Judson, Indiana, a small town with a popu- engaging his readers on a variety of diverse his much deserved retirement and thank him lation of fifteen hundred, and graduated from and interesting subjects. for his contribution to our society. Tom has North Judson-San Pierre High School in 2002. Mr. Speaker, no one knew more about the continuously gone above and beyond the roles He was known as a great artist with a witty Pacifica and no details escaped his steel trap bestowed upon him and has left in his wake sense of humor. After high school, Specialist of a mind. In the last “Reactor” a legacy of community leadership. I wish him Weisemann decided to join the Army Re- column, his family recalled all of the places all the best in his retirement. serves with the hope that it would assist him financially with college, help him fulfill his around town that he loved with no area left f out. dream of becoming an artist, and allow him to As one would expect of a vocal columnist, RECOGNIZING MR. DAVID SICKLER find himself through the discipline and order Mr. Azevedo had strong opinions about poli- that it provides. tics, however despite those opinions his over- HON. HILDA L. SOLIS Michael’s sacrifice for his country is a tribute riding desire was to insure that his beloved OF CALIFORNIA to his dedication and willingness to put others democracy was upheld. That is why in addi- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES before himself. Those who knew Michael best tion to writing his column, he also worked in describe him as a kind, fun-loving person, who Tuesday, June 8, 2004 the local election’s office, proofreading election always wanted to help others. He ultimately material in English, Chinese and Spanish and Ms. SOLIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize gave his life while protecting his fellow Ameri- although not fluent in Chinese and Spanish, Mr. David Sickler, a lifelong champion for cans. His courage and heroism will always be he spotted errors in the materials that fluent working families. remembered, and his sacrifice will forever live speakers overlooked by finding inconsist- Mr. Sickler serves as the Director of the in the hearts and minds of those for whom he encies in the text. Mr. Azevedo also looked to Southern California State Building and Con- fought. preserve the natural beauty of Pacifica as a struction Trades Council. Under his leader- Specialist Wiesemann is survived by his member of the Open Space Committee. ship, Mr. Sickler has successfully advanced mother, Karen Bubac, his stepfather, Robert Mr. Speaker, Mr. Azevedo was as much the goals of the Council and has proven to be Bubac, his father, Duwain Wilson, his brother, apart of Pacifica as the fog that rolls in off the one of the most talented and effective union Travis Bubac, his half-sister, Tori Bubac, and

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.038 E08PT1 E1070 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 8, 2004 his fiance´e Abigail Trusty, whom he planned RECOGNIZING FAITH IN ACTION NORTHWOODS INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS ARE ESSENTIAL to marry when he returned home from Iraq. Tessie has been a transportation volunteer These individuals were the heroes to a true HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR for Northwoods Interfaith for nearly 4 years patriot, so I rise today to honor them and rec- OF MINNESOTA and has provided over 500 hours of priceless ognize their sacrifice during these tumultuous IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES services to several Carereceivers. Not only times. Tuesday, June 8, 2004 has she made her car available when some- Mr. Speaker, at this time I ask that you and one needed a ride to a medical appointment, my other distinguished colleagues join me in Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Faith in Action, a national to the bank, or to the grocery store, but she honoring a fallen hero, United States Army has also made herself available, as a friend, Reserve Specialist Michael J. Wiesemann. program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foun- to each Carereceiver that she helps. When Specialist Wiesemann is the twenty-third serv- dation and the many dedicated individuals asking a Carereceiver what she thinks of ice member from Indiana to sacrifice his life who serve in this interfaith volunteer Tessie, the Carereceiver responded: during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and his pass- caregiving program. ing comes as a difficult setback to a commu- I had the pleasure of meeting with numer- ‘‘I consider Tessie to be my own special nity shaken by the realities of war. Specialist ous volunteers from throughout my Congres- angel. I thank God for sending her every day. Wiesemann will forever remain a hero in the sional District during their visit to Washington, She is a true champion, and there’s nothing eyes of his family, his community, and his and I was uplifted and inspired by the stories she wouldn’t do for me. For the past 3 years, country; thus, let us never forget the sacrifice they shared with me. Tessie has driven me to dialysis 3 times a he made to preserve the ideals of freedom FAITH IN ACTION FOR CASS COUNTY week and even when she had to pick me up and democracy. Esther is an 83-year-old woman who has at 5:30 in the morning, she was always cheer- osteoporosis and spinal fractures. She is a ful and kind. She helps me with errands, takes f lovely lady who has lived alone for 30 years me out to eat when 1 don’t feel good enough since her husband died, in a home built in WELCOME HOME DUSTIN TULLER to cook a meal, and keeps me updated on our 1908 in great need of repair. Esther has no church news. She has shared her grand- children and is on a fixed income. children with me, her pets, and her home. She HON. JEFF MILLER When she was diagnosed with spinal frac- is my family. I can’t say enough about Tessie. OF FLORIDA tures, she was in a lot of pain and was told She is a true example of volunteers at their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES there was nothing she could do. She had lost extreme best.’’ hope. She first came to the attention of Faith Tuesday, June 8, 2004 in Action when the agency was told the water FAMILY PATHWAYS SENIOR SERVICES Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise in her home was undrinkable. A septic system Every month volunteers are asked to report today to welcome home Army Staff Sergeant repairman told her he punctured her well and their activities with clients and turn in their Dustin Tuller and to thank him for patriotically she should not drink the water. Faith in Action mileage report so they can be reimbursed for answering his nation’s call to duty. found a volunteer who brings her clean water their mileage and Family Pathways can tab- America has put our power at the service of every week. For years she used a flashlight to ulate statistics for funding sources. Vicki sent principle. We believe that liberty is the design find her way in the bathroom, as the light fix- in her report and had driven 1,496 miles for of nature, the direction of history, and that ture did not work. She feared asking a the month. That was much higher than usual. human fulfillment and excellence come in the repairperson to help as another repairperson The Volunteer Coordinator visited with Vicki responsible exercise of liberty. Last, we be- had taken her valuables. The Faith in Action and asked if she had to relinquish 2 of her 5 lieve that freedom—the freedom we prize—is AmeriCorps Vista Worker fixed her light fix- clients which ones would she be able to give not for us alone, it is the right and the capacity ture, and there is now a team of Faith in Ac- up to another volunteer. After some discussion of all mankind. tion volunteers who takes her to the doctor, to and consideration, she said, ‘‘Oh, I couldn’t By definition, the success of freedom rests the grocery store, and out to lunch. They give up any of them.’’ Her clients can’t say upon the choices and the courage of free peo- clean her house, repair her furnace when enough positive things about Vicki and her un- ples, and upon their willingness to sacrifice. In needed and wrap her frozen pipes. Faith in relenting energy and willingness to help oth- the trenches of World War I, through a two- Action is there for her whenever she needs ers. Vicki is 90 years old. front war in the 1940s, the difficult battles of help; she is always so grateful and occasion- Family Pathways also assists a couple that Korea and Vietnam, to battling the faceless ally pays $5 or $10 to Faith in Action. enemy in the war on terror and in missions of Esther is determined to stay in her home so lives in a trailer home in the country. He has rescue and liberation on nearly every con- she can feed the deer and chipmunks. Faith in severe dementia, she has diabetes and has tinent, Americans have amply displayed our Action volunteers help to provide comfort and left-sided weakness due to a stroke. Their chil- willingness to sacrifice for liberty and freedom. assistance so she can stay in her home as dren all work, and, although they live nearby, Just two days before Christmas, Dustin had long as possible. they wanted some company for their parents on a weekly basis. Family Pathways found an just positioned his squad outside a building in LAKES AREA INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS older couple that wanted to volunteer together. Iraq to provide security during the raid when Faith in Action in the Lakes Area received a The Volunteer Coordinator brought the volun- the soldiers came under fire. Despite being call last fall from the wife of an 84-year-old teer couple to their home to visit to see if it shot four times in the legs and pelvis, he re- veteran of 30 years and two wars. She stated would be a good match. The couples began turned gunfire and started looking for a con- that they needed a ramp because he is con- talking and visiting, and before long an hour cealed position. Soon after, Dustin arrived at a fined to a wheelchair, she has a bad back, had gone by. There was laughter, teasing, hospital and learned that he would have to and it is very difficult to get him out of the story telling and a whole bunch of good feeling have both legs amputated. Having hopes of house. She even stated that she had dropped around the room. Yes, it was a good match. becoming a physical education teacher, the him down the cement front stairs onto the ce- This couple now goes out once a week to interruption in his life has not deterred his ment sidewalk the previous week. plans. This was in late November and within one visit. They have driven them into town for On a daily basis, we are reminded of the week Faith in Action had six volunteers over shopping, helped plant flowers around their tremendous costs that freedom often requires. and completed a ramp for them. It snowed the trailer and thoroughly enjoy their time together. Throughout the history of the United States of next day. Faith in Action received a nice thank I am proud to rise on the floor today to com- America, men, woman and families have given you from her stating that they love the ramp, mend these altruistic individuals and to recog- their all to further our constitutional hopes and they feel much safer now, and her back feels nize a program that is bringing together peo- dreams. much better. ple of different faiths to care for their neigh- Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the United States Faith in Action also received a note a while bors. Faith in Action was created in the spirit Congress; we are humbled by and appre- ago thanking them for giving a woman a ride of community volunteerism and the nearly ciative of men, women and families like Dustin everyday for 18 days to see her husband in 1,000 interfaith volunteer caregiving programs Tuller’s who are willing to answer their nation’s intensive care. She stated that without won- that have developed across the country pro- call. derful volunteers who brought her 30 miles in vide the balm of Gilead. The stories of Thank you Dustin, Alisha, Dillyn, Zachery, the morning and home again 30 miles in the changed lives as a result of their presence in Dammyn, and Lexi. We all owe you a heartfelt afternoon, she would not have been able to the community has touched me and clearly debt of gratitude. Welcome Home. visit her husband of 66 years before he died. provides hope to many individuals in need.

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.041 E08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1071 GENOCIDE IN SUDAN year-old Fatima put her hands on her stom- Masalit, Fur and other black African tribes ach, groaned and died. Her mother, Toma will simply have to go. Like the Janjaweed, Musa Suleiman, in describing the death to the Darfurians are Muslims. But culturally HON. FRANK R. WOLF me the next day, said that Fatima had been and ethnically they retain an African iden- OF VIRGINIA sick for 10 days. By the time she died, her tity, of which they are proud. They also tend IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES skin was pallid and felt like plastic—the ef- to be more settled than the nomadic Tuesday, June 8, 2004 fects of malnutrition. Janjaweed. Racism undoubtedly does play a I was seeing with my own eyes what I had part in Bashir’s support of the Janjaweed, as Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I would like to sub- been hearing about for several months: Chil- the blacks are seen as inferior. mit for the record a letter sent to Secretary dren are dying almost every day in refugee Ironically, the prospects for peace in General Kofi Annan signed by 45 Members of camps in eastern Chad, despite a vigorous southern Sudan also contribute to the con- Congress asking Mr. Annan to go to Darfur, international effort to get food, water and flict. Fearing that an end to the generation- Sudan, to end the genocide. other essentials to the more than 100,000 who long rebellion in southern Sudan will divide I would also like to submit for the record an have fled in fear from the Darfur region of access to the country’s resources between article from the Washington Post, ‘‘In Sudan, neighboring Sudan. the ruling elite in Khartoum and the south- Staring Genocide in the Face.’’ The author is They are among the 1 million Darfurians erners and condemn Darfur to permanent who have been displaced from their homes, Jerry Fowler, staff director of the Committee second-class status, some Darfurians most of whom are still in Sudan, according launched an armed rebellion in early 2003. on Conscience, The United States Holocaust to aid groups. Khartoum responded by unleashing the Memorial Museum. Abukar Adam Abukar, a member of a com- Janjaweed and its own military on the black We are staring genocide in the face. Will the munity health team organized by Doctors African civilian population. The result was world fail to act as it has so many times in the Without Borders in the Iridimi refugee camp, what a team of U.N. investigators last month past? Over the next few weeks I will continue one of half a dozen such sites, told me that called a ‘‘reign of terror.’’ to submit stories from leading news sites on seven children had died there between May 3 Those who have crossed into Chad are rel- this issue. I want the world to know that when and May 14. atively lucky. An underfunded international historians are looking back at the Darfur geno- He took me to the dusty flat on the edge of relief effort by organizations such as Catho- the camp where some of them were buried, in cide and wondering why more was not done, lic Relief Services and Doctors Without Bor- a forlorn line of small mounds of earth. ders is providing some food, water, shelter there will be evidence in the CONGRESSIONAL Why did Toma and thousands like her and health care. For the displaced RECORD that the world knew. leave their homes and walk for days through Darfurians who are still in Sudan, however, CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, the desert, risking their own lives and those the situation is more dire. Khartoum has se- June 4, 2004. of their children? Their stories were remark- verely limited international access to them. Hon. KOFI ANNAN, ably consistent. Person after person in the And in the unforgiving desert, the stealing of Secretary General, United Nations camps told me that they had fled after at- food and animals, burning of homes and New York, NY. tacks on their villages by Arab Janjaweed blockage of access to wells—in short, the DEAR MR. SECRETARY GENERAL: We are ex- militias, who have burned hundreds of vil- campaign of the Janjaweed and the govern- tremely concerned that the crisis in Darfur, lages and killed thousands of civilians be- Sudan, has not received the international at- ment—is tantamount to a death sentence. longing to black African ethnic groups. To The U.S. Agency for International Develop- tention or response that is needed to save make matters worse, the Janjaweed are the lives of hundreds of thousands of inno- ment estimates that 350,000 Darfurians will backed by the Sudanese government, which die in the coming months unless the govern- cent civilians. With the rainy season just wants to put down rebels drawn from those weeks away, the window of opportunity is ment in Khartoum allows international aid tribes. Many of the refugees said that the closing. groups dramatically better access to the re- The situation on the ground is deterio- Janjaweed had stolen their animals and gion. rating at an alarming rate. Urgent, imme- other property and that relatives or neigh- That raises the question of genocide. Under diate action is needed to prevent the deaths bors, usually men and boys, had been killed the U.N. Genocide Convention, adopted in of hundreds of thousands of innocent civil- before their eyes. The refugees fled with lit- 1948 in the shadow of the Holocaust, genocide ians. Your going to Darfur would call to the tle more than the clothes on their backs and is defined as certain actions undertaken world’s attention the ongoing slaughter. Pre- the few things they could load onto a don- ‘‘with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, cious time is slipping away. key. Many also said they were attacked from a national, ethnical, racial or religious We greatly appreciate your leadership on the air by the Sudanese government’s group, as such.’’ The actions include ‘‘killing this crisis but the situation calls for even Antonov bombers, either in their villages or members of the group,’’ ‘‘causing serious bolder action from the United Nations. We as they fled toward the border. bodily and mental harm to members of the urge you to go to Darfur and stand in soli- I went to Chad last month on behalf of the group’’ and—particularly relevant to darity with the people. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Com- Darfur—‘‘deliberately inflicting on the group The international community must act mittee on Conscience, which has issued a conditions of life calculated to bring about swiftly. Failure to act will bring certain genocide warning for Sudan. Having now its physical destruction, in whole or in death to the thousands languishing in heard firsthand the refugees’ accounts of the part.’’ The convention obliges parties to the camps. The world will wake up 10 years from terror they faced in Sudan and of being driv- treaty, including the United States and 130 now and wonder why more was not done to en into the desert, where their government is other nations—to ‘‘undertake to prevent and protect humanity. The evidence is clear. We blocking assistance from the outside world, I punish’’ the crime of genocide. cannot say that we did not know. have no doubt whatsoever that mass death In cases like Darfur, there is always a Sincerely, will ensue in Darfur unless far more inter- great deal of hand wringing about what is Frank R. Wolf; Donald M. Payne; Tom national assistance is immediately allowed and is not genocide. But such discussion Lantos; Edward R. Royce; Henry J. Hyde; to reach the displaced who are still there. In misses the point: A key element of the Geno- Christopher H. Smith; Sheila Jackson-Lee; short, I fear the specter of genocide. cide Convention is prevention. It calls for ac- Peter A. Defazio; Michael R. McNulty; Peter I interviewed refugees spread over hun- tion once it is apparent that genocide is Deutsch; Lois Capps; Chris Bell; Wm. Lacy dreds of miles in eastern Chad. One woman, threatened. There is no need for an absolute Clay; Martin T. Meehan; Michael M. Honda; Hadiya Adam Ahmed, had crossed into Chad determination, which is inevitably elusive, Elijah E. Cummings; James P. McGovern; only two days before and was living under a that genocide is underway. Raul M. Grijalva; Todd W. Akin; Vic Snyder; tree near the remote border town of Bahai. And in Darfur there can be no doubt that Barbara Lee. Spread around her were her few remaining genocide is threatened. As former U.S. Am- Ken Calvert; Maurice D. Hinchey; Julia possessions: a blanket, some water jugs, a bassador David Scheffer once said of Kosovo, Carson; James T. Walsh; Wayne T. Gilchrest; few bowls. She had left home without food there are ‘‘indicators of genocide.’’ Whatever Carolyn B. Maloney; Edolphus Towns; Mi- and in two weeks of travel had depended on the formulation, there is more than enough chael E. Capuano; Mark Steven Kirk; Chris her fellow refugees for occasional handfuls of going on in Darfur to justify preventive ac- Van Hollen; Jesse L. Jackson; Sue Wilkins soaked sorghum for herself and her nine chil- tion. Myrick; Betty McCollum; Brad Sherman; Lu- dren. Hadiya had two bullet wounds in her Time is of the essence. The rainy season cille Roybal-Allard; James P. Moran; Henry right leg. She said she had been shot by a Su- will begin in the next few weeks, making ac- A. Waxman; Thomas G. Tancredo; Jo Ann danese soldier when she and a 17–year-old cess to Darfur—where major roads become Davis; Luis V. Gutierrez; Gerald D. Kleczka; girl went to draw water from a well for impassable with flooding—difficult, if not Timothy V. Johnson; Nita M. Lowey; Sam themselves and others who were fleeing. impossible. Farr. When asked why their villages were at- The government in Khartoum will do tacked and burned, most of the refugees said whatever it can to forestall any decisive [From the Washington Post, June 6, 2004] it was because of their black skin. They be- international action. It is well practiced at IN SUDAN, STARING GENOCIDE IN THE FACE lieve that the Khartoum-based government giving the illusion of taking a step forward (By Jerry Fowler) of President Omar Hassan Bashir wants to while really taking two steps backward. For In the cool desert dawn on May 16, at the give their land to his Janjaweed allies who, example, it now is making a show of prom- Touloum refugee camp in eastern Chad, 2- like him, are Arab. Members of the Zaghawa, ising to streamline humanitarian access. But

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.045 E08PT1 E1072 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 8, 2004 the record suggests that the government Texas, Plano Senior High School; Steven tion’’, those who have fallen in the war on ter- simply cannot be trusted. Even as it was Solaja, Dallas, Texas, Episcopal School of ror remind us that our military and those who claiming that the situation in Darfur was Dallas. serve in it have not lost their greatness. I have stable, its Janjaweed allies killed several U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY dozen people on May 22. Allowing better ac- the utmost respect for these servicemen and Travis Atkins, Allen, Texas, Allen High women and their families. God bless our cess to aid groups will mean little if the mi- School; Michelle Ellenburg, Frisco, Texas litias continue to run rampant in the coun- troops. Frisco High School. tryside. f What is needed now is a U.N. Security U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY Council resolution mandating unrestricted David Jung, Garland, Texas, Garland High RETIREMENT OF WILLIAM OROS humanitarian access to Darfur and laying School; Kelly Lewis, Plano, Texas, Plano the groundwork for the displaced Darfurians West Senior High School; Christopher HON. NANCY L. JOHNSON to return home safely. The Security Council Mahan, Rowlett, Texas, Garland High OF CONNECTICUT should invoke the collective obligation to School; Price Paramore, Allen, Texas, prevent genocide as well as its authority to Allen High School; Blake Shaid, Richard- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES maintain international peace and security, son, Texas, Berkner High School; Theodore Tuesday, June 8, 2004 which is threatened by Janjaweed incursions Shiveley, Plano, Texas, Plano East Senior into Chad and conflicts between the Chadian High School; Aubrey Sperier, Frisco, Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speak- and Sudanese militaries. A statement issued Texas, Frisco High School. er, I rise today to recognize the conclusion of by the Security Council on May 25, express- U.S. MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY an outstanding educator’s career in the State ing ‘‘grave concern’’ about Darfur, is a step Amy Harman, Garland, Texas, Naaman of Connecticut. With the retirement of William in the right direction. But it is no substitute Forest High School; Robert Williams, Plano, Oros, Connecticut is losing a respected and for a formal resolution. dedicated educator who has committed more The United States has been lobbying in the Texas, Plano West Senior High School. Security Council, but it cannot do it alone. f than three decades of his life to the enlighten- Darfur presents an opportunity for Secretary ment of Connecticut’s youth. General Kofi Annan to avoid a repetition of FALLEN HEROES Over 36 years of service to Connecticut the United Nations’ failures during the education, Mr. Oros has left an everlasting im- Rwanda genocide of a decade ago, when SPEECH OF pression on his students. From his direct con- warnings of mass murder were ignored. In- HON. SPENCER BACHUS tact with the youth of Connecticut’s Northwest deed, in marking the 10th anniversary of the OF ALABAMA Corner as a science and math teacher in start of the Rwanda genocide on April 7, Cornwall, to his leadership as Supervising Annan said that reports from Darfur filled IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Principal at the Cornwall Consolidated Ele- him ‘‘with a sense of deep foreboding.’’ Thursday, May 20, 2004 Since then, however, he has said little in mentary School, Mr. Oros has deeply affected public other than to welcome Khartoum’s Mr. BACHUS. Mr. Speaker, the recently the lives of each of his pupils. His ability to in- promise to ease restrictions on international celebrated Memorial Day Holiday was a re- fluence the lives of young students has been relief. His reticence is all the more remark- minder for all Americans to unite behind our unparalleled. able because other U.N. officials, such as Commander-in-Chief and support our soldiers. Moreover, Mr. Oros has achieved undying Mukesh Kapila, until recently the top U.N. The men and women who valiantly and self- respect from his students and peers alike. humanitarian official in Sudan, have been lessly fought to rid the world of the evil Iraqi outspoken in sounding the alarm. Most recently, as Assistant Superintendent of Annan must say, simply, ‘‘This must stop’’ regime and today continue in the fight against Schools for the New Fairfield School District, and use all his skill, energy and influence to terrorism deserve our support and even more, Mr. Oros has worked with staff to develop in- forge an international consensus to back up our gratitude and admiration. Alabama has a service training programs and professional de- that statement. To do otherwise, to welcome strong representation in the war on terror velopment for educators, as well as serving as empty gestures from perpetrators of the through the activation of the Alabama Army a resource of support and assistance for indi- gravest abuses, merely encourages them to and Air National Guard as well as our citizens viduals who serve in all areas of education. continue to murder and pillage. During both the Holocaust and the Rwanda who serve in the Armed Forces full time. Op- Mr. Oros’ exemplary leadership throughout his genocide, warnings were received and ig- eration Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi extended career is an example for all to fol- nored. Today we say ‘‘never again.’’ The Freedom are noble pursuits that will protect low, not just in the field of education, but for question now is whether we will ignore the the United States from the threat of terrorism anyone concerned with the future of our state warnings while the Africans of Darfur perish and will bring democracy to a region of the and Nation. and then—once again—say ‘‘never again.’’ Or world that so desperately needs assistance. The enthusiasm and dedication Mr. Oros will we act while lives can still be saved? As the father of a Marine, I can sympathize displays towards the educating of the youth in f with the concerns and fears faced by families Connecticut has been both commendable and SALUTING SERVICE ACADEMY of those who have loved ones fighting the contagious. It is imperative for individuals such STUDENTS global war on terrorism. In the unfortunate as he to nurture the growth of tommorow’s case where a member of our military sacrifices leaders. I wish Mr. Oros the best towards a HON. SAM JOHNSON his or her life to preserve our values of liberty happy and healthy retirement. and freedom, it is our duty to offer sympathy OF TEXAS f and support for the family and friends of our IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fallen heroes. Nineteen Alabamians have IN MEMORY OF GERTRUDE Tuesday, June 8, 2004 made the ultimate sacrifice and will never be HOLDER Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, forgotten: it is a tremendous honor to salute our soldiers Aubrey Bell, Tuskegee. HON. EDWARD J. MARKEY of tomorrow—the service academy bound stu- John E. Brown, Troy. OF MASSACHUSETTS dents of the Third District of Texas. This dis- Paul J. Bueche, Daphne. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES trict of Texas is home to some of the best and Armed Cason, McCalla. William Channell, Tuscaloosa. Tuesday, June 8, 2004 the brightest young people. Timothy M. Conneway, Enterprise. I’m truly confident that they are ready to join Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, I stand today to Jeremy D. Foshee, Pisgah. celebrate the memory of Gertrude Holder, who the premier military force of the world. It is a Charles G. Haight, Jacksonville. privilege to send such fine young people on to Brian Hazelgrove, Fort Rucker. recently passed away on the 30th of May at our nation’s prestigious service academies. Stephen D. Hiller, Opelika. the age of 85. Gertrude was a dedicated cit- We lift them and their families up in prayer Howard Johnson, II, Mobile. izen who served her Nation and community for their future service and ssacrifices. Phillip Johnson, Alabama. throughout her life. A daughter of Russian im- Jason D. Jordan, Elba. migrants, for 35 years Ms. Holder helped fed- God bless them and God bless America. I Cedric Lennon, West Blocton, salute them. Mark O’Steen, Alabama. eral agencies of the United States better serve The appointees and their hometowns follow. Kelley Prewitt, Birmingham. the public while employed by the General THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT—SERVICE John T. Sims, Alexander City. Services Administration. As a retiree, she con- ACADEMY APPOINTMENTS Christopher M. Taylor, Daphne. tinued to benefit her surrounding citizens. She U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY Christopher R. Willoughby, Phoenix City. could be often found volunteering to help vot- Ryan Brence, Plano, Texas, Plano Senior As we remember the veterans of World War ers at the polling place of her local senior citi- High School; Katherine Palesky, Plano, II who were known as the ‘‘Greatest Genera- zens’ center in Revere, Massachusetts.

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.049 E08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1073 A tribute to the vitality of her public service, pride I have in this community, it is truly an at Oceanside High School. It is through the her grandson served as a Congressional Page honor for me to highlight this great city today. hard work and caring of these leaders that under the late Congressman Joseph Moakley. Because of Concord’s hard work, the rest of students are able to graduate from Oceanside Unquestionably, her spirit of public service will America is getting to see the positive spirit of High School with the tools they need to be- be passed on to her daughter, son, five grand- accomplishment that I have been fortunate to come successful members of society and fu- children, three great-grandchildren, and com- witness my entire life. ture leaders in our communities. I commend munity. The All-America City Award is a 55-year-old and congratulate you all. f program sponsored by the National Civic Mr. Speaker, Oceanside High School is a League that recognizes civic excellence. The great example of how a public school should HONORING MR. JAMES MCILVAIN Award is given annually to 10 communities work. Students at Oceanside High School that exemplify and display a positive spirit of have the opportunity to learn a challenging HON. THADDEUS G. McCOTTER grassroots involvement and collaborative prob- academic curriculum in a positive learning en- OF MICHIGAN lem solving in an effort to better their commu- vironment that stresses the importance of civic IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nity. responsibility and cultural diversity. It is impor- The current nominees, including Concord, tant that our future leaders receive a strong Tuesday, June 8, 2004 exhibit the American spirit of hard work and education, work ethic, and an awareness of Mr. MCCOTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today cooperation as they seek to identify and cor- our global society—Oceanside High School in honor of Mr. James McIlvain upon his retire- rect community-wide challenges. Concord is a has succeeded in providing the students with ment after 37 years of service to Wayne- community where citizens, businesses, volun- this knowledge. Westland Community Schools. teers, and government officials work together The graduates of Oceanside High School Mr. James McIlvain has had a long and dis- to address issues that are vitally important to have taken an important step forward today as tinguished career in academia. Following his their citizens. Concord should take pride in the they don their cap and gown and walk across graduation from Ohio State University where fact that they are in contention for recognition the stage to accept their diplomas. Each stu- he developed a love of history, government by this national organization for their hard dent graduating today has the potential to and politics, James was led to the noble pro- work. Truly, Concord is a great example for achieve great success and it is up to each one fession of teaching. Beginning his career in other communities to emulate as other com- of them to determine how they are going to 1967 at Adams Junior High School, he taught munities seek to overcome the many chal- make a difference in our communities. I con- United States History and Geography contrib- lenges that face all communities, large or gratulate you all for your accomplishment uting to the education of countless students small. today and encourage you to pursue your goals and enriching the lives of the students, fami- To qualify for the All-American City Award, and continue to build on the knowledge you lies, staff and faculty around him. After ad- Concord representatives first had to submit a have learned. vancing excellence in the classroom, James detailed application highlighting the city’s three Your accomplishments at Oceanside High became a guidance counselor where he most pressing challenges. They are: address- School have opened many doors for you. served as a role model promoting good char- ing the medical needs of the uninsured and From this point forward, the only limits on your acter and helping students as they made the underinsured, eliminating substandard housing future are those you place on yourself—any- transition into adulthood. Undoubtedly, the ev- in the community, and extending the men- one who says otherwise is wrong. If you have erlasting legacy of James’s work can be seen toring and civic responsibility of the Boys and the determination, are equipped with knowl- in the community, as he has helped create the Girls Club of Concord. Programs such as the edge and you outline a goal, you have the future generation of leaders. Community Care Plan, Cabarrus Housing ability to accomplish great things. Again. I con- His wife, Susan, and his two daughters, Partners, and the Boys and Girls Club of gratulate the Class of 2004 and wish you all Becky and Kelly, should be extremely proud of America have been designed and imple- continued success. the undeniable mark he has left on the com- mented to ensure these aforementioned areas f munity. We at home will remember and al- are addressed. ways benefit from his dedication and leader- I am pleased to represent such a fine com- HONORING MRS. BARBARA WHITE ship. munity where the citizens come together to Mr. Speaker, I extend my sincere apprecia- solve problems at a local level rather than HON. THADDEUS G. McCOTTER tion to Mr. James McIlvain upon his retirement waiting on someone else to fix things. A wise OF MICHIGAN as a John Glenn High School Guidance Coun- man once said that there are three types of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES selor and for his fine service to our country. people in this world: those who watch what Tuesday, June 8, 2004 f happens, those who make things happen, and those who wonder what happened. Rest as- Mr. MCCOTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA ALL- sured, the people of my home town, Concord, in honor of Mrs. Barbara White upon her re- AMERICA CITY AWARD North Carolina are people who make good tirement after nearly 40 years of service to the things happen. It is my honor and privilege to citizens of the City of Garden City, Michigan HON. ROBIN HAYES represent these good folks and I am hopeful and the students of Garden all City Public OF NORTH CAROLINA the National Civic League will recognize the Schools. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES City of Concord’s success by awarding them Barbara White began her career in the Gar- the All-America City Award. den City Public School District in 1964 where Tuesday, June 8, 2004 she served as Head Secretary for Memorial, f Mr. HAYES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Maplewood, Cambridge, and Marquette Ele- honor the people of Concord, North Carolina HONORING THE OCEANSIDE HIGH mentary Schools. Over the next 23 years, she as they compete for the 2004 All-America City SCHOOL CLASS OF 2004 contributed to the education of the countless Award. students enriching the lives of the students, It has been my distinct honor to represent HON. DARRELL E. ISSA families, staff and faculty around her. Fol- the people of Concord since I was first elected OF CALIFORNIA lowing her retirement in 1987, Mrs. White was to represent the 8th Congressional District of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES elected to the Garden City School Board. Dur- North Carolina. This opportunity is especially ing her tenure as a Board Member, she dear to me because this is my home town and Tuesday, June 8, 2004 served on the Finance, Facilities, and Policy where much of my family still resides. In fact, Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to con- Committees where she helped to create and my family has called Concord home for dec- gratulate the Class of 2004 graduates of implement policies that would educate and ades, and we have had the privilege of watch- Oceanside High School in Oceanside, CA and prepare students to be knowledgeable, re- ing this community grow. Concord personifies to wish the students continued success as sponsible, contributing citizens. Serving 16 the term, ‘‘Southern Hospitality,’’ and is home they pursue their dreams and goals. years on the school board, she tirelessly acted to some of the most engaging, welcoming, I would like to also extend a special thanks as an advocate for an intellectually alive and and civically responsible citizens in the state to Superintendent Kenneth Noonan, Principal meaningful curriculum for all students in Gar- of North Carolina. Kimo Marquardt and to all of the teachers and den City Public Schools. Through the close relationships I have administrators who contribute to the quality Her husband, Dwight, and her sons, Glen, forged with the citizens of Concord, and the educational experience that students receive Howard, and Noel, should be extremely proud

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.053 E08PT1 E1074 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 8, 2004 of the undeniable mark she has left on the have been extraordinary throughout his ca- Padilla is ‘‘a soldier of our enemy, a community. We at home will fondly remember reer. As he pursues new endeavors and chal- trained, funded and equipped terrorist’’ who and always benefit from her dedication and lenges, I wish LTC Mike Delaney well and ask accepted ‘‘an assignment to kill hundreds of innocent men, women and children,’’ Comey leadership. God to bless him and his family. told reporters this week, and the description Mr. Speaker, I extend my sincere apprecia- f sounds about right. But Padilla is something tion to Mrs. Barbara White upon her retirement PROPER PERSPECTIVE ON THE else, too: an American citizen who was ar- from Garden City Public Schools and for her rested on U.S. soil two years ago and who fine service to our country. PADILLA CASE thus enjoys, or should enjoy, certain rights— f including the right to either be charged with HON. MARK UDALL a crime or freed from detention. Instead, he IN HONOR OF LIEUTENANT still faces no charges, and the legality of his OF COLORADO COLONEL MICHAEL J. DELANEY imprisonment awaits a ruling by the U.S. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Supreme Court. Tuesday, June 8, 2004 With its latest revelations, the Justice De- HON. ROBIN HAYES partment obviously is seeking to influence OF NORTH CAROLINA Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, the public opinion and perhaps even the court IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Justice Department recently released informa- itself, although we don’t begrudge it the at- tion about the alleged offenses of Jose tempt. But the new information fails to alter Tuesday, June 8, 2004 Padilla, described by the Deputy Attorney the basic problem with designating U.S. citi- Mr. HAYES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in General as ‘‘a trained, funded, and equipped zens arrested in this country as ‘‘enemy recognition of the meritorious service of Lieu- terrorist.’’ combatants’’ for purposes of removing them tenant Colonel Michael J. Delaney to our Army If the allegations are accurate—and I have from normal criminal justice procedures and and our nation. Lieutenant Colonel Delaney then interrogating them over lengthy peri- no reason to doubt them—that description ods of time without benefit of counsel. If the will soon complete 23 years of service and seems very apt. But that cannot be the end of president’s say-so is enough to have kept has distinguished himself as an outstanding the story. Padilla in custody for two years without a American Soldier I have worked with LTC That’s because, as the Rocky Mountain criminal charge, then nothing in principle Delaney during the past several years during News notes, Jose Padilla is something else as prevents any one of us from the same fate. his time in the Army Office of Legislative Liai- well—‘‘an American citizen who was arrested Federal agents have been known to arrest son and have had the privilege to travel with on U.S. soil two years ago and who thus en- the wrong people, after all, and then to resist him. He will retire on August 1, 2004. joys, or should enjoy, certain rights—including admitting their mistakes. Most recently, LTC Delaney served as a Fortunately, Padilla’s case is apparently the right to either be charged with a crime or unique in the war on terror, despite routine congressional liaison for the United States freed from detention.’’ claims that the Bush administration tram- Army. This position holds great importance as But, as the same editorial correctly points ples indiscriminately on constitutional these individuals are often the ‘‘voice’’ of the out, ‘‘Instead, he still faces no charges, and rights. Another U.S. citizen who also has Army for Congressional Members. I have often the legality of his imprisonment awaits a ruling been held in a Navy brig without normal ac- asked LTC Delaney for his advice, thoughts, by the U.S. Supreme Court.’’ cess to counsel, Yaser Esam Hamdi, was cap- opinions or help matters concerning the US When this case was considered by the Su- tured in Afghanistan by the Northern Alli- Army, and he has always provided the highest preme Court, the Administration argued that ance. He too deserves full constitutional pro- level of professionalism and service to me. tections, in our view, but there is at least by passage of Public Law 107–40, a resolu- some sense in which being arrested at O’Hare Perhaps this assignment was preordained, tion ‘‘to authorize the use of United States Airport and then held incommunicado for however, as Lieutenant Colonel Delaney’s Armed Forces against those responsible for months on end, as Padilla was, is more wor- wife, Susan, and mother-in-law, Shirley, both the recent attacks launched against the United risome for civil liberties than being treated served on the staffs of several Senators. States,’’ Congress authorized such detentions. in the same fashion after capture in a foreign Over his 23 years of selfless service, Lieu- But as one who voted for that resolution, I dis- combat zone. tenant Colonel Delaney served in many com- agree with that interpretation of its terms. We realize courts in this nation’s past have mand and staff positions worldwide. As a jun- Here, too, I share the view of the Rocky said Congress has the authority to suspend ior officer, he stood at the forefront of freedom certain civil liberties during wartime emer- Mountain News that ‘‘surely Congress did not gencies. Moreover, a congressional joint res- during the Cold War in Germany and earned mean to grant the executive branch un- olution passed after 9/11 authorized the presi- his wings as an aviator, qualifying on a variety checked discretion over the imprisonment of dent ‘‘to prevent any future acts of inter- of rotary wing and fixed wing aircraft. During Americans for as long as the war against Is- national terrorism against the United Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Lieutenant lamic jihadists continues. That would amount States.’’ But surely Congress did not mean Colonel Delaney commanded an aviation unit to the suspension of a fundamental right for to grant the executive branch unchecked dis- based at Fort Belvoir. Despite the wide disper- years—perhaps for generations, for all we cretion over the imprisonment of Americans sion of his unit throughout the combat theater, know.’’ for as long as the war against Islamic they were able to successfully accomplish jihadists continues. That would amount to And I share the hope that the Supreme the suspension of a fundamental right for their mission due to his exceptional and inspi- Court will ‘‘reaffirm the right of citizens—every years—perhaps for generations, for all we rational leadership. Lieutenant Colonel citizen—to full and timely access to legal know. Delaney has since served in a variety of posi- counsel and the judicial system. And that in- No, the Supreme Court must reaffirm the tions of increasing responsibility throughout cludes even those who may have been in right of citizens—every citizen—to full and the continental United States. league with international terrorists and who timely access to legal counsel and the judi- Lieutenant Colonel Delaney’s work as a leg- planned to blow up high-rise apartment build- cial system. And that includes even those who may have been in league with inter- islative liaison and as the Chief of the Pro- ings on their behalf.’’ grams Division enabled the Army to provide national terrorists and who planned to blow For the benefit of our colleagues, I attach up high-rise apartment buildings on their be- this Congress the information we need to ac- the full text of the editorial cited above: half. complish our constitutional duties. His efforts [From the Rocky Mountain News, June 3, f have been exceptional and noteworthy in 2004] working with Congress during a critical time as PADILLA’S PLOTS DON’T NEGATE HIS RIGHTS A HERO RETURNS TO NORMANDY the Army undertook Transformation, in the We are perfectly willing to entertain the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and dur- likelihood that the Justice Department’s lat- HON. STEVEN C. LaTOURETTE ing our current efforts with the Global War on est portrayal of alleged terrorist Jose OF OHIO Padilla is accurate, including the monstrous Terrorism. Throughout this critical time Lieu- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tenant Colonel Delaney has fostered a per- plan to blow up high-rise apartment build- sonal relationship between members of Con- ings. Padilla met with top al-Qaida leaders, Tuesday, June 8, 2004 according to Deputy Attorney General gress and the United States Army. Mr. LATOURETTE. Mr. Speaker, this past James Comey, discussed detonating a ‘‘dirty Lieutenant Colonel Delaney represents the bomb’’ in the United States and finally Saturday the world marked the 60th Anniver- epitome of what the Army seeks in a congres- agreed to a scheme involving apartment sary of D-Day in Normandy. President Bush, sional liaison and the country expects from our buildings. He would rent rooms in several Queen Elizabeth, and other world leaders officers. His dedication to soldiers, commit- complexes, seal them and fill them with nat- were there, but the true heroes were those ment to excellence, and performance of duty ural gas, and detonate them all at once. whose sacrifice is reflected by the sea of white

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.057 E08PT1 June 8, 2004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1075 crosses, and the surviving veterans who re- ficers in the Arrowhead United Way, as host IN RECOGNITION OF THE SERVICE turned to France some six decades later. Glen family for the Western Regional Little League OF NANCY OSTAPOWICZ TO THE Dunlap, 86, of Chardon Township was one of Tournament, and as coaches in the local Little RESIDENTS OF MICHIGAN’S those veterans to return to Normandy. League and AYSO. They have contributed THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DIS- Glen Dunlap served as a U.S. Army staff their skills and resources to programs of Con- TRICT sergeant in World War II. There were a num- gregation Emanu El, including sponsoring tem- ber of young guys who served from our area, ple events and serving as a host family for HON. VERNON J. EHLERS and from Hambden and Concord townships, NFTY Conclave. OF MICHIGAN particularly. Even though Glen was in his early Sherri and Robert Vines will receive the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 20s, Mr. Speaker, he was considered the Rabbi Norman F. Feldheym Award on June Tuesday, June 8, 2004 elder statesman of the group. The local guys 12, 2004 on the 113th anniversary of the Mr. EHLERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to actually called him ‘‘Pop.’’ founding of their Congregation. They are cer- Glen Dunlap worked hard, put his own life pay special tribute to one of my staffers, tainly deserving of the award, which pays trib- Nancy Ostapowicz, who last month retired in danger every single day, and had his men’s ute to members who most closely resemble backs. He was the guy who made sure that after serving the residents of West Michigan the Rabbi Feldheyin’s qualities of love and loy- for 25 years. supplies got from the factory to the foxhole, alty to the synagogue, service to the commu- and he’s part of what Tom Brokaw calls ‘‘The As most of us know, being a staff member nity, and personal traits of humility, kindness, in a Congressional district office is often a Greatest Generation.’’ Glen was away at war care and love. Please join me, Mr. Speaker, in for 2 years, and left behind his wife, a daugh- thankless and relatively anonymous job. They recognizing Sherri and Robert for their out- usually do not receive the credit they deserve ter and his two boys. When he returned home, standing service to their community. he resumed his life and work, raised his fam- for a job well-done, and all too often they must deal with concern, frustration or anger of con- ily, and never once complained. He felt f blessed to have survived when so many stituents who are upset by government actions or have been ill-treated by the bureaucratic didn’t. CONGRATULATING THE CHESTNUT On Saturday, Glen and 99 other Americans system. RIDGE LIONS CLUB ON ITS 50TH Nancy, who has directed my constituent who traveled to Normandy were awarded the ANNIVERSARY French Legion of Honor Medal, which is akin services since I joined Congress in 1993, han- to our Congressional Medal of Honor. It is the dled such situations with incredible aplomb, highest honor bestowed by the French govern- HON. BILL SHUSTER working tirelessly and compassionately with ment and rarely is given to foreigners. the people who contacted our Grand Rapids No one is more deserving of this award than OF PENNSYLVANIA office in search of assistance. I was fortunate to have inherited Nancy, as she first started Glen Dunlap, who fought for the survival of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES democracy. On behalf of the 14th Congres- working for Congressman Hal Sawyer in 1979, sional District of Ohio, I thank Glen Dunlap for Tuesday, June 8, 2004 then continued with Congressman Paul Henry his service to our country, and congratulate when he took office in 1985. Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Over the past quarter-century, Nancy helped him on receiving the Legion of Honor Medal. congratulate the Chestnut Ridge Lions Club literally thousands of people with a wide vari- May God bless Glen Dunlap and his family, on its 50th Anniversary and to recognize the ety of problems too numerous to list here and may He bless the United States of Amer- club’s unyielding service to the community. today, although it is safe to say that she was ica. The selfless desire to help those in need is especially gratified by her efforts helping immi- f rare throughout the world, yet here in America grants and reuniting families so that they could RECOGNIZING SHERRI AND ROB- the culture of charitable giving thrives. This is come to the United States and pursue the ERT VINES FOR COMMUNITY a nation that takes enormous pride in its leg- American dream. SERVICE IN SAN BERNARDINO, acy of generosity and equality. It is out of this Without a doubt, Nancy’s biggest legacy is CALIFORNIA legacy that numerous organizations have that those thousands of people would be will- sprouted and grown upon the foundation of ing to line up and thank her for the help she HON. JERRY LEWIS service to others. gave them. She has served so many people over the years that it is not unusual to see OF CALIFORNIA At its inception, the Chestnut Ridge Lions someone walk up to Nancy to thank her for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Club adopted the creed, ‘‘we serve,’’ which re- assistance that she provided 10 or 20 years flects the very cornerstone upon which this na- Tuesday, June 8, 2004 ago. tion was built. Since 1954, the club has main- And so, today, add me to the list of people Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, today tained its commitment to service by contrib- it is my pleasure to recognize Sherri and Rob- who have said ‘‘Thank you’’ to Nancy uting to countless scholarship funds, school Ostapowicz. Others will ably do her job, but no ert Vines for more than 30 years of community activities, and community projects. Members service in San Bernardino County, California. one can ever replace her. of the club have worked tirelessly to improve Congratulations, Nancy, on a fine career of The Vines, who are being honored with the the community in any way possible and have Norman F. Feldheym Award from Congrega- public service, and best wishes to you and dedicated much of their time to inspiring chil- Dan in your retirement. tion Emanu El in our community, exemplify the dren to make their mark in society. volunteerism that is the backbone our Amer- f Without the Chestnut Ridge Lions Club, nu- ican communities. RECOGNIZING AND HONORING Currently the President of the United Jewish merous high school students would not have gone to college, countless public works FIREFIGHTERS, POLICE, PUBLIC Welfare Fund of San Bernardino County, Rob- SERVANTS, CIVILIANS, AND PRI- ert Vines has been serving his Congregation projects would have remained incomplete, and many of those in need would still be without VATE BUSINESSES WHO RE- and his community for 30 years. Robert has SPONDED TO DEVASTATING FIRE been a respected member of the California aid. Additionally, the festivities organized to celebrate holidays, the changing of seasons, IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, ON State Bar since 1973 and served as the Dep- MARCH 26, 2004 uty District Attorney for the County of San and local milestones have provided an atmos- Bernardino from 1973–1975. As a member of phere in which the community has been able SPEECH OF Congregation Emanu El, Robert has served in to strengthen its cohesion as well as its cul- HON. ROBERT C. SCOTT a number of important positions, including Fi- ture. OF VIRGINIA nancial Secretary of the entire Congregation. The legacy of service that instills a unique IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES His wife Sherri has served Congregation pride in the hearts of every American citizen Emanu El in many capacities, including teach- has penetrated the walls of the Chestnut Tuesday, June 1, 2004 ing at the School of Jewish Living, chairing the Ridge Lions Club and influenced the lives of Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. I rise today in sup- Community Sedar and three terms as Sister- scores of people. For its commitment to the port of H. Res. 612, introduced by my col- hood President. citizens of Pennsylvania throughout the last 50 league from Virginia, Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, together they have been lead- years, I am extremely grateful to the Chestnut On March 26, 2004, there were a series of ing members of their community serving as of- Ridge Lions Club. devastating fires in Richmond, Virginia. The

VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.061 E08PT1 E1076 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks June 8, 2004 first fire began shortly after 12:30, and spread the greatest infliction of casualties the and great grandfather and his service to his quickly. Wind gusting to nearly 20 mph blew United States Armed Forces has ever en- country. burning debris onto other buildings. dured. Jim DePierri was a survivor. Jim DePierri, a hero, of the greatest gen- It no doubt comes as news to even his clos- eration. The fires resulted in the destruction of nu- est friends that Jim was even in World War f merous buildings and property, and spread II, much less that he was one of those brave through city blocks and a section of the Vir- souls who stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day. NORTHWEST INDIANA ginia Commonwealth University campus. A Jim was not the kind to brag of his exploits FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL–CIO total of 29 buildings suffered damage, with 19 or for that matter even mention his experi- being condemned by either water or structural ence. It would probably also be news that Jim DePierri participated in 4 other of the HON. PETER J. VISCLOSKY damage. Yet, the destruction and damage OF INDIANA could certainly have been worse. It was only major battles of World War II, including the Battle of the Bulge. Jim DePierri was a sur- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES through the combined efforts of the firefighters vivor. Tuesday, June 8, 2004 who responded to the scene that the fire was It may be that having seen so many of his contained as quickly as it was. Local fire- fellow soldiers die all around him that Jim Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, it is my dis- fighters who initially answered the call were considered every day he had on earth there- tinct honor to congratulate some of the most later assisted by firefighters from fire stations after to be a blessing. His service to the dedicated and skilled workers in Northwest In- throughout the region. There were about 200 church may have been his way of trying to diana. The Northwest Indiana Federation of firefighters on the scene, along with 50 pieces silently repay what I am sure he believed to Labor AFL–CIO will recognize these individ- be a gift from God, the gift of life. uals for their dedication during a banquet to of equipment. Together, they worked to defeat The real benefactors of that gift are here the blaze—and fought the challenging wind, today embodied in his children, Carol, Patty, be held at the Avalon Manor Banquet Hall in smoke and heat conditions in order to save Jim and Sharon along with the love of his Hobart, Indiana, on Thursday, June 10, 2004. the remaining area. We thank them today for life, his wife, Rose, and their grandchildren. These individuals, in addition to the other their heroic efforts to contain the damage and His first grandson, my son Jordan Vincent Northwest Indiana Federation of Labor mem- to protect human lives. Smith, asked me one day if Papa Jim had bers who have served Northwest Indiana so It is appropriate for us to also recognize the been in the war. When we inquired, we were diligently for such a long period of time, are a astonished to learn of how much Jim, who testament to the exemplary American worker: efforts of the police on March 26th. As always, never spoke of the war, was involved in they were instrumental in keeping our citizens World War II. That was many years ago, but loyal, dedicated, and hardworking. safe. For example, they evacuated several I had read of soldiers who had never received Mr. Johnathan Comer will receive the Old buildings and about 50 nearby homes, going their medals, so I gave the information to Warrior Award. Mr. Comer was the first Afri- door to door. Jim and he wrote off to the Army. What can American to be elected to a major basic And last, today, we recognize the countless came back was a box full of medals, that steel local—Youngstown Sheet & Tube, private citizens, volunteers and organizations would have filled the chest of any soldier’s USWA 1011. He has spent many years dedi- that—along with the firefighters, police, and uniform, including a medal for 114 days of cating his life to the interests of the labor com- duty on the front lines. But you would have public servants—worked as a seamless team munity as well as his community in Northwest never known from Jim that he had even been Indiana. The years of hard work he has put preserving and protecting human lives, de- in the Army. fending property, and providing food and com- It has been said that his was the greatest forth are a true inspiration to all. fort to all affected. generation. With quiet heroes like Jim Mr. Robert Cashman will receive the All of these individuals deserve our recogni- DePierri, a man of character, determination George Meany Award. Mr. Cashman has con- tion, and our gratitude. They met their commu- and forthrightness, there is no doubt in my tributed graciously to the youth of our commu- nity’s call to duty by providing brave and mind that his was the greatest generation. nity. His dedication and devotion to the youth Those of my generation can only read steadfast assistance and upholding the finest of our nation is a goal we should all strive to about or see the film of those great battles. achieve. traditions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. To have been there was clearly a privilege. We, and all Americans, thank you for your su- They considered it their duty. A duty owed Ms. Robin Rich is being honored with the preme efforts. to one’s country that those of us who were Service to Labor Award. She has been a de- voted organizer for the United States Steel- f not there can only imagine. That is not to say that we should forget or let pass into dis- workers of America in District 7. Ms. Rich is a FALLEN HEROES tant memory, the heroes of this country. bold, strong, and loyal person, and is willing to Soon they will all be gone, but to those of fight for what she believes in. She has orga- SPEECH OF you who knew Jim DePierri, who know a si- nized various events and programs for USWA lent hero like Jim, or who may have been District 7. Ms. Rich has given her time and ef- one of those fortunate souls to have been af- HON. TOM DeLAY fort selflessly to the people of Northwest Indi- OF TEXAS forded the honor of fighting for their country and the freedom that we now enjoy, please ana and Illinois throughout her career. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES do not let another day go by without thank- Mr. Bob Anadell is being honored with the Thursday, May 20, 2004 ing them and their generation of heroes or Community Service Award. Bob has spent knowing how much you are appreciated. nearly 40 years dedicating his life to the inter- Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, James Vincent Luckily, we had the opportunity to thank ests of Local 697 as well as his community in DePierri was a soldier of the greatest genera- Jim. On the 50th anniversary of D-Day, we Northwest Indiana. His career at Loom 697 tion and one of my constituents. He passed took Jim and Rose out to dinner, without has allowed him the opportunity to touch the away on August 7, 2000. The following eulogy saying why (I am not sure I even told his lives of numerous people. was written by his son-in-law, Dalton Smith, daughter, Patty, my wife). The Italian res- Portage Mayor Doug Olson and City Council and delivered at the funeral by his son, Jim taurant was full that evening, but I took it Members Elizabeth Modesto, David Fagen, DePierri. upon myself to stand up, get the attention of the whole restaurant and propose a toast to David Highlands, Ed Gottschling, Richard JAMES VINCENT DEPIERRI—SOLDIER, Jim DePierri and all of the soldiers who Turnak, Mark Oprisko, and Olga Velazquez, SURVIVOR risked their lives for us on that 6th day of are being honored with the Union Label He was only 21 years old that cloudy over- June 1944. Jim was embarrassed, but glad Award. The exceptional service they have pro- cast day. It was the 6th of June, 1944. He had someone cared. vided to the community deserves our admira- been anxiously waiting just offshore for In subsequent years, I would send Jim clip- hours that seemed like days. Men beside him pings of editorials on Veterans Day and sub- tion and respect. The dedication and commit- were saying prayers and writing their last sequent anniversaries of D-Day. He would ment these elected officials have dem- letters to their loved ones, for they knew not say anything to anyone else, except onstrated for their community is exemplary of what lay before them that fateful day, D- maybe Rose, but he always appreciated the values we cherish in Northwest Indiana. Day—the Allied Invasion of Normandy. someone remembering. David Chlebek is being honored with the Thousands of American soldiers died that Today we are here to remember Jim 23rd Annual President’s Award. David is a fine day on the beaches of Normandy, the worst DePierri, a soldier, a survivor, that most example of the tenets embodied by those who casualties having been inflicted on Omaha never heard of, but without whom we may have dedicated their lives to enhancing the Beach. As luck would have it, that is where not be here today enjoying the freedom he a young soldier named James Vincent helped to preserve. well being of workers throughout Northwest In- DePierri would be going ashore. Thank you Jim DePierri and I will assure diana. He has mastered his trade and has Young Jim DePierri would be lucky that you that your grandchildren and all future consistently performed at the highest level day. He survived one of the worst battles and generations will remember their grandfather throughout his hard work and self sacrifice.

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VerDate May 21 2004 04:16 Jun 09, 2004 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A08JN8.068 E08PT1 Tuesday, June 8, 2004 Daily Digest Senate William T. Monroe, of Virginia, to be Ambas- Chamber Action sador to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Routine Proceedings, pages S6595–S6637 1 Army nomination in the rank of general. Measures Introduced: Four bills and two resolu- 4 Navy nominations in the rank of admiral. tions were introduced, as follows: S. 2509–2512, S. Routine lists in the Army, Marine Corps, Navy. Res. 372, and S. Con. Res. 116. Page S6628 Pages S6635–37 Measures Passed: Executive Communications: Page S6628 Adjournment Resolution: Senate agreed to S. Additional Cosponsors: Pages S6628–30 Con. Res. 116, providing for a conditional adjourn- Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: ment or recess of the Senate and the House of Rep- Pages S6630–33 Page S6635 resentatives. Additional Statements: Pages S6626–27 Honoring Former President Reagan—Agree- Notices of Hearings/Meetings: Pages S6633–34 ment: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for the consideration of a resolution rel- Authority for Committees To Meet: Page S6634 ative to the death of former President Reagan, at Privilege of the Floor: Page S6634 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 9, 2004, and the Adjournment: Senate met at 9:45 a.m., and as a Senate then proceed to a vote on the resolution. further mark of respect to the memory of the late Page S6635 Honorable Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of Messages From the President: Senate received the the United States, in accordance with S. Res. 371, following message from the President of the United adjourned at 6:10 p.m., until 9:30 a.m., on Wednes- States: day, June 9, 2004. (For Senate’s program, see the re- A communication from the President of the marks of the Acting Majority Leader in today’s United States officially notifying the Congress of the Record on page S6635.) United States of the death of former President Ron- ald Reagan; which was ordered to lie on the table. Committee Meetings (PM—84) Pages S6627–28 Nominations Received: Senate received the fol- (Committees not listed did not meet) lowing nominations: Luis Luna, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Ad- NOMINATION ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee Kenneth Francis Hackett, of Maryland, to be a concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Member of the Board of Directors of the Millennium Suedeen G. Kelly, of New Mexico, to be a Member Challenge Corporation for a term of three years. of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, after (New Position) the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Binga- Christine Todd Whitman, of New Jersey, to be a man, testified and answered questions in her own be- Member of the Board of Directors of the Millennium half. Challenge Corporation for a term of three years. (New Position) NATIONAL PARKS/HISTORIC Charles Graves Untermeyer, of Texas, to be Am- PRESERVATION bassador to the State of Qatar. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Sub- Douglas L. McElhaney, of Florida, to be Ambas- committee on National Parks concluded a hearing to sador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. examine S. 931, to direct the Secretary of the Inte- Aldona Wos, of North Carolina, to be Ambas- rior to undertake a program to reduce the risks from sador to the Republic of Estonia. and mitigate the effects of avalanches on visitors to D588

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units of the National Park System and on other rec- Services; Alice M. Clark, University of Mississippi, reational users of public land, S. 1678, to provide for University, Mississippi; Ronald M. Davis, Henry the establishment of the Uintah Research and Cura- Ford Health System Center for Health Promotion torial Center for Dinosaur National Monument in and Disease Prevention, Detroit, Michigan, on behalf the States of Colorado and Utah, S. 2140, to expand of the American Medical Association; Charles W.F. the boundary of the Mount Rainier National Park, Bell, Consumers Union, Bruce Silverglade, Center S. 2287, to adjust the boundary of the Barataria Pre- for Science in the Public Interest, and Annette Dick- serve Unit of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park inson, Council for Responsible Nutrition, all of and Preserve in the State of Louisiana, and S. 2469, Washington, D.C.; and Anthony L. Young, to amend the National Historic Preservation Act to Kleinfeld, Kaplan, and Becker, LLP, Silver Spring, provide appropriation authorization and improve the Maryland, on behalf of the American Herbal Prod- operations of the Advisory Council on Historic Pres- ucts Association. ervation, after receiving testimony from Senators Ste- vens and Bennett; Tom L. Thompson, Deputy Chief, ARTHRITIS EPIDEMIC National Forest System, Forest Service, Department Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: of Agriculture; Janet Snyder Matthews, Associate Di- Subcommittee on Aging concluded a hearing to ex- rector, Cultural Resources, National Park Service, amine the current and future impact of arthritis, fo- Department of the Interior; John L. Nau III, Chair- cusing on preventing, controlling and curing arthri- man, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; tis and the opportunities public health has to make Karen Krieger, Utah Division of Parks and Recre- a difference in reducing the pain and disability asso- ation, Salt Lake City; and David Hamre, Alaska ciated with arthritis, including S. 2338, to amend Railroad Corporation, Anchorage. the Public Health Service Act to provide for arthritis MEDICARE DRUG CARD research and public health, after receiving testimony from Joe Sniezek, Director, Arthritis Program, Cen- Committee on Finance: Committee held a hearing to ters for Disease Control and Prevention, and Susana examine the implementation of the Medicare-Ap- proved Drug Discount Card and the Transitional As- Serrate-Sztein, Chief, Rheumatic Diseases Branch, sistance Program, enacted into law as part of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Modernization Act of 2003, focusing on how to de- both of the Department of Health and Human Serv- liver savings to participating beneficiaries, including ices; Deborah Rothman, Shriners Hospital for Chil- mail order services, price shopping and negotiating dren, Springfield, Massachusetts, on behalf of the power, card monitoring, and prescription drug cost American College of Rheumatology; John H. comparisons, receiving testimony from Mark B. Klippel, Arthritis Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia; McClellan, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and KaLea Kunkel, Oregon, Missouri, and Virg Jones, Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Kansas City, Kansas. Human Services; Thomas Snedden, Pennsylvania De- NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS ACT partment of Aging, Harrisburg; Kris Gross, Iowa AUTHORIZATION Senior Health Insurance Information Program, Des Moines; Robert M. Hayes, Medicare Rights Center, Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a New York, New York; and Mark Merritt, Pharma- hearing to examine S. 2436, to reauthorize the Na- ceutical Care Management Association, and James B. tive American Programs Act of 1974, after receiving Firman, National Council on Aging, both of Wash- testimony from Quanah Crossland Stamps, Commis- ington, D.C. sioner, Administration for Native Americans, De- Committee recessed subject to the call. partment of Health and Human Services; John E. Echohawk, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, DIETARY SUPPLEMENT SAFETY ACT Colorado; and Leonard J. Smith, Jr., A & S. Tribal Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Industries, Poplar, Montana. Oversight of Government Management, Restruc- turing and the District of Columbia concluded a DOJ TERRORISM OVERSIGHT hearing to examine the challenges and successes the Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an U.S. Food and Drug Administration has experienced oversight hearing to examine activities of the De- since the passage of the Dietary Supplement Health partment of Justice, relating to the department’s and Education Act of 1994, after receiving testimony strategic plan and its ongoing implementation to from Robert E. Brackett, Director, Center for Food prevent terrorism, after receiving testimony from Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Ad- John Ashcroft, Attorney General, Department of Jus- ministration, Department of Health and Human tice.

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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM tice, Supreme Court of Alabama, Birmingham; Kelly Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Con- Shackelford, Liberty Legal Institute, Plano, Texas; stitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights con- Richard W. Garnett, Notre Dame Law School, South cluded a hearing to examine the place of religion in Bend, Indiana; Melissa Rogers, Wake Forest Univer- civil society, and the protections the U.S. Constitu- sity Divinity School, Winston-Salem, North Caro- tion guarantees to religious expression in the public lina; Nashala Hearn, Muskogee, Oklahoma, and Ste- square, after receiving testimony from Senators Shel- ven Rosenauer, Bradenton, Florida. by and Landrieu, and Representative Edwards; Wil- liam ‘‘Barney’’ Clark, Balch Springs Senior Center, INTELLIGENCE Balch Springs, Texas; J. Brent Walker, Baptist Joint Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed Committee on Public Affairs, and Vincent Phillip hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony Mun˜oz, American Enterprise Institute, both of from officials of the intelligence community. Washington, D.C.; Roy S. Moore, former Chief Jus- Committee recessed subject to call. h House of Representatives S. 103, for the relief of Lindita Idrizi Heath (Pri- Chamber Action vate Bill H. Rept. 108–532); Page H3820 Measures Introduced: 7 public bills, H.R. Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the 4521–4527; and 6 resolutions, H. Con. Res. Speaker wherein he appointed Representative John 444–445, and H. Res. 663–666, were introduced. Boozman to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. Pages H3820–21 Page H3787 Additional Cosponsors: Page H3821 Recess: The House recessed at 12:41 p.m. and re- Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows: convened at 2 p.m. Page H3788 H.R. 4226, to amend title 49, United States Chaplain: The prayer was offered today by Rev. Code, to make certain conforming changes to provi- John Boyles, National Capitol Presbytery, Wash- sions governing the registration of aircraft and the ington, DC. Page H3788 recordation of instruments in order to implement the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Recess: The House recessed at 2:10 p.m. and recon- vened at 6:00 p.m. Page H3789 Equipment and the Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Mat- Journal: The House agreed to the Speaker’s approval ters Specific to Aircraft Equipment, known as the of the Journal of Friday, June 4, by a recorded vote ‘‘Cape Town Treaty’’, amended (H. Rept. 318 ayes to 29 noes with one voting ‘‘present’’, Roll 108–526491); Page H3820 No. 230; Pages H3788, H3792–93 H.R. 4012, to amend the District of Columbia Expressing the Profound Regret and Sorrow of College Access Act of 1999 to permanently authorize the House of Representatives on the Death of the public school and private school tuition assist- Ronald Wilson Reagan, the Fortieth President of ance programs established under the act (H. Rept. the United States of America: The House agreed 108–527); Page H3820 to H. Res. 663, expressing the profound regret and H.R. 1731, to amend title 18, United States sorrow of the House of Representatives on the death Code, to establish penalties for aggravated identity of Ronald Wilson Reagan, former President of the theft, and for other purposes, as amended (H. Rept. United States of America by a yea-and-nay vote of 108–528); Page H3820 355 yeas to 0 nays, Roll No. 229. Pages H3790–92 H.R. 530, for the relief of Tanya Andrea Goudeau Mourning the Passing of President Ronald (Private Bill H. Rept. 108–529); Page H3820 Reagan and Celebrating His Service to the H.R. 712, for the relief of Richi James Lesley United States and His Leadership in Promoting (Private Bill H. Rept. 108–530); Page H3820 the Cause of Freedom for all the People of the H.R. 867, for the relief of Durreshahwar World: The House considered H. Res. 664; mourn- Durreshahwar, Nida Hasan, Asna Hasan, Anum ing the passing of President Ronald Reagan and Hasan, and Iqra Hasan (Private Bill H. Rept. celebrating his service to the people of the United 108–531); Page H3820 States and his leadership in promoting the cause of

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, June 9 10 a.m., Wednesday, June 9

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Wednesday: Senate will be in a period of Program for Wednesday: morning business. Also, at 11:30 a.m., Senate will con- H. Con. Res. 444—authorizing the use of the Capitol sider a resolution relative to the death of Former Presi- Rotunda for the lying in state of the late Honorable Ron- dent Reagan, with a vote to occur thereon. ald W. Reagan. H. Res. 664—mourning the passing of President Ron- ald Reagan and celebrating his service to the people of the United States and his leadership in promoting the cause of freedom for all the people of the world.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Johnson, Sam, Tex., E1072 Rogers, Mike, Ala., E1064 Kildee, Dale E., Mich., E1067 Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana, Fla., E1062, E1063 Andrews, Robert E., N.J., E1066 King, Peter T., N.Y., E1065 Sanchez, Loretta, Calif., E1067 Baca, Joe, Calif., E1061, E1062 Lantos, Tom, Calif., E1069 Sanders, Bernard, Vt., E1067 Bachus, Spencer, Ala., E1072 LaTourette, Steven C., Ohio, E1074 Schiff, Adam B., Calif., E1068 Brown-Waite, Ginny, Fla., E1077 Lewis, Jerry, Calif., E1075 Capps, Lois, Calif., E1061, E1062 McCotter, Thaddeus G., Mich., E1073, E1073 Scott, Robert C., Va., E1075 Cardin, Benjamin L., Md., E1068 Markey, Edward J., Mass., E1072 Shuster, Bill, Pa., E1075 DeLay, Tom, Tex., E1076 Miller, Jeff, Fla., E1070 Solis, Hilda L., Calif., E1069 Ehlers, Vernon J., Mich., E1075 Murtha, John P., Pa., E1065 Stark, Fortney Pete, Calif., E1068 Farr, Sam, Calif., E1069 Ney, Robert W., Ohio, E1061, E1061, E1062, E1063, Thompson, Mike, Calif., E1067 Gordon, Bart, Tenn., E1066 E1064 Udall, Mark, Colo., E1074 Graves, Sam, Mo., E1064 Oberstar, James L., Minn., E1070 Visclosky, Peter J., Ind., E1069, E1076 Hayes, Robin, N.C., E1073, E1074 Porter, Jon C., Nev., E1061, E1062 Walsh, James T., N.Y., E1061, E1062 Issa, Darrell E., Calif., E1073 Pryce, Deborah, Ohio, E1064 Wolf, Frank R., Va., E1064, E1071 Johnson, Nancy L., Conn., E1072 Rodriguez, Ciro D., Tex., E1068

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