November 19, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8121 I have had the gift in my lifetime of worker fairness, can we rightfully hope There was no objection. being able to travel, to go follow the to have a better tomorrow. Isn’t that Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, tonight, job. Go see what happened when Trico what we are about—providing hope, in- I rise with several of my colleagues to moved out of Buffalo. Go see what hap- stilling hope into the hearts and minds honor the work and memory of Con- pened when Mr. Coffee moved out of and souls of individuals and families, of gressman Bill Frenzel, who passed Cleveland. When you start following workers—of the mill towns of the away on Monday. Congressman Frenzel these places, then, all of a sudden, it American economy? represented Minnesota’s Third Con- becomes clear: oh, somebody is making Ms. KAPTUR. Congressman TONKO, gressional District for 20 years, first a whole lot of money off of the out- your service gives us hope, and I know elected in 1970 and retiring in 1990. sourcing of jobs. Do you know what? It it gives the people of your district Actually, Mr. Speaker, many of us wasn’t the people in my community. It hope. Thank you for joining us this tonight had already planned to speak wasn’t the workers. It wasn’t even the evening. today to express our love and apprecia- small business people. It is the capital- I am going to yield to Congressman tion to Bill from this floor, even before ists who take the money—those people KEITH ELLISON of Minnesota, who has we learned of his death. who are rich enough to own these com- spent the evening here with us. Now, it just feels too late, in a way, panies—and who then figure out they Thank you so much for working over- but one of the benefits of extolling the can outsource it so they can make time on behalf of your constituents and virtues of people greater than ourselves more money, not work with the people all of America. is that we become better still, so we in these communities who have given Mr. ELLISON. Let me thank the gen- are keeping with that plan tonight. their lives, their sweat for these places. tlewoman. I must admit, Mr. Speaker and my It is so disrespectful. It is un-Amer- Again, I just want to point out that colleagues, that as I stand here in this Chamber, where Bill did some of his ican. It is un-American what they are President Obama correctly said that best work, my heart is more full of doing. income inequality is the defining issue Mr. TONKO. The gentlewoman talks of our time. I think he was right when emotions than my head is full of ideas, about the ownership—the pride of de- he said that. and there are many facts that I could veloping community and neighborhood, When you look at why do we have the recite about the service of Bill Frenzel; the investment that the worker made flat and declining wages that the Con- instead, I am going to try to capture in growing a family, developing a gressman from New York, PAUL TONKO, the man that I knew, the man that we household, building a neighborhood in just mentioned and that you have men- all knew, and the man that we all truly loved and respected. a strong and powerful and meaningful tioned—why? What are the components When I received the news that Bill way. Those are the mill town memo- of this?—I can tell you that it is clear passed away on Monday, there was a ries. Those memories guide my heart that we have not invested in public in- frastructure, which would put people to scrap of paper hanging on my wall in and soul. my Washington office and also a scrap I am from a mill town. I still live in work and improve productivity. It is of paper hanging on my Minnesota wall that mill town and represent that mill clear that we have cut the taxes of the that became my prized possessions. town here in the House of Representa- wealthiest and the most privileged peo- ple in our society, and, literally, we They are two vintage Frenzel doodles. tives, and it was the clamor of that as- There are hundreds of them out have added them onto people in the sembly line that resonated to people of there—whimsical, fantastically de- middle, and we have failed to educate all ages in that mill town. It was the tailed little drawings that Bill Frenzel people properly. Yet one of the compo- activity. It was the hustle and bustle of did while he was on the phone, while he nents that we can never forget is this manufacturing that resonated, that be- was in committee meetings, listening trade policy. You cannot intelligently came the pulse of manufacturing, and to testimony, or during debates. Such claim that you want to do something that became the heart of a mill town. was the hyperactivity of this brilliant about income inequality and pass these You knew which day the mill was mind, that when he was required to sit shut—there was silence—but now the trade deals which ship jobs overseas still, his drawing hand had to be mov- silence is deafening, and we need to and put downward pressure on wages ing. bring back that resurgence, that oppor- here. I say that to convey the idea that tunity which meant the American This is a key part of how we get the Bill Frenzel was just more alive than Dream, meant an opportunity to earn a American middle and working classes most people that you meet. He was al- paycheck—the dignity to earn that back to getting raises again. ways thinking. He was always creating. Ms. KAPTUR. I thank the gentleman paycheck—and to be able to raise a He was always pushing positive ideas, so much for that excellent point. family and develop and maintain a and in the interactions that I had with I take it, by the signal, our time has household. That is what it is all about. him, it was like he was always leaning expired. We thank all of those for lis- It is about economic and social justice. forward at you at an angle, like a per- So we have work to do, and I believe tening who are present. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance son walking boldly into a stiff wind. that Washington needs to listen to Bill Frenzel was a serious legislator, of my time. small-town mill town across this coun- often pouring over line by line of the try, to the middle-income community f Federal budget. In fact, that practice that reminds us it is about the dignity b 1745 continued after he left Congress. Every of work; that they want to invest their year, he would make a phone call to skill set, that they want to invest their REMEMBERING CONGRESSMAN BILL FRENZEL my office, requesting his copy of the professionalism, they want to invest annual Federal budget. their work ethic in building a product, The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. It is amazing to me that anyone allowing us to taste that greatness of JOYCE). Under the Speaker’s announced would even want this massive docu- manufacturing. policy of January 3, 2013, the gen- ment sitting on their bookshelf, but We look at the data that are assem- tleman from Minnesota (Mr. PAULSEN) what is truly amazing is that Bill bled that should guide us here, and we is recognized for 60 minutes as the des- would actually go through this budget see CEO salaries and productivity ris- ignee of the majority leader. line by line for decades after he left ing steeply upward. Meanwhile, flat- GENERAL LEAVE this institution. tened, if not dipping south, is the aver- Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask Bill believed in and dedicated his life age worker’s salary. Something is fun- unanimous consent that all Members to doing the greatest good for the damentally unjust about that outcome. may have 5 legislative days in which to greatest number of people, and for Bill, Something is fundamentally revise and extend their remarks and in- the way that he did the greatest good unsustainable about that outcome. If clude extraneous materials on the sub- for the greatest number of people was we are going to enjoy prosperity, every ject of my Special Order. by promoting and advancing inter- strata of the income ladder is affected The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there national trade. if we are not dealing with worker fair- objection to the request of the gen- I suppose it began by looking at the ness. Then and only then, if we address tleman from Minnesota? great good being done around the world VerDate Sep 11 2014 09:29 Jan 07, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\NOV 2014\H19NO4.REC H19NO4 ejoyner on DSK2VPTVN1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE H8122 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 19, 2014 by many outstanding companies that ences, and his insights that he gained House and the State and the ways of operate out of the district that we rep- during that tenure in public service. the U.S. House and the ways of the gov- resent in Minnesota, companies that There is no doubt that he was a good ernment here.