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LATE A SENATOR FROM

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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES

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HON. PAUL WELLSTONE ÷z 1944–2002

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

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S. DOC. 107–16

Memorial Addresses and

Other Tributes

HELD IN THE SENATE

AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

OF THE UNITED STATES

TOGETHER WITH MEMORIAL SERVICES

IN HONOR OF

PAUL WELLSTONE

Late a Senator from Minnesota

One Hundred Seventh Congress

Second Session

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Compiled under the direction

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CONTENTS

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Biography .................................................................................................. v

Proceedings in the Senate:

Tributes by Senators:

Akaka, Daniel K., of Hawaii ..................................................... 116

Barkley, Dean, of Minnesota .......................................... 29, 102, 105

Bingaman, Jeff, of New Mexico ................................................ 46

Boxer, Barbara, of California .................................................... 5

Brownback, Sam, of Kansas ...................................................... 91

Byrd, Robert C., of West Virginia ............................................. 62

Chafee, Lincoln D., of Rhode Island ......................................... 106

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, of New York .................................... 67

Cochran, Thad, of Mississippi ................................................... 80

Conrad, Kent, of North Dakota ................................................. 98

Corzine, Jon, of New Jersey ...................................................... 72

Daschle, Thomas A., of South Dakota ..................................... 19, 112

Dayton, Mark, of Minnesota .......................................... 4, 22, 83, 104

DeWine, Mike, of Ohio ............................................................... 58

Dodd, Christopher J., of Connecticut ....................................... 10

Dorgan, Byron L., of North Dakota .......................................... 38

Durbin, Richard J., of Illinois ................................................... 42

Feingold, Russell D., of Wisconsin ............................................ 50

Feinstein, Dianne, of California ................................................ 81

Frist, Bill, of Tennessee ............................................................. 80

Grassley, Charles E., of Iowa .................................................... 119

Harkin, Tom, of Iowa ................................................................. 113

Hollings, Ernest F., of South Carolina ..................................... 78

Hutchinson, Y. Tim, of Arkansas .............................................. 96

Jeffords, James M., of Vermont ................................................ 36

Kennedy, Edward M., of Massachusetts .................................. 52

Leahy, Patrick J., of Vermont ................................................... 8

Levin, Carl, of Michigan ............................................................ 74

Lieberman, Joseph I., of Connecticut .................................... 106, 115

Lincoln, Blanche, of Arkansas .................................................. 118

Lott, Trent, of Mississippi ......................................................... 21

Murkowski, Frank H., of Alaska .............................................. 49

Murray, Patty, of Washington .................................................. 89

Nelson, Bill, of Florida ............................................................... 53

Nelson, Ben, of Nebraska .......................................................... 97

Nickles, Don, of Oklahoma ........................................................ 66

Reed, Jack, of Rhode Island ...................................................... 109

Reid, Harry, of Nevada .............................................................. 31, 88

Rockefeller, John D, IV, of West Virginia ............................. 100, 108

Sarbanes, Paul S., of Maryland ................................................ 108

Sessions, Jeff, of Alabama ......................................................... 95

Snowe, Olympia J., of Maine .................................................... 107

Specter, Arlen, of Pennsylvania .............................................. 55, 112

Stabenow, Deborah Ann, of Michigan ...................................... 47

Stevens, Ted, of Alaska ............................................................. 61

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Proceedings in the House of Representatives:

Tributes by Representatives:

Cummings, Elijah E., of Maryland ........................................... 147

Davis, Danny K., of Illinois ....................................................... 142

Ehlers, Vernon J., of Michigan ................................................. 144

Evans, Lane, of Illinois .............................................................. 145

Holt, Rush D., of New Jersey .................................................... 143

Jackson-Lee, Sheila, of Texas ................................................... 152

Lee, Barbara, of California ........................................................ 150

Linder, John, of Georgia ............................................................ 149

McCollum, Betty, of Minnesota .............................................. 139, 153

Miller, George, of California ...................................................... 145

Norton, Eleanor Holmes, of District of Columbia .................... 135

Oberstar, James I., of Minnesota ................................... 130, 142, 144

Pelosi, Nancy, of California ....................................................... 140

Ramstad, Jim, of Minnesota ..................................................... 128

Reyes, Silvestre, of Texas .......................................................... 146

Roybal-Allard, Lucille, of California ......................................... 148

Sabo, Martin Olav, of Minnesota .............................................. 133

Schakowsky, Janice D., of Illinois ............................................ 133

Solis, Hilda I., of California ....................................................... 154

Memorial Service ...................................................................................... 157

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BIOGRAPHY

PAUL DAVID WELLSTONE, Minnesota’s senior Senator, was

born to Russian immigrants Leon and Minnie Wellstone on

July 21, 1944, in Washington, DC.

PAUL was raised in Arlington, VA, and attended Wakefield

and Yorktown High Schools. An accomplished student and

athlete, he went on to the University of North Carolina in

Chapel Hill where he was a champion wrestler. In 1965 he

earned his B.A., and 4 years later was awarded a Ph.D. in

political science. He then accepted a teaching post at

Carleton College in Northfield, MN, where he taught for 21

years. From 1983 to 1984 he was the director of the Minnesota Community Energy Program.

In 1990, underdog Senate candidate PAUL WELLSTONE rallied a dynamic volunteer force and traveled throughout Minnesota in his trademark green bus. He was the only Senate

challenger that year to unseat an incumbent. U.S. Senator

PAUL WELLSTONE’s experience as a teacher and community

organizer in Minnesota and his work representing Minnesotans in the Senate provided the framework for his progressive priorities and accomplishments.

During his first Senate term, Senator WELLSTONE led legislative battles to make health care more accessible and affordable and won workers’ protection to take time from work

to care for their families without losing their jobs. He helped

raise the minimum wage, successfully fought to protect seniors’ pension funds from corporate raiders, and authored historic ethics and lobbying reform measures that forever

changed how the people’s business is done on Capitol Hill.

Senator WELLSTONE expanded health care coverage for those

suffering from mental illness, worked with a bipartisan coalition to write a new farm bill, and blocked harsh bankruptcy

reforms unfair to consumers as well as efforts to open the

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. He secured

Federal resources for Minnesota schools and worked tirelessly on behalf of veterans, passing legislation to aid homeless veterans and securing compensation for ‘‘atomic veterans’’ suffering from cancers due to radiation exposure during

their military service.

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He was also a leader in efforts to combat violence against

women. In 2000, WELLSTONE joined with Senator Sam

Brownback (R–KS) to pass historic bipartisan legislation to

prevent international sex trafficking of women and girls, establishing first-ever penalties for those who enslave and traffic in persons.

PAUL WELLSTONE was one of a kind. He was a man of

principle and conviction in a world that has too little of either. He was a passionate visionary who never gave up hope

that we could make the world a better place for everyone; a

committed fighter for social justice who gave a voice to the

voiceless; a man with a huge heart who lit up a room—and

the hearts of others when he walked in. He was a man who

valued others for who they were not where they came from,

or what they wore, or their position or social status. He was

dedicated to helping the little guy in a business dominated

by the big guys.

Senator WELLSTONE’s life was tragically cut short when

the plane he was traveling in crashed southeast of Eveleth,

MN, leaving no survivors. On the plane with him were his

wife, Sheila (Ison) Wellstone; daughter, Marcia Wellstone;

campaign staff Will McLaughlin, Tom Lapic, and Mary

McEvoy; and Captains Richard Conry and Michael Guess.

PAUL and Sheila are survived by two sons, David and

Mark; and six grandchildren, Cari, Keith, Joshua, Acacia,

Sydney, and Matt.

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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES

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OTHER TRIBUTES

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Proceedings in the Senate

MONDAY, October 28, 2002

The Senate met at 10:30 a.m. and was called to order by

the Honorable Christopher J. Dodd, a Senator from the State

of Connecticut.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Today’s prayer will be offered

by our guest Chaplain, Father M. John Farrelly, a Benedictine monk from St. Anselm’s Abbey in Washington, DC.

Father Farrelly.

PRAYER

Let us pray.

As we gather together at the beginning of this day may

we, by Your grace, Lord, so live that we will stand before

You confident in Your mercy, as we have shown mercy to

those in need. Almighty and merciful God, we commend to

You Senator PAUL WELLSTONE who was taken away, along

with his wife and his daughter, so unexpectedly and suddenly from us, and who has left many colleagues and others

stunned and deeply saddened by their loss of a highly valued

coworker and friend.

May his legacy of voting according to his conscience and

his concern for the ordinary citizen and the underprivileged

endure in this Chamber. May the manner of his death remind all of us that the control we have of our lives is fragile

and uncertain, and that our lives can be called from us at

any moment.

May PAUL WELLSTONE dwell in Your house, Lord, forever

and ever, and may You comfort his remaining family and the

many friends, supporters, and the entire Senate family who

are bereaved.

Amen.

DEATH OF PAUL WELLSTONE, A SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF

MINNESOTA

The legislative clerk read as follows:

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A resolution (S. Res. 354) relative to the death of PAUL

WELLSTONE, a Senator from the State of Minnesota:

S. RES. 354

Whereas the Honorable PAUL WELLSTONE taught at Carleton College in

Northfield, Minnesota, for more than 20 years in the service of the youth

of our Nation;

Whereas the Honorable PAUL WELLSTONE served Minnesota in the U.S.

Senate with devotion and distinction for more than a decade;

Whereas the Honorable PAUL WELLSTONE worked tirelessly on behalf of

America’s Veterans and the less fortunate, particularly children and families living in poverty and those with mental illness;

Whereas the Honorable PAUL WELLSTONE never wavered from the principles that guided his life and career;

Whereas his efforts on behalf of the people of Minnesota and all Americans earned him the esteem and high regard of his colleagues; and

Whereas his tragic and untimely death has deprived his State and Nation

of an outstanding lawmaker: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Senate expresses profound sorrow and deep regret on

the deaths of the Honorable PAUL WELLSTONE, late a Senator from the State

of Minnesota, his wife Sheila, their daughter Marcia, aides Mary McEvoy,

Tom Lapic, and Will McLaughlin, and pilots Richard Conry and Michael

Guess.

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House

of Representatives and transmit an enrolled copy thereof to the family of the

deceased Senator, and the families of all the deceased.

Resolved, That when the Senate adjourns today, it adjourn as a further

mark of respect to the memory of the deceased Senator.

Mr. DAYTON. Mr. President, I ask that the Senate observe a moment of silence in tribute to Senator WELLSTONE

and his family.

(Moment of silence.)

Mr. DAYTON. Mr. President, it is with a profoundly heavy

heart that I rise today to present this resolution honoring my

colleague, PAUL WELLSTONE. This is not the occasion in this

brief session for eulogies. There will be other opportunities

on the Senate floor for all of us to share our memories and

our perspectives.

For myself, I cannot begin to do PAUL justice in a few minutes or even a few hours. He was such an extraordinary and

remarkable man. He brought so much life, enthusiasm, passion and commitment to the public life he lived, and he

touched so many thousands of Minnesotans and others

across this country who mourn his loss as we do here today.

He died fearlessly, as he lived his life. In the resolution

that was just read, the words ‘‘never wavered from the principles’’ will be words that I will always associate with PAUL

WELLSTONE. He never ever blinked in the face of adversity.

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Courageous, difficult, perhaps at times unpopular positions

were articles of faith for PAUL because he believed in them.

It was not about polls. It was not about pundits. It was

about the conviction he had about what was right for people,

for his fellow citizens.

He was unpretentious, unassuming, just himself. He was

no different as a Senator than as a man, than as a political

activist all in one, he was extraordinary and he will never

be replaced. In the hearts and minds of Minnesotans, he will

never be forgotten.

Yet, Mr. President, he loved this institution. He respected

enormously the traditions, the men and women who served

here. They came to respect him for the courage of his convictions. I could see in the course of the 2 years I have shared

with him in the Senate that he was respected by people who

did not agree with him because they knew he was speaking

from his heart, that he was speaking from his soul, that he

was speaking what he truly believed.

One could ask for no more, no less from any of us than the

strength of our convictions and our willingness to speak out

about them regardless of political cost.

PAUL and his wife, Sheila, at his side for 39 years, died

last Friday together, as they would have wanted it to be,

though not with their daughter Marcia who also was on that

flight and three of their devoted aides and two pilots. It is

an unspeakable tragedy and horror for all of us in Minnesota, but it will be the responsibility for all of us, on behalf

of PAUL, to take a deep breath and carry on on behalf of our

convictions and our causes—as he would want us to do.

I thank the Senate for this resolution on behalf of PAUL.

And for his two surviving sons, David and Mark, and their

families I know it will be of solace to them in their hours of

terrible grief.

Mrs. BOXER. Senator Dayton, your remarks were beautiful and PAUL would have been so pleased to hear your tone

and your spirit. And I can tell you, Senator Dayton, how

much he loved you, how proud he was to have you here by

his side.

Mr. President, I have flown in from California to be here

on the Senate floor today to make just a few remarks about

our dear friend and colleague, Senator PAUL WELLSTONE. I

want to start by reading two paragraphs written by his loyal

and hard-working staff. After his plane went down, and they

learned the worst, they wrote the following:

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PAUL WELLSTONE was one of a kind. He was a man of principle and conviction, in a world that has too little of either. He was dedicated to helping

the little guy, in a business dominated by the big guys. We who had the

privilege of working with him hope that he will be remembered as he lived

every day: as a champion for people.

His family was the center of his life and it breaks our hearts that his wife

of 39 years and his daughter Marcia were with him. Our prayers are with

Mark and David and the grandchildren he and Sheila cherished so much.

That was posted on the WELLSTONE Web site by Senator

WELLSTONE’s staff.

Mr. President, Senator Dayton, for me, the loss of PAUL

WELLSTONE cuts very deep. Kind, compassionate, selfdeprecating, a passionate voice for those without a voice, enthusiastic, a bundle of energy—this was a unique man of the

people.

When we learned that the tragedy of PAUL’s death was

magnified by the death of the two women he cherished so

much—his wife Sheila and his daughter Marcia—the wounds

in our hearts cut deeper still, plus the loss of three staffers—

Tom Lapic, Will McLaughlin, and Mary McEvoy—and the

two pilots—Captains Richard Conry and Michael Guess.

Mr. President, no words—no words—can possibly ease the

pain of all the family members who were touched by this

tragedy. No words can ease the pain of David and Mark,

PAUL’s two sons, and their families. All we can do is let them

know that we pray that they have the strength to endure

this time for the sake of the WELLSTONE grandchildren: Cari,

Keith, Joshua, Acacia, Sydney, and Matt. Let the Record

show that your grandchildren brought endless joy to you.

And we say to the grandchildren, thank you for the joy that

you gave to Grandma and Grandpa.

I want to say to the people of Minnesota, thank you, thank

you for sending PAUL to us, for sharing PAUL with us these

past 12 years. He loved the people of his State: the farmers,

the workers, the children, the elderly, the sick, the disabled,

the families. He fought for you all, so long and so hard, without stopping, in committees and subcommittees, in the

Democratic Caucus meetings, when he would get up and say:

Just give me 30 seconds—just 30 seconds—to make my point

about the people of Minnesota. He stood up at press conferences. He would grab Senators, one by one, and fight for

you, the people of Minnesota, who were always in his

thoughts and on his mind. And I know he is now in your

thoughts and on your minds.

In my own State of California—so many thousands of

miles away from Minnesota—there are memorial services

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being set up for PAUL. You see, his compassionate voice

reached thousands of miles, and many people in my State

are sending me condolence notes and flowers because they

know how much I will miss working with PAUL WELLSTONE,

and so will all Senators on both sides of the aisle.

As Mark said, PAUL was never afraid to speak out when

it might be unpopular, nor was he afraid to be on the losing

side of a Senate vote. He had courage. And when you told

him that, when you said: ‘‘PAUL, you have courage,’’ he

shrugged it off. He would say something like: ‘‘What else

could I do? It’s just not right!’’ He would say that—determined, brave.

You see, PAUL WELLSTONE could not vote against his conscience or for something he did not believe was in the best

interest of the people he represented. He couldn’t; he

wouldn’t—no matter what the consequences.

He cared about the underdog always. He cared about the

victim always. He cared about peace always. And PAUL,

blessed are the peacemakers.

PAUL was a humble man. When his longtime staffer, Mike

Epstein, died—and many of us knew Mike—PAUL took to the

Senate floor, and this is what he said, in part:

Mike, I know you will not like me saying this, but I’m going to say it anyway because it’s true. I believe from the bottom of my heart that everything

I’ve been able to do as a Senator that has been good for Minnesota and the

country is because, Mike, you have been right by my side, 1 inch away from

me.

And he said:

Mike was my tutor. He was my teacher. He was teaching me.

That was PAUL WELLSTONE. He never bragged about himself. He loved his family so much. He loved his staff. He took

time for all the Senate employees: the young people who

work with us, the officers who protect us, the food service

people, the elevator operators—all the Senate family, no

matter what their status.

Mr. President, he wanted to give everyone—everyone he

touched—his sense of optimism, his energy, his strength.

When PAUL learned he had multiple sclerosis, I worried

and I said to him: ‘‘Are you OK?’’ He said: ‘‘I probably had

it for a long time. I’m just not going to think about it.’’ And

off he went in his usual rush. There was so much to do. Off

he went to his desk in the Senate, his desk now incredibly

shrouded in black.

PAUL loved that aisle desk. It gave him a bird’s eye view

of the Senate that he loved. And when he spoke from his

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desk, he could come out from behind it. He could leave his

notes behind—arms gesturing, voice determined—and talk

from his heart. He would say something like: I don’t represent big business or big anything. He would say: I represent the people of Minnesota. And that he did every

minute of his all-too-short life.

As our session wound down, PAUL wanted to finish our

business and go home. He told us all: I want to be with my

people. I need to touch them. I need to look them in the eye.

I can’t wait to get home.

PAUL was a powerful man. His power did not come from

his physical stature. He was strong but he was slight of

build. His power did not come from generations of family

wealth. He was not a man of moneyed wealth. His parents

were immigrants: Leon and Minnie Wellstone. His power did

not come from political connections. His connections were

with regular people.

Let me tell you from where his power came. It came from

a fierce dedication to justice and truth and honesty and

righteousness. He gave comfort and he gave hope to those he

touched. And he gave them some of his power—the power to

see the possibilities of their own lives. PAUL died on his way

to give comfort and hope to those facing death. He was flying

to a funeral service.

Today we say to PAUL: We will give comfort and hope to

those you have left behind by doing all that we can to continue your legacy and your dream. Together, we can build an

America of fairness, of justice, of prosperity, a world of tolerance and a world of peace. And, PAUL, may you and yours

rest in peace forever.

Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Minnesota and the Senator from California for their words. I

know and respect both the Senator from Minnesota, Senator

Dayton, and the Senator from California, Senator Boxer. I

know them well enough to know this was a very painful moment for both of them—just as it is for the distinguished presiding officer and as it is for the Senator from Vermont.

Mr. President, you and I have been here a long time in the

Senate. With the Senator from Minnesota, who is now—not

at his choice—the senior Senator from Minnesota, and the

Senator from California, I think we can all say that there is

no sadder sight than coming on the floor and seeing a black

drape on a Senator’s desk. The distinguished presiding officer and I have unfortunately seen that many times in our careers, for Senators on both sides of the aisle. In every inVerDate 19-JUN-2001 09:56 May 15, 2003 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 6688 Sfmt 6688 D:\DOCS\WELL\82530.TXT CRS1 PsN: CRS1
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stance when we have entered the Chamber and seen the

black drape we know that there has been a death in the family.

We are privileged in this body, 100 men and women—now

99 men and women—to represent the greatest nation on

Earth, a nation of a quarter of a billion people. But because

there are only 100 of us, no matter our political differences,

when one is lost we all feel it. When I heard the news in

Vermont, I was at a restaurant in Burlington with my son,

Kevin. It was a small restaurant. There was a television

going but with no sound. My back was to it. I saw the look

of shock on Kevin’s face. He spun me around and I saw the

news. We both left that restaurant in tears. The news spread

quickly and as I walked down the street people—many of

them I never met before—just came up and hugged me, because they, too, lost somebody.

PAUL WELLSTONE had come to Vermont and was greeted

with great warmth. I vividly remember the evening he came

to speak. Everybody came up to him. They didn’t want him

to leave. PAUL WELLSTONE, like one of his predecessors, my

dear friend, Hubert Humphrey, was a happy warrior. If people wanted to talk with him he did not mind and would stay,

the same way Hubert would have.

There is an affinity, I believe, between our State of Vermont and Minnesota. That is why there was a bond Vermonters felt with PAUL WELLSTONE. PAUL could sense it.

And, we worked on many important issues as a team. During the recent farm bill debate he met with Vermont farmers

and together we drafted a dairy provision that was beneficial

to both of our States. I remember when he and Jim Jeffords

and Bernie Sanders and I joined together to have a milk

toast. We were joking around. PAUL was not a tall man. I

playfully stood blocking him from the cameras. And he said:

‘‘Hey, remember, I’m a wrestler,’’ at which point I quickly

moved aside. Of course PAUL was far more than a wrestler—

but it is easy to make the correlation to the way he wrestled

with issues here on the floor. He wrestled them down. I

thought to myself: What a man to have on your side. What

a man to be a friend.

PAUL WELLSTONE served with powerful people but he was

not intimidated by that. And, he never took on the airs of

one who was powerful. He would introduce himself to people:

‘‘Hi, I’m PAUL WELLSTONE.’’ And someone else would have to

say: That’s a U.S. Senator.

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I never went on an elevator with PAUL without him calling

the elevator operator by name. He would talk with the pages

and give them tutorials. He knew everybody in the Senate

and they knew and loved him.

It is impossible to talk about our colleague PAUL

WELLSTONE without mentioning Sheila Wellstone. They were

inseparable. Whenever the Senate would have a late night

session Sheila would be in the galleries, waiting for PAUL to

leave.

Of all my memories of PAUL WELLSTONE, the one I may remember the most is the last time I saw the two of them. It

was a late night session. You know these gorgeous halls we

have, with the chandeliers and everything else, and here is

this couple walking hand in hand down one of the halls

about midnight—PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE. I came

around the corner and I said: ‘‘Hey, you teenagers,’’ and they

laughed and hugged each other. I saw them go out, down the

steps into the night, hand in hand.

Let us hope that they have gone hand and hand into the

light and that they are now together.

Marcella and I also extend our thoughts and prayers to

Marcia, PAUL and Sheila’s daughter, and her family. And, as

the Senate noted in the resolution that was just passed a few

moments ago, we all grieve for the WELLSTONE staff who

were on board the plane: Tom Lapic, Mary McEvoy and Will

McLaughlin. Our thoughts and prayer are with their families

in these trying times. Our condolences also go to the families

of the pilots on the plane, Richard Conry and Michael Guess.

Mr. DODD. Madam President, first let me express my

thanks to our colleague from Minnesota, Senator Dayton,

and express our sympathies to him and through him to the

people of Minnesota and to the Wellstone family, the extended family, for all that they are suffering in this particular time, and to express my gratitude as well to my colleague

from California, Senator Boxer, and my colleague from Vermont, Senator Leahy, for their very moving and emotional

remarks. I think they captured to a large extent the sentiments of all of us.

This is a difficult time. I suppose the American people see

we are in session and wonder why only a few of us are here.

Obviously, with a week to go before the congressional elections, not many are here in Washington. But suffice it to say,

were 96 or 97 other Senators here today, you would hear

much the same sentiments that have been expressed already

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by the now-senior Senator from Minnesota, the Senator from

California, and the Senator from Vermont.

So I join my colleagues, and all Americans, in mourning

the very tragic and sudden loss of our dear friend and colleague, Senator PAUL WELLSTONE, who will be forever remembered as a friend and patriot and true public servant,

who fought each and every day of his public life—in fact, of

his life—to improve the lives of average Americans. We got

to know him here over the last 10 or 11 years as a Member

of the U.S. Senate, but the people of Minnesota and the people of Carleton College, students who had him as a professor,

people who knew him beforehand, they knew that PAUL

WELLSTONE didn’t just become a fighter when he arrived in

the Senate of the United States. He dedicated his life to it.

It is what his parents taught him. It is what he believed in

passionately as an American. We became witnesses to that

sense of passion and outrage about wrongs in this country

and around the world as we served with our colleague, PAUL

WELLSTONE, for the last decade.

So, like my colleagues, I was stunned and deeply saddened

by the enormous scope and tragedy of this loss. Obviously,

the entire Wellstone family has suffered an unfathomable

loss, as have the families of the other victims of this horrendous accident. His wife Sheila—I join my colleagues in expressing our deep sense of loss. Sometimes, although we get

to know Members, we don’t get to know the spouses of our

colleagues very well, but Sheila Wellstone really became a

member of the Senate family aside from being a spouse. She

was an unpaid volunteer in her husband’s office.

If there are women today who are suffering less because

of domestic violence—and there are many who are not, but

many who are—you can thank some colleagues here. But I

suspect one of the reasons they became so motivated about

the issue was because there was a person by the name of

Sheila Wellstone who arrived here a decade ago and wanted

to make this a matter of the business of the U.S. Senate.

So they became partners, not just over the almost 40 years

of love and affection for each other, but partners in their

sense of idealism, sense of values, and sense of purpose.

Marcia I did not know very well, but certainly heard PAUL

and Sheila talk abut her with great admiration and affection. In the loss suffered by her family, with young children,

it is difficult to even come up with the words to express the

sense of grief that I feel. And obviously the staff: Will

McLaughlin, Tom Lapic, and Mary McEvoy, along with the

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pilots who have been mentioned already: Richard Conry and

Michael Guess, we didn’t know, but I suspect on that flight

up there they had gotten to know the Wellstone family and

the staff. And so we want to express our deep sense of loss

to their families.

I ask unanimous consent to have printed at the end of my

remarks a wonderful editorial by David Rosenbaum in the

New York Times on Saturday which I thought captured perfectly the image of PAUL WELLSTONE, who he was and what

he tried to do, better than any words I could possibly express

here today.

Madam President, William Shakespeare once wrote, ‘‘No

legacy is so rich as honesty.’’ I have never met, let alone

worked with, a more honest or noble man than PAUL

WELLSTONE.

His legacy will be that of an honest, passionate and tireless fighter on behalf of justice and fairness for all Americans, especially those less fortunate than himself.

PAUL suffered a lot. He had this bad back. He would hobble around. He had this gait that if you didn’t know he was

hurting was almost an affectionate gait. He sort of limped

around at various times; he would stand a lot at times in

meetings because sitting would be so painful for him as a result of injuries he suffered. He had MS which he sort of

shrugged off, as my colleague from California said. He grew

up in a situation where his family were immigrants who

came from Russia. They grew up actually in Arlington, VA,

a short distance from here. A former staff member of mine

was a neighbor of theirs. He knew PAUL as a child growing

up. They had their own burdens to bear aside from being immigrants, problems of those newly arriving, with the language barriers. Trying to get acclimated to a new society

such as ours is not easy. So PAUL understood the issues of

those who suffered more than in just an intellectual effort.

This was something he deeply felt and had grown up with

and appreciated immensely.

When he came to this body and we got to know him as

someone who would fight tirelessly on behalf of those who

did not have lawyers, lobbyists, and others to express their

concerns, to bring their issues to the debate of the Senate,

we found in this individual just a remarkable voice and a remarkable fight. Like many of my colleagues, I might be

home or completed the evening and turned on the television

and the Senate would still be in session, and there would be

PAUL WELLSTONE, standing at that desk in the rear of this

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Chamber, speaking to an empty place except for the millions

of Americans tuned in to C–SPAN who would hear someone

talking about subjects that were affecting their lives.

Single moms, working families, children without health

care, the homeless, international victims of torture—these

were among Senator PAUL WELLSTONE’s core constituencies,

and they could not have had a better spokesperson.

A lot of times we spend days here talking about issues

that might seem terribly arcane to the average citizen in this

country, matters that don’t seem terribly relevant to their

daily lives, and yet PAUL WELLSTONE never let a day go by

that he didn’t give voice to the concerns of average Americans or those who are, as Hubert Humphrey would talk

about, in the shadows of life or the dawn of life or the dusk

of life—PAUL WELLSTONE giving voice, that great Minnesota

voice to those who needed to have their concerns raised in

chambers such as this. And so for all of those people who are

wondering today whether or not their concerns, their hopes,

their fears will find expression, it is hard to find any silver

lining with the passage of someone you care about so much,

but I suspect as we reconvene here on November 12 and

again with a new Congress coming in in January we will

hear the words of PAUL WELLSTONE repeated quite frequently. We will hear the passion that he brought to the

issues raised maybe more frequently than they otherwise

might be. That’s because we will remember an individual we

had the privilege and honor of serving with who reminded

this institution of what its role ought to be, not just to those

who are well heeled, those who can afford to acquire the access, but those who need to have their issues raised—that

their concerns and their worries, their hopes, their dreams

for this country and their own families will be once again a

part of the mainstream of debate in the Senate.

PAUL WELLSTONE fought some awfully tough battles. He

fought a tough battle to get here, a man who was told he

could not possibly get elected to the Senate, who was being

outspent by overwhelming odds.

I rode with him in that bus—I am sure my colleague from

Minnesota, maybe my colleagues from California and Vermont remember—that rattly old green bus, in the freezing

cold, bitter cold, cold months of Minnesota. I remember going

with him to some big fair or festival that he was holding on

behalf of poor farmers and family farmers in Minnesota. Just

a few weeks ago, Madam President, I campaigned with him

in Minnesota, with some of the medical device companies

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around Minneapolis and St. Paul. This was supposed to be

about a 20-minute meeting we were going to have at one of

these firms to talk about the medical devices that PAUL

played a major role in working to see to it that they were

going to become a reality for people who would use them. We

were supposed to leave in 15 or 20 minutes but the room was

packed; the people wanted to talk about other things. And

PAUL WELLSTONE stayed for about 11⁄2 hours just engaging

with the people in this room. They went far beyond the medical device issues. The people in that room wanted to talk

about health care; they wanted to talk about education; they

wanted to talk about the environment; they wanted to talk

about prescription drugs and the elderly; they wanted to talk

about issues affecting Native Americans and minority

groups; they wanted to talk about foreign policy. And he engaged, engaged and engaged for an hour and a half. He

would have stayed longer. Staff had to almost drag him out

of the room. But it was so reflective, standing in the back of

the room watching PAUL WELLSTONE with great passion and

clarity expressing where he stood.

He didn’t sit there and try to figure out where the question

was coming from based on the tilt of their rhetoric. He answered them how he felt as their Senator, their representative, so they would know where he stood.

Madam President, I apologize for sort of meandering here,

but it is how I feel. I have a great sense of loss and also a

sense of joy. PAUL WELLSTONE had a great sense of humor.

He cared deeply about issues but he also had the wonderful

ability to laugh at himself, to appreciate the humor that only

this institution can provide in some of the more bizarre moments, a wonderful relationship with virtually everyone

here. It didn’t happen automatically or initially. PAUL came

here determined to change the world; if not the world,

change the United States; if not that, maybe his Minnesota.

Along the way and in the process he probably rubbed some

people the wrong way, but those very people became the people who cared most about him in many ways in the final

analysis because they realized that everything he said and

everything he did was not about himself but about the people he wanted to represent. And so I know there are Members who are not here today because of other obligations, but

who, when the opportunity comes, will express their own

thoughts and feelings, but don’t be surprised—Madam President, I know you will not be, nor my colleagues from Minnesota or Vermont—that some of the heartfelt remarks

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about PAUL will come from people who disagreed with him

vehemently on substantive matters, but appreciated immensely his sense of conviction, something we can do a lot

more of in politics in America today.

Frederick Douglass once said, ‘‘The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.’’

For 58 years, PAUL WELLSTONE lived a life that was honest,

truthful, and virtuous. For 12 years, he personally lent those

characteristics to the heart of the U.S. Government.

America, Minnesota, and this institution have suffered a

terrible loss at the death of PAUL WELLSTONE, but there is

a silver lining in all of this; that as a result of his service

this country is a better place, there are people who are living

better lives; this world with all of its difficulties has been a

better world because PAUL WELLSTONE was a part of it.

I am confident as I stand before you today, Madam President, that in the weeks, months, and years ahead, his memory and legacy will live on in the debates, the discussions,

and actions we take in this body.

For that, PAUL WELLSTONE, you ought to know that your

service continues and your words and your actions will have

a legacy borne out by those who come after you in the service

of your State and the thousands of young people you motivated.

Madam President, if you could only see, as many have, the

hundreds of young people throughout Minnesota who PAUL

WELLSTONE energized and brought to the public life of this

country, people who otherwise would not have paid any attention. PAUL WELLSTONE said: You ought to be involved;

there is a reason to be involved.

His ability to attract people to come to a cause and to fight

for the good cause will live on. I suspect one day this Chamber will have people who will serve in it who cut their teeth

in politics working on a WELLSTONE campaign.

PAUL, the campaign goes on. Your battles will go on, and

we are going to miss you.

[From the New York Times, October 26, 2002]

A Death in the Senate: Paul Wellstone, 58, Icon of Liberalism in the

Senate

(By David E. Rosenbaum)

Washington, Oct. 25.—PAUL WELLSTONE often seemed out of step. He

called himself a liberal when many used that word as a slur. He voted

against the Persian Gulf war in his first year in the Senate, and this month

opposed using force against Iraq.

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Senator WELLSTONE, 58, who died in a plane crash today while campaigning for re-election, fought for bills favored by unions and advocates of family

farmers and the poor, and against those favored by banks, agribusiness and

large corporations. This year he was the principal opponent of legislation

supported by large majorities of Democrats and Republicans that would

make it more difficult for people to declare bankruptcy. He argued that the

measure would enrich creditors at the expense of people ‘‘in brutal economic

circumstances.’’ He advocated causes like national health insurance that

even many of his fellow liberals abandoned as futile.

Mr. WELLSTONE was a rumpled, unfailingly modest man who, unlike

many of his colleagues, lived on his Senate salary. He was married to the

former Sheila Ison for 39 years, having married at 19 when he was in college. His wife and their 33-year-old daughter, Marcia, also died today in the

crash.

When Mr. WELLSTONE arrived in the Senate in 1991, he was a firebrand

who thought little of breaking the Senate tradition of comity and personally

attacking his colleagues. He told an interviewer soon after he was elected

that Senator Jesse Helms, the conservative North Carolina Republican,

‘‘represents everything to me that is ugly and wrong and awful about politics.’’

But as the years passed, Mr. WELLSTONE moderated his personality if not

his politics and became well liked by Republicans as well as Democrats. Bob

Dole, the former Senate Republican leader who often tangled with Mr.

WELLSTONE on legislation, choked up today when he told a television interviewer that Mr. WELLSTONE was ‘‘a decent, genuine guy who had a different

philosophy from almost everyone else in the Senate.’’

Mr. WELLSTONE was also an accomplished campaigner. Though he had

never held elected office, he pulled off a major upset in 1990 when, running

on a shoestring budget, he defeated the incumbent Republican Senator,

Rudy Boschwitz. He beat Mr. Boschwitz in a rematch in 1996. This year,

he reneged on a promise to limit himself to two terms, ran for re-election

and seemed in the most recent public polls to have pulled slightly ahead of

his Republican challenger, former Mayor Norm Coleman of St. Paul.

His opponents always portrayed him as a left-wing extremist. Mr. Boschwitz’s television commercials in 1996 called Mr. WELLSTONE ‘‘embarrassingly liberal and out of touch.’’ This year, Mr. Coleman said the Senator was

‘‘so far out of the mainstream, so extreme, that he can’t deliver for Minnesotans.’’

But on the campaign trail, Mr. WELLSTONE appeared to be so happy, so

comfortable, so unthreatening that he was able to ward off the attacks.

For years, he had walked with a pronounced limp that he attributed to

an old wrestling injury. In February, he announced at a news conference

that he had learned he had multiple sclerosis, but he said the illness would

not affect his campaigning or his ability to sit in the Senate. ‘‘I have a

strong mind—although there are some that might disagree about that—I

have a strong body, I have a strong heart, I have a strong soul,’’ he told

reporters.

PAUL DAVID WELLSTONE was born in Washington on July 21, 1944, and

grew up in Arlington, Va. His father, Leon, left Russia as a child to escape

the persecution of Jews, and worked as a writer for the United States Information Agency. His mother, Minnie, the daughter of immigrants from Russia, worked in a junior high school cafeteria.

Growing up, he was more interested in wrestling than politics, and he had

some difficulty in school because of what he later found out was a learning

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disability. He scored lower than 800, out of a total of 1,600, on his College

Boards, and this led him as a senator to oppose measures that emphasized

standardized test scores. In an interview, he once said that even as an adult

he had difficulty interpreting charts and graphs quickly but that he had

learned to overcome his disability by studying harder and taking more time

to absorb information.

Partly because of his wrestling ability—he was a conference champion at

126 pounds—he was admitted to the University of North Carolina and, galvanized by the civil rights movement, he turned from wrestling to politics.

He graduated in 1965 and stayed in Chapel Hill for a doctorate in political

science. He wrote his thesis on the roots of black militancy.

Married with children, he once said he did not have time to participate

in the student uprisings in the 1960s. He is survived by two grown sons,

David and Mark, of St. Paul, and six grandchildren.

But while he was not a student rebel, Mr. WELLSTONE did not fit in from

the day in 1969 when he began teaching political science at Carleton College, a small liberal arts campus in rural Northfield, Minn.

He was more interested in leading his students in protests than he was

in publishing in academic journals, and he was often at odds with his colleagues and Carleton administrators. He fought the college’s investments in

companies doing business in South Africa, battled local banks that foreclosed on farms, picketed with strikers at a meat-packing plant and taught

classes off campus rather than cross a picket line when Carleton’s

custodians were on strike.

In 1974, the college told him his contract would not be renewed. But with

strong support from students, the student newspaper and local activists, he

appealed the dismissal, and it was reversed.

In 1982, Mr. WELLSTONE dipped his toe into the political waters for the

first time and ran for state auditor. He lost. But he had made contacts in

the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, and he stayed active in politics. In 1988, he was the state co-chairman of the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s campaign in the President primary, and in the general election, he was cochairman of the campaign of Michael S. Dukakis, the Democratic Presidential nominee.

Few thought he had a chance when he announced that he would run for

the Senate against Mr. Boschwitz, Russell D. Feingold, now a like-minded

liberal Democratic senator from Wisconsin, today had this recollection of

dropping by to meet Mr. WELLSTONE in 1989:

‘‘He opened the door, and there he was with his socks off, 15 books open

that he was reading, and he was on the phone arguing with somebody about

Cuba. He gave me coffee, and we laughed uproariously at the idea that either of us would ever be elected. But he pulled it off in 1990 and gave me

the heart to do it in Wisconsin.’’

Mr. Feingold was elected in 1992, also with a tiny treasury.

Mr. Boschwitz spent $7 million on his campaign, 7 times Mr.

WELLSTONE’s budget. To counteract the Boschwitz attacks, Mr. WELLSTONE

ran witty, even endearing television commercials produced without charge

by a group led by a former student. In one ad, the video and audio were

speeded up, and Mr. WELLSTONE said he had to talk fast because ‘‘I don’t

have $6 million to spend.’’

Mr. WELLSTONE toured the state in a battered green school bus, and in

the end, he won 50.4 percent of the vote and was the only challenger in

1990 to defeat an incumbent senator.

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He arrived in Washington as something of a rube. On one of his first days

in town before he was sworn in, he called a reporter for the name of a restaurant where he could get a cheap dinner. When the reporter replied that

he knew a place where a good meal was only $15, Mr. WELLSTONE said $15

was many times what he was prepared to spend.

He also made what he later conceded were ‘‘rookie mistakes.’’ At one

point, for instance, he used the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a backdrop

for a news conference to oppose the war against Iraq. Veterans’ groups denounced him, and he later apologized.

But he soon warmed to the ways of the Senate and became especially

adept at the unusual custom of giving long speeches to an empty chamber.

Probably no one in the Senate over the last dozen years gave more speeches

at night after nearly all the other senators had gone home.

His strength was not in getting legislation enacted. One successful measure he sponsored in 1996 with Senator Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New

Mexico, requires insurance companies in some circumstances to give coverage to people with mental illness, but he failed this year in an effort to

strengthen the law.

In a book he published last year, ‘‘The Conscience of a Liberal’’ (Random

House), Mr. WELLSTONE wrote, ‘‘I feel as if 80 percent of my work as a senator has been playing defense, cutting the extremist enthusiasms of the conservative agenda (much of which originates in the House) rather than moving forward on a progressive agenda.’’

In a speech in the Senate this month explaining his opposition to the resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq, Mr. WELLSTONE stressed that

Saddam Hussein was ‘‘a brutal, ruthless dictator who has repressed his own

people.’’ But Mr. WELLSTONE went on to say: ‘‘Despite a desire to support

our President, I believe many Americans still have profound questions about

the wisdom of relying too heavily on a preemptive go-it-alone military approach. Acting now on our own might be a sign of our power. Acting sensibly

and in a measured way, in concert with our allies with bipartisan Congressional support, would be a sign of our strength.’’

Later, Mr. WELLSTONE told a reporter that he did not believe his stance

would hurt him politically. ‘‘What would really hurt,’’ he said, ‘‘is if I was

giving speeches and I didn’t even believe what I was saying. Probably what

would hurt is if people thought I was doing something just for political reasons.’’

Mr. WELLSTONE briefly considered running for President in 2000, but he

called off the campaign because, he said, the doctors who had been treating

him for a ruptured disk told him that his back could not stand the travel

that would be required.

Often, Mr. WELLSTONE was the only senator voting against a measure, or

one of only a few. He was, for instance, one of three senators in 1999 to support compromise missile defense legislation. He was the only one that year

to vote against an education bill involving standardized tests, and the only

Democrat who opposed his party’s version of lowering the estate tax.

Mr. WELLSTONE was one of the few senators who made the effort to meet

and remember the names of elevator operators, waiters, police officers and

other workers in the Capitol. James W. Ziglar, a Republican who was sergeant at arms of the Senate from 1998 to 2001 and who is now commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, remembered today

‘‘the evening when he came back to the Capitol well past midnight to visit

with the cleaning staff and tell them how much he appreciated their efforts.’’

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‘‘Most of the staff had never seen a senator and certainly had never had

one make such a meaningful effort to express his or her appreciation,’’ Mr.

Ziglar said. ‘‘That was the measure of the man.’’

ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10:30 A.M., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2002

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order,

and as a further mark of respect to PAUL WELLSTONE, the

Senate stands adjourned in his memory until the hour of

10:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 31, 2002.

Thereupon, the Senate, at 11:11 a.m., adjourned until

Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 10:30 a.m.

TUESDAY, November 12, 2002

Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, let me reiterate our welcome to Senator Barkley, but no one needs to be reminded

how it is he is here. I begin our remembrance of PAUL

WELLSTONE with the recognition that at times such as this

it is more important to celebrate a life than to mourn a

death. I will do my utmost in the next couple of minutes to

remember my own advice, the importance of celebrating a

life.

We mourn the loss of PAUL WELLSTONE, his wife Sheila,

their daughter Marcia, the staff, and the pilots who lost their

lives. It has been a shock from which we have not yet fully

recovered. Sometimes in these difficult moments, I turn to

the Bible, sometimes I turn to expressions offered to me by

others, and sometimes to poetry.

An old Irish text was found in a Carmelite monastery in

Tallow County, Wicklow, Ireland. The text was entitled ‘‘Togetherness.’’ I find solace in the words of ‘‘Togetherness.’’

Death is nothing at all—

I have only slipped away into the next room.

Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which we

always used.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.

Let my name be the household word it always was.

Let it be spoken without effort.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same as it always was:

There is an absolute unbroken continuity.

Why would I be out of your mind because I am out of your sight?

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I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around

the corner.

All is well. Nothing is passed, nothing is lost.

One brief moment, and all will be as it was before—

Only better, infinitely happier, and forever—

We will all be one together . . .

PAUL was all of 5 foot 5. But I remember what someone

once told me: someone certainly more than 5 foot 5. He said

it is not the size of the man in the fight, it is the size of the

fight in the man. PAUL WELLSTONE by that measurement

was a giant. He fought. He spoke. He challenged us all. But

he did so in a way that made him a friend, not an enemy,

a friend with people on that side of the aisle and a friend,

of course, with those on this side, too; he had friends.

While he walked in this Chamber small in stature, everyone recognized that if you measure a man and, in so doing,

measure the true weight of his being, you don’t measure his

size, you measure his heart.

PAUL WELLSTONE inspired me. With his physical challenges—his back, his knees, his legs from wrestling injuries,

and then later with MS—I never once heard him complain.

Never once did he come to me saying, Tom, you have to give

me an opportunity to recover, to rest. He had an energy, a

dynamism, that overcame all of those ailments. He seemed

more well than those who are well. He inspired all with his

joy, with his passion, with his energy.

For those of us who believe in public service, there was no

greater evidence of his deep sense of commitment to public

service than his advocacy for mental health parity. Again,

working across the aisle with Senator Domenici, that passion, that energy, that commitment, that determination, that

persistence, all that was PAUL WELLSTONE, flowed right up

there from that desk. We knew he cared about mental health

parity. I can think of no better monument, no better memorial, no better way to honor him than by passing mental

health parity soon.

We were all the beneficiaries. Perhaps those who will benefit most by his memory, his example, by his commitment,

are our youth. I spoke to his staff on the Sunday following

his passing. I reminded them that in the course of 5 years

in my early life, I, too, lost heroes. Their names were John

F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King.

While I recognize their physical being is no longer here, as

our poem said, I recognize, too, that they only slipped into

the next room, and their spirit was very much alive. And

that burns within me with my understanding and my belief

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in our democracy in this commitment you must make to public service.

In remembering the WELLSTONEs, we must also pay tribute to that remarkable woman, Sheila Wellstone, for her advocacy, her leadership, her commitment to abolishing domestic abuse. The commitment she made, the lives she saved,

her willingness to be engaged, the extraordinary effort she

made and the example she set, too, is something we will always remember and for which we will always be indebted.

On this new day, let us not think of sadness but of celebration. Let us celebrate the life of PAUL WELLSTONE as we acknowledge the loss of his physical being. Let us extend our

heartfelt condolences to David, to Mark, and to Todd, to

Cari, Keith, Joshua, Acacia, Sydney and Matt, his family.

The hole in their hearts is large. The hole in their lives may

never be fully filled.

To them I ask they, too, find solace in the words of ‘‘Togetherness.’’

Death is nothing at all—

I have only slipped away into the next room.

Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I will begin by thanking Senator

Daschle for his remarks so well delivered just now and also

for conversations that he and I experienced in the aftermath

of this tragic loss.

I rise today also to pay tribute to the life and the service

of Senator PAUL WELLSTONE of Minnesota. He had a real impact on this institution. He was a committed warrior to

things he believed in. He did it not only with compassion but

with sincerity and also generousness and geniality. He never

failed to take the time to tell a story, to explain why he felt

so strongly about these issues. He was unfailingly willing to

be considerate of others, to seek an agreement as to how the

process would work, even when it led to a battle of words

and of votes. He also had an upbeat, optimistic view of that

process, that battle, and the next one.

He would come over and say: ‘‘Good job, I’ll get you next

time,’’ if he hadn’t won. Even when he might be the single

vote, or one of a couple of votes—just a few—he was undaunted. You cannot help but admire that approach to life

and to the Senate. I not only understand when Senators take

a different view, I appreciate it when they take that view—

the way PAUL WELLSTONE did.

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I have learned over the years that the saying that seems

trite is so true in life and in this institution: You can disagree without being disagreeable. He was the master at that.

I appreciated the friendship we developed. I loved to pick

at him. I loved to go over and kid him about the little extra

face hair that he had for a while, and I would tell him he

was my man for the nomination for Presidency. When other

potential candidates would come up, I would say: Oh, no, I

am already committed to PAUL. He loved it, actually.

He was very kind to me. When I faced difficult tragedies—

as with Paul Coverdell, when I stood here with tears rolling

down my face, announcing the loss of that great Senator—

he would always be one of the first to come over and engage

me and say how he felt. Sometimes in difficult straits that

the Senate has had to go through, when Senator Daschle and

I had to make difficult decisions, he would be the only one

who would come over and say: ‘‘It was tough, I know, but

you did the right thing.’’ I remember that.

So I think the people of Minnesota have an awful lot to be

proud of in their Senator. When I went there to pay my respects to the people of Minnesota and to the family and to

his friends and supporters, Senator Kennedy was on the bus

as we were leaving the airport. He said: ‘‘We appreciate the

fact that you are here. I know you are here not just because

you are the leader of the party, but because you wanted to

pay proper respects.’’

I said: ‘‘I am here because it is the right thing to do, but

also because, if the tables had been reversed and this was for

me, PAUL would have been there. I really believe that.’’

So I take my hat off, I salute the Senator. He will be

missed. The Senate will be different. But to the people and

his family who are so heartbroken, to his friends and supporters and the people all over his State, our memory of him

and his service will not be forgotten. He will go down in history as a truly unique Member of the Senate. I guess we all

are in some respects but PAUL more so than others.

Mr. DAYTON. Mr. President, for more than 20 years PAUL

and Sheila WELLSTONE were my friends and my political allies, so it is with a heavy heart that I stand here today. For

the last 2 years PAUL was my mentor and partner in the

Senate, and I will miss him especially, as will Minnesota, as

will America.

I thank my many colleagues in the Senate who came to

Minnesota just a short time ago for the memorial service

commemorating PAUL and Sheila, their daughter Marcia,

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their staff and friends, Mary McEvoy, the Democratic Party

associate chair, Tom Lapic, and Will McLaughlin. Over half

of the Senate attended that evening. Another dozen former

Senators, a dozen or so Members of the House, President

Clinton, Vice President Gore, Secretary Thompson, Reverend

Jackson. PAUL and Sheila would have been honored.

I especially want to thank my Republican colleagues, Senator Lott, Senator Nickles, and the others who attended that

evening. I was not aware until the next day that Senator

Lott was treated discourteously by some in the Minnesota

crowd. To him and anyone else who suffered that misfortune,

I deeply apologize. PAUL and Sheila would have been horrified, as was I when I learned about it, as would the people

of Minnesota. That is not the way we treat distinguished

guests in Minnesota.

As for the rest of the evening, if the eulogists spoke sometimes a little long, they at times became impassioned, political, or even partisan—well, it was a service for PAUL

WELLSTONE. The speakers were selected, but they weren’t

scripted. They were all family and close friends who were

still in shock and in great emotional distress and in deep

pain.

What was most extraordinary about that service that

evening, what hopefully will be remembered now that the

campaigns have concluded, is that over 20,000 people came

to honor the lives and mourn the tragic deaths of PAUL and

Sheila and Marcia WELLSTONE, Mary McEvoy, Tom Lapic,

and Will McLaughlin—over 20,000 people. That was unprecedented in Minnesota.

Nothing in my lifetime or in my knowledge of the State

was even in the same realm of that magnitude of love and

gratitude and grief and sorrow. The service was held at the

University of Minnesota Basketball Arena which seats over

15,000 people. It was filled an hour before the service was

scheduled to begin. The fire marshals closed the doors. Another 6,000 or so arrivals filled an adjacent arena to watch

the service on closed-circuit television. It, too, was overfilled

by the time the service began. Police and university officials

urged late arrivals to go home and watch the service on television, but hundreds, several hundred, remained clustered

outside, standing around, wanting to be part of this unprecedented Minnesota congregation. That enormous outpouring

of people and their emotions attested to the breadth and

depth of PAUL WELLSTONE’s political reach. He had touched

so many people so deeply. He had helped them, comforted

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them, and reassured them. He had inspired so many people.

He was their voice, their champion, their hero, their U.S.

Senator. And then suddenly, tragically, cruelly, he was

snatched away and gone forever.

It was a service to remember and in part regret. It was a

service of remembrance and regret for eight exceptional people who lost their lives flying to a funeral service in northeastern Minnesota.

I knew PAUL, but the first time I saw him in action was

in June 1982 at the DFL State Convention. I was endorsed

at that convention to run for the first time for the U.S. Senate, and the 1st day that 3-day convention opened, PAUL announced—much to everyone’s surprise—he was going to run

for the endorsement for State auditor 2 days hence.

For the previous 8 months, a very earnest young man had

been in every county and every district and political event in

Minnesota in Democratic circles, explaining in numbing detail the functions of the office of State auditor and how he

was the best qualified to fulfill them. Sunday came around,

and the auditor’s endorsement was the last endorsement at

the end of the 3d day. There were 1,300 Democratic delegates who were tired and worn out and ready to go home.

PAUL appeared on the stage after his opponent’s one last excruciating explanation of the auditor’s position, and presented himself—most of the audience seeing him for the first

time—and he gave a typical PAUL WELLSTONE speech: Nuclear freeze, save the environment, economic justice—nothing of much particular relevance to the office of State auditor. He was endorsed by acclamation of the delegates.

PAUL and I both lost our elections that November, but we

spent the next 3 years campaigning together, working for the

Governor of Minnesota, Rudy Perpich, in the Office of Energy and Economic Development. We spent many hours talking and traveling the State together. In 1990 we swapped

our political aspirations, PAUL ran for the Senate and I for

State auditor, and this time we won. PAUL’s victory in 1990

was one of the most memorable David-defeats-Goliath stories

in America’s political history.

In the first published poll several months before the election, the incumbent was ahead by over 50 percent. PAUL was

in single digits. He was given no chance to win, and almost

no help by the political establishment. He was outspent in

the campaign by over 7 to 1. Yet PAUL was the only Democratic challenger that year who ousted an incumbent. His

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tling, gas-guzzling, usually in-the-repair-shop green bus. But

despite a brilliant campaign which captured the public attention, this distinctively different candidate walked fast and

talked fast and actually rode a bus. His innovative ads won

national awards that year, produced by a campaign that

couldn’t even afford to air them.

Despite 8 months of PAUL WELLSTONE and his best

hyperdrive, that amazing energy and excitement, and organizing all over the State, he still entered that final weekend

before the election, with most polls showing him being 6 to

8 points behind.

That Saturday, as our statewide DFL ticket boarded the

bus—not PAUL’s bus, which was once again in the repair

shop, but another bus—for its final 2-day swing around the

State, PAUL’s opponent had just launched a vicious personal

attack against him. The campaign had no money to produce

or air a response. Those 2 days were agonizing for PAUL and

Sheila and Marcia, who accompanied him, and for those of

us who were sharing that experience with him. Then, like a

miracle, the hero of the moment came forth, the former Senator and Vice President, Walter Mondale, whom fate was to

bind to the conclusion of another WELLSTONE campaign 12

years later.

The Vice President publicly denounced the attack as a violation of Minnesota’s standard of decency. The editorial

board of the State’s largest newspaper agreed the day before

the election. And the majority of Minnesota voters agreed

the following day.

It was the most stunning upset and astounding victory in

Minnesota political history.

PAUL WELLSTONE was on the green bus headed to Washington, which, of course, was the bus that broke down on the

way.

Despite PAUL’s 20 years of political experience, he wasn’t

prepared for the Senate. The Senate may not have been prepared for PAUL. I know he later regretted some of his earlier

decisions. He told me so after he sat down with me when I

won my election 2 years ago, and he was counseling me to

take a different approach.

But while he would have changed perhaps his early style,

he would not have changed his substance. He would not have

changed because he could not have changed his values or his

ideals or his convictions. He could not alter his passion for

social justice, his caring for people, or his outrage at their

oppression or suffering. His values were the essence of who

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he was. They were the core of his beliefs, the cornerstone of

his conscience. They were the hallowed ground of his political soul.

PAUL WELLSTONE was a hard-working political activist, a

hard-nosed political organizer, and a smart, savvy politician.

He wanted to win. He knew how to win. But he would not

win if it meant losing his soul or forgetting his conscience or

sacrificing his principles.

He was no Don Quixote out tilting at windmills. He was

rather a Richard the Lionheart on a crusade, mindful of the

risks, the pitfalls, and the odds, but undeterred by them.

Time after time during his 12 years in the Senate, he took

his stand believing that he was right—well, maybe not right

but correct. He voted his conscience. He voted his convictions, hoping that 50 or more of his colleagues would vote

with him, but willing to stand alone if they did not.

Some people said that PAUL’s dissenting votes reflected

badly on him. Others said they reflected badly on the Senate.

Some people believe the Senate would be a better place without PAUL WELLSTONE. Others of us believe the Senate would

be a better place with 50 more like him.

Those who questioned his accomplishments overlooked the

obvious. PAUL could work tirelessly, speak persuasively, and

do everything effectively. But he could only vote once—1 out

of 100, 1 out of 535.

PAUL had only 2 years out of his 12 years with a Democratic President, Senate, and House, as the Republicans will

have again in January. For his other 10 years, PAUL served

in divided government. He did not accomplish all he wanted

to. He did not accomplish much that he wanted to. But he

accomplished all he could. And he would have accomplished

so much more if death had not intervened so suddenly and

so cruelly.

There was so much life and so much politics left in PAUL

WELLSTONE, and so much courage. His death echoes the

words of Ernest Hemingway:

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure

of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer quality than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential,

vital quality of those who would seek to change a world which yields most

painfully to change. If people bring so much courage to this world, the world

has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks

everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those

that will not break, it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and

the very brave impartially. If you are none of those, you can be sure that

it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

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Those are the words of Ernest Hemingway.

PAUL WELLSTONE wasn’t that fatalistic. At least, he didn’t

live or practice the politics of fatalism. PAUL was a social reformer and a crusader for social and economic reform. He believed in it. He dedicated his life to it. He gave his life for

it. He knew the odds were stacked heavily against him, especially here in Washington. He knew how hard it was; how

unusual the circumstances had to be for a PAUL WELLSTONE

to make it to the Senate. He knew how hard it was for a

PAUL WELLSTONE to stay here, to combat the powerful forces

aligned against him and their enormous financial and political resources that would try to defeat him.

He detested political fundraising. He disliked the amounts

of money he had to ask for, and he distrusted most of the

people who could provide it. His loathing of fundraising was

matched only by his hatred of flying in small airplanes—the

principal reason he vowed his 1996 campaign would be his

last. But when the time came, he could not turn his back on

the crusade. He could not abandon the causes, and he could

not leave the people—because it was the people PAUL loved.

He loved being with people.

As long as he wasn’t raising money from them, or flying

with them, PAUL loved being with people—real people, farmers, iron rangers, educators, senior citizens, children, all

classes, all races, all religions, all points of view. PAUL practiced the politics of diversity, and inclusion, and empowerment. He truly cared about people as individuals. He cared

about their lives, their families, their well-being. He loved

visiting veterans homes, nursing homes, and schools. He

loved spending hours with people who couldn’t vote or benefit him politically.

He cared about people because they needed him—not because he needed them. The poor, the unfortunate, the mentally ill, the disadvantaged and the distressed—he loved

working for them, working to make their lives better, and

working to give them a chance, a job, a farm, a home, a life.

I agree with the majority leader. If this Senate, if this

Congress and this administration want to show their respect

for PAUL WELLSTONE, if they want to honor his memory, we

will pass and the President will sign into law the WellstoneDomenici mental health parity bill before we adjourn this

year. Nothing less would do him justice. Nothing else would

make him happier.

PAUL came to love this institution of the Senate. For an organizer, it was the ultimate challenge. He genuinely liked

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most of his colleagues—even those he disagreed with most of

the time. Yes, he got frustrated, discouraged, and impatient.

But he respected the Senate. He loved being a Senator, and

he was learning how to be a great one.

He was a great man. He was a great husband—with an

even greater wife, Sheila. He was a great father and a great

politician. He was an excellent U.S. Senator, and he was becoming a great one. But death denied him that opportunity.

And it denied us him, and it denied the people of Minnesota

the leader they elected to represent them.

He died on his way to a funeral, that of the father of a

friend. He flew because he had to, despite what in hindsight

seems more like a premonition than a fear. He willed himself

to fly because he had to be the best U.S. Senator he could

be.

And he never backed away from adversity. He got on a reliable plane with a reputable charter firm flown by two licensed pilots. They flew into what was reportedly occluded

but not threatening weather, with low clouds and light,

freezing precipitation—not ideal but not unusual for northern Minnesota in late fall.

And then, somehow, inexplicably, the plane landed in a

desolate forest rather than a nearby airport. It burst into a

huge conflagration and destroyed the lives of eight people,

and damaged many more lives who lost their loved ones, and

left many thousands—thousands—of people without their

leaders, their allies, their heroes, and their friends.

But life goes on, as it must. Minnesota held an election, as

it should. Senator-elect Norm Coleman conducted himself

honorably in the aftermath of that great tragedy and won

honorably and honestly in that election and has earned the

right, through the expressed will of the people of Minnesota,

to serve as a U.S. Senator for 6 years, beginning in January.

And I pray that he will be our Senator for the next 6 years.

But former Vice President Mondale performed a great

service to our DFL Party in Minnesota, to our State, and I

believe to our democracy by stepping forward at the last moment when, in hindsight, the situation was impossible but

seemed possible only because it was former Vice President

Mondale.

Senator Dean Barkley is an excellent appointment made

by Governor Ventura. He has earned this honor. He is

knowledgeable. He is experienced. And he is committed to

good government. He has proven that as commissioner of

State planning. Through his own political pioneering he has

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forged an independent strength and spirit which has captured the political imagination of the people throughout our

State and offers great promise in the years ahead, and he

will have himself great promise in the years ahead. I am

honored to be working with him during these next months,

as I look forward to working with Senator-elect Coleman

when he begins his term in January.

We have a special spirit in Minnesota. Our political spirit

is testified to here today by Congressman Jim Ramstad and

Congressman Mark Kennedy, who are witnessing these

words of tribute to their colleague. Both worked closely with

Senator WELLSTONE, especially Congressman Ramstad during his long years in the House with PAUL on many issues

of which they shared concern and commitment. And PAUL’s

staff, who loved him and gave their lives of service with him,

and who are suffering a loss that is also immeasurable, are

here as well. And I pray that they, too, will find opportunities in the future. I know they will, but it just will not be

with PAUL.

Years ago, then-President John Kennedy paraphrased a

statement made by Theodore Roosevelt which seems like a

fitting bipartisan note on which to end these remarks. He

said in New York City, in a speech paraphrasing President

Roosevelt:

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face

is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms,

the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if

he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails

daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid

souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

PAUL, you have won many battles, but now you can wipe

the dust and sweat and blood off your face, and may you rest

in eternal peace.

Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I stand to say a few words

in honor of the late Senator PAUL WELLSTONE.

Over a decade ago, Minnesota sent one of its best to this

Chamber. He followed in the special tradition of public service that our State knows well. From Ramsey to Stassen, from

Olson to Humphrey, from Mondale to, yes, Ventura, our

State has broken the mold more than once.

The man we sent here was PAUL WELLSTONE, and no one

would dispute that Minnesota broke the mold again. PAUL

was short in stature but, as it proved, enormous in energy

and passion. He had a passion for principle, a passion for

politics, and, most of all, a passion for people.

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PAUL was a fighter, and, much like Hubert Humphrey, a

happy warrior. PAUL was the most effective kind of fighter

there is: one that never gives up—never. And if there is one

attribute that his colleagues and his constituents admired, it

was this: his unrelenting energy to fight the fight.

I knew PAUL. I respected PAUL. We both have been like

salmon in our own political rivers, swimming into the currents. Therefore, understanding his tireless energies in the

cause of change, I am highly honored to speak to his memory

today.

True, there is an empty desk here today, a shrouded reminder of a life cut short. But for the PAUL WELLSTONE I

knew, the empty chair is more telling. Whether he was in

this Chamber or at home in Minnesota, PAUL was on his

feet, out of his chair, speaking his mind. Always moving—in

thought, in language, in body—PAUL was, indeed, a man of

motion and, more than that, a man of emotion. For if there

is something that we all knew about PAUL, he not only believed in things, he felt them. This was why PAUL

WELLSTONE was so formidable. For thought can be persuaded, changed, and abated. But a feeling? Never.

PAUL, his wife Sheila, and their daughter Marcia tragically

perished in the northlands of our State. Their untimely fate

was sadly shared by three loyal staff members—Tom Lapic,

Will McLaughlin, and Mary McEvoy—as well as the two pilots—Captains Richard Conry and Michael Guess.

As an unexpected and new Member of this Chamber—but

more, as a singular citizen of the State of Minnesota—allow

me to take this moment to express my personal and heartfelt

condolences to all of those families who lost their loved ones.

I know I speak for all Minnesotans when I say to those families and friends: Your loss was our loss, and we are all

crushingly sorry for it.

PAUL was unique, one of a kind. And yet, the essence of

the man was no different from anyone in this Chamber. He

wanted to make his State, and his Nation—our world—a better place. We all may differ about how to do so, and some

may have disagreed with how PAUL saw it, but no one ever

doubted his motives. A selfless champion for those who have

no voice—the frail, the weak, the disenfranchised—PAUL’s

voice was their voice. And what a voice it was.

Typical of PAUL’s self-deprecating sense of humor, he loved

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mind me of another Minnesota Senator, Hubert H. Humphrey.’’ And as PAUL began to swell with pride at being in

the company of this great champion of civil rights, the senior

Senator burst his bubble, ‘‘Yes, sir, just like him, you talk too

much.’’ PAUL loved this story, and he loved telling it on himself—so typical of the man.

Most of all, PAUL loved and adored his wife and his family,

especially his grandchildren. He loved his friends. He loved

Carleton College in Northfield, MN. He loved his students;

and they knew it. Indeed, PAUL simply loved people. And he

loved them simply, unabashedly.

PAUL loved Minnesota and all the people in it. From the

known and recognized, to the unknown and uncared for, he

loved them all—truly and deeply.

Finally, Mr. President, PAUL loved this distinguished institution. He loved and cherished the U.S. Senate, where today

I, too, am honored to stand. PAUL loved his entire staff.

Let me take this opportunity to thank Senator

WELLSTONE’s staff for your generous and gracious welcome

and offer of support in the truly hectic days since Thursday

when I arrived. That you could be so unselfish in your time

of unspeakable loss and heartbreak is something I will

never, ever forget. I sincerely thank you for the help you

have given me.

I plan to continue the fight during my short time here on

one of PAUL’s signature issues: mental health parity. And

with Senator Dayton and Minnesota’s congressional delegation, we plan to introduce a bill to honor Sheila and PAUL

WELLSTONE through a living legacy project. I hope that everyone in this Chamber will join us in this tribute.

There is a brief passage out of ‘‘Sonnets from the Portuguese,’’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, that I would like

to share. Her words more perfectly express the thoughts that

I am so inadequately attempting to convey about our dear,

departed friend, PAUL WELLSTONE:

‘‘Guess now who holds thee?’’

‘‘—Death,’’ I said.

But there the silver answer rang:

‘‘Not Death—but Love.’’

Mr. REID. Mr. President, on October 25 the Senate and

the people of Minnesota, the people of this country, and I

personally suffered a terrible loss—the death of our colleague, PAUL WELLSTONE, who, as we know, died in a plane

crash with his wife Sheila and daughter Marcia, three members of his staff, and the pilots.

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I am sure we will all reflect back on how we were notified,

how we learned of this tragedy. I was speaking to Senator

Daschle’s chief of staff, Pete Rouse, asking him how things

were going. We talked quite a bit during the last month of

the campaign.

He said, ‘‘I have some bad news.’’

‘‘What?’’

He said, ‘‘Senator WELLSTONE’s plane went down in Minnesota, and there is no hope that anyone survived that

crash.’’

I will never forget that phone call. The passing of PAUL

WELLSTONE is a loss for all of us, those who knew him and

those who did not. This week, most of us are returning to

Washington for the first time since the tragedy, so this is our

opportunity, this is my opportunity, to speak about PAUL

WELLSTONE with whom I lived here for 12 years, a long time,

a lot of days. I certainly am not qualified to talk about all

of his accomplishments. There are professors who will write

about his accomplishments in years to come. But I can talk

about him as a person, how I saw him.

He represented Minnesota well; there is no question about

that. Although he did not grow up in Minnesota, moving

there as an adult, he embraced the State and its people. And

the people of Minnesota loved him dearly and deeply. He

talked often of how much he enjoyed living in Minnesota and

how proud he was to represent Minnesotans and be a part

of the great political legacy of the State.

My father-in-law was born in Russia. But as a boy, he immigrated to Minnesota, and he grew up in Duluth, a tough

town, where he and his friends all had nicknames. My

mother-in-law grew up in Minneapolis. So when I got to

meet a Senator from Minnesota, of course I was eager to

share a lot of my personal reflections on my wife’s family,

and PAUL and I enjoyed talking about Minnesota.

The impact that PAUL WELLSTONE made and the admiration he received extended well beyond Minnesota. He and I

were allies in many legislative battles, and I know many

people in the State of Nevada—working families, veterans,

retirees, teachers, students, health care professionals and

their patients—also appreciated him. He was an articulate

and compassionate public servant who fought fiercely for

them. Many more Nevadans, like all Americans, are now

better off because of PAUL WELLSTONE’s work in the Senate,

and they would be even better off had he been able to be

elected to his third term, as he would have been.

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Of course, here among his colleagues in the Senate he was

not only well liked but respected, as has been said here

today on several occasions. People might not have always or

even often agreed with PAUL, but they all had great respect

for him. That is why I was so impressed to see a number of

his Republican colleagues from Minnesota come and stand in

silence at his desk today.

I was fortunate to serve with PAUL, to benefit from his advice and his judgment, and to enjoy his friendship. I smile

because I am going to be lonelier here in the Senate without

PAUL.

I don’t know on how many occasions I said to PAUL

WELLSTONE: ‘‘PAUL, do you have to do this?’’ And he always

explained why he had to do it.

I am a better Senator and I know I am a better person for

having known PAUL.

He used his voice to speak passionately and courageously

on behalf of the voiceless. He gave hope to the hopeless and

helpless. He was a kind and gentle person.

I used to see him often in the House gym. He would run

from his home to the gym every morning. When because of

illness, he couldn’t run anymore, without a lot of fanfare and

a lot of talk, he walked. Then he decided to work out other

places. He went to the gymnasium where the police officers,

the Capitol Police, work out. Those of us who knew and loved

PAUL saw his physical deterioration, but it was something

about which he never complained.

I remember one occasion when Sheila had gone home and

he was here alone. He couldn’t get dressed; he was in such

pain. He came here. We helped him down to the physician’s

office. He never complained. He was in such pain, sweat

coming off his head.

He was a tough person physically, a tough person. I can

vouch for that. He was a champion wrestler, high school and

college. I think probably the dedication that it takes to be a

wrestler, losing weight, having to exert total energy for an

extended period of time, the work ethic he developed, the

things he did physically and mentally and emotionally, and

his determination that made him so successful on the mat

also prepared him well for the successes he had as an organizer and activist, campaigner, Senator, and a person.

PAUL WELLSTONE was a fighter who always remained true

to his beliefs, stood up for his principles, served the interests

of the people of Minnesota and the United States.

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There are many things about PAUL WELLSTONE that I remember and hold dear. I can say without any hesitation that

he was my friend. I think he thought I was his friend.

I remember the first time I ever heard PAUL WELLSTONE

speak. That was in 1990 when there was a public reception

in Statuary Hall for the newly elected Senators. We were all

there. He stood and gave a great speech. I wondered who is

this guy? He said it so well. He said things I thought about,

the importance of politics and government and being involved. He spoke of his grassroots campaign.

I remember the last speech I heard him give, right there.

In the years I have been in the Senate, that seat has been

the place of great speeches. PAUL WELLSTONE took over Dale

Bumpers’ seat. They both had a similar style in many respects. They both wandered around back there with that

long cord.

The last speech I heard PAUL give, he said, among other

things—and this is a quote—‘‘You could call me a softie. I

am a softie.’’

And he was. He believed he could help people who were

less fortunate than he was, who didn’t have a Ph.D., who

hadn’t been a college professor or a U.S. Senator, who didn’t

have the fine loving family that he had. He could reach out

to them. He felt he could do that. He was a softie.

Mr. President, I don’t always go to the prayer breakfasts

held every Wednesday, but I do go on occasion. I don’t go

every Wednesday. But I wanted to hear PAUL WELLSTONE at

a Senate prayer breakfast, so I went to that prayer breakfast. It was a memorable experience for me to hear PAUL

talk about his spirituality, which is something he didn’t

speak out about in public—except on this occasion. I will

never forget that prayer breakfast, where PAUL WELLSTONE

spoke of his faith, his deeply held principles. He was a man

committed to ideas and ideals.

I also remember PAUL for the love he had for his wife

Sheila. They were inseparable. In this campaign, there were

a lot of comparisons made between his campaign and mine

in 1986, where the opposing candidate switched parties;

there were a lot of similarities. He said talk to Sheila about

that, show her the ads that you ran. They were always together, never apart. Even now it is so. They had the love of

their children, the surviving boys, Mark and David. One is

involved in public housing and the other is a wrestling coach

and teacher. Right here, a few feet in front of me, on one of

those Fridays where we were trying to get everything done

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and get out of here, PAUL was so anxious to go. Why? Because he thought this was the time his son’s wrestling team

was going to be the State champions of Minnesota. PAUL

WELLSTONE, Barbara Boxer and I were talking. I was trying

to stall for time, and I asked, ‘‘How many wrestling matches

have you had, PAUL?’’

I also remember PAUL because of my dad. As I have said

here on occasion, my father committed suicide. One reason

I have been able to publicly talk about that is because of

PAUL WELLSTONE. PAUL helped us to understand mental illness is not something to be ashamed of. Any time PAUL

WELLSTONE publicly had a chance to talk about suicide, he

talked about suicide prevention and talked about my efforts

on this. He never tried to take credit for anything alone. He

worked hard on the issue of mental health parity. Part of

that is suicide. We have 31,000 people a year killing themselves. Because of PAUL, we are doing something about that.

We passed a resolution in the Senate recognizing it as a national health problem. We have given money to research the

problems of suicide, depression and mental illness. There are

medical schools now studying why people kill themselves. So

I will never forget PAUL WELLSTONE for a lot of reasons, not

the least of which is my father.

I will also remember PAUL WELLSTONE for the things he

did for the so-called little people—those who are often not

noticed or are neglected. How many of us around here know

the people who clean our offices? Not many of us. They come

by late at night when we are gone, and when we come into

the offices in the morning the trash cans are empty, the

desks are cleaned off. It’s easy to overlook the people who do

that, who work hard to help us. PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE

wanted to know who they were, so they waited and waited

until somebody came to their office so they could thank them

for cleaning the office. That also includes the elevator operators, doorkeepers, police officers, janitors, as I have already

mentioned. He knew them by name, stopped to talk with

them and listened to them.

To show the kind of guy he was with the Capitol Police,

Mr. President, this man holds the record—he was suffering

from multiple sclerosis and he holds the record—with all

these big, physical, well-trained, young policemen—he holds

the record for pushups and pullups. You can go and see who

holds the record at the Capitol Police gymnasium. It is Senator PAUL WELLSTONE. He was a hell of a man, Mr. President.

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He stared disease in the face; he had multiple sclerosis.

Did anybody ever hear PAUL whine, complain, or feel sorry

for himself? No. He took it right on the jaw, like he did a

lot of punches, and he went about doing his business. Those

of us who worked with him for 12 years saw how his physical condition deteriorated. How long would it have been before he had to walk with a cane? I don’t know. But he persevered. That is one reason I remember PAUL WELLSTONE.

Of course, Mr. President, we all remember PAUL

WELLSTONE because he stood for something. No one could

ever question PAUL WELLSTONE’s sense of value. I still smile

when I remember saying to PAUL, ‘‘Do you have to do this?’’

Well, I knew the answer before I asked the question. We who

hold public office are judged on the difficult votes we are

called on to make. To his credit, PAUL WELLSTONE relied on

his conscience—not on consultants—in such moments. I admire him so much for that.

Before entering politics, PAUL was a gifted and popular college professor. To a great extent, he remained a teacher even

after entering the Senate, educating his constituents about

government, and encouraging colleagues to learn more about

issues and to consider other perspectives, engaging us and

challenging us. There are lots of times I can reflect back on

when PAUL WELLSTONE, in his Socrates-like presentations,

was trying to educate the Senate. He would say to me, ‘‘I am

wasting my time; what good am I doing here?’’ I would proceed to tell him all the good he had done. He was educating

me, getting me to reflect upon what he had done, just like

I am sure he did at Carleton College with his students.

PAUL was a person with great compassion, who reminded

us of our moral obligation to care for all human beings—I repeat, especially the most vulnerable, the hungry, the poor,

the homeless, the ill, victims of abuse, and others who suffered.

PAUL WELLSTONE is irreplaceable. His life was cut short,

and because of that, it is incumbent upon us in the Senate

and throughout America to remember his message of hope

and compassion and carry forward his efforts to secure economic and social justice for all in the best way we can. In

that way, we honor the legacy of a great man, PAUL

WELLSTONE.

Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I thank the Senator from

Nevada for his very articulate statement on PAUL’s life. We

all shared experiences in working with PAUL.

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Every Sunday, the Washington Post ‘‘Style’’ section prints

a column called ‘‘Life Is Short.’’ The column selects one individual and gives a snapshot of that individual’s life. If that

column focused on Senator PAUL WELLSTONE’s life, the single

snapshot would be a large photo album.

Senator Daschle has said PAUL WELLSTONE was the ‘‘soul

of the Senate.’’ I believe PAUL tried to find the soul in all of

us. He challenged us, on a daily basis, to remember that

every man, woman, and child in this Nation should have access to quality education, a first-rate health care system that

includes mental health and prescription drug coverage, and

jobs that provide a decent minimum wage.

Three weeks ago, PAUL made his final appearance in the

Chamber. PAUL gave a very passionate speech about the

need to extend unemployment benefits and provide more

help for our veterans. His closing comments were vintage

PAUL. He said:

What are people who cannot find jobs, who are out of work, who are

struggling to put food on the table, supposed to do? What in the world is

going on? What has happened to our humanity?

Later that day, PAUL came back to the Senate floor to give

his thoughts about the 2003 defense spending bill. He

thanked Senators Inouye and Stevens for their inclusion of

an amendment that addressed domestic violence and sexual

assault which he had championed. As we all know, the issue

is not only important to PAUL, it was especially important to

his wife Sheila.

At the end of those remarks, PAUL said, in reference to his

own provision that was not included in the final conference

agreement: ‘‘I know my colleagues did their best. We will be

back.’’

That was PAUL—always gracious in both victory and defeat. Even more important, he never focused on defeat because he was constantly plotting his next move to better educate his colleagues and their staff on the issues—always the

college professor.

I had the honor and the pleasure of working with PAUL on

an array of issues—education, veterans, dairy, health care,

and job training. These are not easy issues, but the difficulty

of the issue never deterred PAUL. He always saw the glass

half full rather than a glass half empty.

In 1997 and 1998, Senators Kennedy, DeWine, WELLSTONE

and I worked together to pass the Workforce Investment Act,

legislation that restructured our job training system.

Throughout those 2 years, we had many long meetings. In

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every single meeting, PAUL told us about the impact various

provisions would have on Minnesota. There was never a

meeting, public or private, where PAUL did not mention the

concerns and ideas that were on the minds of his constituents.

PAUL would also tell stories of his children. During many

HELP Committee hearings on education, we would often

hear about his two children who were teaching in the Minnesota public school system. He was so proud of all his children, his grandchildren, and, of course, Sheila.

PAUL was also very proud of his staff. He had great respect

for their views and always remarked to his colleagues that

he was very fortunate to have a very talented and devoted

staff.

Three years ago at the funeral of Walter Payton, the outstanding Chicago Bears running back, who was also an extraordinary human being, the Rev. Jesse Jackson remarked

that on a tombstone, there is a birthday, a small dash, and

a date of passing. He said:

The dash between those two dates is the part you control. . . . The dash

determines the height and depth of how you live your life.

PAUL WELLSTONE maximized the height and depth of his

dash. I was so lucky to have known PAUL, to have had an

opportunity to not only work with him but to learn from him

and, most important, to have been able to call him a good

friend.

I was en route to Minnesota to campaign for PAUL when

I learned of his tragic death. I instead spent time with his

wonderful sons, David and Mark. I brought them the pictures of their dad celebrating the dairy program victory with

Senator Leahy and another recent victory for Minnesota as

well as New England. It brought proud smiles to their faces.

As I had expected, they were so much like their dad. I know

they will continue on the path that PAUL and Sheila created

for them.

PAUL, I will miss you, the Senate will miss you, and the

country will miss you. May your commitment, energy, integrity, and passion always guide us to do our best at all times.

Goodbye, PAUL.

Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, life gives no joy like that it

takes away. As always, the poet said it best. All of us in the

Senate were suddenly and tragically reminded of that on a

Friday morning 21⁄2 weeks ago—a cold, gray, dreary October

day. I was in a van driving between Fargo and Grand Forks,

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ND, when I received a call saying that an airplane had

crashed in northern Minnesota and that Senator PAUL

WELLSTONE, his wife Sheila, staff, and others were on the

plane. To say that I and others have been deeply saddened,

in fact devastated, by the loss of one of our colleagues is perhaps to vastly understate it.

PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE died as they campaigned

throughout Minnesota for another term in the Senate. It was

a tough campaign, a close campaign, a hard-fought campaign. And yet PAUL WELLSTONE never complained about

that. He seemed to relish it.

One of the last things he told me on the floor of the Senate

several weeks ago about this campaign was, with a sparkle

in his eye: We are going to win this campaign. He said:

‘‘Byron, I have 4,000 volunteers—4,000 volunteers—who are

going to be working election day in Minnesota for me, getting

people to the polls, driving people, calling people.’’

That was so typical of PAUL WELLSTONE. It was always

about citizen action, about people rising to the passion of an

idea. That was typical PAUL WELLSTONE.

PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE were wonderful friends to

many of us in the Senate, and our thoughts and prayers go

to the family, the families of the pilots who lost their lives,

the families of PAUL’s daughter and the three staff people

who were on the plane as well.

As my colleague from Minnesota, Senator Dayton, said in

what I thought was a wonderful tribute to his friend and colleague, all of us would be remiss if we did not say to PAUL’s

staff: PAUL would want first and foremost for us to recognize

you today. PAUL attracted to his service in the Senate men

and women with the burning in their soul to do good things,

who cared about fairness and justice and who cared about

public service.

All of us who work here know PAUL WELLSTONE had a

wonderful staff, and they have been through some very difficult times, about as difficult as it can get for a Senate staff.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to them and for strength

as well.

Today let me for a moment remember PAUL and Sheila for

their service to our country. This is a rather small community in the Senate—men and women who love this country,

fellow travelers who want to make democracy work. What

the American people see are some pitched battles during the

day and the early evening hours in the middle of a debate

in which there are different philosophies and ideas that

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clash on the Senate floor. What they do not see is we are colleagues and friends, first and foremost.

I think the entire Senate membership would say: We have,

indeed, lost a couple of good friends, PAUL and Sheila

WELLSTONE. Our country has lost two tireless fighters for

justice. The Senate has lost its strongest voice for those who

do not have it so good in this country. And American politics

has lost the true champion for the little guy.

If ever a man and wife were a team, it was PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE. They did everything together. Sheila’s public

service, as PAUL would be the first to tell you, was every bit

as important as his. That public service was marked by a

green bus, and that green bus meant in Minnesota and our

part of the country citizen action, people empowerment, and

something that was on the move, a mission, a campaign on

the move.

It is true, as my colleague said, PAUL was different. He

would not have been caught dead in Ferragamo shoes, even

if he wanted them, and he did not. He was not a man to

wear Brooks Brothers suits. He was short of stature and tall

of ambition with a power and passion of ideas, as my colleague from Nevada just described, that would at the end

stage of any debate leave him sitting at that chair with two

more amendments to offer—the hour was late and patience

was short. Imploring him made no difference. You could say:

PAUL, PAUL, we are just out of time; can you just not offer

one of these amendments? The answer was always the same:

Absolutely not. I am here to offer this amendment. This

amendment is important. I came here to do that work and

there are people who depend on me to offer this amendment—people whose lives were changed because of this

amendment.

With PAUL it was always ‘‘no.’’ And we always turned

away understanding the passion that burned in his soul to

do the right thing, to do the thing he felt was important for

our country.

PAUL was different in a much more significant way as

well. In today’s modern politics, it is so often the case that

politicians with a sophisticated network of pollsters and advisers are able to evaluate exactly which way the wind is

blowing, to be able to set their sail to get maximum capability from that wind. It is a constant job of tacking for some

into or with that wind to find out exactly where the maximum wind will be. PAUL was not interested in sailing or

winds. PAUL was only interested in the rudder. He set the

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rudder and he did not care where the wind was: This is the

direction I am going and it does not matter whether it is a

favorable wind or an unfavorable wind. This is where we are

headed and this is why—very unusual in modern politics but

also very refreshing.

I found it interesting that those newspapers that were not

very good to his ideas in life, in death gave PAUL great credit

for raising ideas, for standing by his principles, for never wavering and never causing for a moment any constituent anyplace to wonder where he stood. You knew where PAUL

WELLSTONE stood.

There are two things, of a great many, that stand out in

my mind. One day I sent around a memorandum to Senators

saying we were going to visit a youth detention center in

Maryland and I wanted to know if anyone wanted to come

along. PAUL WELLSTONE called me and said he would like to

come.

The two of us, with some staff, went out to a youth detention center and spent the entire morning sitting in that

youth detention center talking to kids, kids who had committed murder, kids who were drug addicted, kids who had been

in the worst kind of trouble one could possibly imagine. Driving back to Capitol Hill after this visit, I once again got another glimpse of PAUL WELLSTONE’s soul. He said: ‘‘If someone had cared about those kids early in their lives they

would not be there today. Someone needed to help those kids

at the right moment, and we can do that in the Senate.’’

To PAUL, that visit was how can we reach out to help people who need help at a time when they desperately need that

help?

In the last couple of months, PAUL came up to me while

we were in the well of the Senate, and he said: I was campaigning in Minnesota and I went to an independent auto repair shop, and the major automobile manufacturers would

not give the computer codes to these independent auto repair

shops. These small independents are telling me they cannot

work on the new cars. They do not have the computer cards

for the carburetors and all those things they have to have to

work on those cars.

He said: That is unfair, and it is going to drive those folks

out of business. This is going to kill the little guy.

He asked if I would hold a hearing on this in my Consumer Subcommittee. I said of course I will. We put together

some information on it. The day of the hearing came and

Senator WELLSTONE was to be the leadoff witness. That was

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not enough for Senator WELLSTONE. As was his want, in the

way he did politics, the hearing room was packed. It was full

of mechanics and independent repair shop owners from all

across this country. I guess that hearing room holds probably

100 people, and there were 150 people there. PAUL had

brought his people, the independent repair shop folks, to that

hearing room as a demonstration of this problem, to say this

problem ought to be fixed.

PAUL was the leadoff witness and as was typical with him,

with great passion he made the case about the unfairness to

the little guy, about the independent repair shops trying to

make a living, and how what is happening is unfair to them.

About 3 weeks ago, right before we completed our work

and left for the election, PAUL came up to me on the floor

of the Senate during a vote. He was holding a sheet of paper.

He was flashing this paper and saying: We won. His point

was that the automobile manufacturers had reached an

agreement with the independent repair shops, and that problem had gotten solved. For PAUL, it was about the little guy

versus the big guy, about those who did not have the power

and those who did.

It was always that he wanted to stand on the side of those

who did not have the power, those who needed help. That

was so much of PAUL WELLSTONE’s life.

There is much to say, and my colleagues, I am sure, will

say it when we talk about his service to our country. It is

sufficient now to say that one of our Senate desks is empty.

The Senate has lost a wonderful friend.

I conclude by quoting Thomas Moore, if I might, and relate

it to PAUL’s service:

Let fate do her worst; there are relics of joy,

Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy;

Which come in the nighttime of sorrow and care,

And bring back the features that joy used to wear.

Long; long be my heart with such memories fill’d!

Like the vase, in which roses have once been distill’d

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,

But the scent of the roses will hang ’round it still.

PAUL WELLSTONE is no longer in the Senate, his desk is

empty, but the passion of his ideas most surely will remain

for years and years to come.

Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, today I reflect on the life of

a friend and reflect on a political life. Politics is a fateful

calling. The voters can end a political life in a few hours on

any Tuesday. Promising public careers can be terminated

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abruptly. But like life itself, political life should be measured

by its quality rather than its quantity. By that measure,

PAUL WELLSTONE, a man small in stature, became a giant in

this Senate.

This is not my desk in the Senate. My desk is the one directly in front of the desk where we honor the memory of

PAUL WELLSTONE. So many times I had to leave my desk because when Senator PAUL WELLSTONE got wound up on an

issue of great importance to him, you had better clear out.

He had this famous desk with the long microphone cord, and

he would roam all over this area, speaking with passion and

commitment. I wanted to stand back a few steps to witness

it because it was truly historic when he took to the Senate

floor.

I do not think there were any routine WELLSTONE speeches. With all credit to his staff, I am sure he embellished

them in the certain qualities that even the best staff person

could not add. There was no routine nature about PAUL

WELLSTONE in politics.

I remember when he first ran. People kind of laughed

about the idea. This professor from a small college in Minnesota is going to run against an incumbent Senator?

We all know what that was about. This had to be a class

project. He was going to go out and make his stand, make

his speeches, and probably lose by an embarrassing margin.

But then they started getting reports back from that early

campaigning. This now famous green schoolbus, which I had

a chance to see when I was in Minneapolis for the tribute

to PAUL WELLSTONE, had a platform on the back where he

would stand like Harry Truman and make his speeches.

I remember his television commercial which they replayed

during tributes after he died in the plane crash. He said:

‘‘You will have to listen very closely because I don’t have

much time. I don’t have much money and I have to tell you

everything. This is my home; this is where I work.’’

It was a classic presentation of what he was all about in

just a few seconds.

At the end of the campaign after he won and surprised everyone, there is a photo of PAUL, Sheila, and Marcia when

PAUL agreed to finally retire the pair of shoes he wore

throughout the campaign. What a sorry pair of shoes. He

was no slave to fashion, to say the least.

In his campaign in the Senate, I can recall he was admonished by a colleague to go home and change his shirt because

it did not look like a Senator’s shirt. He did not think of

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those things. Those things were so inconsequential to his

view.

He thought about the important things, the really important things. He reminded us time and again of how those

things are overlooked. You draw together 100 Senators

across the United States, you put the national political agenda in front of us, and PAUL WELLSTONE found it hard to believe that we could miss so many important things.

Sheila was the same way. His wife Sheila, the unpaid Senator to Minnesota at his side, worked on issues such as domestic abuse, inviting all of us to come to an art center she

regularly had highlighting what victims were expressing

through their art in terms of domestic abuse.

We used to talk about PAUL WELLSTONE’s amendments on

the floor. They were great amendments. Some of them did

not get a great number of votes. We used to speak in the

caucus about the so-called WELLSTONE amendments. We

used to have competition to make sure that he got enough

votes so it was not called a WELLSTONE amendment. And he

said, I win some of these amendments. And he did. Without

fail, every one of the amendments challenged every one of us

to look at the national agenda and look at America from a

different perspective.

We get caught up in the life of public service and forget

the people that PAUL WELLSTONE never forgot. I think back

to some of them. PAUL WELLSTONE did not make any bones

about the fact that he opposed the Vietnam war. During the

1960s, when many of us were in college and that was a dominant issue of the time, he was opposed to that war. But you

would find, as I did in his tribute in Minneapolis, the veterans groups coming out in large numbers to pay tribute to

PAUL WELLSTONE. There was no separation between them.

PAUL WELLSTONE opposed the war, but he did not oppose the

warriors who came home. He became their champion in the

Senate.

When people would bring up his own military record, or

lack of it, or his own position on Vietnam, he would always

be able to rally the veterans of Minnesota who would say, we

are for PAUL WELLSTONE because he fought for us to make

sure we were not forgotten when we came home. That is the

kind of person he was.

I think of the debate on education in the Senate, the no

child left behind bandwagon. I was on it. What a big bandwagon it was. It was the President, the leaders, the Democrats and the Republicans in the House and Senate, liberal

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and conservative alike. We would all be for no child left behind. But not PAUL WELLSTONE. PAUL WELLSTONE was the

one voice saying, wait a minute, we may be going too far

here. High-stakes testing for kids can destroy their lives in

the future. Are we moving too fast without thinking about

the children and what it could be doing to their lives? Again

and again, PAUL WELLSTONE forced us all to slow down even

as we were involved in some political movement that seemed

to have great force behind us, to stop and think about the

actual people affected, the children, the teachers, the families.

He was first and foremost a teacher himself, at Carleton

College and in the Senate. Time and again, he taught us. He

never taught us better than the lesson on mental health parity. PAUL WELLSTONE realized that our treatment of mental

health in the United States of America in the 21st century

is shameful. It is disgraceful. He told us over and over that

we treat people with mental illness as if they are suffering

from some curse rather than some illness. He begged us time

and again to treat fairly people who suffer from mental illness.

I join with everyone here today, all the Members of the

Senate who have given speeches and nice comments about

PAUL WELLSTONE, all the members of our government, from

the President on down, who said what a great man he was

and great values he brought to public life. Members can

prove it by passing this Wellstone-Domenici bill for mental

health parity and do it on an expedited schedule. PAUL

WELLSTONE, if he were here today, would say: Forget the

speeches, forget the flowers; pass the bill, help some people.

That is what government is supposed to be about. That is a

challenge to us.

We ought to mark our calendar today. Here we are, November 12, thinking about the challenges this country is

going to face. Instead, step back and say: Where will we be

2 or 3 months from now dealing with mental health parity?

Will we have done enough? PAUL WELLSTONE led that fight

in a way that was classic WELLSTONE.

In the debate he would know, many times, that the forces

were against him, that he did not stand a chance. He would

stand here with such passion and commitment and make

these speeches, hour after hour, if necessary, always respectful of his opposition, always on the Senate floor, even for

those who saw the world in completely different terms, but

always committed to what he was fighting for.

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They tell us the politics of PAUL WELLSTONE are now out

of fashion. I don’t believe that for a second. You ought to

know that since PAUL WELLSTONE passed away, many in the

Senate have been trading phone calls late at night in their

homes talking not only about PAUL and the great loss of

Sheila and Marcia and the three campaign workers and the

two pilots, but reflecting on ourselves and why we are here.

PAUL would like that. PAUL would like that his passing

would cause us all to think a little bit harder about who will

carry on his fight.

I have heard a lot of us in these conversations, my colleagues and myself, talking about what we need to do to

make sure that voice is not silenced in the Senate, to make

certain that PAUL WELLSTONE’s passion and commitment

live on. That is the greatest tribute of all.

For 6 years, I served in the Senate with PAUL WELLSTONE.

For 2 years, he was over my shoulder at this Senate desk.

For every Member of the Senate, PAUL WELLSTONE will always be over our shoulder keeping an eye on what we do, listening to our speeches, asking us in real human terms

whether we are forgetting someone in the process.

The victims who cannot afford lobbyists in Washington,

DC, the poor and dispossessed who may not even have the

will to vote, let alone to participate in this process, the people without the resources to be heard, who is going to speak

for them? PAUL WELLSTONE did. Those who stand in tribute

to his memory should make certain that voice is never silenced.

Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I will also say a few

words about PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE. PAUL and Sheila

were good friends of my wife Anne, my son John, and myself.

We met shortly after they arrived in Washington for PAUL to

take up his duties in the Senate. Our friendship grew over

time. Friendship came easily to PAUL and to Sheila because

they had a genuine interest in and a compassion for other

people. So on a personal level, PAUL and Sheila will be greatly missed.

On a policy level, they will also be greatly missed in this

Senate. PAUL believed strongly that government should and

could help improve the lives of average people. He championed better education for our children, better access to

health care, particularly mental health care, as my colleague

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lic interest and a special interest, there was no question

where PAUL stood.

Sheila was also a fierce advocate for policies in which she

believed. Her focus for many years was on the problems of

domestic violence, and she and PAUL helped spotlight that

problem. They did much to put it on our national agenda.

PAUL said what he believed. He voted his convictions, even

when those convictions placed him in a small minority in the

Senate. He was proud to proclaim himself a liberal in an age

where most Americans have been persuaded that liberal is

a pejorative term.

The truth is that his views, when not distorted by his opponents, were very much endorsed by the majority of the

Americans. His core belief was that those who are less fortunate should be helped to obtain the tools with which to succeed. That belief is shared by most in this great country. His

service in the Senate was an effort to implement that belief.

When serving here in the Senate, one is always aware that

the imperative to do what is right sometimes conflicts with

the desire to be reelected. PAUL always chose to do what he

considered right and damn the consequences. He came to the

Senate with a clear intent to make a difference in the history

of his Nation, and he succeeded. The death of PAUL and

Sheila and their daughter, their staff and pilots, was a great

tragedy for our country. It was also a great tragedy for this

Senate. The Senate will be a lesser place without PAUL

WELLSTONE.

Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I rise today, along with

my colleagues, to pay tribute to the memory of our tragically

departed friend and colleague, Senator PAUL WELLSTONE,

and to remember his life partner Sheila, their daughter, and

the others who lost their lives in the plane crash.

We send our condolences and our prayers to the families

of all those who were involved.

Whenever Senator WELLSTONE came to the floor of the

Senate to fight on behalf of our Nation’s most vulnerable, to

fight for economic fairness, for working men and women, to

fight for quality public education and health care for all our

children, can’t you just hear his voice now—standing up over

and over again to fight and to speak out on behalf of the people he represented—to protect our environment.

In thinking about Senator WELLSTONE, I thought of the

words of Frederick Douglass in 1857 when he said:

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor

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ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the

ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

PAUL WELLSTONE was ready to fight for progress. And he

was unafraid of the war that followed. In fact, he embraced

it.

PAUL WELLSTONE believed the status quo can never be a

cause but, rather, must be the constant casualty of time in

any nation dedicated to equality and justice and freedom.

Did he win every battle? No. But the very fight of Senator

PAUL WELLSTONE ennobled the Senate and enlightened this

Nation by giving voice to the challenges that confront us.

I would like to read from a speech that Senator

WELLSTONE gave to graduating students at Swarthmore College. The passion of PAUL’s words reminds us of the shame

of passivity, the passivity of standing back and watching millions of families slide into poverty, and our Nation’s future

slip away from them.

Senator WELLSTONE asked:

How can it be that in the United States of America—today—at the peak

of our economic performance—we are still being told that we cannot provide

a good education for every child? We are still being told that we cannot provide good health care for every citizen.

We are still being told that people can’t look forward to jobs that they can

support themselves and their children on. We’re still being told that we cannot achieve the goal of having every 5-year-old come to kindergarten ready

to learn.

How can it be that we are being told that we cannot do this at the peak

of our economic performance? I say to you today that it is not right. It is

not acceptable. We can do much better, and if not now, when? If we don’t

do this now, when will we do it as a nation? That is a betrayal of our heritage. The impoverishment of so many children is our national disgrace.

Senator WELLSTONE did not pull any punches. Yet he was

not a cynic either. He believed that by giving wings to the

nobler angels of our Nation, we could place progress in the

wind.

In the same speech I was quoting from, Senator

WELLSTONE closed, urging people to get involved with politics and public service and become those nobler angels whose

wings would give flight to change and to justice. He said:

I do not believe the future will belong to those who are content with the

present.

I do not believe the future will belong to the cynics, or to those who stand

on the sideline.

The future will belong to those who have passion, and to those who are

willing to make the personal commitment to make our country better.

The future will belong to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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We will miss PAUL WELLSTONE’s leadership, his voice on

this Senate floor. We will miss the beauty of his dreams of

an America where the most vulnerable among us are valued,

where all of our children are cherished, and where no one

who gets up and goes to work in the morning goes to sleep

at night in poverty.

But, PAUL, while we will miss you coming to the floor of

the Senate to share those dreams, I promise you those

dreams will not die.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I, too, would like to

lend a few comments to one we fondly regarded as the ‘‘little

giant,’’ Senator PAUL WELLSTONE.

I, obviously, had an opportunity over the years to converse,

discuss, debate, agree—occasionally disagree—with our

friend who truly believed in his cause, a cause that was perhaps more liberal than my own, but a cause that was reflected on what makes the Senate so unique; that is, the

cause of the balance that we have, more or less a mainstream of thought that prevails in the Senate. But in many

cases it is brought about by those who have very active

views, whether they be liberals or conservatives.

But PAUL WELLSTONE did represent, if you will, the pendulum in the Senate. His contribution was one of activism,

of standing for the underdog, of reflecting on the needs of

some we can never properly repay; specifically, the veterans

of this Nation who have given so much so that we can live

in the freedom of our democracy.

As I have reflected, along with Senator Stevens and Representative Young, because of the vast distances between our

State of Alaska and Washington, DC, and the tribulations of

long flights back and forth, and the ever-increasing pressures to make dates, particularly during campaigns, having

just run a campaign myself, why, I can recall the unpleasant

evening flights in bad weather, with a recognition that people expect you to be present at a given time. And it is the

demands that are constant pressures to try to fulfill obligations that cause each Member of both the House and the

Senate to live, perhaps, on the edge. Unfortunately, that

edge results in additional exposure that is associated with

accidents. And we have seen that in the passing of our good

friend PAUL WELLSTONE, who, again, to me, is referred to as

the ‘‘little giant’’: small in stature but significant in what he

believed. And his contribution, again, I think is measurable

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in one sense by those who knew him but in another sense

by the legacy he leaves in this body.

Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, I rise to pay tribute to our

colleague, PAUL WELLSTONE.

As with the loss of anyone so vital, so full of energy, and

so dear to us, it is hard to believe that PAUL is really gone.

But as with a brother, or a father, or a great teacher, even

if they have died, they leave a part of themselves with those

who carry on. They are never really gone.

I first met PAUL before either of us had been elected to the

Senate. I was meeting with different people as I considered

a run for the Senate, and I heard about this professor in

Minnesota who was planning to run in 1990. I had a chance

to visit him at his home. When we met, we laughed at the

idea that the two of us or either of us, would ever have been

elected to the Senate.

But then PAUL went on to run a terrific campaign, without

a lot of money, but with a whole lot of energy. When he won,

he helped me and others to believe that we could do the

same. I will always be grateful to him for that example, as

I am sure are many others across the country who were inspired by PAUL and the exceptional life that he led.

So now we know that whenever a candidate runs a scrappy populist campaign, PAUL WELLSTONE will be there.

PAUL WELLSTONE believed in clean elections. PAUL was a

strong, stalwart ally over the years that we served together

in the Senate, working for campaign finance reform. He was

an original cosponsor of the first McCain-Feingold bill—one

of a handful of us, along with Senators Claiborne Pell and

Fred Thompson, and he was there all the way. Some have

said that the law that we enacted this year went too far.

Characteristically, PAUL thought that it did not go far

enough.

PAUL WELLSTONE wrote:

The way in which money has come to dominate politics is the foremost

ethical issue of politics of our time. We need to invite ordinary citizens back

into American politics to work for what is right for our Nation.

Whenever Americans reform our election campaigns, PAUL

WELLSTONE will be there.

PAUL WELLSTONE said:

I don’t represent the big oil companies. I don’t represent the big pharmaceutical companies. I don’t represent the Enrons of this world. But you know

what, they already have great representation in Washington. It’s the rest

of the people that need it.

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That’s what PAUL WELLSTONE said.

So, whenever there are voices standing up for the little

guy, PAUL WELLSTONE’s voice will be there.

There is a role that some Senators play of leading where

not many follow because they know that it is right. PAUL

WELLSTONE had the courage of his convictions. He was not

afraid to stand alone. Now that he is gone, there may come

more times when some of us will be counted as the only vote

against something.

But whenever a Senator stands alone in the well of the

Senate and casts a solitary vote because that’s what he or

she believes, that Senator won’t really be alone because

PAUL WELLSTONE will be there.

There is a role that some Senators play of reminding the

rest of us of what is right, even when we don’t necessarily

like to hear it. It has been said many times, and it is nonetheless true, that like Paul Douglas, Phil Hart, and Paul

Simon before him, PAUL WELLSTONE was the conscience of

the Senate.

Whenever political expediency pulls us to vote one way,

but our consciences pull us back the other, PAUL WELLSTONE

will be there.

PAUL WELLSTONE was a dear, sweet man, and a good

friend to those of us who knew him. Yes, he had a puckish

grin and a ready sense of humor. His passing brings a tear

to our eyes.

But whenever we think of that smile of his, PAUL

WELLSTONE will be there.

The Bible says: ‘‘Justice, justice shall you pursue.’’ PAUL

didn’t need to be told. That was who he was. PAUL

WELLSTONE believed in justice with every fiber of his being.

PAUL fought for justice for children who didn’t have

enough to eat. He fought for environmental justice, even for

the poor side of town. He fought for social justice when it

came to access to health care. He fought for economic justice

when it came to a fair minimum wage and the ability of

working families to protect themselves under the bankruptcy

law. And he fought for justice among nations, and for peace.

PAUL WELLSTONE was the very embodiment of justice.

And so, PAUL WELLSTONE, here on the Senate floor, there

is a hole in our hearts. We will miss you, dear friend.

But we will still look for you. For wherever it is on this

Senate floor, at a political rally, or at a town hall meeting

somewhere on a cold, windy day in the heartland of America

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whenever someone speaks for justice, PAUL WELLSTONE will

be there.

Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, PAUL WELLSTONE was an

extraordinary leader with a common touch. His dedication to

the well-being of average Americans was unparalleled in

Congress.

He believed all of our citizens, no matter how humble their

beginnings, or difficult their plight, had an equal right to

happy, healthy, and full lives. He always made the time to

hear the real needs of the people, and he always took the

time to speak up for them in the U.S. Senate.

For PAUL, core beliefs were not something to be compromised. He understood as well as anyone in this body the

give-and-take of legislation. But we always knew his values

were at the forefront of every battle, and the people of Minnesota could count on him to fight for them with every ounce

of his considerable energy and ability.

PAUL and I were seatmates. His desk is right beside mine

on the Senate floor. But we were more than neighbors. PAUL

was our conscience, our guiding light. He turned overlooked

needs and forgotten causes into real hopes for millions of

Americans. For them, PAUL WELLSTONE was their champion,

their Senator.

Earlier this year, Senator WELLSTONE chaired a hearing in

the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on

an issue of great concern to American workers. A group of

low-wage men and women were so excited by the prospect of

the hearing that they took a day off from work, boarded

buses, and headed for the hearing. When they arrived, they

found the room full and the door barred. But Senator

WELLSTONE heard about the workers who were waiting in

the hallway, unable to get in. He invited them in and seated

them on the dais among the Senators attending the hearing.

For PAUL, this was the way it was intended to be. For him,

there was no distance, no barrier between the people and

their elected representatives.

Senator WELLSTONE did his homework. He knew the facts

and he also knew the reality of everyday life for the people

he cared for so deeply and served so well. When the Senate

debated education policy, we knew PAUL understood the

issues thoroughly. We also knew PAUL had spent more time

visiting the public schools than any other Senator. He knew

the challenges first-hand because he had taken the time to

listen to parents, teachers, and schoolchildren so he could be

a true voice for them in Washington.

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He taught us all by his example that Americans face challenges together. He was the embodiment of e pluribus unum,

that out of many peoples in America, we are one Nation. He

lived every moment of every day fighting to make our Nation

even stronger, ever the beacon of opportunity for all of our

citizens.

PAUL, we will miss you. You and Sheila and Marcia leave

an extraordinary legacy for millions of Americans to honor,

to cherish, and to carry on. Your outstanding contributions

to the Senate, to Minnesota, and to the Nation will always

be remembered.

Mr. NELSON of Florida. Mr. President, it is with a very

heavy heart that all of us gather in the Chamber that will

miss one of our own. It was with a very heavy heart we received the news on that snowy, icy day that we had lost,

while flying in northern Minnesota, a wonderful companion

and colleague and, along with him, his life’s companion, and

part of that family—his daughter.

This freshman Senator had observed this Senator from

Minnesota who had such energy and, along with it, such

happiness. I can still see PAUL WELLSTONE thrusting in the

air those short, little jabs, while at the same time having

that wry smile on his face, as he would teach us the way we

should be as Senators—advocating for those who could not

advocate for themselves, for those who could not hire with

unlimited resources. He was there to stand and represent

those folks.

I went to Minnesota in August to do what I could for PAUL

WELLSTONE in a race that, interestingly, as November 5 approached—and PAUL was so concerned about what was going

to be the effect of his vote on the Iraq resolution, the fact he

voted his conscience, the fact he stood up as the little giant

against what was otherwise considered the tide. The fact he

did that resonated among his constituents in Minnesota. We

saw the result of that in the polls, for PAUL had jumped up

from an even race. He was up five, six, seven points before

that fateful day his life was taken from us.

I think back to that time in August I had gone out there

to campaign for PAUL. It was a time of mourning in the

Minneapolis-St. Paul area because a lady police officer had

just had her life snuffed out in an unusual kind of murder,

where it was unsuspected. I went with PAUL and Sheila that

night to several events, including back to the source of that

crime, at a project where so many of the community leaders

had turned out. I watched PAUL as he interacted with those

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grieving constituents, as they all came together in a resolve

to heal the wounds in that community and bring the races

together, instead of dividing them, as so often might have

been the case in a very unfortunate circumstance where a

police officer had lost her life.

I went to what was called the ‘‘national night out’’—a remembrance of what communities can do in coming together.

I went to two or three such events on that evening I visited with PAUL and Sheila. I watched his interaction with

Minnesotans. I saw that it was the same PAUL WELLSTONE

that I saw interacting with Senators in this Chamber, in our

caucuses, in our luncheon meetings, in the Cloakroom, and

in the committee meetings. It was the same friendly, highly

intelligent man, always offering that smile, getting from

place to place with that limp in his gait as a result of an old

wrestling injury. And he was so attractive. He was attractive

to us as a friend and a colleague. He was attractive to the

folks of Minnesota as their Senator.

I went to their home, a modest, very comfortable, very appropriately appointed duplex townhouse, close in so he could

be where his constituents were. It was easy access for him,

even though with that limp; it had a set of stairs, at least

two, if not three stories. It was so comfortable as a retreat

for him, made so by his lifelong companion Sheila, who was

at his side throughout that campaign and who was at his

side throughout his professional career, including his career

in the Senate.

Then when I was in Minnesota, I talked to his kids. This

is not his immediate family kids. This was the extension of

PAUL WELLSTONE, the professor, the extension of PAUL

WELLSTONE, the Senator, who had legions of young people,

some in their middle years, who went door to door telling

why those Minnesotans should vote and continue his time in

the Senate.

I saw their conviction as I talked to them basically to

share a number of stories I had as a Congressman going

door to door. A lot of those experiences we shared were quite

humorous, some of the unexpected experiences when one

goes knocking on doors. I explained to them, with a bit of

overstatement, that western civilization depended on what

they were doing, going door to door. We all had a good laugh

about that.

They were committed. They were committed to PAUL

WELLSTONE. They were committed for the kind of person he

represented, and they were doing the job and they were very

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effective. Their number had multiplied many times over so

that as it came to that fateful day, there were legions of

some 4,000 of those young people who were canvassing Minnesota.

That says a lot about the kind of person PAUL WELLSTONE

was and how his memory will live; that young people believed enough in him that they would spend all day in a

thankless job of going door to door.

I remember so well the PAUL WELLSTONE we loved around

here. He was not afraid to take on any foe. He was not afraid

to take on any subject where he felt he could offer something

of substance to the discussion, and as far as this Senator is

concerned, it often made the difference because it was done

with dignity, it was done with passion, it was done with energy, and his orations were done with great conviction.

That is a great example. That is a great role model for all

of us. We will miss him deeply.

I remember when I came to the Minnesota airport for that

memorial service. Someone met me at the gate and escorted

me to the place where we were all to huddle up and then

board the buses. As I walked in to that waiting room, what

stared me in the face was a simple poster that said:

WELLSTONE for Senate. I remember almost having my breath

taken away as I realized that he was not going to be with

us in body anymore. But he certainly will continue with us

in spirit.

Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, the Senate is greatly diminished with the passing of Senator PAUL WELLSTONE. As we

see the bouquet of flowers on his desk, we can see PAUL in

action, speaking out, speaking up indefatigable on the issues

of concern to him.

He undertook a very difficult campaign back in 1990

against the odds, against a popular incumbent Senator. He

was able to mobilize students, activists, people who believed

in what he believed in because he was always a man with

a cause. All the time he had a point. He did not mind being

a dissenter.

People who may be listening to this session of the Senate

do not know, but there is a little card at the desk on each

side, Republicans and Democrats. When the Senators come

in and vote, there is a check. It is not easy, when, say, there

are 50 members of the party and 49 checks are on one side,

to vote against the 49, to have your name stand out in

marked contrast as a dissenter, but PAUL WELLSTONE did

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I believe in the history of our country the dissenters are

vitally important, sometimes more important than the majority. Oliver Wendell Holmes, a Supreme Court Justice, was

a prime example. He did not mind speaking out in dissent.

And then he got another Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis, to join him. So then instead of 1 to 8, it was 2 to 7. The

brainpower of the two was characteristically better than the

seven. For that matter, the brainpower of that one, Justice

Oliver Wendell Holmes, was greater than the eight on many

occasions.

Plessy v. Ferguson was a decision establishing the principle of separate but equal, having segregation in America,

in a decision shortly before the turn of the 20th century, I

believe in 1896. John Marshall Harlan was the one dissenter. That dissent became a clarion call for Brown v.

Board of Education. Similarly, I think the dissents that Senator WELLSTONE registered have the potential to become a

majority point of view.

It was said earlier today, and I think with real meaning,

that the legislation to establish parity for mental illness with

physical illness would be an appropriate tribute for Senator

PAUL WELLSTONE. That legislation came within a hair’s

breadth of being passed in spring 2001 on an appropriations

bill.

Technically, we are not supposed to legislate on an appropriations bill, but that rule is honored and then breached

very often, maybe not more often than it is observed but it

is breached very frequently.

We had passed it through the Labor, Health, Human Services, and Education Subcommittee which I had chaired. It

was a health bill. Senator Domenici was the principal champion on the Republican side, and Senator WELLSTONE was

the principal champion on the Democratic side. I was long a

cosponsor of the matter. In chairing the conference, we

pushed very hard. It came within one vote on the House

side—we had the Senate—of getting that legislation passed.

It ought to be passed as a tribute to Senator WELLSTONE.

It also ought to be passed for the benefit of the people who

suffer from mental illness, which is every bit as debilitating

as physical illness.

On October 25, I was campaigning, as I think most people

were. I had just come from a political rally in Reading, PA,

where Vice President Cheney had spoken for Congressman

Gekas who was running in a hotly contested election against

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one another. I turned on the radio at about 1:30 eastern time

and was shocked to hear the news that Senator WELLSTONE’s

plane had gone down. It brought memories of the plane that

went down on April 3, 1991, with Senator John Heinz, a vibrant, young Senator who had great potential, as did Senator PAUL WELLSTONE.

Flying small planes is an occupational hazard and everybody in this Chamber, all 100 of us, as well as the 435 Members in the other Chamber, and many other legislators and

governmental officials, climb into small airplanes every other

day. We all hold our breath as to whether we will be successful on the flight. Regrettably, we fly in bad weather, which

sometimes we should not do but there is always a big crowd

waiting and always some reason to finish.

It was a great tragedy. PAUL’s wife Sheila was with him

in the plane. One seldom saw PAUL in the Halls of Congress

without Sheila. She was not on the floor of the Senate, but

she was with him constantly, holding hands, a very devoted

couple. Their daughter Marcia was with them, also devoted

in the campaign, a brilliant young woman at the age of 33.

Senator WELLSTONE will be sorely missed in the Senate.

There are many PAUL WELLSTONE stories. I will mention

one. I was managing the appropriations bill for Labor,

Health, Human Services, and Education. Senator

WELLSTONE was in the Chamber bright and early. We started at 9:30. He had an amendment. Sometimes it is hard to

get amendments up onto the floor. His amendment provided

that no Member of Congress should have a health insurance

policy at government expense that was superior to what

every other American had available to him or her.

When that amendment was brought up, it was through the

distinguished senior Senator from Minnesota, who was smiling broadly. It was a very extraordinary amendment to

make. It is pretty hard to make an amendment like that

stick because it would have made President Clinton’s national health insurance policy look entrepreneurial to the nth

degree. It did not pass, even though the Democrats controlled the House and the Senate. Senator Mitchell, the majority leader in 1993, was a major proponent of health care,

but the Clinton plan with its bureaucracy went down to defeat. To have a requirement that no Member of Congress

could have a health plan that was superior in any way to

what the government provided for every citizen was really

an extraordinary idea, to characterize it very mildly.

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I did not have to debate Senator WELLSTONE for very long

before there was an avalanche of Senators who came to the

Chamber. He really struck a nerve, and he struck a nerve

because many people think that Senators and Members of

the House have health insurance which is paid for by the

government, which is not true. We pay for the health service

which we have, but we also have additional health service

policies, Blue Cross and Blue Shield. To have legislation limiting what a Member could have to that which every other

citizen would have at government expense would be a great

inducement to pass a widespread health insurance benefit,

and perhaps we ought to do that. That was Senator

WELLSTONE’s idea. He debated it with fervor and intensity.

It was an extraordinary debate. I do not think he got too

many votes for his plan, but that did not diminish it in any

way. That is the great quality of a dissenter. This Chamber

will not be the same without Senator WELLSTONE.

Mr. DeWINE. Mr. President, let me begin by thanking all

of our colleagues who have already spoken here on the Senate floor this afternoon in tribute to our dear friend, PAUL

WELLSTONE. I join in the sentiments and would like to extend my sympathy and my prayers to the entire WELLSTONE

family and the families and friends of the crew and staff

members who also lost their loved ones just a few short

weeks ago.

PAUL WELLSTONE, his wife Sheila, and their daughter

Marcia, left quite a legacy. These are family who were working so closely together to help PAUL in his reelection bid. So

as we pay tribute to PAUL today we must also, I believe, remember the dedication and the love of his wife and his

daughter—his entire family. Each one of us understands our

elections are many times a family effort. We see our spouses,

we see our daughters and sons go out and campaign and

spend time with us and spend time in other parts of our

States. So I think we all can relate to this. In a sense, it

makes this tragedy even harder for all of us to bear, to think

this was not just a loss of PAUL, but also of his wife and his

daughter.

The great English poet Alfred Tennyson wrote of a dear

friend who died suddenly: ‘‘God’s finger touched him, and he

slept.’’

Recently God’s hand touched our friend PAUL WELLSTONE.

Now he sleeps and now we mourn. The Senate will really

never be the same without PAUL WELLSTONE. Not only did

we lose a colleague, but we also lost a friend, a good man,

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an ethical man, a leader, a true champion—a champion of

the causes and the issues he believed in so passionately.

As many of my colleagues have expressed already, PAUL

had a kind of drive and passion and spirit that was really

unequaled in this body. But we will also miss his kindness,

his resolve, and his unbelievable energy—energy he brought

to every single task he undertook. Whatever it was, PAUL did

it with sincerity and he did it with great passion. PAUL got

things done. He was effective. That effectiveness came because of his energy, because of his drive, because of his determination, and it came because he understood what he believed in. He understood what he cared about. He understood

what was important.

It also came about because he could get along with people

from both sides of the aisle. He really transcended politics in

that respect. He knew people. He understood them. It was

evident he cared about them. You never had any doubt when

PAUL WELLSTONE asked you how you were doing, how you

were feeling, how your wife was, that he actually meant it.

He actually cared.

Arthur Ashe, the famous athlete, who also died too young,

once said:

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to

surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever

cost.

That was PAUL WELLSTONE. That was his mission. No cost

was too great in his eyes when it came to protecting the lives

of those in this society who could not protect themselves—

as he said, ‘‘the little people,’’ the poor people, the people

who needed someone to help them. He worked so hard and

so tirelessly and with such commitment to protect children,

the elderly, the mentally ill. I had the privilege of working

closely with PAUL on a number of the legislative initiatives

he cared so much about—the kind of initiatives that were intended to protect and improve peoples’ lives, like job training—the bill he and I spent an awful lot of time working

on—and mental health courts bills.

PAUL also cared deeply about the future of America’s children. He wanted to ensure that every single child in this

country received a quality education.

He was instrumental in making sure that our transition to

teaching initiative was included in last year’s education reform law. And, in fact, at the time of PAUL’s death, he and

I were getting ready to introduce a bill to expand the child

care loan forgiveness program to include preschool teachers.

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I intend to go forward and introduce that bill tomorrow. I

know that is what PAUL would have wanted. And, in his

memory, I would like to rename that bill ‘‘The PAUL

WELLSTONE Early Educator Loan Forgiveness Program.’’

This legislation is just one of so many examples of what

PAUL stood for and cared so passionately about.

It wasn’t too long ago that this Senate lost another friend

and colleague. That man was a dear friend of mine. That

man was Senator Paul Coverdell. I was recently looking back

at the Congressional Record at some of those fiery and impassioned speeches that PAUL WELLSTONE used to give on

this Senate floor, and I came across a speech he gave in tribute to Senator Coverdell following his death.

I was really struck by his remarks, because what he said

in those few words about Senator Coverdell really capture

today what we in this Senate think about PAUL WELLSTONE.

I would like to take just a moment to read to my colleagues what PAUL WELLSTONE said on this floor on July 19,

2000:

Mr. President, I want to speak about my colleague, Senator Coverdell. I

know other Senators have. I absolutely have nothing rehearsed. There are

many Senators who will speak about Senator Coverdell probably in a more

profound and moving way than I can.

There is one moment I want to remember about Senator Coverdell because this small story tells a large story. We had had a major debate about

the Colombia aid package. Senator Coverdell and I were in a debate. We did

not agree. It was a pretty good debate back and forth. I know from time to

time during the debate I would reach over and touch his hand and say

something to the effect: I just cannot believe you said this; this is wrong—

something like that.

At the end of the debate, I said, because I believed it and believe it: Senator Coverdell is a really good Senator.

He smiled and touched my hand and said: Senator WELLSTONE is a really

good Senator.

I do not know if the latter part is true, but the point is that is the way

he was. That is the kind of Senator he was.

That is also the kind of Senator PAUL WELLSTONE was.

PAUL WELLSTONE in that tribute went on to say this about

our friend, Senator Coverdell:

We talk about civility. He was just a beautiful person. I really enjoyed

him. We need a lot of Senators like Senator Coverdell: Paul, you are wrong

on the issues, but you are a really good person.

The Senate has lost a wonderful person and a wonderful Senator, and the

United States of America has lost a wonderful person and a wonderful Senator.

To PAUL WELLSTONE today, I say that you, too, were a

wonderful person. You were a wonderful Senator.

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Today on this floor, we honor what PAUL WELLSTONE stood

for, what he believed in, and what he accomplished here in

this Senate. As a public servant, PAUL touched the lives of

his family, his friends and colleagues in the Senate, his constituents in his home State of Minnesota, and the lives of

millions of people throughout the United States.

I will not forget PAUL WELLSTONE—none of us will. He is

deeply missed and will always be remembered.

Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, as we have reconvened

today, there is a void in this Chamber. The untimely passing

of our friend and colleague, PAUL WELLSTONE, brings a sadness to the entire Senate family.

We are also touched by the loss of PAUL’s wife Sheila, his

daughter Marcia, members of his campaign staff: Will

McLaughlin, Tom Lapic, and Mary McEvoy, and the two pilots: Captains Richard Conry and Michael Guess.

When I heard Senator WELLSTONE’s plane had gone down

in Minnesota, it was difficult for me to convey my thoughts.

I thought of the countless hours I have spent, as a Senator

now for 34 years, in small planes, flying around my State on

campaigns and on official business.

I recalled the day in December 1978 when the plane carrying my wife Ann and myself and five friends, coming from

Juneau to Anchorage, crashed at the Anchorage airport. The

time that followed was a difficult one for my family. The

death of a spouse, a colleague, a loved one, or a friend is

never easy, but to lose that person in an accident, particularly one you survive, is worse because you will always know

you never said goodbye.

It was an ironic twist when I discovered PAUL

WELLSTONE’s plane crashed in the same city, Eveleth, MN,

where Alaska Congressman Nick Begich was born. As the

Senate knows, Representative Begich and the House majority leader, Hale Boggs, were killed when the airplane in

which they were flying was lost over Alaska in 1972.

It is safe to say—and I think this is no surprise to anyone—that PAUL WELLSTONE and I did not see eye to eye on

much, but I respected PAUL for fighting for what he believed

and for his personal toughness that never let physical problems slow him down.

We spent much time together on the subway going back

and forth and became great friends. As a matter of fact,

PAUL and his wife came over to our home. Catherine and I

were pleased to have dinner with him and Sheila on a personal basis.

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I admired PAUL’s commitment to his causes, particularly to

his dedication to mental and physical health parity. As a

young boy, I helped raise a cousin who was challenged by

mental retardation, and I know the difficulties faced by those

in that community. Senator WELLSTONE’s compassion and

determination has made a difference in many families across

our Nation, many lives of people such as my cousin.

Likewise, Senator WELLSTONE’s wife Sheila was a great

advocate. Her work on behalf of domestic abuse victims

helped many women and children begin life anew, with the

hope and encouragement that came from Sheila’s work.

Catherine and I cannot put into words the sympathy and

sorrow we feel for PAUL’s family for the loss of their parents,

their siblings, and their grandparents.

Mr. President, grief is a process that helps heal the heart.

We will always miss PAUL, but we honor his memory by

keeping after our business, as he did—testing our ideas on

the campaign trail and here on the Senate floor. My friend,

PAUL WELLSTONE, would want it that way.

Thank you very much, Mr. President.

Mr. BYRD. Mr. President,

Sunset and evening star,

And one clear call for me!

And may there be no moaning of the bar,

When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,

Too full for sound and foam,

When that which drew from out the boundless deep

Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,

And after that the dark!

And may there be no sadness of farewell,

When I embark;

For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place

The flood may bear me far,

I hope to see my Pilot face to face

When I have crost the bar.

Mr. President, one of our number has gone from our midst.

I know that by now he has seen his Pilot face to face because PAUL WELLSTONE has crossed the bar. He was not tall;

yet mere feet and inches are no measure of a human heart.

He could not be cool or aloof, for he knew that it is passion

and commitment that drive human progress. He was not

without infirmity, but the limitations of the flesh never hold

down a robust and tenacious spirit.

PAUL WELLSTONE fairly burned with exuberance for life

and for the causes that he cared about. We all heard PAUL

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WELLSTONE as he spoke about those causes that he cared so

much about. He always spoke with passion. A visit to his office is illustrative. Over the entrance to his private office is

a huge enlargement of a snapshot of his former, now deceased, chief of staff, Mike Epstein. Most of us remember

Mike Epstein, who used to be seen back here on the bench

to my left as he sat listening to PAUL and waiting with PAUL.

PAUL WELLSTONE did not forget. He did not forget Mike Epstein.

Once inside PAUL’s office, over the doorway three large

photos can be seen of the faces of battered women. PAUL

WELLSTONE often spoke of those battered women in our population. He did not forget.

On the walls of his private chamber are photos of Hubert

Humphrey, John Kennedy, and on his desk is a bust of Martin Luther King. PAUL WELLSTONE did not forget.

PAUL was a man of causes. He was a teacher. He was a

man who stayed true to the things in which he believed. I

can almost see him back there now beside the flowers that

have so thoughtfully been placed on his desk as a token of

our remembrance of him. I often heard him use a metaphor.

He called it an old Jewish proverb. He would use it again

and again, in speech after speech. He would say, ‘‘You can’t

dance at two weddings at the same time.’’ Senator Don Nickles is on the floor, and he remembers this and has indicated

so by a smile. I never quite knew what PAUL WELLSTONE

meant when he said that you can’t dance at two weddings

at the same time. I never tried it, but I never was at two

weddings at the same time.

When he said, ‘‘You can’t dance at two weddings at the

same time,’’ he meant that one must not be false. That is the

key. One must not be false. He meant that one cannot be all

things to all people. He was thinking of the words of Shakespeare, who said: To thine own self be true. Thy can’t now

then be false to any man.

He meant that one cannot say one thing and then do another. And he meant that one cannot say the same thing to

two different people and mean two different things. It is a

fundamental lesson and has special application to those of us

who toil in the ruined fields of what passes for politics today.

You cannot dance at two weddings at the same time.

PAUL WELLSTONE died tragically, but he lived heroically.

He ran uphill against the odds and enjoyed and gloried in

the experience. He was unique, he was priceless, and he was

quite irreplaceable.

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I shall miss him, and we all shall miss his courage.

I was most endeared to PAUL WELLSTONE in the last days

of his life. One day as we stood in the room together—we

Democrats—and discussed the resolution concerning the Iraq

war—which may come and which in my present thinking is

likely to come—we stood over in the corner room there and

the majority leader was there. My Democratic colleagues—

most of them—were there; PAUL WELLSTONE was there. We

discussed the Iraq resolution. I remember PAUL WELLSTONE

as he stood and said to us, his Democratic colleagues:

You all do what you must, but I am going to vote against the resolution.

But don’t worry about me. I will explain it to my people. I think I am doing

the right thing, and I believe my people will feel also that it is right. But

if they don’t, they will vote. However that vote comes, whatever that decision is, I will live with it.

I thought that took a great deal of courage. Here was a

Senator who was running for reelection and he had already

reached a decision in his mind that he was going to take a

stand, and that was going to be a principled stand. His future in politics could go one way or another; but regardless

PAUL WELLSTONE was going to take that position. He was

going to go to the people with it. He was willing to debate

it with the people, and he felt that in the final analysis the

people would uphold him in the position he had taken.

There were not any ifs, ands, or buts. That was a position

he took right over in that room, in the corner, near the elevator on this floor. That, more than anything I saw in PAUL

WELLSTONE’s life when he was here in our midst for 12

years, that, more than anything else, impressed me. I

thought: Oh, if all Senators were like that. If all public officials were like that, who would take a principled stand, state

the reasons for that stand to the electorate, and let them

make their choice. Of course, he wanted to come back to the

Senate, but he knew very well that particular stand, in the

climate in which we find ourselves, might mean he would not

be reelected. And in the minds of a lot of people, the likelihood would be perhaps he would not be reelected. He took

that stand. That told me something about that man I had

never seen before in him.

That is the kind of courage that is found in men and

women who are not only willing but are proud to stand up

for their convictions and win or lose. They are determined to

do it that way because they feel that is for the best interest

of their country. That is the way PAUL WELLSTONE felt. But

that, more than anything else, watching him and listening to

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him on that occasion and knowing he was heading out of

here in a very close election, which at that point he probably

was a little behind—and I think he was. But he went. He

made that decision. He voted that way. He went to the people and, from what I can understand, he was winning. His

points were going up. He was going up. So the people, even

though some of them—many of them—may not have agreed

with PAUL, admired a man of conviction. That is the kind of

man they wanted in this body.

I will always remember PAUL WELLSTONE for that demonstration of conviction, that demonstration of integrity, that

demonstration of courage, that demonstration of character.

So his spirit, as long as I am here, will always permeate this

Chamber.

I never was close to PAUL WELLSTONE. I cannot say I am

close to a great many Senators here. That is not their fault.

We are all busy people. But that drew me close to PAUL

WELLSTONE.

We owe a great debt to the people of his beloved Minnesota and his wonderful family for sending him to serve

with us for a time. I fully believe if PAUL WELLSTONE had

lived, he would have won that race. That Senator we would

have had back.

I went to that memorial service. I went to Minnesota. I

went there when Hubert Humphrey died, and I went to the

memorial service for PAUL WELLSTONE. I was at that dread

gathering. I was struck by the size of that tremendous gathering of people singing songs, speaking. I wondered about

this man, what kind of hold he must have had on the hearts

of the people of Minnesota to draw a huge audience like that

in a memorial service.

I also believe in my heart that the memorial service veered

off on a path that probably was not intended, and I felt badly

about some of the things that happened there—about the

treatment, not only impolite, but the discourteous treatment

that was accorded to the minority leader, Mr. Lott. I did not

know about the treatment by which he had been embarrassed. I did not know about that until after it was over. But

I felt as time went on that I was in a strange meeting, and

I believe that but for the veering off course by that meeting

Walter Mondale would have been elected. In any event, that

is in the past and cannot be revisited.

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ticular meeting, but that being said, I think PAUL

WELLSTONE’s spirit will live on.

I regret the strange twist of fate that took his wife and his

daughter and the members of his staff to their untimely

ends. But as to PAUL, we owe him a great debt. I think I can

best say his spirit will live on by repeating the words of

Thomas Moore:

Let fate do her worst, there are relics of joy,

Bright dreams of the past that she cannot destroy,

That come in the night-time of sorrow and care,

And bring back the features that joy used to wear.

Long be my heart with such memories filled,

Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled,

You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will,

But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, it is a sad occasion that we

see flowers on the desk of PAUL WELLSTONE memorializing

his service to this country and to the Senate.

PAUL WELLSTONE served very ably in the Senate for 12

years. I had the pleasure of working with him, and I had the

pleasure of opposing him on many occasions. Many times, I

would always say in the heat of the battle that PAUL

WELLSTONE had intensity, he had passion, and he had conviction. As Senator Byrd mentioned, those are qualities and

traits that are very much needed in the Senate.

October 25, when PAUL WELLSTONE was killed along with

his wife Sheila and his daughter Marcia, in addition to three

staff members and a couple of pilots, was a real tragedy to

the Senate family. Unfortunately, we have lost a lot of Senators through airplane crashes. Many of us have been in

planes under questionable circumstances. It is a tragedy we

hate to see. I remember receiving the phone call and the

words were ‘‘oh, no,’’ when it was confirmed.

As many of our colleagues, I went to Minnesota for the memorial service on October 29 to express our condolences and

sympathy on the loss of a colleague. We wanted to show support to his family, friends and constituents and say that, yes,

he was a valuable Member of the Senate and we hated to

lose him. To lose him in such a tragic and unexpected way

is really a loss for the entire country.

I remember very well when Senator WELLSTONE made one

of his last speeches. It was a tribute to Senator Helms. Philosophically, they were probably as opposed as they could be,

but they were always gentlemen and they always conducted

themselves as Senators. Like Senator Helms, every time we

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we always would shake hands, win or lose, and we did both.

We won some battles, we lost some battles, but we were always friends and we were all colleagues.

I remember PAUL WELLSTONE being inducted to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, OK—an outstanding American and a great tribute. This happened in the

year 2000, but he was in the class of 2001, a class that is

very unique.

Our colleague, Senator John Chafee, also deceased, was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, as well as

the current Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert. They

were a very special class of competitors who competed not

only on the wrestling mat but also on the floor of the Senate

and in the House of Representatives.

PAUL WELLSTONE earned our respect and our gratitude.

We miss him, and we wish to communicate to his family, his

friends, his associates, and his staff members, that we respected PAUL WELLSTONE. We appreciate his service to this

country, to his State, and to the Senate. PAUL WELLSTONE

will be missed by all of us who had the pleasure of calling

him our colleague.

Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I join with my colleagues

in taking these few moments to pay tribute to an extraordinary man and a great Senator. It is hard to come back to

the Senate floor this afternoon and not be overcome by a

sense of loss because this desk behind me, with the flowers,

will never again serve as the launching pad for one of PAUL

WELLSTONE’s memorable and impassioned speeches.

Every American who shared PAUL’s determination to make

our country all that it should be, all that it can be, all that

PAUL thought it must be, felt that same sense of loss. The

Americans who only knew PAUL WELLSTONE through tuning

into C–SPAN or seeing the evening news, watching that energy flow, those arms flail about, that pacing up and down,

may not have known the man but they too saw, as we his

colleagues saw, that deep abiding love of our country. That

is what motivated PAUL WELLSTONE. He would come on to

this floor, sometimes bursting through those doors, having to

speak out, making it clear that there was some injustice that

had to be righted, some problem that had to be solved, in

order for us all to be the best we could be.

That wrestling spirit that never let go really was with him

in every encounter. He was a bear hugger. He was a caring,

loving man, as well as a great advocate.

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His determination to improve our Nation, our education

system, our health care system, our employment system, to

strengthen civil and human rights and provide opportunities

to those who live on the outskirts of American life, was unparalleled. Every one of us who knew him, and the millions

who did not, were heartbroken by his untimely death.

I had someone say to me that the voice for the voiceless

has been silenced. That is not only a tribute to PAUL but it

can also be heard as a rebuke to us. Was there only one

among us who spoke for the voiceless, who hurt for those

who were hurting, who carried the pain of injustice and exclusion under which so many suffered? One hopes that is not

the case, but the only way to prove it is not is to ensure that

our voices are heard loudly and clearly.

This floor will seem empty without his words of conviction

unless we fill it with our own. The ideals he represented and

his steadfast belief that we, the people, through our government, acting together, can be a positive force, literally to

change the future for those who might otherwise be left in

despair, that commitment motivated every aspect of his daily

life.

Our Senate family and the people of Minnesota not only

lost Senator PAUL WELLSTONE, but we lost a great advocate

in Sheila Wellstone and we lost a great teacher in Marcia

Wellstone. His family shared his passion and his drive for

justice. His staff were with him every step of the way and

some tragically even gave their lives in service. Our thoughts

and prayers are certainly with all those, along with the

Wellstone family, who lost family members, friends, and colleagues.

Before coming to the Senate, I had the great pleasure of

working with both PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE. I admired

Sheila greatly. Just as her husband, she was made of steel.

That little package of energy that propelled her down these

corridors and throughout the State of Minnesota looking for

ways to help and to shed the spotlight she could bring into

the darkest corners of human misery set her apart. She especially became a champion of those women and children who

were victims of domestic violence. The stories she heard from

women all over Minnesota and America did not stay her

property; she told them to anyone. She would come to the

White House and buttonhole me or the President. She would

go anywhere to see anyone to make sure that someone whose

small cry for help that she heard in St. Paul or Margie would

be heard in Washington as well. She believed that the idea

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of violence-free families should be a reality in every home in

our Nation.

She and PAUL, together, believed the diseases, the illnesses of the mind, should no longer be relegated to some

back room where they would be brushed aside, ignored because of the stigma, the embarrassment attached to them

historically. She encouraged PAUL to join forces with Senator

Domenici to transform each of their families’ experiences into

a national campaign to improve the lives of the mentally ill.

Sheila and PAUL were also instrumental in bringing to

international awareness the horrific problem of trafficking in

human beings, the modern form of slavery by which young

women, young girls, are literally sold into bondage, into the

sex trade, into domestic servitude. Sheila and PAUL

WELLSTONE were absolutely committed that this practice of

degradation would end.

When each of us heard the news that the plane carrying

PAUL and Sheila and Marcia went down, time seemed to

stop. Many did not want to believe it. We kept asking our

staff and others how it could be true. How could this have

happened? Horrible events, tragedies of this magnitude, have

a way of stopping time. But then we have to return. The

clocks have to start moving again. We have to continue our

journey into the future. But if we remember what that moment in time felt like when we realized our friend, our colleague, a great Senator, would no longer join us for our debates, then perhaps that tragedy can change the tone and

landscape of our politics and our debates. Perhaps PAUL’s example in life, his legacy in death, will compel all to look inward, to ask ourselves what are we doing today with the

same energy, the same good humor, the same fighting spirit

that PAUL WELLSTONE embodied to make life a little better

for the people we represent, to give voice to the voiceless.

Over the past weeks I have thought a lot about PAUL

WELLSTONE. I remember so many incidents and so many of

his triumphs. He was there day in and day out. No issue was

too small that it did not have his commitment behind it if

he thought it would make a difference in someone’s life. The

Senate passed expanding insurance coverage for the mentally ill. I hope Senator Domenici’s heartfelt plea and his

long-time commitment will help finally to pass his and

PAUL’s dream into law.

We increased access to child care for the working poor because PAUL WELLSTONE knew what it meant to worry about

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conditions they would be in, whether they would receive the

quality of care they should.

One of my favorite PAUL WELLSTONE moments was when

PAUL and I were at a hearing he was chairing of the Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and Training. We had

been receiving reports about a sharp increase in the numbers

of unreported deaths and injuries among immigrant workers—many of them illegal, who found their way to our country and were put to work, despite the laws against it, for the

cheap labor they provided—who were not given the protection or the support or the respect they should have for the

dangerous jobs they were performing.

One of my State’s newspapers, NewsDay, ran a powerful

investigative report about the conditions in which immigrant

workers labored in New York. PAUL read it and contacted me

right away. He wanted us to work together to find out what

we could do to stop people from dying, literally dying, in New

York and around America.

Many who go to hearings around here know that not many

people, except the paid lobbyists for the various industries

affected, show up for the committee hearings. The lobbyists

fill the chairs. They take the notes. They rush out to make

the cell phone calls to report to their superiors and employers what is going on. But unfortunately, except on rare occasions, other people do not come.

On that day, to our surprise, hundreds of workers flooded

the halls of the Dirksen Building trying to get into our hearing, trying to tell their stories. Unfortunately, we had no

idea this would draw such a crowd. The room the hearing

was being held in was not big enough to accommodate everyone waiting.

PAUL and I conferred, and PAUL said: I can’t believe it.

There are all these people outside. Some of them came from

miles away. You can see his arms, as you hear those words,

going back and forth. What are we going to do?

Before I could answer, he got up, and in that bowlegged

wrestler’s stance and walk he had, he walked down from the

platform, through the crowd, threw open the doors, told the

Capitol Police that everyone was coming in and that there

would be room. They could sit on the floor, they could sit in

the Senators’ chairs because he and I were the only Senators

there. He would not keep the very people we were having the

hearing about out of the hearing room.

That was PAUL. He was a people’s Senator. Everyone was

welcome. Every door was open. It was an unusual hearing,

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but it was a memorable one. Afterward, he greeted each and

every person who was there.

It was this passion that got him up and fighting every day,

even when he was in such pain, as some of us can remember,

seeing him in pain on this floor, remembering how last year

the pain was so intense he literally dropped to the floor of

the Senate. He later learned that he was not just contending

with the aches and pains of a Hall of Fame wrestling career

but that he had multiple sclerosis. That did not stop him either.

For any of us who inquired how he was doing, he brushed

it off. He was not interested in any way or concerned about

his own health. He wanted to talk to you about what we

were going to do about unemployment insurance, what we

were going to do about education, how we could turn our

backs on all these children who would not get the resources

they needed.

During the debate on the education bill, PAUL was the only

member of our Education Committee to vote against it. We

knew why. He warned that focusing our education system

solely on improvements in standardized tests without a

major increase in Federal funding was wrong. I agreed with

that. I said so at the time in our committee. I will vote for

this bill, but only if we have the funding.

Here we are, a year later. We got the funding for 1 year

and then the administration came in and no more funding.

PAUL was right, as the distinguished Senator from West Virginia knows. Trust, but verify, when it comes to such promises.

Senator WELLSTONE always stood by his beliefs. His last

big fight, as Senator Byrd has so eloquently reminded us,

was over two big issues: Certainly Iraq, what should be done,

what will be done, what our obligations as Senators are to

hold this administration accountable; and, here at home, the

fight for unemployment benefits to be extended. For the life

of me and for PAUL WELLSTONE, with whom I spoke about

this at length time and time again, it made no sense. How

could we turn our backs on people who were out of work

through no fault of their own, who needed a little bit of a

helping hand? He would come to the floor, he would make

that case, and we wouldn’t go anywhere with it. We couldn’t

get our colleagues to support extending unemployment insurance one more time.

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tration to extend unemployment insurance, PAUL

WELLSTONE’s last domestic battle, for people who will otherwise have nowhere to turn when those benefits are gone.

I want to say also a word about Senator WELLSTONE’s

staff, because he certainly loved and respected his staff. As

Senator Byrd has mentioned, his staff was a loyal, hardworking group who often accompanied Senator WELLSTONE

to the floor and sat there watching him, getting energy from

his excitement and passion. I want to name some of the

names of those men and women who helped him do the work

we honor today. Colin McGinnis, his chief of staff, and Brian

Ahlberg, his legislative director, are two extraordinary public

servants. My staff has enjoyed the privilege of working with

them.

My staff and I have also had the opportunity to work with

Marge Baker, who led Senator WELLSTONE’s efforts on the

Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and Training, with

Jill Morningstar, who was his legislative assistant on education and women’s issues, with Rachel Gregg, who led his

efforts to assist the working poor, as well as Patti Unruh,

Ellen Gerrity, and Richard McKeon, who made up his team

of health care advisers.

I offer my condolences to each of his extraordinary staff

members and I want them to know how much we appreciate

the work they did for PAUL.

On October 15, at the close of his last debate, here is what

Senator WELLSTONE said:

I don’t represent the pharmaceutical companies, I don’t represent the big

oil companies, I don’t represent the big health insurance industry, I don’t

represent the big financial institutions. But you know what, I represent the

people of Minnesota.

That may be his most fitting tribute—the honor, the ability, the results he brought to the way he represented the

people of Minnesota. He did it with passion and principle.

We join in saluting his life and his service and we challenge

ourselves to remember the reasons why so many are mourning him today. Each of us, try to live up to the standard

PAUL WELLSTONE set.

Mr. CORZINE. Mr. President, I compliment the Senator

from New York for her gracious and most appropriate words

with regard to the service of the Senator from Minnesota,

who was such a special person.

I rise to add my words of respect and praise and thanksgiving for the life and leadership of my friend and colleague

and, in fact, political hero. PAUL WELLSTONE was a good man

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who did his very best to do good things—very simply, good

things for others. With his wife Sheila, their lives were about

service, service and advocacy for others. In fact—I think the

presiding officer probably knows this—they may well have

been the most unselfish people I ever observed. The drive

was not to power. It was not to popularity. It certainly was

not to wealth. It was to service—service to those without a

voice. PAUL WELLSTONE really did believe all men and

women are created equal and therefore should be treated accordingly.

As a friend, PAUL was always supportive and full of counsel for a fellow progressive—or should I say liberal. While

our paths to the Senate could not have been more different,

our paths in the Senate were much alike. He was a pathfinder for me and for many others because of his personal

passion and principle with which he was so secure—it was

deep in his soul. It gave him vision. His words and deeds

were an example for all who seek to lead. As he so often implored, our actions cannot be separate from our words. All

men and women are created equal, and he believed our Nation must act, also, accordingly. He fought for that every day

on this floor.

We have heard about his principled fight for mental health

parity. We have heard about his fight to make sure education was something other than high stakes testing, and to

make sure welfare reform was about something other than

reducing the numbers on rolls, but was really about reducing

poverty levels; on labor rights and defending the right to organize, defending the right of working men and women to

have access to the American promise on an equal basis with

those who are granted more; and on women’s rights, which

we have heard so much about, and domestic abuse, in which

he carried the words and deeds of his wife so ably; on veterans’ care and the homelessness problems of our Vietnam

vets. On these and many other issues he really was a man

who spoke for those without a voice.

PAUL’s passion and vision will be deeply missed. For those

honored to have shared his life, it is now our responsibility

to pursue his vision. His commitment to equality and justice

must not be lost and, with God’s will, it will not.

To this challenge, earlier today I heard Senator Stabenow

cite great words from Frederick Douglass that bear repeating. When you think about PAUL WELLSTONE you think

about how he handled himself in this world. Those words

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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor

freedom and yet deprecate agitation want crops without plowing up the

ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the

ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

PAUL WELLSTONE led his struggle for freedom with thunder and lightning—his struggle for progress. We will miss

him. We will miss his struggle. We must take it up.

All of us pray for his family and the families of the others

lost on that tragic day of the crash. Our hearts are saddened.

And we, as Senator Clinton has so ably articulated, commend his loyal and dedicated staff, and those thousands of

volunteers who made his voice multiples of what it otherwise

would be, through their activism and organization. We say

thank you for all of them. Our love goes out. We respect

them for what they have done, and their service. We hope

they will not turn away from the effort and the fight. We

thank them all. They mourn. We mourn. But we must not

quit. We will not quit. Our deeds must match his deeds in

the days and years ahead.

Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I rise to pay tribute today to

two dear friends, PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE. The October

25 plane crash in northern Minnesota which took their lives

was an incalculable tragedy. It deprived Minnesota of a brilliant Senator. It deprived my wife Barbara and me of two

very dear friends. It deprived the poor and disadvantaged everywhere in this country of a most committed, eloquent, and

passionate champion.

If there is one word that I heard perhaps more than any

other in the tributes that have been paid to PAUL

WELLSTONE, it would be the word ‘‘passionate.’’

Compounding the tragedy, the crash claimed the lives of

PAUL and Sheila’s daughter, Marcia; three members of his

staff: Will McLaughlin, Tom Lapic, and Mary McEvoy; and

the plane’s two pilots, Captains Richard Conry and Michael

Guess.

Our hearts go out to PAUL’s sons and grandchildren, and

to all of the families of those whose lives were lost. We think

about what might have been. We are reminded of just how

ephemeral and precious life is.

It is said that an obituary tells you what a person did and

a eulogy tells you who a person was. I would like to talk

about who PAUL was.

PAUL WELLSTONE was the patron Senator of lost causes.

By ‘‘lost,’’ I don’t mean wrong. In fact, most of his causes

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were right. But many of them were at the moment unpopular.

PAUL WELLSTONE devoted his energies to fighting for the

disenfranchised and demoralized, the lonely, and the isolated. He saw his mission in the Senate and in life as comforting the afflicted and, when necessary, afflicting the comfortable. In social justice circles, it is called ‘‘speaking truth

to power.’’

PAUL knew what it is like to be the underdog. He literally

wrestled his way into the University of North Carolina on an

athletic scholarship. He overcame learning disabilities to

earn a Ph.D. from that distinguished university. The civil

rights movement inspired him to become active in politics. In

1990, he ran a seemingly quixotic campaign against an incumbent Senator who outspent him by more than 7 to 1. And

PAUL won. And he won again in 1996.

I think PAUL beat the odds because he gave hope to so

many people who have been left behind. PAUL was a friendly

and warm person who learned and remembered everybody’s

name because he genuinely cared about them.

More recently, PAUL battled hip and back injuries and

publicly announced that he had multiple sclerosis. When he

made that announcement, he said—with characteristic wit

and pluck—‘‘I have a strong mind—although there are some

who might disagree with that—I have a strong body, I have

a strong heart, I have a strong soul.’’ And that he did.

PAUL knew what it was like to be an underdog. So he devoted his life to fighting for the underdog. At Minnesota’s

Carleton College, where he was a professor, he protested the

college’s investments in companies doing business with proapartheid South Africa. He intervened on behalf of many

farmers facing foreclosure. He joined the picket lines at a

meat-packing plant. And when Carleton College’s custodians

went on strike, he taught his classes off-campus because he

wasn’t going to cross that picket line.

PAUL brought his unabashed idealism to the Senate. He

voted against the gulf war in 1991. He voted against the welfare bill in 1996. He led a lonely fight against the bankruptcy bill, saying that it would enrich big credit card companies at the expense of ordinary people suffering ‘‘brutal

economic circumstances.’’ And the list goes on.

One of his last votes that he cast was for the more multilateral approach relative to our situation in Iraq. During

that debate, he argued as follows:

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Acting now on our own might be a sign of our power. Acting sensibly and

in a measured way, in concert with our allies with bipartisan congressional

support, would be a sign of our strength.

PAUL often found himself in small minorities. He was,

however, able to move the Senate on occasion through sheer

conviction. For instance, he teamed with Senator Domenici

to require health insurance companies to provide more equitable coverage and benefits to people suffering from mental

illness. It was the right thing to do. It was the fair thing to

do. And he prevailed.

Life deals everyone setbacks and defeats. And PAUL had

more than his share, especially in the Senate. But he never

became the least bit cynical as many people do when they

suffer life’s disappointments. He kept coming back cheerful

and committed as ever. He was absolutely guileless. And I

think that was the source of his popularity, which extended

to people who vehemently disagreed with the policies that he

advocated. Everyone admired the fact that he spoke from the

heart, and he voted based on his sincere beliefs—not from

political expediency. He believed in the power of ideas and

causes, and in the power of government to help people. He

was a formidable adversary. And he had that unique gift of

being able to disagree without being disagreeable.

T.S. Eliot wrote to a friend:

We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may

be the preface to our successors’ victory, though that victory itself will be

temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation

that anything will triumph.

That wistful statement, to me, captures some of PAUL

WELLSTONE’s approach to his duty. With indefatigable goodwill and cheer and sincerity, PAUL always bounced back, always carried on, and always stood on principle—never on expediency. He wasn’t afraid to be in the minority, even a minority of one.

A friend of PAUL’s, Bill Holm, wrote a touching tribute

that appeared in the New York Times the day after PAUL

died. I am going to put that column in the Record following

my remarks, but I wish to quote from it briefly to underscore

some of what the column says.

Bill Holm wrote,

Whatever PAUL’s height, he was one of the largest men I ever met. He

filled rooms when he entered them. Size in a public man is an interior, not

an exterior, quality. . . . He thought himself an athlete . . . and I suspect he

saw his whole political life in that metaphor. He wrestled with the power

of big money, military adventurism and penny-pinching against the poor. He

meant to fight fair, but he meant to win.

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The great suffragette Anna Howard Shaw remarked,

It does not make so much difference perhaps as to the number of days

we live as it does to the manner in which we live the days we do live.

She could have been saying that about PAUL WELLSTONE.

PAUL fought the good fight—usually against long odds. I

think, because he was a wrestler, he knew it was always possible to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Sometimes

you can be behind on points but suddenly pin your opponent

seconds before the match is over. So he never gave up. He

had an infectious optimism. That is why he was such an inspiration.

He certainly lived his life with gusto. He showed that

gusto in the way he consumed my wife’s stuffed cabbage. We

still have some in the freezer which we had preserved for the

next dinner we were going to have with the WELLSTONEs.

PAUL WELLSTONE may have stood 5 feet 5 inches tall, but

he had the heart of a giant. As we mourn his passing, we

celebrate his life. What a gift he gave to us all.

I ask unanimous consent that Bill Holm’s column, appearing in the October 26, 2002, edition of the New York Times,

be printed in the Record.

There being no objection, the material was ordered to be

printed in the Record, as follows:

[From the New York Times, October 26, 2002]

A Liberal With a Wrestler’s Stance

(By Bill Holm)

Minnesota, Minn.—PAUL WELLSTONE was an unlikely politician in a place

like Minnesota—land of walleyes, cornfields and phlegmatic Scandinavians.

He was an urban Jew, son of immigrants, a college professor at the fanciest

of Minnesota’s private colleges. And, probably worst of all for his nontalkative constituents, he was a passionate orator, a skilled rouser of rabble

over issues he loved and an unapologetic populist liberal.

How did this man, who was killed yesterday in a plane crash in northern

Minnesota, ever manage a triumphantly successful political career in which

even many Republicans and conservative Christians quietly scribbled the

WELLSTONE X on their ballots, hoping their neighbors wouldn’t catch them

behaving like lefties?

When I gave readings of poetry and essays, I often shared a podium with

Senator WELLSTONE at various rural conventions and political gatherings.

It was a remarkable experience, and I learned very well to proceed rather

than follow him. He worked a house as well as Hubert Humphrey ever did.

I remember a Farmers Union convention in St. Paul: PAUL WELLSTONE,

a pugnacious 5-foot-5, stood at the dais between the Farmers Union chairman and me, both 6-foot-5 Scandinavians.

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‘‘It’s nice to join my Norwegian cousins here in St. Paul,’’ he said. He then

proceeded in 20 minutes to bring the audience cheering to its feet. If this

had been a monarchy, the farmers would have crowned him.

I was next, with a few small and sensitive rural poems. I had a sinking

feeling that a master had bested me.

Whatever PAUL’s height, he was one of the largest men I ever met. He

filled rooms when he entered them. Size in a public man is an interior, not

an exterior quality. PAUL charmed—and sometimes persuaded—even those

hostile to his unashamed liberal ideas by listening with great courtesy and

attention to unfriendly questions. He answered without dissembling, without backing down from his own principles, but with a civil regard for the

dignity of the questioner. And he had the politician’s great gift: an amazing

memory for names. I saw him once pluck a vote with this gift. He answered

questions for 45 minutes in a room full of ordinary citizens whom he’d never

seen before. He began his last answer this way: ‘‘Your question reminds me

of Mary’s concern.’’ Mary, in the back row, was 45 minutes ago. Mary, likely

a rock-ribbed Republican, blushed a little and smiled. One more vote.

Even those who continued to disagree with PAUL did not question the sincerity of his idealism. He was sometimes attacked for naivete (as in his

brave vote against authorizing the President to go to war with Iraq), but

never for dishonesty. He voted, as he spoke, from the heart.

It’s often forgotten that PAUL, nearing 60 with a bad back and a respectable batch of grandchildren whom he treasured, began his rise in the world

with a college wrestling scholarship. His working-class parents had no

money for school, so wrestling earned him a doctorate.

He preserved a wrestler’s sensibility in both his academic and political

life. In 1998 I met PAUL at a reception at the Governor’s Mansion just before Jesse Ventura, a professional wrestler by trade, first occupied that

house. How curious, I told PAUL, that the two most interesting politicians

in Minnesota at the moment should both be wrestlers. He replied with a

wry smile: ‘‘But I’m a real one.’’

He thought himself an athlete, not an entertainer, and I suspect he saw

his whole political life in that metaphor. He wrestled with the power of big

money, military adventurism and penny-pinching against the poor. He

meant to fight fair, but he meant to win.

Not only Minnesota, but the whole country will feel the absence of his

voice and his bravely combative spirit. We say with Walt Whitman: Salud,

Camerado. We look for you again under our boot-soles.

Mr. HOLLINGS. Madam President, liberal? Worse, the

London Economist called Senator WELLSTONE the most ‘‘left

wing’’ Senator in the U.S. Senate. Yet, as the most conservative Senator, I found myself time and again fighting at his

side.

The year started with the Bush seduction of Senator Ted

Kennedy on education. Senator Kennedy looked at the

amount—$7 billion. President Bush looked at the thrust—

prove that public education was a failure so that private education could be financed by the government. Testing. Somehow the billions being spent by the States on testing was not

enough. A Federal test was necessary.

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Failing schools would be closed. Failing students would be

tutored. But most likely, the student failing for the lack of

a competent teacher could find no competent tutor. For all

this testing, the education bill provided no help for the student to pass the test. And for this, Senator WELLSTONE

ranted and raved. But nobody listened. Senator WELLSTONE

was liberal, but as a conservative I knew he was right. We

both voted no.

Next was the Bush tax cut. No doubt Senator WELLSTONE,

the liberal, was the target for this initiative. For the purpose

of Voodoo II, or Bush’s Reaganomics, was to eliminate the resources of government so that without the money there

would be no programs. But in reality, programs persevered,

with a horrific debt, and the devastating waste of interest

costs. Senator WELLSTONE, the liberal, was for programs. I,

the conservative, was for putting government on a pay-asyou-go path. We both voted no.

Then there was the jobs debate. Fast track—this was a device that Presidents use to control trade agreements. With it,

the agreement submitted by the President could not be

amended. Congress was required to vote it up or down, and,

of course, no agreement was ever submitted until the White

House had the vote fixed.

To get NAFTA approved, President Clinton bought the

vote with numerous favors not related to the agreement,

such as defense contracts, cultural centers, and golf rounds

in California and Arkansas. One could readily see that the

intent was to create jobs south of the border. Sure enough,

we lost 700,000 textile jobs alone. So, when fast track expired, we refused to renew it for President Clinton. Again,

Senator WELLSTONE and I both opposed giving fast track authority to President Bush.

‘‘Liberal.’’ ‘‘Conservative.’’ Wrong references. Adlai Stevenson used to say it’s not whether one is liberal or one is conservative, but whether one is headed in the right direction.

Adam Nagourney of the New York Times writes of the ‘‘homogenization’’ of American politics. Politics has changed. Triangulation has taken over so that every party compromises,

or triangulates, the other party’s issues. Both are for tax

cuts. Both are for saving Social Security. Both are for defense. Both are for the war with Iraq. Both are for homeland

security. Both are against corporate corruption. Worse,

money locks in this triangulation so that we are back to

George Wallace’s, ‘‘There’s not a dime’s bit of difference between the parties.’’

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But there is a fundamental difference. The Republicans

know to campaign. The Democrats know to govern. PAUL

WELLSTONE came to Washington to govern. He could see the

crying needs of the country: schools, health care, jobs, infrastructure, and so forth. And he was determined to do something to provide for these needs. But with the Democrats in

control by only one vote, we abandoned governing. The needs

of the country were abandoned and both parties went into

high gear to campaign, with money controlling the issues.

Y2K, free trade, corporate reform—money controlled with a

refusal to even cancel the principal corruption: stock options.

The Congress danced around the fire of intelligence failures,

terrorism insurance, seaport security, rail security, energy

policy, pension reform, prescription drugs—but no governing.

PAUL WELLSTONE was a fighter. The shortest fellow in the

Congress, most of us couldn’t touch his shoes. Today, there

are no fighters in Washington, just campaigners.

Mr. COCHRAN. Madam President, the tragic death of our

colleague, PAUL WELLSTONE of Minnesota, was such a sudden shock to all of us. It was hard to believe he had died.

PAUL was so full of life, and full of energy and enthusiasm.

It was so incongruous, so unbelievable, that his life could be

ended so abruptly.

But it was, and we continue to grieve and to miss him.

PAUL and I were friends. We also collaborated on legislation to help farmers and to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

We often talked about our strategy for accelerating the research that is so important to the effort to conquer these

threats to human life.

He traveled to my State to see for himself the plight of the

poor in the Mississippi Delta. He was sincerely interested in

helping alleviate the burdens and problems faced by the poor

people who lived in the Delta. I told him about the initiatives

we had started and let him know I shared his concerns and

that we were trying some new approaches such as the Delta

Regional Initiative.

Senator WELLSTONE will always be appreciated for the efforts he made to help those who needed help the most.

Mr. FRIST. Madam President, the Senate has been a

unique institution since its inception. We take great pride in

our deliberative nature. Debate may take time, but it is time

well spent. It is always better to pursue the right—rather

than the rushed—course of action. This style of governance

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has served the American people well for more than two centuries.

This does not mean the Senate is not a dynamic body. It

is full of the same vibrancy that marks this great experiment

called American democracy. For within this Chamber have

echoed some of the most lively and spirited debates in our

Nation’s history. And outside this Chamber as well—in committee rooms and caucus meetings and other public forums.

On Friday the Senate lost one of its most animated Members in PAUL WELLSTONE. He was a proverbial ‘‘true believer.’’ Conviction was not something about which he simply

spoke at opportune moments; he showed it time and again

with his unabated enthusiasm for being a U.S. Senator.

PAUL WELLSTONE’s beliefs rose from a deep and impenetrable well of principle.

Indeed, PAUL was a proud and unabashed voice for liberalism. His votes often landed him not only on the other side

of Republicans, but on the other side of his fellow Democrats,

as well. He was a man who simply did not blink in the face

of political pressure. He stared it down without regard to

price. Even if you did not agree with him, you admired him

and the courage he so frequently displayed.

I saw this first-hand on the Health, Education, Labor, and

Pensions Committee. There PAUL and I served together on

the Subcommittee on Public Health and the Subcommittee

on Children and Families. We shared a common concern for

the health of women and children and the mentally ill. He

spoke out often on their behalf. He fought hard for them.

And his passion for their well-being will be missed.

PAUL WELLSTONE was one of a kind. We were blessed to

have him, his wife, Sheila, and his daughter, Marcia, as

members of the Senate family. And the people of Minnesota

and the United States were blessed to have him in their

service. May we keep PAUL and Sheila’s sons and grandchildren and the families of all those who lost loved ones in

our thoughts and prayers in the coming weeks.

Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Madam President, several days after

this terrible tragedy, the loss of our beloved colleague, PAUL

WELLSTONE, his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia, three loyal

members of his staff and two pilots, we still remain in a

state of shocked disbelief.

We have lost a unique and gifted man, who embodied not

only the independent spirit of his home State, but one that

resides at the very heart of the American soul.

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A few years ago, when speaking on this floor about the

loss of his legislative director, PAUL claimed that ‘‘sometimes

the only realists are the dreamers.’’

In many ways he could have been referring to himself, the

cerebral political science professor willing to stand alone,

when necessary, for what he believed.

He had the common touch, and was an impassioned speaker, noted as much for his big heart as for his sharp mind.

Elected as the only new Senator in 1990, PAUL’s crusading

voice would not have had the same impact in the House of

Representatives as it did in this Chamber.

Only in the Senate could he have helped to lead the successful opposition, in 1991, to an energy bill that would have

opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration,

or 5 years later force a vote on a minimum wage increase.

For two terms he fought tirelessly for increased funding

for education at every level, health care that was accessible

and affordable for all Americans, sweeping campaign finance

reform, and farm legislation that sought to protect the small

farmers.

While he was, on the one hand, an ideological liberal, willing to speak with his conscience, PAUL was also able to work

with Republican colleagues on many occasions, and he was

responsible for passing important bipartisan legislation, most

notably the expanded insurance coverage for mental illnesses, with Senator Domenici.

But PAUL WELLSTONE’s commitment to social justice did

not stop at our borders. He was an outspoken champion of

the poor and the powerless around the world, in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

I remember when, back in 1996, I voiced concern over the

plight of women and girls under the reactionary rule of the

Taliban, PAUL was one of the few who was receptive to the

need for the United States to respond to such violations.

In 1999, PAUL and I introduced the ‘‘International Trafficking of Women and Children Victim Protection Act,’’ which

established an interagency task force to monitor and combat

trafficking, provided assistance to other countries that met

minimum international standards, and withheld U.S. nonhumanitarian assistance to countries that failed to meet

these standards.

To his eternal credit, it is worth noting that PAUL had

originally introduced his own bill, which contained much

tougher criminal provisions and stronger protections for victims.

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He was a leading advocate for Tibetan autonomy, able to

work closely with his ideological nemesis, Jesse Helms. In

fact, the last time I worked with PAUL was in cosponsoring

an act to safeguard the cultural, religious, and ethnic identity of the Tibetan people and to encourage further dialog between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese Government.

We must not forget that the world has also lost Sheila,

PAUL’s wonderful wife of almost 40 years, and a passionate

campaigner against domestic violence, and for the need to

create violence-free families. Hers was a noble cause, a critical fight, that must be continued.

Minnesota has produced some of America’s most eloquent,

committed, and honorable leaders. Hubert Humphrey, Harold Stassen, Eugene McCarthy, and Walter Mondale come

quickly to mind.

Even if he had not met such a tragic and untimely end,

PAUL WELLSTONE would have surely earned his place among

this distinguished group. The fact that he has left us so

abruptly, and left all of us so sad, will not diminish his

achievements, nor weaken his message.

To quote PAUL: ‘‘I still believe that government can be a

force of good in people’s lives.’’

We in the Senate should take these words to heart, just as

we were truly honored to have had him among us. We are

all the better to have known him and worked with him. He

will be sorely missed.

Mr. DAYTON. Madam President, it has been a very moving afternoon in the Chamber listening to my colleagues

speak so eloquently about my good friend, the senior Senator

from Minnesota. It was touching to hear of their respect and

their affection and their admiration for PAUL WELLSTONE.

I spoke earlier this afternoon about the Senator, my dear

friend, and because others were waiting to speak I abbreviated my remarks. I wanted to close by noting, as others

have so well, that PAUL’s remarkable achievements were not

his alone.

He was one of those people who, in his greatness, was able

to attract great people to his side. He had extraordinarily

dedicated men and women who worked with him, gave of

their time and their energy, their hearts and their souls to

his work: Colin McGinnis and his staff here in Washington;

Connie Lewis, Minnesota State director, and her staff in

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Of course, if you wanted to make a difference in Washington, if you wanted to try to move mountains and you were

young and idealistic, who better to work for than PAUL

WELLSTONE?

Many of his former students at Carleton College in

Northfield, MN, went on to be his key staff aides. I used to

tease PAUL and say that is what he was doing during his

time there; he was recruiting the best and the brightest to

work on his campaigns and organize the State and to work

in Washington and in Minnesota on behalf of the many

causes he championed—Jeff Blodgett, who was managing his

campaign for the third time and doing so with great skill,

and according to the last published polls, with very successful results, and others in Minnesota who gave up their careers, family life, and set it aside one more time to bring the

man they loved and in whom they believed to victory.

Kari Moe, who was involved with Senator WELLSTONE’s

Washington office, was his chief of staff for years before.

They are incredibly dedicated people each in their own right.

Tom Lapic tragically was on the plane with PAUL and lost

his life in service to his friend and his country. Tom was the

deputy Minnesota director. Several hundred friends and family came to his memorial service a week after his death. He

was a man who touched people deeply, as did PAUL. His wife

Trudy and others shared their recollections, the wonderful

qualities Tom had that complemented PAUL, his calmness,

virtually unflappable under any circumstances. Like PAUL,

he was astute and eloquent, and he and PAUL collaborated

on many of the words that PAUL used in speeches. Tom was

always by PAUL’s side offering his guidance and perspective.

Will McLaughlin was on PAUL’s campaign staff. He was

just starting his political career at the age of 23 in Minnesota. But everybody could see he was destined to be a star,

a Governor or a Senator, something special someday. He already had been elected president of his fraternity at the University of Minnesota. Politics was in Will’s blood or maybe

even in his genetic code. His father, Mike McLaughlin, was

a long-time Fourth District chair of the Minnesota Democratic Party, and he collaborated with the greats of the previous generation—Hubert Humphrey, Fritz Mondale, Eugene

McCarthy, Joe Karth, Bruce Vento. Will’s mother, Judy

McLaughlin, was a close associate of the former speaker of

the Minnesota House of Representatives. He will be missed

by his mother Judy and his siblings and his friends and

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those in Minnesota who never had a chance to get to know

him.

Thousands of Minnesotans knew Mary McEvoy who was

on the plane as staff in name but really as a friend of PAUL

and Sheila’s. She was one of Sheila Wellstone’s very closest

friends. Sheila flew with PAUL because he loathed it, and

Mary flew with Sheila because she loathed it. It was beyond

tragedy, beyond words that Mary had taken a leave of absence from the University of Minnesota where she was a full

professor, where she chaired the department, where she had

her own very distinguished career in her field, so she could

help her friend Sheila and her friend PAUL during their time

of need. She had a service where over 1,500 Minnesotans,

friends, and family came to pay their respects. She was associate chair of the DFL Party. She was a leader. She was a

colleague. She was a mother of three beautiful children, and

she had her husband Jamie. She will be terribly missed by

all of us in the life of Minnesota.

Of course, the linchpin of PAUL’s staff, his unpaid and

most important staff person was his wife Sheila who, unlike

some campaign and political spouses, was beloved by PAUL’s

staff and gratefully welcomed to the office for her ability to

run interference when necessary with her husband and his

life and his schemes.

I remember once it was said it took a lot of money to keep

Mahatma Gandhi in poverty because of the people around

him necessary to help him carry out his mission. It took a

lot of really remarkable and talented people to keep PAUL

WELLSTONE on the brink of disorganization. He had so much

energy and was doing so many things, often simultaneously.

Sheila was the linchpin and a formidable political activist in

her own right. She was born and raised in the coal country

of West Virginia, a hard-scrabble upbringing. She and PAUL

were married when they were 19 years old. For 39 years

they were each other’s best friend, colleagues, mates,

spouses.

Many talk about and preach family values. That was a

wonderful marriage and a wonderful family. They had three

children of whom they were enormously proud. Marcia

Wellstone, tragically on the plane, was a future political star

in her own right. She loved campaigning, loved being out

with the people of Minnesota. She was a wonderful teacher

in the White Bear School District, beloved by her students,

liked by her colleagues. She also leaves a gap with her family and friends that can never be filled.

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They had two sons who fortunately were not on the plane

that day, David and Mark, of whom PAUL and Sheila were

also enormously proud. I hope and I trust they will, in this

time of terrible loss and grief, be consoled a little by the

words that were expressed today, by the words that have

been expressed by people all over the country. They had extraordinary parents, very hard parents to lose, but ones who

will be with them in spirit always and gave them the best

upbringing that any two fine men could wish for.

PAUL was a family man from the beginning. That was always foremost in his priorities. I remember not more than 6

weeks ago I happened to come to the Senate Chamber one

afternoon, just around the lunch hour. Much to my surprise,

the Senate was in recess. There was PAUL with his 7-yearold grandson named Joshua, Marcia’s child, who was evidently on an outing that afternoon with his grandfather.

PAUL was showing him around the empty Chamber and

pointing out where his desk was, as well as others. I think

PAUL was convinced that he had Josh quite impressed with

this great Chamber and all it represents to all of us until

Josh looked up at him kind of wistfully and said, ‘‘Grandpa,

are we going to go someplace soon? You promised that we

were going to go someplace this afternoon.’’

For once, PAUL seemed almost at a loss for words. He

looked up at the ceiling and then looked forlornly at me,

looked over to Josh and said, ‘‘This is someplace.’’

I close by saying, yes, PAUL, this is some place that you

reached, without any of the advantages some of us have enjoyed, and Sheila Wellstone with none at all. They met at

age 19. He came to Northfield, MN, built a career as a college professor, she as a housewife raising their children. To

come to some place like this is a phenomenal American success story.

I recounted earlier today about how PAUL was elected in

1990. He ran an extraordinary campaign, a David versus Goliath, come from nowhere, miraculous victory that is a tribute to the kind of indefatigable courage and willingness to

follow his dream and bring people along with him. He stood

for what he believed in and won by doing so. That should be

in every political textbook in this country for decades to

come.

He served in the Senate for 12 years and made those

stands again and again. Whether they were popular, whether he had the votes or not, he knew usually with great insight whether he was going to be successful. He knew when

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he lost he had no alternative but to stand behind what he

believed in, to stand with his conscience and his convictions.

He trusted in the people of Minnesota to give him the opportunity to serve, which they did twice, and he was going back

to seek their support for a third term.

As others have pointed out, he was facing one of the most

difficult votes of his career, as some would say, at an inopportune time, which was the resolution to authorize the use

of force in Iraq by the President, at his discretion. PAUL

began his Senate career with that kind of vote with the Persian Gulf resolution and some believe because of his stands

over the years that if he were to oppose a popular President,

if he were to express a different perspective and, as Senator

Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, pointed out, vote for an alternative resolution, one that

committed the United States to multilateral action with

other countries of the world, that he would pay a political

price for that in Minnesota.

PAUL never really agonized about his decision in this matter because compromising his convictions was not something

PAUL ever considered doing. In fact, in my 2 years in the

Senate, the one time I saw PAUL angry was when a staff person—not his own staff, he did not know who made the comment—was reported in the Washington Post as saying the

Senate Democratic Caucus was trying to find some alternative resolution to provide cover for PAUL WELLSTONE who

was facing a difficult reelection. PAUL was furious that anyone would accuse him of looking for cover from a tough vote.

He said in one of our meetings that is what he had to take

back to the people of Minnesota, that they knew he would

never seek cover to avoid a tough decision or a tough vote;

he would do what he believed was right and he was willing

to go back to the Minnesota electorate and take their judgment.

I believe if he had been able to bring that to the Tuesday

election that judgment would again have been in the affirmative. That is PAUL WELLSTONE’s legacy to all of us. That is

his legacy to the country. Whether one would agree with everything PAUL believed is not the point. There are those who

can have sincere convictions on the other side of the issue.

That is the greatness of our country and our democracy, that

we can have those disagreements, honest, different points of

view, and we are a better institution and we are a better

country for our ability, through our political process, to embrace and incorporate those differences.

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He stood for what he believed in, would risk everything,

his political career, his opportunity to serve, everything he

believed and everything he wanted, on a matter of principle.

He would do so willingly, courageously, and emphatically.

That is something I will take with me throughout the rest

of my life, and I would commend it to everyone else in this

body and across this country.

PRINTING OF SENATE DOCUMENT

Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that tributes to PAUL

WELLSTONE, the late Senator from Minnesota, be printed as

a Senate document.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

WEDNESDAY, November 13, 2002

The Senate met at 11 a.m. and was called to order by the

Honorable Debbie Stabenow, a Senator from the State of

Michigan.

PRAYER

The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following

prayer:

Gracious God, You have made gratitude the powerful antidote to grief. As a Senate family we thank You for our dear

friends PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE. We are grateful for

Senator WELLSTONE’s courageous leadership and his indefatigable commitment to help the poor and disadvantaged of

our society. We praise You for his prophetic zeal for righteousness and justice for all people. Thank You for the way

Senator WELLSTONE befriended all the Senate staff and employees, particularly police officers, maintenance personnel,

pages, and those who serve to make the Senate run smoothly. He knew people’s names, always had time to stop and

visit, and made people feel valued. Dear God, You have enriched all our lives with the affirmation and encouragement

communicated so generously through PAUL and Sheila

WELLSTONE. They have done justly, loved mercy, and walked

humbly with You. Heal our grief over their untimely deaths

and fill us with Your Shalom. Amen.

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IN REMEMBRANCE OF PAUL WELLSTONE

Mrs. MURRAY. Madam President, on October 25, I lost a

good friend, the Senate lost a leader, and the American people lost an advocate who was never afraid to stand up and

speak for those who had no voice.

I rise today to honor my friend and colleague, Senator

PAUL WELLSTONE, who inspired so many people to speak up

and to serve. Even as I stand here today, I cannot imagine

that when I turn around I won’t see PAUL standing at his

desk, his arms flailing in the air, making some point with

great passion.

PAUL, with his energy and optimism, has left a mark on

all of us. In 1990, when PAUL WELLSTONE ran for the Senate, a lot of people were watching him and following his race.

Political pundits said he could not win. But as I watched

him, I became motivated. At the time, I was serving in the

Washington State Senate, and I, too, was frustrated by what

I saw happening in Washington, DC.

In PAUL I saw someone who cared about the little guy and

who spoke passionately. PAUL was never afraid to voice his

ideas or take on big fights. Not only did he win that Senate

race, but in the process he inspired a generation of young

people to serve their communities.

On a more personal level, PAUL inspired me to run for the

U.S. Senate. His brilliant example reminded me that you

don’t need to be powerful or rich—or even tall—to make a

difference. You just need to have an honest concern for others, an optimistic spirit, and the courage to act.

Over the last 10 years, I have agreed—and disagreed—

with PAUL on any number of issues. But never once did I

doubt his conviction, and never once did PAUL let his policy

disagreements soften the love and friendship he felt for all

of us. PAUL and I worked on everything from domestic violence and education to providing health care for veterans

and protecting families from asbestos.

I could always count on PAUL to remind me that so many

Americans have been dealt a tough hand in life. So many

families, through no fault of their own, find themselves

struggling, and they need an advocate to speak out for them

in this Congress.

No matter what pressures he faced in the Senate or even

with his own health, PAUL always reminded me how lucky

we are to be able to serve in the U.S. Senate.

One thing I will not forget about PAUL is that every one

of us was important to him and he proved that time and

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again. A few months ago, I held a meeting in my office to

develop a legislative strategy on a bill. I wanted to keep the

discussion small and focused and frank, so I invited two

other Senators and told them not to bring any staff members. When it was time to start the meeting, PAUL bounced

through the door with three people in tow. Even though staff

were not invited, PAUL didn’t mind. But these weren’t his

staff—they were his interns. He proudly introduced each one

of them to us, and they all stayed for the entire meeting. We

were still able to get everything done that we needed to do

in the short time we had. Those young students got to see

democracy up close. They got to sit in on a closed-door meeting, and they got a sense—just for a moment—that they, too,

belonged there and they, too, could do it.

PAUL never stopped showing people what they could accomplish, and that is because he knew that people—plain old

people—were important. He didn’t care about pollsters and

consultants; he cared about people. His love did not depend

on whether they could write him a check.

My favorite all-time campaign event with PAUL was not a

fundraiser, but—in true PAUL style—it was a ‘‘time-raiser.’’

On a cold Saturday morning, PAUL jammed a hall with folks

who could not write a check but who could donate 2 hours

of time to call or leaflet or answer phones. Judging from the

enthusiasm of that crowd, yelling to the rooftops in the

packed room, PAUL was their Senator and their guy. He valued them and they valued him.

I remember another event when PAUL wasn’t even scheduled to speak, but he ended up stealing the show. Earlier

this year, I was at a press conference on education in the

Dirksen Building. Senators Kennedy, Harkin, Reed, and others were scheduled to talk about making classrooms less

crowded. Out of nowhere, PAUL WELLSTONE rushed into the

room looking a bit confused. My colleagues and I looked surprised because Senator WELLSTONE was not scheduled to

speak and was not on the agenda. When PAUL got to the podium, the first thing he said was:

I am not sure if I am in the right room. When I ran into Ted Kennedy

on the floor a while ago, he asked me if I was going to the education press

conference, and I said I hadn’t heard about it, but I would be there.

He continued:

Frankly, I don’t even know if I am talking to the right group, but I am

going to tell you why we need to fight for our kids.

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Everyone laughed. PAUL went on to give a passionate, offthe-cuff speech that wowed and inspired every person in that

room.

To me, that really captures PAUL’s spirit. Wherever some

cause needed a voice, he would rush in—regardless of the

schedule—and give his impassioned best. If there were a

need, he would be there to speak out.

PAUL had said he didn’t know if he was in the right room,

but today I can say with confidence that PAUL was in the

right place all along.

We are all poorer for the loss of PAUL WELLSTONE, his wife

Sheila, his daughter Marcia, the members of his staff, and

the pilots who were taken from us on that dark day. It is sad

to say that the Senate will no doubt change without PAUL.

No one will pace down this aisle and speak as passionately

as PAUL did for so many causes. But I hope that each one

of us who are here will take on part of PAUL’s legacy—for example, the spirit to speak out for the underprivileged, for

students in classrooms with leaky roofs, for the woman on

welfare not because she wants to be, but because of domestic

violence and she is trying to get back on her feet.

I hope we will pick up his legacy and speak out for the

workers who are out of a job because this economy has left

them behind, or for those who are trying to overcome mental

illness and just need some help from their insurance company.

I hope, too, that we will carry on PAUL’s legacy of respect.

PAUL spoke from the heart and he spoke passionately. But

he never held any disrespect for those with different views.

I saw him so many times debate long and hard against another Senator and then step away from the microphone and

share a laugh or a hug with the very person he had just debated a few moments before.

If we can remember to fight for all Americans, no matter

what challenges they have been dealt, and if we do it with

respect and dignity, then PAUL’s legacy will live on in the

Senate, as it lives on in our hearts and in our minds. I, for

one, am going to miss him very much. He was all heart and

soul. He is impossible to replace.

Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, I rise to speak in morning business to pay tribute to PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE.

It is a difficult thing to do. It is a difficult thing for all of

us to do. It is easier for me, right now, to imagine PAUL

standing over there and articulating a great point, a great

point that would be for the consideration of some group of

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people or an individual about whom he would be deeply concerned—he was clear, passionate, and very forceful in his advocacy for them—rather than to think of him as being gone

but he is.

You cannot really measure the height of a tree until it is

down. That is, unfortunately, again, the case for PAUL and

Sheila WELLSTONE. He was a really tall man. They were

really tall trees in what they did.

I had the great fortune to be able to work with both PAUL

and Sheila on an issue we cared a lot about—the trafficking

of individuals across country borders, generally for reasons of

prostitution but also for other purposes. We found this was

going on.

Actually, Sheila discovered this was happening by visiting

with a number of Ukrainian women, some of whom had been

trafficked themselves when the Soviet Union fell, when the

superstructure that was the Soviet Union came down.

It turned out that gangs, groups came in, the Mafia-type

organizations, to operate in the former Soviet Union, and

they would run a number of different things. They would run

drugs, they would run weaponry, and they would run people.

It turned out the trafficking of people was actually their

third most profitable operation. It was a real despicable

thing they were doing. They would actually go into communities, trick young ladies, generally—sometimes young boys,

but generally young girls—saying: We have this great bit of

excitement for you. We are going to be able to have you travel to Europe or to the Middle East.

With the fall of the Soviet Union, they didn’t see hope or

opportunity in their own country, and they would sign on,

only to have their papers taken away once they crossed the

border. They would be put into a brothel, in some cases

chained and tortured until they would submit to prostitution.

And then they would even be moved from brothel to brothel.

It was a real seamy, dirty, ugly thing that was taking place.

It was a dark side of the globalizing economy. It was a dark

side of the fall of the Soviet Union. And Sheila found out

about it by meeting with Ukrainian women.

Now, I am sure there were not many votes at all in Minnesota that were going to hinge on whether or not PAUL or

Sheila were going to work on the issue of the trafficking of

young girls from the former Soviet Union, Nepal, and India,

or from other places. Generally, there was trafficking from

poorer countries into richer countries. But PAUL was such a

champion of the value and the beauty of each person and the

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needs and the dignity of that individual, and Sheila was as

well, that they were willing to put this issue forward and

fight for it over a period of a couple of years, until we could

get the bill passed.

Sheila found out about it. She brought it to PAUL’s attention. He learned about it and talked with some of these

women who had been trafficked. I started to hear about it.

I met with women who had been trafficked and found out

about the despicable nature of this new form of human slavery, a human slavery of which one person even wrote a book

entitled, ‘‘Disposable People,’’ because it happened in a situation where they would be moved from one brothel to another,

and then, as they would get sick or diseased—in some cases

they would get tuberculosis, AIDS—the owners would even

throw them out on the street and say: Well, we are done

with that one. It was just the most ugly act.

I remember being in a home for girls who had been trafficked and returned to Nepal. There were 50 girls, 16 to 18

years of age. Many of them had been trafficked when they

were 12 to 14 years of age. And a lady was helping run this

home. This was a recovery house for girls after they would

come back from the brothels. This woman was trying to

teach them a trade, trying to get them back into the community in Nepal. She would point around the room and say:

That girl has tuberculosis and AIDS and she is dying. This

girl is dying. That girl has this disease; I don’t know if she

is going to make it. These were girls who were 16 years of

age who should have been in the very flower of their lives,

and they were all dying.

They saw it. They were willing to fight for these other people. And we were able to get through legislation on sex trafficking.

PAUL joked with me afterward. He is a more liberal Member and I am a more conservative Member. After that legislative session, he commented that he moved from being the

most liberal Member to the second most liberal Member of

the Senate, and he blamed it on working with me. I said,

‘‘Well, just hang around with me, PAUL, and we will get you

reelected.’’

He had that kind of humor. He was a friend. He was a

friend who was not scared of ideology splitting people apart.

He had his beliefs; I had mine. We all do. But he did not let

that separate him. He did not judge a person’s soul by their

ideology. He judged people by their character and their

heart, where they would be willing to stand.

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I would often see him come over to greet and talk with

Jesse Helms. He and Jesse disagreed on a number of issues,

but they both had passion, soul, and heart. That is what

they respected and loved about each other, and that is what

I continue to see and love about PAUL and Sheila

WELLSTONE, that passion, heart, and soul that would carry

them forward.

I do not know that there is a better quote one could put

forward than from Dr. Martin Luther King. He once noted

that the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands

in moments of comfort but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

If we measure PAUL and Sheila by that measurement, they

stand as very tall trees. PAUL knew controversy. He knew

difficulty. He knew challenge. It rallied him. It made him

taller. It made him stronger. It was not comfort that he

sought. It was not comfort that he wanted to have. I have

often thought that in this life it is challenges that build us,

it is not comfort that builds us; that God has created us to

meet challenges, not to sit back and to eat bon-bons or to let

things go by in a measurable way, but He puts challenges in

front of us. The more we are willing to accept, the more He

is willing to give, and the more He is willing to test us.

PAUL and Sheila accepted challenge after challenge, controversy after controversy, always with a pure heart, wanting to do the right thing to help people, regardless of what

it might mean to themselves. They were there to do it and

they wanted to do it. They relished doing it and they grew

in doing it. He was a spirited fighter.

I remember reading about—certainly I was not in this

body then—when Hubert Humphrey served in this body and

was dying of cancer and they had a tribute to him in Time

magazine. I remember so vividly reading about it. The title

of it was ‘‘Happy Warrior,’’ because he was a warrior and he

was happy about it, that his course, his challenge, in life was

to be a warrior. He relished in the opportunity to be a warrior.

I did not know him personally, but he could not imagine,

as I understand his personality, that there would be any

calling any better than to be a warrior.

PAUL followed in those footsteps in a great and magnificent way. He was a happy warrior, happily fighting for his

cause, happily pressing forward, knowing that people disagreed with him. I disagreed with him often, but I could

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never disagree with that passion. Nor could I ever disagree

with that heart. We developed a really good friendship.

He is a man I was very fond of and I am fond of even now.

As I say, it is hard to think of him being gone. I suppose that

is because he and Sheila really probably still are here.

My prayers have been with them, with the other people

who went down in that plane. So tragically their lives were

ended early. None of us will know why on this side of eternity, but we can always learn and grow from him. We are

caused to grow in our life by each person with whom we

come in contact. I was caused to grow in a very profound and

very personal way by my contact with PAUL and Sheila. I am

indebted to them. I pay tribute to them and what they have

done. God bless them.

Mr. SESSIONS. I would like to join my colleague, Senator

Brownback, in paying tribute to the life of PAUL and Sheila

WELLSTONE. It is also so important for us to remember the

staff and others who were on that airplane. We have people

in this country who serve every one of us, and their lives

were given in service of their country also.

PAUL was a unique individual, no doubt about it, a man

who made us smile even when we were in debate against

him. He was a happy warrior. I think that is a good description of him.

All of this points out, as the Scripture says, that life is but

a vapor. We are only here a short time. We might as well

pour ourselves into it and fight for what we believe. Else,

what is life all about?

He did that. He poured himself into his job, poured himself

into his view of the world and life in general and fought for

that. His political agenda was an expanded government. He

wanted to help people in need. He was passionate about

that. He wanted to help people. To a large degree, I suppose

the disagreement I had with him was that he believed that

government was the way to make that happen, but the goal

was good. I know PAUL liked me, and I loved him. He was

an individual who was very special.

I feel real sad about this entire event, as do all of us in

this Senate. I remember his vote against the Iraq resolution,

which was something I felt very strongly in favor of. He was

the only Member of this body who was up for reelection who

had to answer to the voters on that issue. He did not see it

the way I saw it, and he did not tack to the wind. He voted

against that resolution and went back home and answered

to the people of Minnesota. He told them why he did it, and

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either they agreed with him or they forgave him. He was

able to cast what many thought was an unpopular vote and

not suffer the apparent political consequences.

I believe PAUL was a special person. He set a good example

for all of us to realize that life is short. We are only given

this opportunity to serve in the greatest deliberative body of

the greatest country in the history of the world for what we

have to assume is a very short time. We might think constantly that therefore we should use this office for the people’s good, and if we do that, we will have honored his name,

honored the commitment he made to public service, and honored the people of the United States.

I will miss PAUL. He was a man of great strength and

character. This body will be poorer for his absence. Our

thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.

Mr. HUTCHINSON. Mr. President, I take a moment to

pay my personal tribute to PAUL WELLSTONE. PAUL was a

dear friend and someone for whom I had a great deal of respect, someone with whom I enjoyed working. We served on

the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee together. We served on the Workforce Protections Subcommittee together. We had many opportunities to deal on differing

positions, obviously, on that committee, but always with

great congeniality and with a great deal of affection for one

another.

He and I were both in very heated reelection campaigns,

very tight reelection campaigns, and oftentimes discussed before the adjournment our mutual desire to be able to campaign in our States.

I share the grief of my colleagues in the loss we have all

experienced, the State of Minnesota has experienced, along

with his family and what they are enduring. We also look

back with a great deal of joy at the life he lived and the contribution he made not only to his State, to his country, but

to each one of our lives.

I recall so often PAUL standing at his desk. He took the

desk of one of my predecessors in the Senate, Dale Bumpers

from Arkansas. He was a good successor for that position.

Where Senator Bumpers would often walk up and down that

aisle with great passion, so, too, PAUL WELLSTONE would use

the entire length as he wandered that aisle and as he spoke

with such passion and such conviction.

I remember often his referring to himself, as he would

speak, ‘‘as a Senator from the State of Minnesota.’’ He would

use that expression. I don’t know if that is as commonly used

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as he used it—‘‘as the Senator from the State of Minnesota’’—and he stated his position and conviction. I thought

that phrase, ‘‘a Senator from the State of Minnesota,’’

summed up an awful lot of PAUL WELLSTONE. He was proud

of the State of Minnesota, representing the State of Minnesota and the people of Minnesota. He was proud also of

this institution, being a Senator. He never lost the love and

the awe for serving in this great institution. In my mind, I

will always be able to hear echoing PAUL WELLSTONE as he

spoke on issue after issue as a Senator from the State of

Minnesota.

The area in which we found mutual interest and, though

from very opposite ends of the political spectrum, similar

feelings was the area of human rights, especially on the

cause of China and the people of China, telling the world

about the human rights abuses that continue even to this

day in China. PAUL and I held many press conferences with

Members, colleagues from the House, who shared concerns

about China. He and I made many floor speeches about the

remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre and some

of the tragedies in the past.

I speak today with great affection, great admiration, and

a great sense of loss about PAUL WELLSTONE. He was a person who had great convictions. He was a man of great conscience. He was a man who did not mind if he upset the political order. He did not care that it might disrupt someone’s

schedule if he needed to make a speech on a position about

which he felt very deeply. As one who admired him for his

conscience and his passion, I simply pause today to express

my appreciation and admiration for the contribution he has

made to all of us.

Mr. NELSON of Nebraska. Mr. President, I would like to

add my voice to the many already heard today in remembrance of a passionate, intelligent, spirited man, PAUL

WELLSTONE.

Senator WELLSTONE was an original in a crowd abounding

with characters. PAUL first gained notoriety for earning this

office logging miles on a green schoolbus, traveling across the

State of Minnesota touching the lives of everyone he came

across. Once in Washington, PAUL made his mark quickly on

each Senator, aide, reporter, and officer who has been lucky

enough to serve in this institution with him.

PAUL WELLSTONE was a man of principle who provided

thoughtful analysis of every issue, but unlike some passionate statesmen, for PAUL it was never personal. He respected

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differences in opinion though he was unwavering in his own

beliefs. And although I only served with him for 2 years, I

saw many times his warmth toward those around him regardless of political ideology.

A few weeks ago we were on the floor giving tribute to another of our Members, Senator Jesse Helms, who will be retiring this year. Senator WELLSTONE eloquently praised Senator Helms, who has been so often on the other side of the

ideological divide. At the conclusion of his remarks, he embraced Senator Helms.

PAUL was a man of ideas, but also a man of the people.

He will be sorely missed and our thoughts and prayers are

with his sons, the WELLSTONE staff, and the people of Minnesota during this difficult time.

Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I rise today to remember a

man who is deeply missed. He was a colleague, a leader and

a friend: Senator PAUL WELLSTONE of Minnesota. Since joining the Senate in 1990, PAUL earned his reputation as a

great leader and a man of the people. He had strong convictions and an unparalleled passion for supporting the underrepresented.

As a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Senator WELLSTONE was a tireless advocate for the concerns of working Americans. He pushed for

expanded school funding and for improved teacher quality.

He championed expanded financial aid to make sure that

money was not an insurmountable hurdle for those who

wanted to go to college. He fought for a higher minimum

wage and better working conditions. He wanted to help the

average American by working to provide better, more affordable, more available health care. It was visible to all who

watched him that PAUL truly loved his work, and the people

for whom he did that work.

PAUL was a strong voice in the Senate and across the

country in the battle for human rights. For example, PAUL

and his wife Sheila crossed the country fighting against domestic abuse. But his concern for the dignity of human

beings did not stop at our country’s borders. He championed

a trade policy that would protect foreign workers from being

exploited by multinational corporations. He was a vigorous

supporter for peace in the Middle East and an advocate of

foreign aid to help vulnerable children and the persecuted of

all races and religions around the world. There wasn’t an

issue that affected human beings or our quality of life that

PAUL did not actively pursue; he fought for the people, stood

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up for his beliefs and let the political chips fall where they

might.

Senator WELLSTONE was also a leading proponent for

American veterans and their families. Year after year, in

ways small and large, PAUL WELLSTONE fought to improve

health care and other benefits for those who had served their

country. Many veterans disagreed with his views on defense

and foreign policy, but that did not matter to Senator

WELLSTONE. He understood that those who had put their

lives on the line for their country deserved special treatment

and special respect whether they supported him or opposed

him.

People didn’t always agree with his position, but he was

always forthright. There was never a question of motives

with PAUL. Senator WELLSTONE never let policy disagreements get personal; he always had a ready wink or smile or

joke to share when the debate had ended. And he had a

sense of humor that was downright infectious.

I worked most closely with Senator WELLSTONE on agriculture issues. PAUL was a fighter. He worked tirelessly to

improve policy for the farmers in Minnesota and other rural

States. Minnesota’s dairy farmers couldn’t have asked for a

more vigorous ambassador in the fight for a fairer dairy program; his efforts paid off in the 2002 farm bill, which made

great strides in leveling the playing field for Midwestern

dairy farmers. PAUL worked on conservation issues, supported farm payment programs to family farmers and

worked to improve nutrition programs in the farm bill. Senator WELLSTONE also understood the value of strong communities in rural areas and tirelessly pushed for rural economic

development. As with everything else he worked on, PAUL

brought a unique passion and unceasing efforts to these battles.

PAUL also worked side by side with me after the Red River

flooded Grand Forks and East Grand Forks in one of the

worst flood disasters in our history. His advocacy was invaluable as we secured disaster aid to rebuild the communities

that had been devastated by flooding and fires. When a battle was truly important and people’s livelihoods were on the

line, there was no one who would fight harder than PAUL

WELLSTONE.

We also worked together on the issue of mental health

parity. I can well remember when Senator WELLSTONE took

this issue to the Senate floor during the debate on health insurance portability. The managers of the bill had crafted a

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delicately balanced bill and agreed to oppose all amendments

in order to preserve their compromise. But that would not

stop PAUL WELLSTONE. He offered his amendment, and gave

a typically passionate, personal plea to put an end to the injustice that condemns those with mental illnesses to inferior

health care coverage. I was privileged to join Senator

Domenici and former Senator Alan Simpson in making the

case for this amendment. And, despite the bipartisan opposition of the leadership on the bill, PAUL’s passion and the personal stories shared by his allies carried the day overwhelmingly.

PAUL’s enthusiasm was infectious and deeply respected by

his colleagues. No loss on an amendment or other setback

could keep PAUL down; he was always ready to rejoin the

fight and perpetually optimistic that he would expand his coalition and find a way to win the battle the next time. It is

his character and good humor that we remember, and it is

his unquenchable desire to help human beings of all kinds

that will prove to be the greatest loss.

Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, PAUL WELLSTONE

was a committed and effective Senator who will be deeply

missed by millions of often ignored Americans, people who

relied on him not only to fight their battles, but to win important victories on their behalf.

I worked closely with Senator WELLSTONE for many years

in a number of areas important to both of us.

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, I know that he was a tireless fighter for the men and

women who had served in America’s Armed Forces, especially for ill and aging veterans, those least able to fight for

themselves, yet most in need of our help.

He fought for children, for their education and health care.

And he worked to fashion a welfare system that encouraged

work and protected children, without becoming punitive or

unreasonable.

He also worked on behalf of the unskilled and unemployed,

for a living minimum wage, for job training, and for education benefits to promote workers’ 21st century skills. And

I knew I could always count on his support for West Virginia’s steelworkers and all workers threatened by unfair

practices in an increasingly complex economy.

Senator WELLSTONE’s many battles earned him a reputation as an ideologue and a firebrand. But I saw him reach

across the aisle many times in his career. His first loyalty

was to people, not to party, and his work with Senator

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Domenici on the groundbreaking Mental Health Parity Act

stands as testimony to the strength of his priorities and the

effectiveness of his approach. I am proud to be able to continue his work to bring equitable treatment to those who suffer from mental illness.

PAUL WELLSTONE never believed that having principles

and sticking to them somehow meant you couldn’t get things

done in the U.S. Senate. Instead, he believed that you had

to stick to your principles, or you couldn’t get anything

worthwhile done. It was an approach that made him unique

and won him unusual respect and admiration from every

Member of this body.

Senator WELLSTONE’s tragic death, along with the deaths

of Sheila and Marcia Wellstone, staffers Tom Lapic, Mary

McEvoy, and Will McLaughlin, and pilots Richard Conry and

Michael Guess, have left a void in the Senate and in our

hearts.

But all of us who worked with him, or knew of the work

he did, will find some cheer in the memory of Minnesota’s

great voice for justice and opportunity.

Many will remember him for his fiery speeches and outspoken opinions.

But atomic veterans finally receiving treatment for their

service-related disabilities, and homeless veterans with a

new chance to find their way off the streets; parents whose

children are learning from better teachers and enjoying better access to health care; activists who found an ally in their

struggle to end violence against women; workers receiving

job training; and entrepreneurs, especially women, minorities, and the urban poor, profiting from a changed and expanded Federal small business loan regime—all these people

will remember PAUL WELLSTONE, as I will, not just for what

he said, but what he did.

MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

At 2:33 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has agreed to the following resolution:

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H. Res. 598. Resolution stating that the House has heard with profound

sorrow of the death of the Honorable PAUL D. WELLSTONE, a Senator from

the State of Minnesota.

THURSDAY, November 14, 2002

PAUL AND SHEILA WELLSTONE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY

BUILDING ACT

Mr. BARKLEY. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. 3156,

introduced earlier today by myself and Senator Dayton.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill

by title.

The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

A bill (S. 3156) to provide a grant for the construction of a new community center in St. Paul, Minnesota, in honor of the late Senator PAUL

WELLSTONE and his beloved wife, Sheila.

There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider

the bill.

Mr. BARKLEY. Madam President, today, Senator Dayton

and I are introducing legislation to pay tribute to Senator

PAUL WELLSTONE and his beloved wife Sheila.

Our legislation would provide a $10 million authorization

of Federal funds for construction of the ‘‘PAUL and Sheila

WELLSTONE Center for Community Building’’ at Neighborhood House in St. Paul, MN, where PAUL and Sheila lived.

First, let me thank the leadership on both sides of the

aisle for facilitating consideration of this legislation. Senator

Dayton and his staff, Senator WELLSTONE’s family and staff,

and especially my colleague from West Virginia, Senator

Byrd, have literally moved Heaven and Earth to bring this

bill to the floor.

I may be the newest Member of this Chamber, but I fully

appreciate the extraordinary efforts of so many to allow Senator Dayton and I to create a living legacy in honor of PAUL

and Sheila WELLSTONE in such short order.

Neighborhood House was founded by the women of Mount

Zion Temple in the 1880s as a settlement house, helping

newly arrived Eastern European Jewish immigrants to establish a new life and thrive in their new community.

Senator WELLSTONE always had a genuine affinity for

Neighborhood House, as his parents, Leon and Minnie, were

Russian Jewish immigrants themselves. But his affinity

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reached far beyond this personal link. Neighborhood House

truly embodies everything that PAUL WELLSTONE fought for

over the course of his entire life: that all people, no matter

their background or economic status or country of origin or

race or creed, would have a fair shake at life, and an opportunity to belong to and enrich their communities.

Neighborhood House has been building doorways of opportunity for diverse communities for nearly 120 years. The

Neighborhood House is a multicultural-multilingual agency

that provides and houses an array of programs, including

legal services, child care, recreation programs, senior programs and education. ‘‘Senator PAUL,’’ as he was referred to

by many at Neighborhood House, came every year to the

Freedom Festival at Neighborhood House to honor the new

American citizens from the Hmong, Latino, and other communities.

Indeed, the entire WELLSTONE family was very committed

to Neighborhood House. Just 2 weeks before their deaths,

Senator WELLSTONE sent his daughter Marcia to tour Neighborhood House and talk with staff about important issues for

our community.

In addition, Sheila Wellstone’s championing of women’s

issues is embodied in Neighborhood House programs such as

Hispanic Women in Action, a cultural empowerment group

that enables women to retain their culture while learning a

new one, address challenging family issues, and develop into

leaders not only for their families but also their community.

When Neighborhood House began to research the construction of a new facility to meet growing needs, it was Senator

WELLSTONE himself who suggested that the organization

seek a Federal statute to help fund the construction.

The PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE Center for Community

Building will be a 93,000 square foot state-of-the-art community gathering place on St. Paul’s west side. It will house social services, community engagement, recreation, and arts

programs for residents of St. Paul, as well as new Americans

in the greater Twin Cities area.

The PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE Center for Community

Building will also serve as an education and learning center

for communities throughout the entire State of Minnesota.

Last evening, the memorial program for the service to celebrate the lives of PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE contained

these words: Complete those dear, unfinished tasks of mine.

And I, perchance, may therein comfort you.

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PAUL, this is our first step toward finishing your work. I

also commit to working during my short tenure in this distinguished body to try to help pass your signature legislation, the Mental Health Parity Act.

Again, I thank the Senate leadership for the extraordinary

accommodation to allow us to bring this bill to the floor

today. It, too, is a tribute to the respect and love of PAUL

WELLSTONE by his Senate colleagues.

Mr. DAYTON. Madam President, I am proud to join with

my colleague, Senator Barkley, in cosponsoring the PAUL and

Sheila WELLSTONE Center for Community Building Act. I

pay tribute to my colleague, Senator Barkley, for taking the

initiative on this matter, for your leadership. I believe it has

been one week to the day since the Senator arrived in Washington, and even before he had undertaken the oath of office

and assumed the official title of Senator from Minnesota, he

was acting on behalf of our State.

He deserves the credit for this measure. Others are moving Heaven and Earth, as the Senator said. I believe he is

too modest. He is the prime mover in this matter. I salute

my colleague for his doing so under such extraordinary circumstances. I could not think of a better way for anyone to

begin service in this Chamber than to honor our colleague,

PAUL WELLSTONE, and his wife Sheila, who cared about

these matters from their own heart.

As Senator Barkley said, with the experience that PAUL

had being the son of immigrants and his undying compassion

for those who came to this country under any circumstances,

PAUL’s concern extended beyond those who could do him

some good in this society. PAUL’s concern was for those he

could do good in this society. He devoted countless hours,

thousands and thousands of hours to people and causes

where there was no benefit for him, there was no political

advantage.

Most of the people coming to this center were not citizens

and would not be for a number of years. PAUL did it out of

his heart; Sheila did it out of her heart, out of their common

compassion for their fellow citizens, with no thought of gain

or benefit to themselves.

This is a fitting first tribute. I hope it will be only the first

tribute. I join with Senator Barkley in asking my colleagues

here and in the House to ultimately pay tribute to PAUL and

Sheila, especially PAUL, since this was his matter of concern,

the Mental Health Parity Act. He worked tirelessly with

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Senator Domenici to pass this in the Senate, and unfortunately it was not adopted in conference committee.

I join Senator Barkley in hoping that measure could be

passed in this session. If it is not possible, I will do everything I can, working with Senator Domenici and others next

year to see it does pass. This is an important statement of

the Senate and the House. We need to pass it, honoring

PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE. It is appropriate because it

symbolizes that compassion, that spirit of humanity which

marked their lives.

Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent

the bill be read three times and passed and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, without intervening action or

debate.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

The bill (S. 3156) was read the third time and passed, as

follows:

S. 3156

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE Center for

Community Building Act’’.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:

(1) Senator PAUL WELLSTONE was a tireless advocate for the people of

Minnesota, particularly for new immigrants and the economically disadvantaged.

(2) PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE loved St. Paul, Minnesota, and often

walked the neighborhoods of St. Paul to better understand the needs of the

people.

(3) Neighborhood House was founded in the late 1800s in St. Paul, Minnesota, by the women of Mount Zion Temple as a settlement house to help

newly arrived Eastern European Jewish immigrants establish a new life

and thrive in their new community.

(4) PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE were very committed to Neighborhood

House and its mission to improve the lives of its residents.

(5) When Senator WELLSTONE became aware that the Neighborhood

House Community Center was no longer adequate to meet the needs of the

St. Paul community, he suggested that Neighborhood House request Federal

funding to construct a new facility.

(6) As an honor to PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE, a Federal grant shall be

awarded to Neighborhood House to be used for the design and construction

of a new community center in St. Paul, Minnesota, to be known as ‘‘The

PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE Center for Community Building’’.

SEC. 3. CONSTRUCTION GRANT.

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(a) Grant Authorized.—The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

shall award a grant to Neighborhood House of St. Paul, Minnesota, to finance the construction of a new community center in St. Paul, Minnesota,

to be known as ‘‘The PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE Center for Community

Building’’.

(b) Maximum Amount.—The grant awarded under this section shall be

$10,000,000.

(c) Use of Funds.—Funds awarded under this section shall only be used

for the design and construction of the PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE Center

for Community Building.

(d) Authorization of Appropriations.—There is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2003, which shall remain available until

expended, to carry out this Act.

Mr. LIEBERMAN. I congratulate our new colleague from

Minnesota, not only for the nobility of the purpose for which

this legislation is dedicated, to honor the memory of our dear

friends PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE, but for the fact he

achieved the passage of a measure so early in his time here

as a Member of the Senate. I congratulate him for his purpose and for his success.

IN REMEMBRANCE OF PAUL WELLSTONE

Mr. CHAFEE. Madam President, today I offer my condolences to all the friends, family members and admirers of

PAUL WELLSTONE. As has been said many times, PAUL

WELLSTONE was fiercely proud of the causes with which he

associated himself. Certainly, to have PAUL WELLSTONE

articulately and strongly arguing on one’s behalf was a great

asset. His many friends are forever grateful for his wrestler’s

tenacity as he advocated for those issues which he so emotionally believed.

Several years ago a candidate for Congress in Rhode Island retired from the campaign because of a shortage of

funds, declaring that no longer could ‘‘Mr. Smith go to Washington.’’ PAUL WELLSTONE proved that yes, indeed, Mr.

Smith could go to Washington. In 1990 he challenged an incumbent who possessed a huge financial advantage in what

many assumed to be a quixotic and hopeless campaign. In

November of that year PAUL WELLSTONE was the only challenger to beat an incumbent, providing inspiration forever to

long shots.

Three cheers for the people of Minnesota who have shown

a propensity for embracing people of divergent philosophies.

In the last few years Minnesota has elected Rod Grams,

Jesse Ventura and PAUL WELLSTONE; public servants with

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nesotans and Americans in mourning the death of the passionate and good-natured PAUL WELLSTONE.

MONDAY, November 18, 2002

IN REMEMBRANCE OF PAUL WELLSTONE

Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, like all of my colleagues, I

was shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic accident that

claimed the life of Senator WELLSTONE, his wife Sheila, their

daughter Marcia, two pilots, and three members of PAUL’s

staff. My heart goes out to the families and they will remain

in my thoughts and prayers.

It was always a privilege working with Senator

WELLSTONE. In fact, one of the last images I have of him was

in the final days of the session, when I encountered him

coming up the aisle in the Senate Chamber after a vote with

his typical boundless energy, warm smile, and friendly greeting. He was a compassionate, honorable man—and it was obvious to all of us that, together, PAUL and Sheila made an

extraordinary and loving team.

As a public servant, Senator WELLSTONE’s most enduring

legacy will surely be his career of conscience in elective office. With his unwavering passion and integrity, he was

highly respected and will be long remembered.

With both of us hailing from northern border States, we

shared the same perspective on a number of issues such as

the reimportation of prescription drugs, and we worked together over the years to ensure the critical low-income energy program, LIHEAP, would be there for the people of

Maine and Minnesota.

I was proud to serve with him on the Small Business Committee where I saw his diligence and tenaciousness firsthand, and to work with him on issues of importance to our

veterans such as a bill establishing July 16 as a national day

of remembrance for atomic veterans, as well as a measure

providing for increases in veterans spending. I was also

pleased to help champion his and Senator Domenici’s legislation to create mental health parity—a perfect illustration of

his compassion and the causes for which he felt duty-bound

to fight.

Indeed, all of us and, most important, the people of Minnesota, could count on PAUL to stand up for his deeply held

beliefs, speaking always from the courage of his convictions.

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He personified the notion of being able to disagree—even vehemently—without being disagreeable.

In fact, I cannot help but recall that when Senators were

offering their appreciation to Senator Helms upon the occasion of his retirement, Senator WELLSTONE offered very

heartfelt and touching words. He acknowledged that he and

Senator Helms often differed on the issues. But PAUL respected the purity of the convictions of his colleague across

the aisle—and he wished him well.

Now, it is PAUL WELLSTONE who has left our midst, and

the entire Senate family shares in the sense of loss. We have

a desk that was once filled with PAUL’s irrepressible spirit,

and it strikes me that PAUL WELLSTONE perished in pursuit

of the very ideal he held to be so noble and worthy—public

service.

This institution is always at its strongest when it is populated with men and women of PAUL WELLSTONE’s authenticity. We are diminished by his passing, and he will be missed.

Mr. ROCKEFELLER. I would like to take this moment to

note the loss of a dear colleague, a dedicated advocate for

veterans. Many have eulogized Senator PAUL WELLSTONE in

the past few weeks, and I do not need to tell my colleagues

of his passion, his energy, and his unwavering commitment

to shout on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.

However, few have noted his work on behalf of America’s

veterans, particularly those most neglected by a Nation that

has not always kept its promises. Senator WELLSTONE

worked on behalf of homeless veterans, veterans suffering

from the mental illnesses that can be the silent legacy of the

battlefield, and for those who returned from war to fight

their own government’s denials about the invisible wounds

caused by chemicals and radiation. PAUL WELLSTONE may

have launched his political career in protest of the Vietnam

war, but as a Senator, he chose to fight for those who served.

It is up to all of us now to carry on his work.

TUESDAY, November 19, 2002

TRIBUTE TO SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE

Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, I was unable to be on the

floor the day that we paid tribute to our colleague, Senator

PAUL WELLSTONE. I would like to take just a few moments

this evening.

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Like my colleagues, I was deeply saddened over the tragic

death in a plane crash of our colleague, PAUL WELLSTONE,

his wife Sheila, his daughter, several members of his staff,

and the plane’s pilots. His death is a grievous loss to those

members of his family who survived, to the people of Minnesota, whom he served so faithfully and honorably, to his

colleagues in the Senate, and to the Nation.

PAUL WELLSTONE lived the American dream. His parents

came to this country as immigrants. He excelled in school.

He earned both his B.A. and his doctorate at the University

of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He went straight from the

University of North Carolina to Carleton College in

Northfield, MN, as a young professor, where he taught for

more than two decades. Minnesota became home to him and

his family.

In 1990, the people of his State sent him to the Senate;

and in 1996, they voted to send him back for another term.

PAUL WELLSTONE was a person of deeply held convictions,

a dedicated fighter for working families. He fought with passion for his principles but was also deeply respectful of those

who disagreed with him. He was profoundly committed to

the democratic political institutions that he had studied in

his youth, that he taught to so many students over the years,

and that, by his own direct engagement in our Nation’s politics, he brought to life.

We feel a great loss in the death of this courageous fighter

for a just and decent America, and we will seek to honor his

memory by carrying forward in the spirit in which he lived

and gave his life.

Mr. REED. Mr. President, I too rise to pay tribute to PAUL

WELLSTONE and send condolences and prayers to the

WELLSTONE family, to all of his hard-working and dedicated

staff, and to the other families involved.

PAUL WELLSTONE was a passionate, courageous, never wavering fighter for his ideals. He fought vigorously for what

he believed in. He fought vigorously for Minnesotans, Americans, and people around the world. And he did so side by

side with his wife Sheila, an eloquent and forceful advocate

for domestic abuse victims and so many others.

He was committed to economic and social justice.

He was indignant about the lives faced by the poor, the

downtrodden, the battered, and all the ‘‘little guys.’’

He envisioned a better world for everyone, and strove

every day to help secure that better world. He was tireless,

but never humorless, in this struggle.

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He challenged Members of the Senate, the President, and

all Americans to envision this better world and to join him

in the struggle for that better world.

He fought for all of us, but most especially for our children, for battered women, for working families, for individuals with disabilities, for seniors, for family farmers, for veterans, for Native Americans, and for new immigrants.

He fought to improve education, health care, and the environment. He was a leading voice, a champion, a fighter for

these and other important needs of our Nation.

As he said:

If we don’t fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point

we have to recognize that we don’t really stand for them.

His view of politics was insightful and straightforward,

just like the way he lived his life. He said:

Politics is what we create by what we do, what we hope for, and what

we dare to imagine.

He believed with all of his heart and soul in the American

promise of equal opportunity, that

Every child in America should have the same opportunity to reach his or

her full potential regardless of the color of skin, gender or the income level

of the child’s parents.

To make that happen, we need to provide every child with

the same tools for success. I can still hear him say: ‘‘We cannot realize the goal of leaving no child behind on a tin cup

budget.’’ He would make this pitch during hearing held by

the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on

which I was honored to serve with him, on the floor, education funding rallies, and anywhere and everywhere.

He believed that education funding should come before tax

cuts for the wealthy. In the education reform law that he

voted against because he believed that it didn’t provide

enough resources and that the tests it demanded would be

‘‘educationally deadening,’’ he worked to ensure the highest

quality tests possible and to recruit and retain highly qualified teachers, among other important provisions.

He was also a leader in the fight for full funding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. He also long

worked to give welfare recipients the chance to get off the

rolls and into good paying jobs by allowing them access to

postsecondary education.

His legislative efforts to provide mental health parity were

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mental illness and his family’s struggle with the problems of

lack of insurance coverage of mental illness treatment.

In an editorial in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, he said:

Think of what fairness in treatment for mental illness would mean. Think

of the lives saved, the suffering eased. Suicide is linked to untreated mental

illness in 90 percent of cases. Americans with mental illness, who are homeless or warehoused in jails, would instead get the humane care they need.

Workplace productivity would improve, with less absenteeism and a higher

quality of work. Other medical costs would go down. There would be fewer

broken families, broken lives and broken dreams.

PAUL WELLSTONE could not have been more right. We

must pass mental health parity in his name, and we must

pass it as a first order of business in the next Congress of

the United States.

He also championed improved health care for children and

adolescents, particularly substance abuse and mental health

treatment and suicide prevention, included in the Children’s

Health Act of 2000. He coauthored the law that provides

funding for Parkinson’s disease research. He also worked for

a real patients’ bill of rights and a prescription drug benefit

for our seniors.

With his wife Sheila, he led the fight to end domestic violence. He worked for passage of the Violence Against Women

Act in both 1994 and 2000, a landmark law that provides

help, protection, and improved services to victims of domestic

violence.

He long worked to address the needs of children who witness domestic violence. Children who live in homes where

domestic violence occurs are at a higher risk of anxiety and

depression, and exhibit more aggressive, antisocial, inhibited, and fearful behaviors than other children. They also are

at risk for recreating the abusive relationships they have observed, and many, as a consequence, are juvenile offenders.

His legislation on this issue is pending in the Senate version of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Reauthorization Bill.

He fought for passage of the Family and Medical Leave

Act, and was working to expand it.

He was a leader in the fight to raise the minimum wage

and to extend unemployment insurance.

He believed in equal pay, worker protections, and secure

pensions.

He fought to ensure veterans get the benefits and support

they deserve.

He worked for cleaner air and water, reduced greenhouse

gas emissions, and renewable energy. He led the fight to stop

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the oil companies from drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

He once again spoke for people with no voice, by championing naturalization for Hmong citizens who aided the

U.S. war efforts in Vietnam, as well as by joining me as a

cosponsor of the Liberian Immigration Fairness Act.

PAUL’s efforts were not limited to improving the lives of

Americans. As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, he championed human rights around the globe. He

worked with Senator Brownback to enact legislation to address international trafficking in women and children for

prostitution and forced labor.

He also coauthored the Torture Victim Protection Act to

help rehabilitate tortured survivors in the United States and

abroad.

And he was a leading advocate and voice for sensible multinational-international approach to foreign policy.

PAUL WELLSTONE demanded bold action to right the

wrongs of this world. He fought for many valiant causes, and

in doing so, he improved millions of lives. However, his fight

is not finished. There is still much to be done. It is a fight

we all must continue.

As PAUL WELLSTONE once said after the 1994 election:

We don’t have time for despair. The fight doesn’t change. It just gets

harder. But it’s the same fight.

In his spirit and the spirit that is the most noble part of

this Nation, let us carry on this noble fight.

WEDNESDAY, November 20, 2002

Mr. DASCHLE. Let me mention a colleague who left us too

soon—PAUL WELLSTONE. It was a joy and an honor to have

him in the Senate.

PAUL said that he came here to rattle some cages—and

sometimes he rattled mine. But he always told the truth.

And he always remembered who he was speaking for. As I

have said before, he was the soul of the Senate. He had that

rarest and most difficult kind of bravery: moral courage. He

always stood for what he believed in, even if it meant standing alone. And he fought in a way that ennobled his causes

and inspired us all. And I will miss him dearly.

Mr. SPECTER. PAUL WELLSTONE has been the subject of

tribute and a man who will be truly missed. His work on

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mental health parity with physical ailments will be PAUL

WELLSTONE’s real legacy. I had an opportunity to travel to

Minneapolis to pay tribute to the WELLSTONEs’ two sons. The

tragedy with PAUL and Sheila and their daughter is truly

the saddest occasion of the past Congress.

Mr. HARKIN. I want to pay my respects to our departed

friend, Senator PAUL WELLSTONE. I did not want this session

to end without saying something for the Record about the

large gap left in the Senate by the untimely death of PAUL

WELLSTONE.

PAUL was my closest friend in the Senate. But in truth,

PAUL WELLSTONE was one of those rare souls who so many

saw as their best friend. He had a powerful authenticity that

made a miner on the Iron Range know that he was as important to PAUL as the President of the United States.

PAUL never had to proclaim his decency; it shone forth

every day in great acts of political courage and small acts of

human kindness. He never had to ever say he cared. It just

showed in how he greeted the elevator operators and the policemen outside. Sometimes we walked over to the Hart

Building and talked to workers on the grounds. Everyone

was a friend of PAUL’s and he always had a smile and a

handshake for everyone.

We saw this in him every day, in dozens of ways, from

that hand over there at his desk relentlessly chopping the

air as he stood on the floor speaking for those who otherwise

had no voice, to the countless people he reached out to help

across his State and across the Nation.

The hard-working folks he cared about most didn’t have

lobbyists or influence, but they had PAUL WELLSTONE, and

he truly was their best friend. Everyone called him PAUL—

not just his colleagues but staff and citizens alike. He would

not have it any other way. No one ever wore the title of

‘‘Senator’’ better—or used it less.

In the days since that terrible tragedy, we have seen an

outpouring of grief and admiration every bit as authentic as

PAUL himself. It is a tribute to him and to the yearning I believe in this country for a politics that can truly be the noble

profession of putting principle above the latest polls. PAUL

truly was the soul of the Senate. Sometimes he cast votes

that even some of his friends disagreed with—on war or on

welfare. But when he did, he was the mirror in which we,

his colleagues, looked at ourselves and searched our own

hearts to ask whether or not we were doing the right thing.

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So we say thank you to the political science professor

whose measure of truth was never in political theory, but the

impact that his decisions and ours had on real people.

Since he left us, PAUL’s friends and admirers have focused

on PAUL WELLSTONE as the lone man in the arena fighting

a battle against injustice. PAUL WELLSTONE was that. But he

was also a doer who left behind a real record of accomplishment in the Senate.

PAUL was one of the Senate’s leading voices for education,

pushing for investments in early education, for class size reduction, and for student financial aid so working and middleclass families could afford to send their kids through college.

And we worked together tirelessly to increase the Federal

Government’s investment in special education, so students

with disabilities could get the education that is their right.

PAUL WELLSTONE worked alongside Senator DeWine to

pass sweeping reforms of our Nation’s job training, adult

education, and vocational rehabilitation programs. By

streamlining often confusing and overlapping programs and

paperwork, PAUL WELLSTONE’s efforts are helping ensure

that America’s workers get the training and help they need

to stay on the job or to find new employment.

As a warrior for peace, PAUL understood this Nation’s duty

to the men and women who bear the scars of war. PAUL authored, fought for, and helped enact legislation to improve

the living conditions of hundreds of thousands of American

veterans. This law ensures that homeless veterans who suffer with alcoholism and drug addiction have ready access to

the treatment and care they need and deserve.

PAUL also made a courageous push for a policy whose time

had passed and should be done now, and that is mental

health parity. Along with Senator Domenici, PAUL authored

the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996, a groundbreaking proposal ensuring health care coverage of mental illnesses be

provided on par with coverage of other medical illnesses. In

the final year of his life, he continued to push for the expansion of mental health coverage, again teaming with Senator

Domenici to introduce the bipartisan Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act, which could expand parity for mental

health insurance.

I hope that in the next Congress, the Senate and the

House will enact what I hope will be deemed the PAUL

WELLSTONE Mental Health Parity Act, to finally put mental

health on the same plane, the same level as all other medical

illnesses.

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PAUL once said, ‘‘Politics is what we create by what we do,

what we hope for, and what we dare to imagine.’’

PAUL didn’t just dare to imagine a better America—he

helped to build it. Sure, he was willing to fight the lonely

fight when he thought it was right and proper, but he also

knew how to turn idealism and ideas, ideas into action to improve people’s lives—investing in education, expanding

health care, fighting killer diseases such as Parkinson’s,

helping homeless veterans, and veterans exposed to radiation.

Because of what he did, family farmers will have a better

future. Because of what he demanded, mental illness will

soon be treated equally in our health care system. Because

of who he married—his wife Sheila—and because of her passionate charge, more women and children will find safe harbor from the scourge of domestic violence.

PAUL WELLSTONE left us at a time when America needs

him the most. He believed, as his champion and mentor Hubert Humphrey once said, that

The moral test of government is how that government treats those who

are in the dawn of life, the children, those who are in the twilight of life,

the elderly, and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the disabled,

and the needy.

Those words, as much as anything else, form the focus of

my public life and, I hope, the true path of my political

party. It is a course in conscience that PAUL WELLSTONE

tried to set for his party and his country.

But it now falls to each of us, those in the land of the living, to continue PAUL WELLSTONE’s journey for justice, to

continue to speak out, to stand up and fight the good fight,

and to lead our Nation with courage and conviction. The

times demand it. In the coming days, may we all have the

courage of our friend, PAUL WELLSTONE.

Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I’d like to say a special

word for our dear departed colleague Senator PAUL

WELLSTONE—who I want to describe in the best way I know

how, as a mensch—a man, a very good man. He radiated decency and kindness and commitment to make the world a

better place. That was so not just in what he said and did

on camera, but in what he said and did in quiet moments,

small moments, private moments.

Much has been made of the fact that PAUL was a teacher.

And it is fitting. I think about all the lessons that PAUL

WELLSTONE the political scientist taught to his students, and

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how every one must have come alive when he ran for office—

and won—in 1990. That inspiration will last for generations.

PAUL WELLSTONE taught his students, by example, that

Americans who want change can do much more than carp or

complain. They can and should enter and shape the system.

They can and should be a part of the government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Senator WELLSTONE uplifted the Senate and uplifted our

democracy, and he did it with the clarity of his conscience

and the power of his principles and passions.

It’s no wonder PAUL titled his book The Conscience of a

Liberal, after Barry Goldwater’s book The Conscience of a

Conservative. PAUL had read Senator Goldwater’s book as a

boy, and though he found himself at the opposite end of the

political spectrum, PAUL admired Goldwater’s decency, his

honesty, and his conviction.

The name ‘‘Paul’’ comes from the Roman family name

‘‘Paulus,’’ which meant ‘‘small’’ or ‘‘humble’’ in Latin. And

PAUL was physically small. He was spiritually humble. But

the scope of his ideals and of his service was monumental.

In The Ethics of the Fathers, a tome of Jewish law, it is

written: ‘‘It is not your obligation to complete the task [of

perfecting the world], but neither are you free to desist [from

doing all you can].’’

PAUL WELLSTONE, as a Senator, a father, a husband, and

a man, lived these words and lived them well. May he rest

alongside his wife and daughter in peace.

TRIBUTE TO SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE

Mr. AKAKA. Mr. President, as the 107th Congress nears

its conclusion, I rise to join my colleagues in remembering

our beloved colleague, Senator PAUL WELLSTONE. Our

thoughts and prayers are with the Wellstone family, PAUL’s

staff, and the people of Minnesota. We are all saddened by

the tragic deaths of PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE, their

daughter, Marcia Wellstone Markuson, and the Wellstone

staffers and pilots.

America will sorely miss PAUL WELLSTONE and his passionate advocacy on behalf of those in our communities and

our country who too often feel that no one in Washington

hears their voice. PAUL WELLSTONE was their voice, he was

their champion, driven by his unwavering conviction that

government can and should be a force for good in people’s

lives. PAUL was a caring, persistent, and passionate advocate

for veterans, children, the mentally ill, and working families.

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He was committed to ensuring that all Americans had the

opportunity to make a better life for themselves and their

families, and that wherever possible, government act as a

positive instrument to advance opportunity and equality for

all Americans in education, job training, access to health

care, and the availability of quality health care. He was driven by his commitment to civil rights and equal justice.

Whether speaking on the Senate floor or to a workers’ rally,

retracing Robert F. Kennedy’s tour of America’s poorest communities, or visiting veterans hospitalized in Minnesota,

PAUL lived his convictions and values. Whether you agreed

or disagreed with PAUL WELLSTONE on an issue, there was

never any doubt about his integrity, the passion and commitment he brought to his work, and the deep pride he felt in

serving the people of Minnesota in the Senate.

PAUL and I were both first elected to the Senate in November 1990. I had been appointed to the Senate a few months

earlier, but we were both the new kids on the block. From

the outset, with his incandescent personality, exacting integrity, commitment to the values he espoused and the ability

to speak passionately and eloquently about the issues he

cared so deeply about, PAUL distinguished himself as an exceptional Senator and an extraordinary human being.

Over the course of his tenure in the Senate, PAUL became

a dear friend. Because of the chronic discomfort he experienced as a consequence of his lifetime love of the sport of

wrestling, he was interested in my experiences with hip replacement surgery. At the start of the 107th Congress, our

offices were next to one another. His boundless energy, enthusiasm, and good spirits were always welcome and brightened the day for everyone he greeted on his way to and from

his office. I remember one conversation on a long bus ride

back from a Democratic retreat in Pennsylvania. My eldest

son, Danny, had joined Millie and me for the weekend, and

he struck up a quick friendship with PAUL and Sheila. Over

the course of the ride back to Washington, we discussed philosophy and politics, the upcoming midterm elections, destiny, and the power of living in consonance with your values

and beliefs. I listened as PAUL and my son agreed on the importance of living life to the fullest and living every day as

if it is your last. That day stays with me because that is precisely the way PAUL WELLSTONE lived his life. He celebrated

life. He loved his job and his constituents. He adored Sheila

and his children and grandchildren. He always made the

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eryone he encountered as he went about his day. To me, this

is PAUL’s greatest legacy, the lives he touched, the people he

inspired, the spirits he lifted with his message of hope and

justice.

PAUL had hoped to visit Hawaii after the November election and had spoken to my son Danny about bringing his entire family for some well-deserved rest and relaxation. PAUL

and Sheila never had the opportunity to visit Hawaii with

their children and grandchildren as we talked about, but

they truly lived aloha. For aloha is love. And love is the spirit that brings people together in harmony. In its true sense,

aloha has to be transmitted to others, especially to each

other, and aloha really is in the giving, not the taking. When

you give, you are sharing aloha. This is how PAUL and Sheila

WELLSTONE lived their lives and it is why we in the Senate

family miss PAUL and Sheila terribly. I want to bid PAUL

and Sheila WELLSTONE a fond aloha. May God bless them

and the WELLSTONE family. Na Iehowa ’oe e ho’omaika’i mai,

a e malama mai—The Lord bless you and keep you.

Mrs. LINCOLN. Mr. President, I appreciate this opportunity to add my voice to those who have spoken in honor

of our late colleague Senator PAUL WELLSTONE.

In the 4 years we served together, PAUL and I didn’t always vote the same way. But we shared the most important

value of all: We wanted to do best for the people who sent

us to the Senate to represent them. On a full range of issues,

from education to health care to veterans affairs, PAUL

fought tirelessly for what he believed was best for the people

of Minnesota and the United States.

I admired PAUL’s conviction and passion in presenting his

viewpoints and arguing his case. I admired his honesty and

conscientiousness in standing up for what he believed. Most

of all, I admired the goodwill and sense of fairness that he

brought to this body. I hope that even though we won’t always agree in our debates here, we can always keep alive

that same spirit of goodwill, fairness, and openness.

PAUL WELLSTONE wasn’t from the South, but he possessed

all the qualities of a Southern gentleman. He was never rude

or mean-spirited toward those who disagreed with him, and

he was unfailingly civil to both his allies and his adversaries.

I feel fortunate to have had him as a colleague and blessed

to have had him as a friend. He will be sorely missed.

I would like to pay tribute also to the two members of

PAUL’s family—his wife Sheila and his daughter Marcia—

who perished with him on October 25. Furthermore, three

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members of PAUL’s campaign staff—Will McLaughlin, Tom

Lapic, and Mary McEvoy—and two pilots—Richard Conry

and Michael Guess—lost their lives in that accident. My

deepest sympathies and my prayers go out to their families

and friends in this time of loss.

ACCURACY IN STATISTICS AND THE DEBATE OVER BIPARTISAN

TAX RELIEF

Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the

importance of accuracy in the debate over bipartisan tax relief.

I was very pleased to work with over one-fourth of the

Senate Democratic Caucus in passing the largest tax cut in

a generation. That legislation has been the subject of a coordinated attack by the Democratic leadership and some of

its allies in the media. For almost a year and a half, I have

responded to these attacks in committee, on the Senate floor,

and in the media.

The basic premise of my responses has been that participants ought to be intellectually honest in the data used in

the debate. Reasonable folks can differ on whether bipartisan tax relief is a good idea or not. We ought to conduct that

debate in a fair and open manner.

Apparently, my responses caught the eye of a key opinion

maker, Mr. Paul Krugman of the New York Times. Mr.

Krugman is a regular columnist and focuses mainly on economic policy. Mr. Krugman took aim at me and my statements in a column, dated October 18, 2002. I ask unanimous

consent that a copy of that op-ed be included in the Record.

Mr. Krugman defended the often-mentioned but seldomsourced statistic on distribution of the benefits of the tax relief package. It’s the statistic we hear over and over again.

The statistic claims that 40 percent of the benefits of the tax

relief package go to the top 1 percent of taxpayers.

Mr. Krugman claims that I did not have an alternative answer to the 40 percent statistics.

I responded in a letter to the editor, dated October 24,

2002.

My letter sources data from the unbiased, official scorekeeper of tax policy for Congress, the Joint Committee on

Taxation. This data had been placed in the Record in the

statements Mr. Krugman criticized. That data, updated for

the last year the tax cut is distributed, 2006, shows that the

top 1 percent of taxpayers will receive a lower share of the

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cent. The remaining difference of 6 percent is distributed to

taxpayers with incomes below $100,000. That’s why Joint

Tax concludes that the bipartisan tax relief makes the Tax

Code more progressive.

By the way, this fact is not incidental. It reveals a key ingredient to our bipartisan success in 2001.

My Democratic partners in the bipartisan bill insisted that

we make the Tax Code more progressive as a condition for

their support. That was a condition that I shared with them.

We would not have produced the bill in the Senate without

their support.

Mr. Krugman struck back at me again in a column dated

October 29, 2002. He claimed my letter was ‘‘misleading’’ because I did not include the benefits of death tax relief in the

analysis. I ask unanimous consent that a copy of that op-ed

be included in the Record.

I prepared a response to Mr. Krugman and submitted it to

the New York Times editor. Unfortunately, the Times policy

only permits two responses per person per year. So Mr.

Krugman can attack me every week if he wants to and my

responses are limited. So Mr. Krugman and the Times policy

left me with the recourse of responding on the Senate floor.

Otherwise his charge would stand unanswered. That would

be wrong.

Joint Tax does not distribute the death tax benefit because

the analysis requires a conceptual leap. Economists have attempted to distribute the death tax benefit.

For instance, the Clinton Treasury performed an analysis

at about the same time the former President was readying

a veto on a tax bill that contained death tax relief. Joint Tax

attempted to distribute the same kind of analysis in the

early 1990s, but abandoned it after finding problems with it.

If you only read Mr. Krugman’s columns, you would think

that this analysis is straightforward. It is not. Basically, to

get to where Mr. Krugman and his allies want to go, you

have to make a conceptual leap. You have to assume that

heirs of an estate have the same income tax profile as the

dead person. So you need to ignore the reality that, for instance, tax-exempt organizations can be heirs of an estate.

You need to ignore the reality that, as a general matter, no

two sets of heirs look the same for income tax purposes. For

these reasons, an unbiased official source, like Joint Tax,

does not distribute the death tax. That was the point I was

not permitted to make in a response.

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For the sake of argument, however, let’s give Mr.

Krugman the benefit of the doubt. Let’s stack the deck further in his favor by assuming that all of the death tax relief

provided in 2006 inures to the benefit of the top 1 percent.

Let’s perform this calculation even though it is analytically

unsound. If you add that revenue loss, about $4.6 billion for

2006, into Joint Tax’s distribution table, you will find that

the top 1 percent receive 29 percent of the benefits of the tax

relief package. This compares with the 27 percent official

Joint Tax figure. Recall that the top 1 percent bear 33 percent of the income tax burden. In this case, the 4 percent difference, once again, though to a smaller degree, increases the

progressivity of the Federal tax system.

Mr. Krugman also cites an alternative tax burden, total

Federal taxes, as the appropriate measure. Joint Tax’s distribution analysis includes the Federal tax burden and as

the projection for the last year shows the total Federal tax

system was made more progressive.

Mr. President, I agree with Mr. Krugman on some things.

We need to change the tone in Washington. If the tone is to

change, all participants, including public servants, like myself, and opinionmakers, like Mr. Krugman, must participate

in the change.

Several things must happen if the tone in Washington is

to change. The first thing that needs to happen is everyone

must debate in an intellectually honest manner. This means

when a statistic is used, the source should be referenced. Mr.

Krugman’s op-ed is the rare exception when the source of the

40 percent figure has been revealed. Over the last 18

months, in countless congressional debates, in press reports

and other venues, the 40 percent figure has been used without attribution. At every point when I have debated the

other side of this issue, I have provided the source of my statistics.

The source of the data is important because, in an honest

debate, any biases should be revealed. The source of Mr.

Krugman’s statistic is Bob McIntyre of the Citizens for Tax

Justice. I respect Mr. McIntyre as a spirited liberal advocate

of his version of tax reform. Mr. McIntyre’s organization has

an agenda. It is a tax policy agenda that tends to be on the

left side of the political spectrum. There are competing organizations on the right side of the political spectrum such as

the Heritage Foundation. These organizations also produce

data on tax legislation. I doubt Mr. Krugman would ever use

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alternative analyses. If he did use these analyses, I would

expect him to cite the source.

There are also unbiased sources of data. An honest debate

ought to bring out that data and distinguish it from data

produced from biased sources. The Joint Committee on Taxation, established in 1926, is an unbiased source of data on

tax policy. By definition, Congress’ official tax policy scorekeeper, Joint Tax works for the House and Senate. Joint Tax

works for both sides of the aisle. Senator Max Baucus, a

Democrat from Montana, is the current chairman of Joint

Tax. Last year, Congressman Bill Thomas, a Republican

from California, was chairman.

Opponents of the bipartisan tax relief package, like Mr.

Krugman, do not use this objective source of data.

If we are to change the tone in Washington, not only do

we need to be honest about statistics, but we should put statistics in the proper context. Mr. Krugman uses the tax benefit figure in isolation. Mr. Krugman ignores the context of

tax burden. Joint Tax’s distribution analysis for 2006 shows

that taxpayers who received the greatest reduction in their

tax burden were those with incomes between $10,000 and

$40,000. For instance, taxpayers with incomes between

$10,000 and $20,000 will enjoy a reduction in their tax burden of 13.6 percent. Taxpayers with incomes over $200,000

will see their tax burden reduced by 6.1 percent. This example, drawn from Joint Tax, not a conservative think tank,

puts the benefits of the tax cut in context.

I agree with Mr. Krugman’s objective. I also agree with

many of his sentiments about my late friend, Senator PAUL

WELLSTONE. Senator WELLSTONE liked a good and vigorous

debate. He did so in an intellectually honest manner. Let’s

change the tone in Washington. Mr. Krugman has a role as

an opinionmaker who opposes last year’s bipartisan tax relief

package. I welcome a lively exchange with him and others of

his view. All I ask is that we have that exchange in intellectually honest terms.

So I describe a real difference in the approach of Midwestern transparent Iowans and that of an ivory tower Easterner.

I ask unanimous consent to print the aforementioned materials in the Record.

There being no objection, the material was ordered to be

printed in the Record, as follows:

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Washington, DC, October 30, 2002.

Re ‘‘For the People,’’ by PAUL Krugman (column, Oct. 29): I continue to call

for unbiased tax data in policy debates.

TO THE EDITOR, THE NEW YORK TIMES.

New York, NY.

MAYBE YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU

I share many of Mr. Krugman’s sentiments about my late neighbor and

friend, Senator PAUL WELLSTONE. As the Senate’s only working farmer, I

was a ready partner of Senator WELLSTONE in efforts to help family farmers.

Mr. Krugman described the data in my letter as ‘‘misleading.’’ His dispute

lies not with me, but with Congress’ official, unbiased, tax policy scorekeeper, the Joint Committee on Taxation. Joint Tax says ‘‘estate and gift

taxes are not included due to uncertainty concerning the incidence of those

taxes.’’

The uncertainty arises, in part, because estate tax relief goes to the estate’s heirs, not the dead person. For income tax purposes, generally the

person earning income is alive to enjoy it. Attempts to distribute the estate

tax benefit are, at best, a very rough calculation. In effect, those who take

Mr. Krugman’s view, believe the dead person benefits from estate tax relief.

Only those in the ivory towers of academia believe you can take tax relief

to the grave.

Sincerely,

SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY,

Ranking Member, Finance Committee.

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For the People

(By Paul Krugman)

Ghoulish but true: as Minnesota mourns the death of Senator PAUL

WELLSTONE, many of the state’s residents have been receiving fliers bearing

a picture of a tombstone. The flier, sent out by a conservative business

group, denounces the late senator’s support for maintaining the estate tax.

Under the tombstone, the text reads in part: ‘‘PAUL WELLSTONE not only

wants to tax you and your business to death . . . he wants to tax you in the

hereafter.’’

To be fair, the people who mailed out those fliers—which are carefully

worded so that the cost of the mailing doesn’t officially count as a campaign

contribution—didn’t know how tasteless they would now appear. Yet in a

sense the mass mailing is a fitting epitaph; it reminds us what PAUL

WELLSTONE stood for, and how brave he was to take that stand.

Sometimes it seems as if Americans have forgotten what courage means.

Here’s a hint: talking tough doesn’t make you a hero; you have to take personal risks. And I’m not just taking about physical risks—though it’s striking how few of our biggest flag wavers have ever put themselves in harm’s

way. What we should demand of our representatives in Washington is the

willingness to take political risks—to make a stand on principle, even if it

means taking on powerful interest groups.

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PAUL WELLSTONE took risks. He was, everyone acknowledges, a political

who truly voted his convictions, who supported what he thought was right,

not what he thought would help him get re-elected. He took risky stands

on many issues: agree or disagree, you have to admit that his vote against

authorization for an Iraq war was a singularly brave act. Yet the most consistent theme in his record was economic—his courageous support for the

interests of ordinary Americans against the growing power of our emerging

plutocracy.

In our money-dominated politics, that’s a dangerous position to take.

When Mr. WELLSTONE first ran for the Senate, his opponent outspent him

7 to 1. According to one of his advisers, the success of that ramshackle campaign, run from a rickety green schoolbus, ‘‘made politics safe for populists

again.’’

If only. Almost every politician in modern American pretends to be a populist; indeed, it’s a general rule that the more slavishly a politician supports

the interests of wealthy individuals and big corporations, the folksier his

manner. But being a genuine populist, someone who really tries to stand up

against what Mr. WELLSTONE called ‘‘Robin Hood in reverse’’ policies, isn’t

easy: you must face the power not just of money, but of sustained and

shameless hypocrisy.

And that’s why those fliers are a perfect illustration of what PAUL

WELLSTONE was fighting. On one side, the inclusion of estate tax repeal in

last year’s Federal tax cut is the most striking example to date of how our

political system serves the interests of the wealthy. After all, the estate tax

affects only a small minority of families; the bulk of the tax is paid by a

tiny elite. In fact, estate tax repeal favors the wealthy to such an extent

that defenders of last year’s tax cut—like Senator Charles Grassley, who

published a misleading letter in Friday’s Times—always carefully omit it

from calculations of who benefits. (The letter talked only about the income

tax; had he included the effects of estate tax repeal, he would have been

forced to admit that more than 40 percent of the benefits of that tax cut

go to the wealthiest 1 percent of the population.) To eliminate the estate tax

in the face of budget deficits means making the rich richer even as we slash

essential services for the middle class and the poor.

On the other side, the estate tax debate illustrates the pervasive hypocrisy of our politics. For repeal of the ‘‘death tax’’ has been cast, incredibly,

as a populist issue. Thanks to sustained, lavishly financed propaganda—of

which that anti-WELLSTONE flier was a classic example—millions of Americans imagine, wrongly, that the estate tax mainly affects small businesses

and farms, and that its repeal will help ordinary people. And who pays for

the propaganda? Guess.

It’s amazing what money can buy.

In an age of fake populists, PAUL WELLSTONE was the real thing. Now

he’s gone. Will others have the courage to carry on?

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A Tax Cut for Whom?

To the Editor: Re ‘‘Springtime for Hitler,’’ by Paul Krugman (column, Oct.

18): I stand by my call for unbiased tax data in policy debates. Some observers claim that 40 percent of last year’s tax cuts went to the top 1 percent

of taxpayers. The Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’s official, unbiased

source, says the top 1 percent will receive 27 percent of the income tax cuts

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in 2006, the latest projection available. Taxpayers with incomes of $200,000

and less will receive the majority of the tax-cut benefits, with 67 percent.

The real story is that despite those cuts, the top 1 percent of taxpayers

will still pay 33 percent of Federal income taxes. They will receive a lower

share of the income tax cut, 27 percent, than their burden, 33 percent.

The joint committee says the taxpayers who will receive the greatest reduction in their tax burden have incomes between $10,000 and $40,000.

Those with incomes between $10,000 and $20,000 will enjoy a reduction of

13.6 percent. Those with incomes of more than $200,000 will see their burden reduced by 6.1 percent. Intellectual honesty demands putting tax data

in context.

CHUCK GRASSLEY.

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[From the New York Times, October 18, 2002]

Springtime for Hitler

(By Paul Krugman)

You may recall that George W. Bush promised, among other things, to

change the tone in Washington. He made good on that promise: the tone has

certainly changed. As far as I know, in the past it wasn’t considered appropriate for the occupant of the White House to declare that members of the

opposition party weren’t interested in the nation’s security. And it certainly

wasn’t usual to compare anyone who wants to tax the rich—or even anyone

who estimates the share of last year’s tax cut that went to the wealthy—

to Adolf Hitler.

O.K., maybe we should discount remarks by Senator Phil Gramm. When

Mr. Gramm declared that a proposal to impose a one-time capital gains levy

on people who renounce U.S. citizenship in order to avoid paying taxes was

‘‘right out of Nazi Germany,’’ even the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance committee, Charles Grassley, objected to the comparison.

But Mr. Grassley must have thought better of his objection, since just a

few weeks later he decided to use the Hitler analogy himself: ‘‘I am sure

voters will get their fill of statistics claiming that the Bush tax cut hands

out 40 percent of its benefits to the top 1 percent of taxpayers. This is not

merely misleading, it is outright false. Some folks must be under the impression that as long as something is repeated often enough, it will become

true. That was how Adolf Hitler got to the top.’’

For the record, Robert McIntyre of Citizens for Tax Justice—the original

source of that 40 percent estimate—is no Adolf Hitler. The amazing thing

is that Mr. Grassley is sometimes described as a moderate. his remarks as

just one more indicator that we have entered an era of extreme partisanship—one that leaves no room for the acknowledgment of politically inconvenient facts. For the claim that Mr. Grassley describes as ‘‘outright false’’

is, in fact, almost certainly true; in a rational world it wouldn’t even be a

matter for argument.

You might imagine that Mr. Grassley has in hand an alternative answer

to the question ‘‘How much of the tax cut will go to the top 1 percent?’’—

that the administration has, at some point, produced a number showing

that the wealthy aren’t getting a big share of the benefits. In fact, however,

administration officials have never answered that question. When pressed,

they have always insisted on answering some other question.

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But last year the Treasury Department did release a table showing, somewhat inadvertently, that more than 25 percent of the income tax cut will

go to people making more than $200,000 per year. This number doesn’t include the effects of estate tax repeal; in 1999 only 2 percent of estates paid

any tax, and half of that tax was paid by only 0.16 percent of estates. The

number also probably doesn’t take account of the alternative minimum tax,

which will snatch away most of the income tax cut for upper-middle-class

families, but won’t affect the rich.

Put all this together and it becomes clear that, such enough, something

like 40 percent of the tax cut—it could be a bit less, but probably it’s considerably more—will go to 1 percent of the population. And the administration’s systematic evasiveness on the question of who benefits from the tax

cut amounts to a plea of nolo contendere. Which brings us back to the new

tone in Washington.

When Ronald Reagan cut taxes on rich people, he didn’t deny that that

was what he was doing. You could agree or disagree with the supply-side

economic theory he used to justify his actions, but he didn’t pretend that

he was increasing the progressivity of the tax system.

The strategy used to sell the Bush tax cut was simply to deny the facts—

and to lash out at anyone who tried to point them out. And it’s a strategy

that, having worked there, is now being applied across the board.

Michael Kinsley recently wrote that ‘‘The Bush campaign for was against

Iraq has been insulting to American citizens, not just because it has been

dishonest, but because it has been unserious. A lie is insulting; an obvious

lie is doubly insulting.’’ All I can say is, now he notices? It’s been like that

all along on economic policy.

You see, some folks must be under the impression that as long as something is repeated often enough, it will become true. That was how George

W. Bush got to the top.

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Proceedings in the House of

Representatives

MONDAY, October 28, 2002

ADJOURNMENT

The SPEAKER. Without objection, the House stands adjourned until 11 a.m. on Thursday, October 31, 2002, in respect of the memory of the late Honorable PAUL D.

WELLSTONE of Minnesota.

There was no objection.

Accordingly (at 11 o’clock and 3 minutes a.m.), under its

previous order, the House adjourned until Thursday, October

31, 2002, at 11 a.m. in memory of the late Honorable PAUL

D. WELLSTONE of Minnesota.

THURSDAY, October 31, 2002

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

A message from the Senate by Mr. Monahan, one of its

clerks, announced that the Senate agreed to the following

resolution:

S. RES. 354

Whereas the Honorable PAUL WELLSTONE taught at Carleton College in

Northfield, Minnesota, for more than 20 years in the service of the youth

of our Nation;

Whereas the Honorable PAUL WELLSTONE served Minnesota in the U.S.

Senate with devotion and distinction for more than a decade;

Whereas the Honorable PAUL WELLSTONE worked tirelessly on behalf of

America’s veterans and the less fortunate, particularly children and families

living in poverty and those with mental illness;

Whereas the Honorable PAUL WELLSTONE never wavered from the principles that guided his life and career;

Whereas his efforts on behalf of the people of Minnesota and all Americans earned him the esteem and high regard of his colleagues; and

Whereas his tragic and untimely death has deprived his State and Nation

of an outstanding lawmaker: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Senate expresses profound sorrow and deep regret on

the deaths of the Honorable PAUL WELLSTONE, late Senator from the State

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of Minnesota, his wife Sheila, their daughter Marcia, aides Mary McEvoy,

Tom Lapic, and Will McLaughlin, and pilots Richard Conry and Michael

Guess.

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House

of Representatives and transmit an enrolled copy thereof to the family of the

deceased Senator, and the families of all the deceased.

Resolved, That when the Senate adjourns today, it adjourn as a further

mark of respect to the memory of the deceased.

TUESDAY, November 12, 2002

TRIBUTE TO SENATOR PAUL AND SHEILA WELLSTONE

Mr. RAMSTAD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to

Senator PAUL WELLSTONE and his wife, Sheila Wellstone. As

we all know, the WELLSTONEs perished in a tragic plane

crash, along with their daughter Marcia, three staff members and two pilots on October 25, 2002.

It has been 18 days since that terrible day, and I am still

overwhelmed by sadness at the tragic death of our dear

friends whose plane went down in a northern Minnesota

wetland near Eveleth.

I continue to join all Minnesotans in mourning our great

loss. Minnesota has lost two compassionate and caring public

servants. Both PAUL and Sheila will be sorely missed by all

of us who knew and loved them.

As the WELLSTONEs’ son, David, said, ‘‘The words that

come to mind about my dad are integrity, passion, fairness

and intensity. When the going got rough, there was no one

else you wanted in your corner.’’ And about his mother, Sheila, David Wellstone said, ‘‘The words that come to mind are

selfless, caring, loving, tenacious, proud and strong. She gave

of herself like you would not believe.’’

Mr. Speaker, we all know that nobody fought harder or

with greater passion for the underdog than PAUL and Sheila

WELLSTONE. Senator WELLSTONE dedicated his life to serving others, and he was a tireless advocate for people in need.

PAUL WELLSTONE was a person of absolute integrity and was

often willing to ‘‘go it alone’’ to stand up for what he believed

was right.

Sheila Wellstone was a true champion for battered women

and their families, and I was privileged to work with her on

many important causes like the Violence Against Women Act

and securing funding for Cornerstone, an emergency shelter

for women and their children who are victims of domestic violence in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.

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Senator WELLSTONE’s best friend, Rick Kahn of

Minnetonka, tells how PAUL used to say to him, ‘‘It is not

enough to cling to principles, no matter how noble they may

be, unless we are truly willing to risk everything.’’

While Senator WELLSTONE and I had our disagreements on

many policy issues, there is no disagreeing that I lost my

partner in the fight for people with chemical addiction. I will

always be grateful to Senator WELLSTONE for his tireless and

principled efforts to provide chemical dependency treatment

for more Americans, and PAUL WELLSTONE was the Senate

sponsor of our legislation to provide parity for chemical dependency treatment.

Even though we encountered strenuous resistance from

special interests, Senator WELLSTONE was always truly willing to risk everything for our cause to help people with addiction. He was absolutely relentless in his efforts to push for

parity, both for people with chemical addiction, and those

suffering from mental illness. PAUL would call me frequently,

and usually late at night, to breathlessly relay his progress

in securing another cosponsor for our bill or to ask for advice; or usually to give advice. I came to absolutely cherish

those late night phone calls from my friend.

As William Cope Moyers, vice president of the Hazelden

Foundation in Minnesota, the world-renowned treatment

center for chemically dependent people, put it, ‘‘Senator

WELLSTONE was a passionate champion of what we do at

Hazelden, and his loss is immeasurable.’’

Not only did we lose two deeply committed champions for

battered women and people with addiction, and so many

other Americans, I lost two of my dearest friends in that

plane crash. I have been asked many times since the crash

to share personal stories about the WELLSTONEs. It has been

absolutely heartwarming to share personal memories about

PAUL and Sheila with people throughout Minnesota.

And as we all know, in this body as well as the other body,

PAUL WELLSTONE took his job very seriously, but he never,

ever took himself too seriously. He had a great ability to

poke fun at himself and bring people together. Even when he

had policy disagreements with people, he always disagreed

in an agreeable way, flashing that contagious WELLSTONE

smile and slapping the person on the back in a warm, loving

way.

Mr. Speaker, one of my favorite recollections of PAUL was

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Minnesota, I instructed all of the regular commuters to start

humming ‘‘Hail to the Chief’’ as soon as PAUL got on the

plane.

On cue, the passengers struck up a cord of ‘‘Hail to the

Chief,’’ and PAUL saw me sitting in the back and came right

over to me and said ‘‘Ramstad, do not forget. I might be only

5 feet 5 and you are 6 feet 3, but don’t ever forget I was a

wrestler and you were only a basketball player.’’

That was PAUL WELLSTONE, always in good humor, always

flashing that contagious smile that reflected his love for all

people.

Mr. Speaker, in conclusion, PAUL WELLSTONE was a person

of great courage. Who can forget Senator WELLSTONE painfully walking around the Capitol bent nearly double from the

back injuries he had sustained as a wrestler and from his

struggles with multiple sclerosis, but always the first to run

back into the kitchen of the Senate Dining Room to thank

the cooks and dishwashers for his meals.

Mr. Speaker, I ask all in this body to pause for a silent

moment to pay our respects to PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE,

their daughter Marcia, and to the others who perished in

that plane crash, Tom Lapic, Mary McEvoy, Will

McLaughlin, Richard Conry and Michael Guess. My heart

goes out to the family members left behind and to PAUL’s

dedicated staff. May you rest in peace, dear friends. Amen.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I offer a privileged resolution (H. Res. 598) and ask for its immediate consideration.

The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

H. RES. 598

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of the death

of the Honorable PAUL D. WELLSTONE, a Senator from the State of Minnesota.

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate

and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased.

Resolved, That when the House adjourns today, it adjourn as a further

mark of respect to the memory of the deceased Senator.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, 20 years ago I had returned

to Minnesota from a human rights inquiry trip with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in El Salvador, where

we inquired into abuses of human rights visited upon Salvadorans and the four American women, three church women

and one lay woman.

We visited the blood-spattered streets of San Antonio

Abad, the site of La Matanza, the massacre outside of San

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Salvador. We met with numerous victims of violence by the

government and resolved to take action in the Congress on

our return to the United States.

On my return, I was asked by the president of the student

body of Carleton College in Northfield, MN, to come and address the students on the experience that I had just encountered.

It was an overwhelming response. The place for the meeting was filled to overflowing, and students wanted to gather

afterward. They asked me if I would come and join them at

the home of one of the professors, which I did.

Of course, at that meeting, it was very animated and intense questioning that came from the host, a young professor, who impressed me with his deep sense of caring, his

feeling about this issue, his desire to do justice. I was not

quite sure of his name, and I asked again: PAUL WELLSTONE.

I said, Professor, you ought to think about running for

public office. He said, indeed, I am. I am considering running

for State auditor. Well, that was hardly a place from which

to make statewide policy, but it was something that he wanted to do to get into the public arena, and he felt there was

a message that he could convey. As was later revealed, however, his dyslexia prevented him from really grasping numbers in the way that other folks do.

Nonetheless, he conducted a spirited campaign, and lost to

a gentleman named Arnie Carlson, who served as auditor for

several years, and then later ran for Governor and won in

the same year that PAUL WELLSTONE ran for Senator and

won: 1990.

In between those two dates was a very high level of spirited activism by PAUL WELLSTONE, most notable of which

was leading the resistance to construction of a power line

across the State of Minnesota to be built by a generation

power company of the rural electrification system which had

really lost touch with its member cooperatives and the people that the co-op was to serve.

PAUL WELLSTONE called them to accountability, called

them and mounted a movement across the State to hold

hearings, to have public sessions to explain the necessity for

this power line running through the backyard of homes and

through farms, and what possible adverse side effects there

might be from the construction of this power line. It was

characteristic of PAUL WELLSTONE’s role in public service

that when people got too big, when organizations got too big

for their own good, he called them to account.

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In Scripture, I find the roots of PAUL WELLSTONE’s drive

for public service. In Isaiah 11:4, under the rubric ‘‘the Rule

of Immanuel,’’ it is written ‘‘But he shall judge the poor with

justice’’; and again, in 12:1, ‘‘Woe to those who enact unjust

statutes and who write oppressive decrees depriving the

needy of judgment and robbing my people’s poor of their

rights.’’

Nothing disturbed, distressed, angered PAUL WELLSTONE

more or motivated him more to action than unjust statutes,

oppressive decrees depriving the needy of their day in court,

so to speak, or robbing the poor of their rights.

Whether we read into those verses of Scripture the Legal

Services Act, redlining in urban housing, the need for surveying the homeless, providing adequate housing for poor

and middle-income Americans, or food stamps or Meals on

Wheels, we read the keystone of PAUL WELLSTONE’s career

of public service: A burning mission, anchored in Scripture,

expressed in public acts to improve the lives of the least

among us; to be a stirring voice for those who either have

none, or who have lost their voice.

At the memorial service honoring Senator WELLSTONE in

Virginia, MN, in my district a young campaign worker, Ida

Rukavine, spoke of the inspiration that young people felt

about PAUL WELLSTONE, saying that her classmates, her contemporaries, were looking for someone to be a role model.

At a time when, as Ida implied, young people are indeed

looking for role models, I would pin this image on our hearts:

PAUL and his wife, Sheila, walking wherever they went hand

in hand in all that they did, wherever they traveled. We

should take their hands symbolically and take each other’s

hands and feel the strength of the spirit of PAUL WELLSTONE

that still moves among us.

There were two votes that I would characterize as bookends for PAUL WELLSTONE’s career of public service, both of

which I discussed with him at some length. The first was

early in 1991, when we were voting in the Congress on

whether to approve military action against Iraq, and the last

was the most recent vote in the Congress, again to approve

of a resolution giving authority to the President to use force

at a time of his choosing of his determination against Iraq.

PAUL’s no vote was recognized as a vote of courage, a vote

of principle, a vote that marked his character in public service and all that he stood for. It was my vote, but it was his

vote of deep conviction unashamedly expressed, unabashedly

carried out; a role model for young people. Whether one

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agreed with the vote or not, one had to agree that this was

indeed a man of great strength, personal character, and of

deep conviction.

Mr. SABO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the resolution

and in memory of our colleague, PAUL WELLSTONE. The gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) and I had the unique

opportunity of serving with PAUL for 12 years. But when I

think of PAUL, I think of him primarily not in his role as a

member of the U.S. Senate but as a person, a person who,

when we saw PAUL, we expected to see Sheila. They were exceptionally close, and they were exceptionally close to their

family; to Marcia, who unfortunately was on the plane with

them; and to their sons, David and Mark, and to their grandchildren. They were an incredibly close family. PAUL was so

proud of his kids and his grandkids, and wanted to spend as

much time as he could with them.

I also think of PAUL as someone who really connected with

people for really two reasons. One, he liked people. He met

them with a flourish and enthusiasm. Two, he really had

empathy for problems that impacted people.

All he said and did in politics was not about theory, but

about how what we do here impacts people in their daily

lives. PAUL, the elected official, was a person who always

saw himself as primarily representing the underdog, the

underrepresented in society, and he did that with compassion and intelligence and enthusiasm and incredibly hard

work. So Americans, those that struggle day to day in life,

lost a true friend, a true advocate.

We remember his boys and his grandchildren today, they

carry on a remarkable family, and we offer them our sympathy and our thoughts in the days and weeks and months

ahead, but our State and our country suffered a real loss in

that plane accident.

Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the

resolution and in gratitude to my colleague for offering it.

I have a big hole in my heart, and I think it is reflective

of the hole that is left now in the political landscape, a space

that was occupied uniquely by PAUL WELLSTONE. I feel great

sorrow and great gratitude; sorrow for the loss of a close

friend and colleague, and gratitude for having had the opportunity to know and work with PAUL WELLSTONE and his

wife, his lifelong partner, Sheila Wellstone.

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selves to be their close friends and partners in the effort to

make America better. My husband and I enjoyed spending

time with PAUL, listening to his stories and jokes and planning strategy and organizing. PAUL and Sheila were always

open and friendly, and always eager to act on their beliefs.

In Chicago this weekend, we will hold a memorial service

to honor their lives. Similar memorial services are being held

in towns and cities across this country. PAUL WELLSTONE

was the people’s Senator, not just Minnesota’s Senator, the

one you could always count on to push for economic and social justice.

PAUL used to talk frequently about the concerns raised by

people eating in the cafes and diners in Minnesota. He

brought those concerns to the floor of the Senate, speaking

for his constituents and for families everywhere. He knew

what it was like to deal with mental illness and discrimination in the health care system. He made it his job to end inequality in care and pass comprehensive mental health parity. He knew what it was like to lack health care coverage

and to be unable to afford medical treatment for a child or

grandparent, and so he made it his job to win universal access to affordable and quality health care.

He listened to family farmers struggling to survive in the

shadow of agribusiness, and he made it his job to speak for

those farmers. He heard about discrimination and lack of opportunity, and he made it a priority to break down barriers

to give every person the right to be productive and secure

and to protect the rights of working men and women.

He listened to Sheila about the horrors of domestic violence, and together they worked to reauthorize the Violence

Against Women Act and to stop the abuse that threatens

women and children.

As a teacher, PAUL focused on the power of education to

improve our lives. He fought for better teachers and better

schools from early childhood development through the university level. He embraced these weighty issues with joy and

exuberance. He was called the happy warrior. He was never

apologetic or defensive, always bold and clear and, to many

of us, thrilling.

Above all, PAUL was proud to be an organizer. He believed

with every fiber of his being in the power of people to make

change and to win social and economic justice. He taught us

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erful. He showed us that we can listen to our consciences, do

what is right and take courageous stands on issues from welfare to Iraq and still win elections.

The people of Minnesota respected him and loved him and

mourn him because he lived and voted his values. PAUL

WELLSTONE changed lives. He changed thousands of lives,

young people and old people alike. He empowered people. He

was a friend, and I want to end with PAUL WELLSTONE as

a friend.

I have two friends in my district who loved PAUL with all

their hearts; Harvey and Norma Mader were good friends of

PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE. For a long time before PAUL

was elected to Congress, Harvey and Norma Mader were

their friends. They live in my district, but they were prepared to go to Minnesota for the election as senior citizen advocates. Their lives very much revolve around progressive

politics, and PAUL WELLSTONE was their hero and friend.

And PAUL would call them up on the telephone and say,

How is Norma, how is she feeling? How are things going,

Harvey? It was common for PAUL on a regular basis just to

check in with his friends. And when I was at that memorial

service in Minnesota, I talked to a number of people who

said PAUL called me last week. He heard that my son was

sick or he heard that I was having a test at the hospital, and

he just called to see how I was.

I realize that so many of us who get so busy with our work

here and the weightiness of our work here sometimes sacrifice ordinary friendships, but PAUL WELLSTONE managed to

do it all. He managed to maintain those friendships all over

the country. That is what I heard. It meant so much to Harvey and Norma Mader. It meant so much to all of the people

that he cared so much about. I think that says something

special about the kind of person he was.

Although PAUL and Sheila are no longer here physically,

the partnership that we have with them will continue.

Through our commitment to their vision of America, PAUL

and Sheila will always have an enormous impact on our Nation and on our future.

Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for

yielding me this time, and for coming forward to offer this

resolution. I recognize that a number of Members are not

here today because we do not have votes, but I am very

pleased that the gentleman was able to get the time so some

of us who felt so deeply about losing PAUL WELLSTONE would

have an opportunity to express those views publicly.

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On the floor from time to time we are admonished not to

refer to the other body. Well, this afternoon we are referring

to an unforgettable Member of the other body. He was not

a Member of this body, but PAUL WELLSTONE’s presence was

felt even in this body. In fact, this is the kind of man whose

presence could not help but be felt.

The loss of PAUL, Sheila, his wife, and his daughter Marcia

is deeply felt here. In no small part, these three were doing

public business. They were all trying to get PAUL back to the

Senate so he could engage in the business of the public.

Why is PAUL WELLSTONE so admired by Republicans and

Democrats alike in the Senate? We have heard about Republicans who cried when they heard that PAUL had been killed.

In no small part I think it is because PAUL believed in something, and he believed in being more than a Senator. Beyond

that, if I try to focus on what made him so beloved to so

many, particularly to those who worked with him, I come

time and again to the fact that he took risks for what he believed in.

Members of the House and the Senate always admire that.

Regardless of where we stand on the issues, the notion that

somebody is willing to step forward and take political risks

is something to be admired; and, of course, PAUL WELLSTONE

was willing even to risk his political life.

That is another way of saying that PAUL WELLSTONE came

to the Senate in order to stand for principle. The gentleman

from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) spoke of character. That is

what character is all about. When the rubber meets the road

and a Member needs to decide whether to take a risk on an

issue, I think first of the principle that I stood for. That is

not what the political business is all about. Sure, those of us

from safe districts get to do that all the time. I hope we are

not patting ourselves on the back. We are doing it for principle, but many are doing it also because the people who live

in our district want us to do it. PAUL WELLSTONE had to

think about whether what he was doing was what his constituents wanted him to do, and whether it was the right

thing to do according to his own sense of principle.

So standing for principle in a real sense was a kind of

trademark of PAUL WELLSTONE and indicative of his character. I do not mean to say if a Member does not always

stand for principle they do not have any character. But politicians particularly admire Members who are willing to take

risks, ignoring the political consequences.

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Now, let us not forget that PAUL WELLSTONE was a most

unlikely candidate. It was unlikely that he would get to the

Senate at all. Let us be clear; he was a Ph.D. college professor; and, indeed, a tenured college professor. I can tell Members this is not a place where one expects academics to come.

I am myself an academic who never expected and never intended to come to the House. I am a tenured academic who

still teaches at Georgetown Law Center. And I can tell Members, those of us who spend our lives trying to get tenure do

not think of another career. It is harder to get tenure than

it is to get elected. Tenured professors do not go around trying to get another job.

One needs to think what in the world got into PAUL

WELLSTONE, tenure at a very good liberal arts college. Again,

I go back to principle. At the bottom he was an organizer,

and he had done all he could do organizing, and so he

thought I guess I will go to the Senate and see if I can organize there. I am sure that is the way he thought.

If he was an unlikely candidate when he got here, he took

on unlikely issues. He stuck with health care when everybody else backed off because the Democrats tried very hard

in the early 1990s and got pressed back.

And again I can go down a lexicon of issues. Here is another unlikely one, mental health coverage as a part of ordinary health coverage, and he got that very far along.

Those issues speak to two abilities: One is the ability as

an organizer. He never lost that passion, never lost that understanding that is the way to operate. Senator Lieberman

tells a funny story that one day PAUL was discussing an

amendment on the floor. PAUL walks into the Senate, PAUL

is pressing his amendment. He does not even think he has

Members on his side, much less Republicans, so he held up

a piece a paper for Senator Lieberman to see that said ‘‘DLC

votes yes,’’ meaning Democratic Leadership Conference votes

yes because Senator Lieberman was in a conference that was

in another spectrum of the Democratic Party. Senator

Lieberman just laughed. PAUL was so funny and laughed all

the time.

PAUL was so collegial. Even those who could not possibly

vote the way PAUL voted had to love him. I think of our

former colleague Sam Brownback, who made common cause

with PAUL on a bill to prevent international sex trafficking

of women and girls. Together, this conservative Republican

and this liberal Democrat pressed that bill through the floor.

If you look at PAUL’s record, this one-man progressive force

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was always looking for allies, especially people who were

more conservative than he. He was not content to stand on

principle alone. He wanted to stand on principle and then

get it enacted into law and so he reached out to see how he

could do that.

Finally, Mr. Speaker, I will tell the quintessential PAUL

story about a principle. At the height of the wonderful economy of the late 1990s, when everybody was doing well, I

mean, I was going around bragging that more AfricanAmericans own homes, highest median income in history,

more rising out of poverty, at the height of this economy,

PAUL called me up and said he wanted me to cosponsor a

bill, then he wanted to go to a church here in the District

to have a press conference about it. The bill was called the

Strategic Transitional Employment Program. We should understand that unemployment was down to something like 3

percent, way down from where I regret to say it is now. This

bill was about the millions who had been left behind. PAUL

was tired of hearing how all of us were doing so well, even

the poor. PAUL knew that there was a horrific gap between

the larger number of people who were doing better and the

millions who were not benefiting from that wonderful economy.

I do not think PAUL particularly believed this bill had a

ghost of a chance, but he did believe that if you were one of

those millions still unemployed, still living in a community

that did not have investment, still living in rural or urban

America where jobs were not being made out of the dot-coms

and all of the wonderful work that the economy was doing,

if you were in a manufacturing job still waiting to be called

back, PAUL knew that nobody was talking to you and had

acted as if you had floated off the planet. PAUL did not believe you should stand up for those who did not have only

when the economy was the way it is now, down and not

doing well at all. PAUL believed you should stand up when

you had not brought the great American dream to all, especially when there were millions upon millions upon millions

who thought nobody even spoke to their issues or spoke to

them any longer because so many people were doing so well.

That to me is the quintessential PAUL.

Mr. Speaker, Senators, not to mention House Members,

come and go, but some rise to a special level. That is the

level of being simply irreplaceable. That is the level to which

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both parties. I again thank the gentleman for not only yielding to me but for bringing PAUL WELLSTONE to this body.

Mr. OBERSTAR. I thank the gentlewoman for those wonderful remarks.

Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, yesterday was Veterans

Day, November 11. As I woke up in the morning, I thought,

well, I am getting on a plane today and I am going to be

heading off to Washington, a different type of Veterans Day

than I was used to spending. See, I used to spend Veterans

Day at veterans hospitals and cemeteries remembering those

who had given their lives, remembering those who came

home injured, whether it be physically or emotionally. I remembered those days because I spent them with Senator

PAUL WELLSTONE. PAUL and I would often be at veterans

hospitals, cameras long gone, with veterans from all over the

United States, and we would sit and we would talk and we

would have very personal conversations with some veterans

who had not heard from family members in a long time and

who were alone. PAUL would be on a plane as he was the last

time I flew out to Washington and he would be with Sheila.

His back would bother him or his legs would be bothering

him and he could not sit still for very long, so especially after

they changed the flight time where we have to spend the last

30 minutes sitting on the plane, not moving as we approached Washington National since September 11, PAUL

would be on the plane walking up and down the aisles, talking to elderly people, talking to children, it did not make any

difference whether or not they lived in Minnesota, asking

them what was going on in their lives, what they were

studying, how they were doing in school. Sheila would be sitting there reading, working on something to help Minnesota,

to help our country, to help our Nation, women of domestic

violence, children of domestic violence.

We have heard testimony from Members here of what a

great legislator PAUL was, and he was truly a magnificent

Senator. But he was all those things because he was a good

teacher. He was a good father. He was a good friend. Sheila

and PAUL never forgot family and their family went beyond

their children. Their family campaigned together. Marcia,

who was a teacher, was on the plane. Over the last couple

of weeks, I have met students of Marcia’s. PAUL was a good

father, he was a good teacher, and he passed that on to his

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Mary McEvoy was also on the plane. Mary was a dear

friend. Mary believed in the issues that PAUL worked on,

helping children succeed, helping children to be literate.

Mary and PAUL and Sheila together would work on those

issues and make them a reality in the everyday lives of everyday children. But we all know and I know better than

ever having served in this body of Congress that our staff is

important. Just as we are judged by the friends we keep, I

think legislatively we can be judged by the staff we work

with. To the chief of staff, Colin McGinnis and the Washington staff, to State director Connie Lewis, to all the staff in

Senator WELLSTONE’s office, he was so very proud of you and

you in the work that you did made us proud of PAUL. To

Mark and David, our loss is different from yours. Yours is

beyond my imagination right now having lost so many family

members. You shared your grief with our State and with our

Nation.

November 11 will never be the same. I will never drive by

a veterans cemetery or go by a veterans hospital without

thinking of all the work that PAUL did for the veterans in

this country. I will never go in another grade school and not

think of all the work that he did for children and education

with those around him. I will carry on a women’s domestic

abuse roundtable that we are having with people in the

Fourth District and Fifth District, St. Paul and Minneapolis,

without Sheila’s presence. There will be students in White

Bear Lake who will always remember Marcia. And Mary is

so deep in the hearts of many of us. But, Tom and Will, you

also made an impact by allowing PAUL to do the work that

he did and we are blessed for having you all in our lives.

Minnesota will never be the same. Minnesota will always

remember what happened on the tragic Friday of October 25,

where they were, what they were doing, when we all stopped

and paused and remembered our blessings in having had

such a special Senator.

PAUL, I will miss you in Washington and I will miss you

at home.

Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for

yielding me this time and extend to him and the entire Minnesota delegation the deepest sympathy of my family and my

constituents.

I have known PAUL and Sheila for a very long time, long

before either of us were in Congress, he in the Senate, going

back to our days in the Democratic Party in the early 1980s.

I have known of his passion for the issues and for working

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families in our country and his interest in making a difference for them in our country.

I rise today to honor Senator PAUL WELLSTONE, Sheila

Wellstone, the sadness of their losing their daughter at the

same time and to offer my sympathy to the families of those

who were lost in that terrible tragedy. To the families of

staffers Will McLaughlin, Tom Lapic and Mary McEvoy,

Mary was a person of so many credentials and all of them

much heralded in these sad days, and of the Captains Richard Conry and Michael Guess, I pray that you can take some

comfort in the fact that your loved ones lost their lives in

service to our country. To take part in the political process,

the process of educating voters about their choices, is indeed

a great service to democracy.

To David and Mark Wellstone, thank you for sharing your

wonderful family with all of us and with the American people. In this era of polls and pundits, PAUL WELLSTONE was

that increasingly rare breed, a politician with the courage of

his convictions. We see a lot of that here in Congress, but the

public is not aware of that. He fought for what he believed

in. He voted for what he thought was right regardless of

whether it was popular. He stood for something, and he

stood his ground. In doing so, he gave voice to the many millions of Americans who cannot afford to make campaign donations and who are struggling just to pay their rent and

feed their families.

When PAUL WELLSTONE took the floor of the U.S. Senate,

you knew you were going to hear something quite different

from what had come before and what was likely to follow.

You would hear passion and compassion and sometimes

anger. You would hear talk about issues that do not get a

great deal of attention these days, social justice, poverty and

the responsibility of government to improve the lives of citizens. This was a responsibility that PAUL WELLSTONE lived

and breathed, to the good of millions of America’s children

and families.

PAUL and Sheila left us not only a memory but a legacy.

His legacy of good works will live throughout the country.

Sheila’s work in terms of domestic violence and so many

other issues are being made known to the American people

now more generally, but anyone who knew them knew of her

commitment and the difference she made in that area. Losing Marcia is another tragedy, leaving her family behind

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fort to those families that so many people mourn their loss

and are praying for them at this time.

To us in Congress, PAUL WELLSTONE left a special legacy.

We can keep his spirit alive and that legacy glowing by

standing strong for what we believe in and by bringing both

passion and compassion to everything we do. He did that but

he brought a great intellect, a great knowledge, a plan of action. He was a great person. Sheila and PAUL were a great

team.

Mr. Speaker, we have already had a service in San Francisco honoring the memory of Sheila and PAUL WELLSTONE,

Marcia and the others who perished. I bring from that service, attended by hundreds of people, the sympathy and condolences of my community to the people of Minnesota. I am

so sorry.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman

for those remarks. I again want to express my appreciation

to our Democratic whip for her call immediately following

the tragedy expressing her deep sympathy and condolences

through me to the family and to the close friends of PAUL

WELLSTONE. It is characteristic of the gentlewoman from

California that she would call and express that profound

feeling. I am grateful that she mentioned the memorial service. I know that the family will be most appreciative.

Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I want to first of all

thank the gentleman from Minnesota for yielding me this

time and for taking out this special order. I recall a poet

once saying, ‘‘Some people see things that are and ask why.’’

But then he said, ‘‘I dream of things that have never been

and ask why not.’’ It seems to me that such was the life,

such was the career, such was the being of Senator PAUL

WELLSTONE, a man who had an uncanny way of penetrating.

Notice that many people say ‘‘PAUL WELLSTONE,’’ and that

is because they felt a level of intimacy with him even though

they were not personal friends, even though they had not

traveled with him on an airplane, even though they did not

live in his neighborhood or come from his district. He had a

way of connecting, and so we would think of him as PAUL

WELLSTONE, Senator WELLSTONE, full of power, dynamite.

I knew that PAUL could not sit still, but I did not know it

had anything to do with his legs. I thought it just had to do

with the level of energy and excitement that he brought to

everything that he did. I was pleased to spend time with him

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vision cameras or headlines—small groups of labor organizers, college students, low-income people—and he was asking

the question then why not a livable wage so that low-income

people can enjoy a level of the goodness and the greatness

of this Nation? Why not health care for everybody no matter

where they come from or where they are going? But he also

believed in giving a lot, understanding that if we put something in, we get something out. Always organizing, knowing

that life can be greater and better than what it is.

It seems to me that another poet summed up his life when

he said that whatever one puts into it, that is what he will

get out of it. He said

I bargained with life for a penny and life would pay no more; however,

I begged at evening time when I counted my scanty store, but I found that

life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask, but once you have set

the wages, then you must bear the task. I worked for a menial’s hire only

to learn dismay, whatever price I had asked of life, life would have willingly

paid.

PAUL WELLSTONE put a great deal into it, and he got a

great deal out of it. It has been a pleasure to know you, sir.

Condolences to your family and all of those who shared your

dream and your vision and went with you as you left.

Mr. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar), and I do not want to go on at great

length about PAUL WELLSTONE because so much has been

said already, but I believe I knew PAUL WELLSTONE longer

than anyone in this Chamber, going back to, I believe, 1969,

when I was in my last year at Carleton College and PAUL

WELLSTONE was in his first year on the faculty there. He

was even then a dynamic, passionate person who cut a bigger swath than his stature might have led one to believe.

So much has been said about how dynamic, how passionate he has been in speaking out for farmers, for workers, for

people of all sorts, and what joy he brought to his campaigning, to his political activity. He has been described as a man

of convictions, someone who spoke clearly and directly, someone who is never criticized for hiding his opinions, for shifting his opinions, for pulling his punches. So it might sound

to some people that we are describing a cocksure, arrogant

ideologue. It could not be further from the truth. In my

many interactions with PAUL WELLSTONE when he was a

junior faculty member, when he was an activist going from

town to town around Minnesota, when he was a friend with

discussions in the evening, when he was a mentor to me

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every instance what characterized PAUL WELLSTONE was not

cocksure opinions but questions. He was one of the best

questioners I have ever known, and one left each discussion

with him with a sense of having some doors opened through

his questioning, some understanding gained through his

questioning, and a sense of purpose gained from his questioning. What a loss.

Mr. EHLERS. I do not claim to know the late Senator

WELLSTONE very well. We had very little interaction, but I

had a deep interest in him because my home State was Minnesota. That was the State of my birth, and I have watched

Minnesota politics with great interest over the years and I

also watched Mr. WELLSTONE with great interest. And although his politics and his political views were quite different from mine, I admire several things about him.

In the go-along-to-get-along atmosphere we often encounter in politics, he stood out as someone who stood for his beliefs. He fought passionately for his beliefs, and he sought to

extend those beliefs into action, and I admire that in any individual, whether in the House or the Senate or the political

arena in general, to have a stance that they take, to have a

passion for what they believe is right, and to fight passionately for what they believe is right I think is an admiral

trait in any individual, and Mr. WELLSTONE certainly exhibited that during his brief career in the political arena.

So I just wanted to add those comments to the Record, and

I thank the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) for

having this session so we can each express our opinions

about what Mr. WELLSTONE has added to the Senate and to

our Nation.

Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from

Michigan (Mr. Ehlers) for those thoughtful comments. They

were much appreciated, and I know that the Wellstone children will be most grateful and again for his ever academic

and thoughtful presentation.

GENERAL LEAVE

Mr. OBERSTAR. I would conclude by observing that PAUL

WELLSTONE was more than a Senator, more than an advocate for ideas, for issues, for causes. PAUL WELLSTONE was

himself a movement, a movement for justice. I pray that his

movement will continue in the spirit in which he lived his

life of public service.

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Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I was

deeply saddened by the tragic death of Senator PAUL

WELLSTONE, his family members and staff, and I have

prayed for the families of all the victims of this accident.

I rise today to support this resolution honoring the short

but powerful life of PAUL WELLSTONE, the people’s Senator.

I will miss PAUL, a good friend, a good person, and an invaluable and courageous colleague.

PAUL and I joined together on many occasions to fight for

legislation to help those who have so little power in our society. Most recently, we coauthored a bill to provide mental

health and substance abuse treatment to juvenile offenders.

PAUL understood that many young offenders suffer from

problems that are treatable and that contribute to their troubles, but for which they rarely receive effective treatment. It

was not a bill written for the powerful or wealthy interests.

It was not a bill written because it would be popular in the

press.

It was just one of the many examples of PAUL’s genuine

desire to help people and demonstrated his understanding of

his role as a representative in government.

PAUL WELLSTONE fought for working families, for better

schools, and for a cleaner environment. He was a dedicated

public servant who was passionate about his work and who

was proud to fight for progressive causes. His loss is a loss

for all of America and for all those Americans who so desperately need champions on their side. PAUL was a man of

principle, courage, and great intellect. Sadly, he will not be

easily replaced in our society and we will miss him deeply.

Mr. EVANS. I rise to recognize the accomplishments of my

good friend, the late Senator PAUL WELLSTONE of Minnesota.

Many have come before me to praise the character and actions of this faithful public servant who left us all too early

last month. Many have lauded his commitment to the underdog, to those who lacked a voice, to the ‘‘little guy.’’ I speak

of his commitment and passion for veterans.

During his 12 years on the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, PAUL was an active and committed member whose

heartfelt concern about veterans issues was often unmatched. PAUL has been remembered for his courageous

stands in both Bush administrations against sanctioning

military action in Iraq. At one time, PAUL was criticized for

making his views on this known at the Vietnam Veterans

Memorial in Washington. Even though the gesture may have

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realization that war has consequences. We must be evercognizant of the often painful realities of putting our sons

and daughters in harm’s way and resort to force only as the

last recourse.

But PAUL also consistently demonstrated that he believed

part of the cost of war was being ready to assist those that

were willing to put themselves on the line for their country.

For his advocacy he was honored by numerous veterans service organizations, including Vietnam Veterans of America,

the Minnesota chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America,

the Military Order of the Purple Heart and the Minnesota

Veterans of Foreign Wars.

One of the things that drew people to PAUL was his willingness to listen. I was impressed that the Senator rarely

missed an opportunity to hear directly from veterans at their

annual joint legislative hearings held here in the House. He

would often bring the veterans to their feet exhorting them

to fight for their rights.

Last year, PAUL introduced the Senate companion to my

bill, Heather French Henry Homeless Veterans Assistance

Act, S. 739. This bill addressed so many of the constituencies

PAUL held dear—and men and women without homes, individuals with mental illness, and veterans. I am proud to say,

with PAUL’s help in the Senate, we enacted Public Law 107–

95.

PAUL also got things done for ‘‘atomic’’ veterans. During

his tenure, Congress identified many new diseases which

were presumed connected to veterans who were exposed to

ionizing radiation.

Veterans could count on PAUL as an ally in the budget

process—he consistently put forth initiatives to increase

funding for veterans health care. I believe my friend PAUL

would agree that we owe our veterans a great debt and he

was already prepared to pay the bill.

PAUL and I also shared a chronic disability as a common

foe. He dealt with his MS without complaint pushing himself

to act when lesser men might have faltered. That is part of

the personal courage he demonstrated on behalf of himself,

his ideals, and the constituents who entrusted him with an

office he used to its best advantage every day.

PAUL, you were a cherished friend to me, to veterans of

this great Nation, and to every American who needed a

voice, I will miss you.

Mr. REYES. Mr. Speaker, the Congress, the State of Minnesota, and the Nation tragically lost a great public servant.

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The sudden death of Senator PAUL WELLSTONE, his wife

Sheila, daughter Marcia, three staffers, and two pilots in an

airplane crash last month, saddens us all. I extend my heartfelt sympathy and support to their family and friends as

they deal with this tremendous loss.

This is also a devastating loss for our Nation. As chairman

of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, I was fortunate to

work with Senator WELLSTONE on many issues, such as the

reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education

Act. Personally, I worked closely with him on many veterans

benefits issues.

PAUL had a true passion for people, civil service, and veterans that is matched by very few. PAUL’s commitment to

helping people, his warm sense of humor, and positive attitude made him both a great Senator and an excellent friend.

His leadership and friendship will be dearly missed by me,

members of the CHC and all members of the U.S. Congress.

Our thoughts and prayers remain with PAUL’s family and

loved ones, and the family and friends of his staff and the

pilots.

EXPRESSING SORROW OF THE HOUSE AT THE DEATH OF THE HONORABLE PAUL D. WELLSTONE, SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF

MINNESOTA

Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor a

great American and a great man—Senator PAUL

WELLSTONE. The passing of Senator PAUL WELLSTONE creates a void that is impossible to fill—it is a tragedy for this

Nation and a personal tragedy for me.

PAUL WELLSTONE was a tireless fighter for what he believed in. He was a man whose honor is unquestioned, whose

energy was infectious, and whose dedication to his country—

and those ideals upon which it was built—was obvious in everything he did. PAUL WELLSTONE’s passing robs voiceless

Americans—the poor and disenfranchised—of one of their

greatest advocates. And it leaves those of us bent on furthering a progressive agenda without one of our greatest leaders.

Mr. Speaker, I also rise today to mourn the loss of one of

the hardest-working people I have ever known. PAUL

WELLSTONE earned himself a scholarship to the University of

North Carolina as a student and an athlete. Four years after

graduation he was awarded a Ph.D. in political science and

began a 21-year teaching career in which he became increasingly involved in community organizing. In 1990, PAUL

WELLSTONE—an underfunded underdog—ran a long-shot

campaign for the U.S. Senate, which he won by energizing

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ordinary Minnesotans. Twelve years later, his political legacy stands as testament to him keeping his promises.

Unlike many politicians, there was no disconnecting between PAUL WELLSTONE’s political ideology and the way he

lived his life. PAUL was the Senator who knew the names of

the elevator operators and waiters in the Senate Dining

Room. He was the Senator who, according to James W.

Ziglar, a Republican who was Sergeant at Arms of the Senate from 1998 to 2001, returned late one evening to his office

to tell the cleaning staff how much he appreciated their

work. PAUL WELLSTONE’s unique authenticity, and his ability

to remain true to his roots distinguished him here in Washington and, as many Minnesotans will tell you, back in his

home State.

PAUL WELLSTONE was an unabashed liberal. He believed

that every American should have access to affordable health

care and good public schools, that our foreign policy should

be based first and foremost on the sanctity of all human

life—American or otherwise. And he knew that coming down

on the right side of an issue—keeping in line with his morals

and ethics—was always more important than voting with the

majority or in a politically motivated way. PAUL WELLSTONE

voted against the Persian gulf war as one of his first acts as

a Senator, and just recently was the only Senator facing reelection who voted against giving President Bush authority

to conduct preemptive and unauthorized military strikes on

Iraq. PAUL was a man who did not compromise his ideals.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of Senator PAUL

WELLSTONE. In an era where the difference between talk and

action is often enormous, PAUL WELLSTONE was a man who

lived as he spoke. I believe that America is better for it.

Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of

the resolution honoring Senator PAUL WELLSTONE and to express my deep sadness at his unexpected death, and that of

his wife Sheila, their daughter Marcia, members of his campaign staff, and the two pilots of the plane.

Senator PAUL WELLSTONE was a man of conviction and

passion who worked tirelessly on behalf of America’s families. He was dedicated to making the American dream a reality for all—including the most marginalized among us.

Senator WELLSTONE always stood firmly by his principles,

consistently representing the people of Minnesota with honor

and courage.

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tic abuse. Senator WELLSTONE was a vigorous champion for

reform. He was a driving force behind enactment of the Violence Against Women Act—the most important domestic violence law in our Nation’s history. He also authored and

helped pass legislation that provides services and support to

children who grow up in violent homes and fought for legislation that helps health care providers do more to stop domestic violence.

During the past three Congresses, I was honored to partner with Senator WELLSTONE in introducing legislation that

helps provide employment stability and security to victims of

domestic violence. And most recently, to have partnered with

him to secure $5 million for the Department of Defense to

fund confidential victim advocates to address the problem of

domestic violence among our military personnel.

Senator WELLSTONE will be remembered as one of this Nation’s most dedicated and nationally recognized advocates on

domestic abuse. All of us who partnered with him to put an

end to this horrific crime know that this movement has lost

an irreplaceable leader. His lifelong efforts to make our communities safer and more just will serve as a model for all of

us who will continue to fight against the cycle of violence

that plagues so many American families.

Mr. Speaker, Senator WELLSTONE will be sorely missed by

all of us here in Congress, and fondly remembered as the

Senator from Minnesota who brought a message of social justice and equality to the people of this great Nation. My sincere condolences go out to the Wellstone family, families of

all those aboard the plane and to all the residents of Minnesota.

ADJOURNMENT

Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution

598, I move that the House do now adjourn in memory of the

late Hon. PAUL D. WELLSTONE.

The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 7 o’clock and 58

minutes a.m.), pursuant to House Resolution 598, the House

adjourned until today, Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 10

a.m., in memory of the late Hon. PAUL D. WELLSTONE.

PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

Under clause 2 of rule XII, public bills and resolutions

were introduced and severally referred, as follows:

By Mr. OBERSTAR:

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H. Res. 598. A resolution expressing the condolences of the House of Representatives on the death of the Honorable PAUL D. WELLSTONE, a Senator

from the State of Minnesota; considered and agreed to.

WEDNESDAY, November 13, 2002

EXPRESSING SORROW OF THE HOUSE AT THE DEATH OF THE HONORABLE PAUL D. WELLSTONE, SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF

MINNESOTA

Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the resolution honoring my colleague and friend, Senator PAUL

WELLSTONE of Minnesota.

Senator WELLSTONE was not only a friend of mine, but he

was also a special friend of my district, the Ninth Congressional District of California. In fact, he had visited my district not long before the tragic accident. People in my community embraced PAUL for the same reasons so many across

country did.

PAUL WELLSTONE was a progressive champion who truly

personified the personal, populist approach to politics. He

was an organizer who never lost touch with his grassroots.

In fact, he proved that the support of everyday Americans,

not huge sums of corporate cash, could still win elections. He

proved that you don’t have to compromise your beliefs to be

successful. He proved that passion for beliefs earns the respect of even one’s biggest opponent.

PAUL WELLSTONE showed no fear and incredible energy in

his approach to fighting for our shared progressive agenda.

He stood alone as the sole member of the Progressive Caucus

in the Senate. He worked tirelessly for the least among us;

often against incredible odds. PAUL was never afraid to

speak up and to fight for his beliefs.

Despite the long odds he often faced, Senator WELLSTONE

was an extremely effective and accomplished Senator. His

work on mental health parity legislation is widely recognized, and I sincerely hope to have the opportunity to vote

yes on the WELLSTONE mental health parity legislation in

the very near future. He, along with the help of his wife

Sheila, passed several pieces of legislation to prevent domestic violence and to help its victims.

He worked tirelessly to end the scourge of homelessness

among our Nations’ veterans and to ensure those who served

this country received the health care they were promised and

deserve. As a former educator, he fought for increases in

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Head Start, higher education funding, and better schools for

all children in America, regardless of income. He fought for

seniors and to alleviate the absurd cost of prescription medication. In short: he fought for us all.

The people of Minnesota, the U.S. Congress, the progressive movement, and all Americans were fortunate to have

such a strong, effective, tireless, and accomplished leader

serving us in the U.S. Senate. We will miss him dearly.

And though he is no longer with us, we will always remember and thank him for his incredible service. Now we

must honor his memory by continuing our collective fight to

make his vision of America a reality.

Mr. Speaker, I have attached for the Record a copy of remarks I made in introducing PAUL WELLSTONE at an event

last year.

REPRESENTATIVE LEE’S INTRODUCTION OF SENATOR WELLSTONE (D–MN) AT

21ST CENTURY DEMOCRATS DINNER WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2001

As we come together tonight to honor some amazing populists with Democrats 2000, now known as 21st Century Democrats, I am extremely proud

to introduce one of the greatest progressives in Congress—the phenomenal

PAUL WELLSTONE.

As many of you know, after more than 20 years of teaching, PAUL

WELLSTONE jumped into the 1990 Minnesota Senate race. He rallied a huge

grassroots network of supporters, got a green bus to tour the State, and won

his election. When you are trying to rally the troops in your State for an

election, it’s easy when you have an amazing, inspirational, progressive

leader like PAUL WELLSTONE. He personifies the personal, populist approach

to winning elections. He proves you need the support of everyday Americans, not huge sums of corporate cash, to get elected.

During his tenure in Congress, Senator WELLSTONE has been a real leader in progressive causes and has held true to his beliefs. He is our one and

only Congressional Progressive Caucus member in the Senate. He proves

that you don’t have to compromise your beliefs to be successful. He proves

that your passion for your issues make even your opponents respect you.

Senator WELLSTONE is one of the most effective members of the U.S. Congress, which is no easy feat these days and he champions issues few Members will dare to discuss. Senator WELLSTONE has been active and successful

in dealing with many issues, but let me take a moment just to commend

him on a few.

He is a tireless supporter of legislation to ensure mental health parity. He

has passed several pieces of legislation with the help of his wife Sheila to

prevent domestic violence and to help its victims. His work helping homeless veterans and on veterans’ health care has earned him the recognition

of numerous veterans’ organizations. As a former educator, his devotion to

education and children’s issues has led him to fight for increases in Head

Start, higher education funding, and better schools for all children in America, regardless of income. He has partnered with Minnesota seniors to talk

about the international disparities in prescription drug pricing and to pass

legislation to correct this problem.

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And these are just a tiny fraction of his successes. In short, the people

of Minnesota, the U.S. Congress, the progressive movement, and all Americans are fortunate to have a strong, effective, tireless, accomplished leader

serving them in PAUL WELLSTONE.

Senator WELLSTONE, welcome, and congratulations on this award you are

receiving tonight.

THURSDAY, November 14, 2002

Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, just a couple

of weeks ago, an unspeakable tragedy hit not only this Congress, but it hit this Nation. That was the loss of Senator

PAUL WELLSTONE, his wife and daughter, staff and others

who traveled with him on that fateful day. We lost a warrior

who was not afraid to speak for the voiceless and those that

could not be heard.

So I stand here today unabashedly opposed to this conference report and this rule on the bankruptcy bill; and I believe Senator WELLSTONE would not mind me standing in respect and admiration for his fight, for it was his unrelenting

work in the other body that caused this issue to remain in

the forefront, that although the representation of this legislation is what many of us would have wanted it to be, a respect for consumer interests as well as fiscal responsibility,

it is a stomping out of the rights of the poor who cannot

speak.

FURTHER MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

A further message from the Senate by Mr. Monahan, one

of its clerks, announced that the Senate has passed a bill of

the following title in which the concurrence of the House is

requested:

S. 3156. An Act to provide a grant for the construction of a new community center in St. Paul, Minnesota, in honor of the late Senator PAUL

WELLSTONE and his beloved wife, Sheila.

DISPOSING OF VARIOUS LEGISLATIVE MEASURES

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Simpson). The Chair will

entertain this combined request under the Speaker’s guidelines as recorded on page 712 of the House Rules and Manual with assurances that it has been cleared by the bipartisan floor and all committee leadership.

S. 3156, to provide a grant for the construction of a new community center

in St. Paul, Minnesota, in honor of the late Senator PAUL WELLSTONE and

his beloved wife, Sheila.

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S. 3156

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE Center for

Community Building Act’’.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:

(1) Senator PAUL WELLSTONE was a tireless advocate for the people of

Minnesota, particularly for new immigrants and the economically disadvantaged.

(2) PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE loved St. Paul, Minnesota, and often

walked the neighborhoods of St. Paul to better understand the needs of the

people.

(3) Neighborhood House was founded in the late 1800s in St. Paul, Minnesota, by the women of Mount Zion Temple as a settlement house to help

newly arrived Eastern European Jewish immigrants establish a new life

and thrive in their new community.

(4) PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE were very committed to Neighborhood

House and its mission to improve the lives of its residents.

(5) When Senator WELLSTONE became aware that the Neighborhood

House Community Center was no longer adequate to meet the needs of the

St. Paul community, he suggested that Neighborhood House request Federal

funding to construct a new facility.

(6) As an honor to PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE, a Federal grant shall be

awarded to Neighborhood House to be used for the design and construction

of a new community center in St. Paul, Minnesota, to be known as ‘‘The

PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE Center for Community Building’’.

SEC. 3. CONSTRUCTION GRANT.

(a) Grant Authorized.—The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

shall award a grant to Neighborhood House of St. Paul, Minnesota, to finance the construction of a new community center in St. Paul, Minnesota,

to be known as ‘‘The PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE Center for Community

Building’’.

(b) Maximum Amount.—The grant awarded under this section shall be

$10,000,000.

(c) Use of Funds.—Funds awarded under this section shall only be used

for the design and construction of the PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE Center

for Community Building.

(d) Authorization of Appropriations.—There is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2003, which shall remain available until

expended, to carry out this Act.

Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of

legislation (S. 3156) to create a living memorial for PAUL and

Sheila WELLSTONE in my home district of St. Paul. I am

pleased that both the House and Senate were able to agree

on such a fitting tribute.

Senator WELLSTONE was my colleague, but PAUL and Sheila were also my constituents and my friends. Over the years,

PAUL and I have walked the streets door to door knocking

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gether to address the challenges of our communities and

neighborhoods. PAUL and Sheila’s enthusiasm for public

service and their commitment to Minnesota were unmatched.

Today I stand with the Minnesota congressional delegation

to pay tribute to PAUL and Sheila with a true living memorial to their lives of serving the people of Minnesota.

This legislation will authorize the design and construction

of a new community center in St. Paul at the Neighborhood

House. The Neighborhood House has played a long-standing

role in building community values among diverse peoples.

Since the 19th century, the Neighborhood House has supported ethnic and cultural groups through times of transition

or need so that they go beyond mere self-sufficiency, develop

critical workforce skills, and become active members of our

democratic process. From Hmong immigrants to Hispanic

women facing domestic violence, the Neighborhood House

provides all those who come an opportunity to improve the

quality of their lives.

The new center to be named after PAUL and Sheila

WELLSTONE will host youth and family programs, immigrant

education programs such as English classes, employment

services and workforce development. It will provide a forum

for new citizens to learn and integrate themselves into their

new society and will strengthen Minnesota’s richly diverse

community.

PAUL and Sheila WELLSTONE were advocates for people

from all walks of life. They were open to all Minnesotans. In

the Senate, PAUL spoke for those who had no voice and he

worked hard to empower those who needed help the most.

This new center embodies the ideals and principles that

PAUL and Sheila lived every day.

I thank all my colleagues in Congress for honoring PAUL

and Sheila WELLSTONE in a way that will continue their

work and improve the lives of Minnesotans for years to

come.

FRIDAY, November 22, 2002

H. RES. 598

Ms. SOLIS. Mr. Speaker, it is with a heavy heart and

great sadness that I rise to honor my friend Senator PAUL

WELLSTONE, who died October 25 in a plane crash in Minnesota along with his wife and daughter, three of his staff

members and two pilots. The mark that PAUL WELLSTONE

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left on the world was far, far greater than his small stature

and down-to-earth nature would suggest. And so, the emptiness we feel at his passing is vast and deep. It stretches far

beyond the personal pain of losing a friend, or the tragedy

of his shattered family.

Senator WELLSTONE was a public servant in the most ideal

sense of the term. Politics never became more important to

him than the people he represented and the people he loved.

Victory never became more important to him than voicing

his true convictions. Power never became more important to

him than his desire to serve the powerless.

On the campaign trail, PAUL WELLSTONE drove an old

green schoolbus across the State of Minnesota. From that

bus Senator WELLSTONE tirelessly assured people that he

would struggle for peace and fight for veterans, that he

would work to stop the tide of domestic violence and mental

illness, and that he would defend our fragile environment.

Most of all, that old bus brought hope and excitement to people whom for too long, and for too many reasons, felt that

their government had forgotten about them. Now that he is

gone, that bus must not sit and rust away. We must have

the courage, the commitment, and the strength to keep that

bus rolling.

I will miss PAUL WELLSTONE greatly. I know that we all

will.

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Memorial

Will McLaughlin

Tom Lapic

Mary McEvoy

Marcia Wellstone Markuson

Sheila Wellstone

Senator PAUL WELLSTONE

Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Williams Arena

University of Minnesota

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Program

Processional

The Armed Forces Color Guard

Welcome

George Latimer

Opening Prayer

Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman and Minnesota clergy

‘‘America the Beautiful’’

White Bear Lake High School Choir

Tribute Film—‘‘Ladder to the Stars’’

Will McLaughlin (1979–2002)

David McLaughlin

Tom Lapic (1952–2002)

Brian Ahlberg

Mary McEvoy (1953–2002)

Bob Bruininks

‘‘Heroes’’

Ann Reed

Marcia Wellstone Markuson (1969–2002)

Theresa Saxe

Larry DeNucci

Sheila Wellstone (1944–2002)

Connie Lewis

Paul Wellstone (1944–2002)

Rick Kahn

David and Mark Wellstone

Senator Tom Harkin

‘‘Stand Up, Keep Fighting’’

JD Steele

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‘‘Stand Up, Keep Fighting’’

For the future of our country

Stand up, keep fighting

For the freedom of the people

Stand up, keep fighting

For the workers and the farmers

Stand up, keep fighting

For the elders and the teachers

Stand up, keep fighting

We do better

When we all do better

Working together

You and me

For the future

Of our children

Remember PAUL WELLSTONE

For the ordinary people

Stand up, keep fighting

For the things that we believe in

Stand up, keep fighting

For the love we have between us

Stand up, keep fighting

For the land that just keeps giving

Stand up, keep fighting

Everybody

Is somebody

In this race

We count as one

The fire of justice

A common journey

Remember PAUL WELLSTONE

Stand up, keep fighting

Remember PAUL WELLSTONE

Stand up, keep fighting

Remember PAUL WELLSTONE

Stand up, keep fighting

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Everybody

Is somebody

In this race

We count as one

The fire of justice

A common journey

Remember PAUL WELLSTONE

Stand up, keep fighting

by JD Steele & Larry Long. Copyright JD Steele & Larry Long.

2002/BMI. All rights reserved

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The remarkable lives of these six individuals touched and inspired countless others. To share your personal memories,

stories or condolences, go to www.wellstone.org and click

the ‘‘remembrance’’ link.

‘‘Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives.’’

—Senator PAUL WELLSTONE

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A Service of Memorial

Celebrating the Lives of

Marcia Wellstone Markuson

Sheila Wellstone

Senator PAUL DAVID WELLSTONE

In the rising of the sun and in its going down,

We remember them.

When we are weary and in need of strength,

We remember them.

When we are lost and sick at heart,

We remember them.

When we have joys we yearn to share,

We remember them.

So long as we live, they too shall live,

for they are now a part of us, as

We remember them.

Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Washington Hebrew Congregation

3935 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC

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The Order of Service

The Israel Baptist Church Choir

Welcome and Opening Prayers

Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig

Rabbi David Saperstein

The Reverend Elenora Giddings Ivory

Musical Selection

Marcia Wellstone Markuson (1969–2002)

Mark Wellstone

Sheila Wellstone (1944–2002)

Marian Wright Edelman

Paul Wellstone (1944–2002)

David Wellstone

Colin McGinnis

Senator Tom Daschle

In Their Own Words—A Memorial Tribute

Senator Pete Domenici

Marianne Murphy

Joel Schwartz

Arthur Froe

Kiersten Stewart

Gene Nichol

Tribute Film

Musical Selection

‘‘Sweet Survivor’’ sung by Doug Mishkin

El Maleh Rachamim

Cantor Mikhail Manevich

Mourner’s Kaddish

Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig

Closing Musical Selection

‘‘Light One Candle’’ sung by Doug Mishkin

Reception to follow in Ring Hall

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Mourner’s Kaddish

Yit-ga-dal v’yit-ka-dash sh’mei ra-ba b’al-ma di-v’ra chir’u’tei, v’yam-lich mal-chu-tei b’cha-yei-chon

u-v’yo-mei-chon u-v’cha-yei d’chol beit Yis-ra-el,

ba-a-ga-la u-vi-z’man ka-riv, v’i-m’ru: A-mein.

Y’hei sh’mei ra-ba m’va-rach l’a-lam u-l’al-mei al-ma-ya.

Yit-ba-rach v’yish-ta-bach v’yit-pa-ar, v’yit-ro-mam, v’yit-nasei, v’yit-ha-dar, v-yit-a-leh, v-yit-ha-lal sh’mei d’kud-sha,

b’rich hu, l’ei-la min kol bir-cha-ta v’shi-ra-ta, tush-b’cha-ta

v’neh-cheh-ma-ta da-a-mi-ran b’al-ma, v’i-m’ru: A-mein.

Y’hei sh’la-ma ra-ba min sh’ma-ya v’cha-yim, a-lei-nu v’al kol

Yis-ra-el, v’i-m’ru: A-mein.

O-seh sha-lom bi-m’ro-mav, hu ya-a-seh sha-lom a-lei-nu v’al

kol Yis-ra-el, v’i-m’ru: A-mein.

Let the glory of God be extolled, and God’s great name be

hallowed in the world whose creation God willed.

May God rule in our own day, in our own lives, and

in the life of all Israel, and let us say: Amen.

Let God’s great name be blessed for ever and ever.

Beyond all the praises, songs, and adorations that we can

utter is the Holy One,

the Blessed One, whom yet we glorify,

honor, and exalt. And let us say: Amen.

For us and for all Israel, may the blessing of peace and the

promise of life come true, and let us say: Amen.

May the Source of peace send peace to all who mourn, and

comfort to all who are bereaved. Amen.

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If I should die and leave you here awhile

Be not like others soon undone,

Who keep long vigil by the silent dusk and weep.

For my sake, turn again to life and smile.

Nerving thy heart and trembling hand.

To do something to comfort weaker

hearts than thine.

Complete those dear, unfinished tasks of mine.

And I perchance, may therein comfort you.

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‘‘Never separate the lives you live from the words you

speak.’’

—Senator PAUL D. WELLSTONE

Acknowledgments:

The Officers and Staff of the U.S. Senate

Senior Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig and the staff of Washington

Hebrew Congregation

Tracy McDonnell, Pianist

The family and staff of Senator Wellstone thank you for the

many expressions of sympathy and support, and are grateful

to the many friends who have volunteered their help to make

this memorial possible.

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