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TRIBUTES TO HON. PAUL S. SARBANES 

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Paul S. Sarbanes 

U.S. SENATOR FROM MARYLAND 

TRIBUTES 

IN THE CONGRESS OF 

THE UNITED STATES 

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Tributes 

Delivered in Congress 

Paul S. Sarbanes 

United States Congressman 

1971–1977 

United States Senator 

1977–2007 

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CONTENTS 

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

Farewell to the Senate ............................................................................. ix 

Proceedings in the Senate: 

Tributes by Senators: 

Akaka, Daniel K., of Hawaii ..................................................... 20 

Alexander, Lamar, of Tennessee ............................................... 13 

Allen, George, of Virginia .......................................................... 13 

Boxer, Barbara, of California .................................................... 32 

Byrd, Robert C., of West Virginia ............................................. 3 

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, of New York .................................... 24 

Conrad, Kent, of North Dakota ................................................. 26 

DeWine, Mike, of Ohio ............................................................... 29 

Dodd, Christopher J., of Connecticut ....................................... 41 

Durbin, Richard, of Illinois ........................................................ 15, 30 

Enzi, Michael B., of Wyoming ................................................... 8 

Frist, William H., of Tennessee ................................................ 45 

Hagel, Chuck, of Nebraska ........................................................ 10 

Harkin, Tom, of Iowa ................................................................. 27 

Hatch, Orrin G., of Utah ........................................................... 35 

Hutchison, Kay Bailey, of Texas ............................................... 44 

Kennedy, Edward M., of Massachusetts .................................. 18 

Kyl, Jon, of Arizona ................................................................... 28 

Landrieu, Mary L., of Louisiana ............................................... 25 

Leahy, Patrick J., of Vermont ................................................... 34 

Levin, Carl, of Michigan ............................................................ 37 

Martinez, Mel, of Florida ........................................................... 39 

Mikulski, Barbara A., of Maryland .......................................... 30 

Nelson, Bill, of Florida ............................................................... 14 

Obama, Barack, of Illinois ......................................................... 21 

Reed, Jack, of Rhode Island ...................................................... 11 

Reid, Harry, of Nevada ........................................................... 3, 29, 43 

Salazar, Ken, of Colorado .......................................................... 17 

Sarbanes, Paul S., of Maryland ................................................ 7 

Snowe, Olympia J., of Maine .................................................... 39 

Stevens, Ted, of Alaska ............................................................. 45 

Warner, John, of Virginia .......................................................... 24 

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Biography 

PAUL SPYROS SARBANES was born in Salisbury, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore on February 3, 1933. He was the son 

of Greek immigrants from Laconia, Greece—Spyros (deceased 1957) and Matina Sarbanes (deceased 2001) who 

owned the Mayflower Restaurant on Salisbury’s Main Street. 

The principles Senator SARBANES learned growing up in 

Salisbury that have guided his public life were opportunity 

and fairness—principles that he strongly believes are fundamental to a decent and just society. While there were no diplomas on the wall, SARBANES’s parents understood the importance of hard work and the value of education. They instilled these values in their children along with an appreciation of the benefits of living in a democratic society. 

After graduation from Wicomico High School in Salisbury, 

SARBANES received an academic and athletic scholarship to 

Princeton University (A.B. degree, 1954). He was awarded a 

Rhodes Scholarship that brought him to Oxford, England 

(First Class B.A., 1957). SARBANES then returned to the 

United States and attended Harvard Law School. After graduating in 1960, he clerked for Federal Judge Morris A. Soper 

before going into private practice with two Baltimore City 

law firms. 

In June 1960, SARBANES married Christine Dunbar of 

Brighton, England, a graduate of St. Hugh’s College, Oxford 

University; lecturer in classics at Goucher College, from 1960 

to 1973; and teacher of Latin and Classical Greek at the Gilman School in Baltimore, MD, from 1978 to 2000. They are 

the parents of three children, John Peter, Michael Anthony 

and Janet Matina, and the grandparents of six. SARBANES is 

a member of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation in Baltimore. 

PAUL SARBANES learned from his parents early in life how 

privileged we are to live in a democracy, the importance of 

community participation and, in particular, the importance 

of exercising the right to vote. In his many conversations 

with students across the State of Maryland, when he spoke 

of his passion for public service, SARBANES talked about the 

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cient Greeks. In Athens, he says, ‘‘those who lived only in 

private life were falling short.’’ They were called ‘idiotes,’

from which our word ‘idiot’ is derived today. 

The principles of fairness and opportunity instilled in 

PAUL SARBANES by his parents from a very early age led him 

to a life of public service. In 1966, SARBANES ran for the 

Maryland House of Delegates in Baltimore City and won. 

During his 4 years as a State legislator in Annapolis he 

served on the Judiciary and the Ways and Means Committees. 

In 1970 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, for the first of three terms. While in the House, from 

1971 to 1976, SARBANES served on the House Judiciary Committee, the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, and 

the Select Committee on House Reorganization. It was during his service in the House, in August 1974, that SARBANES

was selected by his Democratic colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee to introduce the first Article of Impeachment, for obstruction of justice, against President Richard 

Nixon. 

On November 2, 1976, PAUL SARBANES was elected to the 

U.S. Senate. He was re-elected in 1982, 1988, 1994, and 

2000. Throughout his public service, Senator SARBANES

worked hard to provide the citizens of Maryland with dedicated, independent representation; representation based 

upon intelligence and integrity; representation which gives 

people the confidence that elected officials are there to serve 

the public interest. 

In response to the failure of Enron Corporation in 2001, 

which, at the time, was the seventh largest corporation in 

the United States, Senator SARBANES, in his capacity as 

chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, held a series of comprehensive hearings resulting in the passage of a bipartisan bill designed to reform 

the accounting industry and restore the investor confidence 

that had been eroded following the collapse of Enron. 

Immediately following the Senate Banking Committee’s 

approval of the legislation in June 2002, the accounting woes 

of WorldCom further shook the financial markets and created a tidal wave of support for the Sarbanes legislation. 

SARBANES appeared on ABC’s ‘‘This Week,’’ NBC’s ‘‘Meet the 

Press,’’ CNN and CNBC. In addition, he was chosen by Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle to deliver the Democratic response to the President’s weekly national radio address on June 29, 2002. 

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‘‘The Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor 

Protection Act’’ was signed into law on July 30, 2002, and 

has been referred to as ‘‘the most far-reaching reforms of 

American business practices since the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.’’ The law is now known as the ‘‘Sarbanes-Oxley 

Act,’’ named for the principal sponsors of the legislation. 

The legislation creates a strong independent oversight 

board to oversee the auditors of public companies and enables the board to set accounting standards, and investigate 

and discipline accountants. It addresses conflicts of interest, 

ensures auditor independence, strengthens corporate governance by requiring corporate leaders to be personally responsible for the accuracy of their company’s financial reports, 

and establishes safeguards to protect against investment analysts’ conflicts. 

As a result of his work in shepherding this historic legislation through the Congress and into law, Senator SARBANES

was honored in June 2003 with the prestigious Paul H. 

Douglas Ethics in Government Award from the University of 

Illinois. The award, established in 1992 to honor Senator 

Douglas, a man often labeled ‘‘the conscience of the United 

States Senate,’’ was designed to honor individuals who have 

made a substantial contribution to promoting ethics. He also 

received the ‘‘Rolfe Award for Extraordinary Impact on Policy in Economics, Business and Finance,’’ from the Women’s 

Economic Roundtable in November 2003; the ‘‘Cox, Coleman, 

Richardson Award for Distinguished Public Service,’’ from 

Harvard Law School in March 2004, and numerous honorary 

awards. 

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Farewell to the Senate 

Friday, December 8, 2006 

Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, over the last few days, a 

number of my colleagues have been very generous in coming 

to the floor and speaking about my service in the Senate. I 

am deeply grateful to all of them, and my wife is greatly relieved that the session is drawing to a close because she 

fears if it continues and I continue to hear these excessively 

laudatory speeches, I am going to take it to heart and she 

is going to have to contend with the aftermath of all this 

praise. I do thank all of my colleagues for their very generous and their very gracious remarks. 

As my service in the Senate draws to a close, I am above 

all profoundly grateful for the trust that the people of Maryland placed in me for the last 40 years—first as a State legislator, then three terms in the House of Representatives, 

and now five terms in this distinguished body. I think that 

trust is the greatest honor that any American could hope to 

have. I am deeply appreciative of it. 

I could not have risen to the challenge that these opportunities for public service have provided without the constant 

support and the wise and reasoned counsel of my family. 

First of all, and above all, my wife Christine, whose high 

standards and dedication to our family and to our country 

are beyond measure and have been a constant source of inspiration to me. The support and commitment of my children, their spouses and their children has been deeply gratifying, and I am indebted to them for the encouragement they 

have always provided and also, if I may say so, for their astute criticism, on occasion. My sister and my brother and 

their families have also been, as one would expect, a constant source of strength, and I am deeply grateful to them. 

My parents came to this country as immigrants from 

Greece, both my mother and father, and it was from them 

that I first learned about the meaning of a democratic society and the potential it offers to move up the ladder of opportunity on the basis of ability, hard work, and conviction. 

Their memory is still a very powerful influence in my life. 

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I could not have met the responsibilities of this office without the support of staff who have been ever ready to work 

at the highest levels of competence, often under great pressure, and to stand up always for what they believe is right. 

I am deeply grateful for the principled dedication and sharp 

intelligence they have brought to their responsibilities—

whether they were serving on my office staff in Washington 

or in my offices across the State of Maryland; whether on the 

staff of the Banking Committee, the Foreign Relations, the 

Budget and the Joint Economic Committees on which I have 

served, or the staff of the Senate generally, on whom the efficient functioning of this legislative body depends. 

I think it is important to pause from time to time to think 

of the many men and women—they are sitting right here at 

the tables and outside the doors and all across the Capitol 

and in the office buildings—who make it possible for us to 

function and who bring a dedication to their work that is 

greatly encouraging. In fact, it has been a source of encouragement and inspiration to me. Working with all of the staff 

and in particular, of course, my own personal staff, has been 

one of the great rewards of serving in public office. 

I leave the Senate confident that Maryland’s representation in this body will be in good hands. For the past 20 

years, it has been a privilege to work closely with my colleague from Maryland, Senator Mikulski, who will soon become our State’s senior Senator. What a fighter she is for a 

better America. And what a pathbreaker she has been in the 

course of her political career. 

It was likewise a privilege to work with her predecessor in 

this body, Senator Mathias, with whom I developed a close 

friendship. Both have been wonderful partners. 

It is especially gratifying to know that, in the 110th Congress, Benjamin Cardin will take this seat and be Maryland’s junior Senator. Ben Cardin has given extraordinary 

public service to the people of Maryland. As a Member of the 

House of Representatives, he has for 20 years represented 

our Third Congressional District with great distinction, and 

prior to entering the House of Representatives, he served for 

20 years with equal distinction in the Maryland legislature, 

including an outstanding tenure as Speaker of the House of 

Delegates. He is an experienced legislator of the first rank, 

and he is tireless in carrying out effectively the responsibilities of his office. I know my colleagues will enjoy their work 

with him in the coming Congress. 

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My wife and I are gratified that our eldest son John will, 

in January, be sworn in as a Member of the House of Representatives to represent the Third Congressional District in 

the 110th Congress. 

Throughout my years in public service, I have worked to 

the limits of my ability to provide the people of Maryland 

and the Nation dedicated, informed, and independent representation based upon the fundamental principles of integrity and intelligence. I have been guided in this effort by a 

vision of a decent and just America, based on a strong sense 

of community and offering fairness and opportunity to all its 

people. These values and that vision were shaped by my 

family and the community where I grew up, by the pride my 

Greek immigrant parents took in their citizenship in their 

adopted country, and by the high standards of service that 

community leaders set in a small community on Maryland’s 

Eastern Shore, Salisbury, MD, as I was growing up. Those 

values and that vision are as clear and as steady today as 

they were when I first entered public service. 

Service in this body has reinforced, many times over, my 

understanding and commitment to the institutions upon 

which our system of democratic governance critically depends. I have constantly kept in mind the words reportedly 

spoken by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention. We are marking this 

year, of course, as my colleagues know, the tercentenary of 

Franklin’s birth. The story is told that, as he came out of the 

Constitutional Convention, the oldest delegate there, a 

woman in the streets of Philadelphia called out to Franklin 

and said: ‘‘What is it to be, Dr. Franklin, a Monarchy or a 

Republic?’’ And Franklin’s reply was: ‘‘A Republic, Madam, if 

you can keep it.’’

A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it—the challenge that 

Franklin uttered that day in the streets of Philadelphia is a 

challenge each generation of Americans face. All Americans 

bear the responsibility to rise to Franklin’s challenge but 

none more so than the Members of this body. 

I have been honored to serve with Members, past and 

present, who have embraced the challenge and sought, 

through common effort, often under difficult circumstances, 

to strengthen our Republic and to make the promise of 

America a reality for all of our people. 

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league. So long as the vision of America’s promise continues 

to shine brightly in this body, I have every confidence that 

our Nation will prevail in the face of great challenges and 

that its future will be assured. 

Mr. President, I yield the floor. 

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TRIBUTES 

TO 

PAUL S. SARBANES 

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Proceedings in the Senate 

WEDNESDAY, September 20, 2006 

Mr. REID. . . . We have several Democratic Senators who 

are experts on the economy who have come and spoken. Senator SARBANES, who sadly will retire at the end of this year, 

has been a wonderful Senator. He has handled the Banking 

Committee with expertise, and I so appreciate his coming to 

the floor today and talking about this issue. . . . 

FRIDAY, September 29, 2006 

Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I thank the Chair. 

Mr. President, this is a day I hoped would never come. 

This is a speech I hoped I would never give. These are words 

I hoped I would never say. The senior Senator from Maryland, PAUL SARBANES, the longest serving Senator in the history of his great State, Senator PAUL SARBANES, is retiring. 

Now I must say goodbye. 

I am so sorry to say those words to my good friend, my 

true friend, and greatly esteemed colleague. More than once, 

in fact, I have found myself hoping PAUL SARBANES would 

change his mind. But the senior Senator from Maryland 

must do what is best for himself and his family, and I wish 

him the best. 

The retirement of PAUL SARBANES from the Senate brings 

to a close a fascinating and extraordinary Senate career. 

This son of Greek immigrant parents grew up on the Eastern 

Shore of Maryland, where he worked his way—yes, he 

worked his way through school by waiting on tables, washing 

dishes, and mopping floors in the Mayflower Grill in downtown Salisbury. From there, it was on to Princeton, that 

great university, for an undergraduate degree, to Oxford 

University as a Rhodes scholar—as a Rhodes scholar—and 

then on to Harvard Law School. 

PAUL SARBANES began his career in public service in 1966. 

I had just begun my second term as a Member of the U.S. 

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Senate 2 years before when PAUL SARBANES was elected to 

the Maryland State Legislature in 1966. In 1970, PAUL SARBANES was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives 

where, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, he 

introduced the first article of impeachment against President 

Nixon. 

That was PAUL SARBANES. After three terms in the U.S. 

House of Representatives, in 1976 he was elected to the U.S. 

Senate—yes, this body—where his career became even more 

fascinating and extraordinary. 

In the U.S. Senate, PAUL SARBANES has served as chairman of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and 

chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee. And he was chairman of the very impressive and influential Maryland Congressional Delegation, 

which includes Senator Barbara Mikulski and the House 

Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer. PAUL SARBANES has also 

been a very effective member of the Senate Foreign Relations 

Committee and the Senate Budget Committee. 

Senator SARBANES has authored and sponsored important 

legislation, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which has 

been called the most far-reaching reforms of American business practices since the time of President Franklin Delano 

Roosevelt. 

I have always admired the quiet but effective way in which 

this unassuming, brilliant—I mean brilliant—and most reasonable lawmaker has performed the Nation’s business. 

PAUL SARBANES. The Greeks taught the world to think. I 

don’t know whether that is original or not, but that is the 

way I feel about it, in any event. The Greeks taught the 

world to think. I have always thought of PAUL SARBANES as 

a thinker—a thinker—a thinker. On the Senate committees 

on which we have served together, I have observed how he 

listens carefully, speaks—not often, but when he speaks, he 

speaks so softly, and then gets right to the crux of a matter. 

What a mind. What a brain. Yes, what a thinker. In his own 

subtle way, he can dissect even the most powerful and most 

arrogant witness. Let it be a Senator, he is the same. 

I will always remember and always appreciate the great 

support that PAUL SARBANES gave to me during the time I 

served as the Senate Democratic Leader. During the most 

troubling times, during the most difficult votes, during the 

most controversial debate on matters, I could always count 

on PAUL SARBANES being there—with his friendship, his assistance, and his advice. I always called on PAUL SARBANES

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as I gathered the chairmen of the committees when I was 

the majority leader of the Senate and when I was the minority leader. I would call my Democratic chairmen around me. 

They were my board of directors, the chairmen of the various 

committees when we were in the majority. I always called 

PAUL SARBANES —he and some others, like Wendell Ford—

but I am talking about PAUL SARBANES. I cannot begin to describe how important his support was and how much I appreciated it. 

As I have said before, every leader would be fortunate to 

have a PAUL SARBANES, this Greek—and I say that with 

great pride—this Greek thinker. When I see the statue of 

‘‘The Thinker,’’ with his fist under his chin, I think of PAUL

SARBANES. Yes, I think of PAUL SARBANES. I was always so 

fortunate myself to have PAUL SARBANES as a colleague to 

whom I could go and seek advice and counsel. 

Senator SARBANES was one of just 23 Members of this 

Chamber who was willing to defy popular opinion—yes, to 

stand up to the President of the United States and to throw 

himself against the forces of war in voting against the resolution to launch an unprecedented preemptive assault, military assault, military invasion of a country that had never 

attacked us, never attacked our country; a country that did 

not pose a preeminent threat to our national security—Iraq. 

If only there had been more Senators like PAUL SARBANES, 

one of the 23 immortals. I like to think of it in that way. 

I am in my 48th year in the Senate, and I was 6 years in 

the other body, making more than half a century in the Congress of the United States. I have always, since that vote, 

felt that was the greatest vote that I have ever cast. I have 

cast more than 17,000 rollcall votes in the Senate. I will always look upon that vote as the greatest vote, the vote in 

which I take the most pride, during my 54 years in the Congress of the United States—the greatest vote I ever cast. I 

cast that vote with 22 other Senators, one of whom is now 

gone. He died in a plane crash. 

When Senator SARBANES announced his retirement back in 

March 2005, I remarked that he ‘‘will be missed’’ and that 

he ‘‘will not be replaced.’’ While PAUL SARBANES will be 

missed, I might have to qualify the latter portion of that 

statement. Just a few weeks ago his son, PAUL SARBANES’s 

son John—John, what a name—won the Democratic primary 

in the Third District in Maryland to become a Democratic 

nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives. Therefore, 

come January we might have another Sarbanes serving with 

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us in the Congress—praise God. If so, it will be fascinating 

to watch that son follow in his father’s footsteps. 

As the old saying goes: A Sarbanes goes and a Sarbanes 

comes, and Congress, like Tennyson’s brook, goes on forever. 

That is not really an old saying. I probably just made it up. 

But I like it; yes, I like it. 

Let me close by simply saying thank you, thank you Senator PAUL SARBANES. I thank you. 

I remember PAUL SARBANES years ago when we were 

thinking and talking about and debating the Panama Canal 

treaty. I was against that treaty in the beginning, and then 

I read ‘‘The Path Between The Seas’’ and I changed my 

mind. I studied the matter. I did what PAUL SARBANES did, 

I studied the matter. I thought about the matter. I changed 

my viewpoints. 

PAUL SARBANES, I thank you. I thank you for being a true 

friend. I thank you for being a truly esteemed colleague. I 

don’t say these words lightly. I have been here a long time. 

I know a good man or woman, a good Senator when I see a 

good Senator. And I know this man is one of the finest of all 

Senators and a great American. 

I thank you, PAUL SARBANES, for everything that you have 

done for your State and your people and country, our people. 

I wish you and your lovely wife Christine nothing but ambrosia and nectar as you enter the next phase of your lives. 

GOD GIVE US MEN

(By Josiah Gilbert Holland) 

God, give us men. 

A time like this demands strong minds, 

Great hearts, true faith, and ready hands. 

Men whom the lust of office does not kill; 

Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; 

Men who possess opinions and a will; 

Men who have honor; men who will not lie. 

Men who can stand before the demagog 

And brave his treacherous flatteries without winking. 

Tall men, Sun-crowned; 

Who live above the fog. 

In public duty and in private thinking. 

For while the rabble with its thumbworn creeds, 

Its large professions and its little deeds, 

Mingles in selfish strife, 

Lo! Freedom weeps! 

Waits, and waiting justice sleeps. 

Wrong rules the land, I say, and waiting justice sleeps. 

God, give us men! 

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Men who serve not for selfish booty; 

But real men, courageous, who flinch not at duty. 

Men of dependable character; 

Men of sterling worth; 

Then wrongs will be redressed and right will rule the Earth. 

God Give us men—

More men, yes, men like PAUL SARBANES, the Greek scholar, the Greek thinker, the Rhodes Scholar, a Senator of 

whom I am proud and will always speak with great pride. 

Mr. SARBANES. Will the Senator yield? 

Mr. BYRD. Yes, I yield. 

Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, I thank the very able Senator from West Virginia, our leader here for so many years, 

for his very generous and gracious remarks. I am deeply appreciative of his exceedingly kind words. 

But I want to thank him even more for the extraordinary 

leadership he has provided over his service, both in the 

House of Representatives and, for the last 48 years, in the 

Senate. I have been here three decades and there is no one 

during that time who has spoken more eloquently, more perceptively about our Constitution and the role of the Senate 

within the Constitution, who has sought to strengthen the 

Senate as an institution and to have it play its role in the 

checks and balances arrangements which our Founding Fathers established in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. 

Senator Byrd again and again has called us to a higher 

standard. He has urged us over and over to do the right 

thing, to understand what our roles are as Senators, and, as 

he said, I know of no issue, certainly in recent times, where 

he has more pointedly expressed our role than when we considered the issue of giving the President authority to go to 

war in Iraq. It was Senator Byrd who sounded a clarion call 

that was heard all across the country, as he raised the basic 

questions that needed to be raised with respect to an issue 

of such gravity and significance. 

I have been honored to serve with the Senator. I early recognized that the wisest course would be to follow his leadership. Again and again I have been privileged to have the opportunity to do that. I thank him very much for what he just 

said. I want him to know that as long as he stands on the 

floor of the Senate, I have confidence that our Constitution 

and this body as an institution are in good hands. 

That is a magnificent service that he renders to the Republic. I thank him very much. 

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Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I thank my dear friend. I shall 

always cherish the words thus spoken and always reflect 

upon this Senator, PAUL SARBANES, with great pride. . . . 

Mr. ENZI. . . . Mr. President, there is always an element 

of sadness that touches us all when we come to the end of 

a session of Congress. As the clock winds down on the final 

hours of our legislative activities, it also signals the time 

when several of our colleagues will be retiring and ending 

their years of service in the U.S. Senate. One of our colleagues who will be leaving at the end of this session is my 

good friend PAUL SARBANES of Maryland. 

I remember when I first came to Washington years ago. I 

wanted my staff and I to hit the ground running, so I was 

reading up on the people who would be my colleagues in the 

Senate. One name caught my eye—PAUL SARBANES. It was 

noted that PAUL was a brilliant man who was one of the 

Senate’s most noted authorities on the nuances of finance. 

As the Senate’s only accountant I found that comment to 

be a badge of honor. I knew PAUL must be wearing it with 

great pride. I knew I would. I took an instant liking to him. 

Through the years PAUL and I served on the Banking 

Committee together. Our 8 years of service there gave me an 

opportunity to come to know him and appreciate his skills as 

a legislator. He has a great ability to solve complicated problems by piecing together workable solutions and then reaching out to his colleagues on both sides of the aisle to forge 

an agreement that could be passed and signed into law. 

As I came to know him, I came to greatly respect him, the 

hard work he puts into his job every day of the year, and his 

commitment to serve his constituents which directed his 

every effort on the Senate floor. 

A few years ago I had the chance to work with him one 

on one as we crafted the provisions of what came to be 

known as the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. We became good 

friends during the process and developed a mutual respect 

for each other’s positions on the issues. 

That was back during the days when several scandals had 

rocked the accounting and financial industries of our country. Determined to find a solution, PAUL rolled up his sleeves 

and went to work. I don’t think anyone gave him much of a 

chance to succeed, but those were people who didn’t know 

him or his determination to find a way to solve a problem 

once it had captured his attention. 

As he began to work on his bill, he knew he wouldn’t be 

able to pass it without the help of some Senate Republicans. 

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On the other side of the aisle, we knew we couldn’t get anything through the Senate without the support of several Senate Democrats. So PAUL reached across the aisle and got us 

all to work together to bring his bill to the Senate floor 

where it was ultimately passed and signed into law. 

As he worked for the people of Maryland and I worked for 

the people of my State, we found, despite our political and 

philosophical differences, we were always able to find common ground on the 80 percent of every issue that unites us. 

That is why PAUL has a well-earned reputation here in the 

Senate for his willingness to work out problems for the 

greater good. He is known for his ability to navigate through 

partisan waters and arrive at solutions which are appreciated by the thoughtful majorities of both sides of the Senate. If you ask me, those are the abilities that have proven 

to be the secret of his success. 

Back home, his constituents appreciate his workhorse 

style. He has served Maryland in the Senate for almost three 

decades and through it all he has earned the support of the 

people back home for his hard work and determined effort to 

make their lives better. The issues that were important to 

the people who sent him here always led PAUL to the Senate 

floor to take up the cause and do everything he possibly 

could to protect and promote the interests of those who were 

counting on him to get results. Needless to say—more often 

than not—he did. 

Now three decades of service in the Senate have come to 

an end and PAUL is returning home to Maryland. I know we 

will all miss his ingenuity, his creativity, and his ability to 

focus our efforts and lead on both local and national issues. 

It is a well-known adage that all politics is local and that is 

a lesson that PAUL learned and practiced as a master craftsman. 

Now he and Christine will have time to enjoy their families together, and be a part of all that Maryland has to offer. 

I have a hunch he will not be slowing down so much as 

changing direction. I also expect I will continue to hear from 

him from time to time on matters that will still draw his interest. 

It is a phone call I expect and look forward to receiving in 

the years to come. . . . 

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TUESDAY, December 5, 2006 

Mr. HAGEL. Mr. President . . . As we recognize, it is a distinct privilege and high honor to serve our country in any capacity, and certainly none higher than in uniform. But it is 

especially important that we recognize those who have given 

years of their lives, sacrificing their families, their own time, 

to help make a better world for all of us. I know of no capacity in which we serve our country that has given those who 

have had this rare opportunity to serve in the Senate anything more noble than trying to shape a better world from 

this Senate. 

These individuals who will leave the Senate, some on their 

own terms, some on the terms of the election, but, nonetheless, in their own specific way have contributed a great deal 

to this country. 

I take a few minutes to recognize each. . . . 

Senator PAUL SARBANES, the longest serving Senator in 

Maryland, serving five terms in the Senate, was elected to 

the U.S. House of Representatives in 1970. I first got acquainted with Senator SARBANES not as a Senator but as a 

young staff member, chief of staff to a Congressman from 

Nebraska, John McCollister, who also had been elected to 

the House in 1970. 

I have had the privilege of serving on two committees for 

the last 10 years with Senator SARBANES—on the Foreign 

Relations Committee and the Committee on Banking. His 

courtesies to me, his sharp, defined intellect, his ability to 

dissect problems and focus on a resolution, will be greatly 

missed in this institution. We wish the Sarbaneses continued 

success and a little rest. . . . 

Mr. President, in conclusion, it is not easy to put one’s self 

on the firing line and offer one’s self as a candidate for any 

office. It takes a certain amount of courage and, I suspect, 

a little dose of insanity. But nonetheless individuals who believe deeply enough to commit themselves to a cause greater 

than their own self-interests need to be recognized. Having 

nothing to do with me or you or any one individual, but it 

is the essence of our country, it is the very fabric of our democracy that makes it all work and probably gives rise to, 

more than any one reason, why we have been such a successful nation for over 200 years—because people from all walks 

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man, county official, a sheriff, these individuals deserve recognition. 

We all make mistakes. That is who we are. But in the end, 

it is not unlike what Teddy Roosevelt once referred to in his 

magnificent quote about the man in the arena. And it is the 

man and the woman in the arena who change our lives. It 

makes a better world that shapes history, that defines our 

destiny. And for these individuals who will no longer have 

that opportunity to serve our country in the Senate, we wish 

them well, we thank them, and we tell them we are proud 

of them and their families and wish them Godspeed. 

Mr. President, I thank you for the time and yield the floor. 

WEDNESDAY, December 6, 2006 

Mr. REED. Mr. President, this is an opportunity to recognize the service of several of our colleagues who are departing from the Senate. To Senator Jeffords, Senator Frist, Senator DeWine, Senator Talent, Senator Santorum, Senator 

Burns, and Senator Allen, let me express my appreciation for 

their service to their States and their service to the Nation 

and wish them well. I particularly want to comment, though, 

on three colleagues with whom I have had the privilege of 

working very closely. 

The first is my friend and my chairman, ranking member, 

Senator PAUL SARBANES of Maryland. 

PAUL has had an extraordinarily distinguished career in 

the Senate, and he has been the chairman of the Banking, 

Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and the Joint Economic Committee, and in both of those capacities he has 

made profound and important impacts on the banking system and the economy of the United States. Housing and 

urban affairs have also been improved dramatically by the 

efforts of PAUL SARBANES. 

When it comes to understanding complex financial matters 

there is no one more gifted and more knowledgeable than 

PAUL SARBANES. He has an extraordinary record of legislative achievements. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 stands as 

a testimony both to his skill as a thoughtful observer of the 

financial scene and as a legislator. It represented major reforms in corporate governance at a time when confidence in 

our markets was waning dramatically after the implosions of 

Enron and WorldCom. Through PAUL’s efforts, confidence 

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was reestablished in a system of corporate governance which 

I think will stand the test of time. 

In addition, in 1999 he was instrumental in the Financial 

Modernization Act, also known as Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and 

was particularly concerned that the Community Reinvestment Act aspects of the legislation be maintained because he 

was always committed to serving people and giving them opportunities. He understood that the franchise to operate a financial institution with Federal deposit insurance required a 

concomitant commitment to serve the community, and PAUL

SARBANES has done a remarkable job of maintaining that 

commitment to all the communities of America, particularly 

those that need an opportunity, need a chance to move forward. 

As chairman of the Joint Economic Committee in the late 

1980s, he was a thoughtful and careful analyst, someone who 

I think led the way analytically to the changes in the 1990s 

that returned us to a balanced budget and a robust economy. 

PAUL SARBANES in many respects, through his work on the 

Joint Economic Committee, was the architect of those efforts 

in the 1990s. 

He has long had a concern about our role internationally 

in economic affairs. He was one of the first Members to raise 

concerns about Chinese currency and its impact on our 

trade, our productivity, and our manufacturing base. In the 

Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, he mandated that the Treasury Department report semiannually to 

Congress about international economic and exchange rate 

policies. I think this is the lever that today is used to rally 

support, debate, and attention to the issue of currency exchange rate policies. 

He has also, in his capacity as a leader on the Banking 

and Urban Affairs Committee, been active in promoting 

transit throughout the United States. He made sure that our 

transit systems are supported, and are able to provide greater accessibility, environmental benefits, while reducing the 

demand on foreign oil. His insights into transit, and his leadership, have benefited everyone in the country, particularly 

the 14 million Americans who rely on mass transit every 

day. 

He has also been a champion for affordable housing. He 

has been the author of the Home Investment Partnerships 

Program, known as HOME. During the past 16 years it provided funding to our States and localities to improve affordable housing. He was one of the key legislators who offered 

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the Market-to-Market Program, which preserved so much of 

our affordable housing, making sure low-income people have 

a chance to live in decent and affordable environments. 

He has had the able assistance of Steve Harris, Marty 

Gruenberg, Pat Mulloy, Johnathan Miller, Dean Shahinian, 

Sarah Kline, Aaron Klein, Lee Price, Patience Singleton, Jen 

Fogel-Bublick, Steve Kroll, and Lynsey Graham. 

I want to express my best wishes to PAUL, to his wife 

Christine, and their family. His son John is now the new 

Representative for the U.S. House in the Third District of 

Maryland, so the Sarbanes tradition carries on. 

Let me conclude by saying there is a word in Greek for integrity and intelligence, and that word is SARBANES. 

PAUL, good luck. . . . 

To all my colleagues who served and conclude their service, let me once again express deep appreciation for their 

friendship and for their service to the Nation. 

I yield the floor. 

Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, we are coming to the 

end of the session and 10 of our colleagues are retiring. I 

want to say a word about them . . . 

Or PAUL SARBANES, who was in the same Rhodes Scholar 

class with Senator Dick Lugar. . . . 

When the most recent class of Senators was sworn into office nearly 2 years ago, in the gallery were three women. 

One was the grandmother of Barack Obama. She was from 

Kenya. One was the mother of Senator Salazar, a 10th generation American. One was the mother of Mel Martinez, the 

new Republican National Committee chairman, who, with 

her husband, put her son on an airplane when he was 14 

years old and sent him from Cuba to the United States, not 

knowing if she would ever see him again. 

In a way, each one of us who is here is an accident. None 

of us knew we would be here. Each of us is privileged to 

serve, and one of the greatest privileges is to serve with our 

colleagues. We will miss them and we are grateful for their 

service. 

I yield the floor. 

Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, as the time for my departure 

from the Senate draws near, on behalf of the greatest blessing in my life, my wife Susan, and on behalf of myself, I 

thank all of my colleagues for their many courtesies and 

friendships that have been forged during the past 6 years. I 

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offer a few concluding reflections about our time here together, as well as about the future of our Republic. . . . 

Mr. NELSON of Florida. Mr. President, I see others who 

wish to speak, and I will make a couple of brief comments. 

In the comments of the Senator from Virginia [Mr. Allen], 

his final couple of comments recalled for me a statement 

made in the closing of the Constitutional Convention in 

Philadelphia, when on the back of the chair of the presiding 

officer was a sunburst. Someone opined in that Constitutional Convention: Dr. Franklin, is that a rising sun or is it 

a setting sun? And Franklin ventured to say that with the 

birth of the new Nation, with the creation of the new Constitution, that he thought it was a rising sun. 

Indeed, it is that hope of which the Senator from Virginia 

has just spoken that motivates this Senator from Florida to 

get up and go to work every day, and to look at this Nation’s 

challenges, not as a Democratic problem or a Republican 

problem, but as an American problem, that needs to be 

solved in an American way instead of a partisan way. 

We have had far too much partisanship over the last several years across this land, and, indeed, in this Chamber 

itself. And of the Senators who are leaving this Chamber, I 

think they represent the very best of America, and on occasion have risen in a bipartisan way. It has been this Senator’s great privilege to work with these Senators: Allen of 

Virginia, Burns of Montana, Chafee of Rhode Island, Dayton 

of Minnesota, DeWine of Ohio, Frist of Tennessee, Jeffords 

of Vermont, Santorum of Pennsylvania, SARBANES of Maryland, Talent of Missouri. 

As the Good Book in Ecclesiastes says: There is a time to 

be born and a time to die. There is a time to get up, and a 

time to go to bed. There is a time for a beginning, and there 

is a time of ending. 

For these Senators who are leaving, it is clearly not an 

ending. It is an ending of this chapter in their lives, but this 

Senator from Florida wanted to come and express his appreciation for their public service, to admonish those where admonishment is needed when this Chamber, indeed, this Government, has gotten too partisan, but to express this Senator’s appreciation for the quiet moments of friendship and 

reflection and respect in working together, which is the glue 

that makes this Government run. 

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plicated and as diverse as our Nation is—as the Good Book 

says: Come, let us reason together—that is what this Senator tries to be about. And that is what this Senator will try 

to continue to do in the new dawn of a new Congress. So I 

wanted to come and express my appreciation for those Senators who will not be here, for the great public service they 

have rendered. 

Mr. President, I am truly grateful for their personal 

friendship and for their public service. 

I yield the floor. 

Mr. DURBIN. . . . Another retiring colleague is one of my 

favorites. I have been asked time and again: Who are your 

favorite Senators on the Democratic side? And I usually 

came up with two I always look to for wisdom and guidance: 

PAUL SARBANES and Carl Levin. I am glad that Carl Levin 

will continue his Senate career and has announced that he 

will run for reelection. But PAUL SARBANES is leaving the 

Senate after many years of fine service. 

PAUL SARBANES is the quintessential American success 

story. His parents were immigrants from the same little 

town in Greece. They met in America, and what else would 

Greek immigrants do? They opened a restaurant—in Salisbury, MD. They picked a classic American name for their 

restaurant. They called it The Mayflower, and PAUL SARBANES started as a young boy working in his family’s restaurant and living ‘‘above the store,’’ as they used to say. 

He graduated from public high school, a pretty good student and not a bad basketball player. He won a scholarship 

to Princeton University, studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and earned a law degree from Harvard in 1960. He was 

set to make a fortune as an attorney in private practice but, 

instead, he listened to President Kennedy’s call to public 

service and took a job as assistant to Walter Heller, who was 

President Kennedy’s Chairman of the Council of Economic 

Advisers. 

PAUL SARBANES won his first election 40 years ago to the 

Maryland House of Delegates and was elected to the U.S. 

Senate 30 years ago. He is the longest serving U.S. Senator 

in the history of the State of Maryland. It is said that the 

Senate is the most exclusive club in the world. PAUL SARBANES is a member of one of the most exclusive clubs within 

it. Of the 1,885 Americans who have had the rare privilege 

and honor to serve in the Senate, PAUL SARBANES is 1 of 

only 27 who have been here long enough to cast 10,000 votes 

in the Senate. 

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He is a modest, soft-spoken, hard-working man and one of 

the brightest people I have ever served with in the House or 

the Senate. 

A Congressional Quarterly profile says of PAUL SARBANES: 

‘‘He possesses the intellectual skills to leave his opponents 

sputtering.’’

He was a voice of reason in the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate hearings of 1974 and later in 

the Senate’s Iran-Contra and Whitewater investigations. 

It was Senator SARBANES’s leadership in the wake of the 

scandals at Enron and WorldCom that led to the reforms in 

Sarbanes-Oxley, the most far-reaching reform of accountability standards since the Great Depression. 

An interesting thing happened a week ago. On November 

30, a group with an impressive and quasi-official-sounding 

name, the Committee on Capital Market Regulation, released a report arguing that excessive and overzealous regulation was hobbling U.S. capital markets. The report included 32 recommendations, among them to redesign the 

SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission, to make it 

friendlier to business and increase protections against private lawsuits against businesses—in other words, pull some 

of the teeth out of the Sarbanes-Oxley reforms. 

The very next day we learned that the report had been financed by a foundation with ties to what the Washington 

Post described as ‘‘a pair of well-heeled business donors and 

an executive battling civil charges’’ in a lawsuit filed in New 

York by the attorney general. 

Some pension watchdogs and consumer advocates they 

turned out to be. They were sounding an alarm bell with a 

real personal interest in mind. So we should take care; before we make any wholesale change in the Sarbanes-Oxley 

rules, we need to understand that we must protect the integrity and security of America’s financial markets. PAUL SARBANES had the courage to lead that battle. Change can take 

place, but let’s make sure it is reasonable; study the issue, 

and ask the hard questions. 

For over 30 years PAUL SARBANES has served Maryland 

and the Nation. He has earned a reputation for excellence 

and integrity, winning the Paul Douglas Award for Ethics 

just 2 years ago. He has given America some of the most important legislation, but he has spoken out consistently on the 

floor of the Senate so many times with the kind of leadership 

which we ask for in the Senate. I will be sorry to see him 

retire. 

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But the Sarbanes name lives on in Congress. On November 7 his son John Peter Styros Sarbanes was elected to 

represent Maryland’s Third Congressional District, replacing 

Senator-elect Ben Cardin. In typical SARBANES fashion, his 

son won with 65 percent of the vote and will continue the 

Sarbanes family tradition of serving Maryland and America. . . . 

I wish all of my colleagues who are retiring well as they 

begin the next chapters of their careers. 

Mr. SALAZAR. Mr. President, I rise today to bid farewell 

to several of my friends here in Washington. Too often we 

get caught up here in the back-and-forth of politics and lose 

sight of the contributions of those with whom we work every 

day. It is only at moments such as these, at the end of a 

cycle, that we have a moment to reflect on the contributions 

of our colleagues. And while we may not always see eye to 

eye, this Senate is losing several admirable contributors who 

have made many sacrifices to serve our democracy. 

Mr. President, we are losing one of the great deans of the 

Senate in my friend Senator PAUL SARBANES of Maryland. 

As many have already noted, Senator SARBANES helped bring 

the greatest disinfectant—sunshine—into the corporate 

boardrooms of America after the fall of Enron, to help investors cull out the few bad apples from the American economy. 

In his three decades in the Senate, Senator SARBANES has 

worked with five Presidents, seen the end of the cold war, 

the boom of the information age, and even a balanced budget 

a few years back. Any regular C–SPAN viewer would agree 

that he is one of the most incisive and skilled questioners in 

the Senate, and his work has elicited important testimony, 

bringing valuable information to the public sphere, strengthening our democracy. Through it all, his focus has always 

been the people of Maryland, and his wisdom and experience 

will be missed. . . . 

America, when held to its finest ideals, is more than a 

place on the globe or a work in progress. It is the inspiration 

to those around the world and here at home to seek out excellence within themselves and their beliefs. It has been a 

pleasure to work alongside each of these gentlemen, who 

have helped me as I have found my way, sometimes literally, 

through the halls of the Senate, in the pursuit of these greater ideals that we all share: security, prosperity, and an 

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other generation stands in our place making the decisions of 

its day. 

Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, for many of us on this side 

of the aisle, there is a feeling of excitement and possibility 

for the next Congress. But sadly, that Congress will no 

longer have the wise counsel, extraordinary talent, and perceptive insights of our friend and colleague of many years, 

the outstanding senior Senator from Maryland, PAUL SARBANES. 

Over the course of his 30 years in the Senate, PAUL has 

been a consistently eloquent voice of reason, compassion, and 

great intellectual depth. He has brought nothing but dignity 

to this historic Chamber, and he eminently deserves his 

place of honor as the longest-serving Senator in the history 

of the State of Maryland. 

As a member of the Banking Committee, he has been a respected leader in expanding and enhancing the economic vitality of America, especially urban America, through his 

strong support for housing, transportation, and financial 

policies that make sense for the Nation and its people. In recent years, he guided into law one of the most significant reforms of corporate governance in more than half a century. 

As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, he has 

been a highly respected voice on many of the most serious 

challenges we face on foreign policy. He was an opponent of 

the war in Iraq from the beginning, and he was a leader in 

the Iran-contra investigation in the 1980s. 

He believes deeply in the importance of public service. 

Drawing on his wide learning, he often speaks about the 

great importance that the ancient Greeks placed on public 

service. I understand he tells young students that in ancient 

Athens, people who involved themselves only in private life 

were called ‘‘idiotes,’’ which is the original source of the word 

‘‘idiot’’ in English. 

PAUL has always been a strong defender of the highest 

ideals of the United States at home and for a peaceful world 

that respects human rights. 

Because of his leadership and the policies he has long 

championed, America’s cities are reclaiming their historical 

role as the heart of American commerce and culture, and today’s shareholders have new confidence in the integrity of 

the stocks and bonds they invest in and depend so heavily 

on. 

It is a record of accomplishment that has improved the 

lives of millions of our people and has helped to restore faith 

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in American business, at a time when public confidence in 

corporate America was badly shaken and storm clouds were 

gathering over the American economy. 

It is also the record of a patient, deliberative, and active 

Senate workhorse, who has dedicated his career to the mastery of complicated, nuanced, and often seemingly insoluble 

problems at home and in the wider world. It’s the record as 

well of a public servant who responded to the Nation’s call 

to deal with some of the most difficult challenges of corruption and incompetence in our lifetime. 

From the impeachment proceedings against President 

Nixon, to the Iran-contra investigation and the Whitewater 

hearings, to the way he shone a bright light on the outrageous and predatory lending practices that exploit low-income Americans and keep so many hard-working citizens 

mired in poverty, PAUL SARBANES was a Senator who could 

always be relied on to take the assignment seriously, prepare 

brilliantly, and make decisions on the facts, on the rule of 

law, and his firm belief in the need for justice and fairness 

in public life. 

Needless to say, he was a match for even the best of witnesses. I doubt that any other Senator could go head to head 

with a witness in a hearing as skillfully as PAUL SARBANES

could do with Alan Greenspan. 

PAUL has also been a profile in courage. He voted for what 

he thought was right, without regard to the political consequences. And as his long and strong support by the people 

of Maryland made clear, they respected him all the more because of it. 

Few Senators with whom we have been blessed to serve 

can match PAUL SARBANES when it comes to decency, intelligence, or mastery of policy. It is a privilege to listen to him 

and learn from him in Senate debate. He can champion a 

proposal he favors with great skill and eloquence, and he can 

also utterly dissect a flawed proposal point by point. It can 

be a very distressing experience to oppose him on an issue 

and have him do the same thing to your side of the argument. 

I am fortunate to have supported PAUL many more times 

than I opposed him. But regardless of which side you were 

on, his motivation in debate was always clear—to achieve 

the best outcome for the public good, and to do so by opening 

his opponents’ eyes and minds, not by harshly attacking 

their positions. 

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Author Elizabeth Drew well captured this quality of PAUL

in her assessment of life in Washington during Watergate. 

She wrote of the young Baltimore Congressman who, with 

just 3 years in Congress, found himself in the thick of the 

House impeachment proceedings against President Nixon. 

He won the attention and respect of the Nation when his colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee chose him to be 

the manager of the first article of impeachment, for obstruction of justice. As Liz Drew wrote: 

History and process lift people, and they have lifted this group—and given 

the public a chance to see it. PAUL SARBANES would not have looked at all 

bad at the Constitutional Convention; he might have been one of the great 

ones. 

I certainly agree. As we say farewell to this outstanding 

Senator of our time, we will forever be grateful to this Greek 

immigrant son of Maryland for all he has done to make our 

country and our world a better place, and for consistently 

elevating the quality of life in the Senate we all love so deeply. 

Fifty years ago, PAUL was a young student at Oxford University in England on a Rhodes Scholarship, founded over a 

century ago by the wealthy British statesman whose goal 

was to encourage students in the English-speaking world 

and other countries to be involved in public service and ‘‘join 

the world’s fight.’’

PAUL SARBANES has helped to lead that fight for half a 

century, and I am sure that Cecil Rhodes would be very 

proud of him. 

We will miss you, PAUL. We wish you and Christine great 

happiness in the years to come. You are irreplaceable, but 

we take some comfort in the knowledge that a new young 

Sarbanes, blessed with the same intellect and commitment 

to public service, will be joining us in January as a Member 

of the House of Representatives. 

Mr. AKAKA. Mr. President, I want to express my appreciation for all of the public service efforts of the senior Senator from Maryland, PAUL SARBANES. My friend has served 

in the Senate since 1977, which makes him the longest serving U.S. Senator from Maryland. 

It has been a pleasure working with Senator SARBANES

over the years on a number of issues. In 2001, I was fortunate to be added to the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 

Committee. At that time, the Senator from Maryland was 

serving as the chairman of the committee, and it was a 

memorable session to be a part of the committee. In the 

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wake of the accounting failures of Enron and other public 

companies, Chairman SARBANES conducted a very thorough 

series of hearings which led to the legislation which is now 

known as Sarbanes-Oxley. This is landmark legislation that 

has increased corporate responsibility and resulted in more 

effective oversight of public companies. Without the vision, 

courage, and ability of my friend from Maryland, that legislation would not have been possible. Despite numerous obstacles, he brought about comprehensive accounting reform. 

In addition, I have enjoyed working closely with the Senator from Maryland in trying to improve the financial literacy of our country. Rising health care costs and insurance 

premiums and the lack of affordable housing have contributed to making the lives of working families more difficult as 

they strain to meet their day-to-day needs. The ability of 

families to meet their increasing financial obligations is 

hampered by their significant debt burdens, particularly 

credit card debt, and by predatory lending practices such as 

refund anticipation loans. A lack of financial literacy makes 

it harder for families to deal with the difficult decisions they 

are confronted with daily. Senator SARBANES organized the 

first set of hearings on the issue of financial literacy and led 

the creation of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, the purpose of which is to promote financial literacy 

and education among all American consumers. 

Senator SARBANES has been a champion for Federal employees. Throughout his Senate career, he has fought to ensure that Federal employees and members of the military receive equal pay increases. He understands that the Federal 

civilian workforce plays a significant role in the support of 

our Armed Services, and I am honored to join him annually 

in offering a resolution calling for pay parity between the 

military and Federal workers. 

He has been a leading advocate for consumer protection, 

increasing access to affordable housing, and improving public 

transportation in our country. I will miss having my good 

friend from Maryland in the Senate. He has served Maryland and the country very well. Millie and I wish him and 

his family the very best. 

Mr. OBAMA. Mr. President, I rise today to bid a fond farewell to my dear colleague and role model, Senator PAUL SARBANES, Maryland’s longest serving Senator. 

Senator SARBANES represents the greatest traditions of 

this body and of our country. He is the type of Senator we 

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effective, and thoroughly decent. During the course of 30 

years in the U.S. Senate and another 10 years in the U.S. 

House of Representatives and the Maryland House of Delegates, Senator SARBANES defined what it means to be a 

trusted public servant in America. 

PAUL SARBANES grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the son of Greek immigrants who instilled the values 

of opportunity and fairness in their child. Motivated and 

hard-working, PAUL attended Princeton University, studied 

in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and earned a law degree from 

Harvard. 

PAUL first came to the Nation’s attention during the Watergate hearings, where as a freshman member of the House 

Judiciary Committee he introduced the first article of impeachment, which related to obstruction of justice by President Nixon. PAUL’s own ethics and integrity are beyond reproach, and he has brought dignity and credibility to every 

task. 

In the Senate, PAUL’s legacy reflects his ideals of opportunity and fairness. He has continually fought for legislation 

to aid veterans, seniors, workers, and indeed, all Americans. 

He is a tireless champion for his constituents, his country, 

and the highest ethical standards. As a Princeton alumnus, 

he has lived Woodrow Wilson’s ideal of ‘‘Princeton in the Nation’s Service.’’ Each and every day, PAUL demonstrates that 

politics can be an honorable profession. It should be an honorable profession, and I can think of no better model for that 

ideal than PAUL SARBANES. 

In Senator SARBANES’s tenure as both chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Banking, he led the fight 

on behalf of working-class Americans to ensure affordable 

housing. He was instrumental in developing and enacting 

the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990, legislation that 

helps States, local governments, and nonprofit organizations 

work together to build, buy, and rehabilitate housing that 

hard-working people can afford. PAUL has also worked to 

protect Americans from unscrupulous lending practices and 

discrimination. His hearings and legislation on predatory 

lending brought this problem to the attention of the Nation, 

and his work to reduce the cost of private mortgage insurance helped make home ownership a reality for millions of 

Americans. 

After Enron collapsed under the weight of widespread 

abuse and accounting fraud, thousands of workers woke up 

to see their jobs and life savings gone, investors lost billions, 

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and the public cried out against corporate malfeasance. The 

credibility of American business and our financial system 

was on the line. It was Senator SARBANES who brought his 

intelligence and concern to bear to restore investor confidence and implement safeguards against Wall Street 

abuses. He held comprehensive hearings, nurtured a bipartisan coalition, crafted thoughtful legislation, and shepherded it through Congress with Representative Mike Oxley 

in the House. 

The Sarbanes-Oxley law was the most comprehensive overhaul of corporate oversight laws since the Great Depression. 

It created a standard of transparency and accountability to 

assure investors and protect workers. It is a towering 

achievement that will strengthen the American economy for 

many years to come. 

It has been an honor and a privilege to serve with Senator 

SARBANES on the Foreign Relations Committee. I have marveled at his keen intellect and commitment to his responsibilities. During committee hearings and committee markups, Senator SARBANES is always well-prepared, asks direct, 

insightful, and important questions, and makes sure that no 

stone goes unturned. 

He has played a key role in virtually all of the significant 

foreign policy debates that have occurred during his 30 years 

of service on the committee. As a freshman, he was involved 

in the successful ratification of the Panama Canal treaties. 

He worked to enact tough antiapartheid laws in the 1980s. 

And he has developed a long and impressive record on international economics, foreign assistance, and human rights 

issues. 

The American people have been well served by PAUL’s 

leadership, and this institution would be well served if each 

of us was a little more like him. On behalf of all of us, and 

for my constituents, I want to thank him for his service and 

his example. 

Let’s wish Senator SARBANES and his wife Christine well 

in this next phase of their lives. But let’s also hope that we 

will continue to hear PAUL’s voice on important policy issues. 

He may be retiring from this body, but I suspect his commitment to strengthening this country and improving the lives 

of all Americans will continue. For that, as much as for all 

that PAUL has accomplished through his distinguished career 

in the Senate, we should be grateful. I know that I am. 

Mr. President, I yield the floor and suggest the absence of 

a quorum. 

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THURSDAY, December 7, 2006 

Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I have had the privilege of 

being here for the 28th year beginning shortly. I calculated 

not long ago that I have served with 261 individuals. I am 

not about to try and review all of the many magnificent 

friendships I am privileged to have through these years. Indeed, if one looks at the rewards, of which there are many 

serving in this historic institution, the Senate, it is the personal bonds, the friendships that we so firmly cement and 

that will last a lifetime as a consequence of our duties of 

serving the United States of America and in our respective 

States. 

We are called ‘‘United States’’ Senators. I often believe it 

is the first obligation, our Nation, the Republic for which it 

stands. . . . 

I would also like to pay tribute to nine other U.S. Senators 

who will retire from the Senate in the coming days. 

I have previously spoken in honor of my colleague from the 

neighboring State of Maryland, Senator PAUL SARBANES. 

Since my first days in the Senate, Senator SARBANES and I 

worked together on a host of important regional initiatives, 

including the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay, improvements to our Metro system, the creation of the office of the 

National Capital Region Coordinator, and on funding for the 

construction of the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge. His retirement is certainly a loss to the region as Senator SARBANES

has been a true champion of many issues vital to the Maryland, Virginia, and DC metropolitan area. . . . 

In conclusion, over the years I have served with each of 

these 10 Senators, each has not only been a trusted colleague, each has also been my friend. I will miss serving 

with each of them in the Senate but know that each will continue in public service in some capacity. I wish each and 

every one of them well in the years ahead. 

Mr. President, I see a number of colleagues here anxious 

to speak, and I have taken generously of the time the Presiding Officer has allowed me to speak. 

I yield the floor. 

Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I rise today to honor the 

great service of retiring Senators PAUL SARBANES, Mark 

Dayton, and James Jeffords. 

Senator SARBANES’s service in the Senate stretches back 

three decades. First elected in 1977, he had previously 

served as a Congressman and before that as a delegate in 

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the Maryland State House. I have been so grateful to the 

Senator for his advice and his work in this Chamber. 

Senator SARBANES is the son of immigrants from Laconia, 

Greece, and he has often spoken about the pride that he has 

for his Greek heritage, as well as the inspiration that he 

draws from it through his work in the Senate. His parents 

instilled in him a reverence for the principles of democracy 

and a respect for the values of opportunity and fairness. He 

has championed these values throughout his life in public 

service, passing important legislation to reform the accounting industry, the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, among many 

other legislative accomplishments. 

I want to thank Senator SARBANES and his dedicated staff 

for their extensive and laudable work on the surface transportation reauthorization bill and in particular for their tireless efforts to ensure our Nation’s transit systems are adequately funded. With so much congestion on our roads it is 

critical that we continue to invest in our trains, buses, ferries, and other modes of transportation to reduce congestion 

and reduce travel times. Senator SARBANES did this work in 

his role as ranking member of the Banking Committee, and 

millions of people every day—especially in New York—who 

ride trains and buses to and from work should be grateful 

that we had him on our side for so many years. 

I could stand here for a long time singing the praises and 

accomplishments of Senator SARBANES after a long and distinguished career in the Senate. I will end by saying this: We 

will miss him and he has left his mark on this great Chamber. . . . 

Finally, I also wish the very best to my Republican colleagues who will leave the Senate at the conclusion of this 

Congress. The Senate, at its best, is a body that promotes bipartisanship, deliberation, and cooperation, and the dedication to shared values. It has been a privilege to work with 

my departing colleagues on the other side of the aisle. 

FRIDAY, December 8, 2006 

Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I have a few more minutes before the 10:30 vote, and I take this time to say a few 

words about some of my colleagues who are retiring. We had 

a good bit of time yesterday devoted to their tremendous contributions, and as each of us, the 100 of us, do know each 

other pretty well, I have come to the floor to say a few things 

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about several of the colleagues I have had the distinct pleasure of working with very closely. . . . 

To all of our retiring Members, I say thank you. Thank 

you for your efforts on behalf of my State when you were 

needed and thank you for your service to America. 

Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to 

one of the Senate’s finest Members, Senator PAUL SARBANES, 

who is retiring after 30 years of service in this Chamber. 

Senator SARBANES has served this Senate, his State, and our 

country with dignity, wit, and uncommon wisdom. He is simply one of the smartest, most principled people I have ever 

known. He is, quite simply, a class act. 

PAUL SARBANES has focused his energies on governance 

and effective legislating. This thoughtful approach has 

served him well, served his State well, and served this 

Chamber well. PAUL SARBANES never lost an election, and he 

is the longest serving Senator in the history of the State of 

Maryland. 

In the Senate, PAUL SARBANES served with great distinction as chairman and ranking member of the Banking and 

Joint Economic Committees and has long provided wise 

counsel on the Foreign Relations Committee. 

At the Banking Committee, he has been relentless in protecting consumers from unscrupulous financial acts. When 

the country was hit by scandals in the Enron and WorldCom 

cases, PAUL SARBANES acted to protect against further abuse 

and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the result. That is an act that 

has stopped further abuse. 

PAUL SARBANES also fought for affordable housing, for adequate public transportation, for transparency at the Federal 

Reserve. In debating former Fed Chairmen and the current 

one, he has never let central bankers forget that they must 

pursue a dual mandate, with jobs for Americans on an equal 

footing with fighting inflation. 

It has been my honor and my privilege to serve with Senator SARBANES on the Budget Committee. Few can match his 

understanding of economics and the interaction between the 

budget and the economy. His insightful and tenacious questioning, his even temper, and his humor have made being his 

colleague on the Budget Committee both rewarding and a 

pleasure. 

My favorite story about PAUL SARBANES is from his youth. 

PAUL SARBANES was an outstanding athlete. He was a great 

baseball player and a great basketball player. In fact, he was 

so good in baseball that he was chosen as a Maryland All 

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Star. He was chosen to play shortstop on that team. When 

he showed up for the first practice, the manager directed 

him to second base. PAUL SARBANES was a little surprised by 

that because he had been chosen to play shortstop. But he 

went out and played second base. He thought there might be 

some mistake. The next day, he came to the next practice 

and was again directed by the manager to play second base. 

At this point, Senator SARBANES thought he should go to the 

manager and inquire why—since he had been chosen to play 

shortstop—he was playing second base. The manager looked 

him in the eye and said, ‘‘SARBANES, Kaline will be playing 

shortstop.’’ Of course, the Kaline was Al Kaline, who became 

a Hall of Fame baseball player. 

That is some measure of the extraordinary athletic talent 

that PAUL SARBANES had. It was not his athletic talent that 

so distinguished him in this body; it was his remarkable academic talent, his remarkable ability to deal with others. 

I think in my time in the Senate I have never dealt with 

a person of greater wisdom than PAUL SARBANES. 

I wish Senator SARBANES the very best in his retirement 

and whatever endeavors he will pursue. His wife, too, has 

become a special favorite to our family—so bright, so talented, and such a good partner with PAUL SARBANES. I know 

they are deeply proud that their son has been elected to the 

Congress of the United States to represent a district in 

Maryland. 

PAUL SARBANES has been a great colleague and a very 

dear friend to me. I will miss him and his service on the 

Budget Committee and in the Senate. 

I thank the Chair. 

Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, with the close of the 109th 

Congress, the Senate will lose to retirement one of our most 

seasoned and respected Members—Senator PAUL SARBANES

of Maryland. Across five terms in this body and before that 

three terms in the House of Representatives, where I was 

privileged to serve with him also, PAUL SARBANES has made 

his mark as a serious and diligent legislator, a classic workhorse Senator rather than a showhorse Senator. The Baltimore Sun has called him the silver fox Senator who ‘‘works 

quietly but with shrewd skillfulness.’’

I have always respected and admired Senator SARBANES, 

both as a stalwart Democrat and also always a proud, unabashed progressive. 

As a young man, he graduated from Princeton and went 

on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and then Harvard Law 

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School. But he never forgot his experiences growing up 

among the families of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. He never 

forgot his roots as the son of a Greek immigrant who worked 

long hours to build a successful restaurant business. 

In the Senate, PAUL SARBANES has been outspoken in his 

support for public schools, expanded access to higher education, to job training, and the other essential rungs on the 

ladder of economic opportunity in America. 

He has fought to protect Social Security, to clean up corruption in the business world. In the wake of the Enron and 

WorldCom scandals, Senator SARBANES took the lead in 

crafting legislation to prevent the recurrence of the rampant 

accounting fraud that was destroying confidence in corporate 

America. 

In the early years of this past decade, in classic SARBANES

style—methodically, thoughtfully, and with a minimum of 

partisanship—he held 10 hearings on the issue in 2002, listening to all points of view. The result is known universally 

as the Sarbanes-Oxley law which cleaned up the accounting 

industry and mandated new disclosure and conflict-of-interest reporting requirements on U.S. corporations. 

There are many reasons why PAUL SARBANES is the longest serving Senator in Maryland history. Throughout his career in this body, he has fought hard on issues of special importance to Maryland, including legislation to protect the 

Chesapeake Bay. But he has never lost touch with his roots 

among working people and the immigrant community. 

He has always been a model public servant, a person of 

enormous intellect, intelligence, integrity, and industry. For 

30 years in the Senate, PAUL SARBANES has faithfully served 

the people of Maryland and the people of the United States, 

and there is no doubt he will pursue new avenues of public 

service in retirement. 

I will miss his friendship, I will miss his wise counsel in 

the Senate, but I wish PAUL and also his wonderful wife 

Christine all the best in the years ahead. . . . 

Mr. KYL. Mr. President, I also will say a word about 

a couple of my colleagues who are leaving, and I will be 

brief. . . . 

Finally, Lincoln Chafee. Although I mentioned Republicans 

in this list, I certainly don’t want to forget, of course, PAUL

SARBANES, who will be leaving at the end of this year, and 

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leagues of ours who will be leaving will be missed and they 

will be remembered for their great service to the Senate, to 

their States, and to the United States of America. 

I yield the floor. 

Mr. DEWINE. . . . If there is one thing I have learned in 

the Senate, it is that you must work together with members 

of both parties, Democrats and Republicans. I see my friend 

on the floor, Senator PAUL SARBANES, who will be leaving. I 

have worked with him over the years. I have worked with 

many Democratic Senators over the years. I want to take a 

few minutes to thank them for their willingness to set aside 

party politics to make a difference and to get tangible results. . . . 

Mr. President, I want to wish the best to all of my fellow 

Senators who were defeated this fall or who are retiring this 

year . . . . They are all good people and all good friends. I 

wish them well. . . . 

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have expressed my feelings 

about PAUL SARBANES. I have spoken before the Democratic 

caucus about my affection for PAUL SARBANES. 

I would like to read from the Congressional Directory 

something that this humble man did not tell us. His bachelor’s degree at Princeton University, magna cum laude, and 

Phi Beta Kappa; Rhodes Scholar, Balloil College, Oxford, 

England; first-class B.A. honors in School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics; LL.B., cum laude, Harvard Law School. 

These are the things he didn’t tell us. He is a man of great 

humility, a person the leaders whom I have served with in 

the Senate—Senators Byrd, Mitchell and Daschle, Democratic leaders—counted their font of wisdom, without question. I sat for 6 years with Senator Daschle, and whenever 

there was a difficult issue facing him, he had to talk to Senator SARBANES. I, on a number of occasions, sought Senator 

SARBANES to come and visit with Senator Daschle. 

I am disappointed that PAUL SARBANES is going to be leaving because that font of knowledge, that font of wisdom will 

no longer be available to me. The leaders used the knowledge and the wisdom conveyed to them by Senator SARBANES

for the good of the Republic. 

Senator SARBANES has heard me on a number of occasions 

express my appreciation for his friendship and for his dedication to our country, but he has also heard me on every occasion I have had the opportunity to talk about his athletic 

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PAUL SARBANES, even though he kind of saunters around 

with the dignity of a SARBANES, as a young man he was a 

good athlete. My favorite story some of our colleagues heard 

me say, and I know Senator SARBANES has heard me say it 

and he is going to hear it again. He was selected as one of 

the best baseball players in all of Maryland. He comes from 

the Eastern Shore for the All-Star tournament in Baltimore. 

The starting lineup is announced: SARBANES, second base. 

He went to speak with the manager and said: ‘‘I am a shortstop.’’ The manager ignored him. He came back a little bit 

later and said to the manager: ‘‘I was selected to be an AllStar second baseman.’’ The manager ignored him. He went 

back a third time. The manager said: ‘‘SARBANES, leave me 

alone. I’m starting Kaline at shortstop.’’

Of course, we know Kaline went on to the big leagues 

when he was 18 or 19 years old. 

I am going to miss this good man and his wife Christine 

so very much. He is what, in my estimation, a Senator 

should be. 

Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I said a few words on the 

floor the other day. I meant every one of them. Senator PAUL

SARBANES has been kind enough to thank me. I wanted to 

say briefly that from time to time people back in Illinois 

would ask me: Of all those Senators with whom you serve, 

which ones do you respect the most? Without hesitation, I 

would always mention the name PAUL SARBANES. I respect 

him so much, not only for his intelligence and his good 

humor but also for his wit and his wisdom. 

The reflective past he has referred to in public service 

starts in the House of Representatives, his service on the 

House Judiciary Committee during the tumultuous days of 

the Watergate hearings, impeachment trial, and coming full 

circle to the Senate. He has a lifetime of public service of 

which he can be proud. 

Christine, his wife, has been at his side. And I know she 

has shared in many of the great victories that their family 

has been able to enjoy. The greatest victory, I understand, is 

now the election of her son. She is so proud, as PAUL told 

us, their son John is going to follow in his father’s footsteps 

as a Congressman in this upcoming Congress. 

I will truly miss PAUL SARBANES as a great Senator and 

a great friend. 

Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I, too, want to join in the 

chorus of colleagues by thanking Senator SARBANES for all 

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he has meant to Maryland, all he has meant to the Senate, 

all he has meant to the country, and all that he has meant 

to me. 

I knew Senator SARBANES 20 years ago, but I knew PAUL

SARBANES long before that. I knew him when he was a young 

lawyer starting out to run for the House of Delegates. I was 

also, at that time, a young social worker. We were working 

to stop a highway in the neighborhood. We were the young 

reformers. Baltimore was dominated by political bosses, by 

the political machine. And PAUL SARBANES was the first one 

to buck the machine, to go directly door to door to represent 

the people. Baltimore has not seen for years someone who 

would actually go out and knock on doors asking people for 

their vote, bypassing the existing establishment and empowering the people. 

Senator SARBANES won that House of Delegates seat and 

did a great job. 

Then he had a hard-fought, again, door-to-door battle—

bucking the big boys and big bucks, door to door going right 

through, going directly to the people who brought him to the 

House. 

In 1976, that wonderful Washington centennial year, we in 

Baltimore, the home of the ‘‘Star Spangled Banner,’’ celebrated by sending PAUL SARBANES to the Senate. And, by the 

way, that young social worker went to the House of Representatives. 

Senator SARBANES and I have been side by side for those 

years. All of my colleagues have talked about the enormous 

trust and respect they have for him. 

Much has been said and there is much to be respected 

about Senator SARBANES—his integrity, but trust is really 

the word. You can trust Senator SARBANES. You can count 

on Senator SARBANES. You always knew he would be there 

when you needed him. The people of Maryland knew that 

when they needed him to be able to stand up for those who 

didn’t have a voice, people with dirt under their fingernails, 

the people who worked in those kinds of jobs where at the 

end of the day you have a bad back, you earned the minimum wage, you didn’t have a health benefit, and you wondered who really cared about you, PAUL SARBANES would do 

that. 

When people invested their life savings and their pension 

and saw corporate greed eating all of that, they wondered 

who would speak for honesty and integrity. They knew they 

could trust PAUL SARBANES. 

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On issue after issue, people knew they could trust him—

and they certainly could. 

You could also count on his wonderful staff. The Mikulski 

staff has such great admiration for the Sarbanes staff. It is 

so outstanding. Similar to the man they work for, they bring 

great intellectual vigor, great integrity, and a great ethic of 

hard work. 

We often laugh that we are the ‘‘diner Democrats.’’ Senators have heard about Senator SARBANES’s mom and dad 

running a diner—my mom and dad owned a grocery store. 

We were kind of the grassroots retail people. So we feel very 

close to the people. 

But again, a tribute to him would be incomplete without 

recognizing the dynamic duo of Christine, who has been an 

outstanding partner for PAUL SARBANES and quite a force in 

the community in her own right. Whether it has been working for the United Nations and for UNICEF in their own 

community, or to be on the library board to expand literacy 

opportunities, Christine has been a force in and of herself 

and for their wonderful children—John who now joins us in 

the House. 

I could talk at length about PAUL SARBANES, but I will tell 

you he has been my friend. We have sat next to each other 

on the Senate floor. We have actually voted in the Senate 

precincts. When I came to the Senate, I was the only Democratic woman to serve here. But I had a saying as I traveled 

Maryland and traveled throughout the country. When people 

said: How does it feel to be the only Democratic woman in 

the Senate, I said: You know, I might be all by myself, but 

I am never alone. I have PAUL SARBANES. And that is true 

for the people of Maryland. 

We wish him well. I know I am going to be seeing him. 

Wherever there is a good bagel or a good political event, I 

know that PAUL SARBANES will be there. 

PAUL, Godspeed and God bless. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from California. 

Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I am very moved by the 

words of Senator Mikulski. And as I look over there at the 

two of them side by side for so many years, I feel a void already because they have been so outstanding as a team. And 

I must say they are an inspiration to all of us who have 

watched their friendship, genuinely caring about each other 

and their amazing partnership for the people of Maryland. 

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I certainly can’t add anything more to what Senator Mikulski has said. I will try to say, from my perspective, a little 

bit about what Senator SARBANES has meant to me. 

It is a story that not many people know. But when I was 

in the House of Representatives, I was called on to speak 

about the environment at the Democratic Convention when 

Geraldine Ferraro was the Vice Presidential candidate and 

Walter Mondale was the nominee. That was a long time ago. 

I was thrilled. I was an unknown House Member. Now, of 

course, I am so excited to be taking over the reins of the Environment Committee, but the environment has been a signature issue. 

Well, what happened that night was I was slated to talk 

in prime time. But something funny happened on the way to 

the forum, which was that Jesse Jackson spoke at the convention. And he spoke, and he spoke, and he spoke, and then 

he spoke some more. And then they cheered him on, and 

then he spoke some more. Well, this was my moment in the 

Sun. I had bought a new suit. I called my mother on the 

East Coast. I said: ‘‘Ma, big time.’’ She kept saying: ‘‘When?’’

And it kept going on and on. Now, when Jesse Jackson finished his amazing oratory, the entire place emptied out. 

There was no one left in this huge arena. The chair of the 

convention had to say: Please leave quietly, we have another 

speaker. And it was me. No one was left but my family and 

PAUL SARBANES. He knew me just a little at the time. He 

wanted to encourage me. And he sat down right in front of 

me with a sign that said something like: Go, Barbara, go 

green—or something like that. He stood there and cheered. 

Little did I know at the time that he would, many years 

later, welcome me to the Senate, as of course he did. 

I know there is other business coming before the Senate. 

So I am not going to speak very long at all except to say this: 

What a privilege it has been, PAUL, to work with you. We are 

on the Foreign Relations Committee together. For a time we 

were on Banking and Budget. And I watched you like a 

hawk. You are a humble man, but you could quiz a witness 

like nobody else, and with your quiet voice made your point 

and made a point for the people. 

I think you are one of the finest minds the Senate has ever 

had. I think that you have one of the finest hearts. You don’t 

wear it on your sleeve, but you have it. And I want you to 

know I have benefited so much watching you and learning 

from you, and even tonight as you made your farewell 

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your family, but the most important thing you spoke about 

is this great country that has lifted us all up, the three of 

us on the floor tonight. We know what it is like to be born 

in a lower middle class family and struggle our way up. We 

want to make sure that opportunity is there. That is what 

you spoke about tonight, in all your eloquence. 

So I will miss you very much. I thank the people of Maryland for being so wise to send us two such Senators. I know 

PAUL SARBANES has many wonderful days ahead and much 

work awaits him. 

I yield the floor. 

Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to 

my good friend and colleague, the senior Senator from the 

great State of Maryland, who will be leaving this body at the 

end of this Congress. PAUL SARBANES and I have shared the 

past 30 years in this body together, and I can say that the 

Nation will be losing one of its most talented, well respected, 

and principled public servants when he steps away from the 

office he has held with such honor and integrity. 

Paul’s career is one that I believe still to this day reflects 

the values instilled upon him by his parents, Greek immigrants to this country, who infused in him a strong work 

ethic and a sense of service to others. He worked his way 

through school while growing up on Maryland’s beautiful 

Eastern Shore and earned a scholarship to Princeton University, where he excelled academically, and earned a Rhodes 

Scholarship to Oxford. If that weren’t enough, PAUL also 

went to Harvard Law School. 

With all his abilities, with his clear leadership potential 

and promising future, PAUL chose to dedicate himself to the 

service of others. From his years in the Maryland House of 

Delegates, to his time across the Capitol in the House of 

Representatives, through his years here in the Senate, PAUL

has always used his unique abilities and vast knowledge, 

tirelessly working toward finding solutions to the country’s 

most pressing issues. 

That is why I was so honored to be able to work closely 

with him in drafting portions of the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002, more 

commonly known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. PAUL’s leadership as chairman of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee was needed more than ever as the American 

people learned of the deception that corporate leaders had 

perpetrated. In a business culture that seemed to reward 

greed and devalue honesty and accountability, PAUL was 

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able to create a bipartisan piece of legislation that mirrored 

his values and took a stand for countless ordinary Americans 

who were victims of the prevailing culture of corporate excess. It was my distinct pleasure to work with him in such 

a noble effort, and I believe it is fitting that such important 

legislation bears his name and will serve as a testament to 

his character for many years to come. 

I will miss PAUL SARBANES, although I take comfort knowing that he won’t be far away. His career is a lesson to us 

all in what the Senate is all about. It is with a heavy heart 

that I bid my friend farewell, and thank him for setting such 

a wonderful example for us all to follow. 

I know he will stay a clear voice for America—but now he 

and Christine can also have the time together they so deserve. 

Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I would like to take a few 

minutes to reflect on the remarkable career of my good 

friend and colleague, Senator PAUL SARBANES, and to thank 

him for his service to our country. 

The life of PAUL SARBANES is the archetypical story of 

America. He is the son of Greek immigrants who moved to 

the Eastern Shore of Maryland and started their own restaurant, where PAUL helped out after school. His parents encouraged him to get an education, a message that he took to 

heart. He received a scholarship to Princeton, was a Rhodes 

Scholar, and then graduated from Harvard Law School. 

After graduation, he quickly gained a taste for economic 

policy by working at the Council of Economist Advisers during the Kennedy administration under Walter Heller, when 

the famous Kennedy tax cuts were passed. I am not sure 

that people around here fully grasped—and he is certainly 

not one to toot his own horn about the depth of his experience in the area of economics, but it is substantial. 

He entered the Senate the same year I did, 1976, after 

stints in the House of Representatives and the Maryland 

House of Delegates. He quickly sought to use his economic 

acumen and joined the Banking Committee and the Joint 

Economic Committee, both of which he would later chair. He 

played an integral role in the Banking Reform Act of 1999 

that made it easier for banks to diversify their investments 

and increased competition in the industry, giving consumers 

wider choice in this arena and better returns to their savings. While we all acknowledge and bewail the low savings 

rate in this country and grasp for ways to fix it, the reforms 

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passed by PAUL were an important step in the right direction 

that we can and should build on. 

He has also fought a yeoman’s battle to improve the quality of economic data produced by our Government. It is a 

topic that sounds deadly dull, but it is vitally important, and 

PAUL SARBANES has made it his duty to get this accomplished. Thanks to his efforts we have much more accurate, 

reliable, and timely data on economic growth, wages, and 

employment. We may not always agree on how our Government should go about trying to increase these economic indicators, but because of PAUL’s efforts we know much better 

what we are arguing about and how successful our efforts 

have been. 

To me, that is one of the marks of a great Senator: being 

willing to take on a low-profile issue that gains him nothing 

with the press or his constituents, but nevertheless improves 

our well-being. The economists who use this data and the 

statisticians who produce the data know exactly how much 

PAUL’s leadership has benefited the country, and this is 

something that I want the rest of the country to know as 

well. 

Of course, despite his numerous accomplishments in the 

Senate, he will be best known for his authorship of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. I do not need to remind my colleagues that in 2002 our financial markets were in sore 

shape and in dire need of ameliorative steps of some sort. 

People were beginning to lose faith that they could trust putting their money in the domestic stock market, a state of affairs that potentially threatened the very fiber of our economy. In the Congress there were lots of ideas on how to fix 

this but very little consensus. 

PAUL waded into this morass and helped shape an all-encompassing bill in short order that addressed many of the 

problems endemic in our financial markets. Thanks to his 

skillful maneuvering and that of his House partner on this 

bill, Mike Oxley, this legislation quickly passed the House 

and Senate and became law, stanching the wound in our financial markets. Like every major piece of legislation passed 

by the Congress, the Sarbanes-Oxley bill was not perfect. 

However, today the Dow Jones Industrial Average is near an 

all-time high and over 50 percent higher than in the summer 

of 2002, in no small measure thanks to Senator SARBANES’s 

efforts. 

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ates an environment where Members can work together, 

across party lines, and with scarce regard to short-term political exigencies, to come up with a solution. 

To my esteemed colleague, Senator PAUL SARBANES, I give 

you my best wishes in retirement, our thanks for a sterling 

career in service to your country, and my gratitude for your 

friendship over these many years. 

Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I want to join my colleagues in 

bidding good wishes and Godspeed to Senator PAUL SARBANES, the senior Senator from Maryland and the longest 

serving Senator in Maryland history, as he retires this week. 

Senator SARBANES was elected to the Senate 2 years before 

me, and thank goodness he was here. PAUL SARBANES has 

been a dear friend, an indispensable source of wisdom, a 

trusted ally, and an inspiration. Senator SARBANES and I 

even briefly shared an office, when the anthrax attacks of 

2001 forced him to leave his office in the Hart Building and 

set up shop temporarily in my conference room. After years 

of close cooperation, we were literally working side by side. 

What I have found over these years is that PAUL SARBANES is one of the smartest, kindest, and most thoughtful 

public servants in Government. He is quiet and does not 

seek the limelight, but behind his calm demeanor is a skilled 

legislator with a keen mind. Senator SARBANES operates by 

compromise and by building consensus, but he also has plenty of backbone when it is needed. He knows when to coax, 

when to charm, and when to say ‘‘enough is enough’’ and get 

things done. 

In the wake of the accounting scandals at Enron and other 

corporations, it was Senator SARBANES’s leadership that led 

to the most significant reforms of accounting practices in a 

generation. The landmark Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, which 

grew out of his long-standing commitment to corporate responsibility and high ethical standards in business, curbed 

some of the corporate abuses that had shaken investor confidence in American business. 

That law has produced its critics, but most of the detractors are unhappy because Sarbanes-Oxley is so effective. Sarbanes-Oxley forces accountants to actually review the books. 

It forces CEOs to understand, review, and sign off on the 

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ators, including this one, who will fight to maintain high 

standards. Sarbanes-Oxley will continue to serve as the 

foundation for reasonable regulation of our capital markets. 

While his name will always be associated with the Sarbanes-Oxley law, Senator SARBANES remains an unsung hero 

for another accomplishment: cracking down on money laundering through the PATRIOT Act. I want to sing his praises 

on this for a moment because it is an issue I am passionate 

about and because Senator SARBANES deserves greater recognition for his work. 

For several years prior to the 9/11 attacks, I worked on 

strengthening anti-money laundering laws—holding hearings, producing reports, and writing legislation, but my effort 

had not succeeded. After 9/11, it was clear that U.S. antimoney laundering laws were full of gaps and vulnerabilities 

that needed to be addressed. But it was also clear that many 

in the financial industry did not want to have to operate 

under tougher laws. Nothing would have been accomplished 

even then if PAUL SARBANES had not stepped up and led. 

In the month after 9/11, Senator SARBANES showed his legislative genius by taking a diverse group of provisions suggested by many different Senators and House Members, 

taming the competing interests, and writing a package 

quickly enough to be included in the PATRIOT Act. His own 

contributions included a key provision to make anti-money 

laundering programs mandatory rather than optional and to 

require anti-money laundering programs at a wide spectrum 

of financial institutions, such as securities firms and insurance companies, not just banks. He also required for the first 

time that securities firms report suspicious activity. 

In addition to these major changes, PAUL helped enact a 

variety of provisions that I had been pushing for years. For 

example, he included my provision that barred banks and securities firms from opening accounts for shell banks, closing 

a major gateway for money laundering. He also helped shut 

down the flow of dirty money from foreign dictators who 

were looting their own countries and depositing their ill-gotten gains at U.S. banks by including my provision to make 

proceeds of foreign corrupt practices covered by our money 

laundering laws. 

And he did all of this work in 1 month, running the conference committee out of his hideaway office in the Capitol 

with 1 computer, 3 phones, and a shifting group of about 50 

staffers from the White House, Senate, House, Justice Department, Treasury, and other agencies. He was the only 

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Senator who was present throughout the entire conference, 

and it was his work at key moments that kept the antimoney laundering provisions in the PATRIOT Act. Senator 

SARBANES’s leadership is one of the great untold stories of 

that bill, and I hope that his role will one day be properly 

recognized. 

PAUL SARBANES has given Maryland and America a lifetime of public service, on President Kennedy’s Council of 

Economic Advisors, in the Maryland House of Delegates, in 

the U.S. House of Representatives, and in the U.S. Senate. 

I know that PAUL is proud that his son John will now carry 

on that tradition of service, having been elected last month 

to represent Maryland’s Third District in the House. We will 

welcome John Sarbanes to Congress, but we will greatly 

miss his dad. 

My wife Barbara joins me in congratulating Senator SARBANES on his retirement and in wishing him and his wife 

Christine all the best. We treasure their friendship and hope 

they will visit our Senate family often. 

Senator SARBANES, with apologies to your Greek forebears 

for my pronunciation: chronyapola. May you have many 

years. 

Mr. MARTINEZ. Mr. President, today I acknowledge and 

honor my colleague, Senator PAUL SARBANES of Maryland. 

As Maryland’s longest serving U.S. Senator, Senator SARBANES leaves our great halls with a legacy of distinction and 

an undying dedication to his State and this country. I have 

tremendous respect for PAUL SARBANES and the statesmanlike ethics he has brought to this institution. Though his 

three decades of service contain many significant achievements, none stand out more for me—on a personal level—

than when Senator SARBANES assisted in my confirmation 

process to become the Secretary of the U.S. Department of 

Housing and Urban Development. I greatly appreciate the 

opportunity I had to serve this country in that capacity, and 

Senator SARBANES played no small role in allowing me to do 

so. 

Thank you, Senator SARBANES, for your meaningful work 

and lifelong commitment to public service. 

Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, I rise to honor in the highest 

possible terms and with profound respect, Senator PAUL SARBANES, one of the true giants of this institution, a sterling 

public servant and an inspiration to the people he has represented for 36 years—30 of them in the U.S. Senate, where 

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he has since become Maryland’s longest serving U.S. Senator. I am grateful to call him a dear friend and treasured 

colleague. 

A graduate of Princeton University and one of only two 

Rhodes Scholars in the current U.S. Senate, Senator SARBANES has brought a remarkable and stellar mind to his venerable legacy of public service. Elected to the U.S. House in 

1970 and to the U.S. Senate in 1976, he has served the people of Maryland with exemplary integrity and distinction. 

The principles of fairness and opportunity have directed 

his tenure of tireless civic contribution, characterized by a 

relentless dedication to serving the public interest—a devotion to defending and promoting the common good exemplified by his efforts to enact the law that today bears his 

name—the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. 

I also share a bond with PAUL SARBANES that transcends 

our service together in the U.S. Senate, including our substantial work together on the Senate Budget Committee as 

well as on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We are 

both the children of Greek immigrants—both of our parents 

owned restaurants and inculcated in us a passion and commitment to education, service, and hard work. 

PAUL SARBANES has been a hero to Hellenic-Americans for 

decades. On countless occasions I have been referred to as 

‘‘one of two Greek-Americans in the U.S. Senate’’ and I am 

so proud that the Senator from Maryland, PAUL SARBANES, 

has been the other. Whether serving in the Maryland House 

of Delegates, the U.S. House of Representatives, or the U.S. 

Senate, PAUL has always been driven by the same Hellenic 

principles that make our heritage and community great. He 

remains an inspiration to innumerable Hellenic-Americans. 

As a result of heroic and Herculean service, PAUL SARBANES was honored in June 2003 with the prestigious Paul 

H. Douglas Ethics in Government Award from the University of Illinois—established in 1992 to honor Senator Douglas, a man often labeled ‘‘the conscience of the United States 

Senate.’’ The award was fittingly designed to honor individuals who have made a substantial contribution to promoting 

ethics. And Senator SARBANES also received the Cox, Coleman, Richardson Award for Distinguished Public Service, 

from Harvard Law School in March 2004. 

Senator SARBANES’s vigorous and exemplary engagement 

in matters of public affairs undeniably epitomizes the following admonition from Pericles in his funeral oration more 

than 2,000 years ago that ‘‘we do not say that a man who 

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takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own 

business; we say that he has no business here at all.’’ Being 

involved in the civic life of one’s community, country, and 

heritage was not an option for the sons and daughters of 

Pericles, and it has been an expectation that the legacy of 

Senator SARBANES inspires all of us to meet. 

As much as the Senate will miss his esteemed presence 

and I will miss his collegiality in this Chamber, I am heartened by our enduring friendship and by a new generation 

from the Sarbanes family entering public life in the upcoming Congress with John Sarbanes, serving in the U.S. House. 

Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I rise today unable to find the 

words I need to express just what it has been like to go to 

work every day with a real, live Greek philosopher. 

Of course, I mean PAUL SARBANES—who is the longest 

serving Senator in the history of the State of Maryland; who 

has been among the wisest Members to sit in this body; who 

is serving out his last week here with us. I have come to the 

floor today to say goodbye; and as I do, I remember one of 

my favorite Greek stories—which, in a bit of a roundabout 

way, reminds me of PAUL. 

When the Athenians set up the first democracy and declared that every citizen could go and vote in the Assembly, 

they ran into just one problem—no one wanted to go. It 

turned out that the Athenians were also the first to discover 

voter apathy: It turned out that most of the citizens would 

much rather spend time buying and selling in the marketplace than arguing politics in the assembly. 

So the leaders came up with a plan. They hired the two 

burliest men they could find and gave them a long rope 

clipped in fresh red paint. And then the two burly men 

would stand on opposite sides of the market square and 

shout ‘‘Everybody out.’’ And after about a minute, they would 

each grab an end of the rope that was dripping with paint 

and walk down the square; and anybody who didn’t get out 

of there in time had to go around for the rest of the day with 

his shirt ruined. 

I said that story reminds me a bit of Senator SARBANES. 

Not because his clothing has been anything but impeccable 

and stain-free—but because it points out just how remarkable his 40-year career in public life has been. The truth is 

that people have been finding ways to avoid the responsibility of governing since governing was invented. So when we 

have the luck to find a man willing to give not just an afternoon’s service to his country, but a whole life—and when he 

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turns out to be a man of uncommon intelligence and humility—we know what a treasure we have stumbled on. 

We can think back to those Athenians dawdling in the 

marketplace and ask ourselves: didn’t they know? Didn’t 

they know they were in ‘‘Ancient Greece,’’ for crying out 

loud? Didn’t they know they were supposed to be in the cradle of democracy? Didn’t they know we’d be talking about 

them a couple of millennia later on the floor of the U.S. Senate? 

But of course, they had no idea, and we can’t blame 

them—they had lives to live. Compared to the getting and 

spending, the errands and talk that go on in the market 

square, the work of governing can seem like a book of the 

driest prose. The print is tiny and the lines are closely 

spaced. 

It takes an uncommon mind to appreciate the value, the 

necessity, of what’s in that book—but PAUL SARBANES has 

had one all his life. He showed it when he won a Rhodes 

Scholarship and went on to graduate first in his class at Oxford. He showed it when he was elected to the Maryland 

House of Delegates back in 1966, and then through three 

terms in the House and five in the Senate, through a career 

one newspaper called ‘‘electorally invincible.’’ And he showed 

it as one of the most quietly influential members of this 

body, a listener in a town full of talkers, a living example of 

the maxim, ‘‘It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you 

don’t care who gets the credit.’’

But I can think of at least one accomplishment for which 

Senator SARBANES’s credit is assured. In 2002, when he was 

chairman of the Banking Committee, a series of corporate 

scandals shocked the stock market, sapped trust in our economy, and cost shareholders and workers billions of dollars. 

But PAUL confronted the crisis of confidence and wrote legislation that helped restore accountability to accounting. Sarbanes-Oxley was greeted as the most fundamental reform of 

American business since the Great Depression; and I believe 

it will be PAUL’s legacy. I was proud to help him; and I will 

be even prouder to sit in his chairman’s seat on the Banking 

Committee. PAUL—your work will be mine, I promise. 

Of course, Senator SARBANES will be leaving another legacy here in Washington—his son John, who was elected to 

represent his father’s old House district in the 110th Congress. I’ve never met John Sarbanes, but if the son is anything like the father, 2006 will look a lot like 1970: We’ll be 

able to walk over to the House side and find a bright young 

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man of immigrant heritage at the start of his Washington career, brought up in the tradition of service and full of the 

quiet virtues. 

I don’t think politics has changed so much since 1970 that 

those virtues aren’t still in high demand. And come to think 

of it, politics hasn’t changed so much since the days of the 

rope in the marketplace—with at least one notable exception. 

We have gotten rid of the rope. In our country, no one forces 

you to care. No one forces you to vote. No one forces you to 

serve. If you do those things anyway, it’s not a measure of 

compulsion, but of conviction. And if, like PAUL SARBANES, 

you had the talent to make a career for yourself anywhere 

in the world but chose to spend it here, then we owe you our 

thanks—for your company, for your wisdom, for 40 years 

well spent in the Assembly. 

Goodbye, Senator SARBANES,—and my best wishes for you 

and your wife Christine for many years to come. 

Mr. President, today I pay tribute to my departing colleagues who have, for a time, lent their talents, their convictions, and their hard work to this distinguished body. I may 

have had my disagreements with them, but the end of a 

term is a time for seeing colleagues not simply as politicians, 

but as partners who have ‘‘toiled, and wrought, and thought 

with me.’’ Each, in his own way, was distinctive; and each, 

in his own way, will be sorely missed. . . . 

Mr. REID. Mr. President, the great Senator Daniel Webster once remarked that the Senate is a place ‘‘of equals of 

men of individual honor . . . and personal character.’’

He was right, and we can see what he was talking about 

in the fine men the Senate is losing to retirement at the end 

of this Congress: Senator Frist, Senator SARBANES, Senator 

Jeffords, and Senator Dayton. 

On previous occasions, I have talked about how much I appreciated serving with Senators Frist and Jeffords. Today, I 

would like to say a few more words about Senators SARBANES and Dayton. 

PAUL SARBANES is a man I have always admired. We share 

a similar background. 

I grew up in a small Nevada town. My parents weren’t 

well connected or highly educated. But as we see in my life—

and PAUL SARBANES’s life—in America your background does 

not matter. PAUL is the son of Greek immigrants. His parents didn’t have a formal education, but they worked hard. 

They owned a restaurant—the Mayflower Grill on Main 

Street in Salisbury, MD. 

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PAUL worked hard too, and as a result, he has lived the 

American dream. This son of Greek immigrants is the graduate of some of the world’s leading educational institutions, 

and for the last 30 years, he has been a leading voice in the 

world’s greatest deliberative body. 

PAUL received an academic and athletic scholarship to 

Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1954. 

After graduation from Princeton, he received the Rhodes 

Scholarship, which sent him to Oxford, England, until 1957. 

When PAUL came back to the States, he went to Harvard to 

earn his law degree. 

In 1970, PAUL won his first Federal election—to the U.S. 

House of Representatives. In 1976, he came to the Senate. 

During the next 30 years, he made a tremendous mark on 

our country. 

PAUL SARBANES has been an excellent Senator, but he has 

always excelled when the country needed him the most—

during times of crisis. 

During Watergate, he was a leading voice for reform in the 

House. During Iran-Contra, he led the fight for the truth in 

the Senate. And more recently, in the wake of the Enron accounting scandals, he was largely responsible for reforms 

which restored the people’s confidence in corporate America. 

During his 30 years in the Senate, PAUL SARBANES has 

cast over 11,000 votes. Not all of them were as monumental 

as his work on Watergate, Iran-Contra and Enron, but every 

one of them was cast with the people of Maryland, and the 

people of the United States in mind. . . . 

Mr. President, Mark Dayton, like PAUL SARBANES, like 

Jim Jeffords, like Bill Frist, will be missed. 

The Senate—and our country—are better off because of 

their service. 

Mrs. HUTCHISON. . . . Mr. President, Senator SARBANES, 

the son of Greek immigrants, embodies the very heart of the 

American dream. 

Senator SARBANES’s parents, who never received a college 

education, instilled in him the belief that no matter where 

you go and what you see, you should always stand by your 

principles and never forget your roots. 

He became a Rhodes Scholar. 

Senator SARBANES served the people of Baltimore with distinction and honor in the Maryland Legislature before coming to Washington to represent them on a national level. 

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After a period of service in the House of Representatives, 

he was elected to the Senate in 1976. Since then, he has held 

numerous positions within the Senate. 

Most recently, he served as the ranking member of the 

Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and 

as a senior member of the Foreign Relations, Budget, and 

Joint Economic Committees. 

Today we bid him farewell after five terms in the U.S. 

Senate, which makes him the longest tenured Senator in 

Maryland’s storied history. 

PAUL is a good friend, and I will miss him. . . . 

UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT—TRIBUTES TO RETIRING 

SENATORS 

Mr. FRIST. I ask unanimous consent that the tributes to 

retiring Senators be printed as a Senate document and that 

Senators be permitted to submit tributes until December 27, 

2006. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. 

WEDNESDAY, December 27, 2006 

Mr. STEVENS. . . . Mr. President, I’ve come to the floor to 

pay tribute to Senator PAUL SARBANES for his outstanding 

service. The senior Senator from Maryland has served longer 

than any other Senator from his State. Throughout the 

years, I have been jealous of one thing—his short ride home. 

There are, actually, other things I admire about PAUL. For 

instance, we are a Chamber with many lawyers, and I can 

say PAUL has been one of our best. 

Senator SARBANES has used his skill to greatly benefit his 

State. We recently worked together on a bill that will enhance the security of our Nation’s ports. As a Senator, PAUL

SARBANES has worked tirelessly to ensure the ports in his 

home State, and all ports in America, are safe. 

This distinguished gentleman from Maryland has served 

his constituents admirably and I wish him well. . . . 

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