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TRIBUTES TO HON. MIKE D

EWINE 

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Mike DeWine 

U.S. SENATOR FROM OHIO 

TRIBUTES 

IN THE CONGRESS OF 

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON : 2007

S. DOC. 109–30 

Tributes 

Delivered in Congress 

Mike DeWine 

United States Congressman 

1983–1991 

United States Senator 

1995–2007 

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CONTENTS 

Page 

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

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

Proceedings in the Senate: 

Tributes by Senators: 

Alexander, Lamar, of Tennessee ............................................... 11 

Allen, George, of Virginia .......................................................... 12 

Bunning, Jim, of Kentucky ....................................................... 37 

Byrd, Robert C., of West Virginia ............................................. 14, 20 

Carper, Thomas R., of Delaware ............................................... 23 

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, of New York .................................... 22 

Conrad, Kent, of North Dakota ................................................. 3, 20 

DeWine, Mike, of Ohio ..................................................... 3, 11, 19, 24 

Dodd, Christopher J., of Connecticut ....................................... 29 

Dole, Elizabeth, of North Carolina ........................................... 39 

Durbin, Richard, of Illinois .................................................... 4, 13, 26 

Enzi, Michael B., of Wyoming ................................................... 34 

Feingold, Russell D., of Wisconsin ............................................ 16 

Frist, William H., of Tennessee ................................................ 38 

Hagel, Chuck, of Nebraska ........................................................ 5 

Hatch, Orrin G., of Utah ........................................................... 30 

Hutchison, Kay Bailey, of Texas ............................................... 38 

Isakson, Johnny, of Georgia ...................................................... 17 

Kohl, Herb, of Wisconsin ........................................................... 21 

Kyl, Jon, of Arizona ................................................................... 24 

Landrieu, Mary L., of Louisiana ............................................... 22 

Levin, Carl, of Michigan ............................................................ 33 

McConnell, Mitch, of Kentucky ................................................. 25 

Mikulski, Barbara A., of Maryland .......................................... 28 

Nelson, Bill, of Florida ............................................................... 12 

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

Reid, Harry, of Nevada .............................................................. 24 

Rockefeller, John D., IV, of West Virginia ............................... 27 

Salazar, Ken, of Colorado .......................................................... 3, 14 

Snowe, Olympia J., of Maine .................................................... 36 

Stevens, Ted, of Alaska ............................................................. 38 

Voinovich, George V., of Ohio ................................................... 6 

Warner, John, of Virginia .......................................................... 18 

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Biography 

MIKE DEWINE was born on January 5, 1947, and grew up 

in Yellow Springs, OH. As the son of parents and grandparents who ran a small agricultural business, he spent his 

youth and early adult life working in the fields and in the 

mill, learning the value of hard work and determination. He 

carried these values with him first to Miami University in 

Oxford, OH, where he graduated in 1969 with a degree in 

education and then to Ohio Northern University Law School 

in Ada, OH, where he graduated in 1972 with a law degree. 

Soon afterward he began his career in public service—a career that spanned more than 30 years and involved work at 

all levels of government. Firm in his belief that criminals 

should be brought to justice, Mr. DEWINE—at the age of 25—

started working as the assistant prosecuting attorney for 

Greene County, and in 1976 he was elected prosecutor. What 

he learned during those years in the prosecutor’s office 

stayed with him and compelled him to continue in public 

service in a variety of capacities. He served as an Ohio State 

Senator, a four-term U.S. Congressman, and as Ohio’s 59th 

Lieutenant Governor. He was sworn into the U.S. Senate on 

January 4, 1995, as the first Republican U.S. Senator to represent the Buckeye State in more than two decades. In 2000 

he was the first Republican U.S. Senator in nearly a half 

century to be reelected to serve Ohio. 

In his determination to get things done for those in need, 

MIKE DEWINE has been dubbed the ‘‘bodyguard of the poor.’’

He developed a reputation in Washington, DC, for being 

hard-working, honest, and solution-oriented. He immersed 

himself in issues that do not necessarily grab headlines, but 

are vital to the well-being and prosperity of Ohioans, Americans, and citizens across the globe. MIKE DEWINE became a 

recognized national leader in efforts to secure the health, 

welfare, and safety of children; provide young people with 

the best possible education; help ease humanitarian suffering and the spread of disease around the world; and improve the Nation’s ability to gather intelligence to protect 

Americans from terrorists. He also worked to protect and restore unique natural areas, including the Great Lakes, for 

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the enjoyment of future generations; promote job opportunities through an improved, user-friendly job training system; 

ensure law enforcement officials have access to advanced 

technology; stem the flow of drugs into the United States; 

and secure a balanced budget, cut taxes, and promote economic opportunities. 

MIKE DEWINE and his wife Fran, who have been married 

more than 37 years, are the parents of 8 children and grandparents of 10 grandchildren. As a parent, grandparent, and 

U.S. Senator, he knows that the safety and security of American children extend beyond measures to protect their immediate well-being. He knows that the world he helped shape 

is the world these children and grandchildren will inherit tomorrow, and he remains vigilant in his work to secure the 

children’s future through the stabilization of countries 

around the world. 

Through his membership on several Senate committees, 

MIKE DEWINE was able to work on legislative efforts that directly impact American’s health, safety, and security. Senator DEWINE was the first Ohio Senator in nearly six decades to serve on the Appropriations Committee—a committee 

tasked with the responsibility of determining the use and 

distribution of U.S. Federal tax dollars. He was chairman of 

the Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee. As a member of the 

Judiciary Committee he worked on many anti-crime initiatives as well as immigration and judicial nominations. As 

chairman of the Retirement Security and Aging Subcommittee of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions 

(HELP) Committee Mr. DEWINE helped develop and review 

legislation to modernize and strengthen America’s pension 

system and study the needs and concerns of the aging U.S. 

population. As a member of the HELP Committee he continued his work to protect the health and welfare of children, 

adults, and the elderly, as well as his efforts to limit drug 

and alcohol abuse and promote vital mental health services 

for those in need. 

Other committee work in the Senate included his membership in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where 

he helped lead the Joint House-Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into U.S. intelligence lapses and the 

events preceding and following 9/11. He understood that the 

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gathering capabilities and protect Americans from terrorist 

threats. He also served as cochairman of the Senate Great 

Lakes Task Force; the Senate Caucus on Missing, Exploited, 

and Runaway Children; and the Senate Global AIDS Crisis 

Working Group; and was a member of the Senate Drug Task 

Force. 

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Farewell to the Senate 

Friday, December 8, 2006 

Mr. DEWINE. Mr. President, early on Thanksgiving day, 

Mary Frances Darling was born. She is our 10th grandchild 

and the 6th child of our daughter Jill and her husband Bill. 

As I said on election night this year, I am a very lucky man. 

I am blessed with a wonderful family. 

I am also blessed because for the last 30 years—30 years—

the people of Ohio have given me the opportunity to represent them, first as Green County prosecuting attorney, 

then as State senator, then as a Congressman for four terms 

from the Seventh Congressional District, then Lieutenant 

Governor, and now, for the past 12 years, in this wonderful 

body as a U.S. Senator. For that opportunity, I will be eternally grateful. 

When I came to the Senate in 1995, it had been a little 

over a year since our daughter Becky had been killed. I was, 

quite candidly, still numb. We as a family had been through 

a lot. But I knew that our time here on Earth is short, and 

I wanted as best I could to spend my time in the Senate, 

whatever time I had, working on tangible things, getting 

concrete results that impact the lives of families in Ohio and 

in our Nation. I have tried to do that, but I have not done 

it alone. Whatever I have achieved has been with the help 

of so many people. 

Over the past 12 years, I have worked with every Member 

of this Senate, and I consider each Member of this Senate a 

friend. I have had the privilege to work with two Republican 

leaders and one who in January will become the Republican 

leader. 

Trent and Tricia Lott were two of the first people Fran 

and I met when we came to the House in 1983. Tricia is 

Fran’s best friend here in Washington, and Trent is my dear 

friend. I have benefited from his counsel, from his advice, 

and from his help, now for well over 20 years. 

Bill Frist and I came to the Senate together in 1995. 

Karyn and Bill are very good friends. Bill has been an unbelievably accessible leader. We share a passion for fighting 

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the spread of AIDS. Bill’s public role in that cause is obvious 

and apparent to everyone. But what is not so obvious and 

what is little known is what Bill Frist has done behind the 

scenes, what his role has been in working with so many people, working with the White House and others to get this job 

done. No one has played a bigger role. And when the history 

is written, Bill Frist’s name will be there in bold print as 

someone who has saved so many, many lives. 

Mitch McConnell. Mitch and Elaine are dear friends. 

When I faced the tough challenge of getting a bill or amendment passed, I went to Mitch. I have done it for 12 years. 

I did it as recently as yesterday. Mitch McConnell is tough. 

He is strong. He is wise. He will be a great leader. His advice as to how to thread the legislative needle is responsible 

for so much of what I have passed. He also has a big heart, 

as was demonstrated time and time again when I would go 

to him. He is chairman of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee. After I talked to him, he would, at my request, 

put money into things which saved children’s lives, child survival or to save little children, little babies in Haiti. He did 

it. He got it done. He made a difference. 

I have been lucky enough to serve on the Judiciary, Appropriations, HELP, and Intelligence Committees, and I want to 

thank the chairmen who have led those committees over the 

past 12 years. I was the first Ohio Senator to serve on the 

Appropriations Committee since 1945. With the help of 

Chairman Stevens, Chairman Cochran, and their staffs, I 

was able to secure well over $1 billion for projects throughout Ohio that make a difference. 

I particularly thank Arlen Specter. I thank his clerk and 

my good friend, Bettilou Taylor. They have both been so 

helpful to me in securing millions of dollars for programs 

through Labor-HHS appropriations. These two dedicated 

public servants helped me provide funding for important programs, things such as the Children’s Hospital Graduate 

Medical Education Program and projects in Ohio to build facilities and provide services for people with disabilities. They 

also helped me fund projects to help meet the health needs 

of seniors and low-income communities throughout the State. 

Because of them, I have been able to secure over $12 million 

for Ohio’s children’s hospitals. 

Senator Specter, Bettilou, let me tell you from the bottom 

of my heart and on behalf of Ohio’s sick and poor kids and 

their families, I thank you. 

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I also sincerely thank Judiciary Committee Chairmen 

Specter and Hatch; HELP Committee Chairmen Enzi, Gregg, 

and Jeffords; and Intelligence Committee Chairmen Roberts 

and Shelby. I have been fortunate to have passed dozens of 

bills and amendments in my career in the Senate, and most 

of them were provisions that I worked along with these 

chairmen to pass. It would never have happened without 

them. I appreciate their help. 

I appreciate all the help Finance Committee Chairman 

Chuck Grassley has given me—a dear friend—especially 

when it came to passing my bills to improve the foster care 

and adoption system. I have worked with many Members of 

the Senate on this very important issue, foster care and 

adoption, including Senators Jay Rockefeller, Mary 

Landrieu, Larry Craig, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John 

Chafee, Jesse Helms, Bill Roth, Jim Jeffords, Dan Coats. 

They all shared a passion for foster care children. They all 

shared a passion for the adoption issue. 

I also thank my good friend from Pennsylvania, my friend 

who keeps the candy drawer over there, Rick Santorum. Like 

so many who spoke about him yesterday, I applaud Rick for 

his passion and his absolute fearlessness in standing up for 

what he believes. I recall being on this floor many nights late 

at night during the debate over partial-birth abortion. Some 

nights it was just Rick and me, and we closed this place. He 

got it done. I thank him for that. 

I also remember how Senator Santorum stood with Senators Lindsey Graham and Sam Brownback to help me pass 

my unborn victims of violence bill and see it signed into law. 

It took several years to pass this legislation, and Congressman Graham had been the sponsor and was the sponsor of 

the bill in the House. I applaud his determination to get this 

done. When it comes to foreign policy issues, I share an interest in western hemisphere issues with my friends Senator 

Norm Coleman, the chairman, and Mel Martinez. Mel, thank 

you. Senator Coleman has admirably served this body as 

chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee. I sincerely enjoyed traveling with him to Haiti. 

I also enjoyed traveling to Africa with the good Senator 

from Tennessee, Lamar Alexander. Lamar has contributed a 

great deal to this body. He will contribute more, especially 

in the area of education policy, where he is clearly the expert. 

Senator Judd Gregg and I also worked on a very important 

education issue. He started it. He worked it. I helped him. 

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We got it done. That is the School Choice Program here in 

Washington, DC. We broke the logjam. We got it done. I applaud his commitment to the children of this, our Nation’s 

Capital. 

I thank my friends Chuck Hagel and Lindsey Graham for 

the good conversations they have shared with me on foreign 

policy issues. Speaking of that issue, I thank my neighbor on 

the floor and my neighbor to the west in Indiana, Dick 

Lugar, for being the rock that he is on foreign policy and for 

giving me good counsel and advice. 

I want to thank my dear friend John McCain, with whom 

I came to the House of Representatives in 1983 and who has 

been my friend since. I thank him for his courage. I thank 

him for his wise counsel on military and foreign relations 

issues. 

I also thank a dear friend of mine who does not now serve 

in this body, former Senator and Secretary of Energy Spence 

Abraham. He did a lot of things. One of the things that took 

guts and courage is he fought with me and others to protect 

legal immigration while he served in the Senate. He took a 

lot of flack for it. 

I was honored to work with Senator Gordon Smith, Senators Harry Reid, Jack Reed, and Chris Dodd, to pass the 

Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act. I applaud Senator Smith 

and his wife Sharon for having the courage to take the tragedy of their son Garrett’s suicide and do so many wonderful 

things with it. They are wonderful people. 

Last year, I was extremely proud to be 1 of 14 bipartisan 

Members of this great body who decided to work together to 

break what had become a gridlock in the Senate over judicial 

nominations. In the grand tradition of the Senate, individuals from both political parties came together to solve a 

problem which threatened not only the judicial nomination 

process but was threatening to shut the Senate down completely. I want to thank my friends with whom I was proud 

to stand in that effort: John McCain, John Warner, Lindsey 

Graham, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Lincoln Chafee, Joe 

Lieberman, Senator Byrd, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Daniel Inouye, Mark Pryor, and Ken Salazar. They got it done. 

I thank my friend, my colleague, my partner, Senator 

George Voinovich. George and I have worked together in the 

Senate on so many things for Ohio, from NASA Glenn to the 

Great Lakes. We first got together in 1989. We joined up as 

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ant Governor candidate. I have not regretted it. It was the 

right decision, and we have worked together ever since then. 

I thank him and I thank his wonderful wife Jan for their 

friendship and love. 

I also want to thank all the members of the Ohio congressional delegation with whom I have sincerely enjoyed working over the years. I have worked with every one of them. 

They have all made a difference. They are all my friends, 

Democrats and Republicans. Specifically, I extend my appreciation to my Congressman, my dear friend Dave Hobson. He 

is a savvy man. I have gone to him many times for advice, 

and I have gone to him to get things done for Ohio. 

I would be remiss if I didn’t thank the wonderful staff people in addition to my own staff whom I have had the pleasure to work with in the Senate. I thank the outstanding Senate floor staff: Dave Schiappa, Laura Dove, and all the other 

floor staffers who are such wonderful professionals and who 

serve us all so well. Thanks to the staff of the Republican 

leadership: Eric Ueland; Bill Hoagland, whom I talked about 

earlier today and whom I go to for advice a lot; Kyle Simmons, Malloy McDaniel, Laura Pemberton, and on and on. 

I also thank all the committee staff with whom I had the 

pleasure to work. They are too plentiful to name, but I cannot leave this body without thanking my dear friend Mary 

Dietrich, clerk of the DC Appropriations Committee. I saw 

Mary on the floor last night. I so enjoyed working with her. 

She is a pro. She is great. I also thank Paul Grove, clerk of 

the Foreign Operations Subcommittee, who worked with me 

in helping increase funding for the various humanitarian aid 

programs. I know he got tired of seeing me coming, but he 

was always gracious and got the job done. 

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. 

First, I thank my very good friend Senator Chris Dodd. 

Senator Dodd and I have worked together on many bills that 

have become law. We worked together—not once, not twice, 

but three times—to pass three bills into law to expand the 

research and testing of drugs prescribed for children. Senator Hillary Clinton also joined us in this effort, and I thank 

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both of them for their dedication and dogged determination 

in helping to ensure our children have access to the medicines they need. 

Senator Dodd and I also came together to create a national 

toll-free poison control hotline—I will remind my colleagues 

one more time of that number: 1–800–222–1222. 

Senator Dodd and I also share a commitment to providing 

additional resources for our Nation’s firefighters and first responders. We know that these men and women have the responsibility of looking out for us and our families, and we, 

in turn, have a responsibility to provide them with the resources they need to do their jobs. Together, Senator Dodd 

and I passed the FIRE Act in 2000, and that law has provided over $3.1 billion for grants to fire departments around 

the Nation for needed equipment, training, and communications technology. I am proud of the over $100 million in 

FIRE Act grants that my home State of Ohio has received. 

Finally, Senator Dodd and I worked together with a wonderful American statesman—Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan—to pass the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, which 

has led to the declassification of countless U.S. Government 

files containing information about Nazi war criminals. The 

American people deserve to have access to this information. 

For all of our work together, Senator Dodd, thank you. 

Mr. President, I want to thank Senator Jay Rockefeller for 

joining me in fighting to make our adoption system work better for children around the country. My good friend Senator 

Rockefeller was the lead cosponsor of two of my bills that we 

got signed into law, and I was the lead cosponsor of one of 

his bills that also became law. These laws have helped minimize the amount of time children spend in foster care and 

increased the number of adoptions across the country. 

Those laws are making a difference every day. They are 

changing children’s lives. 

As members of the Senate Steel Caucus, Senator Rockefeller and I also worked successfully together to impose tariffs against foreign countries that were dumping steel in the 

United States. The dumping by these countries was hurting 

our steel industry and, therefore, it was hurting families 

throughout Ohio and West Virginia. Senator Rockefeller and 

I also teamed up to increase automobile and highway safety. 

He is a champion there, too. 

Last year, Senator Rockefeller was the lead cosponsor of 

several bills with me that will save lives on our roads. Together, we passed these bills into law as part of the last 

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highway bill. We will never know the names or faces of the 

people whose lives will be saved by these laws, but it is 

enough for both of us to know those men, women, and children are out there. Senator Rockefeller—it has been a pleasure to work with you. Thank you. 

Mr. President, I want to thank Senator Mary Landrieu. 

Senator Landrieu and I share a profound concern for low-income students around the country and for the welfare of 

young people here in the District of Columbia. In 2001, we 

worked together to amend the No Child Left Behind Act to 

make sure that additional funding went toward low-income 

schools and the students who attend those schools. Since 

passage of our amendment, low-income schools in Ohio have 

received $259 million. I applaud Senator Landrieu for her 

commitment to these children. 

I also want to thank Senator Landrieu for the excellent 

work we did together on the District of Columbia Appropriations Subcommittee. We worked together on this subcommittee from 2001 to 2004, and again, our focus was on 

improving the health and well-being of children. We improved the city’s long-troubled foster care system and helped 

fund various improvements to children’s hospitals in the District. It was truly a pleasure working with the good Senator 

from Louisiana. 

Mr. President, I have had the great fortune to work closely 

on the Judiciary Committee with my friend Senator Pat 

Leahy. I am proud of the many things that we worked on together. Specifically, we both know that our State and local 

law enforcement officers need to have the best technology 

available to protect our families and loved ones. I thank Senator Leahy for working with me in 1998 to pass the Crime 

Identification Technology Act, known as CITA. We worked 

together to develop, pass into law, and provide funding for 

this critical bill, which has included over $500 million to help 

law enforcement officials purchase cutting edge forensic and 

communication technology and improve their crime labs—all 

in an effort to help local law enforcement fight crime and 

make our communities safer. 

I also appreciated working with Senator Leahy to pass my 

bill in 2003 that eliminated the statute of limitations for 

child abduction and sex crimes, and required child pornographers to register as sex offenders. Finally, Senator Leahy 

and I worked together, along with Congressman Ted Strickland in the House, to pass my mentally ill offenders bill and 

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ward providing mental health services for criminals desperately in need of those services. Thank you, Senator 

Leahy. And, of course, neither of these laws would have happened without the help of Judiciary Chairmen Specter and 

Hatch. 

Mr. President, since 1997, I have been a member of the 

Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee. During my time in the 

Senate, sometimes I chaired the subcommittee, and sometimes my friend Senator Herb Kohl chaired the subcommittee. But no matter who had the gavel, we ran it the 

same way—as a bipartisan committee, which shined a light 

on competition issues and helped consumers and businesses 

get a fair shake in the marketplace. Both of our staffs 

planned the subcommittee agenda together, organized hearings together, and held meetings together. That is exactly 

the way it should be, and I am proud that Senator Kohl and 

I were able to achieve and promote a bipartisan consensus 

on important antitrust issues in many critical parts of our 

economy. 

Senator Kohl and I also worked together to write and pass 

into law the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act in 2000. 

We worked on this bill after learning that many law enforcement agencies did not have the funding to process DNA material from crime scenes and those DNA samples ended up 

just sitting on shelves and not getting analyzed. Our law 

provides funding to process these samples, identify criminals—such as rapists—and get them off the streets. It has 

truly been an honor and a privilege to work with Herb Kohl. 

Mr. President, I also have had the distinct pleasure to 

work together with Senator Mikulski on the Retirement Security and Aging Subcommittee. I always knew that my good 

friend from Maryland was a tough negotiator, but over the 

last Congress, I was reminded of just how determined and 

tough she can be when she knows she’s right. Thank heavens, she and I were on the same side. 

Senator Mikulski and I worked together this year and in 

2000 to reauthorize the Older Americans Act, and we also 

joined forces to fight against efforts to weaken the pension 

plans of millions of manufacturing retirees and employees. It 

was during these negotiations that I was glad to have a partner as tough as Senator Mikulski, and I thank her. 

Since 1999, I have been the cochairman of the Senate 

Great Lakes Task Force with the senior Senator from Michigan, Carl Levin. Together, Senator Levin and I have fought 

side by side to pass laws and increase funding to help restore 

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and protect the Great Lakes. We passed the Great Lakes 

Legacy Act, which has brought over $60 million to clean up 

contaminated rivers flowing into the lakes, including $25 

million to clean up the Ashtabula River. 

Senator Levin and I also recently won Senate passage of 

the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act to increase the authorization of grants to protect the Great 

Lakes, and we worked together to prevent invasive species 

from entering the Great Lakes by authorizing and funding a 

barrier in Chicago, where Asian carp might enter the lakes. 

I thank Senator Levin for his dedication to this unique natural resource. 

I have spent a great deal of my time here in the Senate 

fighting for those who are less fortunate and who cannot 

fend for themselves—not only here in the United States, but 

also throughout the world. Over the years, I have sponsored 

and passed several provisions that have increased funding 

for humanitarian programs. 

I want to thank my good friend Senator Dick Durbin for 

working with me to increase funding by $100 million for the 

Global Fund to Fight AIDS and to increase funding by over 

$60 million for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS. Senator Durbin has also worked with 

me to help provide assistance to the poorest nation in our 

hemisphere—and that is Haiti. Dick, Fran and I traveled together to Haiti and I thank him for joining me in efforts to 

provide a better life for the people of Haiti. He is a good and 

compassionate man, and I thank him for his work and for 

his friendship. 

Once again, these things would not have happened but for 

Mitch McConnell, Pat Leahy, and the people on the subcommittee who provided the money. 

While I am talking about Senator Durbin, I also want to 

thank him for joining me in passing legislation that guaranteed that the children of service members who die in service 

to their country don’t lose their free health care coverage. 

Before our law, children of service members who died serving 

their country would lose their free health care after 3 years. 

But, children whose parents were in the military and did not 

die would receive health care until they turned 21. That just 

wasn’t right, and Senator Durbin agreed with me. Together, 

we changed that law. I thank him for working with me on 

that effort, and I thank Chairman Warner for working with 

us on this bill. It could not have happened without him. 

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Mr. President, I also had the pleasure of working with 

Senators Durbin, Corzine, Biden, and Brownback, as we 

have tried to help bring a stop to the terrible genocide that 

is occurring in Darfur. 

Together, we have increased funding for humanitarian relief and security efforts in this war-torn region, where so 

many innocent victims continue to suffer. I was proud to join 

my friends in this effort, and I know they will continue this 

fight. 

Mr. President, none of these important increases to these 

HIV/AIDS and humanitarian aid programs could have happened without the help of the chairman and ranking member 

of the Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee—Senators McConnell and Senator Leahy. To both 

of them and to their able staffs, thank you. 

I want to thank Senator Frank Lautenberg for working 

with me to set a national 0.08 blood alcohol content standard 

for alcohol-impaired drivers. 

This was a tough fight, and Senator Lautenberg is a good 

man to have with you in such a fight. I am proud to say that 

in 2000 we successfully got our bill passed and signed into 

law. 

Mr. President, I want to thank Senator Byrd, not only for 

the legislation that we have worked on together, but more 

important for the outstanding service he has given this body 

and this country. Senator Byrd and I worked together years 

ago to pass the Continued Dumping Subsidy Offset Act—a 

law that helped bring hundreds of millions of dollars to U.S. 

manufacturing companies that were the victims of illegal 

dumping by foreign companies. This law brought over $315 

million to manufacturers in Ohio. Thank you Senator Byrd 

for the work we’ve done together and for your outstanding 

service to this Senate and to this Nation. 

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—Senators Frist, Santorum, Talent, Burns, Allen, 

Chafee, Dayton, and Jeffords. They are all good people and 

all good friends. I wish them well. 

Mr. President, I want to take a moment to say that I still 

miss my good friend Senator Paul Wellstone. Senator 

Wellstone was a determined and outstanding public servant. 

In 1998, Paul and I worked closely together to write the law 

that reformed and improved the effectiveness of job training 

programs. It was always a pleasure to work with Paul 

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Wellstone—such a passionate and committed and dedicated 

public servant. 

Mr. President, as my colleagues all know, none of us could 

get anything done here in this body if it were not for the extremely dedicated, hard-working people on our staffs. I am 

grateful for the men and women who work for me now and 

those who have worked for me all through my time in the 

U.S. Senate. I didn’t say thank you often enough, but I want 

each of you to know how much I sincerely appreciate all you 

have done for me—all you have done to help the people of 

Ohio and the people of this Nation. I say to them: You have 

done such great work. You have helped people. You have improved their lives and, in some cases, you have saved lives 

through your efforts. You have made a difference, and you 

all should be very proud. I know I am proud of each and 

every one of you. 

I have been so fortunate to have had so many qualified, 

talented people working for me over the years. Time will not 

permit me to name each one, but I thank all of them collectively for their efforts. 

Thank you to all the schedulers who through the years got 

me where I needed to go and kept me on track. I would be 

lost, literally, without you. 

Thank you to all my personal assistants and executive assistants. You all have taken such good care of me, which, admittedly, has been tough to do. I have not made it easy. 

Thank you to my press team—all my past press secretaries and press assistants. You have helped spread the word 

about the good things this team has done for the people of 

Ohio. I thank you for your diligence and dedication. 

I thank my legislative staff—all my legislative assistants, 

professional committee staff, legislative aides, legislative correspondents, researchers, and writers. You have been the 

best team any Senator could ever ask for. I am proud of you. 

You have worked so hard, so tirelessly, and with such commitment. You got things done. You have made a difference. 

Thank you to all my current and past staff assistants, receptionists, and interns. You have been on the front lines 

every single day. You have heard a lot. You manned the 

phones. You greeted all of our constituents. You have helped 

me in countless ways. You have done your job so well with 

great respect, grace, and patience. 

Thank you to our mail team. One thing is certain in this 

business: the letters and e-mails never stop coming. That is 

a good thing. Thank you for opening all the correspondence, 

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sorting it, taking care of it, and making sure responses got 

out. I bless you for that. 

Thank you to all my past office managers and system administrators. You have kept my office running. Without each 

of you, we couldn’t open our doors each business day. You 

are great. 

Thank you to my entire team in Ohio—to all my current 

and past regional directors, district representatives, staff assistants, and caseworkers. You are the best Ohio has to offer. 

I am proud to have worked with each one of you. I couldn’t 

have done my job without you. You all know our State so 

very well. You have been so caring and kind to our constituents. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 

While it would be impossible for me to talk about each of 

my past staff members individually, I would like to take a 

moment to say a few things about some of my key advisers 

over the years. I will dearly miss working with each one of 

you. Bluntly, I don’t know how I am going to get along. 

Thank you to my past and present finance team. They are 

the ones who got me here: Mary Sabin, Rachel Pearson, Amy 

Ford Bradley, and last, but certainly not least, Brooke 

Bodney, who has taken me through the last few years. You 

all have amazed me over the years. You have pushed me, 

prodded me, you made me do something I don’t like to do: 

make phone calls and ask people for money. Please know 

how grateful I am to each one of you. Your jobs were not 

easy, and you did a phenomenal job. 

Thank you to my past campaign managers—Curt Steiner 

in 1992, Laurel Pressler Dawson in 1994, Josh Rubin in 

2000, and Matt Carle from my 2006 race. Curt has been my 

friend for over a quarter of a century. He is smart and politically savvy. Laurel was a great campaign manager in 1994. 

I will have more to say about her in a minute. Josh has been 

a permanent fixture in the DeWine family since the early 

1990s. I have always appreciated his advice and wise counsel. Matt did a fine job this past election cycle. He knows 

Ohio very well. 

I would also like to mention my friend Chuck Greener who 

has been a friend for over 25 years. I am grateful for his 

friendship and wise counsel. He always takes my calls. He 

always calls back. He is there for me. He is there for Fran. 

Thank you to each of the individuals who have served as 

staff directors of my subcommittees. Louis Dupart served as 

staff director for our Antitrust Subcommittee. Louis always 

came to me with such great legislative ideas. He is the one 

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who came to me with the idea of the Nazi war crime legislation. I will forever be grateful for that. 

Pete Levitas also served for several years now as staff director for the Antitrust Subcommittee. Pete is a brilliant 

lawyer. He has been one of my most dedicated staff members, and he is one of the funniest people I have ever met. 

He can always make me laugh, and we always need people 

around us, Pete, to make us laugh. 

Dwayne Sattler served as staff director for our Employment and Training Subcommittee. He worked tirelessly to 

help reform this country’s job training program. A lot of the 

bill was his work product. I thank him for that. 

Last, but certainly not least, Karla Carpenter, who has 

served as the staff director for three of my subcommittees: 

Aging, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, and 

Retirement Security. What in the world will I do without 

her? She has been with me since 1994. She is, as she likes 

to say, ‘‘the smartest person she knows.’’ Mr. President, let 

me tell you, she is certainly one of the smartest persons I 

know. She got our Adoption and Safe Families Act signed 

into law, as well as the Older Americans Act and pensions 

bill. Thank you, Karla. 

I would also like to thank my able Intelligence Committee 

designee, John Pack, and my excellent former designees Jack 

Livingston and Jim Barnett. You have been great advisers. 

I have been most fortunate to have had the chance to work 

with three of the smartest, hardest working legislative directors around. My first Senate legislative director and chief 

counsel was Nick Wise. He was also legislative director for 

me in the House of Representatives. Nick always had a 

unique ability to analyze an issue and drill it down to the 

essence of the matter, and then explain it to me. Unique talent. 

My next legislative director was Robert Hoffman. He came 

to my office from Senator Larry Pressler’s office, where he 

was the Senator’s legislative director. Robert did a fantastic 

job for me. He has an unstoppable work ethic. He was so 

dedicated and had such a solid understanding of the legislative process. I thank Robert. 

My current legislative director is Paul Palagyi. What will 

I do without Paul, who is my go-to guy on so many things? 

He has been my LD for nearly 6 years and has built an extraordinary legislative team. Paul has put up with a lot. He 

is also an adviser on my two dogs at home. 

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During my time in the Senate, I have had two 

speechwriters. My first Senate speechwriter was Mike 

Potemra. I can say with honesty Mike is one of the most intelligent people I know. He is just so knowledgeable. In his 

own words, Mike is an ‘‘unusual guy.’’ That he is, but he is 

also deeply endearing, and I am fortunate to have had the 

opportunity to work with him. I thank Mike. 

Now, Mr. President, I come to the point in my speech 

where it is not scripted, and that is because it is about Ann 

O’Donnell. Ann O’Donnell has been my speechwriter. Ann 

O’Donnell has been someone who has made an unbelievable 

difference in my life. She is a tireless worker. She is a compassionate person. Fran and I have traveled with Ann to 

Haiti. I have seen her compassion for the children of Haiti. 

She is someone who never stops working. 

During this past week, because I am leaving the Senate, 

because I would not be here in January, I have tried to finish giving tribute speeches to all soldiers and troops who 

died in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was an unbelievable task. 

Ann put it together. She got it done. We did 75 speeches this 

week. It wouldn’t have happened without her. A lot of things 

I have done would not have happened without her. I thank 

her. I thank her for being who she is. 

I have had two communications directors during my time 

in the Senate. First was Charlie Boesel. Everyone loves 

Charlie. His personality is as flamboyant as his taste in 

colorful clothes. Charlie was a pleasure to work with and did 

a fine job for us. I will tell you, it was great fun to have 

Charlie join us for a few days on the campaign trail. Fran 

and I were so happy to see Charlie back. 

My current communications director is Mike Dawson. I 

first met Mike when I was running for Governor in 1989. 

Mike, whom I did not know, came to me and kept coming to 

me and said: ‘‘Hey, I want to work for you, I want to help 

you on your campaign.’’ We finally said yes, and he was on 

the campaign. He worked on my Governor’s race and then 

my Lieutenant Governor’s race when I joined George in his 

bid for Governor. Mike worked in the Voinovich administration, he worked for Senator Voinovich, and he has been my 

communications director for the last 5 years. I am grateful 

for his wise counsel. He is my friend. I will always remember 

what he has done for me. 

I have had one State director while I have been in the Senate. That has been Barbara Schenck. Barbara worked with 

me when I was Lieutenant Governor. She is truly one of the 

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finest individuals I have ever known. She is smart; she is articulate; she is spirited; yes, she is feisty; and she is passionate. She is also extremely compassionate. She has been 

my right hand in Ohio. I talked to her many days six, seven, 

eight times. I can’t imagine not working with her in the days 

ahead, but I know she is going to do some amazing things. 

Barbara, you are the greatest. Thank you. 

Finally, my chief of staff, Laurel Pressler Dawson. I truly 

believe— I have not checked this—that she has been chief of 

staff to a Senator and a Congressman probably longer than 

anybody in this body. Laurel has been my chief of staff since 

January 1983 when I entered the U.S. House of Representatives. We have seen and been through so much together in 

our personal lives, as well as professional. She has been 

there during the great tragedies in my family. She has always been there. When our daughter Becky died, she was at 

the hospital. She was the one who came. 

She was the one person who had the ability to tell me no, 

and I would listen to her. Everybody needs someone who 

tells them ‘‘no’’ and listens to them. I have been privileged 

to have her be my most trusted adviser for over two decades. 

She always just got it done. She managed my organization 

with great skill. I cannot thank her enough for all she has 

done for me and for my family. 

As my colleagues in the Senate are well aware, Fran and 

I have a big family. We are blessed. We are parents of 8 children, now the grandparents of 10 grandchildren. I would like 

to take a couple minutes to talk about my family before I 

end. 

First, I thank my oldest child, my son Patrick. I always 

turned to Pat for his thoughts on policy and politics and 

have so appreciated his help in my campaigns and his keen 

advice and his input. Pat’s three boys—Michael, Matthew, 

and Brian—are a delight. They are a delight every day. They 

were a delight to have on the campaign trail. I thank each 

of them for all their hard work and their efforts. 

I thank my daughter Jill, her husband Bill, and their children, Albert, Isabelle, David, Caroline, Justin, and newborn 

Mary Frances. Jill and Bill and the kids walked in so many 

parades this summer and fall and throughout the years, as 

all our kids have. I can count them. They have always been 

so helpful and supportive. I thank Bill for his expertise on 

issues regarding persons with disabilities. He has helped me 

understand the needs of those with disabilities. He has 

helped me do more to help them. 

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Our son John recently completed his Ph.D. in ecology. 

Fran and I are so proud of him. He and his wife Michele and 

their sweet little daughter Josie Jean have recently moved to 

West Virginia, where John is now working on river restoration. 

Our son Brian is engaged to Kalie Spink. They are planning their wedding for this coming April. Fran and I are so 

looking forward to that and looking forward to having Kalie 

join our family. Brian works in the best job probably in the 

family. He works for a minor league baseball team, the Carolina Mudcats. I envy him every day. 

I thank my daughter Alice for the sacrifices she made this 

year to help with our campaign. She is a law student at Ohio 

Northern University—my alma mater—and took the fall semester off to work on the campaign where she was in charge 

of coalitions. Thank you, Alice. You did a great job. 

Our son Mark is a sophomore at the College of Wooster, 

where he runs cross-country and track. Mark is a good person, a person who is very compassionate. For his Eagle Scout 

project, he traveled to Haiti, a place my colleagues know is 

very important to Fran and myself. He planted trees there. 

He worked with Father Tom Hagan and helped with the reforestation project. 

Our daughter Anna is a freshman in high school. She is 

a runner like all her brothers and sisters. She is a sweet, 

quiet, caring young woman. She has put up with a lot this 

past year with her mom and dad being gone quite a bit of 

the time, going back and forth between Washington and 

Ohio. But she has handled it so well. We are very proud of 

her. 

To each of my children and grandchildren, Mr. President, 

I simply want to say thank you and I love you. 

As an only child growing up, I was dating Frances in high 

school and I used to love going over to her house because she 

had a big family. There was always something going on. I 

want to thank Fran’s brothers and sisters and their families 

for all they have done for us over the years, their friendship 

and love and help and support. We are so very fortunate to 

have all of them in our lives. I want to thank Fran’s parents 

especially, Bill and Mary Struewing. You are great. No one 

could have a better mother-in-law and father-in-law. You 

have put up with me since Fran and I started dating in high 

school, for a long time, and for that I am very grateful. 

Of course, I want to thank my parents, Dick and Jean 

DeWine. I have talked about my dad on the Senate floor 

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many times in regard to the K-Company and what he did 

during World War II. I could not have asked for two more 

wonderful parents. They always believed in me. They gave 

me my interest in politics. They gave me their values. They 

gave me their work ethic, and I owe them everything, and 

I love them very much. 

Finally, every day I think of our daughter Becky who died 

in 1993. Becky was a compassionate, honest, caring young 

woman who would have done so much with her life. I think 

of her every day. The things that Fran and I do for children, 

we do in her memory. 

In conclusion, I love Ohio. I love our country. I see a great 

future for both my State and for America. I am an optimist. 

My wife Fran says that anybody with 8 kids by definition is 

an optimist, and I am an optimist. Throughout my career in 

the Senate and after I leave, I will continue to care about the 

health, education and welfare of our kids. I will continue to 

care about stopping the spread of AIDS around the globe. I 

will continue to help improve the lives of our world’s most 

impoverished men, women, and children. I will continue to 

care about highway safety and the importance of making our 

cars and roads safer. I will continue to care about making 

our communities safe for our families, safe from crime, safe 

from terrorism. 

As I leave the Senate, however, I leave behind unfinished 

business, as we all do, and I encourage my colleagues to continue the work we shared on so many different issues. 

Just this week I introduced the Pediatric Medical Device 

bill with Senator Dodd, a bill that will help ensure that our 

children have access to lifesaving medical devices that are 

designed specifically for small bodies. I hope someone will 

take up that cause. 

I thank my colleague Ted Kennedy for working with me, 

and I was working with him, on the bill to give the Food and 

Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco. It is 

long past due. It needs to happen. It has not passed, but it 

will. I know it will pass. I know it will pass, because it is 

the right thing to do. 

Two days ago I introduced a bill to make cars and roads 

safer for our families, especially our children. That bill would 

simply direct the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration to research new ways to keep pregnant women 

and their unborn children safer in our cars. I hope someone 

will take that up as well. 

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I will finally conclude my remarks by thanking the most 

important person in my life, my bride of 39 years, Fran. As 

most people know, I would be literally lost without her. She 

takes care of me. She takes care of our family. She is our 

rock. Fran is my partner in all things. She is my best friend. 

She is the passion of my life. She is my love. She is everything to me. We met in the first grade. It took me until the 

seventh grade to talk her into going out on a date with me, 

and it took me 7 more years to convince her to marry me. 

I am a persistent man. We got married between our sophomore and junior years at Miami. We tell people it was a productive 4 years at Miami. We ended up with two degrees and 

two children by the time we left. I could not have done any 

of this without her by my side. 

She has been through every one of my campaigns. She has 

done everything. Thirty ice cream socials for 2,500 people 

who just dropped by her house on a Sunday. She has done 

that for 30 years. She does anything and everything. She is 

smart, she is witty, she is organized, and she is very compassionate. She accomplishes more than anyone I know, and she 

never stops working. I love her more than anything else in 

the world. Someone said to me earlier this year that if I lost 

my reelection bid, it wouldn’t be so bad, because even if I lost 

my Senate seat, Fran would still be there by my side. They 

were right. And for that, I am very fortunate. 

Mr. President, my colleagues, my friends, come visit us in 

Ohio. That is where we will be. After this month, we will be 

in our home in the county where we grew up, the county 

where we were born, the county where we live. We will be 

home in Greene County. Come see us. You are always welcome. 

I thank the Chair for his indulgence, and my colleagues. 

I yield the floor. 

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Proceedings in the Senate 

MONDAY, November 13, 2006 

Mr. SALAZAR. . . . I will say this as well. In the days 

ahead, we will hear many things about some of our colleagues, some of whom are newcomers to our institution, the 

U.S. Senate, and some of them who are leaving. For me, it 

is a sad day that Senator Chafee and Senator DEWINE, who 

were members of the Gang of 14, will not be around to be 

a part of that future bipartisan coalition that we are going 

to have to have in the Senate. But I hope, on the side of both 

the Democrats and the Republicans, that there is a great 

number of Members of the Senate on both sides of the aisle 

who will come together to address those significant issues 

that face us as a country. . . . 

WEDNESDAY, November 15, 2006 

Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I say to my colleague, Senator DEWINE, those have been very moving tributes to fallen 

soldiers from his State of Ohio. He has set a good example 

for all of us in recognizing the service and sacrifice of those 

from his home State. I find as I listen to those tributes that 

they are extremely well done. I thank the Senator for that. 

I also wish to acknowledge that the Senator from Ohio will 

be leaving at the end of this term and that I have very much 

appreciated working with him. He has been one of the very 

serious Members of this body, and we are going to miss him. 

I wanted to say to him that I certainly appreciate his service 

in the Senate. He has always been a constructive colleague, 

somebody who was working diligently to try to solve problems facing the country. We very much appreciate his dedication to the country. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio. 

Mr. DEWINE. Mr. President, I thank my colleague and tell 

him that I have enjoyed working with him very much. We 

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have worked on things together. You can work across the 

aisle in this body and get things done. I thank him for his 

very kind and generous words. 

THURSDAY, November 16, 2006 

Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, a few moments ago, our colleague from the State of Ohio, Senator MIKE DEWINE, gave 

tribute to three Ohioans who lost their lives in Iraq. I listened to these carefully and I hope others did as well. They 

were beautiful life stories, beautifully written, beautifully 

spoken by the Senator. I went up to him afterward and 

asked him how many Ohioans had lost their lives in Iraq. He 

said the number was 140. He has given 90 tributes on the 

floor and hopes before he leaves the Senate in a few weeks 

to finish the last 50. He is determined to get it done as a 

tribute to these families. He said: It is about all we can do, 

isn’t it? He is right. It says a lot about MIKE DEWINE, a lot 

that many of us already knew. 

I came to Congress with MIKE in 1982. I recall we were 

both elected to the House of Representatives. I was from the 

central part of Illinois and he was from Ohio. We had a dinner at the White House. I recall that his wife Fran, who had 

just had a baby a few days before, came in her beautiful 

gown with her husband MIKE in a tuxedo, carrying a basket 

with their baby in it. They sat down next to Loretta and myself for dinner with President Reagan that night. I have 

joked about that because I met that little girl recently. She 

has grown up now, and we remembered the first time we 

ever laid eyes on her. 

MIKE and I have worked on so many things—the global 

AIDS epidemic. He has been my go-to guy on the Republican 

side of the aisle. When I had absolutely given up any hope 

of passing legislation for hundreds of millions of dollars to 

save hundreds of millions of lives, MIKE managed to help out 

in many different ways. 

He invited me once to travel to Haiti with him. Haiti is a 

DeWine family project. MIKE and Fran have made over 15 

trips to that poor island and have met with so many people 

there in orphanages and on streets trying to help them. 

There is a little school in Port-au-Prince, the Becky DeWine 

School, named after MIKE and Fran’s late daughter. They 

have poured more love and resources into that school for 

some of the poorest kids on this planet than we could ever 

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count. They worked together with Father Tom of Hands Together and so many other great charities that have done 

such work. 

As I listened to MIKE tonight give his tributes to these 

Ohio soldiers, I was reminded what a quality individual he 

is. Elections come and go. People win and people lose. But 

the quality of MIKE DEWINE’s service to the Senate on behalf 

of the people of Ohio is written large in the history of this 

institution. 

I thank him for his friendship and for his leadership. I 

wish him, Fran, and the entire family the very best in whatever their future endeavors might entail. 

TUESDAY, December 5, 2006 

Mr. HAGEL. Mr. President, I have listened carefully to 

our colleague from Ohio [Mr. DEWINE], spending his few 

minutes in the Senate talking about brave men and women 

who serve our country. It is the mark of our colleague from 

Ohio, the kind of person he is—not just the kind of Senator 

he is—that he would come to the floor of the Senate in his 

last few days as a Member of this institution and focus on 

others, focus on those who have given the ultimate sacrifice 

for their families, for our country and for our future. It 

shows us, once again, that Senator DEWINE is the consummate Senator. 

I am here this afternoon to recognize and thank and pay 

tribute to our colleagues who will be leaving the Senate. 

They are a varied group. Again, I can think of no finer example of this group of public servants than one of Senator 

DEWINE’s last speeches in the Senate to recognize others. 

I thank you, Senator DEWINE, for your service. 

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. 

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less, in their own specific way have contributed a great deal 

to this country. 

I take a few minutes to recognize each. I start with our 

colleague, your dear friend, former Lieutenant Governor, the 

senior Senator from Ohio. I need not tell the distinguished 

Presiding Officer what Senator DEWINE has meant to his 

State and to this country. I had the privilege of serving on 

the Intelligence Committee with Senator DEWINE for 4 

years. I have teamed up with Senator DEWINE over the 

years on many legislative matters. I don’t know of an individual who cares more, contributes more, to what they believe, than Senator DEWINE. His years of service in the 

House, the Senate, and as Lieutenant Governor are to be 

recognized. We should thank him and tell him that we will 

miss him and we will especially miss a friend. . . . 

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 

of life, in every community, in every State, offer themselves 

for office. Whether it is a mayor, a Governor, city councilman, 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. 

Mr. VOINOVICH. Mr. President, I rise to speak about our 

senior Senator from Ohio, MIKE DEWINE. Let me begin by 

saying this is a speech I hoped I would never have to give. 

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try and, unfortunately, many were unable to weather the 

storm; in my particular case, in our State, through no fault 

of their own. 

MIKE DEWINE was one of the most effective legislators we 

have in the U.S. Senate. He was a victim of this storm. I am 

deeply saddened that our respective colleagues will not be 

joining us when we congregate again for the 110th Congress. 

MIKE’s tireless commitment to legislating, his willingness 

and ability to work with both parties, and his ingenuity will 

be sorely missed by everyone in the Senate and the State of 

Ohio. 

MIKE has served the people of Ohio for more than 30 

years, beginning as an assistant county prosecutor in 1976. 

He served as Green County prosecutor for 4 years, State senator for 2 years, Congressman for 8 years, and he was my 

Lieutenant Governor for 4 years when I was Governor of 

Ohio. And, of course, he has served us for 12 years as our 

U.S. Senator. He is one of the most effective and least partisan Members in this body. 

During campaign season, some of our colleagues on the 

other side of the aisle kept asking me: How is MIKE doing, 

how is he doing? Frankly, I think they were secretly hoping 

his poll numbers would be strong enough that he would not 

become a target. Unfortunately, those numbers never got up 

to that place, and he ended up being a target. 

Far too many Members see differences between Republicans and Democrats as an unsurpassable deep divide. Not 

MIKE DEWINE. Over and over again, MIKE built bridges between our parties, and he got things done for America and 

for Ohio. Janet and I feel like MIKE and his wonderful wife 

Fran are part of our family. After working with MIKE for the 

past 16 years, I can tell you that there is something special 

about him. In fact, right from the start, I knew there was 

something refreshingly different about MIKE DEWINE. 

The inception of our friendship came in 1990, when MIKE

and I were both running in the Republican primary for Governor of Ohio. It was a crowded field with MIKE, Bob Taft, 

and me vying for the Governor’s slot. It was then we really 

got to know each other. We talked about what would be the 

best for Ohio and for the Republican Party and, quite frankly, for our respective political futures. We decided to combine 

our efforts as running mates, and MIKE agreed to run as my 

Lieutenant Governor. 

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gressional seat to run for State office. At that moment, I 

knew I had a first-rate partner, a man with great character 

and humility as well as unique political poise and promise. 

Both of us knew we had a long, tough race ahead of us with 

no guarantees. This was not a layup shot. There was a real 

question of whether we were going to be successful. He had 

given up a safe seat in the U.S. Congress, with a big family. 

But we had a great time running for State office. MIKE had 

an opportunity to connect with the State as a whole. I remember when he and Fran packed the kids in the van and 

traveled every inch of Ohio, becoming intimate with the Appalachian east, its manufacturing north, and its interior 

farmland. 

We went on to win the general election and, as I like to 

say, together we did it. Together we won the election, and together we charted a new course for Ohio. 

As Lieutenant Governor, MIKE took over the State’s criminal justice agencies, where he led the fight against crime and 

illegal drugs. It was a relief to have MIKE as my partner 

when we had the Lucasville riots which broke out on Easter 

Sunday in 1993. It was the largest prison disturbance in the 

history of the United States, generating a great deal of national tension. MIKE’s background in criminal justice and his 

close relationship with law enforcement helped us respond 

quickly and effectively. It could have been a tragedy, but fortunately, together, and with the help of the Holy Spirit, we 

made it through. 

In 1992, when the Ohio Republican Party needed a challenger to run against the famous astronaut and giant in 

Ohio politics, John Glenn, MIKE was the obvious choice. He 

and Fran worked tirelessly to win that seat. Unfortunately, 

victory was not in the cards that year but triumph was imminent. Two years later, MIKE became a U.S. Senator and 

our party swept the State, just as the Democrats did this 

year in Ohio. MIKE returned to Washington as a U.S. Senator with more perspective, more experience, and more insight into the challenges facing Ohio than when he left the 

Congress as a Member of the House of Representatives. 

Without a lot of fanfare, he quietly went to work. 

Of course, MIKE has been shaped by many things. It is impossible to talk about his achievements in public service 

without mentioning the terrible misfortune he and Fran experienced back in 1994. I will never forget the day MIKE and 

Fran lost their daughter Becky. I am familiar with the tremendous pain they suffered. The day that changed their 

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lives sticks in my memory, much like the day Janet and I 

lost our daughter Molly. MIKE translated the love he and 

Fran had for Becky into his work in the Senate. He became 

a champion for our youth and for those who cannot represent 

themselves. That is why today I am hard pressed to think 

of anyone who has not been helped by MIKE DEWINE. 

His legislative achievements, which span both domestic 

and foreign policy, reflect his effectual and compassionate 

nature. MIKE has shown tremendous dedication toward improving the safety of our highway system. He not only 

amended the 2005 highway bill to make preferences for highways noted as being unsafe, but he also allocated more than 

$56 million of SAFETEA–LU, intended for improving highway safety. 

He succeeded in getting further testing and approval of 

medications for children. He helped establish a national tollfree poison control hotline. He acted on behalf of the children 

of U.S. service members to make sure they had access to affordable health care. And he has stood up for foster children 

to make sure they are protected and to help them find adoptive parents. 

Time after time, Senator DEWINE has protected Ohio. He 

was a critical voice in passing the Senate pension bill which 

helped ensure that workers’ futures in Ohio are on better 

footing. He is a cosponsor of the Health Partnership Act because he understands how important health care reform is 

to Ohioans and to this country. He helped ensure that our 

fire departments are better equipped to fulfill their missions 

as first responders. 

During the BRAC process, he worked to keep Federal facilities, such as Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton 

and the Defense Finance and Accounting Center in Cleveland and Columbus, open and operating. And he led a new 

mission for Ohio’s NASA-Glenn in Cleveland. Today these facilities are thriving and contributing to Ohio’s aerospace industry and national defense. I don’t think there was a State 

in the country that benefited more from the BRAC process 

than Ohio, and it is attributable to the outstanding leadership MIKE DEWINE gave all of us in terms of that BRAC 

process. 

MIKE has also been a friend of the Jewish community and 

has made it a priority to help stamp out anti-Semitism and 

intolerance in America. He played a pivotal role in helping 

disclose previously classified documents about Nazi aggression, legislation that made those records available to the 

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public through the National Archives and Records Administration. Today, thanks to MIKE, doctors, nurses, and aid 

workers are more prepared to confront the global AIDS epidemic. 

MIKE has carried a heavy burden while he has been in the 

Senate. He sits on the Judiciary Committee, the HELP Committee, and the Intelligence Committee. He also sits on one 

of the most prestigious committees in the Senate, Appropriations. In fact, MIKE was the first Ohioan in 50 years to sit 

on Appropriations. His position of leadership—and the resources he has been able to bring back to Ohio—has made 

a tremendous difference for our State and a tremendous difference in the lives of the people of our State. I used to joke 

with MIKE that my job as the debt hawk was to make sure 

we didn’t spend the money. But once we decided we were 

going to spend it, his job was to make sure Ohio got its fair 

share. And boy, did he do a good job. 

These are just a handful of examples where my close 

friend and colleague MIKE DEWINE has made a difference. 

His legislative accomplishments and his legacy of principled 

public service have had a deep impact on all of our lives. The 

Senate will suffer a loss without MIKE. But he will not slip 

out of the Senate. He will walk out these doors with his head 

held high because he can feel good about all he has given to 

the people of Ohio and to the United States of America. He 

has truly made a difference in their lives. 

Married for more than 39 years, MIKE and Fran are parents to 8 children and grandparents to 10. They have been 

blessed with much happiness and success, and they have 

carved out many meaningful paths during their life together. 

While MIKE will be missed, I am confident that he and 

Fran will begin something new in this next chapter of their 

lives. They have both been given so much. I believe that God 

does have a plan. Sometimes we are not sure about what it 

is, but God does have a plan. 

I am reminded of one of my favorite verses from the Bible, 

Proverbs chapter 3, verses 5 and 6: 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and learn not unto your own understandings. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path. 

MIKE will be missed. But I know the Holy Spirit will continue to inspire MIKE and Fran as they embark on a new 

journey together. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Thune). The Senator 

from Ohio, Mr. DEWINE, is recognized. 

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Mr. DEWINE. Mr. President, I thank my dear friend—the 

now junior Senator from Ohio, who in January will become 

the senior Senator from Ohio—for those very generous and 

kind comments. 

George Voinovich and I first got to know each other in 

1989. I will not repeat the story the Senator recounted, but 

we got together and formed a partnership that has lasted 

until today. I gave up my run for Governor and joined with 

George as his Lieutenant Governor candidate. We won and, 

as they say, the rest is history. George was a great Governor 

for 8 years. I was his Lieutenant Governor for the first 4 of 

those years. We worked very closely during that period of 

time, of course, and after I went to the Senate, when he was 

still Governor. We have worked even closer since he has 

been a Senator from Ohio. So I thank him. George Voinovich 

and Janet are dear friends. They are people whom we care 

very much about. George is a great public servant, and I appreciate him very much and am touched, frankly, by his very 

kind comments. 

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. . . . 

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 MIKE DEWINE, with his 8 children and 10th grandchild, 

whose heart is nearly as big as he is. He lost a child, and 

he and Fran have gone to Haiti time after time after time 

to help people there who need help. . . . 

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 

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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 

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 

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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. 

Whether you call it bipartisanship, whether you call it 

friendship, whether you call it mutual respect, whatever you 

call it, the way you govern a nation as large and as complicated 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. . . . I also express my best wishes to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle leaving the Senate at 

the end of this session. I already made mention of Senator 

MIKE DEWINE of Ohio. So many times over the 10 years that 

I served in the Senate I walked across the aisle searching for 

an ally and found MIKE DEWINE. Whether it was a fight to 

put more efforts into the global AIDS effort to reduce the 

deaths around the world or an effort to reach out and provide assistance to Haiti, a country which my friend MIKE

DEWINE has adopted, time and time again he rose to that 

challenge. Debt reduction in Africa—so many other issues. 

His speech today on the floor was just another indication of 

the kind of compassion that he brought to service in the Senate. 

Elections come and go but the record that has been written 

by my friend Senator MIKE DEWINE will endure. . . . 

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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. . . . 

A number of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle 

will be departing in January, as well. There is our colleague 

from Virginia, Senator Allen, who wears, in my opinion, the 

second best pair of boots in the Senate. There is Senator 

Santorum of Pennsylvania, whose passion is admirable and 

whose energy is always enviable. Also leaving us is my colleague in the centrist Gang of 14 that helped bring this Senate back from the abyss; Senator DEWINE of Ohio, who will 

head back to the Buckeye State with my respect and admiration; and my friend Senator Talent from Missouri, with 

whom I spent many hours in the Agriculture Committee 

working to level the playing field for America’s farmers and 

ranchers. We will miss Senator Chafee of Rhode Island’s 

independence and his clear voice for fiscal discipline in 

Washington. And we will miss Senator Burns of Montana, 

who shares my passion for rural America and who is headed 

home to Big Sky Country, back to the Rockies that I know 

we both miss so much. . . . 

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 

America that we leave better than when we arrived. These 

ideals will resonate here long after we all are gone and another generation stands in our place making the decisions of 

its day. 

Mr. BYRD. . . . Mr. President, with the conclusion of the 

109th Congress, Senator DEWINE will be leaving us. 

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I do not want to say farewell to him, but to thank him for 

being a congenial colleague and an outstanding Senator, a 

Senator who truly appreciated this Chamber, its traditions, 

and the way it is supposed to work. 

For 12 years, he was an effective Senator, a Senator who 

built a long, impressive list of legislative accomplishments on 

a wide range of issues, largely, I believe, because of his willingness to reach out, and to work with Members on this side 

of the aisle. In a true bipartisan spirit, he worked with my 

dear friend, Senator Kennedy, to increase Federal regulation 

of tobacco. 

He worked with Senator Dodd for a bill to provide health 

screening for newborns. 

He worked with Senator Paul Wellstone on legislation that 

revamped job training programs, and with Senator Lautenberg on bills to crack down on drunk drivers. 

With Senator Clinton, he promoted legislation to ensure 

that drug companies do a better job in studying the effects 

of their products on children. 

For nearly a decade, whether in the majority or the minority, Senator DEWINE cooperated with Senator Kohl in running the Antitrust Subcommittee on a bipartisan basis, and 

in the process, helped provide Americans with cheaper phone 

service, more choices on television, and direct flights home 

for the holidays. 

He teamed up with my colleague from West Virginia, Senator Rockefeller, in promoting legislation that changed the 

Government’s emphasis in child custody cases from preserving family structure to protecting the best interests of 

the child. 

Indeed, caring for and protecting America’s children was a 

major focus of his tenure in the Senate, and I applaud him 

for it. His concern for children, among other concerns, led 

him to successfully push for legislation to improve school bus 

safety and tougher child pornography laws. 

I, of course, know Senator DEWINE best from his service 

on the Senate Appropriations Committee. He chaired the 

District of Columbia Appropriations Subcommittee, which I 

know from personal experience is no easy chore. It is one of 

the most difficult and thankless tasks in the Senate, and he 

did it very effectively. One of his objectives in this position 

was to reform the District’s child welfare system—and, 

again, I know from personal experience, just how difficult 

and thankless reforming the District’s welfare system can be. 

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Senator DEWINE worked at it, and had some outstanding 

successes. 

Senator DEWINE and I worked together to enact and defend the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act, a trade 

law that returns to injured companies and workers the duties that are collected by Customs on unfairly traded imports. He also supported the enactment of the Emergency 

Steel Loan Guarantee Program—a program that has kept 

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel in business and over 3,000 people 

employed for decades. It is well recognized that, if the program had not provided Wheeling-Pitt with its loan guarantee, the company would no longer exist. 

I will always remember Senator DEWINE as a Senator who 

took the risk to help preserve the Senate as it was handed 

down to us by the Framers of our Constitution, and all the 

great lawmakers who served in this Chamber before us. Senator DEWINE was of the seven Republicans who helped form 

the so-called Gang of 14 to help block the majority leader’s 

determination to use the ‘‘nuclear option’’ that would have 

destroyed the U.S. Senate as a unique institution. 

I know this effort cost him support from members of his 

own party, and from folks back home. It reminds me of the 

words of Senator John F. Kennedy, who wrote: 

If the American people comprehended the terrible pressures which discourage acts of political courage, which drive a Senator to abandon or subdue his conscience, then they might be less critical of those who take the 

easier road—and more appreciative of those still able to follow the path of 

courage. 

For 12 years Senator DEWINE took the path of political 

courage. 

Mr. President, shortly after coming to this Chamber, Senator DEWINE remarked, ‘‘when you go to the Senate, you 

don’t know how long you’ll be there. So you want to use your 

time wisely.’’ In his two terms in the Senate, Senator 

DEWINE used his time wisely and effectively. As he leaves 

the Senate, he should take pride in the knowledge that his 

presence here may well have saved this sacred institution, 

and from the bottom of my heart, I thank him for it. 

I wish him and his wife Fran health, happiness and neverending success as they begin the next phase of their lives 

and careers. . . . 

Mr. FEINGOLD. . . . Mr. President, I am pleased to pay 

tribute to Senator MIKE DEWINE, who has served Ohio, and 

the Senate, with honor and integrity during his 12-year tenure in this body. 

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I am pleased to have worked with him on a wide range of 

issues over the years, including reforming children’s health 

care and Medicaid. We also worked together quite frequently 

on other issues of importance to this Nation, and he has 

been a valuable colleague on both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. Although we did not see eye to eye on every issue, we found 

common ground on several initiatives including passing 

stricter antitrust legislation. 

Together with Senator Dick Durbin, we introduced the 

Clean Diamonds Act, a bill to ensure that the United States 

is not participating in the conflict diamond trade. This bill 

would prohibit the importation of diamonds from countries 

that fail to implement a clearly articulated system of controls 

on rough diamonds. Senator DEWINE believed in the international community’s responsibility to stop the trade in conflict diamonds, and I have been proud to work with him in 

that effort. 

I also want to take a moment to recognize Senator 

DEWINE’s dedication to honoring fallen service members 

from Ohio. By coming to the floor to pay tribute to those who 

gave their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has reminded all 

of us of the tremendous debt we owe these brave men and 

women in uniform. 

I thank him for his leadership and his service to Ohio and 

our country, and I wish him all the best as he moves on to 

begin a new chapter in his distinguished career. 

Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, I would like to express my 

sincere appreciation to the Senator from Ohio [Mr. DEWINE] 

for allowing me to intercede for a few moments. Since he is 

on the Senate floor and he has been so gracious as to give 

me this time—I did not come to the floor and will not talk 

long about Senator DEWINE, but since he is on the Senate 

floor and gave me the time, I wanted to express to him my 

grateful appreciation for his service to the Senate, not just 

the people of Ohio but the people of this great country. 

One of the great joys I have had as a Member of the Senate, having been elected 2 years ago, was to serve on the 

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee with 

Senator DEWINE. One of my great joys I had early on as a 

Member of this body was to watch him join the Gang of 14 

and break the logjams, allowing us to confirm Supreme 

Court Justices Alito and Roberts. I worked closely with him 

on the pensions bill. Time and again, I saw his tireless effort 

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on behalf of the best interests of this country and in particular always the best interests of the people of Ohio. 

To Senator DEWINE, not to pander because of his graciousness in giving me the time but for giving me the unique 

chance to express that, we are all very grateful. 

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. . . . 

Now, I would like to take a few moments to salute our majority leader, Senator Frist, as well as Senators Chafee, 

Burns, Santorum, DEWINE, Jeffords, Talent, and Dayton. 

Each and every one of these U.S. Senators has served his 

State and his country with great distinction. 

Without a doubt, I could speak at-length in honor of each 

of these outstanding individuals. In light of time constraints, 

however, and the fact that so many of my colleagues wish to 

similarly pay tribute, I shall endeavor to keep my remarks 

brief. . . . 

Senator MIKE DEWINE has been in public service nearly 

his entire adult life. He was an assistant prosecuting attorney, he has held various State elected positions, he was a 

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and most recently, since 1995, he has served the State of Ohio in the 

U.S. Senate. I am pleased to have served on the HELP Committee with Senator DEWINE where we worked together on 

various children’s health issues. There is not a bigger champion of children’s health than Senator DEWINE. Senator 

DEWINE was also an instrumental member with me on the 

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Gang of 14. Throughout his years in the Senate, Senator 

DEWINE has proven to be a thoughtful, highly respected 

Member who has always been willing to do what is right. In 

my view, he is a true statesman. . . . 

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. 

Mr. DEWINE. Mr. President, I say to my neighbor in West 

Virginia [Mr. Byrd], my friend and my colleague, first of all, 

that the poem he just recited [‘‘Abou Ben Adhem’’] is one 

that my wife Frances and I learned in the seventh grade in 

Yellow Springs. The Senator reciting it brings back very 

good memories, not only of the poem but of being in the seventh grade with my friends. 

There will be many things about this Senate that I will 

miss, and certainly one that I will miss is having the opportunity to sit here and to listen to my colleague from West 

Virginia as he speaks. It is a great privilege. It is a great 

thrill. 

I must tell him, however, that there is C–SPAN in 

Cedarville, OH. I suspect the library does get the Congressional Record at Cedarville College and other places, so I will 

have the opportunity to listen to him and read what he has 

to say. He is a great treasure of this Senate. 

I might also tell my colleague, as I told him personally yesterday, that I will carry around with me and keep with me 

and prize the small Constitution that I know is in his pocket 

right now that he gave me. I deeply appreciate that. And I 

know he gave one to the Presiding Officer as well. 

One of the first things I did when I came to the Senate in 

January 1995 was walk across the hall to see Senator Byrd. 

Senator Byrd was kind enough to give me his ‘‘History of the 

Senate.’’ I have cherished that, have read it. That will be 

going back with Frances and myself to Ohio. If I do, I say 

to my colleague from West Virginia, do what I hope to do—

do a little teaching at the college level—I am sure those 

books will certainly come in very handy. 

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I thank my colleague for his friendship and for his great 

service now beginning this January his ninth term in the 

Senate. 

One final note. I will tell my colleague, and I don’t know 

if I have told him this, but my son and my daughter-in-law 

and our new granddaughter now live in West Virginia, so 

they are constituents of my colleague. 

Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, will the distinguished Senator 

yield? 

Mr. DEWINE. I am pleased to yield. 

Mr. BYRD. I thank this friend of West Virginia, this friend 

of mine. I shall always remember as long as I live—however 

long that may be—I shall carry in my heart a very warm 

feeling for him. He is our neighbor. He represents the people 

of Ohio, our neighbor to the west of the West Virginia hills. 

I thank him for his friendship and for his services to his people. His people are my people. I wish him well in the days 

and years ahead wherever he may serve. May God always 

bless you, my friend, and may He always keep you in the 

palm of His hand. 

Mr. DEWINE. I thank my colleague for his very generous 

and kind comments. One final comment to say that it was 

his great leadership, along with the great leadership of Senator McCain and others, which allowed us—group is the 

word I would prefer—a group of 14 Senators to make an 

agreement that I think was in the best interests of the Senate, and it has proved to be in the best interests of the Senate, in regard to our judges and how we confirm them. It has 

worked so far. My wish for you and my other colleagues as 

you go on is that you will continue to keep that agreement 

and it will continue to work. That is my wish. 

Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I thank the able Senator. I shall 

do my best to help fulfill his confidence and wishes. 

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

and recognize the accomplishments of a colleague who will 

be leaving the Senate at the end of this term. Senator MIKE

DEWINE has represented Ohio in the Senate for 12 years. 

During his tenure, he has been an important advocate for 

the interests of the Buckeye State. 

Senator DEWINE will be remembered for his work on the 

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and 

particu1arly his success as chairman of the Subcommittee on 

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Retirement Security and Aging. He was a vital and constructive member of the conference committee on the Pension Protection Act, and he illustrated what can be accomplished 

when you are willing to work across party lines on a common 

goal. 

I have also admired Senator DEWINE’s commitment to our 

Nation’s children and his efforts to stop teen drug and alcohol abuse, as well as crack down on tobacco companies’ marketing of their products to children and teens. With unfailing 

courage, he took on those in his own party and other special 

interests to protect our kids from harmful tobacco products. 

In addition, I believe he has set a good example for all of 

us in the Senate in how to honor those from our States who 

have fallen in service to our Nation. With deep admiration, 

I have listened to Senator DEWINE come to the floor and 

speak about the lives and families of Ohio service men and 

women who have died in Iraq and other fields of battle. It 

is clear that he understands and deeply respects the sacrifices made by our troops and their families. 

Mr. President, for these and many other reasons, I have 

been honored to serve with MIKE DEWINE. I would like to 

join my colleagues in wishing the Senator and his family the 

best in the future and in paying tribute to his contributions 

to the Senate and our Nation. I wish him well. 

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

one of our esteemed colleagues, MIKE DEWINE of Ohio. It has 

been my special joy and privilege to work closely with Senator DEWINE for the last decade. Since 1997, we have led the 

Antitrust Subcommittee, each taking our turns as chairman 

and ranking member. Thanks to MIKE’s honesty, candor, and 

cooperative nature, we have forged a productive bipartisan 

partnership as we have worked to promote competition in 

many vital sectors of our Nation’s economy. 

This productive, bipartisan working relationship has been 

a hallmark of Senator DEWINE’s leadership of the Antitrust 

Subcommittee since he assumed the chairmanship of the 

committee in 1997. From the beginning, he reached out to 

me and established our tradition of setting our agenda jointly, planning our hearings together, and even sponsoring legislation and writing letters to the administration jointly. We 

tackled together such thorny issues as encouraging competition in telecommunications, health care, the oil and gas, and 

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ways agreed on every issue that came before our subcommittee although I am happy to say we agreed more often 

than not—MIKE DEWINE and I always agreed that we should 

put partisanship aside and accomplishing practical results 

for the American people first. 

On a personal note, our close working relationship has 

caused me to come to know MIKE DEWINE very well. I have 

come to learn that MIKE is a sober-minded, hard-working, 

and caring person. In my career, I have been privileged to 

know and work with a few distinguished Members of this 

Chamber whom I can truly call statesmen, leaders, and 

friends. MIKE DEWINE is one of them. He will be missed. 

Mrs. CLINTON. . . . 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 

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

Mr. President, I wish to speak about Senator DEWINE, my 

distinguished colleague from Ohio, a good friend, and a man 

whom I have worked very closely with in our capacity as appropriators. Also, we share a passion for the child welfare 

system in this Nation, trying to improve it—of course, promoting adoption, the notion that there is no such thing as 

unwanted children, just unfound families. 

I could not but come to the floor and say that MIKE

DEWINE is literally one of the most compassionate men I 

have ever known. That compassion is obvious to anyone who 

works closely with him day in and day out. It is not fake. It 

is very real. And the spiritual depths of which he and his 

wife Fran and their children live their faith—not just talk 

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about it, not just use it as a shield to protect them, but as 

a way to serve others—is quite extraordinary. 

This Senator has seen that in him and his work, side by 

side with him. I want my other colleagues to know that if it 

were not for Senator MIKE DEWINE, the District of Columbia 

would not have their family court, the country would not 

have the stable families legislation he and Senator Rockefeller pushed through this Chamber at a time when not that 

many people understood the consequence of a foster care system in disrepair and what happens to children when they 

get stuck in a system that does not appreciate their dignity 

or respect their right to a family. 

Senator DEWINE, a family man himself, most certainly understands that and pushed that legislation through, and dozens of other pieces of legislation that I had the privilege to 

help him with, and to assist him with, and to watch him lead 

on. So I am certainly going to miss his leadership. But I will 

commit to him my focus on Haiti. I will never be able to fill 

his shoes or do the work he has done, but several of us intend to continue his work with Haiti, the poorest nation on 

the Earth, and continue his great passion, as much as we 

can, in our time here in the Senate. . . . 

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. CARPER. Mr. President, before Senator DEWINE

leaves the floor, he was speaking of a loss [Ohio soldiers 

killed in Iraq] that he and his family and others are mourning, I presume in Ohio, where I spent a number of years as 

an undergraduate at Ohio State University. I would associate myself with his remarks in extending our sympathies 

from Delaware. We received some devastating news of our 

own in Delaware a day or two ago with the news that Army 

SGT Keith Fiscus had been killed in action in Iraq at the age 

of 26. Our hearts go out to him. I will be talking more about 

him later. 

There is a loss that we mourn as well, not the loss of a 

life here in the Senate, but the loss of Senator DEWINE who 

will be returning to Ohio and to other challenges in the days 

ahead. Senator DEWINE and I were elected to the House of 

Representatives in 1982. We came here together with people 

such as John McCain, Tom Ridge, John Kasich, Harry Reid, 

Barbara Boxer, Dick Durbin, and John Spratt, a remarkable 

freshman class in the House of Representatives. It was the 

year we elected a lot of Democrats and not nearly as many 

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Republicans. Somehow, then, Congressman DEWINE managed to swim against the tide and to be elected against those 

odds in Ohio. 

He served as a Congressman of distinction, later as the 

State’s Lieutenant Governor where he trained with George 

Voinovich, who served as Governor, and then to be elected 

to the Senate. It was my privilege to serve with him in the 

House of Representatives and it has been a privilege to serve 

with him in the Senate. 

On a personal level, I will miss him. I want to say how 

much it has been a privilege to serve with my friend from 

Ohio, who has a good mind and a good heart, wonderful family, and is deeply devoted to them and the people of Ohio, 

whom we both revere. 

Mr. DEWINE. If the Senator will yield. 

Mr. CARPER. I do. 

Mr. DEWINE. I thank my colleague, who has pointed out 

to my colleagues in the Senate that he and I came here together in the election of 1982 and came to the House in 

1983. We have been dear friends ever since. I will miss working with him. He is someone who I believe exemplifies what 

this institution is all about, and that is getting things done, 

working in a bipartisan way, making a difference. He has 

done that and will continue to do that. 

I wish him well. 

Mr. CARPER. I appreciate very much those words and the 

chance to be a friend of Senator MIKE DEWINE. 

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

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

brief. . . . 

MIKE DEWINE and I served together on the Judiciary Committee. We came together to the Senate at the same time 

and I will certainly miss MIKE’s friendship as well. . . . 

I know we all move on at some time and that none of us 

is irreplaceable. But by the same token, these colleagues 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. REID. Mr. President, I know the hour is late and we 

have other speeches to give, but I wanted to comment briefly 

to my friend from Ohio. Senator DEWINE and I came to the 

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House of Representatives together in 1982. We have careers 

that are similar. He served as Lieutenant Governor for the 

State of Ohio, I served as Lieutenant Governor of the State 

of Nevada. He served as a Member of the House of Representatives. I served as a Member of the House of Representatives. He and I served as Senators. Our backgrounds 

are also the same in that we are trial lawyers. I have heard 

Senator DEWINE speak on a number of occasions about his 

days of being a prosecutor. 

I also want the record to reflect that I approach my brief 

remarks here tonight keeping in mind our days as trial lawyers, where you could go into a courtroom representing your 

client, whether it be the State or an individual, a corporation 

or an individual, and you would give that client your very 

best, as would your opponent. But when that trial was over, 

you shook hands and went on about your business. 

I have also had the same experience as MIKE DEWINE. I 

have lost a statewide election, and I know that is not pleasant. But I want MIKE to know that I admire and respect the 

work he has done. His wife has been so thoughtful and kind 

to my wife. We all witnessed these speeches that he has 

given. Many more people have died in Iraq and Afghanistan 

from Ohio than Nevada because it is such a heavily populated State, and MIKE’s tenacity in directing his attention to 

each of those families is something that will always be remembered here in the Senate. 

MIKE, I want you to know that I want us to have the same 

relationship as you leave the Senate as if we were trying a 

case, and one won the case and one lost. We would walk out 

and shake hands. That is how I feel about you, someone who 

has been with me and I with you for 25 years, as Members 

of Congress and doing other things; we certainly have a relationship. I am happy to call MIKE DEWINE my friend. 

Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, from time to time over 

the last 12 years, new Senators have come up to me as they 

have come to the body and asked the question: How do you 

do this job? And I usually have responded: Well, what do you 

want to be? Do you want to run for President? Do you want 

to be on the Sunday shows? Do you want to pass legislation? 

A surprising number of them have said they came here to 

pass legislation, important legislation for America that 

would make a difference. To every single one who said that, 

I said: Watch MIKE DEWINE. Go study MIKE DEWINE. The 

most prodigious, the most effective, the most extraordinary 

legislator in my time here in the Senate. Quiet, effective, a 

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consensus builder. You see by those who are on the floor 

here tonight that he has friends on both sides of the aisle 

whom he has worked with, cultivated, and built the kind of 

relationships that make a Senator effective. 

So I would say to my good friend, the senior Senator from 

Ohio, he is a Senator’s Senator, the perfect Senator, the master of the art of making a difference. Farewell. 

Mr. President, I yield the floor. 

Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I join in the chorus of praise 

and thanks to my friend—and I mean that; the word is 

thrown around here—MIKE DEWINE. We came to this job together. My very first memory of MIKE and Fran DEWINE was 

when we were both wearing tuxedos and Fran and Loretta 

were in evening gowns, and we were at our first dinner at 

the White House with President Ronald Reagan as Congressmen-elect. The year was 1982. My wife brought her little 

handbag, and Fran brought even more to that White House 

dinner, that formal dinner that evening. She brought a basket and in that basket was her brand-new baby who came 

with her to the White House dinner. It was the first time I 

ever met MIKE and Fran. I still have vivid memories of that 

moment. I think it was a little daughter in the basket, if I 

am not mistaken, who might be up there. She was on her 

best behavior then, as she is now. 

Another memory I have is when MIKE DEWINE asked me 

to join him on a trip to Haiti. I saw a side of my colleague 

from the Senate which many of us have not seen. Fran came 

along on the trip with bags full of sporting equipment and 

toys and clothes and food, everything they could jam into 

this small airplane to bring over to give to some of the poorest kids in the world. We went to the Cite ́ du Soleil, the 

poorest section of Port-au-Prince. If you haven’t seen that 

poverty, you haven’t seen poverty. It is as bad as it gets. We 

worked our way back to a little cinderblock school, the Becky 

DeWine School, named after MIKE and Fran’s late daughter. 

I watched MIKE as he walked through that school and sat 

down with these little kids, and each one of them poured out 

to him the love and respect and thanks for all that he had 

done to provide this basic little school for them. 

That wasn’t the end of the day, for sure. We were then off 

to an orphanage where we were trying to help a nun, if I am 

not mistaken, with a building full of squalling babies, trying 

to get a little help so she could take care of them. Then he 

took me on a famous road trip where he wanted to show me 

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ings in my teeth, it was such a wonderful road, and we had 

one of these glorious CODELs that you read about, bouncing 

around in a vehicle to go out and visit people who are at the 

lowest ranks of poverty in the world, with babies with red 

hair from their anemia and malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies. That is where MIKE and Fran DEWINE spent their 

time away from the Senate. They left a lasting impression 

and a legacy there. I am happy we are going to try to continue that legacy even tonight, I hope, or tomorrow as we 

bring this session to an adjournment. 

Time and again, when I was up trying to find a vote, desperately trying to find a vote for global AIDS, for many other 

causes, I would look across the aisle and hope MIKE DEWINE

was sitting right where he is sitting now, because I knew if 

I could get over there, I had a chance. Every time I would 

sit down with him, MIKE would say: This is going to be 

tough. He used to always like to say: I am going to have to 

pray on this, which meant it was going to have to be a pretty 

tough political sell for him and for his colleagues. He never 

let me down. More important, he never let down some of the 

poorest people on Earth. He came through every single time. 

MIKE, you have got the heart of gold that we all dream 

about. I have lost a few elections in my time. It is a sad moment. But as you reflect on your public career and how much 

good you have done for so many people, your name and your 

legacy will live on. I am honored to count you as a friend. 

Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, my heart is full as I 

think of MIKE DEWINE and his service here in the Senate. 

I didn’t know MIKE when I first came here. I didn’t know 

anything about his visits, I think 13 or 14, to Haiti, his concern for the poor. He seems to have always been motivated 

by a moral compass which never wavered from those who 

needed him, and who weren’t getting help from others. It is 

ironic in the best sense that he and I have cooperated on so 

many pieces of legislation that had to do with children and 

families and adoption and all kinds of things. It is ironic because in a sense he followed the father, Mr. President, of our 

Presiding Officer, in that role. You go to MIKE’s office, MIKE

would come to this Senator’s office, legislation would appear, 

it would pass—and almost invariably get very little attention. That was not the purpose or the interest of the Senator 

from Ohio. He wanted to do good. 

I think of his interest in children and I think that is a 

moral compass. If you have that in life and you are not going 

to let go of that in life, then that fixes you, as the Senator 

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from Illinois indicated, in the legacy of the Senate. I also 

think that his interest in Haiti says more about him than 

words can possibly measure. What drives a man and his wife 

to go to that country where most of us have never been? 

Most of us have the image of it that the Senator from Illinois 

described but know not of it directly by experience. Vacations, free times, are valuable to Senators and their families. 

Yet the Senator from Ohio took his time and went to Haiti, 

year after year, and fought for their problems and said not 

a word to anybody. I found out about it not from the Senator 

from Ohio but from somebody completely different. I found 

out more about it and then deepened my knowledge and my 

respect for the Senator from Ohio. 

Finally, I want to say I have the privilege of serving with 

him on the Intelligence Committee. The Intelligence Committee is serious business. The Senator from Ohio rose to the 

peaks of discretion and determination, simply trying to find 

the truth. He wasn’t out to get anybody, to punish anybody, 

to embarrass anybody. He wanted to get the facts and then 

from that make his decisions through his votes. 

National security on the one hand, children and all of their 

problems—not just education but children with all of the 

most complex problems of what happens when you get to be 

18 and you have 3 years to get to be 21. The father of the 

Presiding Officer and I worked on that. Virtually every problem that can afflict children, unattended by most politicians, 

was taken to heart by the Senator from Ohio who had the 

advantage of many years of being a prosecutor. 

I look upon the Senator from Ohio as absolutely extraordinary, as the majority leader indicated. He is an extraordinary Senator, an extraordinarily fine person, a friend in 

whom I could put complete and absolute trust, who only was 

here to do his work for the people and causes he cared 

about—most of all Ohio but then special groups probably unknown except to his conscience. 

I wish you well, sir. 

I yield the floor. 

Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I want to say something about my departing colleagues on the other side of the 

aisle. . . . 

And the departing Senator from Ohio, Senator DEWINE, 

said some very kind things about his work with me. I, too, 

want to comment that working with the Senator when moving important legislation in the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions was an outstanding opportunity, 

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again, of bipartisanship. MIKE DEWINE and Barbara Mikulski passed the Older Americans Act twice when it previously 

had not passed or been reauthorized in 5 years. We did work 

so constructively with the Committee on Finance in terms of 

the recent pension bill. 

Again, we worked on many projects related to national security together. 

I thank Senator DEWINE not only for his kind words but, 

again, his ongoing efforts, always with the tone of utmost 

collegiality when he worked with me, and his staff. . . . 

A lot is said about changing the tone, but when we hit the 

right tone we also hit some pretty high notes. I thank my 

colleagues and wish them well and Godspeed until we meet 

again. 

Mr. DODD. . . . 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. . . . 

I also want to say farewell to Senator MIKE DEWINE. Senator DEWINE, a former prosecutor, has had a distinguished 

career in Ohio politics. He represented his district for four 

terms in the House of Representatives, and he served as 

Ohio’s Lieutenant Governor for 4 years, beginning in 1991. 

MIKE DEWINE was elected to the Senate as part of the famous Republican class of 1994 and served for a total of 12 

years. I have had few more valuable partners on the other 

side of the aisle. 

Senator DEWINE and I have been strong opponents of underage drinking, a social malady that, in the last year for 

which we have data, led directly to 3,500 deaths, 2 million 

injuries, and 1,200 babies born with fetal alcohol syndrome, 

not to mention $53 billion in social costs. The STOP Underage Drinking Act, which I cosponsored with Senator 

DEWINE, would fund a comprehensive Federal campaign of 

research, prevention grants, and media messages aimed to 

keep children and young adults alcohol-free. I am proud to 

stand with Senator DEWINE on such a critically important 

issue. 

And I am just as proud to have his support on a whole 

slew of health initiatives, especially for infants and children. 

Because States’ variable screening standards leave many 

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newborns at risk for treatable disorders, we have worked together to standardize screening across the Nation so that all 

newborns have an equal promise of health, no matter where 

they are born. Senator DEWINE and I have also worked together for safer pediatric medical devices. But above all, Senator DEWINE worked with me to secure passage of the Best 

Pharmaceuticals for Children Act. That legislation provides 

incentives for the drug industry that have dramatically increased the number of drugs tested and labeled for children; 

as a result, more than 100 drug labels have been changed to 

incorporate new pediatric information. 

It has been a pleasure to serve and work with Senator 

DEWINE. I have always admired his ability to put principle 

before party, and I am thankful for all of his help, and most 

importantly, for his friendship. I wish him and his wife 

Frances much happiness in the future. 

Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, as this session draws to a 

close, I must take this opportunity to make a few comments 

on the outstanding record left behind by our colleague from 

Ohio, Senator MIKE DEWINE. 

I have worked closely with Senator DEWINE ever since he 

came to the Senate. I sit with him on three committees: the 

Select Committee on Intelligence; the Judiciary Committee, 

where he chaired the Antitrust Subcommittee; and on the 

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, where 

he chairs the Retirement Security and Aging Subcommittee. 

I consider MIKE to be a Senator’s Senator—he is a man 

who truly represents his constituents, who studies the 

issues, works hard, and does his very, very best to do what 

is right. His departure from the Senate is a great loss to this 

body and a great loss to Ohio. 

The DeWine legacy is considerable. 

One of the major focuses of his work, which I admire 

greatly, is the protection of children. Senator DEWINE has 

sponsored numerous pieces of legislation aimed at protecting 

children and enabling prosecution of those who perpetrate 

acts against children. These include the Protecting Children 

Against Crime Act of 2003, which became law as part of the 

PROTECT Act, the National Child Protection Amendments 

Act of 2000, the Child Abuse Prevention and Enforcement 

Act of 1999, and the Protection Against Sexual Predators Act 

of 1998. It is significant to note that Senator DEWINE is a 

founding member and cochair of the Senate Caucus on Missing, Exploited and Runaway Children. 

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The Senator’s work to protect children extends beyond 

legal issues. He is the author and true leader in the Senate 

of legislation to protect children from the horrors of tobacco 

abuse by giving the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate it. He has also taken a leadership role in 

efforts to stop underage teen drinking by sponsoring the 

Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act. The 

STOP Act has a good chance of becoming law this year. 

But the centerpiece of MIKE DEWINE’s prochild agenda is 

his work to incentivize pharmaceutical company testing of 

drugs used on children. MIKE DEWINE showed this whole 

body the safety risks children face when they take prescription medications never studied in the pediatric population. I 

can just hear MIKE saying now, ‘‘Children are not little 

adults.’’ And he is right. 

He worked across the aisle and across the Capitol to get 

the Pediatric Research Equity Act of 2003 enacted. This was 

no easy task. It took grit and determination. He fought big 

PhRMA. He did it for the kids. And he won. I am only sorry 

he will not be here next year as we work to reauthorize it. 

In his years as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator DEWINE emerged as a leader in the area of 

antitrust law and competition policy. Both as the chairman 

and the ranking Republican member of the Antitrust Subcommittee, MIKE has played an invaluable role in each significant legislative change to the antitrust laws enacted in 

the past decade. 

In addition to his legislative achievements in antitrust 

law, Senator DEWINE has become known for the subcommittee’s active oversight of the antitrust enforcement activities 

of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. 

During the subcommittee’s consideration of numerous individual mergers, his thoughtful analysis and even-handed approach earned him considerable respect in the antitrust community as a tough, but eminently fair, advocate of both consumer interests and strong competition. 

Earlier this year at the American Antitrust Institute’s annual conference, where he and Senator Kohl received an 

achievement award for their many contributions to antitrust 

law, Senator DEWINE commented that: 

It’s always difficult to find that fine line between aggressive, healthy competition and destructive or anticompetitive behavior, but it’s our job on the 

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From my perspective, Senator DEWINE not only tried but 

succeeded admirably in drawing this very difficult line in a 

careful and appropriately balanced way. His expertise, institutional knowledge, and thoughtful analysis will be sorely 

missed. 

Also of note in discussing Senator DEWINE’s work on the 

Judiciary Committee are his anticrime efforts. MIKE has 

been a real leader on issues such as the 1998 law, the Crime 

Identification Technology Act, which increased funding for 

State and local law enforcement by $1.25 billion. His work 

in anticrime technology continued in 2004, when the Senate 

adopted his amendment to the intelligence reform bill that 

would upgrade the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s computer networks. That bill was signed into law on December 

17, 2004. 

MIKE has either sponsored or cosponsored a number of 

bills to help law enforcement protect Ohio communities, including the local law enforcement block grant program, the 

Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act, the Rape Kits and 

DNA Evidence Backlog Elimination Act of 2003, and the 

Video Voyeurism Prevention Act of 2004. 

MIKE DEWINE’s work to protect Ohioans extended into the 

compelling field of mental illness treatment as well. In fact, 

Senator DEWINE is known throughout the country for his 

work related to the treatment of mental health in the criminal justice system, including bills such as the Mentally Ill 

Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act and America’s 

Law Enforcement and Mental Health Project. 

Another DEWINE contribution is the Poison Control Center 

Enhancement and Awareness Act, a significant contribution 

to public health which established a national toll-free poison 

control hotline and provided substantial assistance to local 

poison control centers. 

Finally and more recently, Senator DEWINE authored a 

bill to protect children’s eyes by restricting their access to potentially damaging cosmetic contact lenses. 

Our new leader, Senator McConnell, said this of Senator 

DEWINE, and I could not have said it better: 

I have never observed a more skillful legislator than he during my time 

in the Senate . . . You know he is a formidable force who, when he has made 

up his mind about an issue, never lets go. Many bills that have cleared the 

Senate in the ten years the Senator from Ohio has been here have the fingerprints of MIKE DEWINE. He is truly an extraordinary legislator. 

I echo those sentiments. 

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MIKE DEWINE has been an outstanding Member of our 

body, a good friend to me, and a superb representative for 

his constituents. He and his staff work hard and their work 

has yielded incredible benefits for the American people. It is 

with great pride that I commend his achievements to this 

body, and I thank MIKE for all he has done to make the U.S. 

Senate a more effective and accomplished body. I will miss 

him, as a legislator, as a colleague, and as a friend. . . . 

Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I would like to take a moment 

to pay tribute to our colleague from Ohio, Senator MIKE

DEWINE. Senator DEWINE is a truly decent, thoughtful individual with a deep concern for children and a refreshing willingness to reach across the aisle. He has been a solid partner 

on several of the issues common to our two States and the 

region. 

In particular, it has been a pleasure to work with Senator 

DEWINE on issues affecting the Great Lakes, which are critical for our States’ economies and for our environment. Since 

1999, he and I have served as cochairs of the Great Lakes 

Task Force and have shared a commitment to protecting and 

restoring these national treasures. We have fought to protect 

the lakes from invasive species, to improve water quality, to 

create a long-term restoration plan, and to expand public access to the lakes. 

Senator DEWINE’s service here has also been characterized 

by his commitment to children and children’s health, and he 

has been willing to work in a bipartisan way to make 

progress. He has worked with Senators Dodd and Jack Reed 

to prevent teen suicides and with Senator Clinton to ensure 

that drugs given to children are safe for them. He has sponsored a bill with Senator Kennedy to allow the Food and 

Drug Administration to regulate tobacco. As the chair of the 

District of Columbia Appropriations Subcommittee, he has 

also worked to reform the child welfare system in DC. 

In addition to his bipartisan approach, Senator DEWINE

has also shown a willingness to take politically difficult positions when he believes they are the right thing to do. Last 

year, for example, he joined a bipartisan group of 14 senators who worked to forge a compromise on judicial nominations and to save the Senate from the so-called nuclear option. That step helped to diffuse a tense situation and to protect the Senate as an institution. 

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over partisanship. I wish him and his wife Fran well in their 

future endeavors. 

Mr. ENZI. . . . As each congressional session draws to a 

close, we work as hard as we can to try to tie up all the loose 

ends and finish as much of the pending legislation as we possibly can. As we do, we also take a moment to say goodbye 

to some of our colleagues who won’t be with us during the 

next Congress to share with us their insights, wisdom and 

creativity. 

As the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, I know I will miss MIKE DEWINE

when the committee meets to begin its schedule of activities 

next year. MIKE has always been a particularly hard-working member of the committee and I know my colleagues on 

the committee and I will miss his perspective and his tireless 

commitment and his dedication to the issues affecting children and families. 

Working with MIKE has been a pleasure. We have a great 

deal in common—beginning with our mutual enjoyment of 

the old-fashioned ice cream social back home. It is a tradition for both of our families and our political lives because 

it is a great way to get everyone together to talk about current events while enjoying everyone’s favorite dessert. 

No one ever said that politics was an easy career to follow 

and, true to form, MIKE has had a number of hurdles placed 

before him that took some doing for him to overcome. 

He began his career of public service as a county prosecutor. He took a tough stand against crime and people noticed. Then he was elected to the Ohio Senate. That led to 

a run for a seat in the Congress. He faced a tough primary 

fight, but wound up at the top of a field of six candidates. 

Then, when the general election was held, he was elected to 

serve the people of his district in the House of Representatives. 

In the years to follow, MIKE had some more tough battles. 

He didn’t always win, but he never quit. That spirit of dedication and commitment of his helped him to win a seat in 

the Senate, representing the people of Ohio he had been 

fighting for over the years. His election gave MIKE a new 

forum from which to promote his principles, and he soon 

proved himself to be a champion for children and family values. As bill after bill came to the Senate floor for our consideration, MIKE always gave it a close look to see if there was 

something that needed to be added to increase the protections available to our Nation’s children. 

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MIKE understands well that our children are our most important resource. If we don’t help our Nation’s families do a 

good job of raising their children, nothing else we do, no matter how well we do it, will matter much in the long run. 

Some people might be surprised to learn how well MIKE

has used his time to work with Members on both sides of the 

aisle. To MIKE it was just common sense. You never know 

how long you will be a Member of the Senate, he would say, 

so it makes sense to use your time wisely. 

As the chairman of the Senate HELP Committee I can attest to the fact that he has used his time wisely. He has been 

a great addition to the committee because he is an expert on 

children’s issues and issues affecting older Americans. I have 

watched him carefully work on a number of bills dealing 

with a wide variety of topics. He always comes to our meetings well prepared, fully focused, and committed to making 

a difference for the people of Ohio and the rest of the Nation. 

MIKE is very much a people person, and he and his wife 

Fran have made regular trips to Haiti to work with the poorest of the poor. I have often heard it said that God must love 

the poor because he made so many of them. Fortunately, God 

also made people like MIKE DEWINE to plead their case for 

them in Washington and work with them around the world 

in an effort to make their lives better. 

The ice cream social I mentioned earlier has become an 

annual tradition and Fran and the friends she recruits are 

now famous for their hospitality as they put on what must 

be the world’s biggest pie and ice cream social. 

That is just part of the full schedule MIKE and his family 

maintain every year here, in Ohio and around the world taking on the causes he and Fran hold dear. If you want to 

know what kind of a year MIKE has had, take a look at his 

Christmas card. If you do, you will see an amazing collage 

of pictures of his family and all that has taken place in their 

lives over the past 12 months. It serves to emphasize his 

great belief in the importance of family and family activities. 

It is a value Diana and I and so many of our colleagues 

share. 

In the years to come, whenever I think of MIKE DEWINE, 

I know I will think of those Christmas cards, which I hope 

to be still receiving, and of the smiles and happiness reflected on each face in the pictures on that card. They tell 

me that MIKE and Fran DEWINE have learned one of life’s 

most important lessons. Fame and fortune are all too often 

fleeting and evasive things in life. In the end, and every day, 

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the most important part of our lives has to do with the 

strength of our faith, the bonds that tie our families together, and the friendships we develop along the way that 

help us to fully appreciate and enjoy all that life has to offer. 

MIKE DEWINE is truly blessed to have a family which has 

shown themselves to be role models on all three of those special values. I know I will miss him, but, I also know I won’t 

forget him and Fran. . . . 

Ms. SNOWE. . . . Mr. President, I rise today to express my 

gratitude to Senator MIKE DEWINE, whose desire to do good 

has remained his abiding purpose and life-long contribution 

to the people of Ohio, the U.S. Senate, and his country. The 

moniker of ‘‘bodyguard of the poor’’—which he has been 

dubbed by many in his State—speaks volumes about Senator 

DEWINE’s tireless dedication to enriching and helping others 

and about his earnest efforts to defend the defenseless and 

protect those in need. 

With a career in public service spanning more than 30 

years, Senator MIKE DEWINE has more than earned his reputation as hard-working, honest, compassionate, and resultsoriented. I first got to know MIKE when he entered the 

House of Representatives the same year as my husband 

Jock. I am proud to say we served together in both the U.S. 

House and Senate. In the 99th and 101st Congresses, we 

both served on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. And 

in the U.S. Senate, we were colleagues on the Select Committee on Intelligence, where issues of national security and 

safety have been more paramount than ever. America is 

most fortunate to have had his thoughtful, considered approach on that committee and on so many other issues. Jock 

and I have treasured our long-standing friendship with MIKE

and Fran DEWINE, and we have enormous respect for MIKE’s 

passion and depth of commitment. 

Indeed, he is a serious and deliberative legislative craftsman who sought to effectively represent his State and reach 

across the aisle in the true spirit of the institution. At no 

point in time was this more evident than during last year’s 

debate over judicial nominations when MIKE—a dedicated 

member of the Senate Judiciary Committee—joined with me 

and a dozen of our colleagues to form the Gang of 14. His 

courage and leadership helped broker a compromise that 

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ate—for he was always a reminder of the finest ideals of 

public service. 

Indeed, MIKE DEWINE has represented well the principles 

and pride of America’s heartland. As the son of parents who 

ran a small agricultural business, he learned the value of 

diligence and perseverance working in the fields and in the 

mill. 

He has exemplified that unwavering commitment throughout his career in public service, whether as a prosecutor, 

U.S. Representative, Governor, or U.S. Senator and whether 

advocating for children, promoting humanitarian relief, aiding law enforcement, protecting our natural resources, spurring job growth, increasing national security through intelligence improvements, or working to secure balanced budgets. And he has led many of these efforts through his active 

and thorough committee work on Appropriations; Judiciary; 

Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; and Intelligence. 

Above all else, I believe MIKE DEWINE’s essential sense of 

humanity, and the personal compass that guided him in all 

he did in the Senate, was exemplified by his final minutes 

on the Senate floor—which he devoted to speaking of the soldiers of Ohio who had fallen in service to our Nation in Iraq. 

That Senator DEWINE sought assurance he would have this 

opportunity to honor the troops before the end of the session 

is a testament to the compassionate heart of an exceptional 

man. 

For all of his dedicated service to the people of Ohio and 

to this country, undoubtedly, MIKE DEWINE’s most cherished 

achievement is his marriage of 39 years to his wife Fran, 

their 8 children, and 10 grandchildren. I wish them—and 

MIKE DEWINE—all the best. . . . 

Mr. BUNNING. Mr. President, I would like to pay tribute 

to the Republican Members of the Senate who will not be returning in the 110th Congress. Senators George Allen; 

Conrad Burns; Lincoln Chafee; MIKE DEWINE; Dr. Bill Frist; 

Rick Santorum; and Jim Talent have served their constituents with honor and distinction during their tenure here in 

the U.S. Senate. All care very deeply for this great Nation 

and I hope they will have continued success in their future 

endeavors. . . . 

Majority leader Bill Frist has run the Senate through difficult and trying times and he has done it well. Senator 

MIKE DEWINE, my neighbor to the north, has represented 

the Buckeye State with great distinction and has committed 

over 30 years of his life to public service. Senator George 

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Allen represented the Commonwealth of Virginia in the U.S. 

Senate for 6 years, and he worked closely with me to make 

America safer by helping usher through important legislation to arm cargo pilots. Senator Jim Talent has had a great 

career in Congress and wrote the blueprint to the welfare reform bill of 1996. And Senator Lincoln Chafee has continued 

the proud legacy set forth by his father and my friend, Senator John Chafee. 

Mr. President, I would like to again commend all of our departing Republican Senators. I am proud of what they accomplished here in the U.S. Senate. They will all be missed, 

and I wish all of them the very best. 

Mrs. HUTCHISON. . . . Mr. President, MIKE DEWINE has 

spent more than three decades in service to his State and 

the Nation. 

Senator DEWINE has maintained a reputation of integrity 

throughout his service as a State senator, Lieutenant Governor, four-term Congressman, and U.S. Senator. He has 

built a record of service on making our Nation and the world 

a better place for future generations. 

A father of 8 and grandfather of 10, Senator DEWINE is a 

devoted family man. 

He is a champion of children’s causes, always focusing on 

protecting their welfare and safety. 

Senator DEWINE has often reached across party lines to 

vote with his heart for issues in which he believes. 

His hard work and devotion will be missed by the people of Ohio, whom I know are grateful for his years of service. . . . 

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 will always remember 

Senator MIKE DEWINE for his commitment to his family. 

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MIKE pursued his own conscience until the end of his tenure 

in this Chamber. That conscience led MIKE DEWINE to be a 

staunch defender for the people of Haiti. 

In a time of constant conversation about the importance of 

family values and community standards, MIKE has led by example. As a member of a large family, the father of 8, and 

grandfather of 10, I admire MIKE’s ability to balance the 

needs of his family with the demands of his position in the 

Senate. 

The senior Senator from Ohio has also devoted much of his 

time and energy to causes often overlooked. Senator 

DEWINE’s tireless work for the people of Haiti demonstrated 

his commitment. I believe his commitment to those who need 

a defender and protector should be commended. . . . 

MONDAY, January 8, 2007 

Mrs. DOLE. Mr. President, it is an honor indeed to pay 

tribute to a number of fine individuals who I am fortunate 

to call not just my colleagues, but also dear friends: Senators 

Bill Frist, George Allen, Conrad Burns, Lincoln Chafee, 

MIKE DEWINE, Rick Santorum and Jim Talent. . . . 

Among the Senate’s most effective legislators, Senator 

MIKE DEWINE of Ohio will use his many talents and expertise to tackle new endeavors. MIKE’s career is truly an American success story. As a boy, he learned the values of hard 

work and perseverance in the fields and the mill of his family’s small agricultural business in Yellow Springs, OH. It is 

those principles that have guided him throughout a stellar 

career in public service, in which he has served as prosecutor, an Ohio State senator, a Member of the U.S. House 

of Representatives, and a Lieutenant Governor. 

As a Senator, MIKE made his mark in a number of policy 

areas. He was a strong proponent of education and children’s 

health care. In particular, he advocated for children’s hospitals because he understands that these hospitals are important centers for pediatric research. 

During more than a decade of service on the Senate Intelligence Committee, MIKE worked doggedly to investigate intelligence failures and revamp our intelligence community. 

As the chairman of the Retirement Security and Aging Subcommittee of the HELP Committee, he focused his efforts on 

modernizing our Nation’s pension system. And as the first 

Ohio Senator in six decades to serve on the Appropriations 

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Committee, MIKE was committed to ensuring that our Nation’s first responders have the resources they need. On the 

Judiciary Committee, MIKE took the lead on a number of 

antiterror and anticrime initiatives, such as the PATRIOT 

Act, as well as proposals to curb drunk driving, to help keep 

all Americans safe. 

Perhaps what I admire most about MIKE is that this terrific father of 8, and grandfather of 10, always puts his family first. As a public servant, MIKE has used his positions to 

contribute to the greater good, and he has brilliantly served 

the people of Ohio throughout his career. May God bless 

MIKE DEWINE, his wife Fran, and their family for many, 

many years to come. . . . 

As these men—Bill Frist, George Allen, Conrad Burns, 

Lincoln Chafee, MIKE DEWINE, Rick Santorum and Jim Talent—conclude their service in the U.S. Senate, let me say 

that I am so proud to have worked with individuals of such 

character, strength, and intellect. Our Nation is grateful for 

their many contributions. And as they each will undoubtedly 

continue to contribute to our country’s greatness, their leadership and vision will be missed here in the U.S. Senate. 

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