TRIBUTES TO HON. JUDD GREGG 

Judd Gregg 

U.S. SENATOR FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE 

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Tributes 

Delivered in Congress 

Judd Gregg 

United States Congressman 

1981–1989 

United States Senator 

1993–2011 

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CONTENTS 

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

Farewell to the Senate ............................................................................. vii 

Proceedings in the Senate: 

Tributes by Senators: 

Alexander, Lamar, of Tennessee ............................................... 3, 19 

Bunning, Jim, of Kentucky ....................................................... 30 

Cochran, Thad, of Mississippi ................................................... 33 

Collins, Susan M., of Maine ...................................................... 17 

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

Corker, Bob, of Tennessee ......................................................... 20 

Cornyn, John, of Texas .............................................................. 28 

Dodd, Christopher J., of Connecticut ....................................... 24 

Durbin, Richard, of Illinois ........................................................ 22, 24 

Enzi, Michael B., of Wyoming ................................................... 11 

Harkin, Tom, of Iowa ................................................................. 5 

Hatch, Orrin G., of Utah ........................................................... 29 

Hutchison, Kay Bailey, of Texas ............................................... 33 

Levin, Carl, of Michigan ............................................................ 23 

McConnell, Mitch, of Kentucky ................................................. 7 

Murkowski, Lisa, of Alaska ....................................................... 34 

Reed, Jack, of Rhode Island ...................................................... 6 

Reid, Harry, of Nevada .............................................................. 4 

Shaheen, Jeanne, of New Hampshire ...................................... 15 

Snowe, Olympia J., of Maine .................................................... 31 

Thune, John, of South Dakota .................................................. 21 

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BIOGRAPHY 

A leading voice for fiscal discipline, U.S. Senator JUDD

GREGG served three terms in the Senate and was the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. When reelected in 2004, Senator GREGG received the highest number 

of votes in New Hampshire history. He also served the Granite State as Governor (1989–1993) and U.S. Representative 

(1981–1989). 

Senator GREGG is a national leader on fiscal policy, a wellknown budget expert, and a respected voice on health care, 

economic, and financial regulatory issues. His commonsense 

New Hampshire values have shaped some of the most significant legislation that Congress has passed in recent decades. Senator GREGG played a major role in rescuing our 

country from the brink of economic collapse as a chief negotiator of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. 

He also was the lead sponsor of the Deficit Reduction Act of 

2005 and, along with the late Senator Ted Kennedy, coauthored the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. 

Working across the aisle, Senator GREGG was a key decisionmaker on several important issues. He championed bipartisan efforts to address the Nation’s looming entitlement 

crisis, improve our health care system, and revamp our complex and inequitable tax system. In March 2010, Senator 

GREGG also was appointed to President Obama’s National 

Commission on Fiscal Responsibility. This bipartisan commission, which is modeled after legislation first introduced 

by Senator GREGG and Senator Kent Conrad, is responsible 

for developing recommendations that will help balance the 

budget and achieve fiscal sustainability over the long term. 

As a member of the Senate Banking Committee, Senator 

GREGG served as one of the principal negotiators working to 

modernize our Nation’s financial regulatory system. His expertise on banking issues and derivatives reform positioned 

him as a pivotal voice in the debate on regulatory reform. 

Senator GREGG remains focused on maintaining our Nation’s 

position as the best destination for capital and investment, 

as well as helping job creators and families obtain affordable 

credit during these challenging economic times. 

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In New Hampshire, Senator GREGG is known as one of the 

State’s greatest champions of land conservation, as he continues to build on a 30-year commitment to protect the 

State’s environment. To date, his efforts have helped preserve more than 337,000 acres of sensitive land. As the 

former chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, 

and Pensions (HELP) Committee, he was also a major force 

for promoting excellence in the higher education community 

in New Hampshire, especially at the University of New 

Hampshire. 

A New Hampshire native, Senator GREGG attended Columbia University (A.B. 1969), received his J.D. in 1972 from 

Boston University Law School and his LL.M. in tax law in 

1975. He is married to Kathleen MacLellan Gregg. They 

have two daughters, one son, and one granddaughter. Senator and Mrs. Gregg are residents of Rye Beach, NH. 

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Farewell to the Senate 

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I rise today on behalf of myself and my wife Kathy to thank the people of New Hampshire for giving us the great honor and privilege to represent 

them. 

This is an extraordinary body, the Senate. It is filled with 

wonderful people. I look around this room and I see a lot of 

them, friends, people I have had the chance to work with. I 

admire them immensely. I thank them for their friendship. 

When people ask me about leaving the Senate, and what is 

the thing I am going to miss the most, I always say, it is the 

people, the people of the Senate, because they are special, 

dedicated to making this country a better place, dedicated to 

doing their jobs well, dedicated to serving America. 

So I thank you for the great honor and privilege that you 

have given Kathy and me to allow us to serve and participate in this body with yourselves and your spouses. I want 

to thank everybody else who has been so helpful throughout 

our career, the folks here at the dais, the staff, people in the 

Cloakroom, throughout this building. I mean, there are so 

many people who make this Senate work, people working in 

the furniture room, and people working in the hallways, and 

our staffs, obviously. 

This is a special place filled with people who are committed to making the Senate work. I thank them for allowing 

Kathy and me to be part of that. I want to take a point of 

personal privilege here and especially thank my wife Kathy 

who is here today. You are not allowed to acknowledge people, I know that, but I am going to violate the rules. My wife 

is sitting right up there. Kathy. 

We have been married 37 years, and for 32 of those years 

we have held elective office; nine major campaigns, innumerable campaigns such as those for other people that we have 

participated in. Through this whole intensity—and we all 

know, who have participated in this process, the intensity of 

the elective process in this Nation—there has been a rock 

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dinary children, Molly, Sarah, and Joshua, who have been 

exceptional in their own right and have done exceptional 

things, even though they are still young by our standards. 

Some of them think they are aging a little bit, but they are 

still young. 

Their value system and their belief in this Nation and 

their willingness to give of themselves to other people is a 

direct expression of the values Kathy has given them; sometimes a little overcompetitive on occasion, but that has been 

one of her strengths also. We have been through some hard 

times and some good times, and always she has been there 

to basically be our lighthouse. So I express my love and 

thanks to her. 

As an aside, I should say, Kathy told me I should not walk 

back and forth like this. I have been doing it for 18 years. 

And she says it makes people sick who are watching it on 

television. Like the famous time she called up, and we were 

having a colloquy, and there were a bunch of us talking and 

I am talking to, I think, Johnny Isakson. She calls the floor 

staff and says, ‘‘Go out and tell him to turn around and face 

the cameras.’’ 

Bismarck, at the turn of the 20th century—of course, Bismarck was one of the true great forces in Europe throughout 

the late 1800s and into the 1900s—said that, ‘‘the defining 

fact of the 19th century was that England and the United 

States spoke the same language.’’ 

What I think he meant was that the defining fact of the 

19th century was that England and the United States had 

a value system which believed in the individual, in liberty, 

democracy, and markets. It was a value system that grew 

out of the Scottish Enlightenment, people such as John 

Locke, Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith. 

In the 20th century, if you look at it, it was a test of that 

value system against the other value systems which had 

come up over the years, mostly totalitarianism. There was a 

test of democracy against fascism, a test of democracy 

against totalitarian socialism. And we won. We won that 

test. 

The second big challenge of the 20th century was a test of 

how you would create prosperity for people, a test of markets 

versus communism, of markets versus, again, totalitarian socialism. By the end of the 20th century, there was no longer 

an issue. The American philosophy of government had come 

to dominate the world—democracy, individual liberty, and 

markets. The whole world was moving in that direction. Now 

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we are 10 years into the next century, and we are challenged 

again. This time the challenge is different: Substantive, significant. Maybe not at the same level that the Soviet Union 

represented a challenge, because they had the capacity to destroy us, maybe not even at the same level of fights against 

Japan, fascist Japan and fascist Germany. But the challenges are huge and they will determine our future as a 

country. 

They basically, in my opinion, break into two primary 

areas: The first is, of course, the threat of a terrorist group 

using a weapon of mass destruction against us. We must acknowledge that 9/11 fundamentally changed our culture, 

changed our personality as a nation, and caused us to realize 

our vulnerability. That threat of terrorism is driven by a fanatical belief in a religious philosophy. We should not deny 

that. We should acknowledge that. Because in order to defeat 

that threat we have to understand that. 

The second major thrust that I see as our concern as we 

go forward is clearly of our own making. It is a positive making, but it is still an issue for us, and that is we have a nation which has always been extraordinarily prosperous, 

where one generation has always passed on to the next generation a better, more prosperous, and more secure country. 

Yet today we are on the cusp of not being able to do that 

again, because we have this population, of which I am a 

member, called the baby boom generation, which is taking 

our retired population from 35 million to 70 million people. 

As a result, we and the rest of the world, and in Japan for 

that matter, because of this demographic shift, find ourselves 

confronted with governments which are struggling to figure 

out how they are going to pay for our entitlement society. 

The way I have sort of phrased it is that when a populist 

government, a government that moves by election of the people—when a populist government meets a massive demographic shift in an entitlement society, you get unsustainable 

debt. That is something we confront right now and need to 

stand up to. 

Those two streams are our biggest concerns, or at least my 

biggest concerns as I leave the Senate. How do we defend 

ourselves against a fanatical movement, which has an asymmetry base, which wants to do us harm—they are not a nation state, we cannot find them easily—but wants to do us 

harm and will do us harm if they have the capacity, and will 

do it with a weapon of mass destruction? And how do we 

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list movement, which is making our structure of government 

unaffordable in many ways? 

America’s greatness and our ability to address the issues 

such as this comes from our people and from our Constitution. It is that Constitution which embraces, basically, the 

liberties that allow our people to create prosperity and give 

this Nation its strength. 

Our freedom and prosperity is absolutely resilient. There 

is no question about that. But government can either be an 

enabler of that freedom and that resilience or it can be a stifler of it. Whether we are going to succeed, I believe, is 

whether we continue to assert the core values which allow 

us to govern well, and they all basically arise from our Constitution. 

I have the good fortune to sit at the Webster desk. Daniel 

Webster was a Senator from Massachusetts. New Hampshire, in an act of appropriate stealthiness, had the desk designated to the senior Senator from New Hampshire by statute in the 1970s. It is a great honor to have the right to sit 

at this desk. Webster and Clay kept this Nation together at 

a time when had it been torn apart it would no longer have 

existed, because we had no Lincoln, and we had no strength 

of the North to survive. 

Webster, in his speech on the Compromise of 1850, said: 

I mean to stand upon the Constitution. I need no other platform. I know 

but one country. No man can suffer too much. No man can fall too soon if 

he suffers on or if he fails in defense of the liberties of the Constitution of 

our country. 

At the center of our constitutional form of government, 

which was designed by Madison and Randolph, which was 

built on the concept that there should never be an overly 

powerful branch of the government, at the center of this government is the Senate. It is the cauldron of liberty for our 

Nation. 

Why is that? Because it is the place where issues are 

aired, people are heard, amendments are made, and no one 

gets to shut down the minority until a supermajority decides 

to do so. The rights of the minority are the source of the 

power of our government. They are the source of the power 

of our Constitution. They are the source of the power of our 

liberty. 

This is the center, this institution is the center of the 

rights of the minority. I have been in the minority. I have 

been in the majority. It is almost irrelevant from the standpoint of the importance of the role of the Senate, because it 

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is the Senate that gives voice to all Americans, that does not 

allow us to shut out any American or any thought process 

in America that is legitimate and which can come to the floor 

of the Senate and make its case. 

I have often wondered, what would this government be 

like if there were no Senate? Well, it would be a parliamentary government, for all intents and purposes, lurching to 

the left, lurching to the right, and as a result, in many ways, 

undermining individual rights, but, more important, having 

no continuity of purpose or force. 

We play politics in this city and in this country between 

the 40 yard lines, for all intents and purposes. We are not 

a government that ever moves too radically left or right. 

That is the way it should be. In this institution, compromise 

is required. To govern you must reach agreement. We are 

300 million people obviously of a diverse view. If we are 

going to govern 300 million people, we must listen to those 

who have legitimate views on both sides of the aisle. 

So as I leave this Chamber, I want to say this, simply: It 

has been a huge honor to have the chance to serve here. It 

is something that is the highlight of our career, Kathy’s and 

mine. We move on with reservations, we hopefully move on 

to something equally interesting, but it will never have the 

same status as being in the Senate. 

This, to me, is the ultimate job when it comes to the governance of America. I simply ask you who stay here—and I 

know this will be done—continue to carry the torch. Understand that it is the Senate that is the center of the liberty 

that leads to the prosperity our people expect. It is the Senate that is the center of our Constitution. 

Thank you very much. 

(Applause, Senators rising.) 

TRIBUTES 

TO 

JUDD GREGG 

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Proceedings in the Senate 

TUESDAY, November 30, 2010 

Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, 16 Senators will retire 

this year. There is a pretty big turnover in this body, but 

that is a lot of Senators at once. We are losing an enormous 

amount of talent, but, of course, we are gaining a lot of talent with the new Senators. 

I wish to show my respect for those who have served, 

which I will do in a summary fashion because we are talking 

about 16 individuals with very complex and distinguished 

backgrounds. 

One might ask, what are the characteristics of a Senator? 

There are a lot of different answers to that, depending on 

your background and attitude toward politics and government. First, I have always thought that one characteristic of 

almost every Member of the Senate is that he or she probably was a first grader sitting in the front row, hand in the 

air waiting to be recognized. This is an eager bunch or you 

would not have gotten here. 

Second, it is a group of risk takers. Most people who end 

up in the Senate get here because a lot of other people who 

wanted to be Senators were standing around waiting for the 

right time to run. A lot of people who were elected to the 

Senate seemed to have no chance of winning at the time they 

decided to run, but the voters decided differently, and here 

they are. 

Third, we are almost all professional and congenial. That 

is a big help. It is almost a requirement in an organization 

of 100 individuals who spend almost all their time with one 

another, who serve in a body that operates by unanimous 

consent, when just one Senator can bring the whole place to 

a halt, and whose job basically is to argue about some of the 

most difficult issues that face the American people. So it 

helps that almost every Member of the Senate is an especially congenial person. 

Back in Tennessee, people often say to me it must be 

rough being in that job. They are awfully mean up there. 

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The truth is, I don’t know of a more congenial group than 

the Members of the Senate. We begin the day in the gym. 

The next thing you know we are at a Prayer Breakfast, and 

then we are at a committee hearing. Then we are on the 

floor voting, and then we have lunch. It goes through the day 

until 7 or 8 o’clock, or sometimes later. We live together and 

we get along very well. We know and respect each other. 

Not long ago, the Presiding Officer (Mr. Udall of New Mexico) and I were having dinner together with our wives. We 

were lamenting the loss of families who know one another, 

the way it happened when his father was serving in Congress and when I first came to the Senate to work for Senator Baker. And that’s true. We’ve lost some of that. Still, 

there is an enormous amount of affection and good will here. 

You don’t always get to be very close friends in this job, but 

you get to be very good acquaintances, and you learn to respect people for their strengths. 

Senator Domenici said, when he left, that we don’t do a 

very good job of saying goodbye here. That is true. As one 

part of saying goodbye, I wish to say at least one good thing 

about each one of the 16 retiring Senators. Much more could 

be said about each, of course. Mostly, I am going in alphabetical order. . . . 

There is no better Senator than JUDD GREGG on either 

side of the aisle. One indication of that is that the last three 

leaders of Republicans in the Senate have asked him to sit 

in on leadership meetings to get his wisdom and advice. He 

doesn’t say too much, but what he says we all pay attention 

to. He has been the voice of our party and we believe the 

voice of Americans who are concerned about fiscal responsibility, spending, and too much debt. . . . 

It has been my privilege to serve with these 16 Senators. 

We thank them for their service to our country. They have 

had a chance to serve in what we regard as the world’s 

greatest deliberative body; it is a special institution. We will 

miss their leadership, and we hope they will stay in touch 

with us because they are not just retiring Senators, they are 

all our friends. 

I yield the floor. 

WEDNESDAY, December 8, 2010 

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that 

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terials from the Congressional Record in tribute to retiring 

Members of the 111th Congress, and that Members have 

until Thursday, December 16, to submit such tributes. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. 

THURSDAY, December 9, 2010 

Mr. HARKIN. . . . I would like to make a speech in praise 

of another colleague who is retiring, on the other side of the 

aisle, and who is a good friend and someone for whom I have 

had not only great friendship but great respect, and I have 

served with him a lot on our committees—Senator JUDD

GREGG of New Hampshire. 

Senator GREGG can be a very effective and persuasive partisan for the conservative causes he holds dear. He also has 

a strong New Hampshire independent streak and is willing 

to buck his party when he thinks it is wrong—for example, 

when he voted against President Bush’s Medicare prescription drug benefit bill because it was unpaid for and would 

add hundreds of billions of dollars to the debt. Indeed, as 

ranking member and former chair of the Budget Committee, 

Senator GREGG has been one of the Senate’s leading champions of fiscal discipline. 

I especially admire Senator GREGG’s capacity for reaching 

across the aisle, building bridges, and getting important 

work done. On that score, he has represented New Hampshire and the United States at his very best. This quality 

has made him a standout member of the Health, Education, 

Labor, and Pensions Committee, which I chair. He forged a 

very productive working relationship with my predecessor as 

chair, Senator Ted Kennedy. For example, he played a key 

role with Senator Kennedy in crafting the bipartisan No 

Child Left Behind Act, and a few years later, I was proud 

to work with both of those New England Senators again—especially Senator GREGG—to reauthorize and improve the 

Americans with Disabilities Education Act. 

In 2008, Senator GREGG was a key leader in crafting and 

forging bipartisan support for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. Many have criticized the Troubled Asset Relief 

Program, TARP, but facts are facts: TARP prevented a total 

meltdown of our financial system. And almost the entire 

$700 billion taxpayer investment has been or soon will be 

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paid back to the U.S. Treasury. In fact, just this week, the 

Treasury booked a $12 billion profit on its previous $45 billion investment in Citigroup. 

This year, Senator GREGG has played a key role on the 

HELP Committee in bringing together Senators from both 

parties to advance food safety legislation. Frankly, there 

were many times when sharp policy disagreements threatened the survival of that bill. But at every turn, Senator 

GREGG played a constructive role in working through the options, crafting bipartisan compromises, and keeping the legislation on track to passage. I have nothing but admiration 

and gratitude to Senator GREGG for his leadership on the 

food safety bill, which, as you know, passed the Senate. . . . 

That is the first modernization of our Food and Drug Administration inspection systems in 70 years. Again, I wish to 

publicly thank Senator GREGG for hanging in there over several years’ period of time to make sure we kept it on track 

from one Congress to another, up and down, but we finally 

got it done. As I just said, I have the utmost admiration and 

gratitude to Senator GREGG for hanging in there and making 

sure we got the job done. 

As many of our colleagues will remember, several years 

ago, Senator GREGG bought a $20 Powerball lottery ticket 

and won $850,000. Again, we all want to go up and touch 

him and see if it will rub off on us a little bit. To this day, 

Senator GREGG is the only person I have ever known who 

won a Powerball lottery ticket. Well, as we have often said, 

that was JUDD GREGG’s personal good fortune, but it has 

been our good fortune to have a Senator of his high caliber 

and character in this body for the last 18 years. During that 

time, I have placed great store by his friendship and his 

counsel. Of course, that relationship and friendship will continue, but I am sorry we are going to miss him here in the 

Senate. 

I join with the entire Senate family in wishing JUDD and 

Kathleen the very best in the years ahead. 

I yield the floor. 

FRIDAY, December 10, 2010 

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

our colleagues who are departing the Senate after distinguished service on behalf of their States and on behalf of the 

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viduals, to learn from them, to collaborate and cooperate 

with them, and to, in some small way, help them do what 

they have done so well—represent their States with fidelity, 

with great effort, and to move the agenda of the Nation forward. . . . 

Senator JUDD GREGG and Kathleen are stalwarts in the 

Senate, with their 18 years of service. I worked very closely 

with JUDD on so many issues but most recently on the DoddFrank bill, where we worked collaboratively on this whole 

complex concept of derivatives. I was impressed with his intellect, his grasp, his balance, and I think we both pushed 

ourselves to think harder, to do better, and to come up with 

a solution, frankly, that was much better than I know I 

could have done individually. So I thank JUDD GREGG for 

what he did there and on so many other things. . . . 

To all of these colleagues and their families, my deepest 

appreciation and my profoundest respect. 

TUESDAY, December 14, 2010 

Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I would hope it is not 

the intention of the senior Senator from New Hampshire 

[Mr. GREGG, immediately after his farewell speech] to leave 

the floor. The accolades our friend and colleague, the senior 

Senator from New Hampshire, has just received from both 

sides of the aisle are richly deserved. I would hope he might 

be able to stay a bit longer so some of us have a chance to 

comment on his extraordinarily distinguished career. 

He has devoted his entire life to public service, always 

served with a deep sense of purpose and with the overriding 

conviction that we must leave America in a better place than 

we found it, as he so articulately expressed. He has worked 

tirelessly for the people of New Hampshire and for all Americans, and he has been a truly invaluable member of the Republican Conference. He is the smartest guy in the room, 

usually the most strategic, and as witty as they come. Yet 

even as JUDD’s national profile has increased over the years 

as a result of his many natural gifts, he never lost sight of 

where he came from or the people he represents back home 

in New Hampshire. 

JUDD grew up in Nashua in southern New Hampshire and 

was introduced to the world of politics early on. In 1952, 

when he was just 5 years old, his father Hugh Gregg was 

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ter Academy for high school in the mid-1960s and to Columbia University after that, graduating with a degree in 

English in 1969. It was an eye-opening experience being in 

New York City, particularly in those years. JUDD took it all 

in. He jokes that his minor in college was subway exploration. 

Even as he witnessed all the student demonstrations and 

clashes with police on campus, he found time to dress up as 

the school’s mascot for a time, the Columbia Royal Lion, 

working the sidelines at games. JUDD returned north to attend law school at Boston University and got his J.D. in 

1972 and then an LL.M. in tax law in 1975. Then he returned to New Hampshire to practice law. 

Meanwhile, he began to venture into New Hampshire primary politics, coordinating primary campaigns for Ronald 

Reagan in 1976 and George H.W. Bush in 1980. It was during this time that he really developed his conservative principles. Over the years, he has stuck to those principles, and 

the voters have rewarded him for it. He has never lost a 

race—not one. Part of the reason JUDD wins is that he is not 

afraid to lose. He would rather lose for the right reasons 

than win for the wrong ones. 

Over the years, he has become something of a political legend in New Hampshire, and for good reason; he is the first 

person in New Hampshire history to serve as Congressman, 

Governor, and Senator. He was first elected to Congress in 

1980, where he would serve four terms, and then, in what 

some viewed as a political gamble, he followed his father’s 

footsteps to run for Governor in 1988. He was elected and 

easily reelected in 1990. 

During his second term, New Hampshire, like the rest of 

the country, faced a difficult recession. But faced with pressure to raise the State’s income tax or sales tax, he cut government spending instead. The New Hampshire Union Leader would later credit JUDD as being able to manage the State 

through the crisis far better than anyone expected, and the 

Wall Street Journal ranked him ninth in its Good Governor 

Guide for cutting spending and keeping a lid on taxes during 

a serious budget crisis. 

In 1992, JUDD decided to run for U.S. Senate on his strong 

record on environmental protection and fiscal discipline. He 

won a close race. Upon arriving in this Chamber, JUDD immediately set out to work for the people of New Hampshire. 

I know one of the things he is proud of in his nearly 17 years 

in the Senate is the work he has done to protect more than 

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300,000 acres of land in New Hampshire from development. 

He can also be justifiably proud of the remarkable work he 

has done as a Republican, the top Republican on the Senate 

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and, 

most important from our conference’s point of view, on the 

Budget Committee, where his knowledge and command of 

the issues always impressed the rest of us. He was clearly 

the right man for the job. When the budget came up, I think 

we would all agree on our side of the aisle, when JUDD stood 

up and had something to say, everybody quieted down and 

listened. You can’t say that about all of us on every issue all 

of the time. We recognized his talents from the very beginning. 

Just 2 years after arriving here, he was selected to serve 

as chief deputy whip as well as cochairman of Senator Dole’s 

Senate agenda committee, a working group tasked with developing and managing the Republican agenda at that particular juncture. It was the first time in 20 years that a Senator from New Hampshire had served in a Senate leadership 

role. 

He never hesitated to work across the aisle to get things 

done. JUDD understood that to make something happen in 

this body, it happens between the 40 yard lines, and that 

means both sides have to participate. He teamed up with 

Senator Kennedy to coauthor No Child Left Behind. Referring to that particular accomplishment, JUDD once said: 

I don’t think any of us ever gave up our basic principles . . . Ted just understood that even though he had strong beliefs . . . he understood you had 

to legislate to accomplish that. There was no point in just standing off in 

the corner and shouting. 

History will remember that JUDD also played a central role 

in Congress’ response to the financial crisis of 2008 which we 

all remember very well. With our Nation on the brink of economic collapse, I was to select one person to represent our 

point of view at that critical moment. The choice was completely obvious, the one person we had who everybody knew 

had no other agenda and would at the end of the day do 

what was right for the country. So I made him the top Republican negotiator on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, now infamously referred to as TARP. His top priority then and throughout the entire debate over the effort 

was to ensure that the original package protected taxpayers 

by including language in the bill that stated all proceeds 

from the paybacks would go to reducing the debt, and he did 

a fabulous job. 

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It was because of JUDD’s principles, intelligence, common 

sense, and ability to work across the aisle, as I indicated, 

that I asked him to join my leadership team after I was 

elected Republican leader. I have relied on him heavily these 

last 4 years. JUDD has been right in the middle of every legislative debate we have had since I have been in this position. He has never disappointed. He has been so effective, in 

fact, that Senator Reid gave him a couple of nicknames late 

in his career. First he called him the ‘‘see-if-we-can-mess-upthe-legislation guy.’’ After that, he described JUDD as: 

Somebody who comes into a basketball game, not to score points, just to 

kind of rough people up, just to kind of get the game going to a different 

direction. 

I think JUDD and I would both agree that is a heck of a 

compliment. In fact, this is Senator GREGG’s reaction to 

those nicknames given to him by the Democratic leader: ‘‘I 

appreciate the Senator’s comments. I take them as a compliment. I have been active legislatively. That is, obviously, 

our job.’’ 

It is funny how people see things differently. I never saw 

JUDD as a Bill Laimbeer-type player out on the court just to 

rough people up. I always saw JUDD—sticking with the basketball metaphors for a moment—as the intelligent point 

guard, as the ideas guy with the extraordinary judgment, as 

the type of guy who could see the whole floor, the big picture, and could make the unselfish play that would win the 

game. 

Over the years, that is exactly what JUDD did for our 

team. He has been instrumental in our efforts to hold the 

line, slow down or call out the Democrats these past 2 years 

in particular on an agenda that we viewed as deeply harmful 

to our future. He has been an indispensable member of the 

team. In fact, I am not sure where we would be now without 

him, and sometimes I have wondered where we will be a few 

years down the road without him. But he leaves his example, 

and he leaves the knowledge he has passed on along the 

years, and we will all continue to draw on that in the years 

ahead. 

JUDD was recently asked what the hardest thing about 

being a Senator was, and he answered without hesitation. 

The hardest thing was being away from his family. It is another principle on which he never, ever hedged. 

I made a decision early on in my career which I’ve carried throughout my 

career—that if the choice was between being here and being with something 

that was important to my family, I would be with my family. Maybe my 

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children feel differently, but I don’t think I have missed anything that was 

really critical in their upbringing. 

Which brings us to Kathy, as JUDD indicated, a wife of 37 

years, a cherished member of the Senate family. We are so 

grateful for Kathy’s grace and patience with the demands of 

public life, along with her important work in education, promoting the arts, the environment, and historic preservation, 

as well as her work in raising awareness about child abuse. 

Somehow, she and JUDD’s three children—Molly, Sarah, and 

Joshua—managed to put up with JUDD’s three decades of 

public service, and we thank them all for sharing JUDD with 

us all these years in Washington. 

One of JUDD’s greatest assets as a Senator has been his 

profound love for this institution and his gratitude for having had a chance to serve as a Member of it. He never took 

this place or this job for granted. As he once put it: 

From my first day in the Senate to today, I remain in awe of this fabulously interesting place. When I’m on the floor and I look around and take 

in its history, it never ceases to hit me that this is the most successful deliberative democracy in history. It’s an honor to serve there. 

To say that I tried to convince JUDD to stay is an understatement. 

But he knew it was his time to move on and to write the 

next chapter in his life. While Senators come and go all the 

time, I cannot help but note that when JUDD walks out of 

this Chamber for the last time, he will leave an enormous 

void. 

So I will close, old friend and colleague, by saying you certainly are going to be missed. We wish you well in your future endeavors. Thank you for your service. You have done 

an extraordinary job. 

I yield the floor. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming. 

Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I want to say a few words about 

the Senator from New Hampshire as well. 

I have had the pleasure over the years of serving with him 

and watching him and learning from him, as we did once 

again today. It is always amazing at these going away 

speeches that we learn things we did not learn about them 

during the 18 years they served. So I appreciate Senator McConnell’s comments and some new insights there. 

I know Senator GREGG at one time moved from being the 

chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to being chair of the Budget Committee, and that 

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gave me the opportunity to be the chairman of the Health, 

Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. For that I will 

always be grateful, and I hope I have made good use of the 

things he taught me when he was in that position. 

Over the years as we have watched Senator GREGG in action in committee or on the floor we have all learned a lesson 

or two about how to be a more effective Senator. That is why 

when I look back on Senator GREGG’s career, I will always 

think of him as one of the best of my Senate mentors. Over 

my 14 years in the Senate, I have learned more from him 

than almost anyone else. 

I know no one knows better how this Senate operates and 

the procedural details than the Senator does. If I were on the 

other side of an issue and I saw Senator JUDD GREGG getting 

up to plead his case, I know I would feel a sense of grave 

concern as I listened to him that would only increase in 

strength and intensity. It is always a worry for either side 

when he unfolds, if he might be on the opposite side. But, 

on the other hand, if he is on the floor to express support for 

my position, I would sit back, relax, and watch him in action 

with great relish. 

He is a brilliant legislator and orator because he is always 

one to follow the admonition of Rudyard Kipling to ‘‘keep 

your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming 

it on you.’’ Once he had determined the right thing to do and 

how to do it, he would very calmly come up with a plan of 

action that made it happen, and then follow his strategy step 

by step without ever wavering from his plan. 

In all my years of public life, as an observer and a participant, I do not think I have ever worked with anyone quite 

like him. No one speaks better off the cuff than he does. 

Even in a few casual remarks, his context and focus showcase his natural talent for the art. He knows the right words 

to say and how and when to say them for maximum impact. 

That means more often than not he knew how to present the 

perfect argument that could not be refuted. Year after year, 

that great talent has shown itself on the floor and in committee as he took a more and more active role in our deliberations on a long list of subjects, including but not limited 

to budget reform, education reform, and entitlement reform. 

He has, for instance, been a very strong supporter of the 

need for Congress to take action to address the problems currently facing Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. This 

has been most recently evident as the ranking member of the 

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Budget Committee and an active member of the President’s 

National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. 

To put it quite simply, during his service in the Senate, he 

has been the younger generation’s best friend, as he has 

done everything he possibly could to ensure that our children 

and grandchildren would have it as good as we did—if not 

better. 

Senator GREGG has been a true leader on budget reform 

issues for his entire public service career. One of his greatest 

successes as the chairman of the Budget Committee was the 

passage of the Deficit Reduction Act in 2005. It was the first 

time in 8 years that the Congress took the necessary steps 

to curb entitlement spending and began to put our country’s 

fiscal house back in order. In his own words, Senator GREGG

said the following on December 21, 2005: 

This bill represents a reduction in the Federal deficit of nearly $40 billion 

over 5 years. Yes, there is more to be done, but it is a step in the right direction . . . It is my hope that the Congress will continue the hard work we have 

done here, by seeking to reduce the rate of growth of government at every 

opportunity. By focusing on how to make government programs work more 

effectively and at a lower cost. And by making fiscally responsible decisions 

about what kind of economic future we want to leave to our children and 

grandchildren. 

As an accountant, Senate colleague, and his friend, I could 

not have been more proud of the bold step Senator GREGG

took in addressing our Nation’s deficit by drafting, promoting, and ultimately enacting the Deficit Reduction Act. 

We will miss his leadership on the Budget Committee. 

As a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, it was good to have a chance to see how 

well he worked to get things done in committee. For example, he worked well with Senator Kennedy on creating and 

passing the No Child Left Behind Act. He was able to bring 

together Senator Kennedy and President Bush to work on a 

common goal for our Nation’s children and our country’s future. 

What he was able to accomplish during those days has 

made a difference and it will continue to do so for many 

years to come. Because of the work he has been such an important part of, countless Americans are living better, more 

rewarding, and more fulfilling lives all over the country. 

Needless to say, the people of New Hampshire were very 

fortunate he was willing to serve in so many posts over the 

years. I have no doubt his insights on the law and how it affects the people back home come from his experience on 

every level of our government. 

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Since he first arrived in the Senate, with every trip home 

his constituents would tell him how the changes in the law 

were affecting them and their businesses and, if they are like 

the people of Wyoming, they also gave him some very valuable suggestions on what we could do in the Congress to address their concerns. I always tell my constituents to share 

their good ideas with me. It is my secret weapon and it really helps me to make a difference. I am sure it has been the 

same for him. 

I do not know what he has planned for the coming years, 

but one thing I feel certain about: We have not heard the 

last from JUDD GREGG. That will be a good thing for all of 

us, as well as the younger generation who is very concerned 

about the legacy we are leaving behind for them. As he has 

pointed out repeatedly, it would not be fair for us to continue 

to spend their inheritance to such an extent that they will 

be left with a huge deficit and an economy so slow and weak 

that they will not have any possibility of paying it off without a great deal of pain and difficulty. They are counting on 

us to do the right thing to ensure they have the same advantages and ability to access the American dream we have had. 

There is an old Native American saying: We have not inherited the Earth from our ancestors, we are borrowing it 

from our children. If we follow this lead and use that frame 

of reference as our guide, we will be able to ensure their future will be as promising as they have every right to expect 

and demand. 

As the end of the current session of Congress approaches, 

I know I am not the first, nor will I be the last to say thank 

you, JUDD, for your willingness to serve the people of New 

Hampshire and the United States for so long and so well. 

Most of all, thank you for your friendship and for serving as 

such a great resource for us all during your service in the 

Senate. 

Before I close, I know I would be remiss if I did not also 

say a quick thank you to your wife Kathy. As we both know 

from serving in the Senate, there are a lot of late nights, 

trips both home and abroad with little notice, and a lot of 

other things we have to deal with because they come with 

the job. Our wives never complain, but we both know they 

have every reason to do so. They probably do not because 

they know, as well as we do, we could not do what we do 

without them by our side. They are our greatest supporters, 

our best friends, our most trusted political advisers, and the 

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ones who always make sure we are heading in the right direction. 

So while I am thanking you for your service, I think Kathy 

deserves a word of thanks too. Together you have been a remarkable team, and that is why New Hampshire is so proud 

to claim both of you as their own. 

In the days to come, Diana and I will not be the only ones 

who will miss you and Kathy. Fortunately, we know where 

to find you—right near the ocean. We had so much fun there 

when we had the chance to explore it with you both earlier 

this year. The fishing was pretty good and the scenery was 

just magnificent. Just let us know when the fish are biting, 

and we will be there. Come to Wyoming anytime. Good luck 

in your future. Thanks for all you have done for us. 

I yield the floor. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New 

Hampshire. 

Mrs. SHAHEEN. Mr. President, I am honored to be here 

on the floor today to join Senator McConnell and my other 

colleagues in recognizing the service Senator JUDD GREGG

has provided to the people of this country, and for us, importantly, to the people of New Hampshire. 

I have had the good fortune to know Senator GREGG since 

I first got elected to public office. In the New Hampshire political tradition, you learn to work together with people on 

both sides of the aisle for what is in the best interests of 

New Hampshire. Senator GREGG has been a fine example of 

that tradition. 

I have enjoyed working with him over the years, and his 

presence in the Chamber and the Senate halls will be missed 

both by me and, as we have already heard, by the rest of our 

colleagues. I think, as Senator GREGG was giving his remarks, the number of Senators who were here to say goodbye shows the respect and how much he will be missed by 

all of our colleagues. 

Throughout my own public life, I have always appreciated 

the civility and generosity Senator GREGG has shown me. 

When I was elected to the State senate in New Hampshire, 

it was then-Governor GREGG who swore me in for the first 

time. When I was elected to the Senate, he was the first Republican to call me, not just to offer his congratulations but 

to offer his advice and help in getting started in Washington. 

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The Senator and I have followed similar paths to the Senate, although his service has been longer than mine, although we are the same age. 

So I will not say your service has been older than mine, 

JUDD. 

But I think that experience—both of us having served as 

Governor, leading New Hampshire—has given us a much 

more similar mindset than most people would expect. I think 

it contributes to our concern about controlling the debt and 

ensuring that this government is functioning in the best interests of all of its citizens. I, again, appreciated his commitment to addressing that debt for future generations in his remarks this afternoon. 

While we have not always agreed on the best approach to 

solve those problems, Senator GREGG’s civility has never 

wavered. Since coming to the Senate, I have noticed that he 

extends that same civility and courtesy to colleagues on both 

sides of the aisle. In a town that is not always known for its 

good manners, Senator GREGG reminds us we can disagree 

without being disagreeable. 

Senator GREGG, of course, is known for his expertise on 

budgetary matters and his dedication to one of the gravest 

issues that faces this country; that is, its rapidly ballooning 

deficit. His expertise will not be easily replaced, especially at 

a time when our Nation so urgently needs a New Hampshire-style approach—strong, bipartisan, and no-nonsense. It 

is a concern about the deficit that we share, and I hope in 

some small way I can continue his search for solutions to 

this challenge. 

What might be less known to people in Washington—although Senator McConnell mentioned it—is Senator GREGG’s 

passion for the preservation of open lands. He is a conservationist in the fine Republican tradition of Teddy Roosevelt, 

and he has helped preserve New Hampshire’s wonderful legacy of forests and lakes. 

For those of you who may some day visit the New Hampshire statehouse, you will be surprised to see that Senator 

GREGG appears in his formal gubernatorial portrait in the 

mountains of New Hampshire, as I think is fitting for somebody who cares so much about the environment. 

In 2001, when I was Governor and Senator GREGG was 

here, we worked together to preserve the Connecticut Lakes 

Headwaters. At more than 171,000 acres, it was the largest 

contiguous block of land in New Hampshire in private ownership, and with his leadership we were able to ensure that 

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future generations could enjoy the beauty of this beautiful 

working forest and part of New Hampshire. 

As another well-known Senator—again, one that JUDD alluded to when he spoke—Daniel Webster once said, ‘‘We 

have been taught to regard a representative of the people as 

a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.’’ 

In Congress and the Governor’s office, in Washington and 

in New Hampshire, Senator GREGG has served as that sentinel. He will be missed. I join my colleagues and the people 

of New Hampshire in wishing him and Kathy and their 

whole family well in all of their future endeavors. 

I yield the floor. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maine. 

Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, as I listened this afternoon 

to Senator GREGG’s farewell address, I thought about how 

much all of us who have been privileged to serve with him 

will miss his wisdom. But for me, the loss will be even more 

intense, for there is no one to whom I have turned more 

often for advice during the past 14 years than my neighbor 

from New Hampshire—unless, of course, it was his wife 

Kathy, who also gave very good advice. 

JUDD’s extraordinary knowledge of so many issues, his 

keen insights into policy and politics, and his abiding friendship have meant so much to me. I truly cannot imagine a debate in this Chamber about the budget, spending, entitlement programs, or taxes without his leading it. Given his 

strong work ethic, his commitment to the prosperity of future generations, and his unwavering dedication to doing 

what is right, I am confident his clear call for action on our 

fiscal crisis will continue to be heard and to be influential in 

the debates ahead of us. 

Raised in a family devoted to public service, Congressman, 

Governor, and now Senator GREGG has always been guided 

by the principle that the public interest is paramount and 

the public’s trust is essential. As a strong voice for fiscal discipline and a champion of bipartisan solutions, Senator 

GREGG has always upheld those principles. 

Senator GREGG faced up to the looming entitlement crisis 

and our inequitable tax system by introducing comprehensive, bipartisan bills to address both concerns. His sponsorship of legislation early this year to establish a bipartisan 

commission on fiscal responsibility brought to the forefront of 

the national debate our debt—a debt that America can no 

longer ignore. 

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Senator GREGG’s service on the President’s commission 

demonstrated his determination to present to the American 

people an analysis of the tough choices we must face and the 

means to return to fiscal sanity. As always, JUDD has been 

dedicated to one goal: ensuring that our country’s children 

and grandchildren inherit a just and prosperous nation 

where the American dream can still be a reality for millions 

of hard-working families. The idea of saddling future generations with trillions in unpaid bills has always been anathema to Senator GREGG. 

Although fiscal issues have been JUDD’s passion, the soaring and unsustainable debt has not been his only focus. For 

example, 2 years ago, Senator GREGG helped lead a coalition 

that called for a bipartisan national summit to develop an 

energy strategy for our country. He recognized and warned 

against our overreliance on foreign oil as a threat to our Nation that forces one energy crisis after another on the businesses and families of our great country. Senator GREGG has 

been a powerful advocate for a common-sense, achievable energy policy that balances increased domestic production, conservation, and the development of alternative and renewable 

fuels. As his colleague from New Hampshire mentioned, 

JUDD’s work to preserve open space in New Hampshire has 

led to the conservation and protection of more than 330,000 

acres of sensitive land, leaving a tangible legacy for future 

generations to enjoy. 

Senator GREGG is also committed to strengthening our national security. In 2005, I was honored to join with him and 

thousands of people throughout Maine and New Hampshire 

in saving the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, which is, by the 

way, in Kittery, ME, not Portsmouth, NH, but it was indeed 

a joint effort. Standing together under Senator GREGG’s leadership, our two delegations, working with the people of our 

two States, prevailed. In addition to saving the shipyard, 

JUDD has been in the forefront in strengthening and modernizing it. Thanks to his efforts, the U.S. Navy submarine fleet 

remains unsurpassed as our Nation’s shield and our sword. 

As chairman for years of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator GREGG recognized the 

threat we faced from radical Islamic terrorism, and he ensured that the resources were provided to help protect our 

homeland, while eliminating funding that was ineffective or 

extravagant. 

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pion of good government, an independent and creative thinker, and a bipartisan problem solver. He has fought for the 

public interests and has earned the public’s trust. I know 

that not only the people of New Hampshire and Maine, who 

know him well, but people all across this great country join 

me today in thanking Senator JUDD GREGG for his exceptional leadership, countless accomplishments, and fierce 

dedication to our country and the State he loves so much. We 

wish both JUDD and Kathy all the best. 

Thank you. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee. 

Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, during the 1980s, somehow the Senate took a survey among themselves about who 

was the most admired Member of the Senate, and according 

to press reports, Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee was 

the most admired Senator by both Republicans and by 

Democrats. If such a survey were to be taken today, JUDD

GREGG would certainly be at the top of that list for most of 

us. There is not a better Member of the Senate. 

Much has been said about him, so I will say three things 

quickly because there are other Senators who wish to speak. 

First, JUDD GREGG is of New Hampshire, not from New 

Hampshire. Sometimes we say, Senator so-and-so is from 

Tennessee or from New York or from South Dakota or from 

Maine, but the Senator whose roots are where roots are supposed to be is ‘‘of’’ his State. JUDD GREGG sounds as though 

he is from New Hampshire. He acts as though he is from 

New Hampshire. He is from New Hampshire. He votes as 

though he is from New Hampshire. The Old Man of the 

Mountain, which was a rock up in New Hampshire, could be 

seen by those who drove by it. The rock fell down a few years 

ago and I thought: Well, maybe the best way to replace it is 

to put JUDD GREGG back up there because he is of New 

Hampshire. 

Second, JUDD GREGG is a very good politician. I know that 

from direct experience. There is such a thing as the ‘‘Gregg 

machine’’ in New Hampshire. Those who have the temerity 

to run for President find that out. It was on the other side 

of my efforts when I was there, and to give an example, one 

day a reporter asked me, ‘‘Well, Mr. Alexander, what is the 

price of a gallon of milk?’’ Of course, I knew what a gallon 

of milk costs, but I made the mistake of turning around to 

someone and asking, just to make sure what it was. A press 

person overheard it, and the next thing I knew, the ‘‘Gregg 

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machine’’ had spread that story all over the State that this 

fellow in a red and black shirt didn’t know what the price 

of milk was. So they are a very intimidating, effective crowd 

in New Hampshire. 

The third thing, the final thing I will say about JUDD is 

one reason I admire and like him so much is that I so often 

agree with him. I agree with him on conservation issues, on 

education issues, on fiscal issues, but especially on his view 

of this body, which he expressed so eloquently many times 

but especially in his remarks today. JUDD GREGG knows and 

understands that this body is the citadel of the protection of 

liberty in our government. He said that today. It is the place 

where we avoid the tyranny of the majority. It is a place 

where the voices of the American people are heard, where we 

have open amendment and open debate. He has been an effective advocate for that. He understands we are not just a 

debating society, but that in the end, we are a governing 

body; that the purpose of our 60-vote majority is to force consensus and a compromise so we can act, so we can do our 

job. 

JUDD leaves a wonderful legacy. He has many friends 

here. He will continue to have many friends here, this Senator who is of New Hampshire, who is a pretty good politician and with whom I so often agree. My special best wishes 

to his wife Kathy, with whom I also agree. Thank you. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee. 

Mr. CORKER. Thank you, Mr. President. I appreciate the 

Senator from South Dakota allowing me to speak for about 

60 seconds. I don’t give long speeches on the floor. I seldom 

use notes. I know Senator GREGG knows this, but I have 

been here 4 years, and I can honestly say one of the greatest 

highlights of my 4 years has been being able to serve with 

Senator GREGG. I know of no one in the Senate whom I hope 

to be remembered even close to as far as my service. I know 

of no one whom I think creates a better example for those 

of us in the Senate. I know of no one whom I respect more 

than Senator GREGG. I know he knows that. I know his wonderful wife Kathy knows that. 

I think, upon his departure, there will be a tremendous 

vacuum. I think all of us understand what each of us is 

going to have to do to try to fill a component of the shoes 

of the Senator from New Hampshire or the example he has 

set. 

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So I just want the Senator to know he certainly has raised 

my thinking as to what it means to be a Senator in the Senate. Each of us have frailties and each of us have strengths. 

There are always going to be occasions when Senators cause 

us to rise because they inspire us. They do things that are 

inspirational. There are always going to be times when Senators disappoint us because we are human beings, and that 

is the way human beings are. But I can say that you, more 

than anybody in the Senate, have caused me to want to be 

better more times than anyone and have disappointed me 

fewer times than anybody in the Senate. I will miss you. I 

wish you well, and I thank you for being my friend. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Dakota. 

Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I also wish to join with my 

colleagues today before I speak to the issue of the day and 

express my appreciation to Senator GREGG for his great service to this institution and to our country. I think it is fair 

to say there is nobody quite like JUDD GREGG. He truly is 

one of a kind. 

I remember when I first got here, I thought he didn’t like 

me, and maybe he didn’t like me, but I concluded that part 

of that was just his serious demeanor. He is a guy who 

means business. Once you get to know him, you not only appreciate that side of his personality, but you also gain an appreciation for the incredible wit and sense of humor he also 

possesses. I have had the opportunity to experience that on 

many occasions. 

I think what the institution is going to miss the most—he 

is certainly someone who cares a lot about this country’s future and the policies we put in place—is his abilities, his 

great skill and his great talent. It will be a real loss to the 

Senate because JUDD GREGG has a mind like a steel trap. He 

is able to analyze with great effectiveness the issues of the 

day and to explain them clearly. He is someone in whom I 

have tremendous respect. He has been a great mentor, a 

great leader, and someone, as I said before, we are going to 

miss around here. 

I can’t say enough about how much I appreciate his service 

and the service and the sacrifice his family has made. He 

has served in public life for many years, both as a Congressman, Governor, and a Senator. His wife Kathy, similar to 

many of our wives, puts up with a lot of things. JUDD, similar to me and many of my colleagues, I think, I would say 

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probably married over his head or, as one of my friends said, 

outpunted his coverage. We are grateful to his family. 

We are going to miss the many contributions he has made, 

but probably none more than the passion with which he approaches this job and the passion with which he approaches 

building a brighter and better and stronger and more prosperous future for future generations. There has been no 

clearer voice on the issue of fiscal responsibility, no clearer 

voice when it comes to the important task we have in front 

of us, to insist that we take steps and we put policies in 

place that will make the country stronger and better for future generations. 

So I wish to compliment as well my colleague from New 

Hampshire. I have heard from folks from other parts of the 

country. As someone who comes from the Midwest, I wish to 

say how much I appreciate JUDD GREGG, the incredible contribution he has made, and I, similar to so many others, will 

miss him greatly. 

Mr. DURBIN. I want to join my colleagues in wishing our 

friend, Senator JUDD GREGG, the best of luck as he prepares 

for his new life beyond the U.S. Senate. 

I don’t think it is any exaggeration to say that, without the 

leadership and dogged insistence of JUDD GREGG and Kent 

Conrad, there would have been no Presidential Deficit Commission. 

As a member of that commission, I want to say to Senator 

GREGG, ‘‘I will get you back for that one.’’ 

In all seriousness, serving on the Deficit Commission was 

not an easy assignment. But I believe the commission’s 

work, and the way we went about our work, shows that 

Democrats and Republicans can still reason together and act 

together for the good of our Nation. I thank Senator GREGG

for helping to remind us of that important truth. 

You might remember a few years back when Senator 

GREGG won about $850,000 in a Powerball payoff. A bunch 

of us on our side of the aisle tried to convince him that he 

ought to do what all big lottery winners do—quit his job. He 

said no—there was more he wanted to do in the Senate. 

JUDD and I served together in the House and the Senate 

and, as I said, on the Deficit Commission. We’re one of the 

Odd Couples of Capitol Hill. He’s Felix and I’m Oscar. 

We haven’t agreed on a whole lot. But we have been allies 

on some big, important fights. JUDD was an indispensable 

leader in the effort to finally give the FDA the authority to 

regulate tobacco. His work on that bill will save thousands 

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of lives in America and around the world and I am proud to 

have been his partner on it. 

I understand that JUDD GREGG is the only person in New 

Hampshire history ever elected Senator, Congressman, Governor, and Councilor. Little-known fact: I think he was also 

the model for the Old Man in the Mountain. 

When JUDD claimed his Powerball winnings, he told reporters, ‘‘Even Senators get lucky sometime.’’ I am lucky to 

have worked with JUDD GREGG in both the House and the 

Senate for almost 15 years. We have had some spirited differences—always will. But I respect him as an independentminded Conservative, a tough negotiator, and a man who believes in public service. 

I wish JUDD, Kathy, and their family the very best in the 

next chapters of their lives. 

Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, through three terms in this 

Chamber, Senator JUDD GREGG has been a consistent, principled voice for responsible stewardship of the taxpayers’ 

hard-earned money. Though he and I have not always agreed 

on the roles and responsibilities of government, that has not 

diminished my admiration for his principled stand on fiscal 

responsibility, a stand that has at times brought him into 

conflict with Members from both parties. 

Senator GREGG has been willing to cross party lines on important issues throughout his tenure in the Senate. At times 

that has been the result of his belief in limiting deficits, as 

when he opposed the creation of the Medicare drug benefit 

in 2003 without identifying ways to pay for it. But he also 

supported last year the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to 

the Supreme Court. He has voted to allow FDA regulation of 

tobacco. And he has voted to give U.S. workers a higher minimum wage. 

Still, Senator GREGG will rightly be remembered primarily 

for his advocacy of prudent spending. He consistently has 

pressed for a detailed, bipartisan effort to address the Nation’s troubling fiscal situation. The bill he worked on with 

Senator Conrad ultimately became the model for the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. 

While the success of the commission is still unclear, it already is clear that Senator GREGG’s efforts have helped move 

the discussion forward. 

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I congratulate Senator GREGG on his distinguished service, 

and I wish him the best of luck in wherever his new endeavors take him. 

WEDNESDAY, December 15, 2010 

Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent 

that the order for the printing of tributes be modified to provide that Members have until sine die of the 111th Congress, 

2d session, to submit tributes and that the order for printing 

remain in effect. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. 

THURSDAY, December 16, 2010 

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

my colleague, a fellow New Englander and Banking Committee member, the senior Senator from New Hampshire, 

JUDD GREGG. 

It has been an honor and a pleasure serving with him in 

this body for the past 18 years. As we both prepare to leave 

the Senate this year, I would like to take this opportunity to 

wish him and his family the very best in the future. 

Throughout his tenure in the Senate, Senator GREGG has 

been an ardent advocate for his home State of New Hampshire, and a knowledgeable legislator. Time and again, during floor debate and committee proceedings, he has demonstrated his sharp intellect and deep knowledge of a broad 

range of issues—particularly on economic and budget policy. 

He is a deeply committed public servant, who has been 

elected by the people of New Hampshire to serve them for 

8 years in the House of Representatives, 4 years as Governor, and as their U.S. Senator for the last 18 years. In fact, 

they returned him to the Senate in 2004 with the highest 

number of votes in New Hampshire history. It is clear that 

his constituents have a great deal of faith in this man, and 

during his time in Congress, he has represented them and 

their values extremely well. 

As one would expect from a man of New Hampshire, Senator GREGG has always demonstrated his independence, commitment to hard work, and self-sufficiency. Yet he has also 

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been someone that has sought compromise and has been 

ready to collaborate with those willing to tackle the difficult 

problems facing our Nation. 

In 2001, he was one of the lead Republicans working on 

the No Child Left Behind law to improve education across 

the Nation for generations of Americans. In 2003, he and I 

worked together with Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Lamar 

Alexander, and Senator Susan Collins to craft the Keeping 

Children and Families Safe Act, which updated our Nation’s 

laws to meet the serious problem of child abuse. 

Of course, improving education and ending child abuse are 

issues on which both Liberals and Conservatives broadly 

agree, so bipartisanship and collaboration on these matters 

is easy. 

Of course, in the fall of 2008, our Nation was faced with 

a nearly unprecedented economic collapse—and the views of 

Liberals and Conservatives on how to respond could charitably be described as divergent, at best. 

It was at that moment, when our Nation faced a calamity 

of historical proportions, that Senator GREGG grit his teeth 

and set to work, negotiating with me, Treasury Secretary 

Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and others, 

to fashion a legislative response to the crisis. 

Despite the heavy criticism that came with being a party 

to those discussions, he remained a key negotiator, and in 

the end, the House and Senate approved the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. Today, our economy, though far 

from recovered, is far better off than it would have been 

without this bill and many of the institutions which received 

assistance have repaid the Treasury with interest. 

Let me be clear that was a bill that none of us ever, in our 

wildest dreams thought we would have to write, or vote to 

pass. However distasteful, it would have been wrong to allow 

our financial system to go into full cardiac arrest, with little 

chance of survival. 

The politically expedient route to take would have been to 

walk away, vote against the bill, and join the pundits, commentators, and bloggers who’ve said ‘‘It never should have 

passed, and we would have been fine without it anyway.’’ 

But that wouldn’t be leadership. That wouldn’t be statesmanship. And that isn’t the type of legislator that JUDD

GREGG is. 

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omy and expertise in financial matters was greatly appreciated. He played an important role in helping to craft what 

became the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act. 

Though he was a staunch opponent of some of the bill’s 

provisions, he didn’t see that opposition as an impediment to 

continuing to offer ideas and thoughtful debate in order to 

shape the legislation into what he thought was a better product. 

Yet, as fierce a partisan as Senator GREGG is, he is also 

a consummate legislator. He knows that the people of New 

Hampshire sent him here to work hard, and work with the 

other Members of this body. He has shown that at the end 

of the day, even if you work hard on something, you may not 

be able to support it—but you will know that you have done 

your best to advocate for your positions and shape the debate. 

The Senate will miss his knowledge and work ethic, and 

I hope that newly elected Members—of both parties—will follow his example. 

I wish him, his wife Kathleen, his children, and granddaughter, the very best. 

Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I have come to the floor 

today to pay tribute to Senator JUDD GREGG of New Hampshire, who will be leaving the Senate at the end of this session. 

Although I am happy for JUDD and his wife Kathy, as they 

set off on the next stage of their lives, JUDD’s retirement represents a great loss for the U.S. Senate, for the people of 

New Hampshire, for the entire Nation, and for me personally. 

Simply put, JUDD has been an outstanding public servant. 

He has worked tirelessly and effectively on behalf of his 

State, first as a Congressman, then as Governor, and then 

as a Senator. The people of New Hampshire rewarded his 

faithful service by repeatedly electing him by wide margins. 

When he was reelected to the Senate in 2004, JUDD received 

the highest number of votes in New Hampshire history. 

JUDD has been a true leader in the Senate. Few Members 

have the breadth of knowledge and insight that he holds on 

the key issues that come before this body. Whether it be the 

budget, education policy, or banking reform, he has been at 

the center of the debate, and Members on both sides of the 

aisle seek out and respect his judgment. 

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I have come to know JUDD best for his work on the Budget 

Committee. He has been on the committee for all of the 18 

years he has been in the Senate. He served as chairman in 

2005 and 2006, after Senator Nickles retired, and has been 

the ranking member ever since. 

I could not have asked for a better partner on the committee. It has been a pleasure to work closely with him. Our 

staffs have also worked very well together, which is a testament to the leadership of JUDD and the example he set in 

his work with me. 

JUDD has tremendous integrity. His word is his bond. 

Although we haven’t always agreed on policy, JUDD has always upheld the highest standards of the Senate by knowing 

how to disagree without being disagreeable. We have had 

fierce debates over the years, but we have never let that affect our ability to work together. 

Of course, the highlight of our work together came in our 

legislative effort to adopt a bipartisan fiscal task force to address the country’s long-term debt crisis. That joint effort 

was truly one of the most rewarding experiences of my career in the Senate. I will never forget the days we spent discussing the proposal during a trip in 2006. 

While we were not able to pass our legislation in the Senate, our effort resulted in the creation of the President’s fiscal commission. It has been an honor to work alongside JUDD

in this fight. Like me, JUDD cares deeply about our Nation’s 

fiscal future and understands the danger of rising Federal 

debt. He has been a tenacious advocate of fiscal discipline 

and putting the budget on a sustainable long-term path. 

JUDD is a true-blue fiscal Conservative. But that has never 

stopped him from reaching across the aisle to work with 

Democrats. In addition to working with me, JUDD teamed up 

with Senator Ted Kennedy in 2001 to coauthor the No Child 

Left Behind Act. More recently, he teamed up with Senator 

Wyden to write the first major bipartisan tax reform legislation in decades, the Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act. 

Notably, JUDD also played a key role in the bipartisan negotiations that led to the creation of the TARP legislation. 

TARP was widely criticized during this past election season, 

but the results are now in, and it is clear that the TARP Program was successful in stabilizing the financial sector and 

helping to prevent the economy from dipping into a fullblown depression. The success of the program and the repayments now coming into the Treasury can be attributed, at 

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least in part, to JUDD’s insistence on including provisions in 

the legislation to protect American taxpayers. 

Finally, JUDD’s retirement means more to me than just 

losing a great partner on the Budget Committee. I am also 

losing a great friend. At a time when Washington is filled 

with so much partisan rancor and disagreement, we need 

more individuals from across the aisle to form friendships 

like ours. 

JUDD, I wish you all the best in your retirement. You will 

truly be missed. 

Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, today I would like to join 

with my colleagues in appreciation and admiration of Senator JUDD GREGG of New Hampshire. 

JUDD is a native of New Hampshire and after practicing 

as an attorney in Nashua, where he was born, he began a 

devoted career of public service to his State. Before coming 

to the Senate, JUDD served as a member of his State’s executive council, as a representative, and then on to become, as 

his father Hugh Gregg had been before him, Governor of the 

Granite State. 

JUDD was a successful and accomplished Governor. When 

he left Concord to join the Senate, he left his State with not 

only a balanced budget but a surplus as well. His leadership 

and record of fiscal responsibility has served as an example 

for our entire Nation to follow. 

His expertise on budgetary and fiscal issues has benefited 

all his fellow Senators on the Budget Committee. As both 

chairman and ranking member of the committee, JUDD put 

together both excellent staff and the resources necessary to 

advance our goals of cutting spending, balancing the budget, 

and reducing our Nation’s debt. With steps such as his successful sponsorship of the fiscal year 2006 budget resolution, 

which reduced mandatory spending for the first time in 

years, hard-working American taxpayers have saved billions 

thanks to Senator GREGG’s efforts. 

Senator GREGG and I worked hard together in fighting to 

reduce our government’s burden on taxpayers and the excessive spending that fuels it. We have both fought hard for our 

government to take our financial future seriously and to 

make the tough decisions necessary for it to be secured for 

our generation and for many more to come. 

I would like to thank Senator GREGG again for his leadership on these important issues, and his extensive service to 

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the people of New Hampshire. My wife Sandy and I wish 

Senator GREGG, his wife Kathy, and their family all the best. 

SUNDAY, December 19, 2010 

Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise to speak today to recognize the departure of my good friend Senator JUDD GREGG. 

Senator GREGG has been a tireless advocate for the people of 

his State and a devoted public servant. He will most certainly be missed. 

Senator GREGG is a New Hampshire man through and 

through. He was born in Nashua, NH, in 1947. His father, 

Hugh Gregg, served as Governor of New Hampshire when 

JUDD was just 5 years old. JUDD graduated from Phillips Exeter in 1965 before going on to earn his baccalaureate from 

Columbia University and his law degree from Boston University School of Law. 

After finishing law school in 1972, JUDD returned to Nashua to commence his law practice, though it wouldn’t be long 

before he would answer the call into public service. From 

1978 to 1980, JUDD served on the New Hampshire Governor’s Executive Council. Then, in 1980, he was elected to 

serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served 

for four terms. In 1988, he followed in his father’s footsteps 

and was elected Governor of New Hampshire and was reelected in 1990. 

In 1992, after two successful terms as Governor, in which 

he was able to balance the budget and leave the State with 

a surplus, JUDD was elected to represent New Hampshire 

here in the U.S. Senate. And, after serving for three terms, 

he is stepping down at the end of this session. 

If one were to describe JUDD’s political philosophy, I think 

they would have to say that he was for fiscal discipline even 

when fiscal discipline wasn’t cool. As chairman and ranking 

member of the Senate Budget Committee and senior member 

of the Banking Committee, his has always been a voice of 

warning and restraint, even when restraint wasn’t the status 

quo around Washington. His knowledge and expertise on 

these issues made him one of the most respected voices in 

our debates over health care, economic and fiscal policy, and 

financial regulatory reform. 

While JUDD has always been a Conservative, he’s never let 

go of his independence, refusing to put party before his principles. Everyone in Washington claims that they are that 

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way, but Senator GREGG is one of the few that has walked 

the walk. That, more than anything, is why he has won the 

respect and admiration of his colleagues on both sides of the 

aisle. 

The State of New Hampshire has been well represented 

here in the Senate and I know the people of his State are 

grateful for JUDD’s service. It has been both an honor and a 

privilege to have served alongside Senator GREGG. While I 

am certain that JUDD will be successful in whatever endeavor he chooses next, I am even more certain that the Senate 

will be a lesser place without him here. 

I want to wish JUDD and his wife Kathleen and their family the very best. 

MONDAY, December 20, 2010 

Mr. BUNNING. Mr. President, I wish to honor my colleague from New Hampshire, Senator GREGG, who is retiring 

from the U.S. Senate after serving 18 years in this Chamber 

and serving 8 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. 

Born and bred in New Hampshire, JUDD has dedicated his 

life to public service. JUDD served on the Executive Council 

of New Hampshire in 1978 before running for national office. 

In 1980, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives 

and was elected to three additional terms before returning to 

New Hampshire. In 1988, JUDD became the Governor of New 

Hampshire, a seat formerly held by his father Hugh. During 

his two terms as Governor, JUDD managed to balance the 

State’s budget and left Concord with a surplus. Following his 

tenure as Governor, JUDD returned to Washington in 1993 

and has represented New Hampshire in the Senate ever 

since. 

While working in the Senate, I have had the opportunity 

to serve with JUDD on the Banking Committee and the 

Budget Committee, where he currently serves as the ranking 

member. I have respect for the manner in which JUDD has 

conducted himself in the role of ranking member and the Republican leader on the Budget Committee. I also admire the 

fact that he always keeps our national deficit in mind when 

making tough decisions, whether or not these decisions are 

going to be popular. 

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ship in the Senate will be missed, and it has truly been an 

honor serving with him. 

I would like to thank JUDD for his contributions to the 

Senate and wish him well as he closes a chapter in his life 

and begins another. 

WEDNESDAY, December 22, 2010 

Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, I rise today to join my colleagues in paying a well-earned tribute to Senator JUDD

GREGG, a fellow New Englander and one of New Hampshire’s much-admired icons of public service over the last 

three decades. 

Senator GREGG has been immersed in public service his 

entire life, beginning with his father’s election as Governor 

of New Hampshire in 1952 when JUDD was only 5 years old. 

And through the years, he has amassed a record of leadership at every level of government that is truly remarkable. 

It comes as no surprise that JUDD is the first public servant 

from the Granite State ever to realize the political trifecta of 

being elected to the three offices of Congressman, Governor, 

and Senator. Serving others goes to the very core of JUDD

GREGG’s persona and DNA. It always has and always will. 

Let me just say, at every step along the way, it has been 

a privilege for me to witness Senator GREGG’s impressive 

trajectory in public life first hand. In fact, it was during 

JUDD’s years in the U.S. House of Representatives, where my 

husband, Jock McKernan, and I, first got to know him as 

well as his wonderful wife Kathy. And that friendship grew 

further during JUDD’s time as Governor as both he and Jock 

were chief executives of their respective States during the 

same period. 

Having served with JUDD for nearly his entire tenure in 

the Senate, I have been proud to work side by side with an 

individual whose organizing principle behind public service 

has always been driven by common sense, pragmatism, and 

the imperative to forge solutions across the aisle. Time and 

again, JUDD has sought to bridge the political divide to garner results, whether by tackling our Nation’s fiscal challenges, promoting land conservation, or most notably, coauthoring the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 with the late 

Senator Edward Kennedy. 

Indeed, Senator GREGG’s rigorous intellect, financial acumen, and budgetary expertise have earned him the respect 

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and admiration of his Senate colleagues from both parties 

and made him one of the Nation’s most well-regarded, leading champions of fiscal discipline and accountability, and one 

of the most knowledgeable voices and authorities in addressing our Nation’s deficits and debt. 

In fact, the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, created by President Obama, is 

modeled after legislation first introduced by Senator GREGG, 

the former chair and current ranking member of the Senate 

Budget Committee, and the current chair, Senator Kent 

Conrad of North Dakota—both of whom are commissioners. 

What a fitting coda for one of this generation’s stalwart 

guardians of our Nation’s budget. 

Senator GREGG’s service could not be more emblematic of 

his overall approach to public service which has always 

hewed to principle with a genuine desire to forge solutions 

across the aisle. No wonder that earlier this month, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus wrote that in ‘‘both parties, there are too few GREGGs, and too many of them . . . are 

leaving public office.’’ I couldn’t agree more! 

Just as Senator GREGG has rightly earned national acclaim as a fiscal steward and sentinel on behalf of the American taxpayer, the heart of his leadership has always remained with his beloved Granite State as well as our region 

of New England. I well recall the ironclad solidarity our two 

delegations have shared, particularly in defending against efforts to close the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Through each 

of the five Base Realignment and Closure, BRAC, rounds 

from 1988 through 2005, we have left no stone unturned to 

champion the cause of the U.S. Navy’s oldest and best shipyard—and to ensure that the BRAC Commission recognized 

the legendary work ethic and world-class craftsmanship of a 

workforce that is second to none. 

Former Senate majority and minority leader, Senator Robert Dole, with whom Senator GREGG and I both served, once 

observed: 

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good 

hands. It’s only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be 

concerned. 

When JUDD GREGG was on the floor the people of New 

Hampshire and, indeed, the Nation knew that our country 

was in tremendously capable and conscientious hands, and 

we could not be more grateful! 

In thanking Senator GREGG for his immeasurable contributions to this storied Chamber, I know I join all of my 

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colleagues in wishing him and his beloved wife Kathy, Godspeed, as they embark on the well-earned, next chapter of 

their lives. 

Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, it has been a great pleasure and honor to serve in this body with JUDD GREGG. He 

and his wife Kathy have enriched our lives with their friendship and their contributions to the work and responsibilities 

of the U.S. Senate. 

JUDD’s leadership on the Budget and Appropriations Committees have been especially important and worthy of high 

praise. 

His sense of humor has helped make our service in the 

Senate an enjoyable experience. 

I wish for him and his family all the best in the years 

ahead. 

Mrs. HUTCHISON. Mr. President, I would like to take a 

few minutes to pay tribute to the 16 Senators who will be 

departing this body at the end of the year. 

I am grateful for the opportunity I have had to serve 

alongside each of these Senators as colleagues and as 

friends. All served their States with distinction and gave 

their constituents strong voices in the world’s greatest deliberative body. Senators Evan Bayh, Robert Bennett, Kit 

Bond, Sam Brownback, Jim Bunning, Roland Burris, Chris 

Dodd, Byron Dorgan, Russ Feingold, Carte Goodwin, JUDD

GREGG, Ted Kaufman, George LeMieux, Blanche Lincoln, 

Arlen Specter, and George Voinovich each left an indelible 

mark on the Senate, and I wish them well as they take on 

new challenges and opportunities into the future. 

I would like to speak briefly about a few of the Senators 

I knew best and served with in committees to recognize their 

contributions and accomplishments and share my fond 

memories of them and the legacies they will leave behind. . . . 

As a leading voice for fiscal responsibility, Senator JUDD

GREGG will be deeply missed in the Senate. 

Throughout his long and distinguished career, with unparalleled commitment to fiscal discipline, Senator GREGG

worked to address many pressing issues. 

Senator GREGG is a well-known budget expert and national leader on the most critical issues facing our country in 

recent years, notably health care, economic issues, and financial regulation. 

His efforts to address the looming entitlement crisis, the 

rising cost of health care, and the inefficient and complex tax 

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system are commendable and serve as an example to all 

elected officials. 

In the Senate, Senator GREGG has also focused his efforts 

on helping the United States maintain its position as the 

leading destination for capital and investment in the world. 

I appreciate the job Senator GREGG has done in his position as the former chairman and current ranking member of 

the Budget Committee. 

In 2006, JUDD sponsored an amendment that strengthened 

border security by providing resources to integrate biometric 

databases as well as construction of new stations and check 

points and tactical infrastructure for immigration and customs enforcement. 

Unlike other similar proposals at the time, his amendment 

was offset and did not add to the deficit. 

I will miss working with him in this Chamber, and I will 

miss his friendship and support on the issues that matter 

most to America. 

In conclusion, the departing Senators’ contributions, their 

dedicated service, and the issues they championed will be remembered long after their final days in the Senate. 

I believe I can speak for my fellow Senators when I say 

that we will all miss our departing friends. 

Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, when the 111th Congress draws to a close, we will bid farewell to 16 colleagues 

who have collectively given more than 200 years of service 

to our Nation through their service in the Senate. These include seven of the Senate’s most experienced Members. People like Chris Dodd and Arlen Specter who have each served 

five terms in the Senate; Kit Bond who has served four 

terms; and Bob Bennett, Byron Dorgan, Russ Feingold, and 

JUDD GREGG, who have each served three terms in this 

Chamber. . . . 

JUDD GREGG, one of our Nation’s foremost experts on the 

Federal budget leaves us at the end of the year. As this Senate comes to grips with the challenges of a rising deficit and 

economic stagnation we will miss his firm hand and thoughtful guidance. . . . 

It has been an honor and a pleasure to serve with each of 

the people who will leave this Chamber when we adjourn 

sine die. Each has made substantial contributions to their 

States, to the Nation, and to the Senate during their time 

here. 

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