Date: 1982-11-30
Speaker: PHILIP M. CRANE (republican)
Chamber: H

Mr. Speaker. I will also attach to these remarks editorial comments from the principal newspapers in BOB MCCLoRYs congressional district and a number of communications which were made available to me for purposes of this special order. Mr. Speaker. the residents of the 13th Illinois Congressional District are justifiably proud of the man who has represented them in this House of Representatives for the past two decades. He will leave behind him an outstanding record. His efforts as a member of the Judiciary Committee will long be remembered. The record will show that Bon MCCLORY was a principal sponsor of amendments to the Federal antitrust laws. a sponsor of the proposed constitutional amendment to require a balanced Federal budget and to control Federal spending. an active proponent of Federal regulatory reform and immigration legislation. He participated actively in the 1974 impeachment inquiry and authored one of the three articles of impeachment reported by the committee. Congressman MCCLOnY was educated in Switzerland. Dartmouth College. and ChicagoKent College of Lawnow affiliated with Illinois Institute of Technologywhere he was graduated in 1932. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Green Key at Dartmouth. Phi Delta Phi and the Round Tablean honorary legal scholastic societyat ChicagoKent. He engaged in the general practice of law in the State and Federal courts in Chicago and Waukegan. Ill.. until his election to the Congress In 1962. Congressman MCCLORY received the Distinguished Alumni Award for 1982 from his law school alma mater. He was granted an honorary degree of doctor of laws in June 1982 from Lake Forest College in Illinois. He is the author of the article "Reforming the Budgetary and Fiscal Machinery of Congress". a chapter of "We Propose: A Modern Congress. (1968)". and "Congressional Investigations: A Necessary Hybrid in Our System of Govqrnment." which appeared in the 1977 volume of Capitol Studies. Congressman McCLORY has been admitted to the Illinois and District of Columbia bars. and is a member of the Illinois State Bar Associationformer member of the Board of Governorsand the American Bar Association. the Law Club of Chicago. and other legal. fraternal. and socidd organizations. Prior to his election to the Congress. he served for 12 years in the Illinois General Assembly10 years as a State senator. I Congressman MCCLORY is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. serving as the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Legislation. Mr. MCCLORY served as a member of the National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures (197879). He served during the past 2 years as a member of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy and is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on Project 87created to celebrate the bicentennial of our U.S. Constitution in 1987. Mr. Speaker. perhaps Bill Schroeder of the Lakeland Publications in Congressman McCLonYs district best summed up the feelings of his constituents when MCCLORY decided not to run for reelection in 1982. Schroeder wrote: Without dominating. the kindly. softspoken man from Lake Bluff was a dominant force in Lake County politics for more than 30 years. first as a state representative. then as a state senator and for the past 20 years serving as our representative in Washington. D.C. With only a hint of bitterness. MCCLORY was his customary genteel self in reacting to a blatantly political decision handed down by the courts that decimated MCCLORYs district and thrust him into a head on confrontation with a popular Republican colleague with like views if he was to stay in office. McCLORY chose to retire on the brink of every Congressmans dream. possible ascendancy to the chairmanship of a major House committee The decision to retire was vintage McCLORY. The popular lawmaker was not known as a quitter or without stomach for a fight. MCCLORY didnt quit. He retiredundefeated. As for a fight. the onetime Waukegan attorney could pursue an issue where principle was at stake. In this case. the only issue at stake was political selfpreservation. Obviously. that was insufficient in his eyes. Those words tell the story of BOB MCCLORYa leader. a man of principle. a fighter. Mr. Speaker. may I add to those words this observation: ROBERT MCCLORY of Illinois will be missed by friend and foe alike. Even his adversaries will concede. he was ever a gentleman and esteemed colleague. Mr. Speaker. the editorial comments and communications to which I referred are as follows: (From the Daily Courier News. Jan. 21. 1982]