[Senate Document 107-16]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]





                             Paul Wellstone

                          LATE A SENATOR FROM

                               MINNESOTA

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                           MEMORIAL ADDRESSES

                           AND OTHER TRIBUTES

                          hon. paul wellstone


                               1944 -2002


                                           

             
             

Paul Wellstone


                               Memorial Addresses and

                                   Other Tributes

                                 HELD IN THE SENATE

                            AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                OF THE UNITED STATES

                           TOGETHER WITH MEMORIAL SERVICES

                                     IN HONOR OF

                                   PAUL WELLSTONE

                     Late a Senator from Minnesota

                      One Hundred Seventh Congress

                             Second Session

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                            Compiled under the direction

                                       of the

                             Joint Committee on Printing
                                      CONTENTS
             Biography.............................................
                                                                      v
             Proceedings in the Senate:
                Tributes by Senators:
                    Akaka, Daniel K., of Hawaii....................
                                                                    116
                    Barkley, Dean, of Minnesota 
                     ..........................................
                                                           29, 102, 105
                    Bingaman, Jeff, of New Mexico..................
                                                                     46
                    Boxer, Barbara, of California..................
                                                                      5
                    Brownback, Sam, of Kansas......................
                                                                     91
                    Byrd, Robert C., of West Virginia..............
                                                                     62
                    Chafee, Lincoln D., of Rhode Island............
                                                                    106
                    Clinton, Hillary Rodham, of New York...........
                                                                     67
                    Cochran, Thad, of Mississippi..................
                                                                     80
                    Conrad, Kent, of North Dakota..................
                                                                     98
                    Corzine, Jon, of New Jersey....................
                                                                     72
                    Daschle, Thomas A., of South Dakota 
                     .....................................
                                                                19, 112
                    Dayton, Mark, of Minnesota 
                     ..........................................
                                                         4, 22, 83, 104
                    DeWine, Mike, of Ohio..........................
                                                                     58
                    Dodd, Christopher J., of Connecticut...........
                                                                     10
                    Dorgan, Byron L., of North Dakota..............
                                                                     38
                    Durbin, Richard J., of Illinois................
                                                                     42
                    Feingold, Russell D., of Wisconsin.............
                                                                     50
                    Feinstein, Dianne, of California...............
                                                                     81
                    Frist, Bill, of Tennessee......................
                                                                     80
                    Grassley, Charles E., of Iowa..................
                                                                    119
                    Harkin, Tom, of Iowa...........................
                                                                    113
                    Hollings, Ernest F., of South Carolina.........
                                                                     78
                    Hutchinson, Y. Tim, of Arkansas................
                                                                     96
                    Jeffords, James M., of Vermont.................
                                                                     36
                    Kennedy, Edward M., of Massachusetts...........
                                                                     52
                    Leahy, Patrick J., of Vermont..................
                                                                      8
                    Levin, Carl, of Michigan.......................
                                                                     74
                    Lieberman, Joseph I., of Connecticut 
                     ....................................
                                                               106, 115
                    Lincoln, Blanche, of Arkansas..................
                                                                    118
                    Lott, Trent, of Mississippi....................
                                                                     21
                    Murkowski, Frank H., of Alaska.................
                                                                     49
                    Murray, Patty, of Washington...................
                                                                     89
                    Nelson, Bill, of Florida.......................
                                                                     53
                    Nelson, Ben, of Nebraska.......................
                                                                     97
                    Nickles, Don, of Oklahoma......................
                                                                     66
                    Reed, Jack, of Rhode Island....................
                                                                    109
                    Reid, Harry, of Nevada.........................
                                                                 31, 88
                    Rockefeller, John D, IV, of West Virginia 
                     .............................
                                                               100, 108
                    Sarbanes, Paul S., of Maryland.................
                                                                    108
                    Sessions, Jeff, of Alabama.....................
                                                                     95
                    Snowe, Olympia J., of Maine....................
                                                                    107
                    Specter, Arlen, of Pennsylvania 
                     ..............................................
                                                                55, 112
                    Stabenow, Deborah Ann, of Michigan.............
                                                                     47
                    Stevens, Ted, of Alaska........................
                                                                     61
             Proceedings in the House of Representatives:
                Tributes by Representatives:
                    Cummings, Elijah E., of Maryland...............
                                                                    147
                    Davis, Danny K., of Illinois...................
                                                                    142
                    Ehlers, Vernon J., of Michigan.................
                                                                    144
                    Evans, Lane, of Illinois.......................
                                                                    145
                    Holt, Rush D., of New Jersey...................
                                                                    143
                    Jackson-Lee, Sheila, of Texas..................
                                                                    152
                    Lee, Barbara, of California....................
                                                                    150
                    Linder, John, of Georgia.......................
                                                                    149
                    McCollum, Betty, of Minnesota 
                     ..............................................
                                                               139, 153
                    Miller, George, of California..................
                                                                    145
                    Norton, Eleanor Holmes, of District of Columbia
                                                                    135
                    Oberstar, James I., of Minnesota 
                     ...................................
                                                          130, 142, 144
                    Pelosi, Nancy, of California...................
                                                                    140
                    Ramstad, Jim, of Minnesota.....................
                                                                    128
                    Reyes, Silvestre, of Texas.....................
                                                                    146
                    Roybal-Allard, Lucille, of California..........
                                                                    148
                    Sabo, Martin Olav, of Minnesota................
                                                                    133
                    Schakowsky, Janice D., of Illinois.............
                                                                    133
                    Solis, Hilda I., of California.................
                                                                    154
             Memorial Service......................................
                                                                    157
                                      BIOGRAPHY

               Paul David Wellstone, Minnesota's senior Senator, was 
             born to Russian immigrants Leon and Minnie Wellstone on 
             July 21, 1944, in Washington, DC.
               Paul was raised in Arlington, VA, and attended Wakefield 
             and Yorktown High Schools. An accomplished student and 
             athlete, he went on to the University of North Carolina in 
             Chapel Hill where he was a champion wrestler. In 1965 he 
             earned his B.A., and 4 years later was awarded a Ph.D. in 
             political science. He then accepted a teaching post at 
             Carleton College in Northfield, MN, where he taught for 21 
             years. From 1983 to 1984 he was the director of the 
             Minnesota Community Energy Program.
               In 1990, underdog Senate candidate Paul Wellstone 
             rallied a dynamic volunteer force and traveled throughout 
             Minnesota in his trademark green bus. He was the only 
             Senate challenger that year to unseat an incumbent. U.S. 
             Senator Paul Wellstone's experience as a teacher and 
             community organizer in Minnesota and his work representing 
             Minnesotans in the Senate provided the framework for his 
             progressive priorities and accomplishments.
               During his first Senate term, Senator Wellstone led 
             legislative battles to make health care more accessible 
             and affordable and won workers' protection to take time 
             from work to care for their families without losing their 
             jobs. He helped raise the minimum wage, successfully 
             fought to protect seniors' pension funds from corporate 
             raiders, and authored historic ethics and lobbying reform 
             measures that forever changed how the people's business is 
             done on Capitol Hill. Senator Wellstone expanded health 
             care coverage for those suffering from mental illness, 
             worked with a bipartisan coalition to write a new farm 
             bill, and blocked harsh bankruptcy reforms unfair to 
             consumers as well as efforts to open the Arctic National 
             Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. He secured Federal 
             resources for Minnesota schools and worked tirelessly on 
             behalf of veterans, passing legislation to aid homeless 
             veterans and securing compensation for ``atomic veterans'' 
             suffering from cancers due to radiation exposure during 
             their military service.
               He was also a leader in efforts to combat violence 
             against women. In 2000, Wellstone joined with Senator Sam 
             Brownback (R-KS) to pass historic bipartisan legislation 
             to prevent international sex trafficking of women and 
             girls, establishing first-ever penalties for those who 
             enslave and traffic in persons.
               Paul Wellstone was one of a kind. He was a man of 
             principle and conviction in a world that has too little of 
             either. He was a passionate visionary who never gave up 
             hope that we could make the world a better place for 
             everyone; a committed fighter for social justice who gave 
             a voice to the voiceless; a man with a huge heart who lit 
             up a room--and the hearts of others when he walked in. He 
             was a man who valued others for who they were not where 
             they came from, or what they wore, or their position or 
             social status. He was dedicated to helping the little guy 
             in a business dominated by the big guys.
               Senator Wellstone's life was tragically cut short when 
             the plane he was traveling in crashed southeast of 
             Eveleth, MN, leaving no survivors. On the plane with him 
             were his wife, Sheila (Ison) Wellstone; daughter, Marcia 
             Wellstone; campaign staff Will McLaughlin, Tom Lapic, and 
             Mary McEvoy; and Captains Richard Conry and Michael Guess.
               Paul and Sheila are survived by two sons, David and 
             Mark; and six grandchildren, Cari, Keith, Joshua, Acacia, 
             Sydney, and Matt.







                                           

             
             

Sheila Wellstone

                 




Photograph by Tony Nelson







                                 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES

                                         AND

                                   OTHER TRIBUTES

                                         FOR

                                   PAUL WELLSTONE
                              Proceedings in the Senate
                                               Monday, October 28, 2002
               The Senate met at 10:30 a.m. and was called to order by 
             the Honorable Christopher J. Dodd, a Senator from the 
             State of Connecticut.

               The PRESIDING OFFICER. Today's prayer will be offered by 
             our guest Chaplain, Father M. John Farrelly, a Benedictine 
             monk from St. Anselm's Abbey in Washington, DC.
               Father Farrelly.
                                       prayer
               Let us pray.
               As we gather together at the beginning of this day may 
             we, by Your grace, Lord, so live that we will stand before 
             You confident in Your mercy, as we have shown mercy to 
             those in need. Almighty and merciful God, we commend to 
             You Senator Paul Wellstone who was taken away, along with 
             his wife and his daughter, so unexpectedly and suddenly 
             from us, and who has left many colleagues and others 
             stunned and deeply saddened by their loss of a highly 
             valued coworker and friend.
               May his legacy of voting according to his conscience and 
             his concern for the ordinary citizen and the 
             underprivileged endure in this Chamber. May the manner of 
             his death remind all of us that the control we have of our 
             lives is fragile and uncertain, and that our lives can be 
             called from us at any moment.
               May Paul Wellstone dwell in Your house, Lord, forever 
             and ever, and may You comfort his remaining family and the 
             many friends, supporters, and the entire Senate family who 
             are bereaved.
               Amen.
                DEATH OF PAUL WELLSTONE, A SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF 
                                      MINNESOTA
               The legislative clerk read as follows:
               A resolution (S. Res. 354) relative to the death of Paul 
             Wellstone, a Senator from the State of Minnesota:
                                     S. Res. 354
               Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone taught at Carleton 
             College in Northfield, Minnesota, for more than 20 years 
             in the service of the youth of our Nation;
               Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone served Minnesota in 
             the U.S. Senate with devotion and distinction for more 
             than a decade;
               Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone worked tirelessly 
             on behalf of America's Veterans and the less fortunate, 
             particularly children and families living in poverty and 
             those with mental illness;
               Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone never wavered from 
             the principles that guided his life and career;
               Whereas his efforts on behalf of the people of Minnesota 
             and all Americans earned him the esteem and high regard of 
             his colleagues; and
               Whereas his tragic and untimely death has deprived his 
             State and Nation of an outstanding lawmaker: Now, 
             therefore, be it
               Resolved, That the Senate expresses profound sorrow and 
             deep regret on the deaths of the Honorable Paul Wellstone, 
             late a Senator from the State of Minnesota, his wife 
             Sheila, their daughter Marcia, aides Mary McEvoy, Tom 
             Lapic, and Will McLaughlin, and pilots Richard Conry and 
             Michael Guess.
               Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these 
             resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit 
             an enrolled copy thereof to the family of the deceased 
             Senator, and the families of all the deceased.
               Resolved, That when the Senate adjourns today, it 
             adjourn as a further mark of respect to the memory of the 
             deceased Senator.

               Mr. DAYTON. Mr. President, I ask that the Senate observe 
             a moment of silence in tribute to Senator Wellstone and 
             his family.
               (Moment of silence.)

               Mr. DAYTON. Mr. President, it is with a profoundly heavy 
             heart that I rise today to present this resolution 
             honoring my colleague, Paul Wellstone. This is not the 
             occasion in this brief session for eulogies. There will be 
             other opportunities on the Senate floor for all of us to 
             share our memories and our perspectives.
               For myself, I cannot begin to do Paul justice in a few 
             minutes or even a few hours. He was such an extraordinary 
             and remarkable man. He brought so much life, enthusiasm, 
             passion and commitment to the public life he lived, and he 
             touched so many thousands of Minnesotans and others across 
             this country who mourn his loss as we do here today.
               He died fearlessly, as he lived his life. In the 
             resolution that was just read, the words ``never wavered 
             from the principles'' will be words that I will always 
             associate with Paul Wellstone. He never ever blinked in 
             the face of adversity. Courageous, difficult, perhaps at 
             times unpopular positions were articles of faith for Paul 
             because he believed in them.
               It was not about polls. It was not about pundits. It was 
             about the conviction he had about what was right for 
             people, for his fellow citizens.
               He was unpretentious, unassuming, just himself. He was 
             no different as a Senator than as a man, than as a 
             political activist all in one, he was extraordinary and he 
             will never be replaced. In the hearts and minds of 
             Minnesotans, he will never be forgotten.
               Yet, Mr. President, he loved this institution. He 
             respected enormously the traditions, the men and women who 
             served here. They came to respect him for the courage of 
             his convictions. I could see in the course of the 2 years 
             I have shared with him in the Senate that he was respected 
             by people who did not agree with him because they knew he 
             was speaking from his heart, that he was speaking from his 
             soul, that he was speaking what he truly believed.
               One could ask for no more, no less from any of us than 
             the strength of our convictions and our willingness to 
             speak out about them regardless of political cost.
               Paul and his wife, Sheila, at his side for 39 years, 
             died last Friday together, as they would have wanted it to 
             be, though not with their daughter Marcia who also was on 
             that flight and three of their devoted aides and two 
             pilots. It is an unspeakable tragedy and horror for all of 
             us in Minnesota, but it will be the responsibility for all 
             of us, on behalf of Paul, to take a deep breath and carry 
             on on behalf of our convictions and our causes--as he 
             would want us to do.
               I thank the Senate for this resolution on behalf of 
             Paul. And for his two surviving sons, David and Mark, and 
             their families I know it will be of solace to them in 
             their hours of terrible grief.

               Mrs. BOXER. Senator Dayton, your remarks were beautiful 
             and Paul would have been so pleased to hear your tone and 
             your spirit. And I can tell you, Senator Dayton, how much 
             he loved you, how proud he was to have you here by his 
             side.
               Mr. President, I have flown in from California to be 
             here on the Senate floor today to make just a few remarks 
             about our dear friend and colleague, Senator Paul 
             Wellstone. I want to start by reading two paragraphs 
             written by his loyal and hard-working staff. After his 
             plane went down, and they learned the worst, they wrote 
             the following:

               Paul Wellstone was one of a kind. He was a man of 
             principle and conviction, in a world that has too little 
             of either. He was dedicated to helping the little guy, in 
             a business dominated by the big guys. We who had the 
             privilege of working with him hope that he will be 
             remembered as he lived every day: as a champion for 
             people.
               His family was the center of his life and it breaks our 
             hearts that his wife of 39 years and his daughter Marcia 
             were with him. Our prayers are with Mark and David and the 
             grandchildren he and Sheila cherished so much.

               That was posted on the Wellstone Web site by Senator 
             Wellstone's staff.
               Mr. President, Senator Dayton, for me, the loss of Paul 
             Wellstone cuts very deep. Kind, compassionate, self-
             deprecating, a passionate voice for those without a voice, 
             enthusiastic, a bundle of energy--this was a unique man of 
             the people.
               When we learned that the tragedy of Paul's death was 
             magnified by the death of the two women he cherished so 
             much--his wife Sheila and his daughter Marcia--the wounds 
             in our hearts cut deeper still, plus the loss of three 
             staffers--Tom Lapic, Will McLaughlin, and Mary McEvoy--and 
             the two pilots--Captains Richard Conry and Michael Guess.
               Mr. President, no words--no words--can possibly ease the 
             pain of all the family members who were touched by this 
             tragedy. No words can ease the pain of David and Mark, 
             Paul's two sons, and their families. All we can do is let 
             them know that we pray that they have the strength to 
             endure this time for the sake of the Wellstone 
             grandchildren: Cari, Keith, Joshua, Acacia, Sydney, and 
             Matt. Let the Record show that your grandchildren brought 
             endless joy to you. And we say to the grandchildren, thank 
             you for the joy that you gave to Grandma and Grandpa.
               I want to say to the people of Minnesota, thank you, 
             thank you for sending Paul to us, for sharing Paul with us 
             these past 12 years. He loved the people of his State: the 
             farmers, the workers, the children, the elderly, the sick, 
             the disabled, the families. He fought for you all, so long 
             and so hard, without stopping, in committees and 
             subcommittees, in the Democratic Caucus meetings, when he 
             would get up and say: Just give me 30 seconds--just 30 
             seconds--to make my point about the people of Minnesota. 
             He stood up at press conferences. He would grab Senators, 
             one by one, and fight for you, the people of Minnesota, 
             who were always in his thoughts and on his mind. And I 
             know he is now in your thoughts and on your minds.
               In my own State of California--so many thousands of 
             miles away from Minnesota--there are memorial services 
             being set up for Paul. You see, his compassionate voice 
             reached thousands of miles, and many people in my State 
             are sending me condolence notes and flowers because they 
             know how much I will miss working with Paul Wellstone, and 
             so will all Senators on both sides of the aisle.
               As Mark said, Paul was never afraid to speak out when it 
             might be unpopular, nor was he afraid to be on the losing 
             side of a Senate vote. He had courage. And when you told 
             him that, when you said: ``Paul, you have courage,'' he 
             shrugged it off. He would say something like: ``What else 
             could I do? It's just not right!'' He would say that--
             determined, brave.
               You see, Paul Wellstone could not vote against his 
             conscience or for something he did not believe was in the 
             best interest of the people he represented. He couldn't; 
             he wouldn't--no matter what the consequences.
               He cared about the underdog always. He cared about the 
             victim always. He cared about peace always. And Paul, 
             blessed are the peacemakers.
               Paul was a humble man. When his longtime staffer, Mike 
             Epstein, died--and many of us knew Mike--Paul took to the 
             Senate floor, and this is what he said, in part:

               Mike, I know you will not like me saying this, but I'm 
             going to say it anyway because it's true. I believe from 
             the bottom of my heart that everything I've been able to 
             do as a Senator that has been good for Minnesota and the 
             country is because, Mike, you have been right by my side, 
             1 inch away from me.

               And he said:

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

               That was Paul Wellstone. He never bragged about himself. 
             He loved his family so much. He loved his staff. He took 
             time for all the Senate employees: the young people who 
             work with us, the officers who protect us, the food 
             service people, the elevator operators--all the Senate 
             family, no matter what their status.
               Mr. President, he wanted to give everyone--everyone he 
             touched--his sense of optimism, his energy, his strength.
               When Paul learned he had multiple sclerosis, I worried 
             and I said to him: ``Are you OK?'' He said: ``I probably 
             had it for a long time. I'm just not going to think about 
             it.'' And off he went in his usual rush. There was so much 
             to do. Off he went to his desk in the Senate, his desk now 
             incredibly shrouded in black.
               Paul loved that aisle desk. It gave him a bird's eye 
             view of the Senate that he loved. And when he spoke from 
             his desk, he could come out from behind it. He could leave 
             his notes behind--arms gesturing, voice determined--and 
             talk from his heart. He would say something like: I don't 
             represent big business or big anything. He would say: I 
             represent the people of Minnesota. And that he did every 
             minute of his all-too-short life.
               As our session wound down, Paul wanted to finish our 
             business and go home. He told us all: I want to be with my 
             people. I need to touch them. I need to look them in the 
             eye. I can't wait to get home.
               Paul was a powerful man. His power did not come from his 
             physical stature. He was strong but he was slight of 
             build. His power did not come from generations of family 
             wealth. He was not a man of moneyed wealth. His parents 
             were immigrants: Leon and Minnie Wellstone. His power did 
             not come from political connections. His connections were 
             with regular people.
               Let me tell you from where his power came. It came from 
             a fierce dedication to justice and truth and honesty and 
             righteousness. He gave comfort and he gave hope to those 
             he touched. And he gave them some of his power--the power 
             to see the possibilities of their own lives. Paul died on 
             his way to give comfort and hope to those facing death. He 
             was flying to a funeral service.
               Today we say to Paul: We will give comfort and hope to 
             those you have left behind by doing all that we can to 
             continue your legacy and your dream. Together, we can 
             build an America of fairness, of justice, of prosperity, a 
             world of tolerance and a world of peace. And, Paul, may 
             you and yours rest in peace forever.

               Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I thank the Senator from 
             Minnesota and the Senator from California for their words. 
             I know and respect both the Senator from Minnesota, 
             Senator Dayton, and the Senator from California, Senator 
             Boxer. I know them well enough to know this was a very 
             painful moment for both of them--just as it is for the 
             distinguished presiding officer and as it is for the 
             Senator from Vermont.
               Mr. President, you and I have been here a long time in 
             the Senate. With the Senator from Minnesota, who is now--
             not at his choice--the senior Senator from Minnesota, and 
             the Senator from California, I think we can all say that 
             there is no sadder sight than coming on the floor and 
             seeing a black drape on a Senator's desk. The 
             distinguished presiding officer and I have unfortunately 
             seen that many times in our careers, for Senators on both 
             sides of the aisle. In every instance when we have entered 
             the Chamber and seen the black drape we know that there 
             has been a death in the family.
               We are privileged in this body, 100 men and women--now 
             99 men and women--to represent the greatest nation on 
             Earth, a nation of a quarter of a billion people. But 
             because there are only 100 of us, no matter our political 
             differences, when one is lost we all feel it. When I heard 
             the news in Vermont, I was at a restaurant in Burlington 
             with my son, Kevin. It was a small restaurant. There was a 
             television going but with no sound. My back was to it. I 
             saw the look of shock on Kevin's face. He spun me around 
             and I saw the news. We both left that restaurant in tears. 
             The news spread quickly and as I walked down the street 
             people--many of them I never met before--just came up and 
             hugged me, because they, too, lost somebody.
               Paul Wellstone had come to Vermont and was greeted with 
             great warmth. I vividly remember the evening he came to 
             speak. Everybody came up to him. They didn't want him to 
             leave. Paul Wellstone, like one of his predecessors, my 
             dear friend, Hubert Humphrey, was a happy warrior. If 
             people wanted to talk with him he did not mind and would 
             stay, the same way Hubert would have.
               There is an affinity, I believe, between our State of 
             Vermont and Minnesota. That is why there was a bond 
             Vermonters felt with Paul Wellstone. Paul could sense it. 
             And, we worked on many important issues as a team. During 
             the recent farm bill debate he met with Vermont farmers 
             and together we drafted a dairy provision that was 
             beneficial to both of our States. I remember when he and 
             Jim Jeffords and Bernie Sanders and I joined together to 
             have a milk toast. We were joking around. Paul was not a 
             tall man. I playfully stood blocking him from the cameras. 
             And he said: ``Hey, remember, I'm a wrestler,'' at which 
             point I quickly moved aside. Of course Paul was far more 
             than a wrestler--but it is easy to make the correlation to 
             the way he wrestled with issues here on the floor. He 
             wrestled them down. I thought to myself: What a man to 
             have on your side. What a man to be a friend.
               Paul Wellstone served with powerful people but he was 
             not intimidated by that. And, he never took on the airs of 
             one who was powerful. He would introduce himself to 
             people: ``Hi, I'm Paul Wellstone.'' And someone else would 
             have to say: That's a U.S. Senator.
               I never went on an elevator with Paul without him 
             calling the elevator operator by name. He would talk with 
             the pages and give them tutorials. He knew everybody in 
             the Senate and they knew and loved him.
               It is impossible to talk about our colleague Paul 
             Wellstone without mentioning Sheila Wellstone. They were 
             inseparable. Whenever the Senate would have a late night 
             session Sheila would be in the galleries, waiting for Paul 
             to leave.
               Of all my memories of Paul Wellstone, the one I may 
             remember the most is the last time I saw the two of them. 
             It was a late night session. You know these gorgeous halls 
             we have, with the chandeliers and everything else, and 
             here is this couple walking hand in hand down one of the 
             halls about midnight--Paul and Sheila Wellstone. I came 
             around the corner and I said: ``Hey, you teenagers,'' and 
             they laughed and hugged each other. I saw them go out, 
             down the steps into the night, hand in hand.
               Let us hope that they have gone hand and hand into the 
             light and that they are now together.
               Marcella and I also extend our thoughts and prayers to 
             Marcia, Paul and Sheila's daughter, and her family. And, 
             as the Senate noted in the resolution that was just passed 
             a few moments ago, we all grieve for the Wellstone staff 
             who were on board the plane: Tom Lapic, Mary McEvoy and 
             Will McLaughlin. Our thoughts and prayer are with their 
             families in these trying times. Our condolences also go to 
             the families of the pilots on the plane, Richard Conry and 
             Michael Guess.

               Mr. DODD. Madam President, first let me express my 
             thanks to our colleague from Minnesota, Senator Dayton, 
             and express our sympathies to him and through him to the 
             people of Minnesota and to the Wellstone family, the 
             extended family, for all that they are suffering in this 
             particular time, and to express my gratitude as well to my 
             colleague from California, Senator Boxer, and my colleague 
             from Vermont, Senator Leahy, for their very moving and 
             emotional remarks. I think they captured to a large extent 
             the sentiments of all of us.
               This is a difficult time. I suppose the American people 
             see we are in session and wonder why only a few of us are 
             here. Obviously, with a week to go before the 
             congressional elections, not many are here in Washington. 
             But suffice it to say, were 96 or 97 other Senators here 
             today, you would hear much the same sentiments that have 
             been expressed already by the now-senior Senator from 
             Minnesota, the Senator from California, and the Senator 
             from Vermont.
               So I join my colleagues, and all Americans, in mourning 
             the very tragic and sudden loss of our dear friend and 
             colleague, Senator Paul Wellstone, who will be forever 
             remembered as a friend and patriot and true public 
             servant, who fought each and every day of his public 
             life--in fact, of his life--to improve the lives of 
             average Americans. We got to know him here over the last 
             10 or 11 years as a Member of the U.S. Senate, but the 
             people of Minnesota and the people of Carleton College, 
             students who had him as a professor, people who knew him 
             beforehand, they knew that Paul Wellstone didn't just 
             become a fighter when he arrived in the Senate of the 
             United States. He dedicated his life to it. It is what his 
             parents taught him. It is what he believed in passionately 
             as an American. We became witnesses to that sense of 
             passion and outrage about wrongs in this country and 
             around the world as we served with our colleague, Paul 
             Wellstone, for the last decade.
               So, like my colleagues, I was stunned and deeply 
             saddened by the enormous scope and tragedy of this loss. 
             Obviously, the entire Wellstone family has suffered an 
             unfathomable loss, as have the families of the other 
             victims of this horrendous accident. His wife Sheila--I 
             join my colleagues in expressing our deep sense of loss. 
             Sometimes, although we get to know Members, we don't get 
             to know the spouses of our colleagues very well, but 
             Sheila Wellstone really became a member of the Senate 
             family aside from being a spouse. She was an unpaid 
             volunteer in her husband's office.
               If there are women today who are suffering less because 
             of domestic violence--and there are many who are not, but 
             many who are--you can thank some colleagues here. But I 
             suspect one of the reasons they became so motivated about 
             the issue was because there was a person by the name of 
             Sheila Wellstone who arrived here a decade ago and wanted 
             to make this a matter of the business of the U.S. Senate.
               So they became partners, not just over the almost 40 
             years of love and affection for each other, but partners 
             in their sense of idealism, sense of values, and sense of 
             purpose.
               Marcia I did not know very well, but certainly heard 
             Paul and Sheila talk abut her with great admiration and 
             affection. In the loss suffered by her family, with young 
             children, it is difficult to even come up with the words 
             to express the sense of grief that I feel. And obviously 
             the staff: Will McLaughlin, Tom Lapic, and Mary McEvoy, 
             along with the pilots who have been mentioned already: 
             Richard Conry and Michael Guess, we didn't know, but I 
             suspect on that flight up there they had gotten to know 
             the Wellstone family and the staff. And so we want to 
             express our deep sense of loss to their families.
               I ask unanimous consent to have printed at the end of my 
             remarks a wonderful editorial by David Rosenbaum in the 
             New York Times on Saturday which I thought captured 
             perfectly the image of Paul Wellstone, who he was and what 
             he tried to do, better than any words I could possibly 
             express here today.
               Madam President, William Shakespeare once wrote, ``No 
             legacy is so rich as honesty.'' I have never met, let 
             alone worked with, a more honest or noble man than Paul 
             Wellstone.
               His legacy will be that of an honest, passionate and 
             tireless fighter on behalf of justice and fairness for all 
             Americans, especially those less fortunate than himself.
               Paul suffered a lot. He had this bad back. He would 
             hobble around. He had this gait that if you didn't know he 
             was hurting was almost an affectionate gait. He sort of 
             limped around at various times; he would stand a lot at 
             times in meetings because sitting would be so painful for 
             him as a result of injuries he suffered. He had MS which 
             he sort of shrugged off, as my colleague from California 
             said. He grew up in a situation where his family were 
             immigrants who came from Russia. They grew up actually in 
             Arlington, VA, a short distance from here. A former staff 
             member of mine was a neighbor of theirs. He knew Paul as a 
             child growing up. They had their own burdens to bear aside 
             from being immigrants, problems of those newly arriving, 
             with the language barriers. Trying to get acclimated to a 
             new society such as ours is not easy. So Paul understood 
             the issues of those who suffered more than in just an 
             intellectual effort. This was something he deeply felt and 
             had grown up with and appreciated immensely.
               When he came to this body and we got to know him as 
             someone who would fight tirelessly on behalf of those who 
             did not have lawyers, lobbyists, and others to express 
             their concerns, to bring their issues to the debate of the 
             Senate, we found in this individual just a remarkable 
             voice and a remarkable fight. Like many of my colleagues, 
             I might be home or completed the evening and turned on the 
             television and the Senate would still be in session, and 
             there would be Paul Wellstone, standing at that desk in 
             the rear of this Chamber, speaking to an empty place 
             except for the millions of Americans tuned in to C-SPAN 
             who would hear someone talking about subjects that were 
             affecting their lives.
               Single moms, working families, children without health 
             care, the homeless, international victims of torture--
             these were among Senator Paul Wellstone's core 
             constituencies, and they could not have had a better 
             spokesperson.
               A lot of times we spend days here talking about issues 
             that might seem terribly arcane to the average citizen in 
             this country, matters that don't seem terribly relevant to 
             their daily lives, and yet Paul Wellstone never let a day 
             go by that he didn't give voice to the concerns of average 
             Americans or those who are, as Hubert Humphrey would talk 
             about, in the shadows of life or the dawn of life or the 
             dusk of life--Paul Wellstone giving voice, that great 
             Minnesota voice to those who needed to have their concerns 
             raised in chambers such as this. And so for all of those 
             people who are wondering today whether or not their 
             concerns, their hopes, their fears will find expression, 
             it is hard to find any silver lining with the passage of 
             someone you care about so much, but I suspect as we 
             reconvene here on November 12 and again with a new 
             Congress coming in in January we will hear the words of 
             Paul Wellstone repeated quite frequently. We will hear the 
             passion that he brought to the issues raised maybe more 
             frequently than they otherwise might be. That's because we 
             will remember an individual we had the privilege and honor 
             of serving with who reminded this institution of what its 
             role ought to be, not just to those who are well heeled, 
             those who can afford to acquire the access, but those who 
             need to have their issues raised--that their concerns and 
             their worries, their hopes, their dreams for this country 
             and their own families will be once again a part of the 
             mainstream of debate in the Senate.
               Paul Wellstone fought some awfully tough battles. He 
             fought a tough battle to get here, a man who was told he 
             could not possibly get elected to the Senate, who was 
             being outspent by overwhelming odds.
               I rode with him in that bus--I am sure my colleague from 
             Minnesota, maybe my colleagues from California and Vermont 
             remember--that rattly old green bus, in the freezing cold, 
             bitter cold, cold months of Minnesota. I remember going 
             with him to some big fair or festival that he was holding 
             on behalf of poor farmers and family farmers in Minnesota. 
             Just a few weeks ago, Madam President, I campaigned with 
             him in Minnesota, with some of the medical device 
             companies around Minneapolis and St. Paul. This was 
             supposed to be about a 20-minute meeting we were going to 
             have at one of these firms to talk about the medical 
             devices that Paul played a major role in working to see to 
             it that they were going to become a reality for people who 
             would use them. We were supposed to leave in 15 or 20 
             minutes but the room was packed; the people wanted to talk 
             about other things. And Paul Wellstone stayed for about 
             1\1/2\ hours just engaging with the people in this room. 
             They went far beyond the medical device issues. The people 
             in that room wanted to talk about health care; they wanted 
             to talk about education; they wanted to talk about the 
             environment; they wanted to talk about prescription drugs 
             and the elderly; they wanted to talk about issues 
             affecting Native Americans and minority groups; they 
             wanted to talk about foreign policy. And he engaged, 
             engaged and engaged for an hour and a half. He would have 
             stayed longer. Staff had to almost drag him out of the 
             room. But it was so reflective, standing in the back of 
             the room watching Paul Wellstone with great passion and 
             clarity expressing where he stood.
               He didn't sit there and try to figure out where the 
             question was coming from based on the tilt of their 
             rhetoric. He answered them how he felt as their Senator, 
             their representative, so they would know where he stood.
               Madam President, I apologize for sort of meandering 
             here, but it is how I feel. I have a great sense of loss 
             and also a sense of joy. Paul Wellstone had a great sense 
             of humor. He cared deeply about issues but he also had the 
             wonderful ability to laugh at himself, to appreciate the 
             humor that only this institution can provide in some of 
             the more bizarre moments, a wonderful relationship with 
             virtually everyone here. It didn't happen automatically or 
             initially. Paul came here determined to change the world; 
             if not the world, change the United States; if not that, 
             maybe his Minnesota. Along the way and in the process he 
             probably rubbed some people the wrong way, but those very 
             people became the people who cared most about him in many 
             ways in the final analysis because they realized that 
             everything he said and everything he did was not about 
             himself but about the people he wanted to represent. And 
             so I know there are Members who are not here today because 
             of other obligations, but who, when the opportunity comes, 
             will express their own thoughts and feelings, but don't be 
             surprised--Madam President, I know you will not be, nor my 
             colleagues from Minnesota or Vermont--that some of the 
             heartfelt remarks about Paul will come from people who 
             disagreed with him vehemently on substantive matters, but 
             appreciated immensely his sense of conviction, something 
             we can do a lot more of in politics in America today.
               Frederick Douglass once said, ``The life of a nation is 
             secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and 
             virtuous.'' For 58 years, Paul Wellstone lived a life that 
             was honest, truthful, and virtuous. For 12 years, he 
             personally lent those characteristics to the heart of the 
             U.S. Government.
               America, Minnesota, and this institution have suffered a 
             terrible loss at the death of Paul Wellstone, but there is 
             a silver lining in all of this; that as a result of his 
             service this country is a better place, there are people 
             who are living better lives; this world with all of its 
             difficulties has been a better world because Paul 
             Wellstone was a part of it.
               I am confident as I stand before you today, Madam 
             President, that in the weeks, months, and years ahead, his 
             memory and legacy will live on in the debates, the 
             discussions, and actions we take in this body.
               For that, Paul Wellstone, you ought to know that your 
             service continues and your words and your actions will 
             have a legacy borne out by those who come after you in the 
             service of your State and the thousands of young people 
             you motivated.
               Madam President, if you could only see, as many have, 
             the hundreds of young people throughout Minnesota who Paul 
             Wellstone energized and brought to the public life of this 
             country, people who otherwise would not have paid any 
             attention. Paul Wellstone said: You ought to be involved; 
             there is a reason to be involved.
               His ability to attract people to come to a cause and to 
             fight for the good cause will live on. I suspect one day 
             this Chamber will have people who will serve in it who cut 
             their teeth in politics working on a Wellstone campaign.
               Paul, the campaign goes on. Your battles will go on, and 
             we are going to miss you.

                     [From the New York Times, October 26, 2002]
                 A Death in the Senate: Paul Wellstone, 58, Icon of 
                              Liberalism in the Senate
                               (By David E. Rosenbaum)
               Washington, Oct. 25.--Paul Wellstone often seemed out of 
             step. He called himself a liberal when many used that word 
             as a slur. He voted against the Persian Gulf war in his 
             first year in the Senate, and this month opposed using 
             force against Iraq.
               Senator Wellstone, 58, who died in a plane crash today 
             while campaigning for re-election, fought for bills 
             favored by unions and advocates of family farmers and the 
             poor, and against those favored by banks, agribusiness and 
             large corporations. This year he was the principal 
             opponent of legislation supported by large majorities of 
             Democrats and Republicans that would make it more 
             difficult for people to declare bankruptcy. He argued that 
             the measure would enrich creditors at the expense of 
             people ``in brutal economic circumstances.'' He advocated 
             causes like national health insurance that even many of 
             his fellow liberals abandoned as futile.
               Mr. Wellstone was a rumpled, unfailingly modest man who, 
             unlike many of his colleagues, lived on his Senate salary. 
             He was married to the former Sheila Ison for 39 years, 
             having married at 19 when he was in college. His wife and 
             their 33-year-old daughter, Marcia, also died today in the 
             crash.
               When Mr. Wellstone arrived in the Senate in 1991, he was 
             a firebrand who thought little of breaking the Senate 
             tradition of comity and personally attacking his 
             colleagues. He told an interviewer soon after he was 
             elected that Senator Jesse Helms, the conservative North 
             Carolina Republican, ``represents everything to me that is 
             ugly and wrong and awful about politics.''
               But as the years passed, Mr. Wellstone moderated his 
             personality if not his politics and became well liked by 
             Republicans as well as Democrats. Bob Dole, the former 
             Senate Republican leader who often tangled with Mr. 
             Wellstone on legislation, choked up today when he told a 
             television interviewer that Mr. Wellstone was ``a decent, 
             genuine guy who had a different philosophy from almost 
             everyone else in the Senate.''
               Mr. Wellstone was also an accomplished campaigner. 
             Though he had never held elected office, he pulled off a 
             major upset in 1990 when, running on a shoestring budget, 
             he defeated the incumbent Republican Senator, Rudy 
             Boschwitz. He beat Mr. Boschwitz in a rematch in 1996. 
             This year, he reneged on a promise to limit himself to two 
             terms, ran for re-election and seemed in the most recent 
             public polls to have pulled slightly ahead of his 
             Republican challenger, former Mayor Norm Coleman of St. 
             Paul.
               His opponents always portrayed him as a left-wing 
             extremist. Mr. Boschwitz's television commercials in 1996 
             called Mr. Wellstone ``embarrassingly liberal and out of 
             touch.'' This year, Mr. Coleman said the Senator was ``so 
             far out of the mainstream, so extreme, that he can't 
             deliver for Minnesotans.''
               But on the campaign trail, Mr. Wellstone appeared to be 
             so happy, so comfortable, so unthreatening that he was 
             able to ward off the attacks.
               For years, he had walked with a pronounced limp that he 
             attributed to an old wrestling injury. In February, he 
             announced at a news conference that he had learned he had 
             multiple sclerosis, but he said the illness would not 
             affect his campaigning or his ability to sit in the 
             Senate. ``I have a strong mind--although there are some 
             that might disagree about that--I have a strong body, I 
             have a strong heart, I have a strong soul,'' he told 
             reporters.
               Paul David Wellstone was born in Washington on July 21, 
             1944, and grew up in Arlington, Va. His father, Leon, left 
             Russia as a child to escape the persecution of Jews, and 
             worked as a writer for the United States Information 
             Agency. His mother, Minnie, the daughter of immigrants 
             from Russia, worked in a junior high school cafeteria.
               Growing up, he was more interested in wrestling than 
             politics, and he had some difficulty in school because of 
             what he later found out was a learning disability. He 
             scored lower than 800, out of a total of 1,600, on his 
             College Boards, and this led him as a senator to oppose 
             measures that emphasized standardized test scores. In an 
             interview, he once said that even as an adult he had 
             difficulty interpreting charts and graphs quickly but that 
             he had learned to overcome his disability by studying 
             harder and taking more time to absorb information.
               Partly because of his wrestling ability--he was a 
             conference champion at 126 pounds--he was admitted to the 
             University of North Carolina and, galvanized by the civil 
             rights movement, he turned from wrestling to politics. He 
             graduated in 1965 and stayed in Chapel Hill for a 
             doctorate in political science. He wrote his thesis on the 
             roots of black militancy.
               Married with children, he once said he did not have time 
             to participate in the student uprisings in the 1960s. He 
             is survived by two grown sons, David and Mark, of St. 
             Paul, and six grandchildren.
               But while he was not a student rebel, Mr. Wellstone did 
             not fit in from the day in 1969 when he began teaching 
             political science at Carleton College, a small liberal 
             arts campus in rural Northfield, Minn.
               He was more interested in leading his students in 
             protests than he was in publishing in academic journals, 
             and he was often at odds with his colleagues and Carleton 
             administrators. He fought the college's investments in 
             companies doing business in South Africa, battled local 
             banks that foreclosed on farms, picketed with strikers at 
             a meat-packing plant and taught classes off campus rather 
             than cross a picket line when Carleton's custodians were 
             on strike.
               In 1974, the college told him his contract would not be 
             renewed. But with strong support from students, the 
             student newspaper and local activists, he appealed the 
             dismissal, and it was reversed.
               In 1982, Mr. Wellstone dipped his toe into the political 
             waters for the first time and ran for state auditor. He 
             lost. But he had made contacts in the Minnesota 
             Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, and he stayed active in 
             politics. In 1988, he was the state co-chairman of the 
             Rev. Jesse Jackson's campaign in the President primary, 
             and in the general election, he was co-chairman of the 
             campaign of Michael S. Dukakis, the Democratic 
             Presidential nominee.
               Few thought he had a chance when he announced that he 
             would run for the Senate against Mr. Boschwitz, Russell D. 
             Feingold, now a like-minded liberal Democratic senator 
             from Wisconsin, today had this recollection of dropping by 
             to meet Mr. Wellstone in 1989:
               ``He opened the door, and there he was with his socks 
             off, 15 books open that he was reading, and he was on the 
             phone arguing with somebody about Cuba. He gave me coffee, 
             and we laughed uproariously at the idea that either of us 
             would ever be elected. But he pulled it off in 1990 and 
             gave me the heart to do it in Wisconsin.''
               Mr. Feingold was elected in 1992, also with a tiny 
             treasury.
               Mr. Boschwitz spent $7 million on his campaign, 7 times 
             Mr. Wellstone's budget. To counteract the Boschwitz 
             attacks, Mr. Wellstone ran witty, even endearing 
             television commercials produced without charge by a group 
             led by a former student. In one ad, the video and audio 
             were speeded up, and Mr. Wellstone said he had to talk 
             fast because ``I don't have $6 million to spend.''
               Mr. Wellstone toured the state in a battered green 
             school bus, and in the end, he won 50.4 percent of the 
             vote and was the only challenger in 1990 to defeat an 
             incumbent senator.
               He arrived in Washington as something of a rube. On one 
             of his first days in town before he was sworn in, he 
             called a reporter for the name of a restaurant where he 
             could get a cheap dinner. When the reporter replied that 
             he knew a place where a good meal was only $15, Mr. 
             Wellstone said $15 was many times what he was prepared to 
             spend.
               He also made what he later conceded were ``rookie 
             mistakes.'' At one point, for instance, he used the 
             Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a backdrop for a news 
             conference to oppose the war against Iraq. Veterans' 
             groups denounced him, and he later apologized.
               But he soon warmed to the ways of the Senate and became 
             especially adept at the unusual custom of giving long 
             speeches to an empty chamber. Probably no one in the 
             Senate over the last dozen years gave more speeches at 
             night after nearly all the other senators had gone home.
               His strength was not in getting legislation enacted. One 
             successful measure he sponsored in 1996 with Senator Pete 
             V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, requires insurance 
             companies in some circumstances to give coverage to people 
             with mental illness, but he failed this year in an effort 
             to strengthen the law.
               In a book he published last year, ``The Conscience of a 
             Liberal'' (Random House), Mr. Wellstone wrote, ``I feel as 
             if 80 percent of my work as a senator has been playing 
             defense, cutting the extremist enthusiasms of the 
             conservative agenda (much of which originates in the 
             House) rather than moving forward on a progressive 
             agenda.''
               In a speech in the Senate this month explaining his 
             opposition to the resolution authorizing the use of force 
             in Iraq, Mr. Wellstone stressed that Saddam Hussein was 
             ``a brutal, ruthless dictator who has repressed his own 
             people.'' But Mr. Wellstone went on to say: ``Despite a 
             desire to support our President, I believe many Americans 
             still have profound questions about the wisdom of relying 
             too heavily on a preemptive go-it-alone military approach. 
             Acting now on our own might be a sign of our power. Acting 
             sensibly and in a measured way, in concert with our allies 
             with bipartisan Congressional support, would be a sign of 
             our strength.''
               Later, Mr. Wellstone told a reporter that he did not 
             believe his stance would hurt him politically. ``What 
             would really hurt,'' he said, ``is if I was giving 
             speeches and I didn't even believe what I was saying. 
             Probably what would hurt is if people thought I was doing 
             something just for political reasons.''
               Mr. Wellstone briefly considered running for President 
             in 2000, but he called off the campaign because, he said, 
             the doctors who had been treating him for a ruptured disk 
             told him that his back could not stand the travel that 
             would be required.
               Often, Mr. Wellstone was the only senator voting against 
             a measure, or one of only a few. He was, for instance, one 
             of three senators in 1999 to support compromise missile 
             defense legislation. He was the only one that year to vote 
             against an education bill involving standardized tests, 
             and the only Democrat who opposed his party's version of 
             lowering the estate tax.
               Mr. Wellstone was one of the few senators who made the 
             effort to meet and remember the names of elevator 
             operators, waiters, police officers and other workers in 
             the Capitol. James W. Ziglar, a Republican who was 
             sergeant at arms of the Senate from 1998 to 2001 and who 
             is now commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization 
             Service, remembered today ``the evening when he came back 
             to the Capitol well past midnight to visit with the 
             cleaning staff and tell them how much he appreciated their 
             efforts.''
               ``Most of the staff had never seen a senator and 
             certainly had never had one make such a meaningful effort 
             to express his or her appreciation,'' Mr. Ziglar said. 
             ``That was the measure of the man.''
              ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10:30 A.M., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2002
               The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, and as 
             a further mark of respect to Paul Wellstone, the Senate 
             stands adjourned in his memory until the hour of 10:30 
             a.m. on Thursday, October 31, 2002.
               Thereupon, the Senate, at 11:11 a.m., adjourned until 
             Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 10:30 a.m.
                                            Tuesday,  November 12, 2002
               Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, let me reiterate our welcome 
             to Senator Barkley, but no one needs to be reminded how it 
             is he is here. I begin our remembrance of Paul Wellstone 
             with the recognition that at times such as this it is more 
             important to celebrate a life than to mourn a death. I 
             will do my utmost in the next couple of minutes to 
             remember my own advice, the importance of celebrating a 
             life.
               We mourn the loss of Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, 
             their daughter Marcia, the staff, and the pilots who lost 
             their lives. It has been a shock from which we have not 
             yet fully recovered. Sometimes in these difficult moments, 
             I turn to the Bible, sometimes I turn to expressions 
             offered to me by others, and sometimes to poetry.
               An old Irish text was found in a Carmelite monastery in 
             Tallow County, Wicklow, Ireland. The text was entitled 
             ``Togetherness.'' I find solace in the words of 
             ``Togetherness.''

             Death is nothing at all--
             I have only slipped away into the next room.
             Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
             Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy 
                  way which we always used.
             Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed 
                  together.
             Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
             Let my name be the household word it always was.
             Let it be spoken without effort.
             Life means all that it ever meant.
             It is the same as it always was:
             There is an absolute unbroken continuity.
             Why would I be out of your mind because I am out of your 
                  sight?
             I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very 
                  near, just around the corner.
             All is well. Nothing is passed, nothing is lost.
             One brief moment, and all will be as it was before--
             Only better, infinitely happier, and forever--
             We will all be one together . . .

               Paul was all of 5 foot 5. But I remember what someone 
             once told me: someone certainly more than 5 foot 5. He 
             said it is not the size of the man in the fight, it is the 
             size of the fight in the man. Paul Wellstone by that 
             measurement was a giant. He fought. He spoke. He 
             challenged us all. But he did so in a way that made him a 
             friend, not an enemy, a friend with people on that side of 
             the aisle and a friend, of course, with those on this 
             side, too; he had friends.
               While he walked in this Chamber small in stature, 
             everyone recognized that if you measure a man and, in so 
             doing, measure the true weight of his being, you don't 
             measure his size, you measure his heart.
               Paul Wellstone inspired me. With his physical 
             challenges--his back, his knees, his legs from wrestling 
             injuries, and then later with MS--I never once heard him 
             complain. Never once did he come to me saying, Tom, you 
             have to give me an opportunity to recover, to rest. He had 
             an energy, a dynamism, that overcame all of those 
             ailments. He seemed more well than those who are well. He 
             inspired all with his joy, with his passion, with his 
             energy.
               For those of us who believe in public service, there was 
             no greater evidence of his deep sense of commitment to 
             public service than his advocacy for mental health parity. 
             Again, working across the aisle with Senator Domenici, 
             that passion, that energy, that commitment, that 
             determination, that persistence, all that was Paul 
             Wellstone, flowed right up there from that desk. We knew 
             he cared about mental health parity. I can think of no 
             better monument, no better memorial, no better way to 
             honor him than by passing mental health parity soon.
               We were all the beneficiaries. Perhaps those who will 
             benefit most by his memory, his example, by his 
             commitment, are our youth. I spoke to his staff on the 
             Sunday following his passing. I reminded them that in the 
             course of 5 years in my early life, I, too, lost heroes. 
             Their names were John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and 
             Martin Luther King. While I recognize their physical being 
             is no longer here, as our poem said, I recognize, too, 
             that they only slipped into the next room, and their 
             spirit was very much alive. And that burns within me with 
             my understanding and my belief in our democracy in this 
             commitment you must make to public service.
               In remembering the Wellstones, we must also pay tribute 
             to that remarkable woman, Sheila Wellstone, for her 
             advocacy, her leadership, her commitment to abolishing 
             domestic abuse. The commitment she made, the lives she 
             saved, her willingness to be engaged, the extraordinary 
             effort she made and the example she set, too, is something 
             we will always remember and for which we will always be 
             indebted.
               On this new day, let us not think of sadness but of 
             celebration. Let us celebrate the life of Paul Wellstone 
             as we acknowledge the loss of his physical being. Let us 
             extend our heartfelt condolences to David, to Mark, and to 
             Todd, to Cari, Keith, Joshua, Acacia, Sydney and Matt, his 
             family. The hole in their hearts is large. The hole in 
             their lives may never be fully filled.
               To them I ask they, too, find solace in the words of 
             ``Togetherness.''

             Death is nothing at all--
             I have only slipped away into the next room.
             Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

               Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I will begin by thanking 
             Senator Daschle for his remarks so well delivered just now 
             and also for conversations that he and I experienced in 
             the aftermath of this tragic loss.
               I rise today also to pay tribute to the life and the 
             service of Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. He had a 
             real impact on this institution. He was a committed 
             warrior to things he believed in. He did it not only with 
             compassion but with sincerity and also generousness and 
             geniality. He never failed to take the time to tell a 
             story, to explain why he felt so strongly about these 
             issues. He was unfailingly willing to be considerate of 
             others, to seek an agreement as to how the process would 
             work, even when it led to a battle of words and of votes. 
             He also had an upbeat, optimistic view of that process, 
             that battle, and the next one.
               He would come over and say: ``Good job, I'll get you 
             next time,'' if he hadn't won. Even when he might be the 
             single vote, or one of a couple of votes--just a few--he 
             was undaunted. You cannot help but admire that approach to 
             life and to the Senate. I not only understand when 
             Senators take a different view, I appreciate it when they 
             take that view--the way Paul Wellstone did.
               I have learned over the years that the saying that seems 
             trite is so true in life and in this institution: You can 
             disagree without being disagreeable. He was the master at 
             that.
               I appreciated the friendship we developed. I loved to 
             pick at him. I loved to go over and kid him about the 
             little extra face hair that he had for a while, and I 
             would tell him he was my man for the nomination for 
             Presidency. When other potential candidates would come up, 
             I would say: Oh, no, I am already committed to Paul. He 
             loved it, actually.
               He was very kind to me. When I faced difficult 
             tragedies--as with Paul Coverdell, when I stood here with 
             tears rolling down my face, announcing the loss of that 
             great Senator--he would always be one of the first to come 
             over and engage me and say how he felt. Sometimes in 
             difficult straits that the Senate has had to go through, 
             when Senator Daschle and I had to make difficult 
             decisions, he would be the only one who would come over 
             and say: ``It was tough, I know, but you did the right 
             thing.'' I remember that.
               So I think the people of Minnesota have an awful lot to 
             be proud of in their Senator. When I went there to pay my 
             respects to the people of Minnesota and to the family and 
             to his friends and supporters, Senator Kennedy was on the 
             bus as we were leaving the airport. He said: ``We 
             appreciate the fact that you are here. I know you are here 
             not just because you are the leader of the party, but 
             because you wanted to pay proper respects.''
               I said: ``I am here because it is the right thing to do, 
             but also because, if the tables had been reversed and this 
             was for me, Paul would have been there. I really believe 
             that.''
               So I take my hat off, I salute the Senator. He will be 
             missed. The Senate will be different. But to the people 
             and his family who are so heartbroken, to his friends and 
             supporters and the people all over his State, our memory 
             of him and his service will not be forgotten. He will go 
             down in history as a truly unique Member of the Senate. I 
             guess we all are in some respects but Paul more so than 
             others.

               Mr. DAYTON. Mr. President, for more than 20 years Paul 
             and Sheila Wellstone were my friends and my political 
             allies, so it is with a heavy heart that I stand here 
             today. For the last 2 years Paul was my mentor and partner 
             in the Senate, and I will miss him especially, as will 
             Minnesota, as will America.
               I thank my many colleagues in the Senate who came to 
             Minnesota just a short time ago for the memorial service 
             commemorating Paul and Sheila, their daughter Marcia, 
             their staff and friends, Mary McEvoy, the Democratic Party 
             associate chair, Tom Lapic, and Will McLaughlin. Over half 
             of the Senate attended that evening. Another dozen former 
             Senators, a dozen or so Members of the House, President 
             Clinton, Vice President Gore, Secretary Thompson, Reverend 
             Jackson. Paul and Sheila would have been honored.
               I especially want to thank my Republican colleagues, 
             Senator Lott, Senator Nickles, and the others who attended 
             that evening. I was not aware until the next day that 
             Senator Lott was treated discourteously by some in the 
             Minnesota crowd. To him and anyone else who suffered that 
             misfortune, I deeply apologize. Paul and Sheila would have 
             been horrified, as was I when I learned about it, as would 
             the people of Minnesota. That is not the way we treat 
             distinguished guests in Minnesota.
               As for the rest of the evening, if the eulogists spoke 
             sometimes a little long, they at times became impassioned, 
             political, or even partisan--well, it was a service for 
             Paul Wellstone. The speakers were selected, but they 
             weren't scripted. They were all family and close friends 
             who were still in shock and in great emotional distress 
             and in deep pain.
               What was most extraordinary about that service that 
             evening, what hopefully will be remembered now that the 
             campaigns have concluded, is that over 20,000 people came 
             to honor the lives and mourn the tragic deaths of Paul and 
             Sheila and Marcia Wellstone, Mary McEvoy, Tom Lapic, and 
             Will McLaughlin--over 20,000 people. That was 
             unprecedented in Minnesota.
               Nothing in my lifetime or in my knowledge of the State 
             was even in the same realm of that magnitude of love and 
             gratitude and grief and sorrow. The service was held at 
             the University of Minnesota Basketball Arena which seats 
             over 15,000 people. It was filled an hour before the 
             service was scheduled to begin. The fire marshals closed 
             the doors. Another 6,000 or so arrivals filled an adjacent 
             arena to watch the service on closed-circuit television. 
             It, too, was overfilled by the time the service began. 
             Police and university officials urged late arrivals to go 
             home and watch the service on television, but hundreds, 
             several hundred, remained clustered outside, standing 
             around, wanting to be part of this unprecedented Minnesota 
             congregation. That enormous outpouring of people and their 
             emotions attested to the breadth and depth of Paul 
             Wellstone's political reach. He had touched so many people 
             so deeply. He had helped them, comforted them, and 
             reassured them. He had inspired so many people. He was 
             their voice, their champion, their hero, their U.S. 
             Senator. And then suddenly, tragically, cruelly, he was 
             snatched away and gone forever.
               It was a service to remember and in part regret. It was 
             a service of remembrance and regret for eight exceptional 
             people who lost their lives flying to a funeral service in 
             northeastern Minnesota.
               I knew Paul, but the first time I saw him in action was 
             in June 1982 at the DFL State Convention. I was endorsed 
             at that convention to run for the first time for the U.S. 
             Senate, and the 1st day that 3-day convention opened, Paul 
             announced--much to everyone's surprise--he was going to 
             run for the endorsement for State auditor 2 days hence.
               For the previous 8 months, a very earnest young man had 
             been in every county and every district and political 
             event in Minnesota in Democratic circles, explaining in 
             numbing detail the functions of the office of State 
             auditor and how he was the best qualified to fulfill them. 
             Sunday came around, and the auditor's endorsement was the 
             last endorsement at the end of the 3d day. There were 
             1,300 Democratic delegates who were tired and worn out and 
             ready to go home. Paul appeared on the stage after his 
             opponent's one last excruciating explanation of the 
             auditor's position, and presented himself--most of the 
             audience seeing him for the first time--and he gave a 
             typical Paul Wellstone speech: Nuclear freeze, save the 
             environment, economic justice--nothing of much particular 
             relevance to the office of State auditor. He was endorsed 
             by acclamation of the delegates.
               Paul and I both lost our elections that November, but we 
             spent the next 3 years campaigning together, working for 
             the Governor of Minnesota, Rudy Perpich, in the Office of 
             Energy and Economic Development. We spent many hours 
             talking and traveling the State together. In 1990 we 
             swapped our political aspirations, Paul ran for the Senate 
             and I for State auditor, and this time we won. Paul's 
             victory in 1990 was one of the most memorable David-
             defeats-Goliath stories in America's political history.
               In the first published poll several months before the 
             election, the incumbent was ahead by over 50 percent. Paul 
             was in single digits. He was given no chance to win, and 
             almost no help by the political establishment. He was 
             outspent in the campaign by over 7 to 1. Yet Paul was the 
             only Democratic challenger that year who ousted an 
             incumbent. His campaign symbol, his signature and his 
             icon, became the rattling, gas-guzzling, usually in-the-
             repair-shop green bus. But despite a brilliant campaign 
             which captured the public attention, this distinctively 
             different candidate walked fast and talked fast and 
             actually rode a bus. His innovative ads won national 
             awards that year, produced by a campaign that couldn't 
             even afford to air them.
               Despite 8 months of Paul Wellstone and his best 
             hyperdrive, that amazing energy and excitement, and 
             organizing all over the State, he still entered that final 
             weekend before the election, with most polls showing him 
             being 6 to 8 points behind.
               That Saturday, as our statewide DFL ticket boarded the 
             bus--not Paul's bus, which was once again in the repair 
             shop, but another bus--for its final 2-day swing around 
             the State, Paul's opponent had just launched a vicious 
             personal attack against him. The campaign had no money to 
             produce or air a response. Those 2 days were agonizing for 
             Paul and Sheila and Marcia, who accompanied him, and for 
             those of us who were sharing that experience with him. 
             Then, like a miracle, the hero of the moment came forth, 
             the former Senator and Vice President, Walter Mondale, 
             whom fate was to bind to the conclusion of another 
             Wellstone campaign 12 years later.
               The Vice President publicly denounced the attack as a 
             violation of Minnesota's standard of decency. The 
             editorial board of the State's largest newspaper agreed 
             the day before the election. And the majority of Minnesota 
             voters agreed the following day.
               It was the most stunning upset and astounding victory in 
             Minnesota political history.
               Paul Wellstone was on the green bus headed to 
             Washington, which, of course, was the bus that broke down 
             on the way.
               Despite Paul's 20 years of political experience, he 
             wasn't prepared for the Senate. The Senate may not have 
             been prepared for Paul. I know he later regretted some of 
             his earlier decisions. He told me so after he sat down 
             with me when I won my election 2 years ago, and he was 
             counseling me to take a different approach.
               But while he would have changed perhaps his early style, 
             he would not have changed his substance. He would not have 
             changed because he could not have changed his values or 
             his ideals or his convictions. He could not alter his 
             passion for social justice, his caring for people, or his 
             outrage at their oppression or suffering. His values were 
             the essence of who he was. They were the core of his 
             beliefs, the cornerstone of his conscience. They were the 
             hallowed ground of his political soul.
               Paul Wellstone was a hard-working political activist, a 
             hard-nosed political organizer, and a smart, savvy 
             politician. He wanted to win. He knew how to win. But he 
             would not win if it meant losing his soul or forgetting 
             his conscience or sacrificing his principles.
               He was no Don Quixote out tilting at windmills. He was 
             rather a Richard the Lionheart on a crusade, mindful of 
             the risks, the pitfalls, and the odds, but undeterred by 
             them.
               Time after time during his 12 years in the Senate, he 
             took his stand believing that he was right--well, maybe 
             not right but correct. He voted his conscience. He voted 
             his convictions, hoping that 50 or more of his colleagues 
             would vote with him, but willing to stand alone if they 
             did not.
               Some people said that Paul's dissenting votes reflected 
             badly on him. Others said they reflected badly on the 
             Senate. Some people believe the Senate would be a better 
             place without Paul Wellstone. Others of us believe the 
             Senate would be a better place with 50 more like him.
               Those who questioned his accomplishments overlooked the 
             obvious. Paul could work tirelessly, speak persuasively, 
             and do everything effectively. But he could only vote 
             once--1 out of 100, 1 out of 535.
               Paul had only 2 years out of his 12 years with a 
             Democratic President, Senate, and House, as the 
             Republicans will have again in January. For his other 10 
             years, Paul served in divided government. He did not 
             accomplish all he wanted to. He did not accomplish much 
             that he wanted to. But he accomplished all he could. And 
             he would have accomplished so much more if death had not 
             intervened so suddenly and so cruelly.
               There was so much life and so much politics left in Paul 
             Wellstone, and so much courage. His death echoes the words 
             of Ernest Hemingway:

               Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their 
             fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of 
             their society. Moral courage is a rarer quality than 
             bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one 
             essential, vital quality of those who would seek to change 
             a world which yields most painfully to change. If people 
             bring so much courage to this world, the world has to kill 
             them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world 
             breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the 
             broken places. But those that will not break, it kills. It 
             kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave 
             impartially. If you are none of those, you can be sure 
             that it will kill you too but there will be no special 
             hurry.

               Those are the words of Ernest Hemingway.
               Paul Wellstone wasn't that fatalistic. At least, he 
             didn't live or practice the politics of fatalism. Paul was 
             a social reformer and a crusader for social and economic 
             reform. He believed in it. He dedicated his life to it. He 
             gave his life for it. He knew the odds were stacked 
             heavily against him, especially here in Washington. He 
             knew how hard it was; how unusual the circumstances had to 
             be for a Paul Wellstone to make it to the Senate. He knew 
             how hard it was for a Paul Wellstone to stay here, to 
             combat the powerful forces aligned against him and their 
             enormous financial and political resources that would try 
             to defeat him.
               He detested political fundraising. He disliked the 
             amounts of money he had to ask for, and he distrusted most 
             of the people who could provide it. His loathing of 
             fundraising was matched only by his hatred of flying in 
             small airplanes--the principal reason he vowed his 1996 
             campaign would be his last. But when the time came, he 
             could not turn his back on the crusade. He could not 
             abandon the causes, and he could not leave the people--
             because it was the people Paul loved. He loved being with 
             people.
               As long as he wasn't raising money from them, or flying 
             with them, Paul loved being with people--real people, 
             farmers, iron rangers, educators, senior citizens, 
             children, all classes, all races, all religions, all 
             points of view. Paul practiced the politics of diversity, 
             and inclusion, and empowerment. He truly cared about 
             people as individuals. He cared about their lives, their 
             families, their well-being. He loved visiting veterans 
             homes, nursing homes, and schools. He loved spending hours 
             with people who couldn't vote or benefit him politically.
               He cared about people because they needed him--not 
             because he needed them. The poor, the unfortunate, the 
             mentally ill, the disadvantaged and the distressed--he 
             loved working for them, working to make their lives 
             better, and working to give them a chance, a job, a farm, 
             a home, a life.
               I agree with the majority leader. If this Senate, if 
             this Congress and this administration want to show their 
             respect for Paul Wellstone, if they want to honor his 
             memory, we will pass and the President will sign into law 
             the Wellstone-Domenici mental health parity bill before we 
             adjourn this year. Nothing less would do him justice. 
             Nothing else would make him happier.
               Paul came to love this institution of the Senate. For an 
             organizer, it was the ultimate challenge. He genuinely 
             liked most of his colleagues--even those he disagreed with 
             most of the time. Yes, he got frustrated, discouraged, and 
             impatient. But he respected the Senate. He loved being a 
             Senator, and he was learning how to be a great one.
               He was a great man. He was a great husband--with an even 
             greater wife, Sheila. He was a great father and a great 
             politician. He was an excellent U.S. Senator, and he was 
             becoming a great one. But death denied him that 
             opportunity. And it denied us him, and it denied the 
             people of Minnesota the leader they elected to represent 
             them.
               He died on his way to a funeral, that of the father of a 
             friend. He flew because he had to, despite what in 
             hindsight seems more like a premonition than a fear. He 
             willed himself to fly because he had to be the best U.S. 
             Senator he could be.
               And he never backed away from adversity. He got on a 
             reliable plane with a reputable charter firm flown by two 
             licensed pilots. They flew into what was reportedly 
             occluded but not threatening weather, with low clouds and 
             light, freezing precipitation--not ideal but not unusual 
             for northern Minnesota in late fall.
               And then, somehow, inexplicably, the plane landed in a 
             desolate forest rather than a nearby airport. It burst 
             into a huge conflagration and destroyed the lives of eight 
             people, and damaged many more lives who lost their loved 
             ones, and left many thousands--thousands--of people 
             without their leaders, their allies, their heroes, and 
             their friends.
               But life goes on, as it must. Minnesota held an 
             election, as it should. Senator-elect Norm Coleman 
             conducted himself honorably in the aftermath of that great 
             tragedy and won honorably and honestly in that election 
             and has earned the right, through the expressed will of 
             the people of Minnesota, to serve as a U.S. Senator for 6 
             years, beginning in January. And I pray that he will be 
             our Senator for the next 6 years.
               But former Vice President Mondale performed a great 
             service to our DFL Party in Minnesota, to our State, and I 
             believe to our democracy by stepping forward at the last 
             moment when, in hindsight, the situation was impossible 
             but seemed possible only because it was former Vice 
             President Mondale.
               Senator Dean Barkley is an excellent appointment made by 
             Governor Ventura. He has earned this honor. He is 
             knowledgeable. He is experienced. And he is committed to 
             good government. He has proven that as commissioner of 
             State planning. Through his own political pioneering he 
             has forged an independent strength and spirit which has 
             captured the political imagination of the people 
             throughout our State and offers great promise in the years 
             ahead, and he will have himself great promise in the years 
             ahead. I am honored to be working with him during these 
             next months, as I look forward to working with Senator-
             elect Coleman when he begins his term in January.
               We have a special spirit in Minnesota. Our political 
             spirit is testified to here today by Congressman Jim 
             Ramstad and Congressman Mark Kennedy, who are witnessing 
             these words of tribute to their colleague. Both worked 
             closely with Senator Wellstone, especially Congressman 
             Ramstad during his long years in the House with Paul on 
             many issues of which they shared concern and commitment. 
             And Paul's staff, who loved him and gave their lives of 
             service with him, and who are suffering a loss that is 
             also immeasurable, are here as well. And I pray that they, 
             too, will find opportunities in the future. I know they 
             will, but it just will not be with Paul.
               Years ago, then-President John Kennedy paraphrased a 
             statement made by Theodore Roosevelt which seems like a 
             fitting bipartisan note on which to end these remarks. He 
             said in New York City, in a speech paraphrasing President 
             Roosevelt:

               The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the 
             arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, 
             who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and 
             spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, 
             knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, 
             at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall 
             never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither 
             victory nor defeat.

               Paul, you have won many battles, but now you can wipe 
             the dust and sweat and blood off your face, and may you 
             rest in eternal peace.

               Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I stand to say a few words 
             in honor of the late Senator Paul Wellstone.
               Over a decade ago, Minnesota sent one of its best to 
             this Chamber. He followed in the special tradition of 
             public service that our State knows well. From Ramsey to 
             Stassen, from Olson to Humphrey, from Mondale to, yes, 
             Ventura, our State has broken the mold more than once.
               The man we sent here was Paul Wellstone, and no one 
             would dispute that Minnesota broke the mold again. Paul 
             was short in stature but, as it proved, enormous in energy 
             and passion. He had a passion for principle, a passion for 
             politics, and, most of all, a passion for people.
               Paul was a fighter, and, much like Hubert Humphrey, a 
             happy warrior. Paul was the most effective kind of fighter 
             there is: one that never gives up--never. And if there is 
             one attribute that his colleagues and his constituents 
             admired, it was this: his unrelenting energy to fight the 
             fight.
               I knew Paul. I respected Paul. We both have been like 
             salmon in our own political rivers, swimming into the 
             currents. Therefore, understanding his tireless energies 
             in the cause of change, I am highly honored to speak to 
             his memory today.
               True, there is an empty desk here today, a shrouded 
             reminder of a life cut short. But for the Paul Wellstone I 
             knew, the empty chair is more telling. Whether he was in 
             this Chamber or at home in Minnesota, Paul was on his 
             feet, out of his chair, speaking his mind. Always moving--
             in thought, in language, in body--Paul was, indeed, a man 
             of motion and, more than that, a man of emotion. For if 
             there is something that we all knew about Paul, he not 
             only believed in things, he felt them. This was why Paul 
             Wellstone was so formidable. For thought can be persuaded, 
             changed, and abated. But a feeling? Never.
               Paul, his wife Sheila, and their daughter Marcia 
             tragically perished in the northlands of our State. Their 
             untimely fate was sadly shared by three loyal staff 
             members--Tom Lapic, Will McLaughlin, and Mary McEvoy--as 
             well as the two pilots--Captains Richard Conry and Michael 
             Guess.
               As an unexpected and new Member of this Chamber--but 
             more, as a singular citizen of the State of Minnesota--
             allow me to take this moment to express my personal and 
             heartfelt condolences to all of those families who lost 
             their loved ones. I know I speak for all Minnesotans when 
             I say to those families and friends: Your loss was our 
             loss, and we are all crushingly sorry for it.
               Paul was unique, one of a kind. And yet, the essence of 
             the man was no different from anyone in this Chamber. He 
             wanted to make his State, and his Nation--our world--a 
             better place. We all may differ about how to do so, and 
             some may have disagreed with how Paul saw it, but no one 
             ever doubted his motives. A selfless champion for those 
             who have no voice--the frail, the weak, the 
             disenfranchised--Paul's voice was their voice. And what a 
             voice it was.
               Typical of Paul's self-deprecating sense of humor, he 
             loved to relate his meeting with a distinguished senior 
             Member of this body, Senator Fritz Hollings of South 
             Carolina, who remarked to Paul, ``You know, Senator 
             Wellstone, you remind me of another Minnesota Senator, 
             Hubert H. Humphrey.'' And as Paul began to swell with 
             pride at being in the company of this great champion of 
             civil rights, the senior Senator burst his bubble, ``Yes, 
             sir, just like him, you talk too much.'' Paul loved this 
             story, and he loved telling it on himself--so typical of 
             the man.
               Most of all, Paul loved and adored his wife and his 
             family, especially his grandchildren. He loved his 
             friends. He loved Carleton College in Northfield, MN. He 
             loved his students; and they knew it. Indeed, Paul simply 
             loved people. And he loved them simply, unabashedly.
               Paul loved Minnesota and all the people in it. From the 
             known and recognized, to the unknown and uncared for, he 
             loved them all--truly and deeply.
               Finally, Mr. President, Paul loved this distinguished 
             institution. He loved and cherished the U.S. Senate, where 
             today I, too, am honored to stand. Paul loved his entire 
             staff.
               Let me take this opportunity to thank Senator 
             Wellstone's staff for your generous and gracious welcome 
             and offer of support in the truly hectic days since 
             Thursday when I arrived. That you could be so unselfish in 
             your time of unspeakable loss and heartbreak is something 
             I will never, ever forget. I sincerely thank you for the 
             help you have given me.
               I plan to continue the fight during my short time here 
             on one of Paul's signature issues: mental health parity. 
             And with Senator Dayton and Minnesota's congressional 
             delegation, we plan to introduce a bill to honor Sheila 
             and Paul Wellstone through a living legacy project. I hope 
             that everyone in this Chamber will join us in this 
             tribute.
               There is a brief passage out of ``Sonnets from the 
             Portuguese,'' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, that I would 
             like to share. Her words more perfectly express the 
             thoughts that I am so inadequately attempting to convey 
             about our dear, departed friend, Paul Wellstone:

             ``Guess now who holds thee?''
             ``--Death,'' I said.
             But there the silver answer rang:
             ``Not Death--but Love.''

               Mr. REID. Mr. President, on October 25 the Senate and 
             the people of Minnesota, the people of this country, and I 
             personally suffered a terrible loss--the death of our 
             colleague, Paul Wellstone, who, as we know, died in a 
             plane crash with his wife Sheila and daughter Marcia, 
             three members of his staff, and the pilots.
               I am sure we will all reflect back on how we were 
             notified, how we learned of this tragedy. I was speaking 
             to Senator Daschle's chief of staff, Pete Rouse, asking 
             him how things were going. We talked quite a bit during 
             the last month of the campaign.
               He said, ``I have some bad news.''
               ``What?''
               He said, ``Senator Wellstone's plane went down in 
             Minnesota, and there is no hope that anyone survived that 
             crash.''
               I will never forget that phone call. The passing of Paul 
             Wellstone is a loss for all of us, those who knew him and 
             those who did not. This week, most of us are returning to 
             Washington for the first time since the tragedy, so this 
             is our opportunity, this is my opportunity, to speak about 
             Paul Wellstone with whom I lived here for 12 years, a long 
             time, a lot of days. I certainly am not qualified to talk 
             about all of his accomplishments. There are professors who 
             will write about his accomplishments in years to come. But 
             I can talk about him as a person, how I saw him.
               He represented Minnesota well; there is no question 
             about that. Although he did not grow up in Minnesota, 
             moving there as an adult, he embraced the State and its 
             people. And the people of Minnesota loved him dearly and 
             deeply. He talked often of how much he enjoyed living in 
             Minnesota and how proud he was to represent Minnesotans 
             and be a part of the great political legacy of the State.
               My father-in-law was born in Russia. But as a boy, he 
             immigrated to Minnesota, and he grew up in Duluth, a tough 
             town, where he and his friends all had nicknames. My 
             mother-in-law grew up in Minneapolis. So when I got to 
             meet a Senator from Minnesota, of course I was eager to 
             share a lot of my personal reflections on my wife's 
             family, and Paul and I enjoyed talking about Minnesota.
               The impact that Paul Wellstone made and the admiration 
             he received extended well beyond Minnesota. He and I were 
             allies in many legislative battles, and I know many people 
             in the State of Nevada--working families, veterans, 
             retirees, teachers, students, health care professionals 
             and their patients--also appreciated him. He was an 
             articulate and compassionate public servant who fought 
             fiercely for them. Many more Nevadans, like all Americans, 
             are now better off because of Paul Wellstone's work in the 
             Senate, and they would be even better off had he been able 
             to be elected to his third term, as he would have been.
               Of course, here among his colleagues in the Senate he 
             was not only well liked but respected, as has been said 
             here today on several occasions. People might not have 
             always or even often agreed with Paul, but they all had 
             great respect for him. That is why I was so impressed to 
             see a number of his Republican colleagues from Minnesota 
             come and stand in silence at his desk today.
               I was fortunate to serve with Paul, to benefit from his 
             advice and his judgment, and to enjoy his friendship. I 
             smile because I am going to be lonelier here in the Senate 
             without Paul.
               I don't know on how many occasions I said to Paul 
             Wellstone: ``Paul, do you have to do this?'' And he always 
             explained why he had to do it.
               I am a better Senator and I know I am a better person 
             for having known Paul.
               He used his voice to speak passionately and courageously 
             on behalf of the voiceless. He gave hope to the hopeless 
             and helpless. He was a kind and gentle person.
               I used to see him often in the House gym. He would run 
             from his home to the gym every morning. When because of 
             illness, he couldn't run anymore, without a lot of fanfare 
             and a lot of talk, he walked. Then he decided to work out 
             other places. He went to the gymnasium where the police 
             officers, the Capitol Police, work out. Those of us who 
             knew and loved Paul saw his physical deterioration, but it 
             was something about which he never complained.
               I remember one occasion when Sheila had gone home and he 
             was here alone. He couldn't get dressed; he was in such 
             pain. He came here. We helped him down to the physician's 
             office. He never complained. He was in such pain, sweat 
             coming off his head.
               He was a tough person physically, a tough person. I can 
             vouch for that. He was a champion wrestler, high school 
             and college. I think probably the dedication that it takes 
             to be a wrestler, losing weight, having to exert total 
             energy for an extended period of time, the work ethic he 
             developed, the things he did physically and mentally and 
             emotionally, and his determination that made him so 
             successful on the mat also prepared him well for the 
             successes he had as an organizer and activist, campaigner, 
             Senator, and a person.
               Paul Wellstone was a fighter who always remained true to 
             his beliefs, stood up for his principles, served the 
             interests of the people of Minnesota and the United 
             States.
               There are many things about Paul Wellstone that I 
             remember and hold dear. I can say without any hesitation 
             that he was my friend. I think he thought I was his 
             friend.
               I remember the first time I ever heard Paul Wellstone 
             speak. That was in 1990 when there was a public reception 
             in Statuary Hall for the newly elected Senators. We were 
             all there. He stood and gave a great speech. I wondered 
             who is this guy? He said it so well. He said things I 
             thought about, the importance of politics and government 
             and being involved. He spoke of his grassroots campaign.
               I remember the last speech I heard him give, right 
             there. In the years I have been in the Senate, that seat 
             has been the place of great speeches. Paul Wellstone took 
             over Dale Bumpers' seat. They both had a similar style in 
             many respects. They both wandered around back there with 
             that long cord.
               The last speech I heard Paul give, he said, among other 
             things--and this is a quote--``You could call me a softie. 
             I am a softie.''
               And he was. He believed he could help people who were 
             less fortunate than he was, who didn't have a Ph.D., who 
             hadn't been a college professor or a U.S. Senator, who 
             didn't have the fine loving family that he had. He could 
             reach out to them. He felt he could do that. He was a 
             softie.
               Mr. President, I don't always go to the prayer 
             breakfasts held every Wednesday, but I do go on occasion. 
             I don't go every Wednesday. But I wanted to hear Paul 
             Wellstone at a Senate prayer breakfast, so I went to that 
             prayer breakfast. It was a memorable experience for me to 
             hear Paul talk about his spirituality, which is something 
             he didn't speak out about in public--except on this 
             occasion. I will never forget that prayer breakfast, where 
             Paul Wellstone spoke of his faith, his deeply held 
             principles. He was a man committed to ideas and ideals.
               I also remember Paul for the love he had for his wife 
             Sheila. They were inseparable. In this campaign, there 
             were a lot of comparisons made between his campaign and 
             mine in 1986, where the opposing candidate switched 
             parties; there were a lot of similarities. He said talk to 
             Sheila about that, show her the ads that you ran. They 
             were always together, never apart. Even now it is so. They 
             had the love of their children, the surviving boys, Mark 
             and David. One is involved in public housing and the other 
             is a wrestling coach and teacher. Right here, a few feet 
             in front of me, on one of those Fridays where we were 
             trying to get everything done and get out of here, Paul 
             was so anxious to go. Why? Because he thought this was the 
             time his son's wrestling team was going to be the State 
             champions of Minnesota. Paul Wellstone, Barbara Boxer and 
             I were talking. I was trying to stall for time, and I 
             asked, ``How many wrestling matches have you had, Paul?''
               I also remember Paul because of my dad. As I have said 
             here on occasion, my father committed suicide. One reason 
             I have been able to publicly talk about that is because of 
             Paul Wellstone. Paul helped us to understand mental 
             illness is not something to be ashamed of. Any time Paul 
             Wellstone publicly had a chance to talk about suicide, he 
             talked about suicide prevention and talked about my 
             efforts on this. He never tried to take credit for 
             anything alone. He worked hard on the issue of mental 
             health parity. Part of that is suicide. We have 31,000 
             people a year killing themselves. Because of Paul, we are 
             doing something about that. We passed a resolution in the 
             Senate recognizing it as a national health problem. We 
             have given money to research the problems of suicide, 
             depression and mental illness. There are medical schools 
             now studying why people kill themselves. So I will never 
             forget Paul Wellstone for a lot of reasons, not the least 
             of which is my father.
               I will also remember Paul Wellstone for the things he 
             did for the so-called little people--those who are often 
             not noticed or are neglected. How many of us around here 
             know the people who clean our offices? Not many of us. 
             They come by late at night when we are gone, and when we 
             come into the offices in the morning the trash cans are 
             empty, the desks are cleaned off. It's easy to overlook 
             the people who do that, who work hard to help us. Paul and 
             Sheila Wellstone wanted to know who they were, so they 
             waited and waited until somebody came to their office so 
             they could thank them for cleaning the office. That also 
             includes the elevator operators, doorkeepers, police 
             officers, janitors, as I have already mentioned. He knew 
             them by name, stopped to talk with them and listened to 
             them.
               To show the kind of guy he was with the Capitol Police, 
             Mr. President, this man holds the record--he was suffering 
             from multiple sclerosis and he holds the record--with all 
             these big, physical, well-trained, young policemen--he 
             holds the record for pushups and pullups. You can go and 
             see who holds the record at the Capitol Police gymnasium. 
             It is Senator Paul Wellstone. He was a hell of a man, Mr. 
             President.
               He stared disease in the face; he had multiple 
             sclerosis. Did anybody ever hear Paul whine, complain, or 
             feel sorry for himself? No. He took it right on the jaw, 
             like he did a lot of punches, and he went about doing his 
             business. Those of us who worked with him for 12 years saw 
             how his physical condition deteriorated. How long would it 
             have been before he had to walk with a cane? I don't know. 
             But he persevered. That is one reason I remember Paul 
             Wellstone.
               Of course, Mr. President, we all remember Paul Wellstone 
             because he stood for something. No one could ever question 
             Paul Wellstone's sense of value. I still smile when I 
             remember saying to Paul, ``Do you have to do this?'' Well, 
             I knew the answer before I asked the question. We who hold 
             public office are judged on the difficult votes we are 
             called on to make. To his credit, Paul Wellstone relied on 
             his conscience--not on consultants--in such moments. I 
             admire him so much for that.
               Before entering politics, Paul was a gifted and popular 
             college professor. To a great extent, he remained a 
             teacher even after entering the Senate, educating his 
             constituents about government, and encouraging colleagues 
             to learn more about issues and to consider other 
             perspectives, engaging us and challenging us. There are 
             lots of times I can reflect back on when Paul Wellstone, 
             in his Socrates-like presentations, was trying to educate 
             the Senate. He would say to me, ``I am wasting my time; 
             what good am I doing here?'' I would proceed to tell him 
             all the good he had done. He was educating me, getting me 
             to reflect upon what he had done, just like I am sure he 
             did at Carleton College with his students.
               Paul was a person with great compassion, who reminded us 
             of our moral obligation to care for all human beings--I 
             repeat, especially the most vulnerable, the hungry, the 
             poor, the homeless, the ill, victims of abuse, and others 
             who suffered.
               Paul Wellstone is irreplaceable. His life was cut short, 
             and because of that, it is incumbent upon us in the Senate 
             and throughout America to remember his message of hope and 
             compassion and carry forward his efforts to secure 
             economic and social justice for all in the best way we 
             can. In that way, we honor the legacy of a great man, Paul 
             Wellstone.

               Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I thank the Senator from 
             Nevada for his very articulate statement on Paul's life. 
             We all shared experiences in working with Paul.
               Every Sunday, the Washington Post ``Style'' section 
             prints a column called ``Life Is Short.'' The column 
             selects one individual and gives a snapshot of that 
             individual's life. If that column focused on Senator Paul 
             Wellstone's life, the single snapshot would be a large 
             photo album.
               Senator Daschle has said Paul Wellstone was the ``soul 
             of the Senate.'' I believe Paul tried to find the soul in 
             all of us. He challenged us, on a daily basis, to remember 
             that every man, woman, and child in this Nation should 
             have access to quality education, a first-rate health care 
             system that includes mental health and prescription drug 
             coverage, and jobs that provide a decent minimum wage.
               Three weeks ago, Paul made his final appearance in the 
             Chamber. Paul gave a very passionate speech about the need 
             to extend unemployment benefits and provide more help for 
             our veterans. His closing comments were vintage Paul. He 
             said:

               What are people who cannot find jobs, who are out of 
             work, who are struggling to put food on the table, 
             supposed to do? What in the world is going on? What has 
             happened to our humanity?

               Later that day, Paul came back to the Senate floor to 
             give his thoughts about the 2003 defense spending bill. He 
             thanked Senators Inouye and Stevens for their inclusion of 
             an amendment that addressed domestic violence and sexual 
             assault which he had championed. As we all know, the issue 
             is not only important to Paul, it was especially important 
             to his wife Sheila.
               At the end of those remarks, Paul said, in reference to 
             his own provision that was not included in the final 
             conference agreement: ``I know my colleagues did their 
             best. We will be back.''
               That was Paul--always gracious in both victory and 
             defeat. Even more important, he never focused on defeat 
             because he was constantly plotting his next move to better 
             educate his colleagues and their staff on the issues--
             always the college professor.
               I had the honor and the pleasure of working with Paul on 
             an array of issues--education, veterans, dairy, health 
             care, and job training. These are not easy issues, but the 
             difficulty of the issue never deterred Paul. He always saw 
             the glass half full rather than a glass half empty.
               In 1997 and 1998, Senators Kennedy, DeWine, Wellstone 
             and I worked together to pass the Workforce Investment 
             Act, legislation that restructured our job training 
             system. Throughout those 2 years, we had many long 
             meetings. In every single meeting, Paul told us about the 
             impact various provisions would have on Minnesota. There 
             was never a meeting, public or private, where Paul did not 
             mention the concerns and ideas that were on the minds of 
             his constituents.
               Paul would also tell stories of his children. During 
             many HELP Committee hearings on education, we would often 
             hear about his two children who were teaching in the 
             Minnesota public school system. He was so proud of all his 
             children, his grandchildren, and, of course, Sheila.
               Paul was also very proud of his staff. He had great 
             respect for their views and always remarked to his 
             colleagues that he was very fortunate to have a very 
             talented and devoted staff.
               Three years ago at the funeral of Walter Payton, the 
             outstanding Chicago Bears running back, who was also an 
             extraordinary human being, the Rev. Jesse Jackson remarked 
             that on a tombstone, there is a birthday, a small dash, 
             and a date of passing. He said:

               The dash between those two dates is the part you 
             control. . . . The dash determines the height and depth of 
             how you live your life.

               Paul Wellstone maximized the height and depth of his 
             dash. I was so lucky to have known Paul, to have had an 
             opportunity to not only work with him but to learn from 
             him and, most important, to have been able to call him a 
             good friend.
               I was en route to Minnesota to campaign for Paul when I 
             learned of his tragic death. I instead spent time with his 
             wonderful sons, David and Mark. I brought them the 
             pictures of their dad celebrating the dairy program 
             victory with Senator Leahy and another recent victory for 
             Minnesota as well as New England. It brought proud smiles 
             to their faces. As I had expected, they were so much like 
             their dad. I know they will continue on the path that Paul 
             and Sheila created for them.
               Paul, I will miss you, the Senate will miss you, and the 
             country will miss you. May your commitment, energy, 
             integrity, and passion always guide us to do our best at 
             all times. Goodbye, Paul.

               Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, life gives no joy like that 
             it takes away. As always, the poet said it best. All of us 
             in the Senate were suddenly and tragically reminded of 
             that on a Friday morning 2\1/2\ weeks ago--a cold, gray, 
             dreary October day. I was in a van driving between Fargo 
             and Grand Forks, ND, when I received a call saying that an 
             airplane had crashed in northern Minnesota and that 
             Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, staff, and others 
             were on the plane. To say that I and others have been 
             deeply saddened, in fact devastated, by the loss of one of 
             our colleagues is perhaps to vastly understate it.
               Paul and Sheila Wellstone died as they campaigned 
             throughout Minnesota for another term in the Senate. It 
             was a tough campaign, a close campaign, a hard-fought 
             campaign. And yet Paul Wellstone never complained about 
             that. He seemed to relish it.
               One of the last things he told me on the floor of the 
             Senate several weeks ago about this campaign was, with a 
             sparkle in his eye: We are going to win this campaign. He 
             said: ``Byron, I have 4,000 volunteers--4,000 volunteers--
             who are going to be working election day in Minnesota for 
             me, getting people to the polls, driving people, calling 
             people.''
               That was so typical of Paul Wellstone. It was always 
             about citizen action, about people rising to the passion 
             of an idea. That was typical Paul Wellstone.
               Paul and Sheila Wellstone were wonderful friends to many 
             of us in the Senate, and our thoughts and prayers go to 
             the family, the families of the pilots who lost their 
             lives, the families of Paul's daughter and the three staff 
             people who were on the plane as well.
               As my colleague from Minnesota, Senator Dayton, said in 
             what I thought was a wonderful tribute to his friend and 
             colleague, all of us would be remiss if we did not say to 
             Paul's staff: Paul would want first and foremost for us to 
             recognize you today. Paul attracted to his service in the 
             Senate men and women with the burning in their soul to do 
             good things, who cared about fairness and justice and who 
             cared about public service.
               All of us who work here know Paul Wellstone had a 
             wonderful staff, and they have been through some very 
             difficult times, about as difficult as it can get for a 
             Senate staff. Our thoughts and prayers go out to them and 
             for strength as well.
               Today let me for a moment remember Paul and Sheila for 
             their service to our country. This is a rather small 
             community in the Senate--men and women who love this 
             country, fellow travelers who want to make democracy work. 
             What the American people see are some pitched battles 
             during the day and the early evening hours in the middle 
             of a debate in which there are different philosophies and 
             ideas that clash on the Senate floor. What they do not see 
             is we are colleagues and friends, first and foremost.
               I think the entire Senate membership would say: We have, 
             indeed, lost a couple of good friends, Paul and Sheila 
             Wellstone. Our country has lost two tireless fighters for 
             justice. The Senate has lost its strongest voice for those 
             who do not have it so good in this country. And American 
             politics has lost the true champion for the little guy.
               If ever a man and wife were a team, it was Paul and 
             Sheila Wellstone. They did everything together. Sheila's 
             public service, as Paul would be the first to tell you, 
             was every bit as important as his. That public service was 
             marked by a green bus, and that green bus meant in 
             Minnesota and our part of the country citizen action, 
             people empowerment, and something that was on the move, a 
             mission, a campaign on the move.
               It is true, as my colleague said, Paul was different. He 
             would not have been caught dead in Ferragamo shoes, even 
             if he wanted them, and he did not. He was not a man to 
             wear Brooks Brothers suits. He was short of stature and 
             tall of ambition with a power and passion of ideas, as my 
             colleague from Nevada just described, that would at the 
             end stage of any debate leave him sitting at that chair 
             with two more amendments to offer--the hour was late and 
             patience was short. Imploring him made no difference. You 
             could say: Paul, Paul, we are just out of time; can you 
             just not offer one of these amendments? The answer was 
             always the same: Absolutely not. I am here to offer this 
             amendment. This amendment is important. I came here to do 
             that work and there are people who depend on me to offer 
             this amendment--people whose lives were changed because of 
             this amendment.
               With Paul it was always ``no.'' And we always turned 
             away understanding the passion that burned in his soul to 
             do the right thing, to do the thing he felt was important 
             for our country.
               Paul was different in a much more significant way as 
             well. In today's modern politics, it is so often the case 
             that politicians with a sophisticated network of pollsters 
             and advisers are able to evaluate exactly which way the 
             wind is blowing, to be able to set their sail to get 
             maximum capability from that wind. It is a constant job of 
             tacking for some into or with that wind to find out 
             exactly where the maximum wind will be. Paul was not 
             interested in sailing or winds. Paul was only interested 
             in the rudder. He set the rudder and he did not care where 
             the wind was: This is the direction I am going and it does 
             not matter whether it is a favorable wind or an 
             unfavorable wind. This is where we are headed and this is 
             why--very unusual in modern politics but also very 
             refreshing.
               I found it interesting that those newspapers that were 
             not very good to his ideas in life, in death gave Paul 
             great credit for raising ideas, for standing by his 
             principles, for never wavering and never causing for a 
             moment any constituent anyplace to wonder where he stood. 
             You knew where Paul Wellstone stood.
               There are two things, of a great many, that stand out in 
             my mind. One day I sent around a memorandum to Senators 
             saying we were going to visit a youth detention center in 
             Maryland and I wanted to know if anyone wanted to come 
             along. Paul Wellstone called me and said he would like to 
             come.
               The two of us, with some staff, went out to a youth 
             detention center and spent the entire morning sitting in 
             that youth detention center talking to kids, kids who had 
             committed murder, kids who were drug addicted, kids who 
             had been in the worst kind of trouble one could possibly 
             imagine. Driving back to Capitol Hill after this visit, I 
             once again got another glimpse of Paul Wellstone's soul. 
             He said: ``If someone had cared about those kids early in 
             their lives they would not be there today. Someone needed 
             to help those kids at the right moment, and we can do that 
             in the Senate.''
               To Paul, that visit was how can we reach out to help 
             people who need help at a time when they desperately need 
             that help?
               In the last couple of months, Paul came up to me while 
             we were in the well of the Senate, and he said: I was 
             campaigning in Minnesota and I went to an independent auto 
             repair shop, and the major automobile manufacturers would 
             not give the computer codes to these independent auto 
             repair shops. These small independents are telling me they 
             cannot work on the new cars. They do not have the computer 
             cards for the carburetors and all those things they have 
             to have to work on those cars.
               He said: That is unfair, and it is going to drive those 
             folks out of business. This is going to kill the little 
             guy.
               He asked if I would hold a hearing on this in my 
             Consumer Subcommittee. I said of course I will. We put 
             together some information on it. The day of the hearing 
             came and Senator Wellstone was to be the leadoff witness. 
             That was not enough for Senator Wellstone. As was his 
             want, in the way he did politics, the hearing room was 
             packed. It was full of mechanics and independent repair 
             shop owners from all across this country. I guess that 
             hearing room holds probably 100 people, and there were 150 
             people there. Paul had brought his people, the independent 
             repair shop folks, to that hearing room as a demonstration 
             of this problem, to say this problem ought to be fixed.
               Paul was the leadoff witness and as was typical with 
             him, with great passion he made the case about the 
             unfairness to the little guy, about the independent repair 
             shops trying to make a living, and how what is happening 
             is unfair to them.
               About 3 weeks ago, right before we completed our work 
             and left for the election, Paul came up to me on the floor 
             of the Senate during a vote. He was holding a sheet of 
             paper. He was flashing this paper and saying: We won. His 
             point was that the automobile manufacturers had reached an 
             agreement with the independent repair shops, and that 
             problem had gotten solved. For Paul, it was about the 
             little guy versus the big guy, about those who did not 
             have the power and those who did.
               It was always that he wanted to stand on the side of 
             those who did not have the power, those who needed help. 
             That was so much of Paul Wellstone's life.
               There is much to say, and my colleagues, I am sure, will 
             say it when we talk about his service to our country. It 
             is sufficient now to say that one of our Senate desks is 
             empty. The Senate has lost a wonderful friend.
               I conclude by quoting Thomas Moore, if I might, and 
             relate it to Paul's service:

             Let fate do her worst; there are relics of joy,
             Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy;
             Which come in the nighttime of sorrow and care,
             And bring back the features that joy used to wear.
             Long; long be my heart with such memories fill'd!
             Like the vase, in which roses have once been distill'd
             You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
             But the scent of the roses will hang 'round it still.

               Paul Wellstone is no longer in the Senate, his desk is 
             empty, but the passion of his ideas most surely will 
             remain for years and years to come.

               Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, today I reflect on the life 
             of a friend and reflect on a political life. Politics is a 
             fateful calling. The voters can end a political life in a 
             few hours on any Tuesday. Promising public careers can be 
             terminated abruptly. But like life itself, political life 
             should be measured by its quality rather than its 
             quantity. By that measure, Paul Wellstone, a man small in 
             stature, became a giant in this Senate.
               This is not my desk in the Senate. My desk is the one 
             directly in front of the desk where we honor the memory of 
             Paul Wellstone. So many times I had to leave my desk 
             because when Senator Paul Wellstone got wound up on an 
             issue of great importance to him, you had better clear 
             out. He had this famous desk with the long microphone 
             cord, and he would roam all over this area, speaking with 
             passion and commitment. I wanted to stand back a few steps 
             to witness it because it was truly historic when he took 
             to the Senate floor.
               I do not think there were any routine Wellstone 
             speeches. With all credit to his staff, I am sure he 
             embellished them in the certain qualities that even the 
             best staff person could not add. There was no routine 
             nature about Paul Wellstone in politics.
               I remember when he first ran. People kind of laughed 
             about the idea. This professor from a small college in 
             Minnesota is going to run against an incumbent Senator?
               We all know what that was about. This had to be a class 
             project. He was going to go out and make his stand, make 
             his speeches, and probably lose by an embarrassing margin. 
             But then they started getting reports back from that early 
             campaigning. This now famous green schoolbus, which I had 
             a chance to see when I was in Minneapolis for the tribute 
             to Paul Wellstone, had a platform on the back where he 
             would stand like Harry Truman and make his speeches.
               I remember his television commercial which they replayed 
             during tributes after he died in the plane crash. He said: 
             ``You will have to listen very closely because I don't 
             have much time. I don't have much money and I have to tell 
             you everything. This is my home; this is where I work.''
               It was a classic presentation of what he was all about 
             in just a few seconds.
               At the end of the campaign after he won and surprised 
             everyone, there is a photo of Paul, Sheila, and Marcia 
             when Paul agreed to finally retire the pair of shoes he 
             wore throughout the campaign. What a sorry pair of shoes. 
             He was no slave to fashion, to say the least.
               In his campaign in the Senate, I can recall he was 
             admonished by a colleague to go home and change his shirt 
             because it did not look like a Senator's shirt. He did not 
             think of those things. Those things were so 
             inconsequential to his view.
               He thought about the important things, the really 
             important things. He reminded us time and again of how 
             those things are overlooked. You draw together 100 
             Senators across the United States, you put the national 
             political agenda in front of us, and Paul Wellstone found 
             it hard to believe that we could miss so many important 
             things.
               Sheila was the same way. His wife Sheila, the unpaid 
             Senator to Minnesota at his side, worked on issues such as 
             domestic abuse, inviting all of us to come to an art 
             center she regularly had highlighting what victims were 
             expressing through their art in terms of domestic abuse.
               We used to talk about Paul Wellstone's amendments on the 
             floor. They were great amendments. Some of them did not 
             get a great number of votes. We used to speak in the 
             caucus about the so-called Wellstone amendments. We used 
             to have competition to make sure that he got enough votes 
             so it was not called a Wellstone amendment. And he said, I 
             win some of these amendments. And he did. Without fail, 
             every one of the amendments challenged every one of us to 
             look at the national agenda and look at America from a 
             different perspective.
               We get caught up in the life of public service and 
             forget the people that Paul Wellstone never forgot. I 
             think back to some of them. Paul Wellstone did not make 
             any bones about the fact that he opposed the Vietnam war. 
             During the 1960s, when many of us were in college and that 
             was a dominant issue of the time, he was opposed to that 
             war. But you would find, as I did in his tribute in 
             Minneapolis, the veterans groups coming out in large 
             numbers to pay tribute to Paul Wellstone. There was no 
             separation between them. Paul Wellstone opposed the war, 
             but he did not oppose the warriors who came home. He 
             became their champion in the Senate.
               When people would bring up his own military record, or 
             lack of it, or his own position on Vietnam, he would 
             always be able to rally the veterans of Minnesota who 
             would say, we are for Paul Wellstone because he fought for 
             us to make sure we were not forgotten when we came home. 
             That is the kind of person he was.
               I think of the debate on education in the Senate, the no 
             child left behind bandwagon. I was on it. What a big 
             bandwagon it was. It was the President, the leaders, the 
             Democrats and the Republicans in the House and Senate, 
             liberal and conservative alike. We would all be for no 
             child left behind. But not Paul Wellstone. Paul Wellstone 
             was the one voice saying, wait a minute, we may be going 
             too far here. High-stakes testing for kids can destroy 
             their lives in the future. Are we moving too fast without 
             thinking about the children and what it could be doing to 
             their lives? Again and again, Paul Wellstone forced us all 
             to slow down even as we were involved in some political 
             movement that seemed to have great force behind us, to 
             stop and think about the actual people affected, the 
             children, the teachers, the families.
               He was first and foremost a teacher himself, at Carleton 
             College and in the Senate. Time and again, he taught us. 
             He never taught us better than the lesson on mental health 
             parity. Paul Wellstone realized that our treatment of 
             mental health in the United States of America in the 21st 
             century is shameful. It is disgraceful. He told us over 
             and over that we treat people with mental illness as if 
             they are suffering from some curse rather than some 
             illness. He begged us time and again to treat fairly 
             people who suffer from mental illness.
               I join with everyone here today, all the Members of the 
             Senate who have given speeches and nice comments about 
             Paul Wellstone, all the members of our government, from 
             the President on down, who said what a great man he was 
             and great values he brought to public life. Members can 
             prove it by passing this Wellstone-Domenici bill for 
             mental health parity and do it on an expedited schedule. 
             Paul Wellstone, if he were here today, would say: Forget 
             the speeches, forget the flowers; pass the bill, help some 
             people. That is what government is supposed to be about. 
             That is a challenge to us.
               We ought to mark our calendar today. Here we are, 
             November 12, thinking about the challenges this country is 
             going to face. Instead, step back and say: Where will we 
             be 2 or 3 months from now dealing with mental health 
             parity? Will we have done enough? Paul Wellstone led that 
             fight in a way that was classic Wellstone.
               In the debate he would know, many times, that the forces 
             were against him, that he did not stand a chance. He would 
             stand here with such passion and commitment and make these 
             speeches, hour after hour, if necessary, always respectful 
             of his opposition, always on the Senate floor, even for 
             those who saw the world in completely different terms, but 
             always committed to what he was fighting for.
               They tell us the politics of Paul Wellstone are now out 
             of fashion. I don't believe that for a second. You ought 
             to know that since Paul Wellstone passed away, many in the 
             Senate have been trading phone calls late at night in 
             their homes talking not only about Paul and the great loss 
             of Sheila and Marcia and the three campaign workers and 
             the two pilots, but reflecting on ourselves and why we are 
             here. Paul would like that. Paul would like that his 
             passing would cause us all to think a little bit harder 
             about who will carry on his fight.
               I have heard a lot of us in these conversations, my 
             colleagues and myself, talking about what we need to do to 
             make sure that voice is not silenced in the Senate, to 
             make certain that Paul Wellstone's passion and commitment 
             live on. That is the greatest tribute of all.
               For 6 years, I served in the Senate with Paul Wellstone. 
             For 2 years, he was over my shoulder at this Senate desk.
               For every Member of the Senate, Paul Wellstone will 
             always be over our shoulder keeping an eye on what we do, 
             listening to our speeches, asking us in real human terms 
             whether we are forgetting someone in the process.
               The victims who cannot afford lobbyists in Washington, 
             DC, the poor and dispossessed who may not even have the 
             will to vote, let alone to participate in this process, 
             the people without the resources to be heard, who is going 
             to speak for them? Paul Wellstone did. Those who stand in 
             tribute to his memory should make certain that voice is 
             never silenced.

               Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I will also say a few words 
             about Paul and Sheila Wellstone. Paul and Sheila were good 
             friends of my wife Anne, my son John, and myself. We met 
             shortly after they arrived in Washington for Paul to take 
             up his duties in the Senate. Our friendship grew over 
             time. Friendship came easily to Paul and to Sheila because 
             they had a genuine interest in and a compassion for other 
             people. So on a personal level, Paul and Sheila will be 
             greatly missed.
               On a policy level, they will also be greatly missed in 
             this Senate. Paul believed strongly that government should 
             and could help improve the lives of average people. He 
             championed better education for our children, better 
             access to health care, particularly mental health care, as 
             my colleague from Illinois has described. He championed a 
             decent wage for workers. Any issue that presented a choice 
             between the public interest and a special interest, there 
             was no question where Paul stood.
               Sheila was also a fierce advocate for policies in which 
             she believed. Her focus for many years was on the problems 
             of domestic violence, and she and Paul helped spotlight 
             that problem. They did much to put it on our national 
             agenda. Paul said what he believed. He voted his 
             convictions, even when those convictions placed him in a 
             small minority in the Senate. He was proud to proclaim 
             himself a liberal in an age where most Americans have been 
             persuaded that liberal is a pejorative term.
               The truth is that his views, when not distorted by his 
             opponents, were very much endorsed by the majority of the 
             Americans. His core belief was that those who are less 
             fortunate should be helped to obtain the tools with which 
             to succeed. That belief is shared by most in this great 
             country. His service in the Senate was an effort to 
             implement that belief.
               When serving here in the Senate, one is always aware 
             that the imperative to do what is right sometimes 
             conflicts with the desire to be reelected. Paul always 
             chose to do what he considered right and damn the 
             consequences. He came to the Senate with a clear intent to 
             make a difference in the history of his Nation, and he 
             succeeded. The death of Paul and Sheila and their 
             daughter, their staff and pilots, was a great tragedy for 
             our country. It was also a great tragedy for this Senate. 
             The Senate will be a lesser place without Paul Wellstone.

               Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I rise today, along with my 
             colleagues, to pay tribute to the memory of our tragically 
             departed friend and colleague, Senator Paul Wellstone, and 
             to remember his life partner Sheila, their daughter, and 
             the others who lost their lives in the plane crash.
               We send our condolences and our prayers to the families 
             of all those who were involved.
               Whenever Senator Wellstone came to the floor of the 
             Senate to fight on behalf of our Nation's most vulnerable, 
             to fight for economic fairness, for working men and women, 
             to fight for quality public education and health care for 
             all our children, can't you just hear his voice now--
             standing up over and over again to fight and to speak out 
             on behalf of the people he represented--to protect our 
             environment.
               In thinking about Senator Wellstone, I thought of the 
             words of Frederick Douglass in 1857 when he said:

               If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who 
             profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation want 
             crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain 
             without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without 
             the awful roar of its many waters.

               Paul Wellstone was ready to fight for progress. And he 
             was unafraid of the war that followed. In fact, he 
             embraced it.
               Paul Wellstone believed the status quo can never be a 
             cause but, rather, must be the constant casualty of time 
             in any nation dedicated to equality and justice and 
             freedom.
               Did he win every battle? No. But the very fight of 
             Senator Paul Wellstone ennobled the Senate and enlightened 
             this Nation by giving voice to the challenges that 
             confront us.
               I would like to read from a speech that Senator 
             Wellstone gave to graduating students at Swarthmore 
             College. The passion of Paul's words reminds us of the 
             shame of passivity, the passivity of standing back and 
             watching millions of families slide into poverty, and our 
             Nation's future slip away from them.
               Senator Wellstone asked:

               How can it be that in the United States of America--
             today--at the peak of our economic performance--we are 
             still being told that we cannot provide a good education 
             for every child? We are still being told that we cannot 
             provide good health care for every citizen.
               We are still being told that people can't look forward 
             to jobs that they can support themselves and their 
             children on. We're still being told that we cannot achieve 
             the goal of having every 5-year-old come to kindergarten 
             ready to learn.
               How can it be that we are being told that we cannot do 
             this at the peak of our economic performance? I say to you 
             today that it is not right. It is not acceptable. We can 
             do much better, and if not now, when? If we don't do this 
             now, when will we do it as a nation? That is a betrayal of 
             our heritage. The impoverishment of so many children is 
             our national disgrace.

               Senator Wellstone did not pull any punches. Yet he was 
             not a cynic either. He believed that by giving wings to 
             the nobler angels of our Nation, we could place progress 
             in the wind.
               In the same speech I was quoting from, Senator Wellstone 
             closed, urging people to get involved with politics and 
             public service and become those nobler angels whose wings 
             would give flight to change and to justice. He said:

               I do not believe the future will belong to those who are 
             content with the present.
               I do not believe the future will belong to the cynics, 
             or to those who stand on the sideline.
               The future will belong to those who have passion, and to 
             those who are willing to make the personal commitment to 
             make our country better.
               The future will belong to those who believe in the 
             beauty of their dreams.

               We will miss Paul Wellstone's leadership, his voice on 
             this Senate floor. We will miss the beauty of his dreams 
             of an America where the most vulnerable among us are 
             valued, where all of our children are cherished, and where 
             no one who gets up and goes to work in the morning goes to 
             sleep at night in poverty.
               But, Paul, while we will miss you coming to the floor of 
             the Senate to share those dreams, I promise you those 
             dreams will not die.
               Thank you, Mr. President.

               Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I, too, would like to lend 
             a few comments to one we fondly regarded as the ``little 
             giant,'' Senator Paul Wellstone.
               I, obviously, had an opportunity over the years to 
             converse, discuss, debate, agree--occasionally disagree--
             with our friend who truly believed in his cause, a cause 
             that was perhaps more liberal than my own, but a cause 
             that was reflected on what makes the Senate so unique; 
             that is, the cause of the balance that we have, more or 
             less a mainstream of thought that prevails in the Senate. 
             But in many cases it is brought about by those who have 
             very active views, whether they be liberals or 
             conservatives.
               But Paul Wellstone did represent, if you will, the 
             pendulum in the Senate. His contribution was one of 
             activism, of standing for the underdog, of reflecting on 
             the needs of some we can never properly repay; 
             specifically, the veterans of this Nation who have given 
             so much so that we can live in the freedom of our 
             democracy.
               As I have reflected, along with Senator Stevens and 
             Representative Young, because of the vast distances 
             between our State of Alaska and Washington, DC, and the 
             tribulations of long flights back and forth, and the ever-
             increasing pressures to make dates, particularly during 
             campaigns, having just run a campaign myself, why, I can 
             recall the unpleasant evening flights in bad weather, with 
             a recognition that people expect you to be present at a 
             given time. And it is the demands that are constant 
             pressures to try to fulfill obligations that cause each 
             Member of both the House and the Senate to live, perhaps, 
             on the edge. Unfortunately, that edge results in 
             additional exposure that is associated with accidents. And 
             we have seen that in the passing of our good friend Paul 
             Wellstone, who, again, to me, is referred to as the 
             ``little giant'': small in stature but significant in what 
             he believed. And his contribution, again, I think is 
             measurable in one sense by those who knew him but in 
             another sense by the legacy he leaves in this body.

               Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, I rise to pay tribute to 
             our colleague, Paul Wellstone.
               As with the loss of anyone so vital, so full of energy, 
             and so dear to us, it is hard to believe that Paul is 
             really gone. But as with a brother, or a father, or a 
             great teacher, even if they have died, they leave a part 
             of themselves with those who carry on. They are never 
             really gone.
               I first met Paul before either of us had been elected to 
             the Senate. I was meeting with different people as I 
             considered a run for the Senate, and I heard about this 
             professor in Minnesota who was planning to run in 1990. I 
             had a chance to visit him at his home. When we met, we 
             laughed at the idea that the two of us or either of us, 
             would ever have been elected to the Senate.
               But then Paul went on to run a terrific campaign, 
             without a lot of money, but with a whole lot of energy. 
             When he won, he helped me and others to believe that we 
             could do the same. I will always be grateful to him for 
             that example, as I am sure are many others across the 
             country who were inspired by Paul and the exceptional life 
             that he led.
               So now we know that whenever a candidate runs a scrappy 
             populist campaign, Paul Wellstone will be there.
               Paul Wellstone believed in clean elections. Paul was a 
             strong, stalwart ally over the years that we served 
             together in the Senate, working for campaign finance 
             reform. He was an original cosponsor of the first McCain-
             Feingold bill--one of a handful of us, along with Senators 
             Claiborne Pell and Fred Thompson, and he was there all the 
             way. Some have said that the law that we enacted this year 
             went too far. Characteristically, Paul thought that it did 
             not go far enough.
               Paul Wellstone wrote:

               The way in which money has come to dominate politics is 
             the foremost ethical issue of politics of our time. We 
             need to invite ordinary citizens back into American 
             politics to work for what is right for our Nation.

               Whenever Americans reform our election campaigns, Paul 
             Wellstone will be there.
               Paul Wellstone said:

               I don't represent the big oil companies. I don't 
             represent the big pharmaceutical companies. I don't 
             represent the Enrons of this world. But you know what, 
             they already have great representation in Washington. It's 
             the rest of the people that need it.

               That's what Paul Wellstone said.
               So, whenever there are voices standing up for the little 
             guy, Paul Wellstone's voice will be there.
               There is a role that some Senators play of leading where 
             not many follow because they know that it is right. Paul 
             Wellstone had the courage of his convictions. He was not 
             afraid to stand alone. Now that he is gone, there may come 
             more times when some of us will be counted as the only 
             vote against something.
               But whenever a Senator stands alone in the well of the 
             Senate and casts a solitary vote because that's what he or 
             she believes, that Senator won't really be alone because 
             Paul Wellstone will be there.
               There is a role that some Senators play of reminding the 
             rest of us of what is right, even when we don't 
             necessarily like to hear it. It has been said many times, 
             and it is nonetheless true, that like Paul Douglas, Phil 
             Hart, and Paul Simon before him, Paul Wellstone was the 
             conscience of the Senate.
               Whenever political expediency pulls us to vote one way, 
             but our consciences pull us back the other, Paul Wellstone 
             will be there.
               Paul Wellstone was a dear, sweet man, and a good friend 
             to those of us who knew him. Yes, he had a puckish grin 
             and a ready sense of humor. His passing brings a tear to 
             our eyes.
               But whenever we think of that smile of his, Paul 
             Wellstone will be there.
               The Bible says: ``Justice, justice shall you pursue.'' 
             Paul didn't need to be told. That was who he was. Paul 
             Wellstone believed in justice with every fiber of his 
             being.
               Paul fought for justice for children who didn't have 
             enough to eat. He fought for environmental justice, even 
             for the poor side of town. He fought for social justice 
             when it came to access to health care. He fought for 
             economic justice when it came to a fair minimum wage and 
             the ability of working families to protect themselves 
             under the bankruptcy law. And he fought for justice among 
             nations, and for peace. Paul Wellstone was the very 
             embodiment of justice.
               And so, Paul Wellstone, here on the Senate floor, there 
             is a hole in our hearts. We will miss you, dear friend.
               But we will still look for you. For wherever it is on 
             this Senate floor, at a political rally, or at a town hall 
             meeting somewhere on a cold, windy day in the heartland of 
             America whenever someone speaks for justice, Paul 
             Wellstone will be there.

               Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, Paul Wellstone was an 
             extraordinary leader with a common touch. His dedication 
             to the well-being of average Americans was unparalleled in 
             Congress.
               He believed all of our citizens, no matter how humble 
             their beginnings, or difficult their plight, had an equal 
             right to happy, healthy, and full lives. He always made 
             the time to hear the real needs of the people, and he 
             always took the time to speak up for them in the U.S. 
             Senate.
               For Paul, core beliefs were not something to be 
             compromised. He understood as well as anyone in this body 
             the give-and-take of legislation. But we always knew his 
             values were at the forefront of every battle, and the 
             people of Minnesota could count on him to fight for them 
             with every ounce of his considerable energy and ability.
               Paul and I were seatmates. His desk is right beside mine 
             on the Senate floor. But we were more than neighbors. Paul 
             was our conscience, our guiding light. He turned 
             overlooked needs and forgotten causes into real hopes for 
             millions of Americans. For them, Paul Wellstone was their 
             champion, their Senator.
               Earlier this year, Senator Wellstone chaired a hearing 
             in the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on 
             an issue of great concern to American workers. A group of 
             low-wage men and women were so excited by the prospect of 
             the hearing that they took a day off from work, boarded 
             buses, and headed for the hearing. When they arrived, they 
             found the room full and the door barred. But Senator 
             Wellstone heard about the workers who were waiting in the 
             hallway, unable to get in. He invited them in and seated 
             them on the dais among the Senators attending the hearing. 
             For Paul, this was the way it was intended to be. For him, 
             there was no distance, no barrier between the people and 
             their elected representatives.
               Senator Wellstone did his homework. He knew the facts 
             and he also knew the reality of everyday life for the 
             people he cared for so deeply and served so well. When the 
             Senate debated education policy, we knew Paul understood 
             the issues thoroughly. We also knew Paul had spent more 
             time visiting the public schools than any other Senator. 
             He knew the challenges first-hand because he had taken the 
             time to listen to parents, teachers, and schoolchildren so 
             he could be a true voice for them in Washington.
               He taught us all by his example that Americans face 
             challenges together. He was the embodiment of e pluribus 
             unum, that out of many peoples in America, we are one 
             Nation. He lived every moment of every day fighting to 
             make our Nation even stronger, ever the beacon of 
             opportunity for all of our citizens.
               Paul, we will miss you. You and Sheila and Marcia leave 
             an extraordinary legacy for millions of Americans to 
             honor, to cherish, and to carry on. Your outstanding 
             contributions to the Senate, to Minnesota, and to the 
             Nation will always be remembered.

               Mr. NELSON of Florida. Mr. President, it is with a very 
             heavy heart that all of us gather in the Chamber that will 
             miss one of our own. It was with a very heavy heart we 
             received the news on that snowy, icy day that we had lost, 
             while flying in northern Minnesota, a wonderful companion 
             and colleague and, along with him, his life's companion, 
             and part of that family--his daughter.
               This freshman Senator had observed this Senator from 
             Minnesota who had such energy and, along with it, such 
             happiness. I can still see Paul Wellstone thrusting in the 
             air those short, little jabs, while at the same time 
             having that wry smile on his face, as he would teach us 
             the way we should be as Senators--advocating for those who 
             could not advocate for themselves, for those who could not 
             hire with unlimited resources. He was there to stand and 
             represent those folks.
               I went to Minnesota in August to do what I could for 
             Paul Wellstone in a race that, interestingly, as November 
             5 approached--and Paul was so concerned about what was 
             going to be the effect of his vote on the Iraq resolution, 
             the fact he voted his conscience, the fact he stood up as 
             the little giant against what was otherwise considered the 
             tide. The fact he did that resonated among his 
             constituents in Minnesota. We saw the result of that in 
             the polls, for Paul had jumped up from an even race. He 
             was up five, six, seven points before that fateful day his 
             life was taken from us.
               I think back to that time in August I had gone out there 
             to campaign for Paul. It was a time of mourning in the 
             Minneapolis-St. Paul area because a lady police officer 
             had just had her life snuffed out in an unusual kind of 
             murder, where it was unsuspected. I went with Paul and 
             Sheila that night to several events, including back to the 
             source of that crime, at a project where so many of the 
             community leaders had turned out. I watched Paul as he 
             interacted with those grieving constituents, as they all 
             came together in a resolve to heal the wounds in that 
             community and bring the races together, instead of 
             dividing them, as so often might have been the case in a 
             very unfortunate circumstance where a police officer had 
             lost her life.
               I went to what was called the ``national night out''--a 
             remembrance of what communities can do in coming together.
               I went to two or three such events on that evening I 
             visited with Paul and Sheila. I watched his interaction 
             with Minnesotans. I saw that it was the same Paul 
             Wellstone that I saw interacting with Senators in this 
             Chamber, in our caucuses, in our luncheon meetings, in the 
             Cloakroom, and in the committee meetings. It was the same 
             friendly, highly intelligent man, always offering that 
             smile, getting from place to place with that limp in his 
             gait as a result of an old wrestling injury. And he was so 
             attractive. He was attractive to us as a friend and a 
             colleague. He was attractive to the folks of Minnesota as 
             their Senator.
               I went to their home, a modest, very comfortable, very 
             appropriately appointed duplex townhouse, close in so he 
             could be where his constituents were. It was easy access 
             for him, even though with that limp; it had a set of 
             stairs, at least two, if not three stories. It was so 
             comfortable as a retreat for him, made so by his lifelong 
             companion Sheila, who was at his side throughout that 
             campaign and who was at his side throughout his 
             professional career, including his career in the Senate.
               Then when I was in Minnesota, I talked to his kids. This 
             is not his immediate family kids. This was the extension 
             of Paul Wellstone, the professor, the extension of Paul 
             Wellstone, the Senator, who had legions of young people, 
             some in their middle years, who went door to door telling 
             why those Minnesotans should vote and continue his time in 
             the Senate.
               I saw their conviction as I talked to them basically to 
             share a number of stories I had as a Congressman going 
             door to door. A lot of those experiences we shared were 
             quite humorous, some of the unexpected experiences when 
             one goes knocking on doors. I explained to them, with a 
             bit of overstatement, that western civilization depended 
             on what they were doing, going door to door. We all had a 
             good laugh about that.
               They were committed. They were committed to Paul 
             Wellstone. They were committed for the kind of person he 
             represented, and they were doing the job and they were 
             very effective. Their number had multiplied many times 
             over so that as it came to that fateful day, there were 
             legions of some 4,000 of those young people who were 
             canvassing Minnesota.
               That says a lot about the kind of person Paul Wellstone 
             was and how his memory will live; that young people 
             believed enough in him that they would spend all day in a 
             thankless job of going door to door.
               I remember so well the Paul Wellstone we loved around 
             here. He was not afraid to take on any foe. He was not 
             afraid to take on any subject where he felt he could offer 
             something of substance to the discussion, and as far as 
             this Senator is concerned, it often made the difference 
             because it was done with dignity, it was done with 
             passion, it was done with energy, and his orations were 
             done with great conviction.
               That is a great example. That is a great role model for 
             all of us. We will miss him deeply.
               I remember when I came to the Minnesota airport for that 
             memorial service. Someone met me at the gate and escorted 
             me to the place where we were all to huddle up and then 
             board the buses. As I walked in to that waiting room, what 
             stared me in the face was a simple poster that said: 
             Wellstone for Senate. I remember almost having my breath 
             taken away as I realized that he was not going to be with 
             us in body anymore. But he certainly will continue with us 
             in spirit.

               Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, the Senate is greatly 
             diminished with the passing of Senator Paul Wellstone. As 
             we see the bouquet of flowers on his desk, we can see Paul 
             in action, speaking out, speaking up indefatigable on the 
             issues of concern to him.
               He undertook a very difficult campaign back in 1990 
             against the odds, against a popular incumbent Senator. He 
             was able to mobilize students, activists, people who 
             believed in what he believed in because he was always a 
             man with a cause. All the time he had a point. He did not 
             mind being a dissenter.
               People who may be listening to this session of the 
             Senate do not know, but there is a little card at the desk 
             on each side, Republicans and Democrats. When the Senators 
             come in and vote, there is a check. It is not easy, when, 
             say, there are 50 members of the party and 49 checks are 
             on one side, to vote against the 49, to have your name 
             stand out in marked contrast as a dissenter, but Paul 
             Wellstone did not mind that a bit.
               I believe in the history of our country the dissenters 
             are vitally important, sometimes more important than the 
             majority. Oliver Wendell Holmes, a Supreme Court Justice, 
             was a prime example. He did not mind speaking out in 
             dissent. And then he got another Supreme Court Justice, 
             Louis Brandeis, to join him. So then instead of 1 to 8, it 
             was 2 to 7. The brainpower of the two was 
             characteristically better than the seven. For that matter, 
             the brainpower of that one, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 
             was greater than the eight on many occasions.
               Plessy v. Ferguson was a decision establishing the 
             principle of separate but equal, having segregation in 
             America, in a decision shortly before the turn of the 20th 
             century, I believe in 1896. John Marshall Harlan was the 
             one dissenter. That dissent became a clarion call for 
             Brown v. Board of Education. Similarly, I think the 
             dissents that Senator Wellstone registered have the 
             potential to become a majority point of view.
               It was said earlier today, and I think with real 
             meaning, that the legislation to establish parity for 
             mental illness with physical illness would be an 
             appropriate tribute for Senator Paul Wellstone. That 
             legislation came within a hair's breadth of being passed 
             in spring 2001 on an appropriations bill.
               Technically, we are not supposed to legislate on an 
             appropriations bill, but that rule is honored and then 
             breached very often, maybe not more often than it is 
             observed but it is breached very frequently.
               We had passed it through the Labor, Health, Human 
             Services, and Education Subcommittee which I had chaired. 
             It was a health bill. Senator Domenici was the principal 
             champion on the Republican side, and Senator Wellstone was 
             the principal champion on the Democratic side. I was long 
             a cosponsor of the matter. In chairing the conference, we 
             pushed very hard. It came within one vote on the House 
             side--we had the Senate--of getting that legislation 
             passed.
               It ought to be passed as a tribute to Senator Wellstone. 
             It also ought to be passed for the benefit of the people 
             who suffer from mental illness, which is every bit as 
             debilitating as physical illness.
               On October 25, I was campaigning, as I think most people 
             were. I had just come from a political rally in Reading, 
             PA, where Vice President Cheney had spoken for Congressman 
             Gekas who was running in a hotly contested election 
             against Congressman Tim Holden, two incumbents pitted 
             against one another. I turned on the radio at about 1:30 
             eastern time and was shocked to hear the news that Senator 
             Wellstone's plane had gone down. It brought memories of 
             the plane that went down on April 3, 1991, with Senator 
             John Heinz, a vibrant, young Senator who had great 
             potential, as did Senator Paul Wellstone.
               Flying small planes is an occupational hazard and 
             everybody in this Chamber, all 100 of us, as well as the 
             435 Members in the other Chamber, and many other 
             legislators and governmental officials, climb into small 
             airplanes every other day. We all hold our breath as to 
             whether we will be successful on the flight. Regrettably, 
             we fly in bad weather, which sometimes we should not do 
             but there is always a big crowd waiting and always some 
             reason to finish.
               It was a great tragedy. Paul's wife Sheila was with him 
             in the plane. One seldom saw Paul in the Halls of Congress 
             without Sheila. She was not on the floor of the Senate, 
             but she was with him constantly, holding hands, a very 
             devoted couple. Their daughter Marcia was with them, also 
             devoted in the campaign, a brilliant young woman at the 
             age of 33.
               Senator Wellstone will be sorely missed in the Senate. 
             There are many Paul Wellstone stories. I will mention one. 
             I was managing the appropriations bill for Labor, Health, 
             Human Services, and Education. Senator Wellstone was in 
             the Chamber bright and early. We started at 9:30. He had 
             an amendment. Sometimes it is hard to get amendments up 
             onto the floor. His amendment provided that no Member of 
             Congress should have a health insurance policy at 
             government expense that was superior to what every other 
             American had available to him or her.
               When that amendment was brought up, it was through the 
             distinguished senior Senator from Minnesota, who was 
             smiling broadly. It was a very extraordinary amendment to 
             make. It is pretty hard to make an amendment like that 
             stick because it would have made President Clinton's 
             national health insurance policy look entrepreneurial to 
             the nth degree. It did not pass, even though the Democrats 
             controlled the House and the Senate. Senator Mitchell, the 
             majority leader in 1993, was a major proponent of health 
             care, but the Clinton plan with its bureaucracy went down 
             to defeat. To have a requirement that no Member of 
             Congress could have a health plan that was superior in any 
             way to what the government provided for every citizen was 
             really an extraordinary idea, to characterize it very 
             mildly.
               I did not have to debate Senator Wellstone for very long 
             before there was an avalanche of Senators who came to the 
             Chamber. He really struck a nerve, and he struck a nerve 
             because many people think that Senators and Members of the 
             House have health insurance which is paid for by the 
             government, which is not true. We pay for the health 
             service which we have, but we also have additional health 
             service policies, Blue Cross and Blue Shield. To have 
             legislation limiting what a Member could have to that 
             which every other citizen would have at government expense 
             would be a great inducement to pass a widespread health 
             insurance benefit, and perhaps we ought to do that. That 
             was Senator Wellstone's idea. He debated it with fervor 
             and intensity. It was an extraordinary debate. I do not 
             think he got too many votes for his plan, but that did not 
             diminish it in any way. That is the great quality of a 
             dissenter. This Chamber will not be the same without 
             Senator Wellstone.

               Mr. DeWINE. Mr. President, let me begin by thanking all 
             of our colleagues who have already spoken here on the 
             Senate floor this afternoon in tribute to our dear friend, 
             Paul Wellstone. I join in the sentiments and would like to 
             extend my sympathy and my prayers to the entire Wellstone 
             family and the families and friends of the crew and staff 
             members who also lost their loved ones just a few short 
             weeks ago.
               Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, and their daughter 
             Marcia, left quite a legacy. These are family who were 
             working so closely together to help Paul in his reelection 
             bid. So as we pay tribute to Paul today we must also, I 
             believe, remember the dedication and the love of his wife 
             and his daughter--his entire family. Each one of us 
             understands our elections are many times a family effort. 
             We see our spouses, we see our daughters and sons go out 
             and campaign and spend time with us and spend time in 
             other parts of our States. So I think we all can relate to 
             this. In a sense, it makes this tragedy even harder for 
             all of us to bear, to think this was not just a loss of 
             Paul, but also of his wife and his daughter.
               The great English poet Alfred Tennyson wrote of a dear 
             friend who died suddenly: ``God's finger touched him, and 
             he slept.''
               Recently God's hand touched our friend Paul Wellstone. 
             Now he sleeps and now we mourn. The Senate will really 
             never be the same without Paul Wellstone. Not only did we 
             lose a colleague, but we also lost a friend, a good man, 
             an ethical man, a leader, a true champion--a champion of 
             the causes and the issues he believed in so passionately.
               As many of my colleagues have expressed already, Paul 
             had a kind of drive and passion and spirit that was really 
             unequaled in this body. But we will also miss his 
             kindness, his resolve, and his unbelievable energy--energy 
             he brought to every single task he undertook. Whatever it 
             was, Paul did it with sincerity and he did it with great 
             passion. Paul got things done. He was effective. That 
             effectiveness came because of his energy, because of his 
             drive, because of his determination, and it came because 
             he understood what he believed in. He understood what he 
             cared about. He understood what was important.
               It also came about because he could get along with 
             people from both sides of the aisle. He really transcended 
             politics in that respect. He knew people. He understood 
             them. It was evident he cared about them. You never had 
             any doubt when Paul Wellstone asked you how you were 
             doing, how you were feeling, how your wife was, that he 
             actually meant it. He actually cared.
               Arthur Ashe, the famous athlete, who also died too 
             young, once said:

               True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is 
             not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but 
             the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

               That was Paul Wellstone. That was his mission. No cost 
             was too great in his eyes when it came to protecting the 
             lives of those in this society who could not protect 
             themselves--as he said, ``the little people,'' the poor 
             people, the people who needed someone to help them. He 
             worked so hard and so tirelessly and with such commitment 
             to protect children, the elderly, the mentally ill. I had 
             the privilege of working closely with Paul on a number of 
             the legislative initiatives he cared so much about--the 
             kind of initiatives that were intended to protect and 
             improve peoples' lives, like job training--the bill he and 
             I spent an awful lot of time working on--and mental health 
             courts bills.
               Paul also cared deeply about the future of America's 
             children. He wanted to ensure that every single child in 
             this country received a quality education.
               He was instrumental in making sure that our transition 
             to teaching initiative was included in last year's 
             education reform law. And, in fact, at the time of Paul's 
             death, he and I were getting ready to introduce a bill to 
             expand the child care loan forgiveness program to include 
             preschool teachers. I intend to go forward and introduce 
             that bill tomorrow. I know that is what Paul would have 
             wanted. And, in his memory, I would like to rename that 
             bill ``The Paul Wellstone Early Educator Loan Forgiveness 
             Program.'' This legislation is just one of so many 
             examples of what Paul stood for and cared so passionately 
             about.
               It wasn't too long ago that this Senate lost another 
             friend and colleague. That man was a dear friend of mine. 
             That man was Senator Paul Coverdell. I was recently 
             looking back at the Congressional Record at some of those 
             fiery and impassioned speeches that Paul Wellstone used to 
             give on this Senate floor, and I came across a speech he 
             gave in tribute to Senator Coverdell following his death.
               I was really struck by his remarks, because what he said 
             in those few words about Senator Coverdell really capture 
             today what we in this Senate think about Paul Wellstone.
               I would like to take just a moment to read to my 
             colleagues what Paul Wellstone said on this floor on July 
             19, 2000:

               Mr. President, I want to speak about my colleague, 
             Senator Coverdell. I know other Senators have. I 
             absolutely have nothing rehearsed. There are many Senators 
             who will speak about Senator Coverdell probably in a more 
             profound and moving way than I can.
               There is one moment I want to remember about Senator 
             Coverdell because this small story tells a large story. We 
             had had a major debate about the Colombia aid package. 
             Senator Coverdell and I were in a debate. We did not 
             agree. It was a pretty good debate back and forth. I know 
             from time to time during the debate I would reach over and 
             touch his hand and say something to the effect: I just 
             cannot believe you said this; this is wrong--something 
             like that.
               At the end of the debate, I said, because I believed it 
             and believe it: Senator Coverdell is a really good 
             Senator.
               He smiled and touched my hand and said: Senator 
             Wellstone is a really good Senator.
               I do not know if the latter part is true, but the point 
             is that is the way he was. That is the kind of Senator he 
             was.

               That is also the kind of Senator Paul Wellstone was.
               Paul Wellstone in that tribute went on to say this about 
             our friend, Senator Coverdell:

               We talk about civility. He was just a beautiful person. 
             I really enjoyed him. We need a lot of Senators like 
             Senator Coverdell: Paul, you are wrong on the issues, but 
             you are a really good person.
               The Senate has lost a wonderful person and a wonderful 
             Senator, and the United States of America has lost a 
             wonderful person and a wonderful Senator.

               To Paul Wellstone today, I say that you, too, were a 
             wonderful person. You were a wonderful Senator.
               Today on this floor, we honor what Paul Wellstone stood 
             for, what he believed in, and what he accomplished here in 
             this Senate. As a public servant, Paul touched the lives 
             of his family, his friends and colleagues in the Senate, 
             his constituents in his home State of Minnesota, and the 
             lives of millions of people throughout the United States.
               I will not forget Paul Wellstone--none of us will. He is 
             deeply missed and will always be remembered.

               Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, as we have reconvened today, 
             there is a void in this Chamber. The untimely passing of 
             our friend and colleague, Paul Wellstone, brings a sadness 
             to the entire Senate family.
               We are also touched by the loss of Paul's wife Sheila, 
             his daughter Marcia, members of his campaign staff: Will 
             McLaughlin, Tom Lapic, and Mary McEvoy, and the two 
             pilots: Captains Richard Conry and Michael Guess.
               When I heard Senator Wellstone's plane had gone down in 
             Minnesota, it was difficult for me to convey my thoughts. 
             I thought of the countless hours I have spent, as a 
             Senator now for 34 years, in small planes, flying around 
             my State on campaigns and on official business.
               I recalled the day in December 1978 when the plane 
             carrying my wife Ann and myself and five friends, coming 
             from Juneau to Anchorage, crashed at the Anchorage 
             airport. The time that followed was a difficult one for my 
             family. The death of a spouse, a colleague, a loved one, 
             or a friend is never easy, but to lose that person in an 
             accident, particularly one you survive, is worse because 
             you will always know you never said goodbye.
               It was an ironic twist when I discovered Paul 
             Wellstone's plane crashed in the same city, Eveleth, MN, 
             where Alaska Congressman Nick Begich was born. As the 
             Senate knows, Representative Begich and the House majority 
             leader, Hale Boggs, were killed when the airplane in which 
             they were flying was lost over Alaska in 1972.
               It is safe to say--and I think this is no surprise to 
             anyone--that Paul Wellstone and I did not see eye to eye 
             on much, but I respected Paul for fighting for what he 
             believed and for his personal toughness that never let 
             physical problems slow him down.
               We spent much time together on the subway going back and 
             forth and became great friends. As a matter of fact, Paul 
             and his wife came over to our home. Catherine and I were 
             pleased to have dinner with him and Sheila on a personal 
             basis.
               I admired Paul's commitment to his causes, particularly 
             to his dedication to mental and physical health parity. As 
             a young boy, I helped raise a cousin who was challenged by 
             mental retardation, and I know the difficulties faced by 
             those in that community. Senator Wellstone's compassion 
             and determination has made a difference in many families 
             across our Nation, many lives of people such as my cousin.
               Likewise, Senator Wellstone's wife Sheila was a great 
             advocate. Her work on behalf of domestic abuse victims 
             helped many women and children begin life anew, with the 
             hope and encouragement that came from Sheila's work.
               Catherine and I cannot put into words the sympathy and 
             sorrow we feel for Paul's family for the loss of their 
             parents, their siblings, and their grandparents.
               Mr. President, grief is a process that helps heal the 
             heart. We will always miss Paul, but we honor his memory 
             by keeping after our business, as he did--testing our 
             ideas on the campaign trail and here on the Senate floor. 
             My friend, Paul Wellstone, would want it that way.
               Thank you very much, Mr. President.

               Mr. BYRD. Mr. President,

             Sunset and evening star,
             And one clear call for me!
             And may there be no moaning of the bar,
             When I put out to sea,
             But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
             Too full for sound and foam,
             When that which drew from out the boundless deep
             Turns again home.
             Twilight and evening bell,
             And after that the dark!
             And may there be no sadness of farewell,
             When I embark;
             For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
             The flood may bear me far,
             I hope to see my Pilot face to face
             When I have crost the bar.

               Mr. President, one of our number has gone from our 
             midst.
               I know that by now he has seen his Pilot face to face 
             because Paul Wellstone has crossed the bar. He was not 
             tall; yet mere feet and inches are no measure of a human 
             heart. He could not be cool or aloof, for he knew that it 
             is passion and commitment that drive human progress. He 
             was not without infirmity, but the limitations of the 
             flesh never hold down a robust and tenacious spirit.
               Paul Wellstone fairly burned with exuberance for life 
             and for the causes that he cared about. We all heard Paul 
             Wellstone as he spoke about those causes that he cared so 
             much about. He always spoke with passion. A visit to his 
             office is illustrative. Over the entrance to his private 
             office is a huge enlargement of a snapshot of his former, 
             now deceased, chief of staff, Mike Epstein. Most of us 
             remember Mike Epstein, who used to be seen back here on 
             the bench to my left as he sat listening to Paul and 
             waiting with Paul. Paul Wellstone did not forget. He did 
             not forget Mike Epstein.
               Once inside Paul's office, over the doorway three large 
             photos can be seen of the faces of battered women. Paul 
             Wellstone often spoke of those battered women in our 
             population. He did not forget.
               On the walls of his private chamber are photos of Hubert 
             Humphrey, John Kennedy, and on his desk is a bust of 
             Martin Luther King. Paul Wellstone did not forget.
               Paul was a man of causes. He was a teacher. He was a man 
             who stayed true to the things in which he believed. I can 
             almost see him back there now beside the flowers that have 
             so thoughtfully been placed on his desk as a token of our 
             remembrance of him. I often heard him use a metaphor. He 
             called it an old Jewish proverb. He would use it again and 
             again, in speech after speech. He would say, ``You can't 
             dance at two weddings at the same time.'' Senator Don 
             Nickles is on the floor, and he remembers this and has 
             indicated so by a smile. I never quite knew what Paul 
             Wellstone meant when he said that you can't dance at two 
             weddings at the same time. I never tried it, but I never 
             was at two weddings at the same time.
               When he said, ``You can't dance at two weddings at the 
             same time,'' he meant that one must not be false. That is 
             the key. One must not be false. He meant that one cannot 
             be all things to all people. He was thinking of the words 
             of Shakespeare, who said: To thine own self be true. Thy 
             can't now then be false to any man.
               He meant that one cannot say one thing and then do 
             another. And he meant that one cannot say the same thing 
             to two different people and mean two different things. It 
             is a fundamental lesson and has special application to 
             those of us who toil in the ruined fields of what passes 
             for politics today. You cannot dance at two weddings at 
             the same time.
               Paul Wellstone died tragically, but he lived heroically. 
             He ran uphill against the odds and enjoyed and gloried in 
             the experience. He was unique, he was priceless, and he 
             was quite irreplaceable.
               I shall miss him, and we all shall miss his courage.
               I was most endeared to Paul Wellstone in the last days 
             of his life. One day as we stood in the room together--we 
             Democrats--and discussed the resolution concerning the 
             Iraq war--which may come and which in my present thinking 
             is likely to come--we stood over in the corner room there 
             and the majority leader was there. My Democratic 
             colleagues--most of them--were there; Paul Wellstone was 
             there. We discussed the Iraq resolution. I remember Paul 
             Wellstone as he stood and said to us, his Democratic 
             colleagues:

               You all do what you must, but I am going to vote against 
             the resolution. But don't worry about me. I will explain 
             it to my people. I think I am doing the right thing, and I 
             believe my people will feel also that it is right. But if 
             they don't, they will vote. However that vote comes, 
             whatever that decision is, I will live with it.

               I thought that took a great deal of courage. Here was a 
             Senator who was running for reelection and he had already 
             reached a decision in his mind that he was going to take a 
             stand, and that was going to be a principled stand. His 
             future in politics could go one way or another; but 
             regardless Paul Wellstone was going to take that position. 
             He was going to go to the people with it. He was willing 
             to debate it with the people, and he felt that in the 
             final analysis the people would uphold him in the position 
             he had taken.
               There were not any ifs, ands, or buts. That was a 
             position he took right over in that room, in the corner, 
             near the elevator on this floor. That, more than anything 
             I saw in Paul Wellstone's life when he was here in our 
             midst for 12 years, that, more than anything else, 
             impressed me. I thought: Oh, if all Senators were like 
             that. If all public officials were like that, who would 
             take a principled stand, state the reasons for that stand 
             to the electorate, and let them make their choice. Of 
             course, he wanted to come back to the Senate, but he knew 
             very well that particular stand, in the climate in which 
             we find ourselves, might mean he would not be reelected. 
             And in the minds of a lot of people, the likelihood would 
             be perhaps he would not be reelected. He took that stand. 
             That told me something about that man I had never seen 
             before in him.
               That is the kind of courage that is found in men and 
             women who are not only willing but are proud to stand up 
             for their convictions and win or lose. They are determined 
             to do it that way because they feel that is for the best 
             interest of their country. That is the way Paul Wellstone 
             felt. But that, more than anything else, watching him and 
             listening to him on that occasion and knowing he was 
             heading out of here in a very close election, which at 
             that point he probably was a little behind--and I think he 
             was. But he went. He made that decision. He voted that 
             way. He went to the people and, from what I can 
             understand, he was winning. His points were going up. He 
             was going up. So the people, even though some of them--
             many of them--may not have agreed with Paul, admired a man 
             of conviction. That is the kind of man they wanted in this 
             body.
               I will always remember Paul Wellstone for that 
             demonstration of conviction, that demonstration of 
             integrity, that demonstration of courage, that 
             demonstration of character. So his spirit, as long as I am 
             here, will always permeate this Chamber.
               I never was close to Paul Wellstone. I cannot say I am 
             close to a great many Senators here. That is not their 
             fault. We are all busy people. But that drew me close to 
             Paul Wellstone.
               We owe a great debt to the people of his beloved 
             Minnesota and his wonderful family for sending him to 
             serve with us for a time. I fully believe if Paul 
             Wellstone had lived, he would have won that race. That 
             Senator we would have had back.
               I went to that memorial service. I went to Minnesota. I 
             went there when Hubert Humphrey died, and I went to the 
             memorial service for Paul Wellstone. I was at that dread 
             gathering. I was struck by the size of that tremendous 
             gathering of people singing songs, speaking. I wondered 
             about this man, what kind of hold he must have had on the 
             hearts of the people of Minnesota to draw a huge audience 
             like that in a memorial service.
               I also believe in my heart that the memorial service 
             veered off on a path that probably was not intended, and I 
             felt badly about some of the things that happened there--
             about the treatment, not only impolite, but the 
             discourteous treatment that was accorded to the minority 
             leader, Mr. Lott. I did not know about the treatment by 
             which he had been embarrassed. I did not know about that 
             until after it was over. But I felt as time went on that I 
             was in a strange meeting, and I believe that but for the 
             veering off course by that meeting Walter Mondale would 
             have been elected. In any event, that is in the past and 
             cannot be revisited.
               We will all miss Paul Wellstone. I do not think that he 
             would have wanted things to happen as they did in that 
             particular meeting, but that being said, I think Paul 
             Wellstone's spirit will live on.
               I regret the strange twist of fate that took his wife 
             and his daughter and the members of his staff to their 
             untimely ends. But as to Paul, we owe him a great debt. I 
             think I can best say his spirit will live on by repeating 
             the words of Thomas Moore:

             Let fate do her worst, there are relics of joy,
             Bright dreams of the past that she cannot destroy,
             That come in the night-time of sorrow and care,
             And bring back the features that joy used to wear.
             Long be my heart with such memories filled,
             Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled,
             You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will,
             But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

               Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, it is a sad occasion that we 
             see flowers on the desk of Paul Wellstone memorializing 
             his service to this country and to the Senate.
               Paul Wellstone served very ably in the Senate for 12 
             years. I had the pleasure of working with him, and I had 
             the pleasure of opposing him on many occasions. Many 
             times, I would always say in the heat of the battle that 
             Paul Wellstone had intensity, he had passion, and he had 
             conviction. As Senator Byrd mentioned, those are qualities 
             and traits that are very much needed in the Senate.
               October 25, when Paul Wellstone was killed along with 
             his wife Sheila and his daughter Marcia, in addition to 
             three staff members and a couple of pilots, was a real 
             tragedy to the Senate family. Unfortunately, we have lost 
             a lot of Senators through airplane crashes. Many of us 
             have been in planes under questionable circumstances. It 
             is a tragedy we hate to see. I remember receiving the 
             phone call and the words were ``oh, no,'' when it was 
             confirmed.
               As many of our colleagues, I went to Minnesota for the 
             memorial service on October 29 to express our condolences 
             and sympathy on the loss of a colleague. We wanted to show 
             support to his family, friends and constituents and say 
             that, yes, he was a valuable Member of the Senate and we 
             hated to lose him. To lose him in such a tragic and 
             unexpected way is really a loss for the entire country.
               I remember very well when Senator Wellstone made one of 
             his last speeches. It was a tribute to Senator Helms. 
             Philosophically, they were probably as opposed as they 
             could be, but they were always gentlemen and they always 
             conducted themselves as Senators. Like Senator Helms, 
             every time we had a debate with Senator Wellstone that we 
             disagreed on we always would shake hands, win or lose, and 
             we did both. We won some battles, we lost some battles, 
             but we were always friends and we were all colleagues.
               I remember Paul Wellstone being inducted to the National 
             Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, OK--an outstanding 
             American and a great tribute. This happened in the year 
             2000, but he was in the class of 2001, a class that is 
             very unique.
               Our colleague, Senator John Chafee, also deceased, was 
             inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, as well 
             as the current Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert. They 
             were a very special class of competitors who competed not 
             only on the wrestling mat but also on the floor of the 
             Senate and in the House of Representatives.
               Paul Wellstone earned our respect and our gratitude. We 
             miss him, and we wish to communicate to his family, his 
             friends, his associates, and his staff members, that we 
             respected Paul Wellstone. We appreciate his service to 
             this country, to his State, and to the Senate. Paul 
             Wellstone will be missed by all of us who had the pleasure 
             of calling him our colleague.

               Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I join with my colleagues 
             in taking these few moments to pay tribute to an 
             extraordinary man and a great Senator. It is hard to come 
             back to the Senate floor this afternoon and not be 
             overcome by a sense of loss because this desk behind me, 
             with the flowers, will never again serve as the launching 
             pad for one of Paul Wellstone's memorable and impassioned 
             speeches.
               Every American who shared Paul's determination to make 
             our country all that it should be, all that it can be, all 
             that Paul thought it must be, felt that same sense of 
             loss. The Americans who only knew Paul Wellstone through 
             tuning into C-SPAN or seeing the evening news, watching 
             that energy flow, those arms flail about, that pacing up 
             and down, may not have known the man but they too saw, as 
             we his colleagues saw, that deep abiding love of our 
             country. That is what motivated Paul Wellstone. He would 
             come on to this floor, sometimes bursting through those 
             doors, having to speak out, making it clear that there was 
             some injustice that had to be righted, some problem that 
             had to be solved, in order for us all to be the best we 
             could be.
               That wrestling spirit that never let go really was with 
             him in every encounter. He was a bear hugger. He was a 
             caring, loving man, as well as a great advocate.
               His determination to improve our Nation, our education 
             system, our health care system, our employment system, to 
             strengthen civil and human rights and provide 
             opportunities to those who live on the outskirts of 
             American life, was unparalleled. Every one of us who knew 
             him, and the millions who did not, were heartbroken by his 
             untimely death.
               I had someone say to me that the voice for the voiceless 
             has been silenced. That is not only a tribute to Paul but 
             it can also be heard as a rebuke to us. Was there only one 
             among us who spoke for the voiceless, who hurt for those 
             who were hurting, who carried the pain of injustice and 
             exclusion under which so many suffered? One hopes that is 
             not the case, but the only way to prove it is not is to 
             ensure that our voices are heard loudly and clearly.
               This floor will seem empty without his words of 
             conviction unless we fill it with our own. The ideals he 
             represented and his steadfast belief that we, the people, 
             through our government, acting together, can be a positive 
             force, literally to change the future for those who might 
             otherwise be left in despair, that commitment motivated 
             every aspect of his daily life.
               Our Senate family and the people of Minnesota not only 
             lost Senator Paul Wellstone, but we lost a great advocate 
             in Sheila Wellstone and we lost a great teacher in Marcia 
             Wellstone. His family shared his passion and his drive for 
             justice. His staff were with him every step of the way and 
             some tragically even gave their lives in service. Our 
             thoughts and prayers are certainly with all those, along 
             with the Wellstone family, who lost family members, 
             friends, and colleagues.
               Before coming to the Senate, I had the great pleasure of 
             working with both Paul and Sheila Wellstone. I admired 
             Sheila greatly. Just as her husband, she was made of 
             steel. That little package of energy that propelled her 
             down these corridors and throughout the State of Minnesota 
             looking for ways to help and to shed the spotlight she 
             could bring into the darkest corners of human misery set 
             her apart. She especially became a champion of those women 
             and children who were victims of domestic violence. The 
             stories she heard from women all over Minnesota and 
             America did not stay her property; she told them to 
             anyone. She would come to the White House and buttonhole 
             me or the President. She would go anywhere to see anyone 
             to make sure that someone whose small cry for help that 
             she heard in St. Paul or Margie would be heard in 
             Washington as well. She believed that the idea of 
             violence-free families should be a reality in every home 
             in our Nation.
               She and Paul, together, believed the diseases, the 
             illnesses of the mind, should no longer be relegated to 
             some back room where they would be brushed aside, ignored 
             because of the stigma, the embarrassment attached to them 
             historically. She encouraged Paul to join forces with 
             Senator Domenici to transform each of their families' 
             experiences into a national campaign to improve the lives 
             of the mentally ill.
               Sheila and Paul were also instrumental in bringing to 
             international awareness the horrific problem of 
             trafficking in human beings, the modern form of slavery by 
             which young women, young girls, are literally sold into 
             bondage, into the sex trade, into domestic servitude. 
             Sheila and Paul Wellstone were absolutely committed that 
             this practice of degradation would end.
               When each of us heard the news that the plane carrying 
             Paul and Sheila and Marcia went down, time seemed to stop. 
             Many did not want to believe it. We kept asking our staff 
             and others how it could be true. How could this have 
             happened? Horrible events, tragedies of this magnitude, 
             have a way of stopping time. But then we have to return. 
             The clocks have to start moving again. We have to continue 
             our journey into the future. But if we remember what that 
             moment in time felt like when we realized our friend, our 
             colleague, a great Senator, would no longer join us for 
             our debates, then perhaps that tragedy can change the tone 
             and landscape of our politics and our debates. Perhaps 
             Paul's example in life, his legacy in death, will compel 
             all to look inward, to ask ourselves what are we doing 
             today with the same energy, the same good humor, the same 
             fighting spirit that Paul Wellstone embodied to make life 
             a little better for the people we represent, to give voice 
             to the voiceless.
               Over the past weeks I have thought a lot about Paul 
             Wellstone. I remember so many incidents and so many of his 
             triumphs. He was there day in and day out. No issue was 
             too small that it did not have his commitment behind it if 
             he thought it would make a difference in someone's life. 
             The Senate passed expanding insurance coverage for the 
             mentally ill. I hope Senator Domenici's heartfelt plea and 
             his long-time commitment will help finally to pass his and 
             Paul's dream into law.
               We increased access to child care for the working poor 
             because Paul Wellstone knew what it meant to worry about 
             your children while at work because you did not know the 
             conditions they would be in, whether they would receive 
             the quality of care they should.
               One of my favorite Paul Wellstone moments was when Paul 
             and I were at a hearing he was chairing of the 
             Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and Training. We had 
             been receiving reports about a sharp increase in the 
             numbers of unreported deaths and injuries among immigrant 
             workers--many of them illegal, who found their way to our 
             country and were put to work, despite the laws against it, 
             for the cheap labor they provided--who were not given the 
             protection or the support or the respect they should have 
             for the dangerous jobs they were performing.
               One of my State's newspapers, NewsDay, ran a powerful 
             investigative report about the conditions in which 
             immigrant workers labored in New York. Paul read it and 
             contacted me right away. He wanted us to work together to 
             find out what we could do to stop people from dying, 
             literally dying, in New York and around America.
               Many who go to hearings around here know that not many 
             people, except the paid lobbyists for the various 
             industries affected, show up for the committee hearings. 
             The lobbyists fill the chairs. They take the notes. They 
             rush out to make the cell phone calls to report to their 
             superiors and employers what is going on. But 
             unfortunately, except on rare occasions, other people do 
             not come.
               On that day, to our surprise, hundreds of workers 
             flooded the halls of the Dirksen Building trying to get 
             into our hearing, trying to tell their stories. 
             Unfortunately, we had no idea this would draw such a 
             crowd. The room the hearing was being held in was not big 
             enough to accommodate everyone waiting.
               Paul and I conferred, and Paul said: I can't believe it. 
             There are all these people outside. Some of them came from 
             miles away. You can see his arms, as you hear those words, 
             going back and forth. What are we going to do?
               Before I could answer, he got up, and in that bowlegged 
             wrestler's stance and walk he had, he walked down from the 
             platform, through the crowd, threw open the doors, told 
             the Capitol Police that everyone was coming in and that 
             there would be room. They could sit on the floor, they 
             could sit in the Senators' chairs because he and I were 
             the only Senators there. He would not keep the very people 
             we were having the hearing about out of the hearing room.
               That was Paul. He was a people's Senator. Everyone was 
             welcome. Every door was open. It was an unusual hearing, 
             but it was a memorable one. Afterward, he greeted each and 
             every person who was there.
               It was this passion that got him up and fighting every 
             day, even when he was in such pain, as some of us can 
             remember, seeing him in pain on this floor, remembering 
             how last year the pain was so intense he literally dropped 
             to the floor of the Senate. He later learned that he was 
             not just contending with the aches and pains of a Hall of 
             Fame wrestling career but that he had multiple sclerosis. 
             That did not stop him either.
               For any of us who inquired how he was doing, he brushed 
             it off. He was not interested in any way or concerned 
             about his own health. He wanted to talk to you about what 
             we were going to do about unemployment insurance, what we 
             were going to do about education, how we could turn our 
             backs on all these children who would not get the 
             resources they needed.
               During the debate on the education bill, Paul was the 
             only member of our Education Committee to vote against it. 
             We knew why. He warned that focusing our education system 
             solely on improvements in standardized tests without a 
             major increase in Federal funding was wrong. I agreed with 
             that. I said so at the time in our committee. I will vote 
             for this bill, but only if we have the funding.
               Here we are, a year later. We got the funding for 1 year 
             and then the administration came in and no more funding. 
             Paul was right, as the distinguished Senator from West 
             Virginia knows. Trust, but verify, when it comes to such 
             promises.
               Senator Wellstone always stood by his beliefs. His last 
             big fight, as Senator Byrd has so eloquently reminded us, 
             was over two big issues: Certainly Iraq, what should be 
             done, what will be done, what our obligations as Senators 
             are to hold this administration accountable; and, here at 
             home, the fight for unemployment benefits to be extended. 
             For the life of me and for Paul Wellstone, with whom I 
             spoke about this at length time and time again, it made no 
             sense. How could we turn our backs on people who were out 
             of work through no fault of their own, who needed a little 
             bit of a helping hand? He would come to the floor, he 
             would make that case, and we wouldn't go anywhere with it. 
             We couldn't get our colleagues to support extending 
             unemployment insurance one more time.
               Along with what I hope will be a lasting legacy of 
             mental health parity, I truly request our colleagues and 
             the administration to extend unemployment insurance, Paul 
             Wellstone's last domestic battle, for people who will 
             otherwise have nowhere to turn when those benefits are 
             gone.
               I want to say also a word about Senator Wellstone's 
             staff, because he certainly loved and respected his staff. 
             As Senator Byrd has mentioned, his staff was a loyal, 
             hard-working group who often accompanied Senator Wellstone 
             to the floor and sat there watching him, getting energy 
             from his excitement and passion. I want to name some of 
             the names of those men and women who helped him do the 
             work we honor today. Colin McGinnis, his chief of staff, 
             and Brian Ahlberg, his legislative director, are two 
             extraordinary public servants. My staff has enjoyed the 
             privilege of working with them.
               My staff and I have also had the opportunity to work 
             with Marge Baker, who led Senator Wellstone's efforts on 
             the Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and Training, with 
             Jill Morningstar, who was his legislative assistant on 
             education and women's issues, with Rachel Gregg, who led 
             his efforts to assist the working poor, as well as Patti 
             Unruh, Ellen Gerrity, and Richard McKeon, who made up his 
             team of health care advisers.
               I offer my condolences to each of his extraordinary 
             staff members and I want them to know how much we 
             appreciate the work they did for Paul.
               On October 15, at the close of his last debate, here is 
             what Senator Wellstone said:

               I don't represent the pharmaceutical companies, I don't 
             represent the big oil companies, I don't represent the big 
             health insurance industry, I don't represent the big 
             financial institutions. But you know what, I represent the 
             people of Minnesota.

               That may be his most fitting tribute--the honor, the 
             ability, the results he brought to the way he represented 
             the people of Minnesota. He did it with passion and 
             principle. We join in saluting his life and his service 
             and we challenge ourselves to remember the reasons why so 
             many are mourning him today. Each of us, try to live up to 
             the standard Paul Wellstone set.

               Mr. CORZINE. Mr. President, I compliment the Senator 
             from New York for her gracious and most appropriate words 
             with regard to the service of the Senator from Minnesota, 
             who was such a special person.
               I rise to add my words of respect and praise and 
             thanksgiving for the life and leadership of my friend and 
             colleague and, in fact, political hero. Paul Wellstone was 
             a good man who did his very best to do good things--very 
             simply, good things for others. With his wife Sheila, 
             their lives were about service, service and advocacy for 
             others. In fact--I think the presiding officer probably 
             knows this--they may well have been the most unselfish 
             people I ever observed. The drive was not to power. It was 
             not to popularity. It certainly was not to wealth. It was 
             to service--service to those without a voice. Paul 
             Wellstone really did believe all men and women are created 
             equal and therefore should be treated accordingly.
               As a friend, Paul was always supportive and full of 
             counsel for a fellow progressive--or should I say liberal. 
             While our paths to the Senate could not have been more 
             different, our paths in the Senate were much alike. He was 
             a pathfinder for me and for many others because of his 
             personal passion and principle with which he was so 
             secure--it was deep in his soul. It gave him vision. His 
             words and deeds were an example for all who seek to lead. 
             As he so often implored, our actions cannot be separate 
             from our words. All men and women are created equal, and 
             he believed our Nation must act, also, accordingly. He 
             fought for that every day on this floor.
               We have heard about his principled fight for mental 
             health parity. We have heard about his fight to make sure 
             education was something other than high stakes testing, 
             and to make sure welfare reform was about something other 
             than reducing the numbers on rolls, but was really about 
             reducing poverty levels; on labor rights and defending the 
             right to organize, defending the right of working men and 
             women to have access to the American promise on an equal 
             basis with those who are granted more; and on women's 
             rights, which we have heard so much about, and domestic 
             abuse, in which he carried the words and deeds of his wife 
             so ably; on veterans' care and the homelessness problems 
             of our Vietnam vets. On these and many other issues he 
             really was a man who spoke for those without a voice.
               Paul's passion and vision will be deeply missed. For 
             those honored to have shared his life, it is now our 
             responsibility to pursue his vision. His commitment to 
             equality and justice must not be lost and, with God's 
             will, it will not.
               To this challenge, earlier today I heard Senator 
             Stabenow cite great words from Frederick Douglass that 
             bear repeating. When you think about Paul Wellstone you 
             think about how he handled himself in this world. Those 
             words are:

               If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who 
             profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation want 
             crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain 
             without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without 
             the awful roar of its many waters.

               Paul Wellstone led his struggle for freedom with thunder 
             and lightning--his struggle for progress. We will miss 
             him. We will miss his struggle. We must take it up.
               All of us pray for his family and the families of the 
             others lost on that tragic day of the crash. Our hearts 
             are saddened. And we, as Senator Clinton has so ably 
             articulated, commend his loyal and dedicated staff, and 
             those thousands of volunteers who made his voice multiples 
             of what it otherwise would be, through their activism and 
             organization. We say thank you for all of them. Our love 
             goes out. We respect them for what they have done, and 
             their service. We hope they will not turn away from the 
             effort and the fight. We thank them all. They mourn. We 
             mourn. But we must not quit. We will not quit. Our deeds 
             must match his deeds in the days and years ahead.

               Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I rise to pay tribute today to 
             two dear friends, Paul and Sheila Wellstone. The October 
             25 plane crash in northern Minnesota which took their 
             lives was an incalculable tragedy. It deprived Minnesota 
             of a brilliant Senator. It deprived my wife Barbara and me 
             of two very dear friends. It deprived the poor and 
             disadvantaged everywhere in this country of a most 
             committed, eloquent, and passionate champion.
               If there is one word that I heard perhaps more than any 
             other in the tributes that have been paid to Paul 
             Wellstone, it would be the word ``passionate.''
               Compounding the tragedy, the crash claimed the lives of 
             Paul and Sheila's daughter, Marcia; three members of his 
             staff: Will McLaughlin, Tom Lapic, and Mary McEvoy; and 
             the plane's two pilots, Captains Richard Conry and Michael 
             Guess.
               Our hearts go out to Paul's sons and grandchildren, and 
             to all of the families of those whose lives were lost. We 
             think about what might have been. We are reminded of just 
             how ephemeral and precious life is.
               It is said that an obituary tells you what a person did 
             and a eulogy tells you who a person was. I would like to 
             talk about who Paul was.
               Paul Wellstone was the patron Senator of lost causes. By 
             ``lost,'' I don't mean wrong. In fact, most of his causes 
             were right. But many of them were at the moment unpopular.
               Paul Wellstone devoted his energies to fighting for the 
             disenfranchised and demoralized, the lonely, and the 
             isolated. He saw his mission in the Senate and in life as 
             comforting the afflicted and, when necessary, afflicting 
             the comfortable. In social justice circles, it is called 
             ``speaking truth to power.''
               Paul knew what it is like to be the underdog. He 
             literally wrestled his way into the University of North 
             Carolina on an athletic scholarship. He overcame learning 
             disabilities to earn a Ph.D. from that distinguished 
             university. The civil rights movement inspired him to 
             become active in politics. In 1990, he ran a seemingly 
             quixotic campaign against an incumbent Senator who 
             outspent him by more than 7 to 1. And Paul won. And he won 
             again in 1996.
               I think Paul beat the odds because he gave hope to so 
             many people who have been left behind. Paul was a friendly 
             and warm person who learned and remembered everybody's 
             name because he genuinely cared about them.
               More recently, Paul battled hip and back injuries and 
             publicly announced that he had multiple sclerosis. When he 
             made that announcement, he said--with characteristic wit 
             and pluck--``I have a strong mind--although there are some 
             who might disagree with that--I have a strong body, I have 
             a strong heart, I have a strong soul.'' And that he did.
               Paul knew what it was like to be an underdog. So he 
             devoted his life to fighting for the underdog. At 
             Minnesota's Carleton College, where he was a professor, he 
             protested the college's investments in companies doing 
             business with pro-apartheid South Africa. He intervened on 
             behalf of many farmers facing foreclosure. He joined the 
             picket lines at a meat-packing plant. And when Carleton 
             College's custodians went on strike, he taught his classes 
             off-campus because he wasn't going to cross that picket 
             line.
               Paul brought his unabashed idealism to the Senate. He 
             voted against the gulf war in 1991. He voted against the 
             welfare bill in 1996. He led a lonely fight against the 
             bankruptcy bill, saying that it would enrich big credit 
             card companies at the expense of ordinary people suffering 
             ``brutal economic circumstances.'' And the list goes on.
               One of his last votes that he cast was for the more 
             multilateral approach relative to our situation in Iraq. 
             During that debate, he argued as follows:

               Acting now on our own might be a sign of our power. 
             Acting sensibly and in a measured way, in concert with our 
             allies with bipartisan congressional support, would be a 
             sign of our strength.

               Paul often found himself in small minorities. He was, 
             however, able to move the Senate on occasion through sheer 
             conviction. For instance, he teamed with Senator Domenici 
             to require health insurance companies to provide more 
             equitable coverage and benefits to people suffering from 
             mental illness. It was the right thing to do. It was the 
             fair thing to do. And he prevailed.
               Life deals everyone setbacks and defeats. And Paul had 
             more than his share, especially in the Senate. But he 
             never became the least bit cynical as many people do when 
             they suffer life's disappointments. He kept coming back 
             cheerful and committed as ever. He was absolutely 
             guileless. And I think that was the source of his 
             popularity, which extended to people who vehemently 
             disagreed with the policies that he advocated. Everyone 
             admired the fact that he spoke from the heart, and he 
             voted based on his sincere beliefs--not from political 
             expediency. He believed in the power of ideas and causes, 
             and in the power of government to help people. He was a 
             formidable adversary. And he had that unique gift of being 
             able to disagree without being disagreeable.
               T.S. Eliot wrote to a friend:

               We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat 
             and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, 
             though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight 
             rather to keep something alive than in the expectation 
             that anything will triumph.

               That wistful statement, to me, captures some of Paul 
             Wellstone's approach to his duty. With indefatigable 
             goodwill and cheer and sincerity, Paul always bounced 
             back, always carried on, and always stood on principle--
             never on expediency. He wasn't afraid to be in the 
             minority, even a minority of one.
               A friend of Paul's, Bill Holm, wrote a touching tribute 
             that appeared in the New York Times the day after Paul 
             died. I am going to put that column in the Record 
             following my remarks, but I wish to quote from it briefly 
             to underscore some of what the column says.
               Bill Holm wrote,

               Whatever Paul's height, he was one of the largest men I 
             ever met. He filled rooms when he entered them. Size in a 
             public man is an interior, not an exterior, quality. . . . 
             He thought himself an athlete . . . and I suspect he saw 
             his whole political life in that metaphor. He wrestled 
             with the power of big money, military adventurism and 
             penny-pinching against the poor. He meant to fight fair, 
             but he meant to win.

               The great suffragette Anna Howard Shaw remarked,

               It does not make so much difference perhaps as to the 
             number of days we live as it does to the manner in which 
             we live the days we do live.

               She could have been saying that about Paul Wellstone.
               Paul fought the good fight--usually against long odds. I 
             think, because he was a wrestler, he knew it was always 
             possible to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. 
             Sometimes you can be behind on points but suddenly pin 
             your opponent seconds before the match is over. So he 
             never gave up. He had an infectious optimism. That is why 
             he was such an inspiration.
               He certainly lived his life with gusto. He showed that 
             gusto in the way he consumed my wife's stuffed cabbage. We 
             still have some in the freezer which we had preserved for 
             the next dinner we were going to have with the Wellstones.
               Paul Wellstone may have stood 5 feet 5 inches tall, but 
             he had the heart of a giant. As we mourn his passing, we 
             celebrate his life. What a gift he gave to us all.
               I ask unanimous consent that Bill Holm's column, 
             appearing in the October 26, 2002, edition of the New York 
             Times, be printed in the Record.
               There being no objection, the material was ordered to be 
             printed in the Record, as follows:
                     [From the New York Times, October 26, 2002]
                         A Liberal With a Wrestler's Stance
                                   (By Bill Holm)
               Minnesota, Minn.--Paul Wellstone was an unlikely 
             politician in a place like Minnesota--land of walleyes, 
             cornfields and phlegmatic Scandinavians. He was an urban 
             Jew, son of immigrants, a college professor at the 
             fanciest of Minnesota's private colleges. And, probably 
             worst of all for his non-talkative constituents, he was a 
             passionate orator, a skilled rouser of rabble over issues 
             he loved and an unapologetic populist liberal.
               How did this man, who was killed yesterday in a plane 
             crash in northern Minnesota, ever manage a triumphantly 
             successful political career in which even many Republicans 
             and conservative Christians quietly scribbled the 
             Wellstone X on their ballots, hoping their neighbors 
             wouldn't catch them behaving like lefties?
               When I gave readings of poetry and essays, I often 
             shared a podium with Senator Wellstone at various rural 
             conventions and political gatherings. It was a remarkable 
             experience, and I learned very well to proceed rather than 
             follow him. He worked a house as well as Hubert Humphrey 
             ever did.
               I remember a Farmers Union convention in St. Paul: Paul 
             Wellstone, a pugnacious 5-foot-5, stood at the dais 
             between the Farmers Union chairman and me, both 6-foot-5 
             Scandinavians.
               ``It's nice to join my Norwegian cousins here in St. 
             Paul,'' he said. He then proceeded in 20 minutes to bring 
             the audience cheering to its feet. If this had been a 
             monarchy, the farmers would have crowned him.
               I was next, with a few small and sensitive rural poems. 
             I had a sinking feeling that a master had bested me.
               Whatever Paul's height, he was one of the largest men I 
             ever met. He filled rooms when he entered them. Size in a 
             public man is an interior, not an exterior quality. Paul 
             charmed--and sometimes persuaded--even those hostile to 
             his unashamed liberal ideas by listening with great 
             courtesy and attention to unfriendly questions. He 
             answered without dissembling, without backing down from 
             his own principles, but with a civil regard for the 
             dignity of the questioner. And he had the politician's 
             great gift: an amazing memory for names. I saw him once 
             pluck a vote with this gift. He answered questions for 45 
             minutes in a room full of ordinary citizens whom he'd 
             never seen before. He began his last answer this way: 
             ``Your question reminds me of Mary's concern.'' Mary, in 
             the back row, was 45 minutes ago. Mary, likely a rock-
             ribbed Republican, blushed a little and smiled. One more 
             vote.
               Even those who continued to disagree with Paul did not 
             question the sincerity of his idealism. He was sometimes 
             attacked for naivete (as in his brave vote against 
             authorizing the President to go to war with Iraq), but 
             never for dishonesty. He voted, as he spoke, from the 
             heart.
               It's often forgotten that Paul, nearing 60 with a bad 
             back and a respectable batch of grandchildren whom he 
             treasured, began his rise in the world with a college 
             wrestling scholarship. His working-class parents had no 
             money for school, so wrestling earned him a doctorate.
               He preserved a wrestler's sensibility in both his 
             academic and political life. In 1998 I met Paul at a 
             reception at the Governor's Mansion just before Jesse 
             Ventura, a professional wrestler by trade, first occupied 
             that house. How curious, I told Paul, that the two most 
             interesting politicians in Minnesota at the moment should 
             both be wrestlers. He replied with a wry smile: ``But I'm 
             a real one.''
               He thought himself an athlete, not an entertainer, and I 
             suspect he saw his whole political life in that metaphor. 
             He wrestled with the power of big money, military 
             adventurism and penny-pinching against the poor. He meant 
             to fight fair, but he meant to win.
               Not only Minnesota, but the whole country will feel the 
             absence of his voice and his bravely combative spirit. We 
             say with Walt Whitman: Salud, Camerado. We look for you 
             again under our boot-soles.

               Mr. HOLLINGS. Madam President, liberal? Worse, the 
             London Economist called Senator Wellstone the most ``left 
             wing'' Senator in the U.S. Senate. Yet, as the most 
             conservative Senator, I found myself time and again 
             fighting at his side.
               The year started with the Bush seduction of Senator Ted 
             Kennedy on education. Senator Kennedy looked at the 
             amount--$7 billion. President Bush looked at the thrust--
             prove that public education was a failure so that private 
             education could be financed by the government. Testing. 
             Somehow the billions being spent by the States on testing 
             was not enough. A Federal test was necessary.
               Failing schools would be closed. Failing students would 
             be tutored. But most likely, the student failing for the 
             lack of a competent teacher could find no competent tutor. 
             For all this testing, the education bill provided no help 
             for the student to pass the test. And for this, Senator 
             Wellstone ranted and raved. But nobody listened. Senator 
             Wellstone was liberal, but as a conservative I knew he was 
             right. We both voted no.
               Next was the Bush tax cut. No doubt Senator Wellstone, 
             the liberal, was the target for this initiative. For the 
             purpose of Voodoo II, or Bush's Reaganomics, was to 
             eliminate the resources of government so that without the 
             money there would be no programs. But in reality, programs 
             persevered, with a horrific debt, and the devastating 
             waste of interest costs. Senator Wellstone, the liberal, 
             was for programs. I, the conservative, was for putting 
             government on a pay-as-you-go path. We both voted no.
               Then there was the jobs debate. Fast track--this was a 
             device that Presidents use to control trade agreements. 
             With it, the agreement submitted by the President could 
             not be amended. Congress was required to vote it up or 
             down, and, of course, no agreement was ever submitted 
             until the White House had the vote fixed.
               To get NAFTA approved, President Clinton bought the vote 
             with numerous favors not related to the agreement, such as 
             defense contracts, cultural centers, and golf rounds in 
             California and Arkansas. One could readily see that the 
             intent was to create jobs south of the border. Sure 
             enough, we lost 700,000 textile jobs alone. So, when fast 
             track expired, we refused to renew it for President 
             Clinton. Again, Senator Wellstone and I both opposed 
             giving fast track authority to President Bush.
               ``Liberal.'' ``Conservative.'' Wrong references. Adlai 
             Stevenson used to say it's not whether one is liberal or 
             one is conservative, but whether one is headed in the 
             right direction.
               Adam Nagourney of the New York Times writes of the 
             ``homogenization'' of American politics. Politics has 
             changed. Triangulation has taken over so that every party 
             compromises, or triangulates, the other party's issues. 
             Both are for tax cuts. Both are for saving Social 
             Security. Both are for defense. Both are for the war with 
             Iraq. Both are for homeland security. Both are against 
             corporate corruption. Worse, money locks in this 
             triangulation so that we are back to George Wallace's, 
             ``There's not a dime's bit of difference between the 
             parties.''
               But there is a fundamental difference. The Republicans 
             know to campaign. The Democrats know to govern. Paul 
             Wellstone came to Washington to govern. He could see the 
             crying needs of the country: schools, health care, jobs, 
             infrastructure, and so forth. And he was determined to do 
             something to provide for these needs. But with the 
             Democrats in control by only one vote, we abandoned 
             governing. The needs of the country were abandoned and 
             both parties went into high gear to campaign, with money 
             controlling the issues. Y2K, free trade, corporate 
             reform--money controlled with a refusal to even cancel the 
             principal corruption: stock options. The Congress danced 
             around the fire of intelligence failures, terrorism 
             insurance, seaport security, rail security, energy policy, 
             pension reform, prescription drugs--but no governing.
               Paul Wellstone was a fighter. The shortest fellow in the 
             Congress, most of us couldn't touch his shoes. Today, 
             there are no fighters in Washington, just campaigners.

               Mr. COCHRAN. Madam President, the tragic death of our 
             colleague, Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, was such a sudden 
             shock to all of us. It was hard to believe he had died. 
             Paul was so full of life, and full of energy and 
             enthusiasm. It was so incongruous, so unbelievable, that 
             his life could be ended so abruptly.
               But it was, and we continue to grieve and to miss him.
               Paul and I were friends. We also collaborated on 
             legislation to help farmers and to find a cure for 
             Parkinson's disease and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
               We often talked about our strategy for accelerating the 
             research that is so important to the effort to conquer 
             these threats to human life.
               He traveled to my State to see for himself the plight of 
             the poor in the Mississippi Delta. He was sincerely 
             interested in helping alleviate the burdens and problems 
             faced by the poor people who lived in the Delta. I told 
             him about the initiatives we had started and let him know 
             I shared his concerns and that we were trying some new 
             approaches such as the Delta Regional Initiative.
               Senator Wellstone will always be appreciated for the 
             efforts he made to help those who needed help the most.

               Mr. FRIST. Madam President, the Senate has been a unique 
             institution since its inception. We take great pride in 
             our deliberative nature. Debate may take time, but it is 
             time well spent. It is always better to pursue the right--
             rather than the rushed--course of action. This style of 
             governance has served the American people well for more 
             than two centuries.
               This does not mean the Senate is not a dynamic body. It 
             is full of the same vibrancy that marks this great 
             experiment called American democracy. For within this 
             Chamber have echoed some of the most lively and spirited 
             debates in our Nation's history. And outside this Chamber 
             as well--in committee rooms and caucus meetings and other 
             public forums.
               On Friday the Senate lost one of its most animated 
             Members in Paul Wellstone. He was a proverbial ``true 
             believer.'' Conviction was not something about which he 
             simply spoke at opportune moments; he showed it time and 
             again with his unabated enthusiasm for being a U.S. 
             Senator. Paul Wellstone's beliefs rose from a deep and 
             impenetrable well of principle.
               Indeed, Paul was a proud and unabashed voice for 
             liberalism. His votes often landed him not only on the 
             other side of Republicans, but on the other side of his 
             fellow Democrats, as well. He was a man who simply did not 
             blink in the face of political pressure. He stared it down 
             without regard to price. Even if you did not agree with 
             him, you admired him and the courage he so frequently 
             displayed.
               I saw this first-hand on the Health, Education, Labor, 
             and Pensions Committee. There Paul and I served together 
             on the Subcommittee on Public Health and the Subcommittee 
             on Children and Families. We shared a common concern for 
             the health of women and children and the mentally ill. He 
             spoke out often on their behalf. He fought hard for them. 
             And his passion for their well-being will be missed.
               Paul Wellstone was one of a kind. We were blessed to 
             have him, his wife, Sheila, and his daughter, Marcia, as 
             members of the Senate family. And the people of Minnesota 
             and the United States were blessed to have him in their 
             service. May we keep Paul and Sheila's sons and 
             grandchildren and the families of all those who lost loved 
             ones in our thoughts and prayers in the coming weeks.

               Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Madam President, several days after this 
             terrible tragedy, the loss of our beloved colleague, Paul 
             Wellstone, his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia, three 
             loyal members of his staff and two pilots, we still remain 
             in a state of shocked disbelief.
               We have lost a unique and gifted man, who embodied not 
             only the independent spirit of his home State, but one 
             that resides at the very heart of the American soul.
               A few years ago, when speaking on this floor about the 
             loss of his legislative director, Paul claimed that 
             ``sometimes the only realists are the dreamers.''
               In many ways he could have been referring to himself, 
             the cerebral political science professor willing to stand 
             alone, when necessary, for what he believed.
               He had the common touch, and was an impassioned speaker, 
             noted as much for his big heart as for his sharp mind.
               Elected as the only new Senator in 1990, Paul's 
             crusading voice would not have had the same impact in the 
             House of Representatives as it did in this Chamber.
               Only in the Senate could he have helped to lead the 
             successful opposition, in 1991, to an energy bill that 
             would have opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to 
             oil exploration, or 5 years later force a vote on a 
             minimum wage increase.
               For two terms he fought tirelessly for increased funding 
             for education at every level, health care that was 
             accessible and affordable for all Americans, sweeping 
             campaign finance reform, and farm legislation that sought 
             to protect the small farmers.
               While he was, on the one hand, an ideological liberal, 
             willing to speak with his conscience, Paul was also able 
             to work with Republican colleagues on many occasions, and 
             he was responsible for passing important bipartisan 
             legislation, most notably the expanded insurance coverage 
             for mental illnesses, with Senator Domenici.
               But Paul Wellstone's commitment to social justice did 
             not stop at our borders. He was an outspoken champion of 
             the poor and the powerless around the world, in Latin 
             America, Asia and Africa.
               I remember when, back in 1996, I voiced concern over the 
             plight of women and girls under the reactionary rule of 
             the Taliban, Paul was one of the few who was receptive to 
             the need for the United States to respond to such 
             violations.
               In 1999, Paul and I introduced the ``International 
             Trafficking of Women and Children Victim Protection Act,'' 
             which established an interagency task force to monitor and 
             combat trafficking, provided assistance to other countries 
             that met minimum international standards, and withheld 
             U.S. non-humanitarian assistance to countries that failed 
             to meet these standards.
               To his eternal credit, it is worth noting that Paul had 
             originally introduced his own bill, which contained much 
             tougher criminal provisions and stronger protections for 
             victims.
               He was a leading advocate for Tibetan autonomy, able to 
             work closely with his ideological nemesis, Jesse Helms. In 
             fact, the last time I worked with Paul was in cosponsoring 
             an act to safeguard the cultural, religious, and ethnic 
             identity of the Tibetan people and to encourage further 
             dialog between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese Government.
               We must not forget that the world has also lost Sheila, 
             Paul's wonderful wife of almost 40 years, and a passionate 
             campaigner against domestic violence, and for the need to 
             create violence-free families. Hers was a noble cause, a 
             critical fight, that must be continued.
               Minnesota has produced some of America's most eloquent, 
             committed, and honorable leaders. Hubert Humphrey, Harold 
             Stassen, Eugene McCarthy, and Walter Mondale come quickly 
             to mind.
               Even if he had not met such a tragic and untimely end, 
             Paul Wellstone would have surely earned his place among 
             this distinguished group. The fact that he has left us so 
             abruptly, and left all of us so sad, will not diminish his 
             achievements, nor weaken his message.
               To quote Paul: ``I still believe that government can be 
             a force of good in people's lives.''
               We in the Senate should take these words to heart, just 
             as we were truly honored to have had him among us. We are 
             all the better to have known him and worked with him. He 
             will be sorely missed.

               Mr. DAYTON. Madam President, it has been a very moving 
             afternoon in the Chamber listening to my colleagues speak 
             so eloquently about my good friend, the senior Senator 
             from Minnesota. It was touching to hear of their respect 
             and their affection and their admiration for Paul 
             Wellstone.
               I spoke earlier this afternoon about the Senator, my 
             dear friend, and because others were waiting to speak I 
             abbreviated my remarks. I wanted to close by noting, as 
             others have so well, that Paul's remarkable achievements 
             were not his alone.
               He was one of those people who, in his greatness, was 
             able to attract great people to his side. He had 
             extraordinarily dedicated men and women who worked with 
             him, gave of their time and their energy, their hearts and 
             their souls to his work: Colin McGinnis and his staff here 
             in Washington; Connie Lewis, Minnesota State director, and 
             her staff in Minnesota were always with Paul and Sheila 
             and extraordinarily dedicated.
               Of course, if you wanted to make a difference in 
             Washington, if you wanted to try to move mountains and you 
             were young and idealistic, who better to work for than 
             Paul Wellstone?
               Many of his former students at Carleton College in 
             Northfield, MN, went on to be his key staff aides. I used 
             to tease Paul and say that is what he was doing during his 
             time there; he was recruiting the best and the brightest 
             to work on his campaigns and organize the State and to 
             work in Washington and in Minnesota on behalf of the many 
             causes he championed--Jeff Blodgett, who was managing his 
             campaign for the third time and doing so with great skill, 
             and according to the last published polls, with very 
             successful results, and others in Minnesota who gave up 
             their careers, family life, and set it aside one more time 
             to bring the man they loved and in whom they believed to 
             victory.
               Kari Moe, who was involved with Senator Wellstone's 
             Washington office, was his chief of staff for years 
             before. They are incredibly dedicated people each in their 
             own right.
               Tom Lapic tragically was on the plane with Paul and lost 
             his life in service to his friend and his country. Tom was 
             the deputy Minnesota director. Several hundred friends and 
             family came to his memorial service a week after his 
             death. He was a man who touched people deeply, as did 
             Paul. His wife Trudy and others shared their 
             recollections, the wonderful qualities Tom had that 
             complemented Paul, his calmness, virtually unflappable 
             under any circumstances. Like Paul, he was astute and 
             eloquent, and he and Paul collaborated on many of the 
             words that Paul used in speeches. Tom was always by Paul's 
             side offering his guidance and perspective.
               Will McLaughlin was on Paul's campaign staff. He was 
             just starting his political career at the age of 23 in 
             Minnesota. But everybody could see he was destined to be a 
             star, a Governor or a Senator, something special someday. 
             He already had been elected president of his fraternity at 
             the University of Minnesota. Politics was in Will's blood 
             or maybe even in his genetic code. His father, Mike 
             McLaughlin, was a long-time Fourth District chair of the 
             Minnesota Democratic Party, and he collaborated with the 
             greats of the previous generation--Hubert Humphrey, Fritz 
             Mondale, Eugene McCarthy, Joe Karth, Bruce Vento. Will's 
             mother, Judy McLaughlin, was a close associate of the 
             former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. 
             He will be missed by his mother Judy and his siblings and 
             his friends and those in Minnesota who never had a chance 
             to get to know him.
               Thousands of Minnesotans knew Mary McEvoy who was on the 
             plane as staff in name but really as a friend of Paul and 
             Sheila's. She was one of Sheila Wellstone's very closest 
             friends. Sheila flew with Paul because he loathed it, and 
             Mary flew with Sheila because she loathed it. It was 
             beyond tragedy, beyond words that Mary had taken a leave 
             of absence from the University of Minnesota where she was 
             a full professor, where she chaired the department, where 
             she had her own very distinguished career in her field, so 
             she could help her friend Sheila and her friend Paul 
             during their time of need. She had a service where over 
             1,500 Minnesotans, friends, and family came to pay their 
             respects. She was associate chair of the DFL Party. She 
             was a leader. She was a colleague. She was a mother of 
             three beautiful children, and she had her husband Jamie. 
             She will be terribly missed by all of us in the life of 
             Minnesota.
               Of course, the linchpin of Paul's staff, his unpaid and 
             most important staff person was his wife Sheila who, 
             unlike some campaign and political spouses, was beloved by 
             Paul's staff and gratefully welcomed to the office for her 
             ability to run interference when necessary with her 
             husband and his life and his schemes.
               I remember once it was said it took a lot of money to 
             keep Mahatma Gandhi in poverty because of the people 
             around him necessary to help him carry out his mission. It 
             took a lot of really remarkable and talented people to 
             keep Paul Wellstone on the brink of disorganization. He 
             had so much energy and was doing so many things, often 
             simultaneously. Sheila was the linchpin and a formidable 
             political activist in her own right. She was born and 
             raised in the coal country of West Virginia, a hard-
             scrabble upbringing. She and Paul were married when they 
             were 19 years old. For 39 years they were each other's 
             best friend, colleagues, mates, spouses.
               Many talk about and preach family values. That was a 
             wonderful marriage and a wonderful family. They had three 
             children of whom they were enormously proud. Marcia 
             Wellstone, tragically on the plane, was a future political 
             star in her own right. She loved campaigning, loved being 
             out with the people of Minnesota. She was a wonderful 
             teacher in the White Bear School District, beloved by her 
             students, liked by her colleagues. She also leaves a gap 
             with her family and friends that can never be filled.
               They had two sons who fortunately were not on the plane 
             that day, David and Mark, of whom Paul and Sheila were 
             also enormously proud. I hope and I trust they will, in 
             this time of terrible loss and grief, be consoled a little 
             by the words that were expressed today, by the words that 
             have been expressed by people all over the country. They 
             had extraordinary parents, very hard parents to lose, but 
             ones who will be with them in spirit always and gave them 
             the best upbringing that any two fine men could wish for.
               Paul was a family man from the beginning. That was 
             always foremost in his priorities. I remember not more 
             than 6 weeks ago I happened to come to the Senate Chamber 
             one afternoon, just around the lunch hour. Much to my 
             surprise, the Senate was in recess. There was Paul with 
             his 7-year-old grandson named Joshua, Marcia's child, who 
             was evidently on an outing that afternoon with his 
             grandfather.
               Paul was showing him around the empty Chamber and 
             pointing out where his desk was, as well as others. I 
             think Paul was convinced that he had Josh quite impressed 
             with this great Chamber and all it represents to all of us 
             until Josh looked up at him kind of wistfully and said, 
             ``Grandpa, are we going to go someplace soon? You promised 
             that we were going to go someplace this afternoon.''
               For once, Paul seemed almost at a loss for words. He 
             looked up at the ceiling and then looked forlornly at me, 
             looked over to Josh and said, ``This is someplace.''
               I close by saying, yes, Paul, this is some place that 
             you reached, without any of the advantages some of us have 
             enjoyed, and Sheila Wellstone with none at all. They met 
             at age 19. He came to Northfield, MN, built a career as a 
             college professor, she as a housewife raising their 
             children. To come to some place like this is a phenomenal 
             American success story.
               I recounted earlier today about how Paul was elected in 
             1990. He ran an extraordinary campaign, a David versus 
             Goliath, come from nowhere, miraculous victory that is a 
             tribute to the kind of indefatigable courage and 
             willingness to follow his dream and bring people along 
             with him. He stood for what he believed in and won by 
             doing so. That should be in every political textbook in 
             this country for decades to come.
               He served in the Senate for 12 years and made those 
             stands again and again. Whether they were popular, whether 
             he had the votes or not, he knew usually with great 
             insight whether he was going to be successful. He knew 
             when he lost he had no alternative but to stand behind 
             what he believed in, to stand with his conscience and his 
             convictions. He trusted in the people of Minnesota to give 
             him the opportunity to serve, which they did twice, and he 
             was going back to seek their support for a third term.
               As others have pointed out, he was facing one of the 
             most difficult votes of his career, as some would say, at 
             an inopportune time, which was the resolution to authorize 
             the use of force in Iraq by the President, at his 
             discretion. Paul began his Senate career with that kind of 
             vote with the Persian Gulf resolution and some believe 
             because of his stands over the years that if he were to 
             oppose a popular President, if he were to express a 
             different perspective and, as Senator Levin, the chairman 
             of the Senate Armed Services Committee, pointed out, vote 
             for an alternative resolution, one that committed the 
             United States to multilateral action with other countries 
             of the world, that he would pay a political price for that 
             in Minnesota.
               Paul never really agonized about his decision in this 
             matter because compromising his convictions was not 
             something Paul ever considered doing. In fact, in my 2 
             years in the Senate, the one time I saw Paul angry was 
             when a staff person--not his own staff, he did not know 
             who made the comment--was reported in the Washington Post 
             as saying the Senate Democratic Caucus was trying to find 
             some alternative resolution to provide cover for Paul 
             Wellstone who was facing a difficult reelection. Paul was 
             furious that anyone would accuse him of looking for cover 
             from a tough vote. He said in one of our meetings that is 
             what he had to take back to the people of Minnesota, that 
             they knew he would never seek cover to avoid a tough 
             decision or a tough vote; he would do what he believed was 
             right and he was willing to go back to the Minnesota 
             electorate and take their judgment.
               I believe if he had been able to bring that to the 
             Tuesday election that judgment would again have been in 
             the affirmative. That is Paul Wellstone's legacy to all of 
             us. That is his legacy to the country. Whether one would 
             agree with everything Paul believed is not the point. 
             There are those who can have sincere convictions on the 
             other side of the issue. That is the greatness of our 
             country and our democracy, that we can have those 
             disagreements, honest, different points of view, and we 
             are a better institution and we are a better country for 
             our ability, through our political process, to embrace and 
             incorporate those differences.
               He stood for what he believed in, would risk everything, 
             his political career, his opportunity to serve, everything 
             he believed and everything he wanted, on a matter of 
             principle. He would do so willingly, courageously, and 
             emphatically. That is something I will take with me 
             throughout the rest of my life, and I would commend it to 
             everyone else in this body and across this country.
                             PRINTING OF SENATE DOCUMENT
               Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that tributes to Paul 
             Wellstone, the late Senator from Minnesota, be printed as 
             a Senate document.

               The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so 
             ordered.
                                           Wednesday, November 13, 2002
               The Senate met at 11 a.m. and was called to order by the 
             Honorable Debbie Stabenow, a Senator from the State of 
             Michigan.
                                       prayer
               The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the 
             following prayer:
               Gracious God, You have made gratitude the powerful 
             antidote to grief. As a Senate family we thank You for our 
             dear friends Paul and Sheila Wellstone. We are grateful 
             for Senator Wellstone's courageous leadership and his 
             indefatigable commitment to help the poor and 
             disadvantaged of our society. We praise You for his 
             prophetic zeal for righteousness and justice for all 
             people. Thank You for the way Senator Wellstone befriended 
             all the Senate staff and employees, particularly police 
             officers, maintenance personnel, pages, and those who 
             serve to make the Senate run smoothly. He knew people's 
             names, always had time to stop and visit, and made people 
             feel valued. Dear God, You have enriched all our lives 
             with the affirmation and encouragement communicated so 
             generously through Paul and Sheila Wellstone. They have 
             done justly, loved mercy, and walked humbly with You. Heal 
             our grief over their untimely deaths and fill us with Your 
             Shalom. Amen.
                          IN REMEMBRANCE OF PAUL WELLSTONE
               Mrs. MURRAY. Madam President, on October 25, I lost a 
             good friend, the Senate lost a leader, and the American 
             people lost an advocate who was never afraid to stand up 
             and speak for those who had no voice.
               I rise today to honor my friend and colleague, Senator 
             Paul Wellstone, who inspired so many people to speak up 
             and to serve. Even as I stand here today, I cannot imagine 
             that when I turn around I won't see Paul standing at his 
             desk, his arms flailing in the air, making some point with 
             great passion.
               Paul, with his energy and optimism, has left a mark on 
             all of us. In 1990, when Paul Wellstone ran for the 
             Senate, a lot of people were watching him and following 
             his race. Political pundits said he could not win. But as 
             I watched him, I became motivated. At the time, I was 
             serving in the Washington State Senate, and I, too, was 
             frustrated by what I saw happening in Washington, DC.
               In Paul I saw someone who cared about the little guy and 
             who spoke passionately. Paul was never afraid to voice his 
             ideas or take on big fights. Not only did he win that 
             Senate race, but in the process he inspired a generation 
             of young people to serve their communities.
               On a more personal level, Paul inspired me to run for 
             the U.S. Senate. His brilliant example reminded me that 
             you don't need to be powerful or rich--or even tall--to 
             make a difference. You just need to have an honest concern 
             for others, an optimistic spirit, and the courage to act.
               Over the last 10 years, I have agreed--and disagreed--
             with Paul on any number of issues. But never once did I 
             doubt his conviction, and never once did Paul let his 
             policy disagreements soften the love and friendship he 
             felt for all of us. Paul and I worked on everything from 
             domestic violence and education to providing health care 
             for veterans and protecting families from asbestos.
               I could always count on Paul to remind me that so many 
             Americans have been dealt a tough hand in life. So many 
             families, through no fault of their own, find themselves 
             struggling, and they need an advocate to speak out for 
             them in this Congress.
               No matter what pressures he faced in the Senate or even 
             with his own health, Paul always reminded me how lucky we 
             are to be able to serve in the U.S. Senate.
               One thing I will not forget about Paul is that every one 
             of us was important to him and he proved that time and 
             again. A few months ago, I held a meeting in my office to 
             develop a legislative strategy on a bill. I wanted to keep 
             the discussion small and focused and frank, so I invited 
             two other Senators and told them not to bring any staff 
             members. When it was time to start the meeting, Paul 
             bounced through the door with three people in tow. Even 
             though staff were not invited, Paul didn't mind. But these 
             weren't his staff--they were his interns. He proudly 
             introduced each one of them to us, and they all stayed for 
             the entire meeting. We were still able to get everything 
             done that we needed to do in the short time we had. Those 
             young students got to see democracy up close. They got to 
             sit in on a closed-door meeting, and they got a sense--
             just for a moment--that they, too, belonged there and 
             they, too, could do it.
               Paul never stopped showing people what they could 
             accomplish, and that is because he knew that people--plain 
             old people--were important. He didn't care about pollsters 
             and consultants; he cared about people. His love did not 
             depend on whether they could write him a check.
               My favorite all-time campaign event with Paul was not a 
             fundraiser, but--in true Paul style--it was a ``time-
             raiser.'' On a cold Saturday morning, Paul jammed a hall 
             with folks who could not write a check but who could 
             donate 2 hours of time to call or leaflet or answer 
             phones. Judging from the enthusiasm of that crowd, yelling 
             to the rooftops in the packed room, Paul was their Senator 
             and their guy. He valued them and they valued him.
               I remember another event when Paul wasn't even scheduled 
             to speak, but he ended up stealing the show. Earlier this 
             year, I was at a press conference on education in the 
             Dirksen Building. Senators Kennedy, Harkin, Reed, and 
             others were scheduled to talk about making classrooms less 
             crowded. Out of nowhere, Paul Wellstone rushed into the 
             room looking a bit confused. My colleagues and I looked 
             surprised because Senator Wellstone was not scheduled to 
             speak and was not on the agenda. When Paul got to the 
             podium, the first thing he said was:

               I am not sure if I am in the right room. When I ran into 
             Ted Kennedy on the floor a while ago, he asked me if I was 
             going to the education press conference, and I said I 
             hadn't heard about it, but I would be there.

               He continued:

               Frankly, I don't even know if I am talking to the right 
             group, but I am going to tell you why we need to fight for 
             our kids.

               Everyone laughed. Paul went on to give a passionate, 
             off-the-cuff speech that wowed and inspired every person 
             in that room.
               To me, that really captures Paul's spirit. Wherever some 
             cause needed a voice, he would rush in--regardless of the 
             schedule--and give his impassioned best. If there were a 
             need, he would be there to speak out.
               Paul had said he didn't know if he was in the right 
             room, but today I can say with confidence that Paul was in 
             the right place all along.
               We are all poorer for the loss of Paul Wellstone, his 
             wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia, the members of his 
             staff, and the pilots who were taken from us on that dark 
             day. It is sad to say that the Senate will no doubt change 
             without Paul. No one will pace down this aisle and speak 
             as passionately as Paul did for so many causes. But I hope 
             that each one of us who are here will take on part of 
             Paul's legacy--for example, the spirit to speak out for 
             the underprivileged, for students in classrooms with leaky 
             roofs, for the woman on welfare not because she wants to 
             be, but because of domestic violence and she is trying to 
             get back on her feet.
               I hope we will pick up his legacy and speak out for the 
             workers who are out of a job because this economy has left 
             them behind, or for those who are trying to overcome 
             mental illness and just need some help from their 
             insurance company.
               I hope, too, that we will carry on Paul's legacy of 
             respect. Paul spoke from the heart and he spoke 
             passionately. But he never held any disrespect for those 
             with different views. I saw him so many times debate long 
             and hard against another Senator and then step away from 
             the microphone and share a laugh or a hug with the very 
             person he had just debated a few moments before.
               If we can remember to fight for all Americans, no matter 
             what challenges they have been dealt, and if we do it with 
             respect and dignity, then Paul's legacy will live on in 
             the Senate, as it lives on in our hearts and in our minds. 
             I, for one, am going to miss him very much. He was all 
             heart and soul. He is impossible to replace.

               Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, I rise to speak in morning 
             business to pay tribute to Paul and Sheila Wellstone. It 
             is a difficult thing to do. It is a difficult thing for 
             all of us to do. It is easier for me, right now, to 
             imagine Paul standing over there and articulating a great 
             point, a great point that would be for the consideration 
             of some group of people or an individual about whom he 
             would be deeply concerned--he was clear, passionate, and 
             very forceful in his advocacy for them--rather than to 
             think of him as being gone but he is.
               You cannot really measure the height of a tree until it 
             is down. That is, unfortunately, again, the case for Paul 
             and Sheila Wellstone. He was a really tall man. They were 
             really tall trees in what they did.
               I had the great fortune to be able to work with both 
             Paul and Sheila on an issue we cared a lot about--the 
             trafficking of individuals across country borders, 
             generally for reasons of prostitution but also for other 
             purposes. We found this was going on.
               Actually, Sheila discovered this was happening by 
             visiting with a number of Ukrainian women, some of whom 
             had been trafficked themselves when the Soviet Union fell, 
             when the superstructure that was the Soviet Union came 
             down.
               It turned out that gangs, groups came in, the Mafia-type 
             organizations, to operate in the former Soviet Union, and 
             they would run a number of different things. They would 
             run drugs, they would run weaponry, and they would run 
             people. It turned out the trafficking of people was 
             actually their third most profitable operation. It was a 
             real despicable thing they were doing. They would actually 
             go into communities, trick young ladies, generally--
             sometimes young boys, but generally young girls--saying: 
             We have this great bit of excitement for you. We are going 
             to be able to have you travel to Europe or to the Middle 
             East.
               With the fall of the Soviet Union, they didn't see hope 
             or opportunity in their own country, and they would sign 
             on, only to have their papers taken away once they crossed 
             the border. They would be put into a brothel, in some 
             cases chained and tortured until they would submit to 
             prostitution. And then they would even be moved from 
             brothel to brothel. It was a real seamy, dirty, ugly thing 
             that was taking place. It was a dark side of the 
             globalizing economy. It was a dark side of the fall of the 
             Soviet Union. And Sheila found out about it by meeting 
             with Ukrainian women.
               Now, I am sure there were not many votes at all in 
             Minnesota that were going to hinge on whether or not Paul 
             or Sheila were going to work on the issue of the 
             trafficking of young girls from the former Soviet Union, 
             Nepal, and India, or from other places. Generally, there 
             was trafficking from poorer countries into richer 
             countries. But Paul was such a champion of the value and 
             the beauty of each person and the needs and the dignity of 
             that individual, and Sheila was as well, that they were 
             willing to put this issue forward and fight for it over a 
             period of a couple of years, until we could get the bill 
             passed.
               Sheila found out about it. She brought it to Paul's 
             attention. He learned about it and talked with some of 
             these women who had been trafficked. I started to hear 
             about it. I met with women who had been trafficked and 
             found out about the despicable nature of this new form of 
             human slavery, a human slavery of which one person even 
             wrote a book entitled, ``Disposable People,'' because it 
             happened in a situation where they would be moved from one 
             brothel to another, and then, as they would get sick or 
             diseased--in some cases they would get tuberculosis, 
             AIDS--the owners would even throw them out on the street 
             and say: Well, we are done with that one. It was just the 
             most ugly act.
               I remember being in a home for girls who had been 
             trafficked and returned to Nepal. There were 50 girls, 16 
             to 18 years of age. Many of them had been trafficked when 
             they were 12 to 14 years of age. And a lady was helping 
             run this home. This was a recovery house for girls after 
             they would come back from the brothels. This woman was 
             trying to teach them a trade, trying to get them back into 
             the community in Nepal. She would point around the room 
             and say: That girl has tuberculosis and AIDS and she is 
             dying. This girl is dying. That girl has this disease; I 
             don't know if she is going to make it. These were girls 
             who were 16 years of age who should have been in the very 
             flower of their lives, and they were all dying.
               They saw it. They were willing to fight for these other 
             people. And we were able to get through legislation on sex 
             trafficking.
               Paul joked with me afterward. He is a more liberal 
             Member and I am a more conservative Member. After that 
             legislative session, he commented that he moved from being 
             the most liberal Member to the second most liberal Member 
             of the Senate, and he blamed it on working with me. I 
             said, ``Well, just hang around with me, Paul, and we will 
             get you reelected.''
               He had that kind of humor. He was a friend. He was a 
             friend who was not scared of ideology splitting people 
             apart. He had his beliefs; I had mine. We all do. But he 
             did not let that separate him. He did not judge a person's 
             soul by their ideology. He judged people by their 
             character and their heart, where they would be willing to 
             stand.
               I would often see him come over to greet and talk with 
             Jesse Helms. He and Jesse disagreed on a number of issues, 
             but they both had passion, soul, and heart. That is what 
             they respected and loved about each other, and that is 
             what I continue to see and love about Paul and Sheila 
             Wellstone, that passion, heart, and soul that would carry 
             them forward.
               I do not know that there is a better quote one could put 
             forward than from Dr. Martin Luther King. He once noted 
             that the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands 
             in moments of comfort but where he stands at times of 
             challenge and controversy.
               If we measure Paul and Sheila by that measurement, they 
             stand as very tall trees. Paul knew controversy. He knew 
             difficulty. He knew challenge. It rallied him. It made him 
             taller. It made him stronger. It was not comfort that he 
             sought. It was not comfort that he wanted to have. I have 
             often thought that in this life it is challenges that 
             build us, it is not comfort that builds us; that God has 
             created us to meet challenges, not to sit back and to eat 
             bon-bons or to let things go by in a measurable way, but 
             He puts challenges in front of us. The more we are willing 
             to accept, the more He is willing to give, and the more He 
             is willing to test us.
               Paul and Sheila accepted challenge after challenge, 
             controversy after controversy, always with a pure heart, 
             wanting to do the right thing to help people, regardless 
             of what it might mean to themselves. They were there to do 
             it and they wanted to do it. They relished doing it and 
             they grew in doing it. He was a spirited fighter.
               I remember reading about--certainly I was not in this 
             body then--when Hubert Humphrey served in this body and 
             was dying of cancer and they had a tribute to him in Time 
             magazine. I remember so vividly reading about it. The 
             title of it was ``Happy Warrior,'' because he was a 
             warrior and he was happy about it, that his course, his 
             challenge, in life was to be a warrior. He relished in the 
             opportunity to be a warrior.
               I did not know him personally, but he could not imagine, 
             as I understand his personality, that there would be any 
             calling any better than to be a warrior.
               Paul followed in those footsteps in a great and 
             magnificent way. He was a happy warrior, happily fighting 
             for his cause, happily pressing forward, knowing that 
             people disagreed with him. I disagreed with him often, but 
             I could never disagree with that passion. Nor could I ever 
             disagree with that heart. We developed a really good 
             friendship.
               He is a man I was very fond of and I am fond of even 
             now. As I say, it is hard to think of him being gone. I 
             suppose that is because he and Sheila really probably 
             still are here.
               My prayers have been with them, with the other people 
             who went down in that plane. So tragically their lives 
             were ended early. None of us will know why on this side of 
             eternity, but we can always learn and grow from him. We 
             are caused to grow in our life by each person with whom we 
             come in contact. I was caused to grow in a very profound 
             and very personal way by my contact with Paul and Sheila. 
             I am indebted to them. I pay tribute to them and what they 
             have done. God bless them.

               Mr. SESSIONS. I would like to join my colleague, Senator 
             Brownback, in paying tribute to the life of Paul and 
             Sheila Wellstone. It is also so important for us to 
             remember the staff and others who were on that airplane. 
             We have people in this country who serve every one of us, 
             and their lives were given in service of their country 
             also.
               Paul was a unique individual, no doubt about it, a man 
             who made us smile even when we were in debate against him. 
             He was a happy warrior. I think that is a good description 
             of him.
               All of this points out, as the Scripture says, that life 
             is but a vapor. We are only here a short time. We might as 
             well pour ourselves into it and fight for what we believe. 
             Else, what is life all about?
               He did that. He poured himself into his job, poured 
             himself into his view of the world and life in general and 
             fought for that. His political agenda was an expanded 
             government. He wanted to help people in need. He was 
             passionate about that. He wanted to help people. To a 
             large degree, I suppose the disagreement I had with him 
             was that he believed that government was the way to make 
             that happen, but the goal was good. I know Paul liked me, 
             and I loved him. He was an individual who was very 
             special.
               I feel real sad about this entire event, as do all of us 
             in this Senate. I remember his vote against the Iraq 
             resolution, which was something I felt very strongly in 
             favor of. He was the only Member of this body who was up 
             for reelection who had to answer to the voters on that 
             issue. He did not see it the way I saw it, and he did not 
             tack to the wind. He voted against that resolution and 
             went back home and answered to the people of Minnesota. He 
             told them why he did it, and either they agreed with him 
             or they forgave him. He was able to cast what many thought 
             was an unpopular vote and not suffer the apparent 
             political consequences.
               I believe Paul was a special person. He set a good 
             example for all of us to realize that life is short. We 
             are only given this opportunity to serve in the greatest 
             deliberative body of the greatest country in the history 
             of the world for what we have to assume is a very short 
             time. We might think constantly that therefore we should 
             use this office for the people's good, and if we do that, 
             we will have honored his name, honored the commitment he 
             made to public service, and honored the people of the 
             United States.
               I will miss Paul. He was a man of great strength and 
             character. This body will be poorer for his absence. Our 
             thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.

               Mr. HUTCHINSON. Mr. President, I take a moment to pay my 
             personal tribute to Paul Wellstone. Paul was a dear friend 
             and someone for whom I had a great deal of respect, 
             someone with whom I enjoyed working. We served on the 
             Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee together. 
             We served on the Workforce Protections Subcommittee 
             together. We had many opportunities to deal on differing 
             positions, obviously, on that committee, but always with 
             great congeniality and with a great deal of affection for 
             one another.
               He and I were both in very heated reelection campaigns, 
             very tight reelection campaigns, and oftentimes discussed 
             before the adjournment our mutual desire to be able to 
             campaign in our States.
               I share the grief of my colleagues in the loss we have 
             all experienced, the State of Minnesota has experienced, 
             along with his family and what they are enduring. We also 
             look back with a great deal of joy at the life he lived 
             and the contribution he made not only to his State, to his 
             country, but to each one of our lives.
               I recall so often Paul standing at his desk. He took the 
             desk of one of my predecessors in the Senate, Dale Bumpers 
             from Arkansas. He was a good successor for that position. 
             Where Senator Bumpers would often walk up and down that 
             aisle with great passion, so, too, Paul Wellstone would 
             use the entire length as he wandered that aisle and as he 
             spoke with such passion and such conviction.
               I remember often his referring to himself, as he would 
             speak, ``as a Senator from the State of Minnesota.'' He 
             would use that expression. I don't know if that is as 
             commonly used as he used it--``as the Senator from the 
             State of Minnesota''--and he stated his position and 
             conviction. I thought that phrase, ``a Senator from the 
             State of Minnesota,'' summed up an awful lot of Paul 
             Wellstone. He was proud of the State of Minnesota, 
             representing the State of Minnesota and the people of 
             Minnesota. He was proud also of this institution, being a 
             Senator. He never lost the love and the awe for serving in 
             this great institution. In my mind, I will always be able 
             to hear echoing Paul Wellstone as he spoke on issue after 
             issue as a Senator from the State of Minnesota.
               The area in which we found mutual interest and, though 
             from very opposite ends of the political spectrum, similar 
             feelings was the area of human rights, especially on the 
             cause of China and the people of China, telling the world 
             about the human rights abuses that continue even to this 
             day in China. Paul and I held many press conferences with 
             Members, colleagues from the House, who shared concerns 
             about China. He and I made many floor speeches about the 
             remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre and some of 
             the tragedies in the past.
               I speak today with great affection, great admiration, 
             and a great sense of loss about Paul Wellstone. He was a 
             person who had great convictions. He was a man of great 
             conscience. He was a man who did not mind if he upset the 
             political order. He did not care that it might disrupt 
             someone's schedule if he needed to make a speech on a 
             position about which he felt very deeply. As one who 
             admired him for his conscience and his passion, I simply 
             pause today to express my appreciation and admiration for 
             the contribution he has made to all of us.

               Mr. NELSON of Nebraska. Mr. President, I would like to 
             add my voice to the many already heard today in 
             remembrance of a passionate, intelligent, spirited man, 
             Paul Wellstone.
               Senator Wellstone was an original in a crowd abounding 
             with characters. Paul first gained notoriety for earning 
             this office logging miles on a green schoolbus, traveling 
             across the State of Minnesota touching the lives of 
             everyone he came across. Once in Washington, Paul made his 
             mark quickly on each Senator, aide, reporter, and officer 
             who has been lucky enough to serve in this institution 
             with him.
               Paul Wellstone was a man of principle who provided 
             thoughtful analysis of every issue, but unlike some 
             passionate statesmen, for Paul it was never personal. He 
             respected differences in opinion though he was unwavering 
             in his own beliefs. And although I only served with him 
             for 2 years, I saw many times his warmth toward those 
             around him regardless of political ideology.
               A few weeks ago we were on the floor giving tribute to 
             another of our Members, Senator Jesse Helms, who will be 
             retiring this year. Senator Wellstone eloquently praised 
             Senator Helms, who has been so often on the other side of 
             the ideological divide. At the conclusion of his remarks, 
             he embraced Senator Helms.
               Paul was a man of ideas, but also a man of the people. 
             He will be sorely missed and our thoughts and prayers are 
             with his sons, the Wellstone staff, and the people of 
             Minnesota during this difficult time.

               Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I rise today to remember a 
             man who is deeply missed. He was a colleague, a leader and 
             a friend: Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. Since 
             joining the Senate in 1990, Paul earned his reputation as 
             a great leader and a man of the people. He had strong 
             convictions and an unparalleled passion for supporting the 
             underrepresented.
               As a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and 
             Pensions Committee, Senator Wellstone was a tireless 
             advocate for the concerns of working Americans. He pushed 
             for expanded school funding and for improved teacher 
             quality. He championed expanded financial aid to make sure 
             that money was not an insurmountable hurdle for those who 
             wanted to go to college. He fought for a higher minimum 
             wage and better working conditions. He wanted to help the 
             average American by working to provide better, more 
             affordable, more available health care. It was visible to 
             all who watched him that Paul truly loved his work, and 
             the people for whom he did that work.
               Paul was a strong voice in the Senate and across the 
             country in the battle for human rights. For example, Paul 
             and his wife Sheila crossed the country fighting against 
             domestic abuse. But his concern for the dignity of human 
             beings did not stop at our country's borders. He 
             championed a trade policy that would protect foreign 
             workers from being exploited by multinational 
             corporations. He was a vigorous supporter for peace in the 
             Middle East and an advocate of foreign aid to help 
             vulnerable children and the persecuted of all races and 
             religions around the world. There wasn't an issue that 
             affected human beings or our quality of life that Paul did 
             not actively pursue; he fought for the people, stood up 
             for his beliefs and let the political chips fall where 
             they might.
               Senator Wellstone was also a leading proponent for 
             American veterans and their families. Year after year, in 
             ways small and large, Paul Wellstone fought to improve 
             health care and other benefits for those who had served 
             their country. Many veterans disagreed with his views on 
             defense and foreign policy, but that did not matter to 
             Senator Wellstone. He understood that those who had put 
             their lives on the line for their country deserved special 
             treatment and special respect whether they supported him 
             or opposed him.
               People didn't always agree with his position, but he was 
             always forthright. There was never a question of motives 
             with Paul. Senator Wellstone never let policy 
             disagreements get personal; he always had a ready wink or 
             smile or joke to share when the debate had ended. And he 
             had a sense of humor that was downright infectious.
               I worked most closely with Senator Wellstone on 
             agriculture issues. Paul was a fighter. He worked 
             tirelessly to improve policy for the farmers in Minnesota 
             and other rural States. Minnesota's dairy farmers couldn't 
             have asked for a more vigorous ambassador in the fight for 
             a fairer dairy program; his efforts paid off in the 2002 
             farm bill, which made great strides in leveling the 
             playing field for Midwestern dairy farmers. Paul worked on 
             conservation issues, supported farm payment programs to 
             family farmers and worked to improve nutrition programs in 
             the farm bill. Senator Wellstone also understood the value 
             of strong communities in rural areas and tirelessly pushed 
             for rural economic development. As with everything else he 
             worked on, Paul brought a unique passion and unceasing 
             efforts to these battles.
               Paul also worked side by side with me after the Red 
             River flooded Grand Forks and East Grand Forks in one of 
             the worst flood disasters in our history. His advocacy was 
             invaluable as we secured disaster aid to rebuild the 
             communities that had been devastated by flooding and 
             fires. When a battle was truly important and people's 
             livelihoods were on the line, there was no one who would 
             fight harder than Paul Wellstone.
               We also worked together on the issue of mental health 
             parity. I can well remember when Senator Wellstone took 
             this issue to the Senate floor during the debate on health 
             insurance portability. The managers of the bill had 
             crafted a delicately balanced bill and agreed to oppose 
             all amendments in order to preserve their compromise. But 
             that would not stop Paul Wellstone. He offered his 
             amendment, and gave a typically passionate, personal plea 
             to put an end to the injustice that condemns those with 
             mental illnesses to inferior health care coverage. I was 
             privileged to join Senator Domenici and former Senator 
             Alan Simpson in making the case for this amendment. And, 
             despite the bipartisan opposition of the leadership on the 
             bill, Paul's passion and the personal stories shared by 
             his allies carried the day overwhelmingly.
               Paul's enthusiasm was infectious and deeply respected by 
             his colleagues. No loss on an amendment or other setback 
             could keep Paul down; he was always ready to rejoin the 
             fight and perpetually optimistic that he would expand his 
             coalition and find a way to win the battle the next time. 
             It is his character and good humor that we remember, and 
             it is his unquenchable desire to help human beings of all 
             kinds that will prove to be the greatest loss.

               Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, Paul Wellstone was a 
             committed and effective Senator who will be deeply missed 
             by millions of often ignored Americans, people who relied 
             on him not only to fight their battles, but to win 
             important victories on their behalf.
               I worked closely with Senator Wellstone for many years 
             in a number of areas important to both of us.
               As chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' 
             Affairs, I know that he was a tireless fighter for the men 
             and women who had served in America's Armed Forces, 
             especially for ill and aging veterans, those least able to 
             fight for themselves, yet most in need of our help.
               He fought for children, for their education and health 
             care. And he worked to fashion a welfare system that 
             encouraged work and protected children, without becoming 
             punitive or unreasonable.
               He also worked on behalf of the unskilled and 
             unemployed, for a living minimum wage, for job training, 
             and for education benefits to promote workers' 21st 
             century skills. And I knew I could always count on his 
             support for West Virginia's steelworkers and all workers 
             threatened by unfair practices in an increasingly complex 
             economy.
               Senator Wellstone's many battles earned him a reputation 
             as an ideologue and a firebrand. But I saw him reach 
             across the aisle many times in his career. His first 
             loyalty was to people, not to party, and his work with 
             Senator Domenici on the groundbreaking Mental Health 
             Parity Act stands as testimony to the strength of his 
             priorities and the effectiveness of his approach. I am 
             proud to be able to continue his work to bring equitable 
             treatment to those who suffer from mental illness.
               Paul Wellstone never believed that having principles and 
             sticking to them somehow meant you couldn't get things 
             done in the U.S. Senate. Instead, he believed that you had 
             to stick to your principles, or you couldn't get anything 
             worthwhile done. It was an approach that made him unique 
             and won him unusual respect and admiration from every 
             Member of this body.
               Senator Wellstone's tragic death, along with the deaths 
             of Sheila and Marcia Wellstone, staffers Tom Lapic, Mary 
             McEvoy, and Will McLaughlin, and pilots Richard Conry and 
             Michael Guess, have left a void in the Senate and in our 
             hearts.
               But all of us who worked with him, or knew of the work 
             he did, will find some cheer in the memory of Minnesota's 
             great voice for justice and opportunity.
               Many will remember him for his fiery speeches and 
             outspoken opinions.
               But atomic veterans finally receiving treatment for 
             their service-related disabilities, and homeless veterans 
             with a new chance to find their way off the streets; 
             parents whose children are learning from better teachers 
             and enjoying better access to health care; activists who 
             found an ally in their struggle to end violence against 
             women; workers receiving job training; and entrepreneurs, 
             especially women, minorities, and the urban poor, 
             profiting from a changed and expanded Federal small 
             business loan regime--all these people will remember Paul 
             Wellstone, as I will, not just for what he said, but what 
             he did.
                               MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE
               At 2:33 p.m., a message from the House of 
             Representatives, delivered by Ms. Niland, one of its 
             reading clerks, announced that the House has agreed to the 
             following resolution:
               H. Res. 598. Resolution stating that the House has heard 
             with profound sorrow of the death of the Honorable Paul D. 
             Wellstone, a Senator from the State of Minnesota.
                                            Thursday, November 14, 2002
              PAUL AND SHEILA WELLSTONE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BUILDING 
                                         ACT
               Mr. BARKLEY. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent 
             that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. 3156, 
             introduced earlier today by myself and Senator Dayton.

               The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by 
             title.
               The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

               A bill (S. 3156) to provide a grant for the construction 
             of a new community center in St. Paul, Minnesota, in honor 
             of the late Senator Paul Wellstone and his beloved wife, 
             Sheila.

               There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to 
             consider the bill.

               Mr. BARKLEY. Madam President, today, Senator Dayton and 
             I are introducing legislation to pay tribute to Senator 
             Paul Wellstone and his beloved wife Sheila.
               Our legislation would provide a $10 million 
             authorization of Federal funds for construction of the 
             ``Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community 
             Building'' at Neighborhood House in St. Paul, MN, where 
             Paul and Sheila lived.
               First, let me thank the leadership on both sides of the 
             aisle for facilitating consideration of this legislation. 
             Senator Dayton and his staff, Senator Wellstone's family 
             and staff, and especially my colleague from West Virginia, 
             Senator Byrd, have literally moved Heaven and Earth to 
             bring this bill to the floor.
               I may be the newest Member of this Chamber, but I fully 
             appreciate the extraordinary efforts of so many to allow 
             Senator Dayton and I to create a living legacy in honor of 
             Paul and Sheila Wellstone in such short order.
               Neighborhood House was founded by the women of Mount 
             Zion Temple in the 1880s as a settlement house, helping 
             newly arrived Eastern European Jewish immigrants to 
             establish a new life and thrive in their new community.
               Senator Wellstone always had a genuine affinity for 
             Neighborhood House, as his parents, Leon and Minnie, were 
             Russian Jewish immigrants themselves. But his affinity 
             reached far beyond this personal link. Neighborhood House 
             truly embodies everything that Paul Wellstone fought for 
             over the course of his entire life: that all people, no 
             matter their background or economic status or country of 
             origin or race or creed, would have a fair shake at life, 
             and an opportunity to belong to and enrich their 
             communities.
               Neighborhood House has been building doorways of 
             opportunity for diverse communities for nearly 120 years. 
             The Neighborhood House is a multicultural-multilingual 
             agency that provides and houses an array of programs, 
             including legal services, child care, recreation programs, 
             senior programs and education. ``Senator Paul,'' as he was 
             referred to by many at Neighborhood House, came every year 
             to the Freedom Festival at Neighborhood House to honor the 
             new American citizens from the Hmong, Latino, and other 
             communities.
               Indeed, the entire Wellstone family was very committed 
             to Neighborhood House. Just 2 weeks before their deaths, 
             Senator Wellstone sent his daughter Marcia to tour 
             Neighborhood House and talk with staff about important 
             issues for our community.
               In addition, Sheila Wellstone's championing of women's 
             issues is embodied in Neighborhood House programs such as 
             Hispanic Women in Action, a cultural empowerment group 
             that enables women to retain their culture while learning 
             a new one, address challenging family issues, and develop 
             into leaders not only for their families but also their 
             community.
               When Neighborhood House began to research the 
             construction of a new facility to meet growing needs, it 
             was Senator Wellstone himself who suggested that the 
             organization seek a Federal statute to help fund the 
             construction.
               The Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community 
             Building will be a 93,000 square foot state-of-the-art 
             community gathering place on St. Paul's west side. It will 
             house social services, community engagement, recreation, 
             and arts programs for residents of St. Paul, as well as 
             new Americans in the greater Twin Cities area.
               The Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community 
             Building will also serve as an education and learning 
             center for communities throughout the entire State of 
             Minnesota. Last evening, the memorial program for the 
             service to celebrate the lives of Paul and Sheila 
             Wellstone contained these words: Complete those dear, 
             unfinished tasks of mine. And I, perchance, may therein 
             comfort you.
               Paul, this is our first step toward finishing your work. 
             I also commit to working during my short tenure in this 
             distinguished body to try to help pass your signature 
             legislation, the Mental Health Parity Act.
               Again, I thank the Senate leadership for the 
             extraordinary accommodation to allow us to bring this bill 
             to the floor today. It, too, is a tribute to the respect 
             and love of Paul Wellstone by his Senate colleagues.

               Mr. DAYTON. Madam President, I am proud to join with my 
             colleague, Senator Barkley, in cosponsoring the Paul and 
             Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act. I pay 
             tribute to my colleague, Senator Barkley, for taking the 
             initiative on this matter, for your leadership. I believe 
             it has been one week to the day since the Senator arrived 
             in Washington, and even before he had undertaken the oath 
             of office and assumed the official title of Senator from 
             Minnesota, he was acting on behalf of our State.
               He deserves the credit for this measure. Others are 
             moving Heaven and Earth, as the Senator said. I believe he 
             is too modest. He is the prime mover in this matter. I 
             salute my colleague for his doing so under such 
             extraordinary circumstances. I could not think of a better 
             way for anyone to begin service in this Chamber than to 
             honor our colleague, Paul Wellstone, and his wife Sheila, 
             who cared about these matters from their own heart.
               As Senator Barkley said, with the experience that Paul 
             had being the son of immigrants and his undying compassion 
             for those who came to this country under any 
             circumstances, Paul's concern extended beyond those who 
             could do him some good in this society. Paul's concern was 
             for those he could do good in this society. He devoted 
             countless hours, thousands and thousands of hours to 
             people and causes where there was no benefit for him, 
             there was no political advantage.
               Most of the people coming to this center were not 
             citizens and would not be for a number of years. Paul did 
             it out of his heart; Sheila did it out of her heart, out 
             of their common compassion for their fellow citizens, with 
             no thought of gain or benefit to themselves.
               This is a fitting first tribute. I hope it will be only 
             the first tribute. I join with Senator Barkley in asking 
             my colleagues here and in the House to ultimately pay 
             tribute to Paul and Sheila, especially Paul, since this 
             was his matter of concern, the Mental Health Parity Act. 
             He worked tirelessly with Senator Domenici to pass this in 
             the Senate, and unfortunately it was not adopted in 
             conference committee.
               I join Senator Barkley in hoping that measure could be 
             passed in this session. If it is not possible, I will do 
             everything I can, working with Senator Domenici and others 
             next year to see it does pass. This is an important 
             statement of the Senate and the House. We need to pass it, 
             honoring Paul and Sheila Wellstone. It is appropriate 
             because it symbolizes that compassion, that spirit of 
             humanity which marked their lives.

               Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the 
             bill be read three times and passed and the motion to 
             reconsider be laid upon the table, without intervening 
             action or debate.

               The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so 
             ordered.
               The bill (S. 3156) was read the third time and passed, 
             as follows:
                                       S. 3156
               Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
             of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
               SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
               This Act may be cited as the ``Paul and Sheila Wellstone 
             Center for Community Building Act''.
               SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
               Congress finds the following:
               (1) Senator Paul Wellstone was a tireless advocate for 
             the people of Minnesota, particularly for new immigrants 
             and the economically disadvantaged.
               (2) Paul and Sheila Wellstone loved St. Paul, Minnesota, 
             and often walked the neighborhoods of St. Paul to better 
             understand the needs of the people.
               (3) Neighborhood House was founded in the late 1800s in 
             St. Paul, Minnesota, by the women of Mount Zion Temple as 
             a settlement house to help newly arrived Eastern European 
             Jewish immigrants establish a new life and thrive in their 
             new community.
               (4) Paul and Sheila Wellstone were very committed to 
             Neighborhood House and its mission to improve the lives of 
             its residents.
               (5) When Senator Wellstone became aware that the 
             Neighborhood House Community Center was no longer adequate 
             to meet the needs of the St. Paul community, he suggested 
             that Neighborhood House request Federal funding to 
             construct a new facility.
               (6) As an honor to Paul and Sheila Wellstone, a Federal 
             grant shall be awarded to Neighborhood House to be used 
             for the design and construction of a new community center 
             in St. Paul, Minnesota, to be known as ``The Paul and 
             Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building''.
               SEC. 3. CONSTRUCTION GRANT.
               (a) Grant Authorized.--The Secretary of Housing and 
             Urban Development shall award a grant to Neighborhood 
             House of St. Paul, Minnesota, to finance the construction 
             of a new community center in St. Paul, Minnesota, to be 
             known as ``The Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for 
             Community Building''.
               (b) Maximum Amount.--The grant awarded under this 
             section shall be $10,000,000.
               (c) Use of Funds.--Funds awarded under this section 
             shall only be used for the design and construction of the 
             Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building.
               (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is 
             authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 
             2003, which shall remain available until expended, to 
             carry out this Act.

               Mr. LIEBERMAN. I congratulate our new colleague from 
             Minnesota, not only for the nobility of the purpose for 
             which this legislation is dedicated, to honor the memory 
             of our dear friends Paul and Sheila Wellstone, but for the 
             fact he achieved the passage of a measure so early in his 
             time here as a Member of the Senate. I congratulate him 
             for his purpose and for his success.
                          IN REMEMBRANCE OF PAUL WELLSTONE
               Mr. CHAFEE. Madam President, today I offer my 
             condolences to all the friends, family members and 
             admirers of Paul Wellstone. As has been said many times, 
             Paul Wellstone was fiercely proud of the causes with which 
             he associated himself. Certainly, to have Paul Wellstone 
             articulately and strongly arguing on one's behalf was a 
             great asset. His many friends are forever grateful for his 
             wrestler's tenacity as he advocated for those issues which 
             he so emotionally believed.
               Several years ago a candidate for Congress in Rhode 
             Island retired from the campaign because of a shortage of 
             funds, declaring that no longer could ``Mr. Smith go to 
             Washington.'' Paul Wellstone proved that yes, indeed, Mr. 
             Smith could go to Washington. In 1990 he challenged an 
             incumbent who possessed a huge financial advantage in what 
             many assumed to be a quixotic and hopeless campaign. In 
             November of that year Paul Wellstone was the only 
             challenger to beat an incumbent, providing inspiration 
             forever to long shots.
               Three cheers for the people of Minnesota who have shown 
             a propensity for embracing people of divergent 
             philosophies. In the last few years Minnesota has elected 
             Rod Grams, Jesse Ventura and Paul Wellstone; public 
             servants with very different approaches to the issues of 
             the day. I join Minnesotans and Americans in mourning the 
             death of the passionate and good-natured Paul Wellstone.
                                              Monday, November 18, 2002
                          IN REMEMBRANCE OF PAUL WELLSTONE
               Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, like all of my colleagues, I 
             was shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic accident 
             that claimed the life of Senator Wellstone, his wife 
             Sheila, their daughter Marcia, two pilots, and three 
             members of Paul's staff. My heart goes out to the families 
             and they will remain in my thoughts and prayers.
               It was always a privilege working with Senator 
             Wellstone. In fact, one of the last images I have of him 
             was in the final days of the session, when I encountered 
             him coming up the aisle in the Senate Chamber after a vote 
             with his typical boundless energy, warm smile, and 
             friendly greeting. He was a compassionate, honorable man--
             and it was obvious to all of us that, together, Paul and 
             Sheila made an extraordinary and loving team.
               As a public servant, Senator Wellstone's most enduring 
             legacy will surely be his career of conscience in elective 
             office. With his unwavering passion and integrity, he was 
             highly respected and will be long remembered.
               With both of us hailing from northern border States, we 
             shared the same perspective on a number of issues such as 
             the reimportation of prescription drugs, and we worked 
             together over the years to ensure the critical low-income 
             energy program, LIHEAP, would be there for the people of 
             Maine and Minnesota.
               I was proud to serve with him on the Small Business 
             Committee where I saw his diligence and tenaciousness 
             first-hand, and to work with him on issues of importance 
             to our veterans such as a bill establishing July 16 as a 
             national day of remembrance for atomic veterans, as well 
             as a measure providing for increases in veterans spending. 
             I was also pleased to help champion his and Senator 
             Domenici's legislation to create mental health parity--a 
             perfect illustration of his compassion and the causes for 
             which he felt duty-bound to fight.
               Indeed, all of us and, most important, the people of 
             Minnesota, could count on Paul to stand up for his deeply 
             held beliefs, speaking always from the courage of his 
             convictions. He personified the notion of being able to 
             disagree--even vehemently--without being disagreeable.
               In fact, I cannot help but recall that when Senators 
             were offering their appreciation to Senator Helms upon the 
             occasion of his retirement, Senator Wellstone offered very 
             heartfelt and touching words. He acknowledged that he and 
             Senator Helms often differed on the issues. But Paul 
             respected the purity of the convictions of his colleague 
             across the aisle--and he wished him well.
               Now, it is Paul Wellstone who has left our midst, and 
             the entire Senate family shares in the sense of loss. We 
             have a desk that was once filled with Paul's irrepressible 
             spirit, and it strikes me that Paul Wellstone perished in 
             pursuit of the very ideal he held to be so noble and 
             worthy--public service.
               This institution is always at its strongest when it is 
             populated with men and women of Paul Wellstone's 
             authenticity. We are diminished by his passing, and he 
             will be missed.

               Mr. ROCKEFELLER. I would like to take this moment to 
             note the loss of a dear colleague, a dedicated advocate 
             for veterans. Many have eulogized Senator Paul Wellstone 
             in the past few weeks, and I do not need to tell my 
             colleagues of his passion, his energy, and his unwavering 
             commitment to shout on behalf of those who cannot speak 
             for themselves. However, few have noted his work on behalf 
             of America's veterans, particularly those most neglected 
             by a Nation that has not always kept its promises. Senator 
             Wellstone worked on behalf of homeless veterans, veterans 
             suffering from the mental illnesses that can be the silent 
             legacy of the battlefield, and for those who returned from 
             war to fight their own government's denials about the 
             invisible wounds caused by chemicals and radiation. Paul 
             Wellstone may have launched his political career in 
             protest of the Vietnam war, but as a Senator, he chose to 
             fight for those who served. It is up to all of us now to 
             carry on his work.
                                             Tuesday, November 19, 2002
                          TRIBUTE TO SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE
               Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, I was unable to be on the 
             floor the day that we paid tribute to our colleague, 
             Senator Paul Wellstone. I would like to take just a few 
             moments this evening.
               Like my colleagues, I was deeply saddened over the 
             tragic death in a plane crash of our colleague, Paul 
             Wellstone, his wife Sheila, his daughter, several members 
             of his staff, and the plane's pilots. His death is a 
             grievous loss to those members of his family who survived, 
             to the people of Minnesota, whom he served so faithfully 
             and honorably, to his colleagues in the Senate, and to the 
             Nation.
               Paul Wellstone lived the American dream. His parents 
             came to this country as immigrants. He excelled in school. 
             He earned both his B.A. and his doctorate at the 
             University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He went 
             straight from the University of North Carolina to Carleton 
             College in Northfield, MN, as a young professor, where he 
             taught for more than two decades. Minnesota became home to 
             him and his family.
               In 1990, the people of his State sent him to the Senate; 
             and in 1996, they voted to send him back for another term.
               Paul Wellstone was a person of deeply held convictions, 
             a dedicated fighter for working families. He fought with 
             passion for his principles but was also deeply respectful 
             of those who disagreed with him. He was profoundly 
             committed to the democratic political institutions that he 
             had studied in his youth, that he taught to so many 
             students over the years, and that, by his own direct 
             engagement in our Nation's politics, he brought to life.
               We feel a great loss in the death of this courageous 
             fighter for a just and decent America, and we will seek to 
             honor his memory by carrying forward in the spirit in 
             which he lived and gave his life.

               Mr. REED. Mr. President, I too rise to pay tribute to 
             Paul Wellstone and send condolences and prayers to the 
             Wellstone family, to all of his hard-working and dedicated 
             staff, and to the other families involved.
               Paul Wellstone was a passionate, courageous, never 
             wavering fighter for his ideals. He fought vigorously for 
             what he believed in. He fought vigorously for Minnesotans, 
             Americans, and people around the world. And he did so side 
             by side with his wife Sheila, an eloquent and forceful 
             advocate for domestic abuse victims and so many others.
               He was committed to economic and social justice.
               He was indignant about the lives faced by the poor, the 
             downtrodden, the battered, and all the ``little guys.''
               He envisioned a better world for everyone, and strove 
             every day to help secure that better world. He was 
             tireless, but never humorless, in this struggle.
               He challenged Members of the Senate, the President, and 
             all Americans to envision this better world and to join 
             him in the struggle for that better world.
               He fought for all of us, but most especially for our 
             children, for battered women, for working families, for 
             individuals with disabilities, for seniors, for family 
             farmers, for veterans, for Native Americans, and for new 
             immigrants.
               He fought to improve education, health care, and the 
             environment. He was a leading voice, a champion, a fighter 
             for these and other important needs of our Nation.
               As he said:

               If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand 
             for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't 
             really stand for them.

               His view of politics was insightful and straightforward, 
             just like the way he lived his life. He said:

               Politics is what we create by what we do, what we hope 
             for, and what we dare to imagine.

               He believed with all of his heart and soul in the 
             American promise of equal opportunity, that

               Every child in America should have the same opportunity 
             to reach his or her full potential regardless of the color 
             of skin, gender or the income level of the child's 
             parents.

               To make that happen, we need to provide every child with 
             the same tools for success. I can still hear him say: ``We 
             cannot realize the goal of leaving no child behind on a 
             tin cup budget.'' He would make this pitch during hearing 
             held by the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 
             Committee, on which I was honored to serve with him, on 
             the floor, education funding rallies, and anywhere and 
             everywhere.
               He believed that education funding should come before 
             tax cuts for the wealthy. In the education reform law that 
             he voted against because he believed that it didn't 
             provide enough resources and that the tests it demanded 
             would be ``educationally deadening,'' he worked to ensure 
             the highest quality tests possible and to recruit and 
             retain highly qualified teachers, among other important 
             provisions.
               He was also a leader in the fight for full funding of 
             the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. He also 
             long worked to give welfare recipients the chance to get 
             off the rolls and into good paying jobs by allowing them 
             access to postsecondary education.
               His legislative efforts to provide mental health parity 
             were born in large part out of his brother Stephen's 
             struggle with mental illness and his family's struggle 
             with the problems of lack of insurance coverage of mental 
             illness treatment.
               In an editorial in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, he 
             said:

               Think of what fairness in treatment for mental illness 
             would mean. Think of the lives saved, the suffering eased. 
             Suicide is linked to untreated mental illness in 90 
             percent of cases. Americans with mental illness, who are 
             homeless or warehoused in jails, would instead get the 
             humane care they need. Workplace productivity would 
             improve, with less absenteeism and a higher quality of 
             work. Other medical costs would go down. There would be 
             fewer broken families, broken lives and broken dreams.

               Paul Wellstone could not have been more right. We must 
             pass mental health parity in his name, and we must pass it 
             as a first order of business in the next Congress of the 
             United States.
               He also championed improved health care for children and 
             adolescents, particularly substance abuse and mental 
             health treatment and suicide prevention, included in the 
             Children's Health Act of 2000. He coauthored the law that 
             provides funding for Parkinson's disease research. He also 
             worked for a real patients' bill of rights and a 
             prescription drug benefit for our seniors.
               With his wife Sheila, he led the fight to end domestic 
             violence. He worked for passage of the Violence Against 
             Women Act in both 1994 and 2000, a landmark law that 
             provides help, protection, and improved services to 
             victims of domestic violence.
               He long worked to address the needs of children who 
             witness domestic violence. Children who live in homes 
             where domestic violence occurs are at a higher risk of 
             anxiety and depression, and exhibit more aggressive, 
             antisocial, inhibited, and fearful behaviors than other 
             children. They also are at risk for recreating the abusive 
             relationships they have observed, and many, as a 
             consequence, are juvenile offenders.
               His legislation on this issue is pending in the Senate 
             version of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act 
             Reauthorization Bill.
               He fought for passage of the Family and Medical Leave 
             Act, and was working to expand it.
               He was a leader in the fight to raise the minimum wage 
             and to extend unemployment insurance.
               He believed in equal pay, worker protections, and secure 
             pensions.
               He fought to ensure veterans get the benefits and 
             support they deserve.
               He worked for cleaner air and water, reduced greenhouse 
             gas emissions, and renewable energy. He led the fight to 
             stop the oil companies from drilling in the Arctic 
             National Wildlife Refuge.
               He once again spoke for people with no voice, by 
             championing naturalization for Hmong citizens who aided 
             the U.S. war efforts in Vietnam, as well as by joining me 
             as a cosponsor of the Liberian Immigration Fairness Act.
               Paul's efforts were not limited to improving the lives 
             of Americans. As a member of the Foreign Relations 
             Committee, he championed human rights around the globe. He 
             worked with Senator Brownback to enact legislation to 
             address international trafficking in women and children 
             for prostitution and forced labor.
               He also coauthored the Torture Victim Protection Act to 
             help rehabilitate tortured survivors in the United States 
             and abroad.
               And he was a leading advocate and voice for sensible 
             multinational-international approach to foreign policy.
               Paul Wellstone demanded bold action to right the wrongs 
             of this world. He fought for many valiant causes, and in 
             doing so, he improved millions of lives. However, his 
             fight is not finished. There is still much to be done. It 
             is a fight we all must continue.
               As Paul Wellstone once said after the 1994 election:

               We don't have time for despair. The fight doesn't 
             change. It just gets harder. But it's the same fight.

               In his spirit and the spirit that is the most noble part 
             of this Nation, let us carry on this noble fight.
                                           Wednesday, November 20, 2002
               Mr. DASCHLE. Let me mention a colleague who left us too 
             soon--Paul Wellstone. It was a joy and an honor to have 
             him in the Senate.
               Paul said that he came here to rattle some cages--and 
             sometimes he rattled mine. But he always told the truth. 
             And he always remembered who he was speaking for. As I 
             have said before, he was the soul of the Senate. He had 
             that rarest and most difficult kind of bravery: moral 
             courage. He always stood for what he believed in, even if 
             it meant standing alone. And he fought in a way that 
             ennobled his causes and inspired us all. And I will miss 
             him dearly.

               Mr. SPECTER. Paul Wellstone has been the subject of 
             tribute and a man who will be truly missed. His work on 
             mental health parity with physical ailments will be Paul 
             Wellstone's real legacy. I had an opportunity to travel to 
             Minneapolis to pay tribute to the Wellstones' two sons. 
             The tragedy with Paul and Sheila and their daughter is 
             truly the saddest occasion of the past Congress.

               Mr. HARKIN. I want to pay my respects to our departed 
             friend, Senator Paul Wellstone. I did not want this 
             session to end without saying something for the Record 
             about the large gap left in the Senate by the untimely 
             death of Paul Wellstone.
               Paul was my closest friend in the Senate. But in truth, 
             Paul Wellstone was one of those rare souls who so many saw 
             as their best friend. He had a powerful authenticity that 
             made a miner on the Iron Range know that he was as 
             important to Paul as the President of the United States.
               Paul never had to proclaim his decency; it shone forth 
             every day in great acts of political courage and small 
             acts of human kindness. He never had to ever say he cared. 
             It just showed in how he greeted the elevator operators 
             and the policemen outside. Sometimes we walked over to the 
             Hart Building and talked to workers on the grounds. 
             Everyone was a friend of Paul's and he always had a smile 
             and a handshake for everyone.
               We saw this in him every day, in dozens of ways, from 
             that hand over there at his desk relentlessly chopping the 
             air as he stood on the floor speaking for those who 
             otherwise had no voice, to the countless people he reached 
             out to help across his State and across the Nation.
               The hard-working folks he cared about most didn't have 
             lobbyists or influence, but they had Paul Wellstone, and 
             he truly was their best friend. Everyone called him Paul--
             not just his colleagues but staff and citizens alike. He 
             would not have it any other way. No one ever wore the 
             title of ``Senator'' better--or used it less.
               In the days since that terrible tragedy, we have seen an 
             outpouring of grief and admiration every bit as authentic 
             as Paul himself. It is a tribute to him and to the 
             yearning I believe in this country for a politics that can 
             truly be the noble profession of putting principle above 
             the latest polls. Paul truly was the soul of the Senate. 
             Sometimes he cast votes that even some of his friends 
             disagreed with--on war or on welfare. But when he did, he 
             was the mirror in which we, his colleagues, looked at 
             ourselves and searched our own hearts to ask whether or 
             not we were doing the right thing.
               So we say thank you to the political science professor 
             whose measure of truth was never in political theory, but 
             the impact that his decisions and ours had on real people.
               Since he left us, Paul's friends and admirers have 
             focused on Paul Wellstone as the lone man in the arena 
             fighting a battle against injustice. Paul Wellstone was 
             that. But he was also a doer who left behind a real record 
             of accomplishment in the Senate.
               Paul was one of the Senate's leading voices for 
             education, pushing for investments in early education, for 
             class size reduction, and for student financial aid so 
             working and middle-class families could afford to send 
             their kids through college. And we worked together 
             tirelessly to increase the Federal Government's investment 
             in special education, so students with disabilities could 
             get the education that is their right.
               Paul Wellstone worked alongside Senator DeWine to pass 
             sweeping reforms of our Nation's job training, adult 
             education, and vocational rehabilitation programs. By 
             streamlining often confusing and overlapping programs and 
             paperwork, Paul Wellstone's efforts are helping ensure 
             that America's workers get the training and help they need 
             to stay on the job or to find new employment.
               As a warrior for peace, Paul understood this Nation's 
             duty to the men and women who bear the scars of war. Paul 
             authored, fought for, and helped enact legislation to 
             improve the living conditions of hundreds of thousands of 
             American veterans. This law ensures that homeless veterans 
             who suffer with alcoholism and drug addiction have ready 
             access to the treatment and care they need and deserve.
               Paul also made a courageous push for a policy whose time 
             had passed and should be done now, and that is mental 
             health parity. Along with Senator Domenici, Paul authored 
             the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996, a groundbreaking 
             proposal ensuring health care coverage of mental illnesses 
             be provided on par with coverage of other medical 
             illnesses. In the final year of his life, he continued to 
             push for the expansion of mental health coverage, again 
             teaming with Senator Domenici to introduce the bipartisan 
             Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act, which could expand 
             parity for mental health insurance.
               I hope that in the next Congress, the Senate and the 
             House will enact what I hope will be deemed the Paul 
             Wellstone Mental Health Parity Act, to finally put mental 
             health on the same plane, the same level as all other 
             medical illnesses.
               Paul once said, ``Politics is what we create by what we 
             do, what we hope for, and what we dare to imagine.''
               Paul didn't just dare to imagine a better America--he 
             helped to build it. Sure, he was willing to fight the 
             lonely fight when he thought it was right and proper, but 
             he also knew how to turn idealism and ideas, ideas into 
             action to improve people's lives--investing in education, 
             expanding health care, fighting killer diseases such as 
             Parkinson's, helping homeless veterans, and veterans 
             exposed to radiation.
               Because of what he did, family farmers will have a 
             better future. Because of what he demanded, mental illness 
             will soon be treated equally in our health care system. 
             Because of who he married--his wife Sheila--and because of 
             her passionate charge, more women and children will find 
             safe harbor from the scourge of domestic violence.
               Paul Wellstone left us at a time when America needs him 
             the most. He believed, as his champion and mentor Hubert 
             Humphrey once said, that

               The moral test of government is how that government 
             treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children, 
             those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly, and 
             those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the 
             disabled, and the needy.

               Those words, as much as anything else, form the focus of 
             my public life and, I hope, the true path of my political 
             party. It is a course in conscience that Paul Wellstone 
             tried to set for his party and his country.
               But it now falls to each of us, those in the land of the 
             living, to continue Paul Wellstone's journey for justice, 
             to continue to speak out, to stand up and fight the good 
             fight, and to lead our Nation with courage and conviction. 
             The times demand it. In the coming days, may we all have 
             the courage of our friend, Paul Wellstone.

               Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I'd like to say a special 
             word for our dear departed colleague Senator Paul 
             Wellstone--who I want to describe in the best way I know 
             how, as a mensch--a man, a very good man. He radiated 
             decency and kindness and commitment to make the world a 
             better place. That was so not just in what he said and did 
             on camera, but in what he said and did in quiet moments, 
             small moments, private moments.
               Much has been made of the fact that Paul was a teacher. 
             And it is fitting. I think about all the lessons that Paul 
             Wellstone the political scientist taught to his students, 
             and how every one must have come alive when he ran for 
             office--and won--in 1990. That inspiration will last for 
             generations.
               Paul Wellstone taught his students, by example, that 
             Americans who want change can do much more than carp or 
             complain. They can and should enter and shape the system. 
             They can and should be a part of the government of the 
             people, by the people, and for the people.
               Senator Wellstone uplifted the Senate and uplifted our 
             democracy, and he did it with the clarity of his 
             conscience and the power of his principles and passions.
               It's no wonder Paul titled his book The Conscience of a 
             Liberal, after Barry Goldwater's book The Conscience of a 
             Conservative. Paul had read Senator Goldwater's book as a 
             boy, and though he found himself at the opposite end of 
             the political spectrum, Paul admired Goldwater's decency, 
             his honesty, and his conviction.
               The name ``Paul'' comes from the Roman family name 
             ``Paulus,'' which meant ``small'' or ``humble'' in Latin. 
             And Paul was physically small. He was spiritually humble. 
             But the scope of his ideals and of his service was 
             monumental.
               In The Ethics of the Fathers, a tome of Jewish law, it 
             is written: ``It is not your obligation to complete the 
             task [of perfecting the world], but neither are you free 
             to desist [from doing all you can].''
               Paul Wellstone, as a Senator, a father, a husband, and a 
             man, lived these words and lived them well. May he rest 
             alongside his wife and daughter in peace.
                          TRIBUTE TO SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE
               Mr. AKAKA. Mr. President, as the 107th Congress nears 
             its conclusion, I rise to join my colleagues in 
             remembering our beloved colleague, Senator Paul Wellstone. 
             Our thoughts and prayers are with the Wellstone family, 
             Paul's staff, and the people of Minnesota. We are all 
             saddened by the tragic deaths of Paul and Sheila 
             Wellstone, their daughter, Marcia Wellstone Markuson, and 
             the Wellstone staffers and pilots.
               America will sorely miss Paul Wellstone and his 
             passionate advocacy on behalf of those in our communities 
             and our country who too often feel that no one in 
             Washington hears their voice. Paul Wellstone was their 
             voice, he was their champion, driven by his unwavering 
             conviction that government can and should be a force for 
             good in people's lives. Paul was a caring, persistent, and 
             passionate advocate for veterans, children, the mentally 
             ill, and working families. He was committed to ensuring 
             that all Americans had the opportunity to make a better 
             life for themselves and their families, and that wherever 
             possible, government act as a positive instrument to 
             advance opportunity and equality for all Americans in 
             education, job training, access to health care, and the 
             availability of quality health care. He was driven by his 
             commitment to civil rights and equal justice. Whether 
             speaking on the Senate floor or to a workers' rally, 
             retracing Robert F. Kennedy's tour of America's poorest 
             communities, or visiting veterans hospitalized in 
             Minnesota, Paul lived his convictions and values. Whether 
             you agreed or disagreed with Paul Wellstone on an issue, 
             there was never any doubt about his integrity, the passion 
             and commitment he brought to his work, and the deep pride 
             he felt in serving the people of Minnesota in the Senate.
               Paul and I were both first elected to the Senate in 
             November 1990. I had been appointed to the Senate a few 
             months earlier, but we were both the new kids on the 
             block. From the outset, with his incandescent personality, 
             exacting integrity, commitment to the values he espoused 
             and the ability to speak passionately and eloquently about 
             the issues he cared so deeply about, Paul distinguished 
             himself as an exceptional Senator and an extraordinary 
             human being.
               Over the course of his tenure in the Senate, Paul became 
             a dear friend. Because of the chronic discomfort he 
             experienced as a consequence of his lifetime love of the 
             sport of wrestling, he was interested in my experiences 
             with hip replacement surgery. At the start of the 107th 
             Congress, our offices were next to one another. His 
             boundless energy, enthusiasm, and good spirits were always 
             welcome and brightened the day for everyone he greeted on 
             his way to and from his office. I remember one 
             conversation on a long bus ride back from a Democratic 
             retreat in Pennsylvania. My eldest son, Danny, had joined 
             Millie and me for the weekend, and he struck up a quick 
             friendship with Paul and Sheila. Over the course of the 
             ride back to Washington, we discussed philosophy and 
             politics, the upcoming midterm elections, destiny, and the 
             power of living in consonance with your values and 
             beliefs. I listened as Paul and my son agreed on the 
             importance of living life to the fullest and living every 
             day as if it is your last. That day stays with me because 
             that is precisely the way Paul Wellstone lived his life. 
             He celebrated life. He loved his job and his constituents. 
             He adored Sheila and his children and grandchildren. He 
             always made the time to greet, talk to, or offer words of 
             encouragement to everyone he encountered as he went about 
             his day. To me, this is Paul's greatest legacy, the lives 
             he touched, the people he inspired, the spirits he lifted 
             with his message of hope and justice.
               Paul had hoped to visit Hawaii after the November 
             election and had spoken to my son Danny about bringing his 
             entire family for some well-deserved rest and relaxation. 
             Paul and Sheila never had the opportunity to visit Hawaii 
             with their children and grandchildren as we talked about, 
             but they truly lived aloha. For aloha is love. And love is 
             the spirit that brings people together in harmony. In its 
             true sense, aloha has to be transmitted to others, 
             especially to each other, and aloha really is in the 
             giving, not the taking. When you give, you are sharing 
             aloha. This is how Paul and Sheila Wellstone lived their 
             lives and it is why we in the Senate family miss Paul and 
             Sheila terribly. I want to bid Paul and Sheila Wellstone a 
             fond aloha. May God bless them and the Wellstone family. 
             Na Iehowa 'oe e ho'omaika'i mai, a e malama mai--The Lord 
             bless you and keep you.

               Mrs. LINCOLN. Mr. President, I appreciate this 
             opportunity to add my voice to those who have spoken in 
             honor of our late colleague Senator Paul Wellstone.
               In the 4 years we served together, Paul and I didn't 
             always vote the same way. But we shared the most important 
             value of all: We wanted to do best for the people who sent 
             us to the Senate to represent them. On a full range of 
             issues, from education to health care to veterans affairs, 
             Paul fought tirelessly for what he believed was best for 
             the people of Minnesota and the United States.
               I admired Paul's conviction and passion in presenting 
             his viewpoints and arguing his case. I admired his honesty 
             and conscientiousness in standing up for what he believed. 
             Most of all, I admired the goodwill and sense of fairness 
             that he brought to this body. I hope that even though we 
             won't always agree in our debates here, we can always keep 
             alive that same spirit of goodwill, fairness, and 
             openness.
               Paul Wellstone wasn't from the South, but he possessed 
             all the qualities of a Southern gentleman. He was never 
             rude or mean-spirited toward those who disagreed with him, 
             and he was unfailingly civil to both his allies and his 
             adversaries. I feel fortunate to have had him as a 
             colleague and blessed to have had him as a friend. He will 
             be sorely missed.
               I would like to pay tribute also to the two members of 
             Paul's family--his wife Sheila and his daughter Marcia--
             who perished with him on October 25. Furthermore, three 
             members of Paul's campaign staff--Will McLaughlin, Tom 
             Lapic, and Mary McEvoy--and two pilots--Richard Conry and 
             Michael Guess--lost their lives in that accident. My 
             deepest sympathies and my prayers go out to their families 
             and friends in this time of loss.
             ACCURACY IN STATISTICS AND THE DEBATE OVER BIPARTISAN TAX 
                                       RELIEF
               Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the 
             importance of accuracy in the debate over bipartisan tax 
             relief.
               I was very pleased to work with over one-fourth of the 
             Senate Democratic Caucus in passing the largest tax cut in 
             a generation. That legislation has been the subject of a 
             coordinated attack by the Democratic leadership and some 
             of its allies in the media. For almost a year and a half, 
             I have responded to these attacks in committee, on the 
             Senate floor, and in the media.
               The basic premise of my responses has been that 
             participants ought to be intellectually honest in the data 
             used in the debate. Reasonable folks can differ on whether 
             bipartisan tax relief is a good idea or not. We ought to 
             conduct that debate in a fair and open manner.
               Apparently, my responses caught the eye of a key opinion 
             maker, Mr. Paul Krugman of the New York Times. Mr. Krugman 
             is a regular columnist and focuses mainly on economic 
             policy. Mr. Krugman took aim at me and my statements in a 
             column, dated October 18, 2002. I ask unanimous consent 
             that a copy of that op-ed be included in the Record.
               Mr. Krugman defended the often-mentioned but seldom-
             sourced statistic on distribution of the benefits of the 
             tax relief package. It's the statistic we hear over and 
             over again. The statistic claims that 40 percent of the 
             benefits of the tax relief package go to the top 1 percent 
             of taxpayers.
               Mr. Krugman claims that I did not have an alternative 
             answer to the 40 percent statistics.
               I responded in a letter to the editor, dated October 24, 
             2002.
               My letter sources data from the unbiased, official 
             scorekeeper of tax policy for Congress, the Joint 
             Committee on Taxation. This data had been placed in the 
             Record in the statements Mr. Krugman criticized. That 
             data, updated for the last year the tax cut is 
             distributed, 2006, shows that the top 1 percent of 
             taxpayers will receive a lower share of the benefits of 
             the tax cut, 27 percent, than their burden, 33 percent. 
             The remaining difference of 6 percent is distributed to 
             taxpayers with incomes below $100,000. That's why Joint 
             Tax concludes that the bipartisan tax relief makes the Tax 
             Code more progressive.
               By the way, this fact is not incidental. It reveals a 
             key ingredient to our bipartisan success in 2001.
               My Democratic partners in the bipartisan bill insisted 
             that we make the Tax Code more progressive as a condition 
             for their support. That was a condition that I shared with 
             them. We would not have produced the bill in the Senate 
             without their support.
               Mr. Krugman struck back at me again in a column dated 
             October 29, 2002. He claimed my letter was ``misleading'' 
             because I did not include the benefits of death tax relief 
             in the analysis. I ask unanimous consent that a copy of 
             that op-ed be included in the Record.
               I prepared a response to Mr. Krugman and submitted it to 
             the New York Times editor. Unfortunately, the Times policy 
             only permits two responses per person per year. So Mr. 
             Krugman can attack me every week if he wants to and my 
             responses are limited. So Mr. Krugman and the Times policy 
             left me with the recourse of responding on the Senate 
             floor. Otherwise his charge would stand unanswered. That 
             would be wrong.
               Joint Tax does not distribute the death tax benefit 
             because the analysis requires a conceptual leap. 
             Economists have attempted to distribute the death tax 
             benefit.
               For instance, the Clinton Treasury performed an analysis 
             at about the same time the former President was readying a 
             veto on a tax bill that contained death tax relief. Joint 
             Tax attempted to distribute the same kind of analysis in 
             the early 1990s, but abandoned it after finding problems 
             with it.
               If you only read Mr. Krugman's columns, you would think 
             that this analysis is straightforward. It is not. 
             Basically, to get to where Mr. Krugman and his allies want 
             to go, you have to make a conceptual leap. You have to 
             assume that heirs of an estate have the same income tax 
             profile as the dead person. So you need to ignore the 
             reality that, for instance, tax-exempt organizations can 
             be heirs of an estate. You need to ignore the reality 
             that, as a general matter, no two sets of heirs look the 
             same for income tax purposes. For these reasons, an 
             unbiased official source, like Joint Tax, does not 
             distribute the death tax. That was the point I was not 
             permitted to make in a response.
               For the sake of argument, however, let's give Mr. 
             Krugman the benefit of the doubt. Let's stack the deck 
             further in his favor by assuming that all of the death tax 
             relief provided in 2006 inures to the benefit of the top 1 
             percent. Let's perform this calculation even though it is 
             analytically unsound. If you add that revenue loss, about 
             $4.6 billion for 2006, into Joint Tax's distribution 
             table, you will find that the top 1 percent receive 29 
             percent of the benefits of the tax relief package. This 
             compares with the 27 percent official Joint Tax figure. 
             Recall that the top 1 percent bear 33 percent of the 
             income tax burden. In this case, the 4 percent difference, 
             once again, though to a smaller degree, increases the 
             progressivity of the Federal tax system.
               Mr. Krugman also cites an alternative tax burden, total 
             Federal taxes, as the appropriate measure. Joint Tax's 
             distribution analysis includes the Federal tax burden and 
             as the projection for the last year shows the total 
             Federal tax system was made more progressive.
               Mr. President, I agree with Mr. Krugman on some things. 
             We need to change the tone in Washington. If the tone is 
             to change, all participants, including public servants, 
             like myself, and opinionmakers, like Mr. Krugman, must 
             participate in the change.
               Several things must happen if the tone in Washington is 
             to change. The first thing that needs to happen is 
             everyone must debate in an intellectually honest manner. 
             This means when a statistic is used, the source should be 
             referenced. Mr. Krugman's op-ed is the rare exception when 
             the source of the 40 percent figure has been revealed. 
             Over the last 18 months, in countless congressional 
             debates, in press reports and other venues, the 40 percent 
             figure has been used without attribution. At every point 
             when I have debated the other side of this issue, I have 
             provided the source of my statistics.
               The source of the data is important because, in an 
             honest debate, any biases should be revealed. The source 
             of Mr. Krugman's statistic is Bob McIntyre of the Citizens 
             for Tax Justice. I respect Mr. McIntyre as a spirited 
             liberal advocate of his version of tax reform. Mr. 
             McIntyre's organization has an agenda. It is a tax policy 
             agenda that tends to be on the left side of the political 
             spectrum. There are competing organizations on the right 
             side of the political spectrum such as the Heritage 
             Foundation. These organizations also produce data on tax 
             legislation. I doubt Mr. Krugman would ever use 
             alternative analyses. If he did use these analyses, I 
             would expect him to cite the source.
               There are also unbiased sources of data. An honest 
             debate ought to bring out that data and distinguish it 
             from data produced from biased sources. The Joint 
             Committee on Taxation, established in 1926, is an unbiased 
             source of data on tax policy. By definition, Congress' 
             official tax policy scorekeeper, Joint Tax works for the 
             House and Senate. Joint Tax works for both sides of the 
             aisle. Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, is the 
             current chairman of Joint Tax. Last year, Congressman Bill 
             Thomas, a Republican from California, was chairman.
               Opponents of the bipartisan tax relief package, like Mr. 
             Krugman, do not use this objective source of data.
               If we are to change the tone in Washington, not only do 
             we need to be honest about statistics, but we should put 
             statistics in the proper context. Mr. Krugman uses the tax 
             benefit figure in isolation. Mr. Krugman ignores the 
             context of tax burden. Joint Tax's distribution analysis 
             for 2006 shows that taxpayers who received the greatest 
             reduction in their tax burden were those with incomes 
             between $10,000 and $40,000. For instance, taxpayers with 
             incomes between $10,000 and $20,000 will enjoy a reduction 
             in their tax burden of 13.6 percent. Taxpayers with 
             incomes over $200,000 will see their tax burden reduced by 
             6.1 percent. This example, drawn from Joint Tax, not a 
             conservative think tank, puts the benefits of the tax cut 
             in context.
               I agree with Mr. Krugman's objective. I also agree with 
             many of his sentiments about my late friend, Senator Paul 
             Wellstone. Senator Wellstone liked a good and vigorous 
             debate. He did so in an intellectually honest manner. 
             Let's change the tone in Washington. Mr. Krugman has a 
             role as an opinionmaker who opposes last year's bipartisan 
             tax relief package. I welcome a lively exchange with him 
             and others of his view. All I ask is that we have that 
             exchange in intellectually honest terms.
               So I describe a real difference in the approach of 
             Midwestern transparent Iowans and that of an ivory tower 
             Easterner.
               I ask unanimous consent to print the aforementioned 
             materials in the Record.
               There being no objection, the material was ordered to be 
             printed in the Record, as follows:
                                   Washington, DC, October 30, 2002.

             Re ``For the People,'' by Paul Krugman (column, Oct. 29): 
             I continue to call for unbiased tax data in policy 
             debates.

             To the Editor, The New York Times.
             New York, NY.
                           Maybe You Can Take It With You
               I share many of Mr. Krugman's sentiments about my late 
             neighbor and friend, Senator Paul Wellstone. As the 
             Senate's only working farmer, I was a ready partner of 
             Senator Wellstone in efforts to help family farmers.
               Mr. Krugman described the data in my letter as 
             ``misleading.'' His dispute lies not with me, but with 
             Congress' official, unbiased, tax policy scorekeeper, the 
             Joint Committee on Taxation. Joint Tax says ``estate and 
             gift taxes are not included due to uncertainty concerning 
             the incidence of those taxes.''
               The uncertainty arises, in part, because estate tax 
             relief goes to the estate's heirs, not the dead person. 
             For income tax purposes, generally the person earning 
             income is alive to enjoy it. Attempts to distribute the 
             estate tax benefit are, at best, a very rough calculation. 
             In effect, those who take Mr. Krugman's view, believe the 
             dead person benefits from estate tax relief. Only those in 
             the ivory towers of academia believe you can take tax 
             relief to the grave.
                  Sincerely,
                                             Senator Chuck Grassley,
                                   Ranking Member, Finance Committee.
                                          a
                     [From the New York Times, October 29, 2002]
                                   For the People
                                  (By Paul Krugman)
               Ghoulish but true: as Minnesota mourns the death of 
             Senator Paul Wellstone, many of the state's residents have 
             been receiving fliers bearing a picture of a tombstone. 
             The flier, sent out by a conservative business group, 
             denounces the late senator's support for maintaining the 
             estate tax. Under the tombstone, the text reads in part: 
             ``Paul Wellstone not only wants to tax you and your 
             business to death . . . he wants to tax you in the 
             hereafter.''
               To be fair, the people who mailed out those fliers--
             which are carefully worded so that the cost of the mailing 
             doesn't officially count as a campaign contribution--
             didn't know how tasteless they would now appear. Yet in a 
             sense the mass mailing is a fitting epitaph; it reminds us 
             what Paul Wellstone stood for, and how brave he was to 
             take that stand.
               Sometimes it seems as if Americans have forgotten what 
             courage means. Here's a hint: talking tough doesn't make 
             you a hero; you have to take personal risks. And I'm not 
             just taking about physical risks--though it's striking how 
             few of our biggest flag wavers have ever put themselves in 
             harm's way. What we should demand of our representatives 
             in Washington is the willingness to take political risks--
             to make a stand on principle, even if it means taking on 
             powerful interest groups.
               Paul Wellstone took risks. He was, everyone 
             acknowledges, a political who truly voted his convictions, 
             who supported what he thought was right, not what he 
             thought would help him get re-elected. He took risky 
             stands on many issues: agree or disagree, you have to 
             admit that his vote against authorization for an Iraq war 
             was a singularly brave act. Yet the most consistent theme 
             in his record was economic--his courageous support for the 
             interests of ordinary Americans against the growing power 
             of our emerging plutocracy.
               In our money-dominated politics, that's a dangerous 
             position to take. When Mr. Wellstone first ran for the 
             Senate, his opponent outspent him 7 to 1. According to one 
             of his advisers, the success of that ramshackle campaign, 
             run from a rickety green schoolbus, ``made politics safe 
             for populists again.''
               If only. Almost every politician in modern American 
             pretends to be a populist; indeed, it's a general rule 
             that the more slavishly a politician supports the 
             interests of wealthy individuals and big corporations, the 
             folksier his manner. But being a genuine populist, someone 
             who really tries to stand up against what Mr. Wellstone 
             called ``Robin Hood in reverse'' policies, isn't easy: you 
             must face the power not just of money, but of sustained 
             and shameless hypocrisy.
               And that's why those fliers are a perfect illustration 
             of what Paul Wellstone was fighting. On one side, the 
             inclusion of estate tax repeal in last year's Federal tax 
             cut is the most striking example to date of how our 
             political system serves the interests of the wealthy. 
             After all, the estate tax affects only a small minority of 
             families; the bulk of the tax is paid by a tiny elite. In 
             fact, estate tax repeal favors the wealthy to such an 
             extent that defenders of last year's tax cut--like Senator 
             Charles Grassley, who published a misleading letter in 
             Friday's Times--always carefully omit it from calculations 
             of who benefits. (The letter talked only about the income 
             tax; had he included the effects of estate tax repeal, he 
             would have been forced to admit that more than 40 percent 
             of the benefits of that tax cut go to the wealthiest 1 
             percent of the population.) To eliminate the estate tax in 
             the face of budget deficits means making the rich richer 
             even as we slash essential services for the middle class 
             and the poor.
               On the other side, the estate tax debate illustrates the 
             pervasive hypocrisy of our politics. For repeal of the 
             ``death tax'' has been cast, incredibly, as a populist 
             issue. Thanks to sustained, lavishly financed propaganda--
             of which that anti-Wellstone flier was a classic example--
             millions of Americans imagine, wrongly, that the estate 
             tax mainly affects small businesses and farms, and that 
             its repeal will help ordinary people. And who pays for the 
             propaganda? Guess.
               It's amazing what money can buy.
               In an age of fake populists, Paul Wellstone was the real 
             thing. Now he's gone. Will others have the courage to 
             carry on?
                                          a
                     [From the New York Times, October 25, 2002]
                                 A Tax Cut for Whom?
               To the Editor: Re ``Springtime for Hitler,'' by Paul 
             Krugman (column, Oct. 18): I stand by my call for unbiased 
             tax data in policy debates. Some observers claim that 40 
             percent of last year's tax cuts went to the top 1 percent 
             of taxpayers. The Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress's 
             official, unbiased source, says the top 1 percent will 
             receive 27 percent of the income tax cuts in 2006, the 
             latest projection available. Taxpayers with incomes of 
             $200,000 and less will receive the majority of the tax-cut 
             benefits, with 67 percent.
               The real story is that despite those cuts, the top 1 
             percent of taxpayers will still pay 33 percent of Federal 
             income taxes. They will receive a lower share of the 
             income tax cut, 27 percent, than their burden, 33 percent.
               The joint committee says the taxpayers who will receive 
             the greatest reduction in their tax burden have incomes 
             between $10,000 and $40,000. Those with incomes between 
             $10,000 and $20,000 will enjoy a reduction of 13.6 
             percent. Those with incomes of more than $200,000 will see 
             their burden reduced by 6.1 percent. Intellectual honesty 
             demands putting tax data in context.
                                                     Chuck Grassley.
                                          a
                     [From the New York Times, October 18, 2002]
                                Springtime for Hitler
                                  (By Paul Krugman)
               You may recall that George W. Bush promised, among other 
             things, to change the tone in Washington. He made good on 
             that promise: the tone has certainly changed. As far as I 
             know, in the past it wasn't considered appropriate for the 
             occupant of the White House to declare that members of the 
             opposition party weren't interested in the nation's 
             security. And it certainly wasn't usual to compare anyone 
             who wants to tax the rich--or even anyone who estimates 
             the share of last year's tax cut that went to the 
             wealthy--to Adolf Hitler.
               O.K., maybe we should discount remarks by Senator Phil 
             Gramm. When Mr. Gramm declared that a proposal to impose a 
             one-time capital gains levy on people who renounce U.S. 
             citizenship in order to avoid paying taxes was ``right out 
             of Nazi Germany,'' even the ranking Republican on the 
             Senate Finance committee, Charles Grassley, objected to 
             the comparison.
               But Mr. Grassley must have thought better of his 
             objection, since just a few weeks later he decided to use 
             the Hitler analogy himself: ``I am sure voters will get 
             their fill of statistics claiming that the Bush tax cut 
             hands out 40 percent of its benefits to the top 1 percent 
             of taxpayers. This is not merely misleading, it is 
             outright false. Some folks must be under the impression 
             that as long as something is repeated often enough, it 
             will become true. That was how Adolf Hitler got to the 
             top.''
               For the record, Robert McIntyre of Citizens for Tax 
             Justice--the original source of that 40 percent estimate--
             is no Adolf Hitler. The amazing thing is that Mr. Grassley 
             is sometimes described as a moderate. his remarks as just 
             one more indicator that we have entered an era of extreme 
             partisanship--one that leaves no room for the 
             acknowledgment of politically inconvenient facts. For the 
             claim that Mr. Grassley describes as ``outright false'' 
             is, in fact, almost certainly true; in a rational world it 
             wouldn't even be a matter for argument.
               You might imagine that Mr. Grassley has in hand an 
             alternative answer to the question ``How much of the tax 
             cut will go to the top 1 percent?''--that the 
             administration has, at some point, produced a number 
             showing that the wealthy aren't getting a big share of the 
             benefits. In fact, however, administration officials have 
             never answered that question. When pressed, they have 
             always insisted on answering some other question.
               But last year the Treasury Department did release a 
             table showing, somewhat inadvertently, that more than 25 
             percent of the income tax cut will go to people making 
             more than $200,000 per year. This number doesn't include 
             the effects of estate tax repeal; in 1999 only 2 percent 
             of estates paid any tax, and half of that tax was paid by 
             only 0.16 percent of estates. The number also probably 
             doesn't take account of the alternative minimum tax, which 
             will snatch away most of the income tax cut for upper-
             middle-class families, but won't affect the rich.
               Put all this together and it becomes clear that, such 
             enough, something like 40 percent of the tax cut--it could 
             be a bit less, but probably it's considerably more--will 
             go to 1 percent of the population. And the 
             administration's systematic evasiveness on the question of 
             who benefits from the tax cut amounts to a plea of nolo 
             contendere. Which brings us back to the new tone in 
             Washington.
               When Ronald Reagan cut taxes on rich people, he didn't 
             deny that that was what he was doing. You could agree or 
             disagree with the supply-side economic theory he used to 
             justify his actions, but he didn't pretend that he was 
             increasing the progressivity of the tax system.
               The strategy used to sell the Bush tax cut was simply to 
             deny the facts--and to lash out at anyone who tried to 
             point them out. And it's a strategy that, having worked 
             there, is now being applied across the board.
               Michael Kinsley recently wrote that ``The Bush campaign 
             for was against Iraq has been insulting to American 
             citizens, not just because it has been dishonest, but 
             because it has been unserious. A lie is insulting; an 
             obvious lie is doubly insulting.'' All I can say is, now 
             he notices? It's been like that all along on economic 
             policy.
               You see, some folks must be under the impression that as 
             long as something is repeated often enough, it will become 
             true. That was how George W. Bush got to the top.
                     Proceedings in the House of Representatives
                                               Monday, October 28, 2002
                                     ADJOURNMENT
               The SPEAKER. Without objection, the House stands 
             adjourned until 11 a.m. on Thursday, October 31, 2002, in 
             respect of the memory of the late Honorable Paul D. 
             Wellstone of Minnesota.
               There was no objection.
               Accordingly (at 11 o'clock and 3 minutes a.m.), under 
             its previous order, the House adjourned until Thursday, 
             October 31, 2002, at 11 a.m. in memory of the late 
             Honorable Paul D. Wellstone of Minnesota.
                                             Thursday, October 31, 2002
                               MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE
               A message from the Senate by Mr. Monahan, one of its 
             clerks, announced that the Senate agreed to the following 
             resolution:
                                     S. Res. 354
               Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone taught at Carleton 
             College in Northfield, Minnesota, for more than 20 years 
             in the service of the youth of our Nation;
               Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone served Minnesota in 
             the U.S. Senate with devotion and distinction for more 
             than a decade;
               Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone worked tirelessly 
             on behalf of America's veterans and the less fortunate, 
             particularly children and families living in poverty and 
             those with mental illness;
               Whereas the Honorable Paul Wellstone never wavered from 
             the principles that guided his life and career;
               Whereas his efforts on behalf of the people of Minnesota 
             and all Americans earned him the esteem and high regard of 
             his colleagues; and
               Whereas his tragic and untimely death has deprived his 
             State and Nation of an outstanding lawmaker: Now, 
             therefore, be it
               Resolved, That the Senate expresses profound sorrow and 
             deep regret on the deaths of the Honorable Paul Wellstone, 
             late Senator from the State of Minnesota, his wife Sheila, 
             their daughter Marcia, aides Mary McEvoy, Tom Lapic, and 
             Will McLaughlin, and pilots Richard Conry and Michael 
             Guess.
               Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these 
             resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit 
             an enrolled copy thereof to the family of the deceased 
             Senator, and the families of all the deceased.
               Resolved, That when the Senate adjourns today, it 
             adjourn as a further mark of respect to the memory of the 
             deceased.
                                             Tuesday, November 12, 2002
                    TRIBUTE TO SENATOR PAUL AND SHEILA WELLSTONE
               Mr. RAMSTAD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to 
             Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife, Sheila Wellstone. As 
             we all know, the Wellstones perished in a tragic plane 
             crash, along with their daughter Marcia, three staff 
             members and two pilots on October 25, 2002.
               It has been 18 days since that terrible day, and I am 
             still overwhelmed by sadness at the tragic death of our 
             dear friends whose plane went down in a northern Minnesota 
             wetland near Eveleth.
               I continue to join all Minnesotans in mourning our great 
             loss. Minnesota has lost two compassionate and caring 
             public servants. Both Paul and Sheila will be sorely 
             missed by all of us who knew and loved them.
               As the Wellstones' son, David, said, ``The words that 
             come to mind about my dad are integrity, passion, fairness 
             and intensity. When the going got rough, there was no one 
             else you wanted in your corner.'' And about his mother, 
             Sheila, David Wellstone said, ``The words that come to 
             mind are selfless, caring, loving, tenacious, proud and 
             strong. She gave of herself like you would not believe.''
               Mr. Speaker, we all know that nobody fought harder or 
             with greater passion for the underdog than Paul and Sheila 
             Wellstone. Senator Wellstone dedicated his life to serving 
             others, and he was a tireless advocate for people in need. 
             Paul Wellstone was a person of absolute integrity and was 
             often willing to ``go it alone'' to stand up for what he 
             believed was right.
               Sheila Wellstone was a true champion for battered women 
             and their families, and I was privileged to work with her 
             on many important causes like the Violence Against Women 
             Act and securing funding for Cornerstone, an emergency 
             shelter for women and their children who are victims of 
             domestic violence in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
               Senator Wellstone's best friend, Rick Kahn of 
             Minnetonka, tells how Paul used to say to him, ``It is not 
             enough to cling to principles, no matter how noble they 
             may be, unless we are truly willing to risk everything.''
               While Senator Wellstone and I had our disagreements on 
             many policy issues, there is no disagreeing that I lost my 
             partner in the fight for people with chemical addiction. I 
             will always be grateful to Senator Wellstone for his 
             tireless and principled efforts to provide chemical 
             dependency treatment for more Americans, and Paul 
             Wellstone was the Senate sponsor of our legislation to 
             provide parity for chemical dependency treatment.
               Even though we encountered strenuous resistance from 
             special interests, Senator Wellstone was always truly 
             willing to risk everything for our cause to help people 
             with addiction. He was absolutely relentless in his 
             efforts to push for parity, both for people with chemical 
             addiction, and those suffering from mental illness. Paul 
             would call me frequently, and usually late at night, to 
             breathlessly relay his progress in securing another 
             cosponsor for our bill or to ask for advice; or usually to 
             give advice. I came to absolutely cherish those late night 
             phone calls from my friend.
               As William Cope Moyers, vice president of the Hazelden 
             Foundation in Minnesota, the world-renowned treatment 
             center for chemically dependent people, put it, ``Senator 
             Wellstone was a passionate champion of what we do at 
             Hazelden, and his loss is immeasurable.''
               Not only did we lose two deeply committed champions for 
             battered women and people with addiction, and so many 
             other Americans, I lost two of my dearest friends in that 
             plane crash. I have been asked many times since the crash 
             to share personal stories about the Wellstones. It has 
             been absolutely heartwarming to share personal memories 
             about Paul and Sheila with people throughout Minnesota.
               And as we all know, in this body as well as the other 
             body, Paul Wellstone took his job very seriously, but he 
             never, ever took himself too seriously. He had a great 
             ability to poke fun at himself and bring people together. 
             Even when he had policy disagreements with people, he 
             always disagreed in an agreeable way, flashing that 
             contagious Wellstone smile and slapping the person on the 
             back in a warm, loving way.
                Mr. Speaker, one of my favorite recollections of Paul 
             was the time he was considering a campaign for President. 
             Before he got on the airplane for our weekly commute back 
             to Minnesota, I instructed all of the regular commuters to 
             start humming ``Hail to the Chief'' as soon as Paul got on 
             the plane.
               On cue, the passengers struck up a cord of ``Hail to the 
             Chief,'' and Paul saw me sitting in the back and came 
             right over to me and said ``Ramstad, do not forget. I 
             might be only 5 feet 5 and you are 6 feet 3, but don't 
             ever forget I was a wrestler and you were only a 
             basketball player.''
               That was Paul Wellstone, always in good humor, always 
             flashing that contagious smile that reflected his love for 
             all people.
               Mr. Speaker, in conclusion, Paul Wellstone was a person 
             of great courage. Who can forget Senator Wellstone 
             painfully walking around the Capitol bent nearly double 
             from the back injuries he had sustained as a wrestler and 
             from his struggles with multiple sclerosis, but always the 
             first to run back into the kitchen of the Senate Dining 
             Room to thank the cooks and dishwashers for his meals.
               Mr. Speaker, I ask all in this body to pause for a 
             silent moment to pay our respects to Paul and Sheila 
             Wellstone, their daughter Marcia, and to the others who 
             perished in that plane crash, Tom Lapic, Mary McEvoy, Will 
             McLaughlin, Richard Conry and Michael Guess. My heart goes 
             out to the family members left behind and to Paul's 
             dedicated staff. May you rest in peace, dear friends. 
             Amen.

               Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I offer a privileged 
             resolution (H. Res. 598) and ask for its immediate 
             consideration.
               The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:
                                     H. Res. 598
               Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow 
             of the death of the Honorable Paul D. Wellstone, a Senator 
             from the State of Minnesota.
               Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions 
             to the Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of 
             the deceased.
               Resolved, That when the House adjourns today, it adjourn 
             as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased 
             Senator.

               Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, 20 years ago I had returned 
             to Minnesota from a human rights inquiry trip with the 
             Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in El Salvador, 
             where we inquired into abuses of human rights visited upon 
             Salvadorans and the four American women, three church 
             women and one lay woman.
               We visited the blood-spattered streets of San Antonio 
             Abad, the site of La Matanza, the massacre outside of San 
             Salvador. We met with numerous victims of violence by the 
             government and resolved to take action in the Congress on 
             our return to the United States.
               On my return, I was asked by the president of the 
             student body of Carleton College in Northfield, MN, to 
             come and address the students on the experience that I had 
             just encountered.
               It was an overwhelming response. The place for the 
             meeting was filled to overflowing, and students wanted to 
             gather afterward. They asked me if I would come and join 
             them at the home of one of the professors, which I did.
               Of course, at that meeting, it was very animated and 
             intense questioning that came from the host, a young 
             professor, who impressed me with his deep sense of caring, 
             his feeling about this issue, his desire to do justice. I 
             was not quite sure of his name, and I asked again: Paul 
             Wellstone.
               I said, Professor, you ought to think about running for 
             public office. He said, indeed, I am. I am considering 
             running for State auditor. Well, that was hardly a place 
             from which to make statewide policy, but it was something 
             that he wanted to do to get into the public arena, and he 
             felt there was a message that he could convey. As was 
             later revealed, however, his dyslexia prevented him from 
             really grasping numbers in the way that other folks do.
               Nonetheless, he conducted a spirited campaign, and lost 
             to a gentleman named Arnie Carlson, who served as auditor 
             for several years, and then later ran for Governor and won 
             in the same year that Paul Wellstone ran for Senator and 
             won: 1990.
               In between those two dates was a very high level of 
             spirited activism by Paul Wellstone, most notable of which 
             was leading the resistance to construction of a power line 
             across the State of Minnesota to be built by a generation 
             power company of the rural electrification system which 
             had really lost touch with its member cooperatives and the 
             people that the co-op was to serve.
               Paul Wellstone called them to accountability, called 
             them and mounted a movement across the State to hold 
             hearings, to have public sessions to explain the necessity 
             for this power line running through the backyard of homes 
             and through farms, and what possible adverse side effects 
             there might be from the construction of this power line. 
             It was characteristic of Paul Wellstone's role in public 
             service that when people got too big, when organizations 
             got too big for their own good, he called them to account.
               In Scripture, I find the roots of Paul Wellstone's drive 
             for public service. In Isaiah 11:4, under the rubric ``the 
             Rule of Immanuel,'' it is written ``But he shall judge the 
             poor with justice''; and again, in 12:1, ``Woe to those 
             who enact unjust statutes and who write oppressive decrees 
             depriving the needy of judgment and robbing my people's 
             poor of their rights.''
               Nothing disturbed, distressed, angered Paul Wellstone 
             more or motivated him more to action than unjust statutes, 
             oppressive decrees depriving the needy of their day in 
             court, so to speak, or robbing the poor of their rights.
               Whether we read into those verses of Scripture the Legal 
             Services Act, redlining in urban housing, the need for 
             surveying the homeless, providing adequate housing for 
             poor and middle-income Americans, or food stamps or Meals 
             on Wheels, we read the keystone of Paul Wellstone's career 
             of public service: A burning mission, anchored in 
             Scripture, expressed in public acts to improve the lives 
             of the least among us; to be a stirring voice for those 
             who either have none, or who have lost their voice.
               At the memorial service honoring Senator Wellstone in 
             Virginia, MN, in my district a young campaign worker, Ida 
             Rukavine, spoke of the inspiration that young people felt 
             about Paul Wellstone, saying that her classmates, her 
             contemporaries, were looking for someone to be a role 
             model.
               At a time when, as Ida implied, young people are indeed 
             looking for role models, I would pin this image on our 
             hearts: Paul and his wife, Sheila, walking wherever they 
             went hand in hand in all that they did, wherever they 
             traveled. We should take their hands symbolically and take 
             each other's hands and feel the strength of the spirit of 
             Paul Wellstone that still moves among us.
               There were two votes that I would characterize as 
             bookends for Paul Wellstone's career of public service, 
             both of which I discussed with him at some length. The 
             first was early in 1991, when we were voting in the 
             Congress on whether to approve military action against 
             Iraq, and the last was the most recent vote in the 
             Congress, again to approve of a resolution giving 
             authority to the President to use force at a time of his 
             choosing of his determination against Iraq.
               Paul's no vote was recognized as a vote of courage, a 
             vote of principle, a vote that marked his character in 
             public service and all that he stood for. It was my vote, 
             but it was his vote of deep conviction unashamedly 
             expressed, unabashedly carried out; a role model for young 
             people. Whether one agreed with the vote or not, one had 
             to agree that this was indeed a man of great strength, 
             personal character, and of deep conviction.

               Mr. SABO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the 
             resolution and in memory of our colleague, Paul Wellstone. 
             The gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) and I had the 
             unique opportunity of serving with Paul for 12 years. But 
             when I think of Paul, I think of him primarily not in his 
             role as a member of the U.S. Senate but as a person, a 
             person who, when we saw Paul, we expected to see Sheila. 
             They were exceptionally close, and they were exceptionally 
             close to their family; to Marcia, who unfortunately was on 
             the plane with them; and to their sons, David and Mark, 
             and to their grandchildren. They were an incredibly close 
             family. Paul was so proud of his kids and his grandkids, 
             and wanted to spend as much time as he could with them.
               I also think of Paul as someone who really connected 
             with people for really two reasons. One, he liked people. 
             He met them with a flourish and enthusiasm. Two, he really 
             had empathy for problems that impacted people.
               All he said and did in politics was not about theory, 
             but about how what we do here impacts people in their 
             daily lives. Paul, the elected official, was a person who 
             always saw himself as primarily representing the underdog, 
             the underrepresented in society, and he did that with 
             compassion and intelligence and enthusiasm and incredibly 
             hard work. So Americans, those that struggle day to day in 
             life, lost a true friend, a true advocate.
               We remember his boys and his grandchildren today, they 
             carry on a remarkable family, and we offer them our 
             sympathy and our thoughts in the days and weeks and months 
             ahead, but our State and our country suffered a real loss 
             in that plane accident.

               Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the 
             resolution and in gratitude to my colleague for offering 
             it.
               I have a big hole in my heart, and I think it is 
             reflective of the hole that is left now in the political 
             landscape, a space that was occupied uniquely by Paul 
             Wellstone. I feel great sorrow and great gratitude; sorrow 
             for the loss of a close friend and colleague, and 
             gratitude for having had the opportunity to know and work 
             with Paul Wellstone and his wife, his lifelong partner, 
             Sheila Wellstone.
               Paul and Sheila Wellstone touched many, many lives; 
             literally tens of thousands of Americans considered 
             themselves to be their close friends and partners in the 
             effort to make America better. My husband and I enjoyed 
             spending time with Paul, listening to his stories and 
             jokes and planning strategy and organizing. Paul and 
             Sheila were always open and friendly, and always eager to 
             act on their beliefs.
               In Chicago this weekend, we will hold a memorial service 
             to honor their lives. Similar memorial services are being 
             held in towns and cities across this country. Paul 
             Wellstone was the people's Senator, not just Minnesota's 
             Senator, the one you could always count on to push for 
             economic and social justice.
               Paul used to talk frequently about the concerns raised 
             by people eating in the cafes and diners in Minnesota. He 
             brought those concerns to the floor of the Senate, 
             speaking for his constituents and for families everywhere. 
             He knew what it was like to deal with mental illness and 
             discrimination in the health care system. He made it his 
             job to end inequality in care and pass comprehensive 
             mental health parity. He knew what it was like to lack 
             health care coverage and to be unable to afford medical 
             treatment for a child or grandparent, and so he made it 
             his job to win universal access to affordable and quality 
             health care.
               He listened to family farmers struggling to survive in 
             the shadow of agribusiness, and he made it his job to 
             speak for those farmers. He heard about discrimination and 
             lack of opportunity, and he made it a priority to break 
             down barriers to give every person the right to be 
             productive and secure and to protect the rights of working 
             men and women.
               He listened to Sheila about the horrors of domestic 
             violence, and together they worked to reauthorize the 
             Violence Against Women Act and to stop the abuse that 
             threatens women and children.
               As a teacher, Paul focused on the power of education to 
             improve our lives. He fought for better teachers and 
             better schools from early childhood development through 
             the university level. He embraced these weighty issues 
             with joy and exuberance. He was called the happy warrior. 
             He was never apologetic or defensive, always bold and 
             clear and, to many of us, thrilling.
               Above all, Paul was proud to be an organizer. He 
             believed with every fiber of his being in the power of 
             people to make change and to win social and economic 
             justice. He taught us to strive for the very best in 
             ourselves and in our communities. He inspired us to do 
             more than we thought was possible because his vision of 
             what was achievable was so powerful. He showed us that we 
             can listen to our consciences, do what is right and take 
             courageous stands on issues from welfare to Iraq and still 
             win elections.
               The people of Minnesota respected him and loved him and 
             mourn him because he lived and voted his values. Paul 
             Wellstone changed lives. He changed thousands of lives, 
             young people and old people alike. He empowered people. He 
             was a friend, and I want to end with Paul Wellstone as a 
             friend.
               I have two friends in my district who loved Paul with 
             all their hearts; Harvey and Norma Mader were good friends 
             of Paul and Sheila Wellstone. For a long time before Paul 
             was elected to Congress, Harvey and Norma Mader were their 
             friends. They live in my district, but they were prepared 
             to go to Minnesota for the election as senior citizen 
             advocates. Their lives very much revolve around 
             progressive politics, and Paul Wellstone was their hero 
             and friend.
               And Paul would call them up on the telephone and say, 
             How is Norma, how is she feeling? How are things going, 
             Harvey? It was common for Paul on a regular basis just to 
             check in with his friends. And when I was at that memorial 
             service in Minnesota, I talked to a number of people who 
             said Paul called me last week. He heard that my son was 
             sick or he heard that I was having a test at the hospital, 
             and he just called to see how I was.
               I realize that so many of us who get so busy with our 
             work here and the weightiness of our work here sometimes 
             sacrifice ordinary friendships, but Paul Wellstone managed 
             to do it all. He managed to maintain those friendships all 
             over the country. That is what I heard. It meant so much 
             to Harvey and Norma Mader. It meant so much to all of the 
             people that he cared so much about. I think that says 
             something special about the kind of person he was.
               Although Paul and Sheila are no longer here physically, 
             the partnership that we have with them will continue. 
             Through our commitment to their vision of America, Paul 
             and Sheila will always have an enormous impact on our 
             Nation and on our future.

               Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for 
             yielding me this time, and for coming forward to offer 
             this resolution. I recognize that a number of Members are 
             not here today because we do not have votes, but I am very 
             pleased that the gentleman was able to get the time so 
             some of us who felt so deeply about losing Paul Wellstone 
             would have an opportunity to express those views publicly.
               On the floor from time to time we are admonished not to 
             refer to the other body. Well, this afternoon we are 
             referring to an unforgettable Member of the other body. He 
             was not a Member of this body, but Paul Wellstone's 
             presence was felt even in this body. In fact, this is the 
             kind of man whose presence could not help but be felt.
               The loss of Paul, Sheila, his wife, and his daughter 
             Marcia is deeply felt here. In no small part, these three 
             were doing public business. They were all trying to get 
             Paul back to the Senate so he could engage in the business 
             of the public.
               Why is Paul Wellstone so admired by Republicans and 
             Democrats alike in the Senate? We have heard about 
             Republicans who cried when they heard that Paul had been 
             killed. In no small part I think it is because Paul 
             believed in something, and he believed in being more than 
             a Senator. Beyond that, if I try to focus on what made him 
             so beloved to so many, particularly to those who worked 
             with him, I come time and again to the fact that he took 
             risks for what he believed in.
               Members of the House and the Senate always admire that. 
             Regardless of where we stand on the issues, the notion 
             that somebody is willing to step forward and take 
             political risks is something to be admired; and, of 
             course, Paul Wellstone was willing even to risk his 
             political life.
               That is another way of saying that Paul Wellstone came 
             to the Senate in order to stand for principle. The 
             gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) spoke of 
             character. That is what character is all about. When the 
             rubber meets the road and a Member needs to decide whether 
             to take a risk on an issue, I think first of the principle 
             that I stood for. That is not what the political business 
             is all about. Sure, those of us from safe districts get to 
             do that all the time. I hope we are not patting ourselves 
             on the back. We are doing it for principle, but many are 
             doing it also because the people who live in our district 
             want us to do it. Paul Wellstone had to think about 
             whether what he was doing was what his constituents wanted 
             him to do, and whether it was the right thing to do 
             according to his own sense of principle.
               So standing for principle in a real sense was a kind of 
             trademark of Paul Wellstone and indicative of his 
             character. I do not mean to say if a Member does not 
             always stand for principle they do not have any character. 
             But politicians particularly admire Members who are 
             willing to take risks, ignoring the political 
             consequences.
               Now, let us not forget that Paul Wellstone was a most 
             unlikely candidate. It was unlikely that he would get to 
             the Senate at all. Let us be clear; he was a Ph.D. college 
             professor; and, indeed, a tenured college professor. I can 
             tell Members this is not a place where one expects 
             academics to come. I am myself an academic who never 
             expected and never intended to come to the House. I am a 
             tenured academic who still teaches at Georgetown Law 
             Center. And I can tell Members, those of us who spend our 
             lives trying to get tenure do not think of another career. 
             It is harder to get tenure than it is to get elected. 
             Tenured professors do not go around trying to get another 
             job.
               One needs to think what in the world got into Paul 
             Wellstone, tenure at a very good liberal arts college. 
             Again, I go back to principle. At the bottom he was an 
             organizer, and he had done all he could do organizing, and 
             so he thought I guess I will go to the Senate and see if I 
             can organize there. I am sure that is the way he thought.
               If he was an unlikely candidate when he got here, he 
             took on unlikely issues. He stuck with health care when 
             everybody else backed off because the Democrats tried very 
             hard in the early 1990s and got pressed back.
               And again I can go down a lexicon of issues. Here is 
             another unlikely one, mental health coverage as a part of 
             ordinary health coverage, and he got that very far along.
               Those issues speak to two abilities: One is the ability 
             as an organizer. He never lost that passion, never lost 
             that understanding that is the way to operate. Senator 
             Lieberman tells a funny story that one day Paul was 
             discussing an amendment on the floor. Paul walks into the 
             Senate, Paul is pressing his amendment. He does not even 
             think he has Members on his side, much less Republicans, 
             so he held up a piece a paper for Senator Lieberman to see 
             that said ``DLC votes yes,'' meaning Democratic Leadership 
             Conference votes yes because Senator Lieberman was in a 
             conference that was in another spectrum of the Democratic 
             Party. Senator Lieberman just laughed. Paul was so funny 
             and laughed all the time.
               Paul was so collegial. Even those who could not possibly 
             vote the way Paul voted had to love him. I think of our 
             former colleague Sam Brownback, who made common cause with 
             Paul on a bill to prevent international sex trafficking of 
             women and girls. Together, this conservative Republican 
             and this liberal Democrat pressed that bill through the 
             floor. If you look at Paul's record, this one-man 
             progressive force was always looking for allies, 
             especially people who were more conservative than he. He 
             was not content to stand on principle alone. He wanted to 
             stand on principle and then get it enacted into law and so 
             he reached out to see how he could do that.
               Finally, Mr. Speaker, I will tell the quintessential 
             Paul story about a principle. At the height of the 
             wonderful economy of the late 1990s, when everybody was 
             doing well, I mean, I was going around bragging that more 
             African-Americans own homes, highest median income in 
             history, more rising out of poverty, at the height of this 
             economy, Paul called me up and said he wanted me to 
             cosponsor a bill, then he wanted to go to a church here in 
             the District to have a press conference about it. The bill 
             was called the Strategic Transitional Employment Program. 
             We should understand that unemployment was down to 
             something like 3 percent, way down from where I regret to 
             say it is now. This bill was about the millions who had 
             been left behind. Paul was tired of hearing how all of us 
             were doing so well, even the poor. Paul knew that there 
             was a horrific gap between the larger number of people who 
             were doing better and the millions who were not benefiting 
             from that wonderful economy.
               I do not think Paul particularly believed this bill had 
             a ghost of a chance, but he did believe that if you were 
             one of those millions still unemployed, still living in a 
             community that did not have investment, still living in 
             rural or urban America where jobs were not being made out 
             of the dot-coms and all of the wonderful work that the 
             economy was doing, if you were in a manufacturing job 
             still waiting to be called back, Paul knew that nobody was 
             talking to you and had acted as if you had floated off the 
             planet. Paul did not believe you should stand up for those 
             who did not have only when the economy was the way it is 
             now, down and not doing well at all. Paul believed you 
             should stand up when you had not brought the great 
             American dream to all, especially when there were millions 
             upon millions upon millions who thought nobody even spoke 
             to their issues or spoke to them any longer because so 
             many people were doing so well. That to me is the 
             quintessential Paul.
               Mr. Speaker, Senators, not to mention House Members, 
             come and go, but some rise to a special level. That is the 
             level of being simply irreplaceable. That is the level to 
             which Paul Wellstone has risen to Members across the line 
             in both parties. I again thank the gentleman for not only 
             yielding to me but for bringing Paul Wellstone to this 
             body.

               Mr. OBERSTAR. I thank the gentlewoman for those 
             wonderful remarks.

               Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, yesterday was Veterans Day, 
             November 11. As I woke up in the morning, I thought, well, 
             I am getting on a plane today and I am going to be heading 
             off to Washington, a different type of Veterans Day than I 
             was used to spending. See, I used to spend Veterans Day at 
             veterans hospitals and cemeteries remembering those who 
             had given their lives, remembering those who came home 
             injured, whether it be physically or emotionally. I 
             remembered those days because I spent them with Senator 
             Paul Wellstone. Paul and I would often be at veterans 
             hospitals, cameras long gone, with veterans from all over 
             the United States, and we would sit and we would talk and 
             we would have very personal conversations with some 
             veterans who had not heard from family members in a long 
             time and who were alone. Paul would be on a plane as he 
             was the last time I flew out to Washington and he would be 
             with Sheila. His back would bother him or his legs would 
             be bothering him and he could not sit still for very long, 
             so especially after they changed the flight time where we 
             have to spend the last 30 minutes sitting on the plane, 
             not moving as we approached Washington National since 
             September 11, Paul would be on the plane walking up and 
             down the aisles, talking to elderly people, talking to 
             children, it did not make any difference whether or not 
             they lived in Minnesota, asking them what was going on in 
             their lives, what they were studying, how they were doing 
             in school. Sheila would be sitting there reading, working 
             on something to help Minnesota, to help our country, to 
             help our Nation, women of domestic violence, children of 
             domestic violence.
               We have heard testimony from Members here of what a 
             great legislator Paul was, and he was truly a magnificent 
             Senator. But he was all those things because he was a good 
             teacher. He was a good father. He was a good friend. 
             Sheila and Paul never forgot family and their family went 
             beyond their children. Their family campaigned together. 
             Marcia, who was a teacher, was on the plane. Over the last 
             couple of weeks, I have met students of Marcia's. Paul was 
             a good father, he was a good teacher, and he passed that 
             on to his children.
               Mary McEvoy was also on the plane. Mary was a dear 
             friend. Mary believed in the issues that Paul worked on, 
             helping children succeed, helping children to be literate. 
             Mary and Paul and Sheila together would work on those 
             issues and make them a reality in the everyday lives of 
             everyday children. But we all know and I know better than 
             ever having served in this body of Congress that our staff 
             is important. Just as we are judged by the friends we 
             keep, I think legislatively we can be judged by the staff 
             we work with. To the chief of staff, Colin McGinnis and 
             the Washington staff, to State director Connie Lewis, to 
             all the staff in Senator Wellstone's office, he was so 
             very proud of you and you in the work that you did made us 
             proud of Paul. To Mark and David, our loss is different 
             from yours. Yours is beyond my imagination right now 
             having lost so many family members. You shared your grief 
             with our State and with our Nation.
               November 11 will never be the same. I will never drive 
             by a veterans cemetery or go by a veterans hospital 
             without thinking of all the work that Paul did for the 
             veterans in this country. I will never go in another grade 
             school and not think of all the work that he did for 
             children and education with those around him. I will carry 
             on a women's domestic abuse roundtable that we are having 
             with people in the Fourth District and Fifth District, St. 
             Paul and Minneapolis, without Sheila's presence. There 
             will be students in White Bear Lake who will always 
             remember Marcia. And Mary is so deep in the hearts of many 
             of us. But, Tom and Will, you also made an impact by 
             allowing Paul to do the work that he did and we are 
             blessed for having you all in our lives.
               Minnesota will never be the same. Minnesota will always 
             remember what happened on the tragic Friday of October 25, 
             where they were, what they were doing, when we all stopped 
             and paused and remembered our blessings in having had such 
             a special Senator.
               Paul, I will miss you in Washington and I will miss you 
             at home.

               Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for 
             yielding me this time and extend to him and the entire 
             Minnesota delegation the deepest sympathy of my family and 
             my constituents.
               I have known Paul and Sheila for a very long time, long 
             before either of us were in Congress, he in the Senate, 
             going back to our days in the Democratic Party in the 
             early 1980s. I have known of his passion for the issues 
             and for working families in our country and his interest 
             in making a difference for them in our country.
               I rise today to honor Senator Paul Wellstone, Sheila 
             Wellstone, the sadness of their losing their daughter at 
             the same time and to offer my sympathy to the families of 
             those who were lost in that terrible tragedy. To the 
             families of staffers Will McLaughlin, Tom Lapic and Mary 
             McEvoy, Mary was a person of so many credentials and all 
             of them much heralded in these sad days, and of the 
             Captains Richard Conry and Michael Guess, I pray that you 
             can take some comfort in the fact that your loved ones 
             lost their lives in service to our country. To take part 
             in the political process, the process of educating voters 
             about their choices, is indeed a great service to 
             democracy.
               To David and Mark Wellstone, thank you for sharing your 
             wonderful family with all of us and with the American 
             people. In this era of polls and pundits, Paul Wellstone 
             was that increasingly rare breed, a politician with the 
             courage of his convictions. We see a lot of that here in 
             Congress, but the public is not aware of that. He fought 
             for what he believed in. He voted for what he thought was 
             right regardless of whether it was popular. He stood for 
             something, and he stood his ground. In doing so, he gave 
             voice to the many millions of Americans who cannot afford 
             to make campaign donations and who are struggling just to 
             pay their rent and feed their families.
               When Paul Wellstone took the floor of the U.S. Senate, 
             you knew you were going to hear something quite different 
             from what had come before and what was likely to follow. 
             You would hear passion and compassion and sometimes anger. 
             You would hear talk about issues that do not get a great 
             deal of attention these days, social justice, poverty and 
             the responsibility of government to improve the lives of 
             citizens. This was a responsibility that Paul Wellstone 
             lived and breathed, to the good of millions of America's 
             children and families.
               Paul and Sheila left us not only a memory but a legacy. 
             His legacy of good works will live throughout the country. 
             Sheila's work in terms of domestic violence and so many 
             other issues are being made known to the American people 
             now more generally, but anyone who knew them knew of her 
             commitment and the difference she made in that area. 
             Losing Marcia is another tragedy, leaving her family 
             behind seems to be the saddest of all, but I hope again it 
             is a comfort to those families that so many people mourn 
             their loss and are praying for them at this time.
               To us in Congress, Paul Wellstone left a special legacy. 
             We can keep his spirit alive and that legacy glowing by 
             standing strong for what we believe in and by bringing 
             both passion and compassion to everything we do. He did 
             that but he brought a great intellect, a great knowledge, 
             a plan of action. He was a great person. Sheila and Paul 
             were a great team.
               Mr. Speaker, we have already had a service in San 
             Francisco honoring the memory of Sheila and Paul 
             Wellstone, Marcia and the others who perished. I bring 
             from that service, attended by hundreds of people, the 
             sympathy and condolences of my community to the people of 
             Minnesota. I am so sorry.

               Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for 
             those remarks. I again want to express my appreciation to 
             our Democratic whip for her call immediately following the 
             tragedy expressing her deep sympathy and condolences 
             through me to the family and to the close friends of Paul 
             Wellstone. It is characteristic of the gentlewoman from 
             California that she would call and express that profound 
             feeling. I am grateful that she mentioned the memorial 
             service. I know that the family will be most appreciative.

               Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I want to first of 
             all thank the gentleman from Minnesota for yielding me 
             this time and for taking out this special order. I recall 
             a poet once saying, ``Some people see things that are and 
             ask why.'' But then he said, ``I dream of things that have 
             never been and ask why not.'' It seems to me that such was 
             the life, such was the career, such was the being of 
             Senator Paul Wellstone, a man who had an uncanny way of 
             penetrating.
               Notice that many people say ``Paul Wellstone,'' and that 
             is because they felt a level of intimacy with him even 
             though they were not personal friends, even though they 
             had not traveled with him on an airplane, even though they 
             did not live in his neighborhood or come from his 
             district. He had a way of connecting, and so we would 
             think of him as Paul Wellstone, Senator Wellstone, full of 
             power, dynamite.
               I knew that Paul could not sit still, but I did not know 
             it had anything to do with his legs. I thought it just had 
             to do with the level of energy and excitement that he 
             brought to everything that he did. I was pleased to spend 
             time with him in many small groups of people where there 
             were no television cameras or headlines--small groups of 
             labor organizers, college students, low-income people--and 
             he was asking the question then why not a livable wage so 
             that low-income people can enjoy a level of the goodness 
             and the greatness of this Nation? Why not health care for 
             everybody no matter where they come from or where they are 
             going? But he also believed in giving a lot, understanding 
             that if we put something in, we get something out. Always 
             organizing, knowing that life can be greater and better 
             than what it is.
               It seems to me that another poet summed up his life when 
             he said that whatever one puts into it, that is what he 
             will get out of it. He said

               I bargained with life for a penny and life would pay no 
             more; however, I begged at evening time when I counted my 
             scanty store, but I found that life is a just employer, he 
             gives you what you ask, but once you have set the wages, 
             then you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire 
             only to learn dismay, whatever price I had asked of life, 
             life would have willingly paid.

               Paul Wellstone put a great deal into it, and he got a 
             great deal out of it. It has been a pleasure to know you, 
             sir. Condolences to your family and all of those who 
             shared your dream and your vision and went with you as you 
             left.

               Mr. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Minnesota 
             (Mr. Oberstar), and I do not want to go on at great length 
             about Paul Wellstone because so much has been said 
             already, but I believe I knew Paul Wellstone longer than 
             anyone in this Chamber, going back to, I believe, 1969, 
             when I was in my last year at Carleton College and Paul 
             Wellstone was in his first year on the faculty there. He 
             was even then a dynamic, passionate person who cut a 
             bigger swath than his stature might have led one to 
             believe.
               So much has been said about how dynamic, how passionate 
             he has been in speaking out for farmers, for workers, for 
             people of all sorts, and what joy he brought to his 
             campaigning, to his political activity. He has been 
             described as a man of convictions, someone who spoke 
             clearly and directly, someone who is never criticized for 
             hiding his opinions, for shifting his opinions, for 
             pulling his punches. So it might sound to some people that 
             we are describing a cocksure, arrogant ideologue. It could 
             not be further from the truth. In my many interactions 
             with Paul Wellstone when he was a junior faculty member, 
             when he was an activist going from town to town around 
             Minnesota, when he was a friend with discussions in the 
             evening, when he was a mentor to me when I arrived on 
             Capitol Hill a couple of terms ago, in every instance what 
             characterized Paul Wellstone was not cocksure opinions but 
             questions. He was one of the best questioners I have ever 
             known, and one left each discussion with him with a sense 
             of having some doors opened through his questioning, some 
             understanding gained through his questioning, and a sense 
             of purpose gained from his questioning. What a loss.

               Mr. EHLERS. I do not claim to know the late Senator 
             Wellstone very well. We had very little interaction, but I 
             had a deep interest in him because my home State was 
             Minnesota. That was the State of my birth, and I have 
             watched Minnesota politics with great interest over the 
             years and I also watched Mr. Wellstone with great 
             interest. And although his politics and his political 
             views were quite different from mine, I admire several 
             things about him.
               In the go-along-to-get-along atmosphere we often 
             encounter in politics, he stood out as someone who stood 
             for his beliefs. He fought passionately for his beliefs, 
             and he sought to extend those beliefs into action, and I 
             admire that in any individual, whether in the House or the 
             Senate or the political arena in general, to have a stance 
             that they take, to have a passion for what they believe is 
             right, and to fight passionately for what they believe is 
             right I think is an admiral trait in any individual, and 
             Mr. Wellstone certainly exhibited that during his brief 
             career in the political arena.
               So I just wanted to add those comments to the Record, 
             and I thank the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) 
             for having this session so we can each express our 
             opinions about what Mr. Wellstone has added to the Senate 
             and to our Nation.

               Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from 
             Michigan (Mr. Ehlers) for those thoughtful comments. They 
             were much appreciated, and I know that the Wellstone 
             children will be most grateful and again for his ever 
             academic and thoughtful presentation.
                                    General Leave
               Mr. OBERSTAR. I would conclude by observing that Paul 
             Wellstone was more than a Senator, more than an advocate 
             for ideas, for issues, for causes. Paul Wellstone was 
             himself a movement, a movement for justice. I pray that 
             his movement will continue in the spirit in which he lived 
             his life of public service.

               Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I was 
             deeply saddened by the tragic death of Senator Paul 
             Wellstone, his family members and staff, and I have prayed 
             for the families of all the victims of this accident.
               I rise today to support this resolution honoring the 
             short but powerful life of Paul Wellstone, the people's 
             Senator. I will miss Paul, a good friend, a good person, 
             and an invaluable and courageous colleague.
               Paul and I joined together on many occasions to fight 
             for legislation to help those who have so little power in 
             our society. Most recently, we coauthored a bill to 
             provide mental health and substance abuse treatment to 
             juvenile offenders. Paul understood that many young 
             offenders suffer from problems that are treatable and that 
             contribute to their troubles, but for which they rarely 
             receive effective treatment. It was not a bill written for 
             the powerful or wealthy interests. It was not a bill 
             written because it would be popular in the press.
               It was just one of the many examples of Paul's genuine 
             desire to help people and demonstrated his understanding 
             of his role as a representative in government.
               Paul Wellstone fought for working families, for better 
             schools, and for a cleaner environment. He was a dedicated 
             public servant who was passionate about his work and who 
             was proud to fight for progressive causes. His loss is a 
             loss for all of America and for all those Americans who so 
             desperately need champions on their side. Paul was a man 
             of principle, courage, and great intellect. Sadly, he will 
             not be easily replaced in our society and we will miss him 
             deeply.

               Mr. EVANS. I rise to recognize the accomplishments of my 
             good friend, the late Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. 
             Many have come before me to praise the character and 
             actions of this faithful public servant who left us all 
             too early last month. Many have lauded his commitment to 
             the underdog, to those who lacked a voice, to the ``little 
             guy.'' I speak of his commitment and passion for veterans.
               During his 12 years on the Senate Veterans' Affairs 
             Committee, Paul was an active and committed member whose 
             heartfelt concern about veterans issues was often 
             unmatched. Paul has been remembered for his courageous 
             stands in both Bush administrations against sanctioning 
             military action in Iraq. At one time, Paul was criticized 
             for making his views on this known at the Vietnam Veterans 
             Memorial in Washington. Even though the gesture may have 
             been misinterpreted, to me, it was symbolic of his 
             constant realization that war has consequences. We must be 
             ever-cognizant of the often painful realities of putting 
             our sons and daughters in harm's way and resort to force 
             only as the last recourse.
               But Paul also consistently demonstrated that he believed 
             part of the cost of war was being ready to assist those 
             that were willing to put themselves on the line for their 
             country. For his advocacy he was honored by numerous 
             veterans service organizations, including Vietnam Veterans 
             of America, the Minnesota chapter of the Paralyzed 
             Veterans of America, the Military Order of the Purple 
             Heart and the Minnesota Veterans of Foreign Wars.
               One of the things that drew people to Paul was his 
             willingness to listen. I was impressed that the Senator 
             rarely missed an opportunity to hear directly from 
             veterans at their annual joint legislative hearings held 
             here in the House. He would often bring the veterans to 
             their feet exhorting them to fight for their rights.
               Last year, Paul introduced the Senate companion to my 
             bill, Heather French Henry Homeless Veterans Assistance 
             Act, S. 739. This bill addressed so many of the 
             constituencies Paul held dear--and men and women without 
             homes, individuals with mental illness, and veterans. I am 
             proud to say, with Paul's help in the Senate, we enacted 
             Public Law 107-95.
               Paul also got things done for ``atomic'' veterans. 
             During his tenure, Congress identified many new diseases 
             which were presumed connected to veterans who were exposed 
             to ionizing radiation.
               Veterans could count on Paul as an ally in the budget 
             process--he consistently put forth initiatives to increase 
             funding for veterans health care. I believe my friend Paul 
             would agree that we owe our veterans a great debt and he 
             was already prepared to pay the bill.
               Paul and I also shared a chronic disability as a common 
             foe. He dealt with his MS without complaint pushing 
             himself to act when lesser men might have faltered. That 
             is part of the personal courage he demonstrated on behalf 
             of himself, his ideals, and the constituents who entrusted 
             him with an office he used to its best advantage every 
             day.
               Paul, you were a cherished friend to me, to veterans of 
             this great Nation, and to every American who needed a 
             voice, I will miss you.

               Mr. REYES. Mr. Speaker, the Congress, the State of 
             Minnesota, and the Nation tragically lost a great public 
             servant. The sudden death of Senator Paul Wellstone, his 
             wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three staffers, and two 
             pilots in an airplane crash last month, saddens us all. I 
             extend my heartfelt sympathy and support to their family 
             and friends as they deal with this tremendous loss.
               This is also a devastating loss for our Nation. As 
             chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, I was 
             fortunate to work with Senator Wellstone on many issues, 
             such as the reauthorization of the Elementary and 
             Secondary Education Act. Personally, I worked closely with 
             him on many veterans benefits issues.
               Paul had a true passion for people, civil service, and 
             veterans that is matched by very few. Paul's commitment to 
             helping people, his warm sense of humor, and positive 
             attitude made him both a great Senator and an excellent 
             friend. His leadership and friendship will be dearly 
             missed by me, members of the CHC and all members of the 
             U.S. Congress. Our thoughts and prayers remain with Paul's 
             family and loved ones, and the family and friends of his 
             staff and the pilots.
                 EXPRESSING SORROW OF THE HOUSE AT THE DEATH OF THE 
               HONORABLE PAUL D. WELLSTONE, SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF 
                                      MINNESOTA
               Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor a great 
             American and a great man--Senator Paul Wellstone. The 
             passing of Senator Paul Wellstone creates a void that is 
             impossible to fill--it is a tragedy for this Nation and a 
             personal tragedy for me.
               Paul Wellstone was a tireless fighter for what he 
             believed in. He was a man whose honor is unquestioned, 
             whose energy was infectious, and whose dedication to his 
             country--and those ideals upon which it was built--was 
             obvious in everything he did. Paul Wellstone's passing 
             robs voiceless Americans--the poor and disenfranchised--of 
             one of their greatest advocates. And it leaves those of us 
             bent on furthering a progressive agenda without one of our 
             greatest leaders.
               Mr. Speaker, I also rise today to mourn the loss of one 
             of the hardest-working people I have ever known. Paul 
             Wellstone earned himself a scholarship to the University 
             of North Carolina as a student and an athlete. Four years 
             after graduation he was awarded a Ph.D. in political 
             science and began a 21-year teaching career in which he 
             became increasingly involved in community organizing. In 
             1990, Paul Wellstone--an underfunded underdog--ran a long-
             shot campaign for the U.S. Senate, which he won by 
             energizing ordinary Minnesotans. Twelve years later, his 
             political legacy stands as testament to him keeping his 
             promises.
               Unlike many politicians, there was no disconnecting 
             between Paul Wellstone's political ideology and the way he 
             lived his life. Paul was the Senator who knew the names of 
             the elevator operators and waiters in the Senate Dining 
             Room. He was the Senator who, according to James W. 
             Ziglar, a Republican who was Sergeant at Arms of the 
             Senate from 1998 to 2001, returned late one evening to his 
             office to tell the cleaning staff how much he appreciated 
             their work. Paul Wellstone's unique authenticity, and his 
             ability to remain true to his roots distinguished him here 
             in Washington and, as many Minnesotans will tell you, back 
             in his home State.
               Paul Wellstone was an unabashed liberal. He believed 
             that every American should have access to affordable 
             health care and good public schools, that our foreign 
             policy should be based first and foremost on the sanctity 
             of all human life--American or otherwise. And he knew that 
             coming down on the right side of an issue--keeping in line 
             with his morals and ethics--was always more important than 
             voting with the majority or in a politically motivated 
             way. Paul Wellstone voted against the Persian gulf war as 
             one of his first acts as a Senator, and just recently was 
             the only Senator facing reelection who voted against 
             giving President Bush authority to conduct preemptive and 
             unauthorized military strikes on Iraq. Paul was a man who 
             did not compromise his ideals.
               Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of Senator Paul 
             Wellstone. In an era where the difference between talk and 
             action is often enormous, Paul Wellstone was a man who 
             lived as he spoke. I believe that America is better for 
             it.

               Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the 
             resolution honoring Senator Paul Wellstone and to express 
             my deep sadness at his unexpected death, and that of his 
             wife Sheila, their daughter Marcia, members of his 
             campaign staff, and the two pilots of the plane.
               Senator Paul Wellstone was a man of conviction and 
             passion who worked tirelessly on behalf of America's 
             families. He was dedicated to making the American dream a 
             reality for all--including the most marginalized among us. 
             Senator Wellstone always stood firmly by his principles, 
             consistently representing the people of Minnesota with 
             honor and courage.
               I had the privilege of knowing Senator Wellstone and 
             working with him and his wife Sheila on the issue of 
             domestic abuse. Senator Wellstone was a vigorous champion 
             for reform. He was a driving force behind enactment of the 
             Violence Against Women Act--the most important domestic 
             violence law in our Nation's history. He also authored and 
             helped pass legislation that provides services and support 
             to children who grow up in violent homes and fought for 
             legislation that helps health care providers do more to 
             stop domestic violence.
               During the past three Congresses, I was honored to 
             partner with Senator Wellstone in introducing legislation 
             that helps provide employment stability and security to 
             victims of domestic violence. And most recently, to have 
             partnered with him to secure $5 million for the Department 
             of Defense to fund confidential victim advocates to 
             address the problem of domestic violence among our 
             military personnel.
               Senator Wellstone will be remembered as one of this 
             Nation's most dedicated and nationally recognized 
             advocates on domestic abuse. All of us who partnered with 
             him to put an end to this horrific crime know that this 
             movement has lost an irreplaceable leader. His lifelong 
             efforts to make our communities safer and more just will 
             serve as a model for all of us who will continue to fight 
             against the cycle of violence that plagues so many 
             American families.
               Mr. Speaker, Senator Wellstone will be sorely missed by 
             all of us here in Congress, and fondly remembered as the 
             Senator from Minnesota who brought a message of social 
             justice and equality to the people of this great Nation. 
             My sincere condolences go out to the Wellstone family, 
             families of all those aboard the plane and to all the 
             residents of Minnesota.
                                     ADJOURNMENT
               Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 
             598, I move that the House do now adjourn in memory of the 
             late Hon. Paul D. Wellstone.
               The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 7 o'clock and 
             58 minutes a.m.), pursuant to House Resolution 598, the 
             House adjourned until today, Wednesday, November 13, 2002, 
             at 10 a.m., in memory of the late Hon. Paul D. Wellstone.
                            PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS
               Under clause 2 of rule XII, public bills and resolutions 
             were introduced and severally referred, as follows:
               By Mr. OBERSTAR:

               H. Res. 598. A resolution expressing the condolences of 
             the House of Representatives on the death of the Honorable 
             Paul D. Wellstone, a Senator from the State of Minnesota; 
             considered and agreed to.
                                           Wednesday, November 13, 2002
                 EXPRESSING SORROW OF THE HOUSE AT THE DEATH OF THE 
               HONORABLE PAUL D. WELLSTONE, SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF 
                                      MINNESOTA
               Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the 
             resolution honoring my colleague and friend, Senator Paul 
             Wellstone of Minnesota.
               Senator Wellstone was not only a friend of mine, but he 
             was also a special friend of my district, the Ninth 
             Congressional District of California. In fact, he had 
             visited my district not long before the tragic accident. 
             People in my community embraced Paul for the same reasons 
             so many across country did.
               Paul Wellstone was a progressive champion who truly 
             personified the personal, populist approach to politics. 
             He was an organizer who never lost touch with his 
             grassroots. In fact, he proved that the support of 
             everyday Americans, not huge sums of corporate cash, could 
             still win elections. He proved that you don't have to 
             compromise your beliefs to be successful. He proved that 
             passion for beliefs earns the respect of even one's 
             biggest opponent.
               Paul Wellstone showed no fear and incredible energy in 
             his approach to fighting for our shared progressive 
             agenda. He stood alone as the sole member of the 
             Progressive Caucus in the Senate. He worked tirelessly for 
             the least among us; often against incredible odds. Paul 
             was never afraid to speak up and to fight for his beliefs.
               Despite the long odds he often faced, Senator Wellstone 
             was an extremely effective and accomplished Senator. His 
             work on mental health parity legislation is widely 
             recognized, and I sincerely hope to have the opportunity 
             to vote yes on the Wellstone mental health parity 
             legislation in the very near future. He, along with the 
             help of his wife Sheila, passed several pieces of 
             legislation to prevent domestic violence and to help its 
             victims.
               He worked tirelessly to end the scourge of homelessness 
             among our Nations' veterans and to ensure those who served 
             this country received the health care they were promised 
             and deserve. As a former educator, he fought for increases 
             in Head Start, higher education funding, and better 
             schools for all children in America, regardless of income. 
             He fought for seniors and to alleviate the absurd cost of 
             prescription medication. In short: he fought for us all.
               The people of Minnesota, the U.S. Congress, the 
             progressive movement, and all Americans were fortunate to 
             have such a strong, effective, tireless, and accomplished 
             leader serving us in the U.S. Senate. We will miss him 
             dearly.
               And though he is no longer with us, we will always 
             remember and thank him for his incredible service. Now we 
             must honor his memory by continuing our collective fight 
             to make his vision of America a reality.
               Mr. Speaker, I have attached for the Record a copy of 
             remarks I made in introducing Paul Wellstone at an event 
             last year.
             Representative Lee's Introduction of Senator Wellstone (D-
             MN) at 21st Century Democrats Dinner Wednesday, March 28, 
                                        2001
               As we come together tonight to honor some amazing 
             populists with Democrats 2000, now known as 21st Century 
             Democrats, I am extremely proud to introduce one of the 
             greatest progressives in Congress--the phenomenal Paul 
             Wellstone.
               As many of you know, after more than 20 years of 
             teaching, Paul Wellstone jumped into the 1990 Minnesota 
             Senate race. He rallied a huge grassroots network of 
             supporters, got a green bus to tour the State, and won his 
             election. When you are trying to rally the troops in your 
             State for an election, it's easy when you have an amazing, 
             inspirational, progressive leader like Paul Wellstone. He 
             personifies the personal, populist approach to winning 
             elections. He proves you need the support of everyday 
             Americans, not huge sums of corporate cash, to get 
             elected.
               During his tenure in Congress, Senator Wellstone has 
             been a real leader in progressive causes and has held true 
             to his beliefs. He is our one and only Congressional 
             Progressive Caucus member in the Senate. He proves that 
             you don't have to compromise your beliefs to be 
             successful. He proves that your passion for your issues 
             make even your opponents respect you.
               Senator Wellstone is one of the most effective members 
             of the U.S. Congress, which is no easy feat these days and 
             he champions issues few Members will dare to discuss. 
             Senator Wellstone has been active and successful in 
             dealing with many issues, but let me take a moment just to 
             commend him on a few.
               He is a tireless supporter of legislation to ensure 
             mental health parity. He has passed several pieces of 
             legislation with the help of his wife Sheila to prevent 
             domestic violence and to help its victims. His work 
             helping homeless veterans and on veterans' health care has 
             earned him the recognition of numerous veterans' 
             organizations. As a former educator, his devotion to 
             education and children's issues has led him to fight for 
             increases in Head Start, higher education funding, and 
             better schools for all children in America, regardless of 
             income. He has partnered with Minnesota seniors to talk 
             about the international disparities in prescription drug 
             pricing and to pass legislation to correct this problem.
               And these are just a tiny fraction of his successes. In 
             short, the people of Minnesota, the U.S. Congress, the 
             progressive movement, and all Americans are fortunate to 
             have a strong, effective, tireless, accomplished leader 
             serving them in Paul Wellstone.
               Senator Wellstone, welcome, and congratulations on this 
             award you are receiving tonight.
                                            Thursday, November 14, 2002
               Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, just a couple of 
             weeks ago, an unspeakable tragedy hit not only this 
             Congress, but it hit this Nation. That was the loss of 
             Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife and daughter, staff and 
             others who traveled with him on that fateful day. We lost 
             a warrior who was not afraid to speak for the voiceless 
             and those that could not be heard.
               So I stand here today unabashedly opposed to this 
             conference report and this rule on the bankruptcy bill; 
             and I believe Senator Wellstone would not mind me standing 
             in respect and admiration for his fight, for it was his 
             unrelenting work in the other body that caused this issue 
             to remain in the forefront, that although the 
             representation of this legislation is what many of us 
             would have wanted it to be, a respect for consumer 
             interests as well as fiscal responsibility, it is a 
             stomping out of the rights of the poor who cannot speak.
                           FURTHER MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE
               A further message from the Senate by Mr. Monahan, one of 
             its clerks, announced that the Senate has passed a bill of 
             the following title in which the concurrence of the House 
             is requested:

               S. 3156. An Act to provide a grant for the construction 
             of a new community center in St. Paul, Minnesota, in honor 
             of the late Senator Paul Wellstone and his beloved wife, 
             Sheila.
                      DISPOSING OF VARIOUS LEGISLATIVE MEASURES
               The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Simpson). The Chair will 
             entertain this combined request under the Speaker's 
             guidelines as recorded on page 712 of the House Rules and 
             Manual with assurances that it has been cleared by the 
             bipartisan floor and all committee leadership.

               S. 3156, to provide a grant for the construction of a 
             new community center in St. Paul, Minnesota, in honor of 
             the late Senator Paul Wellstone and his beloved wife, 
             Sheila.
                                       S. 3156
               Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
             of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
               SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
               This Act may be cited as the ``Paul and Sheila Wellstone 
             Center for Community Building Act''.
               SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
               Congress finds the following:
               (1) Senator Paul Wellstone was a tireless advocate for 
             the people of Minnesota, particularly for new immigrants 
             and the economically disadvantaged.
               (2) Paul and Sheila Wellstone loved St. Paul, Minnesota, 
             and often walked the neighborhoods of St. Paul to better 
             understand the needs of the people.
               (3) Neighborhood House was founded in the late 1800s in 
             St. Paul, Minnesota, by the women of Mount Zion Temple as 
             a settlement house to help newly arrived Eastern European 
             Jewish immigrants establish a new life and thrive in their 
             new community.
               (4) Paul and Sheila Wellstone were very committed to 
             Neighborhood House and its mission to improve the lives of 
             its residents.
               (5) When Senator Wellstone became aware that the 
             Neighborhood House Community Center was no longer adequate 
             to meet the needs of the St. Paul community, he suggested 
             that Neighborhood House request Federal funding to 
             construct a new facility.
               (6) As an honor to Paul and Sheila Wellstone, a Federal 
             grant shall be awarded to Neighborhood House to be used 
             for the design and construction of a new community center 
             in St. Paul, Minnesota, to be known as ``The Paul and 
             Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building''.
               SEC. 3. CONSTRUCTION GRANT.
               (a) Grant Authorized.--The Secretary of Housing and 
             Urban Development shall award a grant to Neighborhood 
             House of St. Paul, Minnesota, to finance the construction 
             of a new community center in St. Paul, Minnesota, to be 
             known as ``The Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for 
             Community Building''.
               (b) Maximum Amount.--The grant awarded under this 
             section shall be $10,000,000.
               (c) Use of Funds.--Funds awarded under this section 
             shall only be used for the design and construction of the 
             Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building.
               (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is 
             authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 
             2003, which shall remain available until expended, to 
             carry out this Act.

               Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of 
             legislation (S. 3156) to create a living memorial for Paul 
             and Sheila Wellstone in my home district of St. Paul. I am 
             pleased that both the House and Senate were able to agree 
             on such a fitting tribute.
               Senator Wellstone was my colleague, but Paul and Sheila 
             were also my constituents and my friends. Over the years, 
             Paul and I have walked the streets door to door knocking 
             and listening to the concerns of Minnesotans, working 
             together to address the challenges of our communities and 
             neighborhoods. Paul and Sheila's enthusiasm for public 
             service and their commitment to Minnesota were unmatched.
               Today I stand with the Minnesota congressional 
             delegation to pay tribute to Paul and Sheila with a true 
             living memorial to their lives of serving the people of 
             Minnesota.
               This legislation will authorize the design and 
             construction of a new community center in St. Paul at the 
             Neighborhood House. The Neighborhood House has played a 
             long-standing role in building community values among 
             diverse peoples. Since the 19th century, the Neighborhood 
             House has supported ethnic and cultural groups through 
             times of transition or need so that they go beyond mere 
             self-sufficiency, develop critical workforce skills, and 
             become active members of our democratic process. From 
             Hmong immigrants to Hispanic women facing domestic 
             violence, the Neighborhood House provides all those who 
             come an opportunity to improve the quality of their lives.
               The new center to be named after Paul and Sheila 
             Wellstone will host youth and family programs, immigrant 
             education programs such as English classes, employment 
             services and workforce development. It will provide a 
             forum for new citizens to learn and integrate themselves 
             into their new society and will strengthen Minnesota's 
             richly diverse community.
               Paul and Sheila Wellstone were advocates for people from 
             all walks of life. They were open to all Minnesotans. In 
             the Senate, Paul spoke for those who had no voice and he 
             worked hard to empower those who needed help the most. 
             This new center embodies the ideals and principles that 
             Paul and Sheila lived every day.
               I thank all my colleagues in Congress for honoring Paul 
             and Sheila Wellstone in a way that will continue their 
             work and improve the lives of Minnesotans for years to 
             come.
                                              Friday, November 22, 2002
                                     H. RES. 598
               Ms. SOLIS. Mr. Speaker, it is with a heavy heart and 
             great sadness that I rise to honor my friend Senator Paul 
             Wellstone, who died October 25 in a plane crash in 
             Minnesota along with his wife and daughter, three of his 
             staff members and two pilots. The mark that Paul Wellstone 
             left on the world was far, far greater than his small 
             stature and down-to-earth nature would suggest. And so, 
             the emptiness we feel at his passing is vast and deep. It 
             stretches far beyond the personal pain of losing a friend, 
             or the tragedy of his shattered family.
               Senator Wellstone was a public servant in the most ideal 
             sense of the term. Politics never became more important to 
             him than the people he represented and the people he 
             loved. Victory never became more important to him than 
             voicing his true convictions. Power never became more 
             important to him than his desire to serve the powerless.
               On the campaign trail, Paul Wellstone drove an old green 
             schoolbus across the State of Minnesota. From that bus 
             Senator Wellstone tirelessly assured people that he would 
             struggle for peace and fight for veterans, that he would 
             work to stop the tide of domestic violence and mental 
             illness, and that he would defend our fragile environment. 
             Most of all, that old bus brought hope and excitement to 
             people whom for too long, and for too many reasons, felt 
             that their government had forgotten about them. Now that 
             he is gone, that bus must not sit and rust away. We must 
             have the courage, the commitment, and the strength to keep 
             that bus rolling.
               I will miss Paul Wellstone greatly. I know that we all 
             will.
                                      Memorial

                                   Will McLaughlin

                                      Tom Lapic

                                     Mary McEvoy

                              Marcia Wellstone Markuson

                                  Sheila Wellstone

                               Senator Paul Wellstone



             Tuesday, October 29, 2002

             Williams Arena

             University of Minnesota
                                       Program

             Processional

             The Armed Forces Color Guard

             Welcome
                   George Latimer

             Opening Prayer
                   Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman and Minnesota clergy

             ``America the Beautiful''
                   White Bear Lake High School Choir

             Tribute Film--``Ladder to the Stars''

             Will McLaughlin (1979-2002)
                   David McLaughlin

             Tom Lapic (1952-2002)
                   Brian Ahlberg

             Mary McEvoy (1953-2002)
                   Bob Bruininks

             ``Heroes''
                   Ann Reed

             Marcia Wellstone Markuson (1969-2002)
                   Theresa Saxe
                   Larry DeNucci

             Sheila Wellstone  (1944-2002)
                   Connie Lewis

             Paul Wellstone (1944-2002)
                   Rick Kahn
                   David and Mark Wellstone
                   Senator Tom Harkin

             ``Stand Up, Keep Fighting''
                   JD Steele
                             ``Stand Up, Keep Fighting''

             For the future of our country
             Stand up, keep fighting
             For the freedom of the people
             Stand up, keep fighting
             For the workers and the farmers
             Stand up, keep fighting
             For the elders and the teachers
             Stand up, keep fighting

             We do better
             When we all do better
             Working together
             You and me
             For the future
             Of our children
             Remember Paul Wellstone

             For the ordinary people
             Stand up, keep fighting
             For the things that we believe in
             Stand up, keep fighting
             For the love we have between us
             Stand up, keep fighting
             For the land that just keeps giving
             Stand up, keep fighting

             Everybody
             Is somebody
             In this race
             We count as one
             The fire of justice
             A common journey
             Remember Paul Wellstone
             Stand up, keep fighting

             Remember Paul Wellstone
             Stand up, keep fighting
             Remember Paul Wellstone
             Stand up, keep fighting
             Everybody
             Is somebody
             In this race
             We count as one
             The fire of justice
             A common journey
             Remember Paul Wellstone

             Stand up, keep fighting
               by JD Steele & Larry Long. Copyright JD Steele & Larry 
                                        Long.
                            2002/BMI. All rights reserved

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             The remarkable lives of these six individuals touched and 
                 inspired countless others. To share your personal 
             memories, stories or condolences, go to www.wellstone.org 
                         and click the ``remembrance'' link.

              ``Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.''
                                         --Senator Paul Wellstone
                                A Service of Memorial

                              Celebrating the Lives of

                              Marcia Wellstone Markuson

                                  Sheila Wellstone

                            Senator Paul David Wellstone

             In the rising of the sun and in its going down,

             We remember them.

             When we are weary and in need of strength,

             We remember them.

             When we are lost and sick at heart,

             We remember them.

             When we have joys we yearn to share,

             We remember them.

             So long as we live, they too shall live,

             for they are now a part of us, as

             We remember them.

             Wednesday, November 13, 2002

             Washington Hebrew Congregation

             3935 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC
                                The Order of Service

             The Israel Baptist Church Choir

             Welcome and Opening Prayers
                   Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig
                   Rabbi David Saperstein
                   The Reverend Elenora Giddings Ivory

             Musical Selection

             Marcia Wellstone Markuson (1969-2002)
                   Mark Wellstone

             Sheila Wellstone (1944-2002)
                   Marian Wright Edelman

             Paul Wellstone (1944-2002)
                   David Wellstone
                   Colin McGinnis
                   Senator Tom Daschle

             In Their Own Words--A Memorial Tribute
                   Senator Pete Domenici
                   Marianne Murphy
                   Joel Schwartz
                   Arthur Froe
                   Kiersten Stewart
                   Gene Nichol

             Tribute Film

             Musical Selection
                   ``Sweet Survivor'' sung by Doug Mishkin

             El Maleh Rachamim
                   Cantor Mikhail Manevich

             Mourner's Kaddish
                   Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig

             Closing Musical Selection
                   ``Light One Candle'' sung by Doug Mishkin

                          Reception to follow in Ring Hall
                                  Mourner's Kaddish
             Yit-ga-dal v'yit-ka-dash sh'mei ra-ba b'al-ma di-v'ra chi-
                   r'u'tei, v'yam-lich mal-chu-tei b'cha-yei-chon
                 u-v'yo-mei-chon u-v'cha-yei d'chol beit Yis-ra-el,
                   ba-a-ga-la u-vi-z'man ka-riv, v'i-m'ru: A-mein.

              Y'hei sh'mei ra-ba m'va-rach l'a-lam u-l'al-mei al-ma-ya.

               Yit-ba-rach v'yish-ta-bach v'yit-pa-ar, v'yit-ro-mam, 
               v'yit-na-sei, v'yit-ha-dar, v-yit-a-leh, v-yit-ha-lal 
                                  sh'mei d'kud-sha,
              b'rich hu, l'ei-la min kol bir-cha-ta v'shi-ra-ta, tush-
              b'cha-ta v'neh-cheh-ma-ta da-a-mi-ran b'al-ma, v'i-m'ru: 
                                       A-mein.

             Y'hei sh'la-ma ra-ba min sh'ma-ya v'cha-yim, a-lei-nu v'al 
                          kol Yis-ra-el, v'i-m'ru: A-mein.

              O-seh sha-lom bi-m'ro-mav, hu ya-a-seh sha-lom a-lei-nu 
                        v'al kol Yis-ra-el, v'i-m'ru: A-mein.

             Let the glory of God be extolled, and God's great name be 
                  hallowed in the world whose creation God willed.
                 May God rule in our own day, in our own lives, and
                  in the life of all Israel, and let us say: Amen.

                 Let God's great name be blessed for ever and ever.

             Beyond all the praises, songs, and adorations that we can 
                               utter is the Holy One,
                        the Blessed One, whom yet we glorify,
                       honor, and exalt. And let us say: Amen.

              For us and for all Israel, may the blessing of peace and 
                the promise of life come true, and let us say: Amen.

              May the Source of peace send peace to all who mourn, and 
                       comfort to all who are bereaved. Amen.
                      If I should die and leave you here awhile
                           Be not like others soon undone,
                  Who keep long vigil by the silent dusk and weep.
                     For my sake, turn again to life and smile.
                        Nerving thy heart and trembling hand.
                          To do something to comfort weaker
                                 hearts than thine.
                   Complete those dear, unfinished tasks of mine.
                      And I perchance, may therein comfort you.

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               ``Never separate the lives you live from the words you 
                                      speak.''
                                        --Senator Paul D. Wellstone

                                  Acknowledgments:
                      The Officers and Staff of the U.S. Senate
              Senior Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig and the staff of Washington 
                                 Hebrew Congregation
                              Tracy McDonnell, Pianist

              The family and staff of Senator Wellstone thank you for 
               the many expressions of sympathy and support, and are 
                                      grateful
               to the many friends who have volunteered their help to 
                            make this memorial possible.

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