[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 16 (Wednesday, February 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 23, 1994]
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                 RETIREMENT OF JAMES M. ``MIKE'' LAMBE

  Mr. BUMPERS. Mr. President, on March 2, James M. ``Mike'' Lambe, 
Chief of the National Park Service's Office of Legislation, will retire 
after nearly 40 years of Federal service. Since 1961, Mike has been 
with the Park Service where he has served with distinction and 
excellence.
  During many of those years in the Park Service, Mike has been 
associated with legislation or legislative affairs, which is why our 
paths have crossed on numerous occasions. As chairman or ranking 
minority of the National Parks Subcommittee in the Senate since 1979, I 
have benefited from Mike's professionalism and vast institutional 
knowledge. Whether it was preparing legislation as a drafting service 
for me or other members of the subcommittee, or responding almost 
instantly to questions about even the most obscure Park Service related 
law or regulation, I and my staff could always count on Mike Lambe. He 
has made positive and lasting contributions to almost every major park-
related measure enacted into law over the past several decades. The 
Redwoods National Park and Redwoods Park Expansion Acts; the National 
Parks and Recreation Act of 1978; the Omnibus Park and Recreation Act 
of 1979; the Alaska National Interest Conservation Lands Act [ANILCA]; 
and countless additions to the National Wilderness, Wild and Scenic 
Rivers and Trails Systems are just a few of the laws that bear the 
imprint of Mike Lambe's work.
  Mr. President, I wish Mike all the best in his retirement. And on 
behalf of all of us who have benefited from his many talents over the 
years, I want to say thank you for a job well done.

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