[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 132 (Tuesday, September 20, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 20, 1994]
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                        PASSING OF JERRY TINKER

  Mr. HATFIElD. Mr. President. I would like to join Senators Kennedy, 
Simpson, and many others of my colleagues as well as people in many 
parts of the world in expressing my deepest sympathy on the death of 
Jerry Tinker, long-time staff director of the Immigration and Refugee 
Affairs Subcommittee.
  For nearly a quarter century, there has not emerged a significant 
piece of legislation dealing with immigration or refugees that was not 
substantially written or influenced by Jerry Tinker.
  Helping refugees is an ongoing effort which has been a high priority 
of mine for nearly 20 years, and I and my staff have benefited greatly 
from Jerry's counsel.
  He was a man who was equally at home with the politically powerful 
and with the poorest of the poor. He regularly visited refugee camps in 
Central America, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Ethiopia, and 
other troubled regions around the world where the poor were suffering.
  In a remembrance at Jerry's memorial service, Senator Kennedy stated 
that there was probably not another individual in the world who was as 
personally responsible for saving lives as Jerry Tinker. What a 
marvelous epitaph to commemorate one's life.
  I would like to extend my sympathies to Jerry's family.

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