[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 146 (Saturday, October 8, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: October 8, 1994]
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                        SALUTE TO MALCOLM WALLOP

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, one hazard of serving in public office is 
that everything you say is usually written down, and can be used in the 
future to remind you when predictions you might have made did not come 
to pass.
  There are those happy occasions, however, where predictions you once 
made do come to pass, and where the causes for which you fought are 
proved right.
  And as Malcolm Wallop prepares to leave the Senate after 18 years of 
service, he can do so with the knowledge that on issue after issue 
after issue, his words and his judgment have been vindicated.
  From his very first days in this Chamber in 1977, Senator Wallop 
warned about the dangers of the Soviet Union and the critical 
importance of maintaining an American military and national defense 
second to none. He also was one of the earliest advocates here in the 
Senate of the strategic defense initiative, which was later adopted by 
President Reagan.
  Senator Wallop also warned America early and often about the dangers 
of communism in our hemisphere, and in the 1980's he led the fight for 
continued aid for freedom fighters in Nicaragua and in Afghanistan.
  Today, of course, the Soviet Union is no longer. Communism has 
collapsed. And democracy has swept across the globe. And Malcolm Wallop 
can look back with pride that his beliefs were right, and that the help 
he provided to Ronald Reagan and George Bush made a difference.
  Time and again, Senator Wallop also has warned this Chamber about the 
dangers of overregulation by the Federal Government. Since nearly half 
of Wyoming's lands are federally owned, this is a subject very close to 
Senator Wallop's heart.
  And here again, he has been proven right. Over the years, more and 
more Senators have come to Malcolm's point of view, as more and more 
Americans expressed their frustration with the Federal bureaucracy.
  Thanks in part to Senator Wallop, we have won some battles to reduce 
the bureaucracy and to cut regulations, but there are still many more 
to be fought, and we will with Malcolm's leadership, as we attempt to 
derail this administration's war on the West.
  Malcolm and his wife, French, have been an important part of the 
Senate family, and they will be greatly missed. And although he is 
leaving the Senate, I am confident that Malcolm will continue to play a 
role in the great debates of our time. And his voice will be one that 
will continue to point America in the right direction.

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