[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 127 (Wednesday, August 2, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11222-S11223]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


  APPOINTING SAM FOWLER, CHIEF COUNSEL FOR THE MINORITY, COMMITTEE ON 
                      ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

 Mr. JOHNSTON. Mr. President, today I would like to formally 
announce that I have named Sam Fowler the chief counsel for the 
minority on the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. For several 
years Sam has been our counsel for the toughest issues and the person 
we turn to make sense of the most difficult assignments. I would like 
to recognize his importance to use with the title of chief counsel.
  Sam follows in the footsteps of Mike Harvey, who has for two decades 
defined the role of chief counsel on this committee. Sam is cut from 
that same high quality cloth as Mike. I know that the committee's 
tradition of excellence in service to its members will be carried 
forward with Sam.
  Sam is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and the George 
Washington University Law School. He has served with the Smithsonian 
Institution, the Council on Environmental Quality, in private practice 
and with Mo Udall in the House of Representatives. Sam joined our staff 
in 1991. He has been invaluable, absolutely invaluable.
  Sam's portfolio includes nuclear facility licensing, parliamentary 
procedure, the budget process, uranium enrichment, Russian reactor 
safety, cleanup of Department of Energy nuclear weapons production 
sites, alternative fuels, automobile fuel efficiency, low-level nuclear 
waste disposal, health effects of electromagnetic fields, the National 
Environmental Policy Act, constitution law, nominations, Government 
organization, Senate and committee standing rules and ethics issues. In 
addition, Sam can 

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take on anything else you can assign to him.
  Sam is also our resident historian, defender of Thomas Jefferson, 
source of quotes that elucidate the wisdom of Winston Churchill and 
repository or precedents established in the Senate, the House of 
Representatives and the English Parliament. He is a partisan of good 
clear prose, a lover of poetry and our committee's best legislative 
draftsman. I cannot imagine the Energy and Natural Resources Committee 
without him. I am glad to call him my chief counsel.


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