[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 137 (Saturday, September 28, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11709-S11710]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    TRIBUTE TO SENATOR MARK HATFIELD

  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, in the next day or two, we will be 
closing the 104th Congress. One of the things we will be doing is 
saying farewell to some of our colleagues who have served this 
institution and served our country so well.
  One of the colleagues I would like to recognize today who I have the 
greatest respect for is Senator Hatfield who served this body and our 
country so well for the last 30 years in the U.S. Senate.
  Prior to that, he served the State of Oregon for 8 years as Governor. 
He also served in the Oregon House of Representatives, the Oregon 
Senate, and also served as Oregon Secretary of State, and had a 
distinguished career in the Navy, including the time during World War 
II.
  Mark Hatfield is a unique Senator, a courageous individual, 
independent, sometimes stubborn, a person with strong personal 
religious convictions, a person whom I know people on both sides of the 
aisle, Democrat and Republican, have really grown to know, to love, and 
respect. His years of service as the Appropriations chairman and also 
ranking member on the Appropriations Committee have been outstanding. 
He has an outstanding rapport with my colleague, Senator Byrd. To see 
the two of them work in tandem, and work so well, has certainly been a 
role model for all of us.
  He also, as I think some of my colleagues know, is a historian, a 
lover and collector of items in relation to Abraham Lincoln. He is a 
person who has made invaluable contributions to this body and to our 
country. Certainly

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his expertise, his guidance, his friendship will certainly be missed by 
all. My best wishes to Mark Hatfield and his lovely wife Antoinette. 
And my thanks on behalf of all of our colleagues. We thank him, and 
both of them, for their service to our country.

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