[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 137 (Saturday, September 28, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11710-S11711]
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                     TRIBUTE TO SENATOR HANK BROWN

  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, likewise, I would like to acknowledge my 
friend and colleague, Hank Brown, who will be leaving the Senate after 
one term. I truly say--all the other colleagues I have alluded to have 
served 18 years or more in the Senate--I hate to see Hank Brown leave 
because he is leaving after 6 years in the Senate.
  He has made such a valuable contribution to this body. I have had the 
pleasure of serving with Hank Brown on the Budget Committee. He has 
just been a real asset, not only to the budgeteers, but he is a person 
who does his homework, he is a person who digs into the numbers, a 
person who is innovative, very intelligent--very bright--who finds a 
better way to do something, who is always working on trying to do 
something good for our country, to save some money, a fiscal 
conservative who is effective, who not only makes speeches--and in my 
opinion one of the best speakers we have in this

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body--but one of the most effective persons because he is the type of 
person that has the intelligence and the wherewithal to put together a 
budget package, and the type of person who can come up with amendments 
that can be enacted into law.

  He served in the House of Representatives for 10 years. Certainly, he 
also had private sector business experience, he served in Vietnam, a 
person that is very well respected, a Senator, frankly, that I hate to 
see leave the Senate after only one 6-year term in the Senate.
  He will certainly be missed by this Senator and I think all Senators. 
I wish Senator Hank Brown and his wife, Nan, all the best, as they 
return to the private sector.
  I yield the floor.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. President, I thank my friend from Oklahoma for his 
remarks about my pending retirement. I want to commend him because I 
have done that line of work. I served for 10 years as the assistant 
leader, and the occupant of the chair served for 8 years as assistant 
leader, so the three of us in this Chamber have added quite a dimension 
to the efforts of the Senate. I commend the Senator. I think he is 
doing a fine job. I am very proud to have seen you do the job. You are 
going to succeed very well in the future and be of great assistance to 
our very fine leader, Trent Lott, who, I think, too, is truly a leader. 
I thank the Senator for that.
  Let me indulge my absent colleagues for a few minutes as I speak of 
winding down 31 years of legislating. I did this for 13 years in the 
Wyoming house of representatives, serving in many capacities there--
assistant leader and majority leader, and I enjoyed that very much. One 
of the great honors of my legislative life was to serve here as 
assistant majority leader and assistant minority leader. I have enjoyed 
that leadership role. I commend those who throw themselves into the 
fray to do that. It is a contact sport.

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