[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 140 (Wednesday, October 2, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S12157]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HONORING RON BROWN AND TED WEISS

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, when Senator Bradley spoke and he said he 
believed that this Senate would continue forward despite the fact that 
so many fine people on both sides of the aisle are leaving, it occurred 
to me that he is right, that the incredible strength of our democracy 
is the fact that we move forward. When there is a void to be filled, 
somehow, even though you think it never will be--and it may take more 
than one person to fill the void of one person's departure; it may take 
three, it may take four--I just hope that we will all read the comments 
of the Senator from New Jersey, because one point he made is that he 
tried to stay away from the meanness of it all that we sometimes face.
  I hope in that spirit we will in fact pass two bills that were just 
objected to by the majority, one to rename a Federal building in New 
York after Ron Brown and one to rename a Federal building in New York 
for Ted Weiss. Both of these men served their country so well.
  Ron Brown, as Secretary of Commerce, did so much in his lifetime to 
move forward the cause of economic justice and to bring prosperity to 
all the people of this country. He died serving just that cause, that 
human cause. He died in a tragic plane crash with some other quite 
wonderful people. It seems to me we ought to come together as Democrats 
and Republicans and make this tribute to him and to his family.
  Ted Weiss, someone I served with for 10 years in the House of 
Representatives, the toughest fighter for health care for those who 
need it. The people of New York want to remember Ted this way. We ought 
to come together and make that possible.

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