[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 82 (Monday, June 22, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S6740]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


[[Page S6740]]
                  A LONGTIME FRIEND--ALBERT McDERMOTT

  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, it is with a sadness and real heavy heart 
that I report to the Senate that the former chief counsel of the 
Appropriations Committee passed away this morning at 7 a.m. at NIH. 
Albert McDermott was a longtime friend. He and I met during the 
Eisenhower administration when he was the Assistant Secretary of Labor 
and I was Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
  After having been with the Hotel-Motel Association for some 25 years, 
I convinced him to join the staff of the Rules Committee when I became 
the ranking member of that committee. He came on board, as I recall, in 
about 1991. He was a graduate of Georgetown Law School, a distinguished 
naval officer in World War II who was in charge of an LCT, landing 
craft tank, that hit Normandy beach several times, I believe.
  He became the chief of staff of the Rules Committee when I became 
chairman, and then moved to the Governmental Affairs Committee and was 
chief of staff there. When I became chairman of the Appropriations 
Committee, I asked him to take on the job of counsel for the 
Appropriations Committee.
  He retired from that position late last year. He was a grand friend, 
and I shall miss him very much. He was my best man when Catherine and I 
were married and I was his best man when he married at the age of 70.
  He has left behind his beloved wife, and she was a longtime friend. 
Krieks is a great friend now of my wife Catherine. She was also very 
close to my first wife, Ann.
  I announce to the Senate that there will be a visitation at Gawler's 
Funeral Home on Wisconsin Avenue from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on 
Thursday and a memorial service at 10 a.m. at the Annunciation Church 
on Massachusetts Avenue in Northwest.
  Thank you, Mr. President.
  Mr. WARNER addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Virginia.
  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, having served on the Rules Committee with 
Mr. Stevens, the chairman, I remember him very well. I add my 
expression of deepest sympathy to his family.
  Mr. STEVENS. I thank the Senator.

                          ____________________