[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 132 (Monday, September 28, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H9091]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO LEE HAMILTON

  (Mr. HOUGHTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOUGHTON. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Hamilton) 
is retiring from this House at the end of this year. Lee has 
represented the ninth district of Indiana for 17 terms, 34 years. He is 
an extraordinary man. I happen to think that the idea of curtailing 
terms is a good idea, but if there ever is an excuse for not doing it, 
for not having term limits, it is Lee Hamilton.
  This is a man who has all the characteristics that we want here. He 
has extraordinary judgment. Whenever I have a problem, he is the first 
person I like to talk to. He has a sense of history. He has a sense of 
this place. He has a sense of what service versus self-service is.
  Also, he really believes in the Arthur Vandenberg School of 
Government, which is partisanship stops at the water's edge. In all of 
the things he has done, he has always reached for bipartisanship. This 
is a fine man. He is now going to the Woodrow Wilson school, and his 
goal there will be to try to bridge the gap between the academic and 
the political policy of the schools of thought.
  Mr. Speaker, he is an extraordinary man for an extraordinary time, 
and we will miss the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Hamilton). I say that 
as a Republican to a Democrat who I admire so much.

                          ____________________