[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 131 (Wednesday, October 3, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10145-S10146]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO D. MICHAEL HARVEY

  Mr. BINGAMAN. Madam President, it is both with a sense of sorrow and 
with great admiration that I rise today to pay tribute to an exemplary 
public servant and a good friend, D. Michael Harvey, who died on August 
31, 2001. Mike served the United States Senate and the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources with distinction for some 22 years. He 
often said that there was no higher calling than public service. Mike 
worked for and counseled some of the giants of the committee: Clifford 
Hansen of Wyoming; Lee Metcalf of Montana; Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson of 
Washington; Mark Hatfield of Oregon; Dale Bumpers of Arkansas; and J. 
Bennett Johnston of Louisiana. He served at the direction of the 
committee's leaders, but all the committee's members--Democrats and 
Republicans alike--had access to and benefit of his counsel.
  Mike was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Rochester, NY. He 
received his B.A. from the University of Rochester in 1955. He joined 
Eastman Kodak Co., for 4 years, before moving to Washington.

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  Mike began his public service career in 1960 with the Bureau of Land 
Management in the Interior Department, spending his last 4 years there 
as chief of the Division of Legislation and Regulatory Management. He 
received a J.D. from Georgetown University in 1963, while working at 
BLM. In the mid-1960s he served with the Public Land Law Review 
Commission and the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration.
  In 1973 Mike accepted an invitation from Senator Henry M. Jackson to 
become special counsel to the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular 
Affairs. In February 1977, when the Senate reorganized its committee 
structure and created the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources, Mike was appointed its first chief counsel. Until his 
retirement in 1995, he served as majority chief counsel during the 
years that the Democrats controlled the Senate and as chief counsel and 
staff director for the minority when Republicans held the majority.
  During his tenure with the committee, Mike played a key role in 
developing landmark legislation involving Alaska lands, the regulation 
of surface coal mining, and Federal energy policy and land management. 
His knowledge of the law regarding natural resources was enclyclopedic 
and his judgment was well-respected. Mike was dedicated to achieving 
good public policy and his counsel was always given with that paramount 
objective in mind. In addition to providing a sounding board on a huge 
range of issues, Mike was a role model, a teacher and a mentor for his 
colleagues. He established a high standard of professionalism among the 
committee staff and instilled it, by his example more than by precept, 
in the generation of young staff members that he trained.

  Mike was known by all who worked with him for his dedicated 
professionalism and the breadth and depth of his substantive expertise. 
But he was perhaps known best for the extremely high standard of ethics 
he brought to public service. You could always get a legal opinion from 
Mike of the highest caliber, and you could be absolutely confident that 
the opinion was free of any special interest or personal prejudgment. 
He was a talented professional and a fine human being.
  Mike was actively involved in American Bar Association activities. He 
served on the council of the ABA Section of Natural Resources Law. He 
was past chairman of the Fairfax County Park Authority. He served as a 
congressional adviser to the U.S. delegation to the third U.N. 
Conference on the Law of the Sea and served on the board of governors 
of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation and the board of directors of the 
Public Land Foundation. Mike often attended the theater, loved poetry, 
and was known to quote Shakespeare at length.
  The Senate was fortunate to have the benefit of Mike Harvey's 
considerable talents for many years. I was privileged to have worked 
with him and to have known him. Our deepest sympathies go out to Mike's 
family: his wife, Pat; his four children, Michelle, Jeffrey, David, and 
Leslie; and his 10 grandchildren. We share in their loss.
  In eulogizing the great Scoop Jackson, Mike relied on a quotation 
from Shakespeare. I believe that Shakespeare's eloquent words apply as 
well to the late Mike Harvey:

       His life was noble, and the elements so mixed in him that 
     Nature might stand up and say to all the world: ``This was a 
     man.''

  I yield the floor.

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