[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 134 (Tuesday, October 9, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S10397]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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  SENATE RESOLUTION 169--RELATIVE TO THE DEATH OF THE HONORABLE MIKE 
        MANSFIELD, FORMERLY A SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF MONTANA

  Mr. DASCHLE (for himself, Mr. Lott, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Burns, Mr. Byrd, 
Mr. Stevens, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Hollings, Mr. 
Leahy, Mr. Reid, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Allard, Mr. Allen, Mr. Bayh, Mr. 
Bennett, Mr. Biden, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Bond, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Breaux, Mr. 
Brownback, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Campbell, Ms. Cantwell, Mrs. Carnahan, Mr. 
Carper, Mr. Chafee, Mr. Cleland, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Cochran, Ms. 
Collins, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Craig, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Dayton, Mr. 
DeWine, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Domenici, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Edwards, 
Mr. Ensign, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Feingold, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. 
Frist, Mr. Graham, Mr. Gramm, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Hagel, Mr. 
Harkin, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Helms, Mr. Hutchinson, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. 
Inhofe, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Kyl, Ms. 
Landrieu, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lieberman, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Lugar, Mr. 
McCain, Mr. McConnell, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Miller, Mr. Murkowski, Mrs. 
Murray, Mr. Nelson of Florida, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Mr. Nickles, Mr. 
Reed, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. 
Schumer, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Smith of New Hampshire, Mr. 
Smith of Oregon, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Specter, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Thomas, Mr. 
Thompson, Mr. Torricelli, Mr. Voinovich, Mr. Warner, Mr. Wellstone, and 
Mr. Wyden) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 
agreed to:

                              S. Res. 169

       Whereas Mike Mansfield, the son of Irish immigrants, was 
     born in 1903 in New York City and raised in Great Falls, 
     Montana;
       Whereas Mike Mansfield was the youngest Montanan to serve 
     in World War One, having enlisted in the United States Navy 
     at the age of fourteen;
       Whereas Mike Mansfield spent eight years working in the 
     copper mines of Montana;
       Whereas Mike Mansfield, at the urging of his wife Maureen, 
     concentrated his efforts on education, obtaining both his 
     high school diploma and B.A. degree in 1933, an M.A. in 1934, 
     and became a professor of history at the University of 
     Montana at Missoula, where he taught until 1952;
       Whereas Mike Mansfield was elected to the House of 
     Representatives in 1943 and served the State of Montana with 
     distinction until his election to the United States Senate in 
     1952;
       Whereas Mike Mansfield further served the State of Montana 
     and his country in the Senate from 1952 to 1976, where he 
     held the position of Majority Leader from 1961 to 1976, 
     longer than any Leader before or since;
       Whereas Mike Mansfield continued to serve his country under 
     both Democratic and Republican administrations in the post of 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan from 
     1977 to 1989; and
       Whereas Mike Mansfield was a man of integrity, decency and 
     honor who was loved and admired by this Nation: Now therefore 
     be it
       Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow 
     and deep regret the announcement of the death of the 
     Honorable Mike Mansfield, formerly a Senator from the State 
     of Montana.
       Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate communicate 
     these resolutions to the House of Representatives and 
     transmit an enrolled copy thereof to the family of the 
     deceased;
       Resolved, That when the Senate adjourns today, it stand 
     adjourned as a further mark of respect to the memory of the 
     deceased Senator.

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