[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 46 (Tuesday, April 25, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E585-E586]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           PAYING TRIBUTE TO FORMER CONGRESSMAN DAN SCHAEFER

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                           HON. JON C. PORTER

                               of nevada

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 25, 2006

  Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of former 
Congressman Dan Schaefer, who succumbed to cancer on Tuesday, April 18, 
2006.
  Former Republican Representative Dan Schaefer served as the 
Congressman from

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the 6th District of Colorado for 14 years until he retired in 1998. 
Congressman Schaefer served on the House Commerce Committee, while he 
was Chairman of the Energy and Power Subcommittee, and was the senior 
member of the Colorado congressional delegation when he retired. His 
long and distinguished political career began when he was elected to 
the state House of Representatives in 1977, then the state Senate in 
1979 before running for Congress in 1983.
  Among the many causes he championed were mass-transit projects and 
the southwest light-rail line, and while in the Colorado State 
Legislature Schaefer sponsored several child protection laws. In 
Congress, he also helped found the House Renewable Energy and Energy 
Efficiency Caucus and for his efforts the main building at the National 
Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, was named in his honor. Schaefer 
was a major proponent of plans to deregulate the electric power, 
industry and to open it to competition. He fought for the cleanup of 
the decommissioned nuclear weapons plant at Rocky Flats, pushed for 
spending cuts, and worked on telecommunications issues.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to honor the life and legacy of former 
Congressman Dan Schaefer who served in the House of Representatives 
with honor and integrity. His death is a profound loss to the community 
and to the causes he most admirably championed.

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