[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 13 (Tuesday, January 23, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Page S914]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. BINGAMAN. (for himself and Mr. Domenici):
  S. 361. A bill to designate the United States courthouse at South 
Federal Place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the ``Santiago E. Campos 
United States Courthouse''; to the Committee on environment and Public 
Works.
  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I rise today with my colleague Senator 
Domenici to introduce a bill to designate the United States Courthouse 
in Santa Fe, NM as the ``Honorable Santiago E. Campos United States 
Courthouse.'' Santiago Campos was appointed to the Federal bench in 
1978 by President Jimmy Carter and was the first Hispanic Federal judge 
in New Mexico. He held the title of Chief U.S. District Judge from 
February 5, 1987 to December 31, 1989 and took senior status in 1992.
  Judge Campos was a dedicated and passionate public servant who spent 
most of his life committed to working for the people of New Mexico and 
our Nation. He served as a seaman first class in the United States Navy 
from 1944 to 1946, as the Assistant Attorney General and then First 
Assistant Attorney General of New Mexico from 1954 to 1957, and as a 
district court judge from 1971 to 1978 in the First Judicial District 
in the State of New Mexico. He was the prime mover in reestablishing 
Federal court judicial activity in Santa Fe and had his chambers in the 
courthouse there for over 22 years. For his dedication to the State, 
Judge Campos received distinguished achievement awards in 1993 from 
both the State Bar of New Mexico and the University of New Mexico.
  Sadly, Judge Campos passed away January 20, 2001 after a long battle 
with cancer. Judge Campos was an extraordinary jurist and served as a 
role model and mentor to others in New Mexico. He was admired and 
respected by all that knew him. I believe that it would be an 
appropriate tribute to Judge Campos to have the courthouse in Santa Fe 
bear his name.
  The Senate passed a bill in the 108th Congress to name the same 
courthouse for Judge Campos by unanimous consent. Unfortunately, the 
House was unable to take up the measure and it failed to be signed into 
law. I rise again to ask the Senate to pass the bill and honor the work 
and dedication of Judge Santiago Campos.
  I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

                                 S. 361

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. DESIGNATION.

       The United States courthouse at South Federal Place in 
     Santa Fe, New Mexico, shall be known and designated as the 
     ``Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse''.

     SEC. 2. REFERENCES.

       Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, 
     or other record of the United States to the United States 
     courthouse referred to in section 1 shall be deemed to be a 
     reference to the ``Santiago E. Campos United States 
     Courthouse''.
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