[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 131 (Wednesday, September 7, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5361-S5370]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  REMEMBERING SENATOR MARK O. HATFIELD

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.
  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, my home State of Oregon has many towering 
and majestic features, such as our iconic Mount Hood and our beautiful 
State tree, the Douglas fir. Senator Mark O. Hatfield, who passed away 
on August 7, stood head and shoulders above all of them.
  Last night, the Senate passed S. Res. 257, a resolution in respect of 
the memory of Senator Hatfield. This afternoon, Senator Merkley and I, 
with colleagues of both parties, would like to reflect on the 
extraordinary legacy of our special friend, Senator Mark Hatfield.
  For me, Senator Hatfield's passing this summer, just as it seems the 
Congress has become embroiled in a never-ending series of divisive and 
polarizing debates and battles, drove home that Senator Hatfield's 
approach to government is now needed more than ever in our country.
  Senator Hatfield was the great reconciler. He was proud to be a 
Republican with strongly held views. Yet he was a leader who, when 
voices were raised and doors were slammed and problems seemed beyond 
solution, could bring Democrats and Republicans together. He would look 
at all of us, smile and always start by saying: ``Now, colleagues,'' 
and then he would graciously and calmly lay out how on one issue or 
another--I see my friend, Senator Cochran from Mississippi, who knows 
this so well from their work together on Appropriations--it might one 
day be a natural resources question, it might one day be a budget issue 
or a health issue or an education issue, but Senator Hatfield had this 
extraordinary ability to allow both sides to work together so an 
agreement could be reached, where each side could achieve some of the 
principles they felt strongly about. They would not get

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them all, but they would get a number of them. That, of course, is the 
key to what is principled bipartisanship.
  It was not very long ago, it seems, when Senator Hatfield walked me 
down that center aisle, when I had the honor of being selected Oregon's 
first new Senator in almost 30 years. I remember coming to the Senate, 
a new Senator, and watching Senator Hatfield at work. Sometimes he 
would be with Senator Kennedy and a big flock of the Senate's leading 
progressives, and sometimes he would shuttle over to visit with Senator 
Dole and a big group of conservatives. Somehow the public interest was 
addressed.
  The question then becomes: How did he do it? What was the Hatfield 
approach all about? To me, Senator Hatfield was religious, but he was 
never intolerant. He was idealistic, but he was never naive. He was 
willing to stand alone but never one to grandstand.
  But it was not his public life that shaped his belief and his 
principles. Those were forged in the most hellish of places: World War 
II in the Pacific. As a landing craft officer in the U.S. Navy, Senator 
Hatfield witnessed firsthand the battles at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He 
was one of the first Americans to see the devastating effects of the 
atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
  Later, he served in French Indochina, where he saw the economic 
disparities that would later lead to war in Southeast Asia. Those 
images remained with him throughout his life, acting as a touchstone 
for his belief that the world should be a safer and more peaceful 
place. It was Senator Hatfield's beliefs--those beliefs--that served as 
the foundation for his career in the Senate and for his opposition to 
the Vietnam war and to the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
  Senator Hatfield was a major player on the national stage. At the 
same time, he never forgot our home State or strayed very far from his 
approach of trying to bring people together. I see our friend, Senator 
Alexander, on the floor, who also has had a lot of experience on 
natural resources issues.
  I can tell my friends on both sides of the aisle that watching 
Senator Hatfield champion the need for family-wage jobs in the forest 
products sector, while at the same time being a champion of 
environmental protections of wilderness areas and scenic rivers, was 
like a classroom in the effort to come up with sound public policy.
  When colleagues come to our home State, they will have an opportunity 
to go to the Columbia River Gorge, a special treasure. We had a big 
anniversary recently on the anniversary of the Columbia Gorge National 
Scenic Area. Senator Merkley and I were there. That never could have 
happened without that unique ability of Senator Hatfield to bring 
people together, and he went into every nook and cranny of our State, 
communities that barely were bigger than a fly speck on the map. He 
would make their roads better and their schools better and their health 
care better, again by bringing people together.
  I know colleagues are waiting. I would simply wrap up by saying that 
my State has lost a great son. The Senate has lost one of its former 
giants. Our Nation has lost a man who represented honesty and decency 
in public service. I will never, ever forget how much Senator Hatfield 
has meant to my home State of Oregon.
  I note Senator Merkley is here who served as one of Senator 
Hatfield's interns as well as Senator Alexander and Senator Cochran. I 
think we have, through the graciousness of Senator Reed and Senator 
McConnell, time for all our colleagues.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon is recognized.
  Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, I rise today to commemorate a statesman 
and a mentor, Senator Mark O. Hatfield. He took many roles: dedicated 
public servant, conscientious man of faith, and pioneer for new 
development in the West. He was born in 1922 in Dallas, OR, a small 
town not far from our capital, Salem, to a family of modest means. His 
father was a blacksmith and his mother was a schoolteacher. When he was 
young, his family then actually moved to the State capital, which gave 
him a chance, as a teenager, to work as a guide in the State capitol 
building and to imagine returning one day as a public leader.
  He proceeded to study at Willamette University in Salem. During his 
freshman year, events took a dramatic turn with the attack on Pearl 
Harbor in 1941. Senator Hatfield joined the Reserves and accelerated 
his studies, so he completed his degree in 1943 and joined the Navy. He 
proceeded as a naval officer and fought in Okinawa and Iwo Jima, and he 
saw the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, an 
imprint that, along with his State, caused him to struggle with the 
appropriate and moral use of force throughout his life in public 
service. In his own words:

       In the war's immediate aftermath, one vivid experience made 
     the profoundest impression on me. I was with a Navy 
     contingent who were among the first Americans to enter 
     Hiroshima after the atomic bomb had been dropped. Sensing, in 
     that utter devastation, the full inhumanity and horror of 
     modern war's violence, I began to question whether there can 
     be any virtue in war.

  He elaborates on this process of questioning, this process of 
challenging, in his book ``Conflict and Conscience.'' In terms of the 
Vietnam war, he concluded that it did not meet the Christian 
theologians' test for a just war. After the war, Hatfield went back to 
Oregon and he started a law degree, but he changed course after a year. 
He decided instead to pursue a master's in political affairs, and he 
went to Stanford and completed that master's and came back to Oregon. 
He started teaching at Willamette University, and in short order he was 
running for the Oregon House, in 1950, first elected at the age of 28, 
and then Secretary of State 6 years later at the age of 34, and 
Governor 2 years later at the age of 36. Through these experiences, 
Senator Hatfield developed the ability to chart his own course, to 
determine and follow his own convictions. In 1964, he championed an 
initiative to outlaw the death penalty. That ballot measure passed, and 
Governor Hatfield then commuted the sentences of those on death row.
  In 1965, in July, he was the one Governor at the National Governors 
Association to vote against the resolution endorsing the Vietnam war.
  In 1995, he proceeded to oppose the balanced budget amendment, and as 
the Senate historian, Don Ritchie, observed, ``It was one of the most 
courageous votes I had ever seen. He knew he was sacrificing his 
chairmanship and his position as a Senator. Few knew then that Senator 
Hatfield had offered to resign.''
  Senator Hatfield also worked hard to build core institutions in 
Oregon. He was a champion of Oregon Health and Sciences University and 
built it into a fabulous institution of research and learning. The Mark 
O. Hatfield School of Government carries on his legacy of leadership, 
conveying those principles to young leaders who are dispersing 
throughout the public policy arena. The Marine Science Center in 
Newport, a tremendous research facility, continues to yield benefits, 
including setting the foundation for the recent location of NOAA'S 
research fleet in the city of Newport.
  He was an intense advocate of medical research, and he championed 
NIH, where a building now bears his name. He was a champion for the 
U.S. Institute of Peace. He felt if there were academies that studied 
war, there should be acadamies to study peace and reconciliation.
  In 1975, he introduced the George Washington Peace Academy Act to 
further the understanding of the process and state of peace among 
nations, to consider the dimensions of peaceful resolutions of 
differences, to train students and to inform government leaders in the 
process of peaceful resolutions. It took 9 years, but this effort which 
began as the George Washington Peace Academy Act ended in the 
establishment of the U.S. Institute of Peace in 1984.
  As my senior colleague mentioned, he championed many efforts to 
protect Oregon's precious wilderness. One of his final projects was to 
protect Opal Creek, which has been described as 6,800 acres of virgin 
old growth, the largest span remaining in western Oregon. He said about 
this:

       It is an inspiration. It is a place of educational and 
     spiritual renewal and exploration. To walk among the 
     centuries old fir, hemlock, and cedar inspires tremendous awe 
     and instills, I think, a perspective unlike itself.

  My own connection to Senator Hatfield began in 1976, in the spring of 
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year, when I went to Salem to meet with Jerry Frank, Senator Hatfield's 
legendary Chief of Staff, to interview for a possible summer internship 
in Senator Hatfield's DC office. I will be eternally grateful to Jerry 
Frank and Senator Hatfield for offering me that internship, for that 
opportunity to come to our Nation's capital to see government in 
action. My first responsibility was to open the mail. When you open the 
mail, you start to understand the dimension, the breadth of political 
opinion in the breadth of a State.
  How readily did many constituents attack Senator Hatfield's Christian 
faith because they disagreed with him on some policy position. I opened 
so much mail that said: Hi, my policy position is this and yours is 
different. So how can you be a man of Christian faith?
  Indeed, Senator Hatfield started his book ``Conflict and Conscience'' 
with just this dimension, a politicization of religion. He puts in it a 
number of letters that he received. One reads:

       Dear Mr. Hatfield,
       Your encouragement of antiwar demonstrations and the riots 
     that have come from such demonstration are in fact treason 
     for they give comfort and aid to our enemies. . . .
       I and a lot of other Christian people are extremely 
     disappointed in your performance in the Senate, for you who 
     claim to be a Christian and have access to our Almighty God 
     should have a better understanding of human nature and the 
     evil in the human heart.

  Senator Hatfield talked about the challenge of being a public man of 
faith and working to take those principles and convert them to public 
policy in the face of hostility coming from the left or the right. But 
it was his determination to stay that course, to continue to be a 
person of reflection and depth in the pursuit of public policy.
  That summer, I was assigned to the Tax Reform Act of 1976. The great 
joy that I had was that it happened to come up on the floor that 
summer. Back then, before there was television in this Chamber, before 
there was e-mail, you would come to the floor, if you were working on 
an issue, and go up to the staff gallery and follow debate, and you 
would rush down with the other staffers to meet your Senator coming out 
of the elevators just outside those double doors. Because there were 
lots of amendments, I got to meet with the Senator many times to 
describe the debate on the floor here, and to fill in what folks back 
home were saying about the particular issue at hand.
  Then, occasionally, the timing being just right, we would have a 
chance to walk back and forth. Senator Hatfield loved to walk back and 
forth outside in the sunshine under the trees between the Capitol and 
his office in the Russell Office Building. It was while observing those 
debates that I saw the Senate at its best. There was an amendment from 
the right side of the aisle that was debated and discussed and voted on 
an hour and a half later. Then there was an amendment from the left 
side of the aisle. The amendments were on the issue at hand, such as 
different tax strategies, and often they were bipartisan in nature. 
Indeed, you saw that our Senators at that time--most of whom had served 
in World War II together--could disagree without demonizing each other. 
This is a tremendously important facet of the Senate that has been lost 
over the decades since. Indeed, there were many friendly debates 
between Republicans and Democrats.
  My father, Darrell, was a mechanic, and he had one of these debates 
with his boss who owned the company. When I was offered the internship 
with Senator Hatfield, Jerry called my father and said, Darrell, I won 
the debate because Senator Hatfield will work to make Jeff a good 
Republican. My dad said, no, no, no, I won the debate because Jeff will 
work to make Senator Hatfield a good Democrat. Neither of us would have 
broached such a topic.
  The conversation wasn't about Democrats and Republicans. It was about 
the challenges at hand and how you resolve them. It was from that 
summer that I developed a lifelong admiration for Senator Hatfield and 
his model of public service. Here is what Senator Hatfield had to say 
about public calling:

       Political service must be rooted in a philosophy of 
     society's overall well-being, with a broad vision of how the 
     body politic serves the people through its corporate 
     structures. The heart of one's service in the political order 
     must be molded by ideals, principles, and values that express 
     how we, in the words of the Constitution, are ``to form a 
     more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic 
     Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the 
     General Welfare, and secure the Blessings of liberty to 
     ourselves and our posterity.''

  He continued:

       Political service must flow out of such a commitment. 
     Convictions about war and peace, about the priorities 
     governing the expenditure of Federal funds, about the 
     patterns of economic wealth and distribution, about the 
     Government's responsibility toward the oppressed and 
     dispossessed both in our land and throughout the world, about 
     our Nation's system of law and justice, and about the meaning 
     of human liberty--these should be at the core of one's desire 
     to seek public office.

  It was because of my admiration for Senator Hatfield that when I 
became Speaker of the Oregon House in 2007, I called him and asked if 
he would consider coming to swear me in when I took the oath of office. 
He readily agreed to do so. That was the last public event that my 
father was at before he passed away. It was one of Senator Hatfield's 
last major public events.
  I so much appreciated the symbolism of a Republican and a Democrat 
coming together at that moment, and sought to help guide the Oregon 
House, the same Chamber where Senator Hatfield started his political 
career to solve Oregon's problems.
  It is because of my admiration for Senator Hatfield that when I came 
to this Chamber I asked for Senator Hatfield's desk. There are 14 names 
carved into the desk drawer in his desk. The 13th is Senator 
Hatfield's. As I looked at the names, I was surprised to discover this 
desk had never crossed the aisle before. So I think it is symbolic of 
Senator Hatfield's career of public service, focused on solving 
problems and working together across the aisle, that his desk made that 
journey to where it is now.

  During those walks back and forth between here and the Russell Senate 
Office Building, Senator Hatfield paused one day to pull the leaf off a 
Ginkgo tree. He said: Jeff, this is one of the simplest of God's 
creations. Why is it that folks can't see the beauty of God's creation 
in the very simplest of one of his plants?
  I held that leaf tightly in my hand, determined to preserve it. Just 
as we got back to the office, he plucked it out of my hand and said: 
Well, of course, you don't want to continue to carry that leaf. I 
didn't have the courage at that moment to say: No, I would treasure 
that leaf all my life, and then grab it back from him. So I don't have 
the leaf, but I take that memory of his deep personal faith and 
conviction.
  I was sharing this story with another intern who served with Senator 
Hatfield in 1985, and he said: Well, let me tell you another story 
about a tree and Senator Hatfield. On this walk between the Capitol and 
the Russell Senate Office Building there is a tree that Senator 
Hatfield planted. It is a Metasequoia tree. It so happens the 
Metasequoia used to grow throughout Oregon millions of years ago. When 
people found the fossils and studied them, they concluded the tree was 
extinct--until the 1940s when they found a stand of Metasequoias 
growing in China.
  Senator Hatfield arranged to have one of these trees planted in that 
walk. It so happens in 2005, when I was House Democratic leader in 
Oregon, we passed a bill that made the Metasequoia tree the fossil of 
Oregon, but we didn't know about this tree Senator Hatfield had 
planted. But there it is today. It is now 25 years old. It sheds its 
needles every winter, so people think it is a fir tree that has died. 
But it comes roaring back to life in the spring.
  Now, 25 years into its life, it is equal to the highest of the broad 
leaf trees on the grounds of the Capitol. In another 25 years the 
Hatfield tree is going to soar over these Capitol grounds. In so doing, 
it is going to represent the values he fought for--the courage of one's 
convictions, the effort to get beyond the bumper stickers and into the 
nitty-gritty of issues, and to come to a conscientious decision that 
will take our Nation forward, the determination to be oriented toward 
solving problems and not to a partisan divide.
  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, would my colleague yield?
  Mr. MERKLEY. Certainly.

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  Mr. WYDEN. I appreciate that, and I certainly don't want to interrupt 
his very eloquent remarks.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the time for tributes to 
former Senator Hatfield be extended until 3:30 so that my friend and 
colleague can speak, as well as Senators Leahy, Alexander, Cochran, 
Bingaman, and Levin, who all wish to speak.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, I have just one closing comment, and that 
is this: This is a picture of the Senator Hatfield tree. It has my 
staff in front of it. We went out there on July 12, Senator Hatfield's 
birthday, to take this picture and we hoped to give this to him. We 
didn't have a chance to do that before he passed away. But I think this 
tree will serve as a living reminder of all that he championed 
throughout his tremendous career. We have lost a great man, and our 
Senate and our Nation are poorer for it.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.
  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, let me speak a little bit about Mark 
Hatfield, because those of us who knew Mark thought the world of him. I 
had an opportunity to know him and to serve with him, and for 23 years 
I served with him in the Senate.
  I rise to pay tribute to Mark as a dedicated public servant and a 
respected lawmaker, a man whom I liked to call my friend, and I think 
virtually everybody serving during that time, Republican and Democrat 
alike, considered him a friend.
  He dedicated nearly his entire life to public service. He served in 
the U.S. Navy during World War II. He took part in the battles of Iwo 
Jima and Okinawa. He taught political science in Oregon at Willamette 
College for 7 years. He served in the Oregon State legislature. He 
served two terms as Governor. I remember him smiling when somebody 
would see him in the corridors and call him Governor. He became 
Oregon's longest serving Senator. He served five terms in the Senate.
  Unfortunately, Mark was one of a dying breed in politics today. He 
was an old-fashioned Senator and a political moderate. He came from a 
brand of Senators that included names such as Bob Stafford and George 
Aiken, both from Vermont. Oregon, like my State, prizes independence in 
their elected officials, and he was certainly never afraid to buck his 
party. From his opposition to the war in Vietnam to his early support 
for the Endangered Species Act and federally protected wilderness, Mark 
showed us all that he was ruled only by the people of Oregon and his 
conscience.
  A true compassion for people drove many of Mark's decisions. After 
being one of the first American servicemen to see the destruction and 
carnage of Hiroshima following the atomic bombing, he later declared 
his leadership in the campaign to pass the 1987 nuclear weapons test 
ban, one of his major accomplishments.
  Having a father with Alzheimer's disease and other family members 
with cancer, Mark became one of the strongest Senate advocates of 
Federal spending on medical research. He also supported prohibiting the 
sale of arms to undemocratic countries and countries that did not 
respect human rights.
  Spending 8 years as the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, 
Mark Hatfield did an amazing amount of good for his State of Oregon. In 
fact, it is hard to travel in the State of Oregon without seeing the 
differences he made.
  Senator Hatfield was always known for his courteousness. Despite his 
independent streak, he had complete respect on both sides of the aisle. 
More than once I was there, and my two colleagues from Oregon on the 
floor know this, when people would come up to him and call him ``Saint 
Mark.''
  It is important to remember that despite the squabbling that goes on 
in Washington these days, there are politicians who care deeply about 
the well-being of their colleagues in their State.
  On a personal note, when I came to the Senate, I was No. 99 in 
seniority. Actually, there were only 99 of us in the Senate because 
there had been a tied race in New Hampshire. So I was the junior most 
Senator, sitting way over in the corner seat. Several of the more 
senior Senators reminded me how junior I was. I received a handwritten 
note, which I still have, from a Senator who wrote: When I came to the 
Senate, I was No. 99. But you move up. You move up quickly in 
seniority. He said: My door is always open to you. Let me know what I 
can do to help.
  That Senator was Mark Hatfield. We became friends from that moment. I 
did go to him for advice. Marcelle and I traveled with him and 
Antoinette in numerous parts of the world. I can still remember the 
laughter on the plane. We would talk about everything--everything from 
children to politics, to sports, to whatever.
  What a wonderful person. He was a public servant. He was a statesman. 
He was a friend. I consider myself fortunate to have known him, but 
especially to have served with him. This Senate was a better place with 
Mark Hatfield.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.
  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, before he leaves the floor, let me thank 
Chairman Leahy for his kind and gracious thoughts. I know Senator 
Hatfield was very fond of the Senator as well. You have represented his 
values very well. I thank the Senator for those remarks.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee.
  Mr. ALEXANDER. Mark Hatfield was elected to the Senate in 1966. It 
was a distinguished class that included some prominent Republicans, 
sort of a new wave in the Republican Party. In addition to Governor 
Hatfield, a former two-term Governor, there was Charles Percy of 
Illinois, former President of Bell & Howell; there was Ed Brooke of 
Massachusetts, the first African American popularly elected to the 
Senate.
  Also in that Republican class were Cliff Hansen, a prominent rancher 
from Wyoming, and a young man who was a son-in-law of then-Republican 
leader, Everett Dirksen, Howard H. Baker, Jr.
  I hitched a ride with Howard Baker to Washington, DC, in that year 
and went to work as Baker's legislative assistant in 1967, and, of 
course, had a chance to meet Senator Hatfield. At that time, there was 
less space for Senators than there is even today. So new Senators were 
put into rooms with each other. For example, Senator Baker and Senator 
Brooke and all their staffs were put in a single room, separated only 
by a partition.
  They got along with that for 6 months. But Senator Hatfield did not 
like it very much. After all, he had been a Governor for two terms and 
was not used to being treated in that way. He was polite about it, as 
he always was. But soon he made a mission. He went around the Senate 
and the Capitol and he counted up all the rooms that then-Senator James 
Eastland of Mississippi had taken to himself. He found 34 different 
rooms that were assigned to Senator Eastland and only half a room was 
assigned to Hatfield.
  Senator Hatfield then reported to the Republican conference that 
Eastland had 34 rooms and that apparently someone was living in one of 
the rooms because someone from Restaurant Associates was putting a tray 
of food outside the door of this room in the Capitol and every morning 
two arms would come out and bring the food in.
  This was Senator Hatfield's first report to the Senate. I saw him 
about 25 years later, when he was chairman of the Appropriations 
Committee and had a lot of power. I said: Senator Hatfield, how many 
rooms do you have now? He just smiled. My guess is he probably had 34.
  But what I remember about Senator Hatfield, as a very young aide, was 
how unfailingly courteous he was to every single person. If you caught 
his attention, you had his full attention. It is easy to see why he was 
elected to the Senate for 30 years. It is easy to see why he won 11 
elections.
  Of course, the other reason, he was so interesting. He was a Baptist. 
He was a Libertarian. He was a great friend of Billy Graham. He was 
pro-life, not just on abortion but on the death penalty as well. He was 
antiwar. He was antibalanced budget. He was an interesting, 
independent, decent man. I simply wanted to say, from the vantage point 
of someone who feels privileged to serve in the Senate, what an 
impression this man from Oregon made on a 26-year-old young aide to 
Howard Baker in 1967.
  I remember him for his courtesy, his decency, and for his 
independence.
  I yield the floor.
  Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, I applaud my colleague from Tennessee. I

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appreciate him coming to make comments about his service with Senator 
Hatfield. When I was first coming to the Senate, Senator Hatfield asked 
me to bring greetings to his former colleagues. One of the first 
conversations I was able to have was to sit down with Senator Lamar 
Alexander who, like Senator Hatfield, served as a Governor, and who 
embodies so many of the qualities Senator Hatfield worked to cultivate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Mississippi.
  Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, today, the Senate mourns the death of the 
former United States Senator of the State of Oregon, Mark Odom 
Hatfield. He was elected to the Senate in 1966, and served for 30 years 
until his retirement.
  The U.S. Senate lost one of its most talented and successful Senators 
when Mark Hatfield retired from this body.
  It was a pleasure for me to serve on the Appropriations Committee 
when he became Chairman and to learn from his example of courtesy to 
others and his polite but unapologetic adherence to his personal views 
and convictions, even when they may have differed from those of others.
  His service reflected great credit on the United States Senate.
  Senator Hatfield was a tireless and effective advocate for serious 
reforms aimed at improving the quality of life for all Americans and 
addressing what he called ``the desperate human needs in our midst.'' 
During the 1980s, he effectively used his Appropriations Chairmanship 
to champion a wide range of issues from human rights to improvements in 
health and education programs and environmental and conservation 
issues; and he got results.
  Senator Hatfield's strength of character and commitment to doing the 
right thing, according to his conscience, whatever the consequences, 
was widely admired.
  His contributions through his lifetime of dedicated service in Oregon 
and our Nation's capital are impressive, and will be long respected.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record 
an outline of Senator Hatfield's legislative accomplishments.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

         Former Senator Mark Hatfield's Legislative Highlights

       Served five terms as a United States Senator for Oregon 
     making him the longest serving U.S. Senator from Oregon. 
     (1967-1997) Twice served as chairman of the Appropriations 
     Committee (1981-1987 and 1995-1997)
       As chairman and later ranking Republican on the Senate 
     Appropriations Committee, Senator Hatfield steered millions 
     of dollars to public works projects in Oregon. They ranged 
     from national scenic areas and hydropower dams to the state 
     university system and the Marine Science Center that bears 
     his name. Senator Hatfield fought earnestly throughout his 
     career for environmental protection and conservation, 
     including reforestation, the development of alternative 
     energy, and pollution control. He was a longtime defender of 
     Native American tribes, serving on the Indian Review 
     Commission to protect treaty rights on tribal lands.
       Senator Hatfield quadrupled Oregon's wilderness areas to 
     more than two million acres and worked successfully to 
     protect the Columbia River Gorge, the Oregon Dunes and 
     Oregon's rivers. During his last session of Congress, 
     Hatfield helped preserve the Opal Creek Wilderness from 
     logging. He also generously funded a wide variety of civic, 
     academic and environmental programs.
       Senator Hatfield restored funding for the National 
     Institutes of Health and secured appropriations for the 
     improvement of the Oregon Health & Sciences University, now a 
     leading U.S. research institution. In a hushed congressional 
     hearing room in 1990, he pleaded for increased money for 
     Alzheimer's research while describing how the disease had 
     reduced his father, a powerfully built former blacksmith, to 
     a ``vegetable.''
       His unwavering commitment to peace and matters of national 
     security were heavily influenced by his experiences as a 
     young naval officer in World War II. He manned a landing 
     craft during the invasion of Iwo Jima in 1944 and then became 
     one of the first Americans to see the devastation in 
     Hiroshima the following year. Senator Hatfield believed that 
     lasting national security is not achieved through military 
     might exclusively, but only possible when people have access 
     to education, health care, housing and job opportunities.
       In 1970 with Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota), he 
     co-sponsored the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment, which called 
     for a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam.
       In the 1980s, Hatfield co-sponsored nuclear weapons freeze 
     legislation with Senator Ted Kennedy. He also advocated for 
     the closure of the N-Reactor at the Hanford Nuclear 
     Reservation, though he was a supporter of nuclear fusion 
     programs. The N-Reactor was used for producing weapons grade 
     plutonium while producing electricity.
       Because of his opposition to what he viewed as excessive 
     defense spending and an unnecessary military buildup under 
     President Reagan, Senator Hatfield was the lone Republican to 
     vote against the 1981 fiscal year's appropriations bill for 
     the Department of Defense.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Mexico.
  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I am honored to join with my colleagues 
in saying a few words about our former colleague, Mark Hatfield.
  At the time I came to the Senate, Mark Hatfield had already served 
for 16 years. For the next 14 years we were colleagues and friends in 
the Senate. His retirement in 1997 was an occasion for regret for all 
of us who knew him and admired him. He set a very high standard for 
service in the Senate.
  He was a master of the complex spending and tax issues that are the 
weekly focus of most Senate work. Of course, in his role as chairman of 
the Appropriations Committee, he was respected and appreciated for his 
fair-minded consideration of requests from all Senators--Democrat and 
Republican and Independent. He was a model of civility and of kindness, 
and he took a genuine interest in the well-being of those with whom he 
worked, both Senators and staff and all of those who worked to keep the 
Senate functioning.
  He had a heartfelt commitment to seeking nonmilitary solutions to our 
Nation's problems around the world, and his votes--including his votes 
against the Vietnam War--reflected that strongly held commitment.
  It was not in Mark Hatfield's nature to be a demagogue on any issue. 
He saw no advantage, political or otherwise, in twisting issues. The 
pandering and posturing that afflict much of our political debate today 
were not part of the politics he practiced.
  I considered Mark both a mentor and a friend during the time he 
served in the Senate and when I was able to serve with him. He has been 
greatly missed since his retirement from the Senate, and now, of 
course, our sense of loss is even greater.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I come to the floor today to pay tribute to 
the life and the public service of Mark Hatfield.
  Mark Hatfield began his lifelong career of public service in the U.S. 
Navy during World War II. After the war he returned to Oregon where he 
served in the State house of representatives, in the State senate, as 
the Oregon secretary of state, and eventually as Governor of the State. 
Fortunately for us--for the Senate and for the country--Mark Hatfield 
did continue his career of public service and went on to serve five 
terms in the U.S. Senate.
  During his time in the Senate, Mark Hatfield repeatedly demonstrated 
he possessed the courage of his convictions. We have heard that word 
``courage'' used this afternoon by Oregon Senators and others as it 
relates to Mark Hatfield, and there are so many examples of that 
courage, including an unpopular position he took relative to the 
Vietnam war. But in 1995 he opposed the balanced budget constitutional 
amendment, which was then under consideration by the Senate. It was a 
difficult position then to take as it is today. But he followed the 
courage of his convictions, and this is what he said about the 
constitutional amendment they were debating in the Senate back in 1995:

       A balanced budget can come only through leadership and 
     compromise. This compromise must come from each one of us. . 
     . . In the end there is no easy answer, and there never will 
     be. Regardless of the procedural restraint in place, where 
     there is political will to create a balanced budget we will 
     create one. Where there is a will to avoid one, we will avoid 
     it. . . . A vote for this balanced budget constitutional 
     amendment is not a vote for a balanced budget, it is a vote 
     for a fig leaf.

  Mark Hatfield said it as he believed it, straight from the shoulder--
courageously and direct. He did so in regard to many other issues.
  From the vantage point of the Appropriations Committee, Senator 
Hatfield was able to champion causes near and dear not only to his 
heart but near and dear to the hearts of so many Americans. Among these 
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research. Senator Hatfield was such an effective supporter of medical 
research that in 2005--8 years after his retirement from the Senate--
the National Institutes of Health opened the Mark Hatfield Clinical 
Research Center in honor of his career-long support of medical 
research.
  How well I personally remember, as a member of the FDR Memorial 
Commission, how Mark Hatfield joined Danny Inouye, his cochairman, to 
finally lead us to build the long overdue memorial to one of America's 
greatest Presidents.
  Today, the Senate mourns the passing of Senator Hatfield. How vividly 
those of us who had the pleasure of serving with him remember him. My 
wife Barbara and my deepest sympathies go out to Mark's wife 
Antoinette, to their family, and to their friends. As the Senate honors 
his extraordinary career, we can all take inspiration from his 
willingness to join with colleagues of both parties to achieve enduring 
goals.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I wish to join my colleagues in 
remembering Senator Mark Hatfield, an extraordinarily good man, a man 
of dignity and integrity. I didn't have the opportunity to serve with 
him in the Senate, but he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee 
when I was a member of the House Appropriations Committee, so 
oftentimes we would come together in conference on a given issue, and I 
admired him greatly.
  Mark Hatfield was an independent man throughout his public career. He 
was a man of civility and deep faith, a devout evangelical Christian. 
He was a Republican who believed government could be a force for good.
  During the course of my statement, I will read some comments by 
Senator Mark Hatfield, and those who are following this should pause 
and reflect that his was once a major voice in the Republican Party. 
Unfortunately, few, if any, voices such as his can be heard today. I 
hope there are those who are listening who will take heart that it is 
consistent with Republican principles to stand for the values of Mark 
Hatfield.
  Announcing his retirement from the Senate in 1995, Mark Hatfield 
said:

       As a young man I felt the call of public service and 
     believed in the positive impact government can have on the 
     lives of people. Government service has allowed me to promote 
     peace, protect human life, enhance education, safeguard our 
     environment, improve the health care of Oregonians, and guard 
     the rights of the individual.

  As I said, though I didn't have the honor of actually serving in the 
Senate with Mark Hatfield, we shared a common hero. If a person visited 
his Hart Office Building suite and went to his conference room, they 
would see the most amazing display of memorabilia and tributes to 
Abraham Lincoln I have seen anywhere outside of my hometown of 
Springfield, IL. One whole wall in Senator Hatfield's office was 
covered with a collection of Abraham Lincoln paintings, photographs, 
and memorabilia. His fascination with Lincoln began when he was in 
grade school and he first learned about the evil of slavery and the 
leadership Lincoln provided in abolishing it.
  Sometimes at night, Mark Hatfield said to a reporter, he liked to 
quietly slip down to the Lincoln Memorial to meditate. ``It's like a 
cathedral,'' he said. ``People come in talking loudly, but then they go 
up the steps, and it's amazing, they all begin to whisper. How can they 
help it?''
  I can recall one particular instance where Mark Hatfield agreed to 
come to my hometown of Springfield, IL. Each year on February 12, we 
have the Abraham Lincoln Association dinner, and we invite people who 
are in public life or who are historians and academics to come and talk 
about their impressions of some aspect of the life of Abraham Lincoln. 
I remember his speech because he spoke about a man named Edward 
Dickinson Baker.
  Edward Dickinson Baker had served in the U.S. House of 
Representatives as a Congressman from Illinois from two separate 
congressional districts. He then moved to Oregon and became a Senator 
from the State of Oregon. He was a close friend of President Abraham 
Lincoln. He was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Ball's 
Bluff. His statue is one of the Oregon statues here in the Capitol 
Building.
  Mark Hatfield came to tell a story of Edward Dickinson Baker and the 
friendship of Abraham Lincoln and the connection with Oregon. I went up 
to him afterward and said: There is another part of this story you 
might find interesting. After Abraham Lincoln served as a Congressman--
he was given one term, which was the agreement with the Whigs back in 
Illinois. He wanted to stay on, but they said: No, you can't. So they 
offered him another job which he turned down before returning to 
Springfield to practice law, and that was the job to be the provincial 
Governor of Oregon, the territory of Oregon. Had Lincoln made that 
decision, history might have been a lot different for America. Hatfield 
and I laughed about that and the Oregon connection between Lincoln and 
Edward Dickinson Baker. He was an extraordinary man, Hatfield was, in 
that he not only admired Lincoln, but he studied him and the history of 
his life.
  Mark was born in 1922, the son of a railroad blacksmith and a 
schoolteacher. He attended Willamette University in Salem, OR. He ran 
for the office of student body president--the only race he ever lost.
  As a young Navy officer in World War II, Mark Hatfield was at both 
Okinawa and Iwo Jima, the two Pacific islands that were the scene of 
some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. Later, he was one of the 
first Americans to enter Hiroshima after the city was devastated by the 
first atomic bomb. Those experiences and his own religious views had a 
profound influence on his beliefs about the use of military power.
  He was a lifelong foe of excessive arms buildup. He told the 
Christian Science Monitor in 1982:

       There comes a time in a Nation's life when additional money 
     spent for rockets and bombs, far from strengthening national 
     security, will actually weaken national security--when there 
     are people who are hungry and not fed, people who are cold 
     and not clothed.

  Mark Hatfield once castigated Democrats in the 1980s for not speaking 
up strongly enough about what he considered excessive military spending 
during the Ronald Reagan administration. He was the only Senator to 
have voted against the Vietnam war and the Persian Gulf war.
  Politics wasn't his first calling. He was a college professor and 
then college president. In 1956, he was elected to the Oregon State 
Legislature, where he was instrumental in passing measures banning 
racial discrimination in housing and public accommodations--a decade 
before the government considered similar civil rights laws here in 
Washington. From there, it was a steady climb to State senator and 
secretary of state. In 1958, he was elected Governor, becoming the 
youngest ever in his State. He was reelected in 1962.
  He successfully ran for the Senate in 1966 with a straightforward 
platform that included opposition to the Vietnam war. In all, he spent 
30 years in this body, including 8 years as chairman of the powerful 
Senate Appropriations Committee. I remember him as chairman. When he 
would have conference committees, you could always count on Mark 
Hatfield to be genteel, courteous, and bipartisan. It was a great 
experience. Every conference committee was a great experience. The man 
really exuded fairness and integrity, and it is one of the reasons I 
wanted to come to the floor today and say a few words about how much he 
meant to me. When it came to particular issues on appropriations, he 
really focused on medical research, which was very important to him, 
and on efforts to eliminate poverty in the United States.
  In 1995, he cast a historic vote. He was the only Republican to vote 
against a constitutional amendment to require a balanced Federal 
budget. His vote meant defeat for the measure because it fell one vote 
short for the two-thirds majority needed for passage. Senator Hatfield 
said he voted against the amendment for two reasons: because he 
believed it would starve social programs and tear deep holes in 
America's safety net and because it exempted defense and entitlement 
spending from cuts. Besides, he said, if Congress wanted a balanced 
budget, all it had to do was pass one.
  Some younger Senators in his party were so angry at Hatfield for 
having cost them this balanced budget amendment that they set out to 
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his committee chairmanship as chairman of the Senate Appropriations 
Committee. Luckily, that threat never materialized. Senator Mark 
Hatfield shrugged off their anger. He told a reporter:

       I've been out of step most of my political life. So what 
     else is new?

  In the year after the balanced budget amendment vote, the 
Appropriations Committee, under Chairman Hatfield's leadership, went on 
to cut more than $22 billion in discretionary nondefense spending from 
the budget. He wasn't opposed to spending cuts, but he didn't support a 
constitutional amendment.
  I wish to offer my condolences to Senator Hatfield's wife Antoinette, 
who has been his partner for more than 50 years, and his children and 
grandchildren.
  ``Stand alone or come home''--that is the advice Mark Hatfield's 
father gave him about facing moral choices, and Mark Hatfield lived his 
life by that rule. Now he has gone home, and we are left to recall and 
celebrate the life and service of this good man.
  Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise today to speak about the passing 
last month of Mark Hatfield, a former colleague of mine in the U.S. 
Senate whose service to the people of our great Nation and his beloved 
State of Oregon is truly noteworthy and continues to inspire public 
servants today, 15 years after his retirement in 1996 from the world's 
greatest deliberative body.
  Indeed, service is the hallmark of Senator Hatfield's legacy; I know 
because I had the pleasure of serving alongside him for many years. 
Senator Hatfield served the people of Oregon as a State legislator, as 
their secretary of state, as their Governor, and as a U.S. Senator. The 
only election he ever lost was for student body president for his 
beloved alma matter, Willamette! Although that is a record any 
statesman can envy, it is more importantly, an example of public 
service we can all admire.
  As a Senator, Mark Hatfield served the people of Oregon for 30 
years--longer than anybody in the history of the State--and he served 
them well. He was an Oregonian through and through, and you could tell 
he loved his home State. He worked tirelessly for all Oregonians, 
regardless of their background or political persuasion.
  As a young naval officer, Mark Hatfield experienced the battle of Iwo 
Jima and the aftermath of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. These 
experiences had a profound and lifelong effect on Senator Hatfield. He 
hated war, but he always had respect for our servicemen and women. 
Senator Hatfield was also deeply religious, and relied upon his 
religious convictions and love for this country to guide him. He 
believed in America as what some call it, ``a miracle of light.''
  Senator Hatfield and I did not always agree on everything, but we 
respected each other's views. I admired that Senator Hatfield always 
tried to find common ground with his fellow Senators. This made him a 
successful statesman and a respected individual on both sides of the 
aisle.
  Today, I am honored to have the privilege to add my voice to the 
chorus of praise for this outstanding public servant whose service will 
long endure in the heads and hearts of all Americans, especially those 
who knew and had the pleasure of serving with him. My thoughts and 
prayers are with his family as they mourn the loss and celebrate the 
life of this great man.
  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring 
the memory of Mark Hatfield, a former Governor and U.S. Senator from 
the State of Oregon. Mr. Hatfield passed away on August 7, 2011, in 
Portland at the age of 89.
  The son of a Baptist railroad blacksmith and a schoolteacher, Mr. 
Hatfield was born in Dallas, OR, on July 12, 1922. He graduated from 
Willamette University in 1943, having fast-tracked his studies so that 
he could enlist with the Naval Reserve.
  As a young man, Mr. Hatfield served in World War II at the battles of 
Iwo Jima and Okinawa and later saw firsthand the devastation of the 
atomic bombing of Hiroshima. These experiences shaped him personally 
and politically, and he became an outspoken advocate for peace, and a 
prominent opponent of the Vietnam war.
  In 1966, Governor Hatfield stood alone in the National Governors 
Association when he voted against supporting the Vietnam war. And in 
1970, as a Member of the U.S, Senate, he sponsored the McGovern-
Hatfield amendment with Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, which 
would have created a deadline to end U.S. military action in Vietnam.
  Senator Hatfield later was one of only two Republicans along with 
Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa--to vote against the 1991 Senate 
resolution authorizing the first gulf war.
  Mr. Hatfield will also be remembered as a leader in the fight against 
the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
  In 1982, he introduced S.J. Res. 163--the nuclear freeze amendment--
with Senator Edward Kennedy, which argued that ``the greatest challenge 
facing the Earth is to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war by 
accident or design.''
  Had it passed, the resolution would have urged the United States and 
the Soviet Union to ``pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms 
race.''
  Senator Hatfield told the Christian Science Monitor, ``We've 
developed the ability to destroy the planet, but that doesn't give us 
the right to destroy the planet.''
  Throughout his career in public service, Mr. Hatfield fought for what 
he believed was right, rather than walking any strict party line. He 
fought for peace, for civil rights, for the environment, and for 
medical research.
  As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for two terms, he 
supported increased budgets for the National Institutes of Health; 
fought for crucial social programs in a time of shrinking government; 
and was an early supporter of the Endangered Species Act.
  As a dedicated, remarkable and outspoken public servant, Mark 
Hatfield's life was filled with a wide range of service and 
accomplishments. Early in his career, he said, ``I pray for the 
integrity, justice and courage to vote the correct vote, not the 
political vote.'' It is clear he lived up to this principle and made 
extraordinary contributions to our nation and to the world. Our 
thoughts and prayers go out to his family. He will be missed.
  Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I rise today to honor the life and 
legacy of Senator Mark Hatfield--a lifelong Oregonian, a genuine 
statesman, and a dedicated public servant. With a career in government 
that spanned nearly five decades, Mark leaves behind a legacy of 
service and a model of civility in American political life.
  From the shores of Iwo Jima, to the halls of the statehouse in Salem, 
Oregon, and the Chamber of the U.S. Senate, Mark dedicated his life to 
our country. He served courageously as a naval officer in the Second 
World War in the Pacific theater. He was a notable lawmaker in the 
Oregon State Legislature, championing civil rights legislation in the 
1950s well before the Federal Government's landmark efforts in that 
area. He also served as Oregon's secretary of state, and for two terms, 
he was a successful Governor. He went on to serve the people of Oregon 
as a U.S. Senator for three decades.
  I knew Mark to be a man of decency, always civil in the way he 
conducted his business, and I believe that was his signature strength 
as a legislator. While Mark and I did not always agree, he was never 
disagreeable. He was principled and passionate about the things he 
believed to be true, but he was also respectful of those with whom he 
disagreed. His demeanor won him many friends and built many fruitful 
relationships on both sides of the aisle, making him a most effective 
legislator.
  Upon retiring from the Senate in 1996, Mark reflected upon the nature 
of our country's politics, saying, ``I'm going to miss the people, but 
not the process.'' He had grown disenchanted with the coarse 
partisanship that had warped the political process, and he knew that if 
we were to keep moving forward as a country, the vital center would 
have to hold, civility would have to prevail, and bipartisanship would 
have to return. Solutions do not come from gridlock. Bipartisanship has 
to win the day.
  Since Mark retired from the Senate, our politics have become even 
more tribal. But I believe it would serve us all well, as we honor his 
life, to reflect upon the example he set--that disagreements do not 
have to become roadblocks but instead can be opportunities for 
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  I learned a great deal from Mark Hatfield during our time in the 
Senate together, and I am grateful for this opportunity to honor Mark's 
memory.
  Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I rise today to honor the life and 
legacy of Senator Mark Hatfield. He was a true giant, a man who placed 
principle above politics--doing what he felt was right for the people 
of Oregon and the Nation.
  Senator Hatfield's life was one of service. He served as a naval 
officer during World War II. He fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and 
Okinawa. Later, he was one of the first Americans to see the effects of 
the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He served in the Oregon state 
legislature, as secretary of state and Governor, and then as Senator of 
the United States.
  In the Senate, Senator Hatfield was known for his many 
accomplishments for the people of Oregon. He used his position on the 
Appropriations Committee, where he became chairman, to bring jobs and 
opportunity to his State. One of his greatest legacies is in foreign 
policy, nuclear disarmament, and in the pursuit of peace. Senator 
Hatfield was one of the first in the Senate to oppose the Vietnam war. 
He was a leader in the pursuit of nuclear disarmament, and he was a 
steadfast supporter of civil rights.
  I was honored to serve with Senator Hatfield in the Senate and on the 
Appropriations Committee. We were neighbors on the 7th floor of the 
Hart Building. We worked together on many important issues, especially 
on international women's rights. As coastal Senators, we also worked 
together on jobs that affected both of our States--everything from 
fishery issues to saving jobs in the shrinking shipbuilding industry.
  Senator Hatfield was a man of deep faith, known for putting his 
values into action. He was also a gentleman who accomplished so much 
for his State and his Nation. He will be greatly missed.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I would like to join those who have 
spoken or intend to speak about our former colleague Mark Hatfield.
  Most people remember Mark as one of our party's most liberal 
members--as a Republican who called himself a liberal even after 
Democrats started avoiding the term.
  I think he would like to have been remembered as someone who tried to 
bring people together or as he put it, as a reconciler.
  He was, as we all know, a man of deep principle and compassion. He 
was also a gifted politician, to this day the longest serving Senator 
in Oregon history.
  Mark was also deeply influenced by his experiences.
  It is said his deep aversion to war derived, in part, from his 
experience as one of the first American servicemen to enter Hiroshima 
after the dropping of the atomic bomb.
  Those of us who knew Mark as a colleague are glad to have had the 
chance to know him and serve with him. And I would like to take this 
opportunity to extend my heartfelt condolences to Antoinette and the 
Hatfield children, as well as Mark's many grandchildren. America, and 
the Senate family, have lost a good man.
  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, this afternoon we heard tributes to former 
Senator Mark Hatfield from a bipartisan group of Senators. I would like 
to add to those tributes by including in the Congressional Record the 
eulogy that Senator Hatfield's son Visko delivered at his father's 
Memorial Service.
  I ask unanimous consent that the following statement be printed in 
the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

       Good afternoon, thank you Dr. Ogilvie, Father Mike 
     (Maslowski) amazing as usual, thank you. Pastor Ron 
     (Kinkead), thank you. Thank you also to the Village Baptist 
     church for providing this lovely sanctuary for today's Public 
     Memorial.
       I would like to thank the distinguished guests, former 
     staff members, life-long friends, and complete strangers who 
     have turned out today to honor my father.
       It is remarkable to see the outpouring of love and support 
     for the man we simply called Dad.
       I have pondered this moment over and over in my head for a 
     long time.
       Would I speak? What would I say?
       What could I possibly add to what has already been said 
     about my father.
       So many introductions, so much accolade, hundreds of 
     honors, countless speeches, ground breaking ceremonies, 
     ribbon cutting dedications, political campaigns, opinion 
     pages, articles and books.
       Words, words, words and more words, volumes of stories some 
     true, some false and some, hybrids of both.
       A dear friend advised me to share the personal side, share 
     the family side, and share something close to my heart.
       I thought to myself, I have shared enough. I have shared my 
     childhood, I have shared my adolescence, and I have shared my 
     adulthood.
       My entire life, shared as a function of a public figure.
       The tank is pretty empty, what more could I share?
       So I thought about it and came up with the reoccurring 
     question.
       The question that, I have been asked throughout my life.
       ``What is it like to be a Senator's son?''
       I used to quip that I really didn't know anything different 
     he had always been a senator; except for the day I was born, 
     when he was Governor of this state of Oregon.
       The only time in my life I wasn't a Senator's son, I was a 
     Governor's son.
       What is it like to be a Senator's son?
       To be in the public eye, under the microscope, in the 
     spotlight.
       What was it like to grow up under the weight of assumption 
     and misconception, subject to the torment of political 
     persuasion?
       In the shadow of a figure so large and with the awesome 
     responsibility of privilege, simply because the people of 
     Oregon had given my father their faith in him every six 
     years, five times.
       What is it like to be a Senator's son?
       I have been subpoenaed and compelled to testify in front of 
     a Senate ethics committee. Grilled for five hours by 
     government lawyers because someone thought my father had sold 
     out his career and the people of Oregon.
       I witnessed my mother's real estate business shredded, 
     slowly, painfully and publicly, because someone thought my 
     father had sold out his career and the people of Oregon.
       I have been hugged by total strangers who shared very 
     personal stories about how my father had changed their life, 
     or how he had bestowed their Eagle Scout award, on them 
     decades before.
       In high school, I was walking a friend home after school. 
     Trailing us were two Secret Service agents. The same two who 
     had taken me to school earlier that morning, the same two who 
     had sat in on classes and in the lunchroom with me.
       Two men whose job it was to throw down their lives for 
     mine. Not because mine was so important, but because the same 
     nut case had threatened the life of the President of the 
     United States and my father's life, in the same breath. While 
     my father and mother were out of the country, the thinking 
     was, the family would be the next, most likely target.
       Agent Robert Alt, Agent Don and other members of the 24 
     hour protection detail, I will never forget the position you 
     were in for two weeks because I am a senator's son.
       Twelve years ago ran into friends, a couple from Oregon, on 
     the street in New York. Even more than being delighted at our 
     chance meeting, in a city of millions, they were giddy with 
     the news that they had just seen my father's obituary at the 
     New York Times.
       With great surprise I informed them that I had just hung up 
     the phone with him not 30 minutes earlier.
       They proceeded to clarify that they had won and auction 
     item--a tour of the New York Times offices. During the tour, 
     they had seen the Obituaries of the notable and famous. 
     Including my father's. Pre written, ready to go.
       I remember one time at a photo studio in New York I was 
     introduced by a friend, to an Art Director from Oregon. Upon 
     hearing ``Oregon'' and ``Hatfield,'' I could see the light 
     bulb go on over the art director's head. The same connection, 
     I had awkwardly embraced many times in my life, was made. He 
     then asked in a definite and knowing voice . . . ``are you 
     related (I began nodding) to Tinker Hatfield?''
       With great relief, I said, ``no I am not.''
       No offense to the famed shoe designer at Nike.
       What is it like to be a Senator's son?
       I could tell you about the woman who came up to me when I 
     was 12 years old. I was with my father on a re-election 
     campaign swing thorough eastern Oregon. I was wearing a 
     three-piece, brown velvet suit--in eastern Oregon . . . in 
     July.
       She had cornered me when I was alone. She waved her finger 
     in my face and exclaimed ``look at you in your fancy three 
     piece suit all dressed up from the east coast. You know we 
     have pretty girls here too, you just have to look for them 
     hiding behind the sage brush.''
       I was stunned--where was the political playbook? What do I 
     say? I smiled and assured her I would keep my eye out for 
     girls hiding in the sage brush and I thanked her for 
     coming to the ``Meet Mark'' spaghetti dinner to support my 
     Dad.
       One night at dinner at my home, I sat to the right of 
     former president Nixon, a dinner that included a round table 
     of official presidential historians. Nixon was brilliant, the 
     man fielded question after question on every aspect of 
     geopolitics, managed to eat his dinner and comment on how he 
     fondly remembered my mother's steamed green beans, and

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     how happy he was that she had served them again that night.
       He conjured a memory of a visit to Oregon when he was VP. 
     My father, as governor greeted him at the airport. Dad wore a 
     white trench coat, Nixon a black one. The former president 
     said it was a smart move wearing white, because, when the 
     front-page photo of the event was published the next day, it 
     was my Dad who jumped off the page, not him.
       What is it like to be a Senator's son?
       Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Billy Graham, all guests in 
     our home on separate occasions.
       I have met Mother Theresa, Menachem Begin and the Pope.
       I have flown onto the deck of an aircraft carrier, visited 
     mental institutions, medical research centers, and 
     courthouses.
       Tom Brokaw wrote six simple pages about my father in his 
     book, The Greatest Generation. I always liked Tom Brokaw and 
     this book is amazing. It highlighted the few things and more 
     of what my father told me the ``one'' time he spoke about his 
     service in World War II. He spoke of how he was poised, as 
     the Commander of an Amphibious Craft, for the invasion of 
     mainland Japan. Of how if we had not dropped the atom bombs 
     on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he would more than likely never 
     have made it to the shores of Japan alive.
       He said the catharsis for him was in sharing his rations 
     with Japanese children, after his mission changed from that 
     of invader to clean up and relief operations, in the 
     aftermath of the bomb. He showed me a few small porcelain 
     pieces he had dug out of the rubble. Simple everyday objects, 
     teacups and saucers.
       I will always be grateful to the people of Japan for their 
     sacrifice, because in doing so, one US Soldier made it back 
     alive and went on to become my father and to spend nearly 
     fifty years of public service, fighting for the lives of 
     millions of people worldwide.
       I would learn more about my father reading books and 
     newspapers, than I would learn about him, from him, or so I 
     thought.
       Dad was the man who taught me to pray.
       To say thank you, to give thanks and to be grateful, to 
     give thanks for food, to give thanks for the blessings of the 
     day.
       The prayer: Inner voice as outer voice.
       ``God bless this food, in Jesus name amen.'' The kids' 
     simple prayer around our table.
       ``Dear heavenly father we pray that you bless this food to 
     the nourishment of out bodies and thus to thy service in 
     Christ's name we pray, Amen.'' His simple version around our 
     table.
       I have heard Dad give thanks in front of thousands and in 
     front of a few. Because he wanted to and because he was asked 
     to.
       His faith was remarkable. His prayers were soothing, 
     thoughtful and kind.
       I have gone to nearly every kind of church with my father. 
     But one in particular stood out . . . a Baptist church.
       When I was a teenager, Dad would come into my room and wake 
     me up on a Sunday to go to church. Then he would come in 
     again and wake me up again.
       Often times he would come in with a look of incredulous 
     disbelief, when it seemed as though I was not going to budge.
       He would declare ``I cannot believe you can't commit one 
     hour of the week to the Lord.''
       Well ``one hour'' in those days at this particular Baptist 
     church soon became about 35 minutes.
       This was because when would arrive on time and take our 
     seats, the minister, Pastor Maritz--had kind of squeaky voice 
     and he would say--``I see we have Senator Hatfield in our 
     congregation today, perhaps he would lead us in the pastoral 
     prayer.''--Privacy shattered--Dad would rise and deliver, 
     praying for all of us, for those less fortunate, for those in 
     need, for our soldiers over seas, for our leaders to have 
     strength and wisdom to make good decisions, to make better 
     decisions.
       Dad was fond of mixing church and state--in church--during 
     prayer.
       I believe he thought there was certain irony in doing so.
       And that in church, he was a safe enough distance from 
     those who might decry his faith and it's influence on him 
     when it came to matters of state.
       When he had given enough pastoral prayers we began arriving 
     late to church, well after the pastoral prayer had been 
     given. Pastor Maritz began to catch on. Being the smart 
     Baptist that he was, he switched to asking dad to give the 
     benediction.
       Not long afterward Dad re-maneuvered, so we would arrive 
     late AND then leave early. I felt okay with dedicating 35 
     minutes a week, to the Lord in Church.
       What is it like to be a Senator's son?
       I want to read a letter, which I opened and read to my 
     father two years ago.
       It was at a time when his health and his total awareness as 
     we knew it began to fade. I believe it was during this phase, 
     that his inner awareness was unwavering, was still intact.
       The letter had been mailed to the MOH School of government 
     at PSU and had been forwarded on to dad's home. It was 
     written by Philip Millam.
       (Read Letter)
       I have had this letter on my desk for two years.
       Forty Years this man carried the desire to thank my father. 
     To tell Dad that with the simplest words ``thank you . . . 
     thank you for your service,'' that Dad had made this man's 
     effort in an unpopular war, feel honorable. In the fewest of 
     words he had lessened the feelings of animosity and of being 
     marginalized.
       It brought tears to my father's eyes and to mine. I was 
     proud of my father and he knew it.
       Mr. Millam I would like to respectfully ask you to stand up 
     and to be recognized. For your service to our country, in the 
     most difficult of circumstances, I would like to thank you. 
     And for providing me with a memorable father and son moment, 
     I would like to say Thank You.
       What is it like to be a Senator's son?
       Awe, Awareness, Anger.
       Pride, Press and Privilege.
       The realization that it is not about who I have met, where 
     I have gone or what I have done.
       It is to be witness to his impact on the lives of others.
       Mark Odom Hatfield.
       His life was never about the man or the name. To shower 
     praise on it, to honor it, to chisel it granite or cast it in 
     bronze or, to sully or demean it, or to criticize it, is 
     missing the point.
       The point of my father's existence was not to collect 
     awards or praise, but rather, I believe, to teach a lesson.
       The lesson is a simple one, yet too often overlooked.
       The lesson is that we need to be kinder to one another, to 
     help and to teach each other.
       To honor and to respect one another.
       Because long after the man is gone and the buildings are 
     renamed or torn down, the lesson must live on in each of us.
       The lesson from the teacher, from the servant leader.
       The lesson in many instances was to stand up when others 
     chose to sit, to speak out when others were silent. To find 
     clarity when the noise was deafening. To forgive those who 
     are unforgivable.
       The lesson is to protect life at all stages of 
     vulnerability, or as he used to say, in the womb, at the 
     gallows and on the battlefield.
       Dad taught me that it cannot be the selfish, it must be the 
     selfless who make the world a better world.
       Each one of us has a part to play,
       Each one of us has influence on the other,
       Each one of us has a responsibility to ourselves and in 
     turn, to each other.
       Dad never wanted to be a giant, he preferred to have giant 
     impact. His were not the shoulders to stand on, his were foot 
     steps to follow.
       A few months ago in what we thought were Dad's final 
     moments, it was late at night I was going into the second 
     straight day at his bedside. I was holding his hand and 
     telling him it was okay to let go, he had lived a good life 
     and fought long enough, we would take care of mom.
       It was during this time, he and I had a remarkable 
     exchange.
       At the time, he wasn't talking very much.
       I asked him of there anything he needed or anything I could 
     do.
       He straightened up his leaning body and opened his eyes 
     wide and he said.
       ``You need to save a life.''
       He asked me to save a life.
       I said, ``Whose life should I save?''
       He said, ``The first one you can.''
       There was a long pause, he was staring straight ahead, not 
     blankly, but like he was seeing something that I wasn't.
       I asked him what he was looking at, he said
       ``There are so many poor people and people who are hungry, 
     who are on the doorstep.''
       I paused a while, wondering.
       Then I asked him ``what do they look like?''
       Without hesitating, he said
       ``They look like us.''
       A glimpse at what it is like to be this senator's son.
       It is a continual reminder that there is a calling to help 
     where ever possible, a calling to open our eyes to people who 
     we may think are different, or who we may think are less, 
     than who we think we are.
       It is a reminder for us to open our eyes to help people who 
     others cannot see, or who others choose not to see.
       Why?
       Because they ``look like us.'' They are in fact us.
       I would like to take a moment and thank from the bottom of 
     my heart, Dr. Francis Collins director of the NIH as well as 
     Dr. John Gallin, director of the MOH clinical research center 
     at NIH. Two men whose effort at sustaining human life and 
     medical research continues to inspire.
       I would like also like to thank my sister Elizabeth who for 
     years has magnificently worn the titles of both doctor and 
     daughter, through some of the most difficult times during our 
     father's stages of declining health. You are a rock star of a 
     doctor. And a fabulous sister.
       Lastly, I would like to thank my mother Antoinette 
     Hatfield, who for more decades than anyone, has stood by my 
     father's side in life. She has made sacrifices most of us 
     will never know, under more difficult circumstances than 
     anyone should have to.
       Always the matriarch, she is the woman behind the man, in 
     front of the world.
       Allow me to straighten your halo. You are an angel among 
     us.

     Visko Hatfield, August 14, 2011.

  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I think we have seen in the last half hour, 
almost going on an hour, the enormous goodwill that Senator Hatfield 
generated in the Senate, with Democrats

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and Republicans alike coming to the floor. I just wanted to wrap up 
with one last comment.
  Senator Hatfield did not serve alone. He was accompanied through his 
extraordinary public service journey that we have heard discussed today 
on the Senate floor by a remarkable woman, Antoinette Hatfield. For 
those of us who knew Mrs. Hatfield, the only way we could sum her up 
would be to say: What a woman. Whip smart, boundless energy, persistent 
in a way that made it clear she was going to push hard for what was 
important, but always in a way that left you with a sense that she 
would be standing up for what was right and almost invariably with her 
husband standing up for our State.
  My colleague in the Chair, the Presiding Officer, Senator Merkley, 
described his experiences with Senator Hatfield very eloquently. We 
have heard that from one Senator after another. But I thought it was 
appropriate this afternoon--as many Senators knew Mrs. Hatfield and, I 
think, share my views--and important to note that Senator Hatfield 
often said--and my colleague will recall it as well--he could not have 
made the contributions to Oregon without having at his side, having the 
good counsel, enjoying the affection of this wonderful woman, 
Antoinette Hatfield.
  So as the Oregon delegation in the Senate wraps up these tributes, we 
simply want to acknowledge not just Senator Hatfield's contributions 
but the chance we have had to be with Mrs. Hatfield in work situations 
and personal situations, and we wish to express our gratitude for all 
she has done for decades now working with her husband, working with 
Oregonians to make Oregon a better place.
  This afternoon, Antoinette Hatfield, as well as her late husband, has 
our undying gratitude.
  Mr. President, with that, I yield the floor, and I note the absence 
of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask that the order for the quorum call be 
rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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