[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 64 (Thursday, May 1, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2571-S2573]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 ENERGY SAVINGS AND INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS ACT OF 2014--MOTION TO 
                                PROCEED

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to proceed to Calendar No. 368, S. 
2262, the Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency legislation.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 368, S. 2262, a bill to 
     promote energy savings in residential buildings and industry, 
     and for other purposes.


                                Schedule

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following my remarks and those of the 
Republican leader, the Senate will be in a period of morning business 
until 11:15 a.m., with the time equally divided and controlled. At 
11:15 a.m. there will be three rollcall votes, cloture on two U.S. 
district judges from Maryland and cloture on a U.S. circuit judge for 
the Tenth Circuit.
  At 1:45 p.m. there will be up to four rollcall votes on confirmation 
of the U.S. district judges in Maryland and the circuit judge.


                        Tribute to Terry Gainer

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, there are a number of us who have large 
families. I have five children and lots of grandchildren, but the 
person about whom I am going to speak has an even larger family than I 
have. Terry Gainer has a huge family. He and his wife Irene have 6 
children and 14 grandchildren, but that is just the beginning because 
he has 10 siblings himself.
  His family extends far beyond the immediate family I just talked 
about. As the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, Terry Gainer has taken 
care of roughly 6,500 people who work in the Senate and all the 
facilities around here, but that is not the end of it. He is also 
someone who is concerned and feels responsible for the thousands and 
thousands of people who come to this building every day. They are also 
a part of his family. So he has a huge family, and he has nurtured and 
taken care of his family, from his wife Irene to the thousands of 
people whom he has never known and never will know who come into this 
building, and he has done a wonderful job.
  Senators and staffers are oftentimes split along ideological lines, 
but we all agree on one thing: We are utterly dependent on the Sergeant 
at Arms office, and we are aware of the wonderful job Terry Gainer has 
done as Sergeant at Arms.
  The daily needs of the world's greatest deliberative body are not few 
in number, and Chief Gainer has been up to this task. As the Sergeant 
at Arms, he has been responsible for the enforcement of Senate rules as 
well as the security of the Capitol and Senate office buildings.
  I try not to talk about this often, even though I would like to talk 
about it more than I do. For a number of years of my life I was a 
police officer. I was a Capitol policeman. I have my badge in my office 
across the hall from here, and I am very proud of that. I was a Capitol 
policeman, but today the Capitol policemen who work in this facility 
and around this great building and all the office buildings have so 
many more responsibilities than someone who was a police officer during 
my day.
  Every minute of every day we have evil people trying to do harm to 
these beautiful buildings and the people who work in them. It is the 
responsibility of the Sergeant at Arms and the Capitol Police--for whom 
he is responsible--to take care of us, and he has

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done an admirable job. We are confident in him every day.
  Under his leadership, the day-to-day operation of the Senate has 
never been better, even though we have been through some difficult 
times with the government shutdown, sequestration, and all of those 
issues that have been very difficult, but none of this is surprising 
considering that Terry Gainer has been in public service for almost 50 
years.
  He was a young homicide detective in Chicago. He comes from Chicago. 
He did a lot of things as a police officer. He is a lawyer. He has been 
Chief of the Capitol Police. Over the many years I have seen Chief 
Gainer--that is what I call him, Chief Gainer. I don't call him Mr. 
Gainer or Terry, I call him Chief because to me he will always be the 
Chief of Police of the U.S. Capitol Police Force, for whom he did an 
admirable job.
  I check with the officers often and ask: How are things going? I 
think that during the time he was the Chief of Police, the positive 
attitude of the police officers has been significant because of his 
experience with the bad guys and his ability to do such a good job. 
They felt very confident in his leadership abilities. He has been a 
wonderful Sergeant at Arms. Only one of his functions is to take care 
of the Capitol police.
  As his time in the Senate comes to an end, Terry leaves his successor 
with an organization that has weathered a government shutdown, as I 
mentioned, a crippling sequestration, and is adequately prepared for 
the challenges of the future.
  I try to be as praiseworthy as I feel is appropriate, but having done 
that, I know I have not done justice to Terry Gainer. I will truly miss 
him. I will miss him significantly. He is somebody we can all turn to, 
and he is very direct; whether it is the latest big problem we had with 
some issues dealing with the Intelligence Committee and their battles 
with the CIA, whatever it is, he has the ability to step forward and 
put out the flames.
  I say to Terry Gainer: I am going to miss you. I have great affection 
for you. I have great confidence in your having a wonderful future. You 
have experience that very few people in the world have, and I wish you 
the very best in all of your future endeavors and that of your wife 
Irene and all the kids.


                       Tribute to Daryl Chappelle

  Mr. President, not everybody knows the next individual I am about to 
acknowledge. He has a job in a small part of this great Capitol 
complex. He is retiring after having been a Senate employee for 
approximately 40 years. His name is Daryl Chappelle.
  When I first came to the Senate, all rides to the office building 
were in an old train. It was, as they still are, old, old, old. They 
would crunch and bang as they went along the tracks. The handicapped 
can't get on those trains. But a Republican Senator from Oklahoma who 
is now retired and I worked to change that so the train system would 
not be the old, dilapidated trains, and now all the people coming from 
Hart and Dirksen are in these beautiful enclosed trains that you can 
wheel a wheelchair in without any effort whatsoever, and that is 
wonderful.
  There is a person there to help people who travel from the Old Senate 
Office Building, as it was called when I was there. It is now called 
the Russell Building. They still have this old train, and Daryl is 
always there. He is so nice and greets everybody who comes on those 
trains. We all recognize him when we are trying to get from here to the 
Russell Building.
  He has operated the underground trains that run between the Capitol 
office buildings for 41 years. He has a smile that covers his whole 
face. He has a voice that is infectious. You can hear him when he 
laughs, and we will all miss that.
  I join my colleagues in wishing Daryl all the best as he embarks on 
his much needed and deserved retirement.


                   Recognition of the Minority Leader

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The minority leader is recognized.


                        Tribute to Terry Gainer

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I too want to comment on the great 
service of Terry Gainer and Daryl Chappelle.
  Our departing Sergeant at Arms, Terry Gainer, whose decade-plus 
period of Senate service has been the capstone to a very long and 
distinguished career.
  Terry is a familiar presence in the halls of the Capitol and always a 
reassuring one. Whenever you saw Terry, you always had the sense that 
things were under control around here, even though you knew how much 
work and preparation went into it. It is the same feeling you might 
have being around the father of a large family or a veteran big city 
cop, and I think it is no accident that Terry is both of those as well.
  He has the bearing of a guy with long experience who has seen it all. 
We have all gotten the benefit of that experience over his years here, 
and that is something that just can't be bought.
  Those of you who have watched the majority leader and I spar down 
here on the floor in the mornings know we don't agree on much, but 
picking Terry was one decision he got just right.
  Terry's resume is pretty well known by now. He spent nearly half a 
century enforcing the law at the Federal, State, and city levels in a 
number of very demanding, high-profile posts. He started his law 
enforcement career in Chicago during the tumultuous year of 1968, 
making him one of five boys in his family to serve in the Chicago 
Police Department. That is to say nothing of his extended family. It is 
a point of pride in the Gainer family that there has been a Gainer on 
the Chicago PD for more than a century.
  Terry volunteered to serve his country in Vietnam and served with 
distinction. He spent several years as a homicide detective in Chicago 
before moving over to the State police. He later served as an official 
at the Transportation Department, and for a time he was No. 2 in the DC 
Police Department. Somehow along the way he also got a law degree and 
helped negotiate Chicago's first-ever labor contract with the police 
union there.
  He is the only person ever to serve as both the Chief of the Capitol 
Police and the Senate Sergeant at Arms. During his tenure as the 
Senate's top law enforcement officer, he has overseen a dedicated team 
of 850 professionals. He has presided over major improvements to the 
physical safety of the Capitol Complex and the Senate's IT 
infrastructure here and in our State offices. He has kept us all 
informed during emergencies.

  For one night every January, he is the public face of the 
institution. I know Terry says he tries to get out of camera shot 
during the State of the Union, but we won't blame a guy with 14 
grandkids for sneaking in a little face time on the State of the Union 
night.
  Terry recently admitted to having a few secret signals for the 
grandkids--sort of like a third base coach. One time, he even got 
President Obama and the First Lady to pose for a photo with Flat 
Stanley. It is just one of the fond memories he says he will carry with 
him into his next chapter, and we wish him all the best.
  We will miss his intelligence, his professionalism, and his good 
humor. Terry's colleagues will tell us that among his many other 
qualities, he is a lot of fun to be around. We will also miss the 
wisdom and judgment he brought to the job every morning. Terry leaves a 
legacy of excellence and a stellar example for his successors.
  Let me add on that note that one of the most impressive aspects of 
Terry's legacy is the fact that despite the incredible demands of a 
high-pressure, high-profile career, he and Irene managed to raise six 
wonderful kids. I know they both share a deep and lively faith and 
would attribute much of their success to that. But it is still 
impressive, and we are glad the family will get to spend even more time 
with Terry now.
  So, Terry, thanks for your service. You are a credit to your 
profession, your native Chicago, and to the Senate you have served so 
well. You have every reason to be proud. Now go enjoy your retirement, 
at least for awhile.


                       Tribute To Daryl Chappelle

  Mr. President, I wish to pay tribute to another beloved member of the 
Senate family, Mr. Daryl Chappelle. Daryl has been here for more than 
four decades, and this week he takes his final turn at the helm of one 
of the two subway cars that run from Russell to the Capitol.
  Daryl came here right out of Springarn High School, over in northeast 
Washington, when he was 19 years

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old, and by all accounts he has been an exemplary worker. He began his 
career in the night labor division of the Senate superintendent's 
office in 1972. Since 1986, he has worked off and on as a mechanic and 
driver for the subway service. By one estimate, he has taken 130,000 
trips between Russell and the Capitol.
  But it is not the length of Daryl's tenure that I wish to honor this 
morning, as impressive as that is. It is the spirit in which Daryl did 
his job every day. It is literally legendary.
  The motto of the Architect of the Capitol is to serve Congress and 
the Supreme Court, preserve America's Capitol, and to inspire memorable 
experiences, and I think Daryl Chappelle embodies that motto.
  First of all, he is the happiest guy you ever met, and he has a 
genius for lifting people's spirits. One of the stories I heard about 
Daryl this week came from a woman on my staff. She told me she met 
Daryl on her very first day here, more than a decade ago, and still 
remembers it vividly. She had just moved here from Kentucky for an 
internship. She didn't know her way around, and she was pretty nervous, 
and it must have shown too because after giving her directions to the 
office, Daryl not only gave her a big warm smile, he also left her with 
a message that she has never forgotten. As she stepped off the train 
and headed off to her first day on the job, Daryl looked at her and 
said, ``Everything is going to be OK.''
  It is a great story, because it not only captures Daryl's spirit, it 
points to the secret of his success: Daryl is the undisputed champion 
of making the most of a brief encounter.
  He showed us all the power of the small gesture. He reminded us that 
when all is said and done, what really matters is how we deal with each 
other. If you didn't happen to find yourself down by the trains this 
week, you missed something special. People were pretty much tripping 
over each other to say goodbye to Daryl Chappelle: Senators, visitors, 
colleagues, locals--everybody saying goodbye. It has been like a 
rolling party down there all week.
  Over the years, through all of these trips, Daryl has had a 
tremendous impact on this place. Today we want to thank him for warming 
this place every single day, and for helping our image around here, 
because Congress may not have a very high approval rating these days, 
but nobody who ever had the pleasure of riding Daryl's train could ever 
leave Washington without feeling a little bit better about this place.
  Now, Daryl, you may not have had any major pieces of legislation 
named after you during your years here; reporters may not have snapped 
photographs of you when you walked down the hall, but at the beginning 
or the end of the day, you lifted our spirits. You brought us all back 
to Earth. It is hard to think of this place without you.
  We wish you and Pat all the best in your retirement. I know you have 
been looking forward to spending more time with your bride. Thank you 
for your service, my friend, and thank you for your wonderful example.


                       Reservation of Leader Time

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the 
leadership time is reserved.

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