[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 11, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S920-S921]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015--MOTION TO 
                           PROCEED--Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.
  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to proceed as in 
morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                   Barry Goldwater Statue Dedication

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, along with my colleagues I just had the 
opportunity to be at the unveiling of the statue of Senator Barry 
Goldwater in Statuary Hall.
  I had the privilege of serving with Barry Goldwater. We traveled 
together many times. He came to Vermont at different times with me, and 
we became very close friends. It was interesting to watch Senator 
Goldwater form alliances across the aisle with different people. But I 
remember expressly one very personal thing.

  I was very close to my father, and my father passed away late one 
evening in Vermont. The next morning, the first

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two telephone calls my mother received were condolences. One was from 
Barry Goldwater, and one was from Ted Kennedy. The two had both talked 
before they called. I mention that because that was the type of people 
they both were. It had nothing to do with ideology; it was who they 
were.
  In 1980 I had the second closest election in America. Somebody 
suggested to me that it must be because of my philosophy. I thought 
probably, but I can't figure it out. So I called up the man who had the 
closest election in 1980, the year of the Reagan sweep.
  I said, ``Senator Goldwater, what is the message we are being sent?''
  Barry laughed and said, ``We have to change our luck.''
  He suggested that he move into the office of the retiring Senator Abe 
Ribicoff of Connecticut, a Democratic Senator from New England. He 
said, ``I am going to move into his office and change my luck. You 
better be strong enough to move into mine.''
  I suggested that I didn't have quite the seniority to do that. He 
said, ``I will arrange your move next week.'' He did.
  When I was sworn in for my second term in January of 1981, I was in 
that office. I have stayed in Senator Barry Goldwater's office ever 
since. I have stayed there now for--well, I am in my 35th year in 
Senator Goldwater's office, and I consider it a matter of pride, and I 
consider it a matter of pride to have served with him.
  With that, Mr. President, I yield the floor.
  Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in 
morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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