[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 133 (Friday, August 10, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1137]
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  IN MEMORY OF FORMER U.S. SENATOR AND GOVERNOR PAUL LAXALT OF NEVADA

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                        HON. SHEILA JACKSON LEE

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, August 10, 2018

  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to celebrate the memory of 
former Nevada Senator and Governor Paul Laxalt.
  Mr. Laxalt passed away this past Monday in McLean, Virginia.
  A child of immigrants and a Nevada native from Carson City, he served 
our nation with distinction in the Pacific during the Second World War.
  He applied himself to serving his community, first as a district 
attorney in 1950, then as Lieutenant Governor in 1962.
  After winning the governorship of Nevada in 1968, he stabilized the 
state's gambling industry from the grips of organized crime and 
developed a system of community colleges.
  Mr. Laxalt is perhaps best remembered as President Reagan's campaign 
chairman and the moderate Republican Senator from Nevada.
  But he was above all a man who cared deeply for the nation, which he 
served with dignity and integrity.
  Former Senator Harry Reid, whom Mr. Laxalt defeated in 1974 when 
Senator Reid was the state's lieutenant governor, and who succeeded him 
in the Senate in 1987, said of Mr. Laxalt, ``We have been political 
adversaries all my adult life, but he and I are friends.''
  Though they disagreed on many policy issues, Senator Reid added, he 
viewed Mr. Laxalt as a man of utmost integrity in the Senate.
  Mr. Speaker, I therefore pay tribute today not only to Paul Laxalt's 
honorable life of service, but also to the spirit of upholding 
integrity over bitter ideological entrenchment.
  The life and story of Mr. Laxalt--his dedication to country over 
party, to the public over self, and to the greater good over personal 
gain--is certainly a model of conduct for those who seek to lead this 
nation.
  I urge my colleagues, in memory of this statesman of integrity, to 
work to recover our sense of civility and work toward mending our 
differences for the common good.

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