[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 162 (Tuesday, October 15, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5775-S5776]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          TRIBUTE TO KEN QUINN

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, on another point, for the last three 
decades, Des Moines has hosted something every year this week called 
the World Food Prize. As the World Food Prize kicks off this week in 
Des Moines, I pay tribute to an outstanding Iowan and the president of 
that foundation.
  In his Foreign Service career, Ken Quinn was the Ambassador to 
Cambodia, but earlier in that career, Ken Quinn's life of service took 
him from a small town in Iowa to Southeast Asia and back. Decades ago, 
he identified an avenue to peace and prosperity. As a young Foreign 
Service officer, he saw that roads secured economic freedom and food 
security for the impoverished people of Southeast Asia.
  For the last 20 years, Ambassador Quinn--now not in the Foreign 
Service--has cultivated the World Food Prize into the Nobel Prize for 
Agriculture. Thanks to his stewardship of the seeds first planted by 
the Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1970, Dr. Norman Borlaug, the World 
Food Prize will yield humanitarian goods for generations to come.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Blackburn). The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. TILLIS. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. TILLIS. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for a 
period of 5 minutes as in morning business.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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