[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 14]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 19915]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               TRIBUTE TO SENATOR DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN

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                        HON. MICHAEL R. McNULTY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 26, 2000

  Mr. McNULTY. Mr. Speaker, I regret that I was unable to join with my 
colleagues from New York last Tuesday in honoring one of the greatest 
Senators this nation has known, Pat Moynihan. I welcome the opportunity 
to add my voice to the chorus singing in praise of the Senator and his 
equally amazing wife, Liz.
  Pat, you have enlightened millions as an author, educated thousands 
as a professor, impressed hundreds of diplomats as a statesman, awed 
your colleagues as a legislator, counseled four Presidents as a 
scholar, raised three children as a father, and enjoyed 44 years as 
husband to Liz. What an extraordinary life.
  Thank you for your tireless work to protect the environment, to 
improve our infrastructure, to make welfare work for the people, to 
save Social Security for future generations, and to promote peace and 
democracy throughout the world. You did all of this while managing to 
evade the crippling grasp of partisanship by using the strength and 
power of ideas.
  Thank you on behalf of the residents of the Capital Region, the 
people of the State of New York, the citizens of America, and the 
community of nations.
  Enjoy your retirement. It is well deserved. And as all good friends 
say at particularly


grueling moments of departure, ``Promise you'll keep in touch.'' Pat, 
it's not just that the nation wants to hear from you--it needs to hear 
from you.

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