[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 25140]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    SENATOR DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, the Senate will soon bid a fond farewell 
to one of its most distinguished members, the senior Senator from New 
York. I rise today to bid him adieu.
  As we all know, Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the Senate's Renaissance 
Man, a man of dazzling intelligence and accomplishments in many arenas 
of public life. A scholar, an author, a teacher, a statesman, a 
Senator: he is--to paraphrase President Kennedy's comment on Thomas 
Jefferson--perhaps the most extraordinary collection of talent, of 
human knowledge, that has ever graced the United States Senate. This 
body and every one of its members have been touched by his grace, and 
we shall all be ever the richer for the days he spent with us.
  I have enjoyed the additional pleasure of serving with Senator 
Moynihan on the Environment and Public Works Committee. In past years, 
as Chairman of the Committee, he raised public awareness on the issue 
of acid rain. In doing so, he broadened our horizons by greatly 
expanding our understanding of the far-reaching effects that human 
actions can have on the environment and the effects that environmental 
degradation can have on human beings.
  Mr. President, I know that Senator Moynihan has much more to offer 
his country, and I hope that he will long continue to give the Senate 
the benefit of his peerless intellect, insight, and experience.

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