[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 5979]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     REMEMBERING SENATOR JOHN HEINZ

  Mr. CASEY. Mr. President, twenty years ago this month we lost Senator 
John Heinz in an airplane crash. A family lost a husband and a father. 
A Commonwealth lost a tireless advocate for older citizens and our 
workers. I am honored to serve in the Senate seat he held from 1977 to 
1991.
  Senator Heinz understood that health care has a human face that 
cannot be ignored. He appreciated that employers cannot shoulder the 
burden of costs alone and understood changes needed to be made. He 
worked hard to obtain results for individuals through his position on 
the Finance Committee and his chairmanship of the Special Committee on 
Aging.
  Senator Heinz was a fighter for those without power, a voice for the 
voiceless. He enjoyed the work that goes along with being a Senator. He 
delved into policy issues and strived to figure out how government 
worked and how it could work better. He promoted innovation, looked to 
the future, and sought to find real solutions to the real problems 
people faced. He worked with his colleagues on both sides of the aisle 
to obtain results. As he once said, ``Our greatest strengths have been 
our diversity and energy, our willingness to tackle problems and solve 
them, our confidence in the future, and our refusal to be bound by the 
present.''
  This month we remember Senator Heinz and his legacy of public service 
on behalf of all the people of Pennsylvania, especially those who 
needed a Senator fighting for them every day.

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