[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3518]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO MYRON FLEMING

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have been waiting today to take just a 
moment to honor Myron Fleming, Director of Doorkeepers, who is retiring 
after 40 years of working on Capitol Hill.
  Myron began his work in the Capitol with the office of Senator Howard 
Metzenbaum of Ohio. He has worked in the Senate for 33, 34 years, and 
prior to that he worked in the House of Representatives for 7 years. He 
is someone whom I have watched over the many years I have been here. He 
has a wonderful personality. He is someone who helps keep order in this 
institution, and his presence in the Senate is one that is calming. 
Everyone who knows him likes him. It just will not be the same without 
him.
  While I will miss him, I know he will be glad to spend more time with 
his wife Jean Carolyn, as well as his children Mark and Mitchell and 
their granddaughter Nila.
  We talked earlier in the day when I learned he was retiring, and I 
have already spoken about what a fine gentleman he is. But here is one 
thing he and I joked about today. I was here handling the floor as I 
did for Senator Daschle for many years, and there was this big crash. 
Everyone said: What has happened? What happened was Myron was rushing 
around doing the work he did, and he could not have done a better 
pirouette if he been a ballerina. He flipped in the air and came 
crashing down. Everybody thought something bad had happened, and Myron 
just got up, smiled, and walked away. He and I joked about that earlier 
today. I will always remember that. I asked Gary to find somebody on 
the staff who was there when Myron fell, and no one remembered, but 
Myron and I remembered. So I went and talked to him myself.
  Myron is leaving next week to go on a cruise to Cancun, Mexico, with 
his wife and his granddaughter. I thank him on behalf of the entire 
Senate for his faithful service to our country and to the U.S. Senate. 
I wish him well in the future.

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