[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7754]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    REMEMBERING FRANK R. LAUTENBERG

  Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I am here today to speak on clean 
energy independence, but before I do that I want to note the passing of 
Senator Frank Lautenberg.
  When I came to the Senate 10 years ago, there were a number of 
Members here who were veterans of World War II. Now there are none. 
Senator Lautenberg was the last. He was a member of the generation 
often described as the greatest.
  He was the son of immigrants. He made a lot of money in business as 
an entrepreneur in the American dream. Then he did another 
entrepreneurial thing: He ran for the U.S. Senate and served twice 
here. He was an advocate for the things he believed in, and he was a 
productive Senator. Just in the last couple of weeks he helped to 
fashion an agreement on amending the Toxic Substances Control Act, of 
which I am a cosponsor. It has been a long time coming, and he had a 
major role in that.
  We will miss him. To his wife Bonnie and to his family, they have my 
respect and condolences and admiration for his long service to our 
country.

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