[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11091]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    HOWARD BAKER, A LIFE WELL LIVED

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I have unfortunate news. We have lost a great 
American and a great Tennesseean, Senator Howard Baker, Jr.
  Senator Baker passed away today. Howard Baker served this country 
well, and he served it in a fashion that was worthy of admiration from 
both parties and all people because he was an American first, a 
Tennesseean second, and a Republican third.
  He served three terms in the United States Senate. He served as 
majority leader and minority leader. He served as the United States 
Ambassador to Japan, and he served as Chief of Staff to President 
Ronald Reagan. He was a private practicing attorney as well, at the 
firm Baker Donelson, which was a firm his grandfather started, and he 
practiced law at one time with his father, who served in this House as 
a United States Representative from Tennessee.
  Howard Baker had been recognized since his retirement from the Senate 
on many occasions. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and 
had received other awards.
  His was a life well lived and a life to be demonstrated to others as 
a role for legislators to work with both sides of the aisle and to work 
for America first. A life well lived, Howard Baker.

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