[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 172]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      REMEMBERING SENATOR BUMPERS

  (Mr. WESTERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Speaker, last week the State of Arkansas lost a 
giant in the political world. Dale Bumpers, a former Governor and 
Senator, had served the State of Arkansas for many decades.
  As an intern for Arkansas' junior Senator at the time, David Pryor, I 
first met Senator Bumpers in 1986. His service to his fellow Arkansans 
began in the Fourth Congressional District, where he returned home to 
Charleston to serve as city attorney after the Marines and law school.
  He went on to serve on the local school board before mounting 
multiple successful bids for statewide office. Charleston Public School 
District is not only known for producing stellar graduates and for the 
Tigers' powerhouse football program, but for heeding Dale Bumpers' 
advice in 1954 and becoming the first public school in the former 
Confederate States to desegregate.
  His decades of public service were about serving others, not prestige 
or power. In his autobiography, Dale said it was his father who 
encouraged him to enter public service, calling it a noble profession.
  As we remember Senator Bumpers, I can think of no nobler act than 
serving others. I appreciate Dale Bumpers' example and his servant's 
heart.

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