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| CREC-2000-12-15-pt1-PgS11814-2 | 2000-12-15 | 106 | 2 | TRIBUTE TO SENATOR CHUCK ROBB | SENATE | SENATE | TRIBUTETO | S11814 | S11814 | [{"name": "Edward M. Kennedy", "role": "speaking"}] | 146 Cong. Rec. S11814 | Congressional Record, Volume 146 Issue 155 (Friday, December 15, 2000) [Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 155 (Friday, December 15, 2000)] [Senate] [Page S11814] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] TRIBUTE TO SENATOR CHUCK ROBB Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, during the last few moments, several of our colleagues gave tribute to our friend. He is my friend and is someone so many of us admire here in the Senate. He is someone who has made a difference in this body and this country with his deep commitment to public service. Reference was made this afternoon to Senator Robb and his service in Vietnam. He fought for our country and served in the Armed Forces. Because of his strong beliefs and commitments to the values of the Nation, he made it his responsibility to respond to the Nation's call. This is a real reflection of the strong commitment and the basic integrity of this extraordinary Senator and friend. He fought in Vietnam for the values he believed in deeply. He came back to this country served as a distinguished Governor of a great State, the State of Virginia. And he continued that service in the Senate. Chuck Robb was a neighbor of mine. We have lived as neighbors for a number of years. He and Lynda have been good and valued friends over a great many years. I have enjoyed working with him in the area of education. He has a fierce passion to try to make sure every child in this country is going to have a good quality education. Even though he is not a member of the education committee, he mastered this subject and also provided very important leadership in it. I think so much of what is included in this dual appropriations legislation--which we hope we will have an opportunity to address in these next several hours and days--is really a tribute to the strong stands he took on good quality education for the children not just of Virginia but the children of this country. I think he was always concerned about the balance between the expenditures and what the economy could stand. He is in every respect a fiscal conservative. He believed deeply in making sure we had a budget that was going to reflect our values, but also that we were going to take care that our resources were going to be well spent in the national interest. Finally, I want to mention an additional field where his leadership was very much in evidence; that is, in knocking down the walls of discrimination in all of the forms and shapes that have been presented in recent years. That is a defining issue for our country. America will never be America until we free ourselves from all types and all forms of discrimination. There was never a battle in any of the areas involving discrimination in which Chuck Robb was not a leader. I will miss him on this Senate floor. I join with my other colleagues in paying tribute to his service to the Senate, but most importantly to his State and also to our Nation. He has a great opportunity in the future for continued service. I think all Members in this body wish him well and look forward to opportunities of work with him closely again. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan. ____________________ |