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105th Congress, 2nd Session - - - - - - - - - - Senate Document 105-35
Dan Coats
U.S. SENATOR FROM INDIANA
TRIBUTES
IN THE CONGRESS OF
THE UNITED STATES
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S. Doc. 105-35
Tributes
Delivered in Congress
Dan Coats
United States Congressman
1980-1988
United States Senator
1988-1998
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CONTENTS
Biography............................................. vii
Proceedings in the Senate:
Tributes by Senators:
Abraham, Spencer, of Michigan.................. 13
Boxer, Barbara, of California.................. 33
Burns, Conrad R., of Montana................... 15
Daschle, Thomas A., of South Dakota............ 20
Dodd, Christopher J., of Connecticut........... 6
Dorgan, Byron L., of North Dakota.............. 6
Feingold, Russell D., of Wisconsin............. 26
Ford, Wendell H., of Kentucky.................. 18
Gorton, Slade, of Washington................... 24
Hutchison, Kay Bailey, of Texas................ 11
Jeffords, James M., of Vermont................. 4
Kempthorne, Dirk, of Idaho..................... 17
Lautenberg, Frank R., of New Jersey............ 14
Leahy, Patrick J., of Vermont.................. 10
Levin, Carl, of Michigan..................... 1, 13
Lieberman, Joseph I, of Connecticut............ 1
Lott, Trent, of Mississippi................. 10, 28
Lugar, Richard D., of Indiana.................. 9
Nickles, Don, of Oklahoma...................... 7
Sessions, Jeff, of Alabama..................... 26
Thurmond, Strom, of South Carolina........... 1, 12
Warner, John W., of Virginia................... 3
Farewell address of Senator Dan Coats.............. 33
Order for printing of individual Senate documents.. 39
Proceedings in the House:
Goodling, William F., of Pennsylvania.......... 41
Newspaper Articles and Editorials:
Seniority Bites, Roll Call......................... 45
An Urban Agenda, Indianapolis Star................. 46
Retiring Coats Comfortable Leaving Senate For
Sidelines, Indianapolis Star..................... 47
Coats is Hero to Man He Helped Like Brother,
Indianapolis Star................................ 48
Coats Bids Farewell to Life in the Senate,
Indianapolis Star................................ 50
Untitled article, Associated Press................. 51
Dan Coats Stuck To His Principles, Indianapolis
Star............................................. 52
Indiana's GOP Senator is Cashing Out of Political
Game, Chicago Tribune............................ 53
BIOGRAPHY
Hoosiers elected one of America's leading champions of
the family, U.S. Senator Dan Coats, to a 6-year term in
the U.S. Senate in November, 1992.
In the Senate, Coats has been committed to strengthening
families, building an effective national defense and
fighting for Indiana. Coats has received national
attention and recognition as the author and champion of
``The Project for American Renewal.'' The ``Project'' is a
major conservative social policy initiative that stresses
compassion by shifting power, money, and influence out of
Washington back to families, grassroots community
organizations, and private and religious charities.
A member of three of the Senate's most influential
Committees--Armed Services, Intelligence, and Labor and
Human Resources--Coats is active in shaping America's
defense, health care and education policies. Coats chairs
the Armed Services AirLand Subcommittee as well as the
Labor subcommittee on Children and Families, giving him an
instrumental role in policy formation.
In his duties on the Armed Services Committee, Coats
plays a key role in ensuring that in a changing world,
America stays strong and our service men and women remain
the best equipped and best trained in the world.
Through his role on the Intelligence Committee, which
oversees the Central Intelligence Agency, Coats reviews a
variety of national defense and international issues.
Coats also has leadership responsibilities by serving as
the Senate's Republic Midwest Regional Whip.
Coats, who the Washington Times has called ``a player, a
thinking man's conservative,'' is a leading advocate of
several congressional measures of importance to Hoosiers
and all Americans.
Coats was a key leader for the Presidential line-item
veto, now signed into law, which allows the President to
eliminate unnecessary pork-barrel spending from the
Federal budget.
Since 1989, Coats has fought for Indiana as the key
Senate champion to give States the right to refuse out-of-
state garbage. Thanks to Coats' persistent efforts, the
bill passed the Senate in 1995. Coats also is a strong
advocate of a constitutional amendment to require a
balanced Federal budget.
Coats' record of achievement began early. After
graduating from Wheaton College, he served for 2 years
with the U.S. Army. Coats then worked full-time as a legal
intern while attending Indiana University School of Law at
night and serving as Associate Editor of the Law Review.
Graduating Cum Laude, he then began his career as an
attorney in Fort Wayne.
Coats served as then-Congressman Dan Quayle's District
Director and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1980,
serving Indiana's Fourth District from 1981-1988.
Following appointment to the Senate by former Governor
Robert Orr in December, 1988, Coats won election to
complete his appointed term in November 1990, by the
largest margin of any appointed Senator in Indiana
history.
Senator Coats married the former Marcia Crawford in
1965. The Coats have three children and two grandchildren.
TRIBUTES
to
DAN COATS
Proceedings in the Senate
Thursday, May 14, 1998.
Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, this is also the final defense
authorization bill for three other members of our
committee--Senators Glenn, Coats and Kempthorne. They will
be leaving us this year, also through their choice. We
will miss them keenly. They have all made tremendous
contributions to the work of the Armed Services Committee
and to the national security of our country. Sometimes
their ways were similar and sometimes they were different,
but we are grateful for their contributions. I wanted to
note that as we get to work on the defense authorization
bill.
Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I wish to commend the able
Senator from Indiana. First, he has delivered a
magnificent address on the importance of the Armed
Services Committee work and defense in general.
Next, I want to commend him for the long, faithful
service he has rendered to this committee. I don't know of
any member of the committee that has worked harder and has
stood stronger for defense and has been more knowledgeable
in accomplishing what we have been able to do than the
able Senator from Indiana. He is truly an expert on armed
services matters. I wish him well in all that he does in
the future.
I regret that he has seen fit not to run again. We will
miss him here. A vacuum will be created. It will be hard
to fill. He is such a fine man, such a knowledgeable man,
and such a dedicated man. I want him to know that our
country appreciates what he has done.
Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I rise today in support of
the fiscal year 1999 defense authorization bill.
I do want to add my own voice to those who have offered
thanks and praise to the leadership of our committee, the
distinguished chairman, the Senator from South Carolina,
the Senator from Michigan, who have worked together as
chairman and ranking member to do exactly what Senator
Coats said earlier, which is to build a strong,
bipartisan--in many ways, nonpartisan--effort to meet the
defense national security needs of our country.
We used to say, and sometimes we are still able to, that
partisanship stops at the Nation's borders, at the water's
edge, when we enter foreign policy, defense policy. It
could also be said in good measure that partisanship stops
when we enter the rooms of the Senate Armed Services
Committee. I thank the leadership of this committee for
making that possible.
I want to pay particular tribute to Senator Thurmond,
who is an American institution, a figure that looms large
in our history, who, as we all know from personal service
with him, manages to do what they used to say only about
wine, which is that he gets better as he adds years. He is
not only informed and experienced and committed; the truth
is, he is a great patriot. In so many ways that will never
be visible, his leadership has strengthened the security
of the United States of America in the world. It has been
a great honor to get to know him at this stage of his
career, to work with him, particularly on the Armed
Services Committee, to thank him on this historic occasion
as he manages the last of these armed services bills
through the Senate. The Nation is in his debt, deep debt.
I think all of us who have served with him are very proud
that we have.
This is a person who, in the hurly burly and sometimes
mean-spirited world of politics, never seems to have
anything but a positive word to say--certainly, toward his
colleagues. In addition to all of the substance that I
have talked about, that notion of spirit is one that I
deeply appreciate.
Mr. President, while we are talking about members of the
committee, I do want to thank Senator Coats, the Senator
from Indiana, for the remarkable statement he has just
made--eloquent, thoughtful, informed. He has made a
tremendous contribution on this committee. It has been a
real pleasure to work with him on a host of issues. In our
case, it almost seems that I don't have to say ``across
party lines,'' because we never thought about that; we
were focused on common interests.
We got interested in this business of the military
transformation when we were both invited, on the same day,
to a day-long seminar that a think tank in town was
holding on national security. We spoke at different times
during the day. We had not talked to each other about the
fact that we were on the same program, and we both
essentially gave the same speech about the challenges
facing our military--that in a world where we have faced a
remarkable range of challenges, post-cold war revolution,
technology, and fiscal resources constraint we had to
begin to think about how to stay with it and produce the
most cost-effective defense we could. From that
coincidence, we began to work together on some of the
elements of this authorization bill that Senator Coats has
spoken of and which I will get back to in a moment. I
wanted to thank him, while he was on the floor, for his
tremendous contributions, and in a personal way, thank him
for the partnership that we have had, which has also
become a friendship. I hate to see him leave; I am going
to miss him, and the Senate will miss him. I know that
wherever he is, by his nature, he will be involved in
public service. I wish him Godspeed in that work.
Wednesday, June 24, 1998.
Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute
to a colleague who serves with me on the Senate Committee
on Labor and Human Resources and on the Armed Services
Committee. This morning, at the Labor Committee's mark-up
of S. 2206, the Human Services Reauthorization Act of
1998, I offered an amendment to rename the legislation
after the author of the bill, Senator Dan Coats of
Indiana, which the Committee approved unanimously. As you
know, Senator Coats will retire at the end of this
Congress after serving in the Senate since 1988. Senator
Kennedy, Senator Dodd, and Senator Jeffords, chairman of
the committee, joined me in offering the amendment.
Senator Jeffords renamed the legislation the ``COATS''
Act--the Community Opportunities, Accountability,
Training, (and Education) Services Act. S. 2206
reauthorizes and makes improvements to the Head Start
program, the Community Services Block Grant program, the
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance program, and it creates
the new Assets for Independence Act.
In the past, legislation has often been identified by
``legislative shorthand''--identifying legislation by the
author instead of by the title. This began in the late
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