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“MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO D. MICHAEL HARVEY” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Senate section on pages S10145-S10146 on Oct. 3, 2001.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO D. MICHAEL HARVEY
Mr. BINGAMAN. Madam President, it is both with a sense of sorrow and with great admiration that I rise today to pay tribute to an exemplary public servant and a good friend, D. Michael Harvey, who died on August 31, 2001. Mike served the United States Senate and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources with distinction for some 22 years. He often said that there was no higher calling than public service. Mike worked for and counseled some of the giants of the committee: Clifford Hansen of Wyoming; Lee Metcalf of Montana; Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson of Washington; Mark Hatfield of Oregon; Dale Bumpers of Arkansas; and J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana. He served at the direction of the committee's leaders, but all the committee's members--Democrats and Republicans alike--had access to and benefit of his counsel.
Mike was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Rochester, NY. He received his B.A. from the University of Rochester in 1955. He joined Eastman Kodak Co., for 4 years, before moving to Washington.
Mike began his public service career in 1960 with the Bureau of Land Management in the Interior Department, spending his last 4 years there as chief of the Division of Legislation and Regulatory Management. He received a J.D. from Georgetown University in 1963, while working at BLM. In the mid-1960s he served with the Public Land Law Review Commission and the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration.
In 1973 Mike accepted an invitation from Senator Henry M. Jackson to become special counsel to the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. In February 1977, when the Senate reorganized its committee structure and created the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Mike was appointed its first chief counsel. Until his retirement in 1995, he served as majority chief counsel during the years that the Democrats controlled the Senate and as chief counsel and staff director for the minority when Republicans held the majority.
During his tenure with the committee, Mike played a key role in developing landmark legislation involving Alaska lands, the regulation of surface coal mining, and Federal energy policy and land management. His knowledge of the law regarding natural resources was enclyclopedic and his judgment was well-respected. Mike was dedicated to achieving good public policy and his counsel was always given with that paramount objective in mind. In addition to providing a sounding board on a huge range of issues, Mike was a role model, a teacher and a mentor for his colleagues. He established a high standard of professionalism among the committee staff and instilled it, by his example more than by precept, in the generation of young staff members that he trained.
Mike was known by all who worked with him for his dedicated professionalism and the breadth and depth of his substantive expertise. But he was perhaps known best for the extremely high standard of ethics he brought to public service. You could always get a legal opinion from Mike of the highest caliber, and you could be absolutely confident that the opinion was free of any special interest or personal prejudgment. He was a talented professional and a fine human being.
Mike was actively involved in American Bar Association activities. He served on the council of the ABA Section of Natural Resources Law. He was past chairman of the Fairfax County Park Authority. He served as a congressional adviser to the U.S. delegation to the third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea and served on the board of governors of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation and the board of directors of the Public Land Foundation. Mike often attended the theater, loved poetry, and was known to quote Shakespeare at length.
The Senate was fortunate to have the benefit of Mike Harvey's considerable talents for many years. I was privileged to have worked with him and to have known him. Our deepest sympathies go out to Mike's family: his wife, Pat; his four children, Michelle, Jeffrey, David, and Leslie; and his 10 grandchildren. We share in their loss.
In eulogizing the great Scoop Jackson, Mike relied on a quotation from Shakespeare. I believe that Shakespeare's eloquent words apply as well to the late Mike Harvey:
His life was noble, and the elements so mixed in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world: ``This was a man.''
I yield the floor.
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