Mr. President. today I pay tribute to one of our most distinguished Senior Senators. and a personal friend of mine. PETE DOMENICI of New Mexico. who yesterday announced he will retire at the end of this Congress. The son of Italian immigrants. Senator DOMENICI has accomplished many things in his long and distinguished career. Growing up in Albuquerque. he worked in his fathers wholesale grocery business. After earning a degree in education from the University of New Mexico in 1954. he pitched for the Albuquerque Dukes. a farm club of the old Brooklyn Dodgers. He left baseball to be a teacher. and then earned a law degree in 1958.
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