On the recordMay 9, 2018
I thank the gentleman for sharing with us his experiences and how special they were. Before I yield to our final speaker, I want to go over very quickly about the last part of the 46 years of political service that Zell Miller had that he served. In 1999, after he finished his last year as Governor, his second term--and he was term limited--he went back to Young Harris College, the University of Georgia, and Emory University as a teacher. The following year, then-Governor Roy Barnes appointed Zell to the United States Senate after Senator Paul Coverdell died. Four months later, he ran for that remaining 4 years on that 6-year term, and he was elected a Senator from the State of Georgia, and he served in that role. He pledged at that time to carry on the conservative tradition of the late Senator Coverdell, who was a Republican, of course, and he did that. He cosponsored then-U.S. President George W. Bush's 2001 tax cuts and was adamantly in support of President Bush on the issues of homeland security and the deployment of troops to Iraq at the start of the Iraqi war. You will remember, also, that he wrote another book, ``A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat.'' It became a national best seller in the months before the Presidential election that year. And, of course, in 2004, Democratic Senator from Georgia Zell Miller did something that I am not sure anyone else has ever done.…
