Whereas Herb Kohl grew up in the Sherman Park neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Whereas Herb Kohl earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin, which is now home to the basketball and hockey center that bears his name, as well as the Herb Kohl Public Service Research Competition to advance evidence-based policy and governance research by faculty members and students, which were supported through his gifts to the University; Whereas, as president of the Kohl’s Corporation, Herb Kohl followed in his father’s footsteps and built with his brothers a chain of over 50 Kohl’s grocery stores across the Midwest; Whereas, when the Milwaukee Bucks were put up for sale and in danger of being bought and moved to another city, Herb Kohl stepped forward in 1985 and bought the team with the promise to Bucks fans that the team would never leave—a promise he fulfilled when the time came to sell the team in 2014, donating $100,000,000 to help build a new arena for the community; Whereas, in 1990, Herb Kohl started the Herb Kohl Educational Foundation, which has provided more than $34,000,000 in grants and scholarships to Wisconsin students, teachers, and schools; Whereas Herb Kohl answered a call to public service in 1988 and ran for the United States Senate with a commitment to being nobody’s Senator but yours and working across party lines for the people of the State he loved; Whereas Herb Kohl served Wisconsin in the United States Senate for 24 years, bringing his business experience to his Senate office and treating his more than 5,000,000 Wisconsin constituents as his customers; Whereas Herb Kohl championed issues important for the people of Wisconsin, fighting every day for dairy farmers, working to protect kids from the threat of gun violence, helping seniors secure and keep high quality health care, and supporting education at all levels, from early childhood through adults attending technical colleges and universities