[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 16 (Wednesday, February 23, 1994)]
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 TRIBUTE TO PAT KRAUSE, FORMER MEMBER OF STAFF OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON 
                   INSULAR AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

  (Mr. De LUGO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeLUGO. Mr. Speaker, I rise with sadness to note the passing of a 
former member of the staff of the Subcommittee on Insular and 
International Affairs, Patricia A. Krause. She succumbed last night 
after a long battle with cancer.
  Pat served for 14 years on the staffs of the Interior and Insular 
Affairs Subcommittees with jurisdiction over matters concerning the 
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the freely associated states 
that evolved from it. Our expert on these Micronesian Islands, she was 
a trusted advisor to me as well as to my predecessors, John F. 
Seiberling and the late, great Phillip Burton.
  Pat was brought to the committee by Phil, whom she had also aided 
while on the staff of the Democratic caucus. Her work for our party 
additionally included stints on the Democratic Study Group and 
Democratic National Committee staffs.
  Much of her work for our committee concerned the awful legacy of U.S. 
nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands. She was devoted to 
seeing to it that our Nation provided medical care for the peoples 
whose health and been adversely affected by the fallout. Pat was 
dedicated to ensuring that the contamination would be cleaned up and 
islanders could safely return to their homelands.
  It's ironic that the committee will hold a hearing tomorrow to 
further investigate information that Pat helped uncover on the full 
extent of the problems caused by nuclear testing in the Marshalls.
  Mr. Speaker, Pat Krause was a deeply compassionate and committeed 
woman with a very warm heart and a strong personality who served this 
House and the peoples of Micronesia well.
  Mr. Speaker, we who knew Pat will miss that wonderful raucous laugh 
of hers. This good woman will be missed by all who knew her.

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