[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 45 (Thursday, April 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 21, 1994]
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                       TRIBUTE TO ROBERT F. HALE

  Mr. SASSER. Mr. President, I rise today to recognize Robert F. Hale, 
who, after 17 years of commendable service at the Congressional Budget 
Office, has recently been nominated and confirmed by the Senate for the 
position of Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial 
Management and Comptroller.
  Mr. Hale began his time at the Congressional Budget Office as the 
principal analyst for military manpower issues. Mr. Hale received two 
promotions while at CBO--first to Deputy Assistant Director for 
National Security Affairs and then to the position he is vacating, 
Assistant Director for National Security Affairs.
  It is at this last position that I have had the greatest opportunity 
to familiarize myself with Mr. Hale's work. As chairman of the Senate 
Budget Committee, I must continually balance competing domestic and 
military priorities in an environment of increasingly constrained 
resources. The studies and analyses produced by Bob Hale and his 
talented staff at CBO's National Security Division have been invaluable 
in the committee's deliberations the last several years.
  The members of the Budget Committee have come to expect timely, 
independent, and well thought out reports on crucial issues of the day 
from Mr. Hale's Division. And, in my 5\1/2\ years as chairman, they 
have been rarely disappointed. In fact, if I have a single complaint 
about the National Security Division's work product over this time 
period, it is that it has been too independent.
  The loss of Bob Hale at the Congressional Budget Office is tempered 
somewhat by the knowledge that his dedication and knowledge will serve 
the American public and the Air Force in his new position. Mr. Hale is 
a true public servant in the best senses of that term and the public 
will be well served wherever Mr. Hale is employed. I wish him well in 
his new position and look forward to working with him in the days and 
months ahead.

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