[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 53 (Thursday, May 5, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: May 5, 1994]
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                   IN HONOR OF CONGRESSMAN ROBERT ROE

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                            HON. HERB KLEIN

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 5, 1994

  Mr. KLEIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to my 
distinguished predecessor, Congressman Robert Roe. I am very proud to 
join the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies in honoring him 
as he receives this organization's Public Service Award in the national 
level category for 1994.
  Before his retirement in 1992, Congressman Roe was the dean of the 
New Jersey delegation and chairman of the Public Works and 
Transportation Committee.
  Congressman Roe had a long career in public service before he was 
elected to Congress. He served in the Governor's cabinet as State of 
New Jersey commissioner of Conservation and Economic Development. He 
was also active in local government as director of the Board of Chosen 
Freeholders of Passaic County, and mayor of Wayne.
  Congressman Roe was first elected to the U.S. House of 
Representatives to fill an unexpired term of office in a special 
election in 1969, and was re-elected to each succeeding Congress. 
Congressman Roe became Chairman of the House Science, Space, and 
Technology Committee in 1987, and played a key role in returning the 
United States to space in September 1988 when the space shuttle 
Discovery was launched. During his chairmanship, the committee also 
worked to improve United States technological competitiveness, fusion 
development, the modernization of American university research 
facilities, and providing for the tracking of medical wastes.
  Congressman Roe was elected Chairman of the House Public Works and 
Transportation Committee in 1991, and was the primary author of the 
$151 billion Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. 
He had previously served as chairman of the Subcommittee on Water 
Resources where he wrote environmental and water quality legislation 
including three major bills which later became laws: The Superfund 
Reauthorization of 1986, the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, 
and the Clean Water Act of 1987.
  It was a great honor to succeed Congressman Roe. In addition to 
thanking him for all of his efforts, it is with great pleasure that I 
ask all Members to join me in congratulating their former colleague for 
his many years of dedicated service to this institution, New Jersey, 
and our country.

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