[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 119 (Friday, July 21, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1492]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      REMEMBRANCE OF RICK NEUSTADT

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                            HON. JANE HARMAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, July 21, 1995
  Ms. HARMAN. Mr. Speaker, earlier this month, the Democratic Party 
lost a creative voice and I lost a good friend.
  Rick Neustadt and I met in the Carter White House, where his keen 
policy instincts were extremely valuable. He then moved to the private 
sector where he used his knowledge of communications policy to help 
fledgling new communications technologies to develop. He did good--and 
he did well.
  He also continued his interest in refining and refocusing the 
Democratic Party to understand new technologies and the new workforce. 
His ideas were central to an excellent publication by the Democratic 
Leadership Council in California.
  I learned a lot from Rick, and was hopeful he would play an 
increasingly prominent role in the DLC and the definition of the new 
Democrat. His untimely death in a rafting accident is a major loss to 
his friends, his party, and his country.


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