[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 30, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S553]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          LT. COL. B.G. WRIGHT

  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I congratulate B.G. Wright, who has served 
on my staff as a Fellow from the Army National Guard, for this 
promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. B.G. has been a very active member of 
my staff for the last year, handling a variety of issues in the broad 
areas of national defense and foreign policy in the context of my work 
on the Armed Services Committee and as the Ranking Democrat on the 
Appropriations Committee.
  He has been a full participant in the complex and demanding life of 
the Senate, and has assumed growing responsibilities within the 
legislative process. In this context, he has been responsible for 
developing and drafting policy memoranda, legislative amendments, 
talking points, and floor statements. He has developed rapidly an 
unusual acuity for the chemistry and movement of issues in the often 
confusing milieu of the Senate legislative process, and the floor 
consideration of national defense legislation.
  In the context of our Committee work he has drafted authorization and 
appropriations language and recommendations in a wide variety of areas, 
including: the budget of the Department of Defense and the State 
Department, U.S. policy toward Bosnia, and the annual budget for world-
wide military construction projects. In all, his work has been 
outstanding, timely, with a sure foundation of good judgment, a fine 
knowledge of the English language, a pleasing writing style and an 
ability to make a good argument. His work, in fact, has been 
outstanding even in the comparison to the general group of Fellows that 
serve in the Senate on an annual basis, and I have been very pleased to 
request that the Army National Guard leave him with us for another 
legislative session.
  In the same time, B.G. Wright has attended to his other duties in the 
Army National Guard, and also to his very unusual duty of serving as a 
White House social aide. In the process of this latter position, he was 
requested by name to assist President Clinton in hosting 150 Heads of 
State for the United Nation's Fiftieth Anniversary in New York.
  The Army National Guard has had the good sense to permit B.G. to 
remain on my staff for an additional year, and I have no doubt that he 
will continue to grow and contribute to the life of the Senate in the 
coming year. I look forward to his work, his exceptionally pleasing 
personality, and his good character. I again congratulate him on a well 
deserved promotion to Lieutenant Colonel and wish him all the best in 
his Army career.

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