[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 95 (Thursday, July 16, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1323]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        STEVE SCHIFF AUDITORIUM

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                               speech of

                       HON. CONSTANCE A. MORELLA

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 15, 1998

  Mrs. MORELLA. Mr. Speaker, I had the pleasure of serving with Steve 
Schiff on the Science Committee ever since Steve was elected to 
Congress.
  As the Chairman of the Basic Research Subcommittee, Steve worked to 
ensure that our national investment in research and development were 
properly spent to maintain our nation's scientific and technological 
preeminence. Steve's stewardship of the Basic Research Subcommittee 
served our nation and his home district of Albuquerque well--especially 
the Sandia National Laboratory. Steve knew that Federal laboratories, 
such as Sandia, are one of our greatest assets and he did all he could 
to protect the important role they play in our nation's scientific 
research and development enterprise, such as leading the fight to stop 
a national laboratory closure commission. So, it is only fitting that 
today we honor Steve's memory by designating the auditorium at the 
Sandia Technology Transfer Center as the ``Steve Schiff Auditorium.''
  Steve was committed not just to Albuquerque, Sandia, and scientific 
basic research development, but also committed to fairness and equity. 
He displayed his character in his many years as a prosecutor in New 
Mexico, but also as the Chair of the House Ethics Committee. Steve was 
the sort of man who was guided not by the politics of an issue, but 
went where his sense of right and wrong took him.
  As a result of our actions today, generations will be able to go to 
Sandia and remember everything that Steve stood for, so that his memory 
and his example will continue to live on even after his passing.

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