[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 121 (Monday, September 14, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1709]
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                     IN HONOR OF RICHARD KOWALCHIK

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, September 14, 1998

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the achievements of 
Richard Kowalchik, who has dedicated thirty years to government 
service.
  Mr. Kowalchik has been an Ohio resident since 1942 when his parents 
moved to the Cleveland, Ohio area from Pennsylvania. He was educated in 
the Cleveland Public School System and earned degrees from both Ohio 
University and Western Michigan University.
  On April 1, 1968, Mr. Kowalchik was hired as an Immigration Inspector 
with the Department of Justice, United States Immigration and 
Naturalization Service, in Cleveland Ohio. In 1973, he was promoted to 
the position of a Deportation Officer, where he served for over four 
years until he was selected as a Special Agent. In that Investigations 
Program, Mr. Kowalchik advanced to positions of Supervisory Special 
Agent, Senior Special Agent and Assistant District Director for 
Investigations. In 1989, he was promoted to Deputy District Director 
for the Cleveland District.
  Through time and experience, Mr. Kowalchik earned respect and dignity 
from his coworkers. This respect and dignity earned him the right to 
serve on the Organized Crime Strike Force, working with the Department 
of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement 
Task Force. On August 31, 1998, Mr. Kowalchik retired as District 
Director and will be remembered in the workplace as a man of impeccable 
integrity and fairness.
  My fellow colleagues, join me in honoring Mr. Kowalchik, a man who 
has benevolently dedicated and unselfishly given thirty years of 
service to the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service's 
Cleveland District.

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