[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 144 (Monday, October 12, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2095]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     SALUTING THE EMPLOYEE BENEFIT RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON ITS 20TH 
                              ANNIVERSARY

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                           HON. EARL POMEROY

                            of north dakota

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, October 12, 1998

  Mr. POMEROY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to salute one of our Nation's 
leading public policy institutes on the occasion of its 20th 
anniversary. For two decades now, the Employee Benefit Research 
Institute (EBRI), under the outstanding leadership of its president 
Dallas Salisbury, has been providing trusted data and analysis on some 
of the most important public policy issues of our time--Social Security 
reform, health coverage and quality, and the changing world of private 
pensions.
  As one who has made retirement and health security issues the core of 
my legislative agenda, I have benefited many times from EBRI's 
exceptional and nonpartisan research and analysis. I have relied on 
EBRI to provide me with the very latest findings and developments, and 
I have called on their stable of experts many times for objective data 
and analysis as I have begun work on a new legislative initiative.
  I want to commend EBRI in particular for two of its most recent 
endeavors. One was the central role EBRI played in organizing this 
year's National Summit on Retirement Savings, which highlighted the 
critical issues of saving and planning for retirement. The second is 
EBRI's recent development of a highly sophisticated computer model of 
the Social Security system that is now the leading tool in the country 
for analyzing the effects of Social Security reform proposals.
  Mr. Speaker, again let me congratulate the Employee Benefit Research 
Institute for 20 years of outstanding work. I look forward to EBRI's 
continued contribution to the public policy of our Nation.

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