[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 86 (Thursday, June 17, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1314]
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                    A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE D. HOLLIDAY

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                          HON. PHILIP M. CRANE

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 17, 1999

  Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, today I want to honor the accomplishments of 
George D. Holliday, a Specialist in International Trade and Finance at 
the Congressional Research Service. Dr. Holliday is retiring after 27 
years at CRS and is beginning a new position at the Organization for 
Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris in July. Over the years, 
the Congress, and especially the Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee 
on Ways and Means, has benefited from Dr. Holliday's expertise, in-
depth analyses, and timely response on a wide range of trade issues. 
For example, a few years ago, he assisted the Subcommittee in preparing 
for the WTO's Singapore Ministerial. More recently, Dr. Holliday 
provided invaluable assistance to the Subcommittee in preparation for a 
hearing on the important issue of China's accession to the WTO.
  Dr. Holliday earned both a B.A. and Ph.D. from George Washington 
University, where his major fields of study were international 
economics, international affairs, and Soviet economics. In addition, he 
is fluent in Russian (as a linguist in the U.S. Army, he performed 
intelligence work in Frankfurt, Germany in the early 1960s), and reads 
and speaks French and German.
  He began his career at CRS in 1972 as a research assistant, 
contributing to studies on East-West trade and the economies of the 
Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China. As a specialist in 
international trade and finance from 1975 to the present, Dr. Holliday 
coordinated and authored more than 50 CRS reports and issue briefs on a 
variety of trade issues, all of which reflect his strong analytical and 
writing skills. Early in his career, his reports focused on the U.S. 
Export-Import Bank and export promotion, technology transfer, and East-
West trade. Recent reports covered topics such as regional and 
multilateral trade agreements, reauthorization of fast-track authority, 
and the Generalized System of Preferences. Dr. Holliday was called upon 
many times by Members of Congress and their staffs for briefings on 
these issues.
  Dr. Holliday also served as head of the International Section of the 
Economics Division of CRS from 1979 to 1983 and again from 1989 to 
1995. In this capacity, he helped to shape CRS's work on trade policy 
for the Congress. Dr. Holliday's supervision, guidance, and review of 
research projects contributed to the high quality of reports authored 
by other CRS analysts.
  His many outside professional activities advanced the understanding 
of international trade. His doctoral dissertation, Technology Transfer 
to the USSR, 1928-1937 and 1966-1975, was published in 1979 and remains 
a seminal work. He contributed to a number of Congressional 
publications on topics such as economic reform in Eastern Europe and 
the economies of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He wrote a 
study on East-West technology transfer, which was published by the OECD 
in 1984. His article, The Uruguay Round's Agreement on Safeguards, was 
published by the Journal of World Trade in 1995. Dr. Holliday 
coauthored a course guide entitled International Economies for a course 
sponsored by the University of Maryland in 1995-96. He participated in 
the U.S. Congressional Task Force for Interparliamentary Cooperation in 
Ukraine and Romania in 1995 and 1996. Dr. Holliday spent 1998 in 
Moscow, where he was a trade advisor to the Government of Russia.
  I want to thank Dr. Holliday for his many contributions to the 
Congress and wish him well in his new position at the OECD.

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