[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 110 (Friday, July 30, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1700]
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                             MAVIS TOSCANO

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                            HON. ZOE LOFGREN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 30, 1999

  Ms. LOFGREN. Mr. Speaker, today I want to extend my warmest thanks, 
and my fondest best wishes, to Mavis Toscano, my chief of staff, who 
will be leaving my office at the beginning of August. We have become 
accustomed in Congress to staff members who come and go in a period of 
months or a few years, replaced in a matter of days by their successors 
who themselves are destined for only limited stays. Mavis Toscano was 
the shining exception to this rule. Mavis has been on my staff for some 
15 years, dating back to when I was a member of the County Board of 
Supervisors in San Jose, and in my own journey from California to 
Washington she has been an indispensable assistant, an invaluable help, 
an immeasurable asset.
  Over the years Mavis has handled nearly every imaginable task for a 
congressional staff member, sometimes all at once by herself. For the 
last several years she has run my district office in San Jose, creating 
there a smoothly functioning enterprise whose successes on behalf of 
the people of the 16th District of California are innumerable. Her 
service to our community, both during her time with me and while she 
worked for the California State Assembly, has been at all times both 
resourceful and thoughtful. At times it has seemed like Mavis knew 
everyone in the District by his or her first name, and was owed a debt 
of gratitude by nearly all of them for her service.
  Yet at the same time that I will greatly miss both the services of 
Mavis Toscano and her decades-long friendship, I cannot but be happy 
for the tremendous opportunities that remain open to her for the rest 
of her career. Just as my desire to serve brought me from San Jose to 
Washington, so have Mavis's talents offered her even greater 
opportunities to continue the sort of work at which she has excelled 
for the past 15 years.
  I wish Mavis Toscano great success and good fortune in her next 
endeavors, and I know well that, judging by her work for me over the 
last 15 years, she will not be short of either.

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