[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 161 (Monday, November 15, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2388]
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                     A TRIBUTE TO JENNIFER MUMMERT

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                          HON. C.W. BILL YOUNG

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, November 15, 1999

  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the Appropriations Committee on 
November 19th will lose one of its most competent and efficient staff 
members, Jenny Mummert.
  Jenny will leave us that day to further her career in the private 
sector, and the Committee and particularly the Defense subcommittee 
will not be the same without her.
  Jenny joined the Committee in January 1991 as a member of the 
Treasury Postal Subcommittee staff, where she worked for four different 
Subcommittee Chairmen.
  When I became Chairman of the Defense Subcommittee in 1995, I 
persuaded Jenny to come to work for us. She took on every task we gave 
her cheerfully and professionally from helping with the arrangements at 
hearings, to preparing the voluminous notes and tables at markups and 
conferences, and a myriad of other tasks associated with writing and 
passing the largest of our appropriations bills.
  Jenny has not only been great in the work place, but she has done so 
while raising a family of four. She and her husband, Joe are the loving 
parents of Joey, Kandyce, Kevin, and Karley.
  Like most Members of the Appropriations Committee and its staff, 
Jenny has put in her share of long nights, weekends, and holidays 
helping to prepare our annual legislative products. She has been a 
trooper, and on behalf of the entire Committee and the Congress, I want 
to thank her for her numerous contributions to her country and to our 
nation's security.
  Mr. Speaker, it is my hope that my colleagues on the Appropriations 
Committee and in the House will join me in wishing Jenny all the best 
with her new career.