[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 114 (Wednesday, September 5, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1572]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF KIP LIPPER

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                          HON. HILDA L. SOLIS

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, September 5, 2001

  Ms. SOLIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize a friend of both 
myself and the environment--Kip Lipper.
  Kip has worked for the California legislature for 23 years, and I 
worked closely with him when I was an Assembly member. He is currently 
the chief of staff for California State Senator Byron Sher and the 
staff director to the California Senate's Committee on Environmental 
Quality.
  Kip has assisted Senator Sher, one of the state's leading 
environmental legislators, in drafting and enacting into law 
legislation on a variety of subjects including the California Clean Air 
Act, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, the California Beverage 
Container Recycling Act and the Integrated Waste Management Act. As a 
consultant to the Senate Environmental Quality Committee and Assembly 
Natural Resources Committee, Kip wrote and analyzed legislation 
affecting air quality, energy conservation and development, recycling, 
solid waste management, waste-to-energy project development and the 
California Environmental Quality Act.
  On behalf of my constituents and the environmental community of 
California, I want to pay tribute to Kip and thank him for his 
outstanding work on behalf of the environment.

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