[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 20 (Friday, March 1, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S1392]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      RECOGNIZING STEWART VERDERY

  Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, I rise today to recognize C. Stewart 
Verdery, General Counsel to the Assistant Republican Leader, Don 
Nickles, and a staffer for the Senate Republican High Tech Task Force, 
of which I serve as Chair, for his dedicated service to the Senate.
  After more than 6 years of serving the U.S. Senate, Stewart Verdery 
will depart today to join the team at Vivendi Universal here in 
Washington, D.C. He first served as counsel to my friend from Virginia, 
Senator John Warner. Stewart then served as counsel to the Senate Rules 
Committee, as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and currently 
serves as General Counsel to Senator Don Nickles. Let me take this 
opportunity to also thank Senator Nickles for allowing Stewart to 
dedicate time to the High Tech Task Force and the broader goal of 
advancing constructive technology policy in the Senate.
  As Chairman of the High Tech Task Force, I have come to know Stewart 
very well over the last year through his role as an advisor to Task 
Force and to the Republican leadership on technology issues. From the 
beginning, I have been impressed by his extraordinary command of 
complex technology issues and, perhaps more important, his ability to 
succinctly explain the issues to others. His advice and counsel were 
always sound and thoughtful, and through his effective and friendly 
manner, he instantly earned the respect of those with whom he worked.
  Stewart Verdery played a key role in the transformation of the High 
Tech Task Force into a lead advocate for the technology-friendly 
policies in the Senate. With his assistance, my colleagues and I were 
better prepared to advance a positive technology policy agenda in the 
Senate last year, including: the passage of a clean, two-year Internet 
tax moratorium extension; passage of the upgraded Export Administration 
Act reauthorization; securing additional funding for anti-piracy 
prosecutions; and the hard-fought effort in the economic stimulus 
debate to make the Research and Development tax credit permanent, to 
provide enhanced expensing and to include the broadband tax credit.
  I speak for many in the U.S. Senate when I say that we will miss 
Stewart and his talents. I wish Stewart, his wife Jenny and their two 
young children, Isabelle and Chase, all the very best health and 
happiness in their future endeavors.

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