[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 64 (Friday, May 17, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E850]
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   THANKS AND FAREWELL TO DR. CHRISTINE EHRENBERG, DIRECTOR HOUSE OF 
                   REPRESENTATIVES CHILD CARE CENTER

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                          HON. STENY H. HOYER

                              of maryland

                           HON. ROBERT W. NEY

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 16, 2002

  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, on the occasion of her departure at the end 
of this month for a teaching position in the Empire State, we rise to 
thank Dr. Christine Greer Ehrenberg for her exemplary service to this 
House.
  For the past four and one-half years, Dr. Ehrenberg has served as the 
Director of the House of Representatives Child Care Center. Since 1985, 
the Center has provided outstanding preschool and educationally 
enriching care for children of Members and staff of the House, enabling 
parents to work free of worry about their children's welfare. We are 
grateful to Dr. Ehrenberg, and her dedicated staff, for making this 
possible, and for the many improvements which she has initiated and 
implemented for the Center during her tenure.
  Christine is only the second director of HRCCC. When she arrived in 
1997, she brought a wealth of experience in the educational field. Her 
direction of the Center, and her guidance to those who oversee it, have 
been invaluable. But we are supremely confident that the greatest 
beneficiaries of Christine's talents and efforts, by far, have been the 
children enrolled in the Center. Christine's has not always been an 
easy job--the events of the dreadful morning of September 11 come 
immediately to mind, together with the logistics of relocating the 
Center, once permanently to its current location, and once temporarily. 
But despite difficult circumstances, Christine always kept the Center 
on an even keel and moving in the right direction.
  Through her work here, Christine has earned the respect and gratitude 
of dozens of House families whose children started their educational 
careers at the Center. We join them in thanking Christine for her 
tireless efforts in their behalf. We wish Christine and her husband 
Dale all the best as they set out for New York State. May they always 
look back fondly upon their days with the House, as we surely will.

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