[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 60 (Tuesday, May 4, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E734]
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                      RECOGNIZING RANDAL G. HOBBS

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                            HON. SAM GRAVES

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                          Tuesday, May 4, 2004

  Mr. GRAVES. Mr. Speaker, I proudly pause to recognize Randall G. 
Hobbs, Senior Auditor for the United States Department of Agriculture, 
the Great Plains Region, in Kansas City, Missouri.
  Mr. Hobbs has been responsible to the Inspector General for 
development of policies and for providing leadership, supervision, and 
coordination of audit activities relating to the Department's programs 
and operations. The Regional Inspector General for Audit plans, 
directs, and supervises the performance of all auditing activities. 
Senior Auditor Hobbs has played a major role in all of these 
activities.
  Mr. Hobbs began Federal service with the Internal Revenue Service in 
January 1979. He then accepted a position as a regulatory auditor with 
the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in March 1979 and worked there 
until September 1983. In April 1984, Randall Hobbs began his career 
with OIG as an auditor in the Great Plains Region in Kansas City, 
Missouri.
  During his career, he was recognized for using advanced audit 
techniques, pioneering efforts in controls over automated systems, and 
in leading audits in various USDA agencies. Mr. Hobbs, who became a 
Certified Public Accountant in the State of Missouri in 1984, was 
invaluable as OIG began to become heavily involved in financial 
statement audits in the early 1990s. Mr. Hobbs worked on financial 
statements audits of the Farmer's Home Administration (now part of 
Rural Development).
  Mr. Speaker, please join me in commending Mr. Hobbs for his 
outstanding career and wishing him well in retirement.

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