[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 71 (Wednesday, May 19, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S5794]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MARIANNE LAMONT HORINKO

  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I rise today to honor Marianne Lamont 
Horinko who currently serves as the Assistant Administrator of the 
Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response at the Environmental 
Protection Agency. Marianne has served our Nation in that post since 
October 1, 2001, and just a few weeks from now will return to private 
life and to spend more time with her family.
  As Assistant Administrator of OSWER, Marianne demonstrated 
outstanding leadership and has met the unprecedented challenges of a 
post September 11th America. Ms. Horinko realized the incredible 
challenges that lay before her just one month after the horrific 
attacks of that day. Immediately upon assuming office, Marianne 
refocused the traditional missions of OSWER from waste management and 
related reclamation work of contaminated sites to emergency response of 
historic proportions. She led the clean-up effort at Ground Zero in New 
York City and the Pentagon, a mission that no one could have 
contemplated before then and still haunts us today.
  While managing the emergency response of the September 11th 
destruction, Congress itself was the victim of a cowardly anthrax 
biological attack. Facing yet another unprecedented event, Marianne led 
the emergency response and clean up effort not of a Superfund site, but 
of the Senate office buildings, and ensured that the Capitol community 
was safe from harm and helping Congress return to doing the work for 
the Nation.
  In 2003, as National Program manager, Ms. Horinko oversaw EPA's 
response to the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster. Again, Marianne 
charted a new course for OSWER and crafted the groundbreaking National 
Approach to Response.
  Marianne has accepted challenge after challenge head on as Assistant 
Administrator of OSWER, and assumed responsibility when called upon. 
Not only did she exceed expectation in that role, but she also 
performed as acting administrator of the entire Environmental 
Protection Agency after the resignation of Governor Whitman.
  Marianne has brought dynamic new approaches to environmental 
protection using partnerships, flexibility and innovation to create 
environmental improvements rather than the old command and control 
systems of the past. The Brownfields program, signed into law by 
President Bush in 2002, is just one of the many ways that Marianne's 
results-based leadership led to environmental protection.
  Marianne Lamont Horinko proved to be one of the most diligent, 
dynamic, and outstanding leaders in the history of the Environmental 
Protection Agency. We thank her for her service to our Nation, and wish 
her all the best in her future pursuits.

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