[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 1, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S6272]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO JANE HINTON HART

 Mr. MILLER. Mr. President, today I honor a fellow Georgian, 
Mrs. Jane Hinton Hart. Mrs. Hart is retiring after more than 30 years 
of service in the U.S. Government. She was raised in Thomson, GA, where 
she graduated from Thomson High School in 1966, and Stephen F. Austin 
State University in Nacogdoches, TX, in 1970. She returned to Georgia 
and taught school in Augusta from January 1970 to June 1973.
  Mrs. Hart began her Federal Government career on the staff of former 
Senator Sam Nunn, where she served the people of Georgia from 1973 to 
1991. During her 18 years of service in Senator Nunn's office, Mrs. 
Hart worked the full spectrum of positions found in a congressional 
office. She began as a staff assistant and became a senior legislative 
assistant to the Senator and the liaison between the Senator's office 
and the military installations in the State of Georgia.
  In 1991, Mrs. Hart moved from the Hill to the Office of Legislative 
Affairs, Headquarters Marine Corps, where she has served four 
commandants, Generals Mundy, Krulak, Jones, and Hagee. As a legislative 
specialist, she has been responsible for reviewing and researching 
numerous legislative issues to determine their impact on the U.S. 
Marine Corps. She has provided guidance and drafted legislative 
proposals for inclusion in the Department of Defense omnibus 
legislative packages. She works closely with the Legislative Affairs 
Offices of the Department of the Navy and Department of Defense.
  In addition to Mrs. Hart's Government service, she has been an active 
education advocate through various PTAs in Arlington County, VA, a 
volunteer in the Boy Scouts of America, a Sunday school teacher, and 
she reads monthly at a homeless shelter. She will complete her masters 
in reading education this fall and plans to return to the classroom and 
teach.
  I wish Mrs. Hart, her husband, Jim, and their son, John, all the 
best. I am delighted that she came here from Georgia seeking to serve 
our Nation, and has done so with distinction for more than 30 years. 
Georgia is proud of Mrs. Hart's dedication, hard work and patriotism, 
and I wish for her many more years of continuing success.

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