[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 56 (Tuesday, May 3, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H2780-H2781]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   THE HOUSE WILL MISS KATHRYN LEHMAN

  (Mr. BLUNT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BLUNT. Mr. Speaker, I want to join my colleague and good friend, 
our conference chairman, the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Pryce), in 
recognizing Kathryn Lehman as she leaves her work here after 15 years.
  We are dramatically benefited by the people who help us do these 
jobs, and no one has been more involved in more places over those 15 
years than Kathryn has, working, as has already been said, in the 
Speaker's office, in the Conference office, in the whip's office. 
During the 4 years that I was the chief deputy whip, it was never quite 
clear to me whether Kathryn was working for me or I was working for 
her, but I always knew that we were all working to get our job done.
  She is leaving now to go to Holland. We recently lost a great former 
Member of the Congress, our good friend Tiller Fowler, and Tillie would 
be pleased, I think, that Kathryn is filling some of the gap that is 
left there by Tillie's passing.
  I am sure that our conference chairman will miss Kathryn. I know that 
our conference will miss Kathryn on a daily basis. I really do deeply 
and truly know that we will miss Kathryn's wise counsel, her good 
judgment and, maybe most of all, her reliable sense of humor. When 
things are the toughest and the challenges are the greatest, Kathryn 
always had an understanding of how fortunate we all really were to be 
involved in that challenging moment, to be making those decisions on 
the House Floor, to be part of this great process in the greatest 
country in the world.
  Kathryn, we will miss you.

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