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




                   CONGRATULATIONS TO KATHRYN LEHMAN

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to join the House 
Republican Conference chairman, the whip, and shortly the chief deputy 
whip and the vice chairman of our conference in congratulating Kathryn 
Lehman on an outstanding career here in the Congress and to wish her 
Godspeed as she leaves this great institution and goes out into the 
wide world to seek other challenges and opportunities.
  Kathryn has served the House of Representatives longer than the vast 
majority of the Members who serve here today. She has an incisive legal 
mind, and I came to know that many years ago when I was first elected 
to serve here and had the privilege of being appointed to serve on the 
House Committee on the Judiciary, where Kathryn was serving as a 
counsel for the then senior member of the committee, the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and shortly thereafter became chairman of the 
committee.
  Kathryn was the staff director and chief counsel for the Subcommittee 
on the Constitution. She advised the gentleman from Illinois (Chairman 
Hyde) and subsequently Speaker Gingrich, with regard to the procedures 
that the House needed to follow with regard to the very somber process 
of impeachment of a President of the United States. Since then, she has 
gone on to serve in our leadership. A number of Members who we can see 
here today recognize that she has not only the great sense of humor 
that has been recognized already, but a great ability to step back and 
see the big picture at a time when many of us get tied up in the heat 
of the moment. That is something that is a valuable, valuable asset for 
this Congress and this Republican Conference.
  Kathryn, we thank you, and we wish you the very best.

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