[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 60 (Tuesday, May 10, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Page S4865]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   RECOGNIZING LISA GUILLERMIN GABLE

  Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, I am pleased today to recognize and thank 
Ambassador Lisa Guillermin Gable of Virginia for her valued leadership 
as the United States Commissioner General to the 2005 World Exposition 
in Aichi, Japan.
  The World Expo 2005 features national pavilions from 125 
participating countries. Under the leadership of Ambassador Gable, the 
not-for-profit and privately funded organization, Aichi USA 2005, has 
successfully designed and built the U.S. Pavilion, which will be open 
to the public in Nagoya, Japan, through September 25, 2005. The 
showcase at the United States' pavilion honors America's first diplomat 
and innovator, Benjamin Franklin. The pavilion showcase promotes 
America's core values of hope, optimism, enterprise and freedom.
  Under Ambassador Gable's stewardship, the U.S. Pavilion and related 
cultural activities were successfully and fully funded with 100 percent 
non-Federal financing. The hard work of this distinguished resident of 
the Commonwealth of Virginia will help promote U.S. economic 
development by fostering business relationships between Japan and the 
many participating countries and state sponsors.
  I express my appreciation and thanks to Ambassador Lisa Guillermin 
Gable, U.S. Commissioner General to the World Expo, as named by 
President George W. Bush, for leading the way in making possible the 
United States' participation in the first world's fair of the 21st 
Century.

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