[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 20 (Thursday, February 7, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E141-E142]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 HONORING THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF CONNY B. McCORMACK, LOS ANGELES COUNTY 
                    REGISTRAR-RECORDER/COUNTY CLERK

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                        HON. GRACE F. NAPOLITANO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, February 7, 2008

  Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize and commend 
Conny B. McCormack, an outstanding Californian, who has recently 
retired from 30 years of public service, the last 12 as Los Angeles 
County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.
  Mrs. McCormack is the epitome of the competent, capable, dedicated 
public servant. Her career accomplished many noteworthy positions 
before she came to Los Angeles County. As the Los Angeles County 
Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, Mrs. McCormack has met with great 
success. Her Registrar of Voters duties saw her conduct elections in 88 
cities, 100 school districts, and 149 special districts for roughly 4 
million voters across 5,000

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precincts. Her duties as Recorder/County Clerk included maintaining 
birth, death and marriage records for a county of nearly 10 million 
people and recording and filing countless property documents and 
statutory oaths. Her office maintained over 200 million documents, a 
volume exceeded only by the Social Security Administration and the 
Pentagon. Mrs. McCormack, a great innovator, implemented the InkaVote 
Plus voting system, to guide voters through casting their ballots 
correctly and make voting easier for the disabled, and launched a new 
Enterprise Recording Archive system that eliminated manual processes to 
increase efficiency and cut down the use of paper.
  Mrs. McCormack embodies the characteristics of a highly respected 
public servant, humble, lovable, spirited, renowned for her skills in 
the kitchen, a lover of outdoors gardening, hiking, and playing with 
her adopted canines from the L.A. County animal shelter. Mrs. McCormack 
is a great role model for our young women and a workers' advocate who 
helped support numerous student and clerical training programs. She has 
participated in many charities, from the Christmas Angel Tree Program 
for local low income children to Aids Walk Los Angeles to victims of 
Hurricane Katrina.
  Conny has been an exemplary public servant known throughout her field 
for her dedication to her position, for her honesty, and for her 
integrity in her zeal to protect voters. A lifetime workaholic, an avid 
recycler, a true bargain hunter, a continual multi-tasker.
  Madam Speaker. I proudly ask you to join me, her family, friends, and 
community in honoring Conny McCormack for her service in, and 
contributions to, the County of Los Angeles and other communities 
across the country.

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