[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 60 (Thursday, April 23, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E955-E956]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          HONORING MITCH KING

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                          HON. JAMES P. MORAN

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 23, 2009

  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. I rise to thank and praise Mitch King for his 
exemplary 36 years of public service--a career which has spanned 11 
Postmaster Generals and during which mail service has expanded to serve 
more than 149 million addresses every day, becoming the country's 
largest retail network.
  Mitch is the epitome of a true public servant: he was and is always 
professional, always ready to help with any issue, and always on the 
lookout for constructive solutions. It has been an honor to benefit 
from his contributions both on the House Appropriations Committee and 
in my District over the years, and it is only right that we should 
honor and salute him for his more than three decades of service.
  Mr. King is one of several Managers in the Government Relations 
Department at the U.S. Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, DC, 
responsible for Congressional Liaison and legislative activities. He 
will retire from the Postal Service on May 1, after 36 years of 
service.
  During the later part of his career, he managed Postal Service 
Congressional Liaison activities for the states of Virginia, Maryland, 
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, 
Florida, and the District of Columbia. He was also responsible for 
postal-related legislative activity within the House Appropriations 
Committee. Additionally, one of his ad hoc activities included service 
on the Elections Center-sponsored Election Mail Task Force.
  Mitch began his postal career in 1973 as a letter carrier in my 
District in Falls Church. Subsequently, he became a supervisor of 
letter carriers, before becoming an Instructor in

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the Delivery Service Branch of the Postal Service Management Academy in 
Potomac, Maryland. By the spring of 1982, he began working in the 
Government Relations Department at the U.S. Postal Service Headquarters 
in Washington, DC. In 1992, he was promoted to the position of 
Government Relations Manager; a Postal Career Executive position.
  Since then he has managed government relations activities with many 
Members of Congress, addressing an ever expanding variety of postal-
related issues. He has also served as the principal postal contact for 
the House Appropriations Committee and the Financial Services 
Appropriations Subcommittee. While the Postal Service receives only 
minimal funding to support free mail for the blind and overseas voters, 
Mitch has been an extraordinary resource to us in addressing a host of 
postal issues which have arisen in our committee.
  Mitch and his wife, Mickey Fenyk-King, recently celebrated their 35th 
anniversary. Now, they look forward to having more time to spend with 
family and friends and to exploring the world together. They have 
surely earned our thanks and congratulations for a job well done and 
our very best wishes for their journeys ahead.

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