[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 172 (Tuesday, December 21, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2232]
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                             DAVID CAVICKE

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                           HON. CLIFF STEARNS

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, December 21, 2010

  Mr. STEARNS. Madam Speaker, my friend, David Cavicke, Chief of Staff 
for the Republicans on the Committee on Energy and Commerce, is leaving 
the Committee in January after nearly 16 years of service. I and other 
Members of the Committee have benefited from David's sound counsel, 
tireless advocacy, policy entrepreneurship and relentless optimism. 
Like Ronald Reagan, Cavicke believes that you can accomplish anything 
if you don't worry about who gets the credit.
  David was invaluable to the Committee during our investigations of 
financial fraud at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He was early to identify 
that fraudulent accounting masked balance sheets with such volumes of 
toxic assets that the firms were likely to be insolvent. As a result of 
this work, David led the development of ideas to improve accounting and 
auditing standards in the Committee.
  David also worked extensively on privacy and telecommunications 
issues during my tenure as Chairman of the Commerce, Trade, and 
Consumer Protection subcommittee and my term as Ranking Member on the 
Telecommunications subcommittee. He is a principled conservative. He 
also believes that facts and data should drive policy. He has worked 
with Democrats and Republicans at the FCC to promote the growth of 
broadband, more extensive deployment of spectrum and greater 
efficiencies in the universal service program. He has been an advocate 
for protecting consumers' privacy in the online world. He has been 
sensitive to the enormous technical difficulties of using statutes to 
micro-manage internet commerce.
  He is a gentlemen, a wise lawyer, an expert in the formal and 
informal procedures of Congress and scrupulously fair to persons of 
both parties. He has been a Chief of Staff in the best tradition of the 
Energy and Commerce Committee.

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