[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 5 (Wednesday, January 12, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E52-E53]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HONORING JONATHAN SANFORD

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                           HON. BARNEY FRANK

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 12, 2011

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, today I want to honor the 
career of Jonathan Sanford, an international trade and finance 
specialist in the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division of the 
Congressional Research Service. Mr. Sanford is retiring after 39 years 
of federal service, including the last 38 years as a CRS expert where 
he became a serious student of the Congress and demonstrated a capacity 
for integrating substantive knowledge on a wide range of issues with a 
practical understanding about how to move things forward.
  Mr. Sanford's combination of personal skills, high professional 
capacity, mastery of a very complex set of international financial 
issues, and his sophisticated understanding of the political process 
made him ideally suited for his work teaching, informing, and advising 
policy makers and their staffs--and he did this throughout his career 
with unflagging enthusiasm and without any trace or pitch, of course, 
of partisanship.
  Over a span of almost four decades, Mr. Sanford has helped keep 
Members of Congress and their staff well informed through his prolific 
written work--which was consistently thoughtful, responsible, and 
balanced in its analysis--and by his readiness to engage in active 
policy discussions that were so evidently shaped by a creative mind and 
a vast institutional memory.
  His expertise on international financial issues include exchange rate 
systems, bilateral and multilateral debt relief efforts, reconstruction 
of the Iraqi economy, a thorough understanding of the international 
financial and multilateral development institutions, as well as the 
central role of Congress in the formulation of U.S. policy at these 
institutions, and countless others.
  To many of his colleagues and the people with whom he's worked most 
closely over the years, Mr. Sanford is nearly an institution himself 
within this venerable institution of Congress, and that seems 
appropriate to me because of the passion with which he was dedicated to 
the role and responsibilities of this legislative branch, and to its 
people, and its purpose, and to everyone we all work here together to 
serve.
  I want to take this moment to congratulate and to thank Mr. Sanford 
not only for his many contributions to the Congress for so many years 
but also for his legacy of service to public policy and to the public 
good. His many decades of close support to the Congress, his work 
ethic, his standards and his character all come together to me in a way 
that I think best exemplifies the meaning of public service.

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