[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 16, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E245]
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                       HONORING ROBERT A. DENNIS

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                         HON. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 16, 2011

  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Robert A. Dennis, 
Assistant Director for Macroeconomic Analysis of the Congressional 
Budget Office, upon his retirement after 32 years of outstanding 
service to CB0 and the Congress. Bob has been instrumental in providing 
the Congress with analyses of macroeconomic issues throughout his 
exceptional career at CBO. His extraordinary analytical skills and 
leadership ability were recognized early in his CB0 career. While 
serving in his first position as a Principal Analyst in the 
Macroeconomic Analysis Division during the early 1980s, Mr. Dennis 
received a CBO Director's Award in recognition of outstanding 
performance. He was later promoted to the position of Deputy Assistant 
Director of the Macroeconomic Analysis Division in 1988 and to the 
position of Assistant Director of the Division in 1992, the position he 
has held until his retirement at the end of February, 2011.
  Bob's versatility and skill as an economist are evident in the 
Division's high-quality and prescient work on an extraordinarily 
diverse range of issues. Those issues included, for example, the 
macroeconomic effects of the savings and loan crisis, possible 
terrorist disruptions of U.S. ports, flu epidemics, trade agreements, 
financial crises, housing policies, economic stimulus policies, changes 
in tax policy, and climate policy, as well as the determinants of long-
term economic growth. Bob has been central to the development of the 
procedures the Macroeconomic Analysis Division has used to prepare the 
economic outlook for the budget baseline. He even wrote the computer 
software that the Division used for many years to analyze current 
economic developments and prepare charts for CBO publications.
  Bob has performed his various duties within the Congressional Budget 
Office with objectivity, non-partisanship, and a high level of 
professionalism. I commend him for his many years of dedicated, 
faithful, and exemplary service to the United States and the Congress. 
This nation is fortunate enough indeed to have outstanding and 
dedicated public servants like Bob Dennis at CBO. Bob's presence will 
be missed but his legacy of commitment and superlative service will 
carry on.

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