[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 162 (Thursday, November 14, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1668]
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 IN RECOGNITION OF LESLIE A. WOOLLEY, FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF FEDERAL 
                                SERVICE

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                          HON. EMANUEL CLEAVER

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, November 14, 2013

  Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Speaker, as we enter the season of giving thanks, I 
reflect on an individual who made a lasting impression on me and this 
institution. I rise today to recognize and congratulate Leslie Woolley, 
my former Chief of Staff of five years, on her retirement. A Capitol 
Hill veteran, Leslie has had a long and distinguished career in public 
service and the financial services industry.
  Prior to working for me, Leslie was the Vice President, for 
Congressional Relations and International Banking at the Conference of 
State Bank Supervisors. She had previously spent over twenty years in 
the Senate and the House working as a professional staff member for the 
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs for 
Sen. Joe Lieberman (then D-CT), for U.S. Senators Zell Miller (D-GA), 
and Bob Graham (D-FL), who were both on the U.S. Senate Banking 
Committee. She also worked for U.S. House of Representatives Financial 
Services Committee members Bill McCollum (R-FL) and Wes Watkins (then 
D-OK), and as a professional staff member on a House Financial Services 
Subcommittee for U.S. Representative Norm Shumway (R-CA).
  Leslie served in the Executive Branch at the U.S. Department of the 
Treasury, where she was Director for Business and Public Liaison in the 
Office of Legislative Affairs and Public Liaison, during Secretary 
Larry Summers' tenure and at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 
(FDIC) where she was the Deputy to the Chairman for Policy for the 
first woman Chairman of the FDIC, Ricki Helfer.
  She had private sector experience as well, previously serving as the 
Vice President for Legislative Affairs at both the Investment Company 
Institute and at Chemical Bank.
  Leslie has had the unique opportunity to provide 25 years of federal 
service doing what she has loved--working in financial services public 
policy. During her 35 years in Washington, the financial services 
issues were interesting and sometimes very challenging. In particular, 
Leslie guided the FDIC's legislative involvement with the 1996 Deposit 
Insurance Funds Act which recapitalized the Savings and Loan Insurance 
Fund (SAIF) and worked with Senator Miller to ensure that the internal 
controls sections that applied to corporations under the Sarbanes-Oxley 
Act of 2002 were more balanced than under the original drafts of the 
bill. Leslie worked with me on the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform 
and Consumer Protection Act which was a response to the late-2009 
economic recession, by bringing some of the most significant changes to 
financial regulation since the Great Depression and impacting all 
federal financial regulatory agencies and almost every part of the 
United States' financial services industry.
  She holds both a Bachelor in Science and Masters in Business 
Administration degrees from Oklahoma State University (OSU). In 1995, 
Leslie was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from the OSU Alumni 
Association. In 2011, Leslie was named one of the top 50 MBA graduates 
from the OSU Spears School of Business at their 50th anniversary 
celebration. She has also received the Department of the Treasury's, 
Secretary's Honor Award (2001); and Women in Housing and Finance's 
Distinguished Leader Award (2004).
  In addition to her professional career, Leslie has made time for and 
been active in her community. She was President of Women in Housing and 
Finance 1984-85, and a Board Member from 2002-04; She held the office 
of Treasurer for Women's Giving Circle of Alexandria from 2007-2011 and 
a Board Member from 2007 to the present; Leslie was President of the 
Oklahoma State Society in 1991; and the President of the D.C. Chapter 
of the Oklahoma State University Alumni Association from 1993-95, an 
Alumni Association National Board member from 1996-2001, and a member 
of the OSU Alumni Association Executive Committee from 1998-2001.
  Even though the financial services industry has experienced its share 
of ups and downs, one thing has stayed consistent--the quality of the 
people, such as Leslie, who worked as colleagues and friends across 
different states, delegations, agencies, companies and trade 
associations for the betterment of our country. Upon her retirement, 
Leslie shared with me how blessed she was to have worked with each and 
every one of her colleagues and associates. Her husband, Doyle Bartlett 
and their two children, Ann and Cameron, have helped to make Leslie's 
career possible and her life better.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask you and our colleagues to join me in thanking 
Leslie for her 25 years of public service in the financial services 
arena; for her five years of support, help, and kindness to me, my 
Congressional staff and the constituents of the Fifth Congressional 
District of Missouri. I wish her the very best in all her future 
endeavors.

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