[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 83 (Friday, May 30, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E886-E887]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                                  2015

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                               speech of

                           HON. FRANK R. WOLF

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 28, 2014

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 4660) making 
     appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, 
     Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2015, and for other purposes:

  Mr. WOLF. Madam Chair, I want to again recognize and thank all of the 
staff members who worked on this bill, including the Appropriations 
Committee staff members as well as the associate staff who work in the 
personal offices of the members of our subcommittee. They have all 
worked hard to help us hold nine hearings in just over a month and then 
prepare this bill for markup, the earliest it has been advanced by the 
House in many years.
  I would like to again thank the majority staff for their hard work, 
including the subcommittee's clerk, Mike Ringler, as well as Leslie 
Albright, Jeff Ashford, Diana Simpson, Colin Samples and Taylor Kelly. 
I also want to thank Bob Bonner and Matt Smith on the minority staff. 
They worked together to produce an excellent bipartisan bill that the 
committee should be proud of.
  I also want to recognize my personal office staff, especially Tom 
Culligan, Elyse Bauer Anderson and Dan Scandling.
  In addition to serving as my office's legislative director, Tom 
Culligan has served as my associate staff to the Commerce-Justice-
Science (CJS) Appropriations subcommittee since 2008, while I served 
both as ranking member and, more recently, as chairman. Tom has been my 
senior policy adviser on key issues this subcommittee has prioritized 
in recent years, including counterterrorism, cybersecurity and space 
exploration policy, and I have appreciated his strategic focus and 
knowledge of these issues. He has also managed many of my oversight 
investigations while I have chaired this subcommittee, aimed at keeping 
our country safe and competitive, as well as preventing waste and abuse 
at federal agencies. The bill, report and oversight hearings over the 
last several years reflect this focus and I appreciate Tom's work on 
these issues.
  Elyse is on her fourth tour of duty in my office. She is my top 
staffer for my work on the State & Foreign Operations subcommittee as 
well as the congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, which I 
co-chair. Many of those issues run parallel to the work in the CJS 
bill. Elyse's knowledge of Congress and world affairs is a huge asset. 
She also is a gifted writer whose words always make me sound better.

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  Dan has served as my chief of staff and press secretary for the last 
14 years and has been an invaluable manager of my office and adviser on 
many issues, including on this bill. Dan has been an outstanding leader 
of my staff and has helped me ensure that balance my responsibilities 
to the 10th District as well as this subcommittee. He has planned trips 
and travelled with me around the world--including to China, Iraq, 
Afghanistan, Sudan and Egypt--to conduct oversight on U.S. national 
security and human rights policies. This would not have been possible 
without Dan's hard work, guidance and support over the years.

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