[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 88 (Monday, June 9, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E925]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     IN APPRECIATION OF STEPHANIE Y. MOORE AND HER YEARS OF SERVICE

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                           HON. BOB GOODLATTE

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, June 9, 2014

  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, I, along with House Judiciary Ranking 
Member John Conyers, Jr. of Michigan and former Representative Melvin 
Watt of North Carolina would like to thank Stephanie Y. Moore for 
twelve years of service to the House of Representatives. Nine of those 
years were spent as a dedicated counsel to the Judiciary Committee 
under four Chairmen, including myself and Representatives Jim 
Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, John Conyers, Jr. and Lamar Smith of Texas. 
She also served three years as General Counsel to Representative George 
Miller of California and the House Education and Labor Committee.
  A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Stephanie graduated with high honors 
from Oberlin College and went on to distinguish herself at Harvard Law 
School where she became only the second Black woman in the school's 
history to earn an invitation to become an editor of the venerable 
Harvard Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for the late Judge A. 
Leon Higginbotham, Jr. on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and 
practiced law with the Center for Constitutional Rights. Immediately 
prior to joining the Judiciary Committee as Chief Counsel to Ranking 
Member Watt, Stephanie worked in the Administration of President Bill 
Clinton as General Counsel to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and 
Special Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education. She also served on 
the faculties of the District of Columbia School of Law and the Howard 
University Law School.
  Stephanie joined the Judiciary Committee during the August 2001 
recess and sat as counsel on her first hearing on the morning of 
September 11. In the aftermath of the terrible terrorist attacks on 
that day, Stephanie served as the principal Democratic staff negotiator 
on measures to ensure the privacy and civil liberties of the American 
public in a post 9/11 world.
  Throughout her tenure, Stephanie consistently identified and focused 
on the fundamental policies implicated by legislative proposals. During 
her career with the Judiciary Committee, she exhibited a wide range of 
interests and considerable versatility in handling subjects as complex 
and diverse as administrative law, tax policy, privacy and civil 
liberties, antitrust, online commerce and piracy, trade and 
intellectual property. Stephanie's tenacity, passion and no-nonsense 
approach won her both admirers and critics. Her intellect and 
determination were instrumental in committee efforts to ensure that 
robust standards were established to fairly compensate the victims of 
the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010 and again the following year 
as she sought to balance the interests of multiple stakeholders during 
the drafting of and debates on the Stop Online Piracy Act. Stephanie's 
ability to manage and contribute to a range of significant public 
policy initiatives was evident in the key role she played as the lead 
Democratic staffer on the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer 
Protection Act of 2005 and during passage of landmark, bipartisan 
legislation that included the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta 
Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 
2006, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 and the Foreign and 
Economic Espionage Penalty Enhancement Act of 2012.
  Mr. Speaker, we applaud Stephanie's tireless, principled and loyal 
public service to the U.S. House of Representatives and the American 
people and wish her every success in her future endeavors.

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