[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 113 (Wednesday, July 13, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H4829]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             RECOGNIZING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF CLEONE CREQUE

  (Ms. PLASKETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. PLASKETT. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Cleone Creque. 
``Cle,'' as many of us call her, was the first female in the Virgin 
Islands to be elected to territorywide office after she was elected 
Senator-at-Large in the Virgin Islands Legislature in 1976. This past 
weekend, the legislative annex conference room in St. John was named in 
her honor.
  During her legislative career, she held key leadership positions on 
important Committees on Welfare, Health, and Labor. Aside from her 
distinguished legacy as a political stalwart and advocate for less 
fortunate in her community, she is a nurse, a mother, and a 
businesswoman, and she speaks her mind.
  She is a positive and inspirational role model for Caribbean women, 
for all women, and she is my friend and my mentor.


                    Happy Birthday to Gloria Joseph

  Ms. PLASKETT. Madam Speaker, I would like to, at this time, extend 
happy birthday wishes to Gloria Joseph, a community organizer, public 
servant, matriarch, and Ph.D of haute cuisine.
  I wish her happy birthday.
  Both of these women are ultimate public servants, true Renaissance 
women, and true Virgin Islanders.

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