[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 126 (Wednesday, July 26, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1062]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  RECOGNIZING MS. KATHERINE B. WHITMAN

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 26, 2017

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I am grateful to Ms. 
Katherine B. Whitman for her dedicated service as a detailee to the 
House Armed Services Committee over the past six months. Katie is 
completing her Capitol Hill detail next month, and it is my hope that 
she has benefited as much from this experience as have we from her 
service on the subcommittee staff. Katie joined the committee during a 
year when the Department of Defense is struggling to recover from years 
of readiness account shortfalls. Katie's experience as a former surface 
warfare officer in the U.S. Navy along with her expertise as a budget 
analyst within the Office of Management and Budget proved critical in 
our successful effort to markup and adopt one of the broadest reaching 
National Defense Authorization Acts in recent memory. Her analytical 
prowess and tenacious appetite for data enabled an historic increase in 
fiscal year 2018 NDAA authorization of additional resourcing for the 
Department's facility readiness accounts by over 2 billion dollars.
  I am grateful to Katie for enduring many late nights at work. Her 
``can-do'' attitude and tireless work ethic have been infectious. Her 
willingness to tackle new issues, and to embrace the goals I have set 
for the staff, were truly commendable. I have no doubt that as Katie 
continues her career she will achieve great things for the Office of 
Management and Budget, the Department of Defense, and her country. I 
appreciate her dedicated staff work and wish her the best in all her 
future endeavors.

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