[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 27, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S1238]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO HEIDEH SHAHMORADI

  Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, today I wish to express my gratitude to 
Heideh Shahmoradi, who since 2011 has served as clerk for the 
Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies, or THUD, for her many years of 
distinguished public service.
  Heideh's 24 years of public service have included time on both the 
Senate Appropriations Committee and the Environment and Public Works 
Committee, as well as the Department of Transportation and the Federal 
Highway Administration, where she first started as a part-time employee 
at the age of 16.
  In her 7 years with THUD, Heideh has played an instrumental role on a 
host of issues. Her programmatic knowledge and technical expertise have 
been critical in policy-making decisions that ensured air traffic 
controllers were able to get back to safely managing our Nation's air 
traffic control system following the across-the-board spending cuts in 
2013. Heideh has also worked to make groundbreaking transformations in 
how we address youth homelessness, which afflicts far too many young 
people each year. Thanks to Heideh's dedicated efforts, we have 
successfully created targeted programs that are designed to meet the 
unique needs of teenagers through the Youth Homelessness Demonstration 
Program, in ways that our traditional approach to homelessness was 
unsuccessful in addressing.
  Heideh is truly a consummate professional, a brilliant expert, and 
most importantly, one of the kindest and friendliest people in the 
Senate. She is known by her colleagues as being an honest broker who is 
able to work in a truly bipartisan fashion in order to help us advance 
important legislation.
  As Heideh leaves the Senate after years of hard work and dedicated 
public service, she leaves behind an impressive list of accomplishments 
and colleagues whose lives she touched because she was such an 
exceptional role model and mentor. I wish her continued success and 
much happiness in the years to come.

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