[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 26, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E924]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               THE RETIREMENT OF MARTIN ``MARTY'' RENDON

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                          HON. BETTY McCOLLUM

                              of minnesota

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 26, 2018

  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to offer my thanks and to 
honor Martin ``Marty'' Rendon on the occasion of his retirement from 
UNICEF USA, where he worked for 25 years as Vice President for Public 
Policy and Advocacy. In this capacity, Marty worked with me and with my 
staff to advance a wide range of funding and policy measures that have 
improved the lives of vulnerable children around the world, focusing 
particularly on global child health and child survival. Marty has also 
been an invaluable resource to the work my colleagues and I do through 
the House Global Health Caucus.
  While many of us may know him best from his advocacy work, prior to 
working at UNICEF, Marty had a 25-year career on Capitol Hill working 
on child survival and human rights issues. Marty worked with four 
Members of Congress, including 14 years of service to former 
Congressman Tony P. Hall (D-Ohio), where he helped implement the child 
health revolution in U.S. foreign policy and was on the ground floor of 
the 1986 bipartisan Congressional initiative for child survival 
funding. He capped his career on Capitol Hill as Staff Director of the 
House Select Committee on Hunger.
  A well-known leader on a wide range of global health and human rights 
initiatives, Marty was invited to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony 
in 1996 for his work on East Timor (Timor Leste). Marty's work on the 
Hill and at UNICEF has literally saved the lives of millions of 
children.
  Members of Congress and the organizations working on global health 
constitute a close-knit community, of which Marty has been a leading 
voice and champion for 50 years. We thank him for his service, for the 
efforts he has made for the least among us, and for his persistent 
advocacy. We wish him well as he continues with the next chapter of his 
life.

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