[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 194 (Monday, December 10, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H9773]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HONORING KRISANN PEARCE

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Krisann Pearce, who will leave 
the Education and the Workforce Committee at the end of this Congress 
after many years of outstanding service.
  Krisann began her career as a teacher. She brought those lessons with 
her to Capitol Hill, where she began her work in education policy on 
the staff of her home State Senator, Nancy Kassebaum.
  While she has thrived in other opportunities along the way, her main 
home has been with us, the best committee in the House, where she has 
served as general counsel since 2011.
  Krisann has played a major role in every piece of education 
legislation over the past two decades. She is also one of a very few 
talented professionals whose counsel has informed both education and 
workforce policy.
  Krisann is renowned for her fierce devotion to students, the 
parliamentary process, and her beloved Kansas Jayhawks. We are grateful 
to her husband, Evan, and her sons, Carson and Nolan, for all the years 
of long days and late nights they have shared Krisann with all of us, 
and we wish her the very best.

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