[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 8, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H3484]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   RECOGNIZING CLINTON COLUMBUS JONES

  (Mr. McHENRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, I stand to recognize the long career and 
service of Clinton Columbus Jones, the dean of the Republican Financial 
Services Committee staff. Clinton has been on the Hill for over 23 
years, and he is leaving to join the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
  A native of both Kansas and my home State of North Carolina, Clinton 
first came to Capitol Hill in 1993, after earning an urban planning 
degree and then a law degree from the University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill.
  While I don't agree with his choice of university, he is a fine and 
upstanding human being who has had a fantastic career on the Hill. He 
has served under seven different full committee chairmen on the 
Financial Services Committee, eight Republican Housing Subcommittee 
chairmen or ranking members, and has helped draft some of the most 
important housing and insurance bills of this generation, including the 
Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998, the Housing 
Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016, and the Biggert-Waters 
Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2012.
  In addition to his work on the Hill, Clinton has taught prelaw at 
Howard University for over 20 years and is a single father to a 
wonderful 15-year-old son and great student, Clinton Beamon Jones IV.
  We hate to see him go, but we thank him for his service, not just to 
this institution, but to the American people. We cherish his friendship 
and the knowledge he has imparted.
  With that, I ask my colleagues to give a moment of recognition to 
Clinton Jones.

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