[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3202-S3203]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TRIBUTE TO KIM CAWLEY

  Mr. ENZI. Mr. President. I rise today to recognize the distinguished 
career and retirement of Kim Cawley after 34 years of service at the 
Congressional Budget Office. Kim has been Chief of the Natural and 
Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit for more than 20 of those years, 
also spent over a decade as one of CBO's energy analysts. He is one of 
that agency's experts on the Nuclear Waste Fund, the treatment of 
Federal loans and loan guarantees, and the budgetary effects of Federal 
insurance programs.
  It is hard to overstate Kim's role in analyzing the budgetary impacts 
of an incredibly broad swath of legislation over the past three 
decades. He has been instrumental in providing objective, carefully 
researched estimates of thousands of pieces of legislation that the 
Congress has considered, debated, and enacted since the mid-1980, 
including bills dealing with flood insurance, compensation for victims 
of asbestos and oilspills, Federal property sales, and infrastructure 
financing, to name just a few.
  Kim has worked tirelessly with Members of Congress and our staff on 
both sides of the aisle throughout those years. During many hours of 
discussion and patient explanation, he could be counted on to be 
forthright and fair. He embodied CBO's commitment to nonpartisan 
analysis and helped the Congress understand the intricacies of such 
complex laws as the Federal Credit Reform Act, the Terrorism Risk 
Insurance Act, and the 9-11 Victims Compensation Act.
  Kim has been a mentor and guide to dozens of CBO analysts. Thanks to 
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guidance and training, a generation of CBO analysts think harder, dig 
deeper, and ask more probing questions when analyzing the estimated the 
costs of legislation. Kim set high standards for himself and for the 
Natural Resources Unit, and we are confident that they will continue to 
provide timely and thorough analyses for the Congress thanks to what 
they have learned under Kim's leadership.
  I, along with House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, wish to 
thank Kim for his years of dedicated service to the Congress and extend 
to him our best wishes for a well-deserved retirement.

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