[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 225 (Sunday, January 3, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1221]
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 HONORING JACQUE CHEVALIER MOSELY FOR HER SERVICE TO THE COMMITTEE ON 
                          EDUCATION AND LABOR

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                     HON. ROBERT C. ``BOBBY'' SCOTT

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Sunday, January 3, 2021

  Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam Speaker, I rise to thank and pay tribute 
to Jacqueline ``Jacque'' Chevalier Mosely, who served the Committee in 
multiple roles throughout the years and most recently the Education 
Policy Director for the Committee on Education and Labor.
  Jacque came to Capitol Hill more than seven years ago, joining the 
Committee staff with a focus on students with disabilities and the 
privacy rights of students in education. Over the years, Jacque 
expanded her portfolio to lead the Committee's work on K-12 education 
generally. She quickly distinguished herself with her mastery of 
education policy, expertly leading negotiations for House Democrats 
during the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act in the 114th Congress. She secured vital changes to the partisan 
House bill, which initially received zero Democratic votes in the 
House, to help produce the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Her deft 
work with her colleagues on ESSA resulted in a reauthorization bill 
that garnered overwhelming bipartisan support in both Chambers and was 
signed into law by President Obama in December 2015. Over the next few 
years, Jacque rose through the ranks on the Committee staff to lead 
this team of educational policy experts who would work to reauthorize 
laws including the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, 
the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act of 1974, and to 
permanently authorize mandatory funding for HBCUs and other MSIs in the 
FUTURE Act.
  Additionally, Jacque worked closely with her colleagues on the 
Committee to draft Member legislation to ensure fair wages for 
individuals with disabilities, led Committee Members' efforts drafting 
legislation to ensure fair wages for individuals with disabilities, 
modernize and expand workforce training and development, expand college 
affordability, improve services for disadvantaged students and youth, 
increase access to child care for working families, expand child abuse 
prevention and training services, and bolster enforcement of civil 
rights laws in education. All the while, Jacque kept a close eye on the 
Administration. regardless of party. to ensure accountability and 
equity in the public education system.
  Throughout her tenure. Jacque solidified bipartisan and bicameral 
relationships on the Hill which helped produce policy proposals that 
advanced the goals of Committee Members and also garnered support 
across the aisle or in the other chamber . Jacque took to heart the 
principle outlined in the seminal Brown v. Board of Education decision 
which struck down de jure segregation in education. In that decision, 
the Supreme Court noted that ``education is perhaps the most important 
function of state and local governments'' and that ``[s]uch an 
opportunity. where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right 
which must be made available to all on equal terms.'' She dedicated 
herself to ridding federal education policy of the vestiges of 
segregation. It is fitting that as she transitions from her public 
service on the Committee, she is able to claim a final legislative 
success in working with her colleagues on the Appropriations Committee 
to remove the odious, nearly 50-year old provisions of education and 
appropriations law, barring federal funds from being used for bussing 
to achieve racial integration.
  Jacque has left no doubt of her commitment to equity in public 
education, to the institution of the House, and to accountability of 
government to the public. I wish her great success as she transitions 
to her next endeavor, which I know will include extra time with her 
husband, Ben, and her son, Fletcher.
  Madam Speaker, I speak for the Committee staff, Ranking Member 
Virginia Foxx, and all the members of the Committee on Education and 
Labor in thanking Jacqueline Chevalier Mosely for her service to this 
House and to the American people.

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