[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 43 (Monday, March 8, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E208]
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                        HONORING JOSEPHINE MORSE

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                       HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON

                      of the district of columbia

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 8, 2021

  Ms. NORTON. Madam Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to 
recognize the extraordinary service of Josephine Morse, who served in 
the House Office of General Counsel as a Deputy General Counsel. During 
her tenure, Ms. Morse, a District of Columbia resident, played an 
integral role in safeguarding the legal interests of the House and its 
Members, Officers, and employees in federal court litigation involving 
issues of the highest institutional importance.
  Ms. Morse provided invaluable legal counsel and representation to 
numerous House committees, greatly assisting them both in fulfilling 
their constitutionally authorized oversight functions and defending 
those prerogatives in litigation. Ms. Morse provided vital legal 
counsel to the House in both impeachments of President Trump and in 
defense of longstanding institutional prerogatives. Those prerogatives 
included the House's constitutional authority under the Appropriations 
Clause and the power of House committees to issue subpoenas for both 
documents and testimony from the White House and Executive Branch 
agencies.
  Of particular importance to the District of Columbia, Ms. Morse's 
legal work in litigation involving the District's quest to obtain the 
fundamental right of voting representation in Congress was exceptional, 
and her oral advocacy on behalf of the House's position in support of 
voting representation for the District before a three-judge district 
court was highly effective.
  Ms. Morse's work on behalf of the House was of the highest caliber, 
and I have no doubt that the Office of Management and Budget, which she 
recently joined, will benefit from her outstanding legal counsel. On 
behalf of the entire House community, I thank Ms. Morse for her 
dedicated service to the House, and I wish her the very best in all of 
her future endeavors.

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