[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 171 (Thursday, September 30, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5563]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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RECOGNIZING CHIEF OF POLICE DAVID STEFFEN
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Smucker) for 5 minutes.
Mr. SMUCKER. Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate a dedicated
law enforcement officer from Pennsylvania's 11th Congressional
District.
Northern Lancaster County Regional Chief of Police David Steffen was
recently selected to serve as the president of the Pennsylvania Chiefs
of Police Association, which represents over 1,200 commanding level
officers across local, State, and Federal law enforcement entities in
Pennsylvania.
Chief Steffen has spent his 40-plus-year career in law enforcement,
having served in Jackson Township, Hampden Township, and then the
Northern York County Regional Police Department, before being named the
first chief of Northern Lancaster County Regional Police Department in
2011.
As chief of the department, Steffen leads over 30 full-time sworn
officers and three civil staff, covering approximately 100 square miles
in north central Lancaster County.
Madam Speaker, I would like to thank Chief Steffen for supporting his
fellow law enforcement officers, for achieving this recognition, and
congratulate him on his new and well-deserved role.
To Chief Steffen and law enforcement officers across Pennsylvania's
11th District and across the country, thank you for your dedicated
service and your efforts to keep our community safe.
Honoring Elizabethtown Mayor Chuck Mummert
Mr. SMUCKER. Madam Speaker, I rise today to offer my congratulations
to Mayor Chuck Mummert of Elizabethtown Borough in Lancaster County.
Mayor Mummert was recently named Mayor of the Year by the
Associations of Mayors of Boroughs of Pennsylvania. Mayor Mummert has
served the residents of Elizabethtown since 2006, in his first 4 years
as a member of borough council there, and then since 2010 as mayor.
In addition to this honor, Mayor Mummert, in 2018, received the
Governor's Award for Local Government Excellence, and he previously
served as president of the Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs.
Mayor Mummert is known as the singing mayor, as he is frequently
called upon to lend his talented voice in singing the national anthem
at events; something that I have certainly always enjoyed.
So I want to congratulate Mayor Mummert on being named Mayor of the
Year, and to thank him for all of his work in continuing to make
Elizabethtown Borough an exceptional place to live, work, and raise a
family.
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