[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 206 (Tuesday, November 30, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1278]
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                     JON PAWLOW RETIREMENT TRIBUTE

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                            HON. SAM GRAVES

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 30, 2021

  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Madam Speaker, I want to pay tribute to 
Jonathan R. ``Jon'' Pawlow, our longtime Water Resources and 
Environment Subcommittee Senior Counsel. After 20 years of service on 
the Committee, Jon will be retiring at the end of this year. It's 
difficult to picture the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee 
without Jon here. In fact, it's difficult to imagine the water policy 
sphere throughout the entire Congress without Jon here. For 20 years, 
Jon has been an absolute go-to for all things Clean Water Act. He has 
been an immense resource for not just the Committee, but for the entire 
Congress. He has left his mark upon the work product created under a 
legion of full and subcommittee chairmen and ranking members. However, 
even prior to joining the Committee, Jon was accomplished. He graduated 
Rutgers University with both a bachelor's and master's degrees in water 
resources engineering and environmental science, and also holds a law 
degree from Georgetown University. He accumulated over 15 years of 
private law practice, gaining expertise in the environmental and 
intellectual property fields. After that, Jon served in the Office of 
Water at the Environmental Protection Agency for nine years and then 
moved on to the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy. 
These experiences allowed him to bring a host of policy and regulatory 
experience to the Committee. Jon has left his fingerprints on just 
about every piece of water legislation in the past two decades. He has 
also been a key participant in five Water Resources Development Acts, 
including the last four, where Congress got its act together and began 
passing bipartisan WRDAs consistently every two years. Finally, 
throughout his professional life, Jon has been a teacher and a mentor. 
At various times in his career, he has instructed at institutions such 
as the George Washington University Center for Career Education and the 
Old Dominion University College of Engineering and Technology. This has 
carried over to his time on the Hill. He has always made time for 
anyone he meets to walk through the ins-and-outs of water policy, from 
Full Committee Chairs, to leadership staff, to personal office 
legislative assistants. Jon is a dedicated professional and devoted 
staffer, and we will all greatly miss his knowledge, expertise, and 
guidance. I am personally grateful for his service to this Committee 
and to Congress. I thank him so much for dedicating his career to water 
policy and service to the American public. I hope he and Terry make the 
most of their well-deserved retirements. I thank him for all he has 
done.

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