[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 11 (Tuesday, January 18, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H200]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REMEMBERING THE LATE SARAH TYREE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the late Sarah 
Tyree, a passionate advocate who spent her career fighting for farmers, 
advocating for rural and urban agriculture, and working to end hunger.
  Sarah dedicated herself to ending hunger and spent her life working 
on issues like promoting nutrition and reforming our food system to 
make eating locally grown foods more accessible to everyone.
  After starting her career on Capitol Hill, Sarah worked for the 
Biotechnology Industry Organization and then the Missouri State 
Department of Agriculture, helping to establish the Missouri 
Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program.
  Sarah served as vice president of the agricultural consulting firm 
AgriLogic, and then spent the last 15 years of her career at the 
financial cooperative CoBank here in Washington, D.C., where she most 
recently served as vice president for policy and public affairs.
  Madam Speaker, the impact of Sarah's commitment to agriculture and 
local farming cannot be understated. She established a partnership 
between CoBank and the D.C. Central Kitchen, which allowed for the 
kitchen to significantly expand their local purchasing power. Her 
efforts helped many farmers keep land that they may have otherwise lost 
due to the pandemic.

  Sarah was a devoted member of the D.C. Central Kitchen board of 
directors for many years, and she served as chair of the board between 
2013 and 2018. In this capacity, Sarah continued her amazing work to 
end hunger and played a major role in securing funding to establish 
D.C. Central Kitchen's new location and expand its reach.
  Sarah was unbelievably generous in her support of a cause that was 
dear to me, Monte Belmonte's annual march across Western Massachusetts 
to end hunger and to help support the Food Bank of Western 
Massachusetts. She poured her energy into supporting local and national 
efforts to end hunger while also empowering the next generation of 
leaders in combating hunger through her work as a board chairman of the 
Campus Kitchens Project.
  Sarah never stopped imagining a bigger and brighter future. She 
believed in harnessing the power of community to make America the best 
that we can be, promoting nutrition, supporting local farmers, and 
fighting to end hunger along the way. Sarah approached her work and 
this life with an open heart and a genuine desire to do good. She cared 
about improving the lives of others in a touching and rare way and has 
left an immeasurable impact on this world.
  Madam Speaker, on behalf of the United States Congress, and all those 
whom Sarah's light touched, it is my great privilege and honor to 
celebrate and recognize the wonderful life of the late Sarah Tyree.
  I want to say that I think I speak for all of my colleagues in this 
Chamber when I extend our condolences to her husband and her family. I 
hope that they all get comfort out of the fact that Sarah made such a 
difference for so many in this country and around the world.

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