[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 69 (Wednesday, April 27, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4562]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, A LEADER AND TRAILBLAZER

  (Ms. DEAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DEAN. Mr. Speaker, our Nation has lost a lifelong leader and 
trailblazer--Madeleine Albright--a woman I had the chance to know and 
to learn from, and a woman with whom I shared a first name. Madeleine 
Albright was a woman of clarity, grace, intellect, and humor--a leader 
throughout the globe.
  She was an example to many women, like me, becoming our Nation's 
first female Secretary of State and, at the time, the highest ranking 
woman ever in our government. Years ago, in admiration, I adopted one 
of Albright's subtle, yet powerful, diplomatic tools--wearing a brooch 
each day to signify something about my work or my heart.
  As a child, Secretary Albright and her family fled war-torn Eastern 
Europe. Deeply inspired by her new country, she dedicated her life's 
work to lifting up democracies at home and around the world and 
strengthening NATO with the goal of preventing wars in Europe like the 
one that had forced her family from their home. Her passion for peace 
inspires my own, especially as I watch the devastating atrocities in 
Ukraine.
  Dedicated to democracies around the globe, she often recalled her 
father's own worries that Americans took their own democracy for 
granted. Madeleine Albright knew that democracies are fragile, yet 
resilient, and that it matters what world we leave our grandchildren.
  May her memory be a blessing and her legacy be a guide.

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