[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 133 (Friday, August 4, 2023)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E758]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 APPRECIATING THE SERVICE OF JULIE KIM

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                         HON. MICHAEL T. McCAUL

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, August 4, 2023

  Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the career of Julie 
Kim upon her retirement from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) 
after 33 years of dedicated public service. During this time, Ms. Kim 
advised Members, congressional staff, and committees on a wide range of 
foreign policy issues and historic world events with significant 
ramifications for the security of the United States and U.S 
geopolitical interests.
  Ms. Kim joined CRS as an Analyst in European Affairs in the immediate 
aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, at a time of momentous change 
in Europe and during a critical period in U.S. foreign policy. Ms. Kim 
covered the post-communist transitions in Eastern Europe, the break-up 
of the former Soviet Union, and the wars in the Western Balkans in the 
1990s. Through her written analysis and consultative work on topics 
ranging from U.S. foreign assistance to Central and Eastern Europe, to 
NATO and European Union enlargement, to sanctions policy and 
peacekeeping operations in the Western Balkans, Ms. Kim contributed 
immensely to the knowledge of this body and its ability to provide 
oversight and respond legislatively to the implications of these 
seismic events for European security, transatlantic relations, and U.S. 
global leadership.
  Ms. Kim also directly supported CRS' leading role in implementing the 
Frost-Solomon Task Force on the Development of Parliamentary 
Institutions for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the 
1990s. She later served as a key CRS liaison with the House Democracy 
Assistance Commission/House Democracy Partnership (HDP), which evolved 
from the work of the Frost-Solomon Task Force, and subsequently 
participated in many congressional legislative strengthening programs 
in Europe and beyond.
  For the past 19 years, Ms. Kim served in a number of managerial 
positions at CRS, including 11 years as the Section Research Manager of 
the Foreign Policy Management and Global Issues section within the 
Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division (FDT), and as Acting 
Deputy Assistant Director of FDT several times. In recent years, Ms. 
Kim headed the Europe and the Americas team of analysts, who have been 
actively engaged in advising Congress as it addresses Russian military 
aggression against Ukraine, as well as political unrest and migration 
in Latin America, among other significant foreign policy challenges. 
Ms. Kim also contributed to many CRS-wide managerial initiatives, 
including playing an integral role in managing the public release of 
CRS products and working to increase diversity and inclusion at CRS, 
including through her efforts to establish a relationship between CRS 
and the Rangel/Payne summer internship program. In all of these 
managerial posts, Ms. Kim demonstrated exemplary leadership skills and 
mentored countless new analysts and younger colleagues, leaving a 
lasting imprint and legacy of excellence and service on the CRS 
workforce.
  Please join me in expressing the gratitude of this body, and its 
appreciation on behalf of the American people, to Ms. Kim for more than 
three decades of service to CRS and the U.S. Congress. Alongside her 
CRS colleagues, family, and friends, we congratulate Ms. Kim on a 
storied and impactful career and on a well-deserved retirement.

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