[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 197 (Friday, November 21, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4892]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                HONORING THE LIFE OF DR. EDWARD COCHRAN

  (Ms. ELFRETH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ELFRETH. Mr. Speaker, this past weekend, Howard County lost a 
giant: former county executive, Dr. Ed Cochran. A chemist by trade, he 
was a pioneer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics 
Laboratory where he contributed to our national security, but he was 
also a pioneer of our community.
  As a member of the Howard County Board of Education, he worked to 
help end segregation in our schools. A scholar at heart, Dr. Cochran 
was instrumental in the founding of Howard Community College. As county 
executive, he took our county from rural to modern and laid the 
foundation for many parts of Howard County's government that we now 
take for granted.
  His life and legacy will be felt deeply from the scientific 
innovation he laid the groundwork for at APL to the next generation of 
young minds and leaders at Howard County public schools and Howard 
County Community College. We are all better off because of Dr. 
Cochran's unwavering spirit of innovation and inquiry.
  My thoughts are with his six children, his 23 grandchildren, and 13 
great-grandchildren during this difficult time.

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