[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 21]
[Senate]
[Page 29998]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        COMMENDING PAULA DUGGAN

 Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I would like to commend Paula 
Duggan who is retiring after 13 years as a senior policy analyst at the 
Northeast-Midwest Institute. She has been instrumental on a variety of 
labor market, education, and fiscal federalism issues.
  Paula, for instance, was the key force behind labor market 
information provisions within the Workforce Preparedness Act, and she 
has worked diligently to ensure that the law is well implemented. She 
was one of the first analysts to make the connection between worker 
education and business productivity. And she has written numerous 
reports explaining how federal allocation formulas are structured and 
how federal funds are distributed among the states.
  I have benefitted from Paula's expertise and experience in my 
capacities as chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 
Committee and as co-chair of the Northeast-Midwest Senate Coalition. 
Paula consistently has provided unbiased and insightful research that 
has advanced bipartisan efforts on behalf of this region and the 
nation. As she begins her well-earned retirement, Mr. President, I 
again want to thank Paula Duggan for her fine work.

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