[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17485]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    GENE C. ``PETE'' O'BRIEN RETIRES

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, Pete O'Brien, who has served the Senate 
community for 32 years, plans to retire. This loss will be felt by all 
offices of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms as he completes his 
final day as Manager of Parking, I.D., and Fleet Operations on 
September 11, 2000.
  Pete started his career with the U.S. Capitol Police in 1968 and 
worked his way up to Sergeant in the Patrol Division. During his 
training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center he was 
nicknamed ``100%'' after earning the first perfect score in the class 
on an examination.
  In 1980 he moved to the Senate Sergeant at Arms office as Supervisor 
of Administrative Operations. In 1985 he became Manager of Senate 
Parking. The challenge of managing limited parking with ever increasing 
needs has been skillfully maintained during the years under his watch. 
His institutional knowledge of the Senate's history and operations will 
be surely missed in this great institution.
  Both Pete and his wife Jeanie are native Washingtonians. Pete 
attended P.G. Community College and the University of Maryland where he 
studied Political Science. Pete and Jeanie recently moved to 
Springfield, Virginia, after 20 years in Clinton, Maryland. He plans to 
spend his retirement enjoying his hobbies of photography, downhill 
skiing and electronics. His elder daughter Kelly and her husband Colman 
Andrews have brought something new to Pete's life, grandson Connor 
Shawn Andrews, born in April. Pete is also looking forward to the 
upcoming marriage of his younger daughter Erin.
  So on behalf of the Senate, I want to thank Pete for his dedicated, 
selfless service and wish him many years of happiness with the new joy 
of his life, Connor, and with all of his family.

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