[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 25506]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       TRIBUTE TO ANDREA AULBERT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Biggert). Under the Speaker's announced 
policy of January 19, 1999, the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) is 
recognized during morning hour debates for 5 minutes.
  Mr. COBURN. Madam Speaker, I rise this morning to remember Andrea 
Aulbert, a woman whose life, though brief, was one of impressive 
accomplishment. Andrea served as the Director of Legislative and Legal 
Affairs for Concerned Women of America until her death on July 2 at the 
age of just 33.
  Andrea spent her life in service to others, from her student days as 
a camp counselor in her native State of Michigan, to her advocacy on 
behalf of persecuted Christians in China and other countries, to her 
tireless efforts in her professional career in support of moral renewal 
and the sanctity of human life.
  After completing her studies at the University of Michigan and 
Valparaiso Law School, Andrea spent some time in my home state, 
Oklahoma, on the faculty of Bartlesville Wesleyan College. But shortly 
after taking a position in Washington with the Concerned Women of 
America, Andrea learned that she was suffering from a rare form of lung 
cancer.
  In 1998 she under went a difficult and risky lung transplant at the 
University of Alabama in Birmingham, and within a few months she was 
back at work. This spring, however, her cancer returned, and, again, 
the wait began for another transplant operation.
  Her last night in Washington was, ironically, spent at an event given 
in my honor. She was excited and hopeful that evening. She had received 
word that she had qualified for an additional lung transplant.
  That surgery was performed a week later, but, sadly, she did not 
survive the surgery. However, her memory lives on with her family, her 
friends and her colleagues, and those of us in Washington that knew 
her. The good that she did in her short life will be felt for years to 
come by thousands of people who never knew her at all.
  That is the definition of a true American hero, Andrea Aulbert.

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