[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 15]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 20585-20586]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 HONORING DEPUTY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR KATHERINE CROWLEY OF UNITED STATES 
                             SECRET SERVICE

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                           HON. PETER T. KING

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 10, 2002

  Mr. KING. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of Deputy Assistant 
Director Katherine Crowley of the United States Secret Service. After 
serving in a liaison capacity between Congress and the Secret Service 
for the last seven years, Katherine, who is known as K.C. to her 
friends, will be leaving Washington, D.C. to become the Special Agent 
in Charge of the Secret Service's Little Rock Field Office.
  It has been a privilege to work with K.C. these last several years. 
She is well known throughout the congressional community, including by 
her colleagues in the U.S. Capitol Police, and is widely respected and 
valued for her professionalism, integrity, work ethic and of course, 
her kind heart. She has not only ably represented the Secret Service 
these last seven years, but has become a friend of the United States 
Congress.
  Next year, K.C. will be celebrating her 20th year as a member of our 
Nation's most elite law enforcement agency. K.C. graduated from 
Westfield State College in her home state of Massachusetts in 1978 with 
a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice. She took a position 
as an officer with the Arkansas State Police, and worked in the Little 
Rock area for nearly four years. She then applied for a special agent 
position with the Secret Service through their Little Rock office, and 
became

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an agent in 1983. She worked as a field agent in Little Rock for three 
years before transferring to the Vice Presidential Protection Division 
for another three years. K.C. returned to her home state in 1989 for a 
four-year stint in the Boston Field Office. In 1993, K.C. was assigned 
to the prestigious Presidential Protection Division, with 
responsibility for protecting President Clinton and the First Lady.
  K.C. continued her rise in the Secret Service in 1996, when she was 
promoted to the position of Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge of 
the Capitol Hill and Interagency Liaison Division. It was during this 
time when many of us in Congress were first introduced to this 
exceptional individual. K.C. was again promoted to Assistant Special 
Agent in Charge of the Office of Congressional Affairs in 1999, and 
later became the Special Agent in Charge of the same division. In 2001, 
K.C. was named Deputy Assistant Director of the Office of Government 
and Public Affairs, one of the highest ranking women in the entire 
Secret Service.
  This year, in addition to being named as the Special Agent in Charge 
of the Little Rock Field Office, K.C. was also selected as a candidate 
for the Senior Executive Service.
  During her tenure as a liaison representative to Congress, K.C. 
helped steer legislation that will have a lasting impact on the future 
mission and role of the Secret Service. This included legislation to 
provide the Secret Service with jurisdiction to investigate cyber 
crimes, to coordinate security at National Special Security Events, to 
provide a nationwide expansion of the Secret Service electronic crime 
task force initiative, and to launch their world-renowned National 
Threat Assessment Center.
  On behalf of the House of Representatives, I want to express our 
gratitude and appreciation to K.C. Crowley for her many years of public 
service as a member of the Secret Service. She will be dearly missed, 
but we all join in wishing her well in her new role as the head of the 
Little Rock Field Office.

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