[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1486]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     TRIBUTE TO JENNIFER CHARTRAND

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to Ms. Jennifer 
Chartrand, who is leaving the Republican staff of the Foreign 
Operations Subcommittee.
  Jennifer hails from Brooklyn and graduated from Fordham University. 
She began her career in the Senate with the Ethics Committee and went 
on to become a legislative assistant for Senator Conrad Burns. 
Jennifer's next move was to join the Foreign Operations Subcommittee, 
where my staff members got to know her well. She served both in the 
majority and the minority and was a valuable source of institutional 
knowledge on a range of issues.
  While she was a tenacious fighter for Republican priorities, she 
always worked for good ideas, irrespective of which Senator came up 
with it. Perhaps most importantly, she always fought for the 
institutional prerogatives of both the Appropriations Committee and the 
Senate as a whole. Jennifer also recently staffed a congressional 
delegation to Europe which I was a part of. I truly appreciate all of 
her hard work in putting together that trip.
  While I hate to see Jennifer leave, the good news is that she is only 
moving across the hall to the Defense Subcommittee. I hope that 
Senators Stevens and Inouye will not mind if we borrow her from time to 
time.

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