[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15086]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    RETIREMENT OF JAMES E. McMULLEN

  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, today I rise to honor James E. McMullen, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Budget and Strategic Planning of the 
Department of Labor on the occasion of his retirement. In his capacity 
as Deputy Assistant Secretary, Mr. McMullen was responsible for the 
Department's management and implementation of the Government 
Performance and Results Act, GPRA, and provided senior departmental 
staff with recommendations, guidance, and assistance in making 
decisions and selecting appropriate alternatives to meet short- and 
long-range budget goals. Mr. McMullen was also responsible for the 
development of policies, systems, and procedures for the Department's 
budget of $60 billion, and was charged with planning, directing, and 
coordinating the formulation and presentation of the Department's 
budget submissions to the Office of Management and Budget and to 
Congress.
  Mr. McMullen has served as Associate Deputy Secretary of Labor. In 
that position he assisted the Deputy Secretary in the Development of 
positions on major policy issues and provided policy guidance and 
program direction to Assistant Secretaries.
  Mr. McMullen previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Administration and Management. In that position, he was responsible for 
the day-to-day management of the Department's budget, human resources, 
information technology, administrative services, grant and contract 
policy, civil rights, and safety and health.
  Mr. McMullen served as the Department of Labor's Budget Director for 
several years. He joined the Department's Office of Budget in August 
1980 and held several positions of increasing responsibility. Mr. 
McMullen came to the Department of Labor as a Presidential management 
intern. During his internship, he worked for the House Appropriations 
Committee and the Office of Management and Budget, as well as several 
locations within the Department.
  In April 2004 he received the Philip Arnow Award, which is the 
highest honor given to a career employee in the Department of Labor. In 
1999 he received the Meritorious Executive Rank Award, and he has 
received special recognition from the William A. Jump Memorial 
Foundation for his outstanding achievements in public service.
  I have been either chairman or ranking member of the Labor-HHS-
Education Appropriations Subcommittee since January 1989, working in 
partnership with Senator Tom Harkin. For all these years, Jim McMullen 
has been a fixture at our budget hearings, and has provided outstanding 
assistance to our committee. His will be hard shoes to fill, and he 
will be missed. We wish him well in his future endeavors, and thank him 
for his dedication to duty, hard work, and professionalism that set 
such a high standard for others to follow in public service.

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