[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Pages 11654-11655]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        COMMENDING RICHARD PRICE

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, today I rise to commend and thank Mr. 
Richard Price of the Congressional Research Service, CRS, for his many 
years of outstanding service to the U.S. Congress. In June, Mr. Price 
is retiring from CRS after 32 years of service. For over three decades 
at CRS, Mr. Price has played a significant role in providing assistance 
to Congress in analyzing major health care legislation. In his position 
at CRS, he has been an invaluable asset not only through his own work 
analyzing health care legislation, but also in his tireless efforts to 
guide others in the Health Care and Medicine unit at CRS which he 
managed.
  Over the past three decades, Mr. Price has worked on health care 
legislation across a wide array of health

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care policy and programs. Mr. Price is a recognized expert on the major 
U.S. health care financing programs--Medicare and Medicaid; his 
particular areas of expertise span most aspects of Medicare and 
Medicaid reimbursement policy, long-term care, Medicaid eligibility, 
nursing home reform, managed care, hospice care, skilled nursing home 
services, end stage renal disease, home health care services, and 
public health service programs, among many others. His contributions to 
the development of legislation in these areas have been substantial. 
Over his long career at CRS, he has helped hundreds of staff understand 
the effect of the legislative proposals being considered through 
thoughtful analyses, balanced presentations, and clear explanations. I 
wish to especially thank him for his work with the Senate Finance 
Committee and its staff.
  In addition to his own analytic work on legislative analysis, Mr. 
Price has been responsible for management of a staff of CRS analysts 
who assist Congress across a wide spectrum of health care issues, 
including those related to Medicare, Medicaid, the Public Health 
Service, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of 
Health, and the Veterans Administration. Mr. Price was instrumental in 
building the health care staff of CRS to a large team of senior 
analysts. In addition, Mr. Price has been involved in innumerable 
projects to develop the capacity of CRS analysts to evaluate and 
analyze health care data, including models to estimate the effect of 
various legislative changes in Medicare and other health care programs.
  Other organizations that analyze issues related to health care policy 
have acknowledged Mr. Price's accomplishments and knowledge of U.S. 
health care policy. For example, Mr. Price is a member of the steering 
committee of the National Health Policy Forum, a nonpartisan 
organization that provides research to senior level health policy 
makers in Washington. Mr. Price is also a member of the prestigious 
National Academy on Social Insurance, NASI.
  Mr. Price's service to Congress in the analysis and development of 
policy alternatives across a wide array of health care programs, his 
ability to conceptualize complex public policy issues, as well as his 
leadership of staff who work on many varied and complex health care 
issues, set the highest standards for assistance provided by CRS in 
service to the Congress. He will be missed, both here in Congress and 
across the street at the Library of Congress.

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