[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 15925]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       REMEMBERING YVONNE GOODMAN

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I rise to pay tribute to Yvonne R. 
Goodman. Funeral services were held for her this morning. Yvonne served 
on my Washington, DC, staff in the Senate and in the House of 
Representatives for a total of 28 years, and she worked for my 
predecessor in the House of Representatives, Congressman H.R. Gross, 
for 25 years. She began helping me the first day I arrived on Capitol 
Hill and continued until she retired in 2002. In total, Yvonne served 
the people of Iowa for a remarkable 53 years. There is no doubt that 
Iowans benefited from her loyalty to their representatives in the 
Congress and her standard of excellence in her work. I was very 
fortunate to have her on my staff. Yvonne was from Osage, IA. She was a 
special person and a valuable and trusted employee. She made a great 
contribution with her selfless and dedicated public service. Her 
husband Jim is also a friend. He, too, worked in government and shared 
Yvonne's commitment to the people's business. Yvonne and Jim were an 
integral part of my office family for 28 years. They touched the lives 
of so many fellow staffers with their caring ways. They were gardeners 
who loved to share their beautiful flowers and plants. My wife Barbara 
joins me today in extending our sympathy to Jim and saluting the life 
and many good deeds of his beloved Yvonne.

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