[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 10]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 13567]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


        TRIBUTE TO C. MICHAEL BRIGHT, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

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                          HON. ROBERT A. BRADY

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 22, 2007

  Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, as chairman of the 
Committee on House Administration and of the Joint Committee on 
Printing, I want my colleagues to note that June 1, 2007, will mark the 
retirement of C. Michael Bright from Federal service following a 
dedicated career of 33 years at the Government Printing Office. Mike, 
as he is known, compiled an exemplary record of service at the GPO that 
benefited not only GPO's Federal-agency customers, the public seeking 
access to Government information, but Members and staff of the Congress 
as well.
  Mike served most of his career in the GPO's Superintendent of 
Documents operation, which makes published Federal documents available 
to the public via sales and through Federal depository libraries 
nationwide. Beginning as an editor of GPO's sales catalog, he later 
worked as a marketing specialist for Government documents and then was 
the principal assistant to the Superintendent of Documents. Among the 
duties Mike performed from that post during the 1980's was service as 
GPO liaison to the Books Abroad program, a U.S. Information Agency 
initiative to expand distribution of Federal Government publications 
overseas to counter the Soviet Union's distribution of its 
publications.
  Mike was a principal in helping to shape GPO's support for electronic 
information dissemination, later assisting Federal agencies in creating 
their own electronic information products through GPO, and for a time 
he served as an assistant to GPO's chief of staff. Most recently, as a 
congressional relations officer he was trusted by the staffs of the 
Joint Committee on Printing as well as other Member and committee 
offices to provide expert advice and assistance on GPO-related matters. 
In recognition of his accomplishments, over the years Mike earned both 
the Public Printer's distinguished service and meritorious service 
awards as well as the thanks of the congressional and agency staffs who 
worked with him.
  Madam Speaker, please join the Members of the House Administration 
Committee and the Joint Committee on Printing in expressing their 
heartfelt thanks for Mike Bright's career of outstanding service to the 
Government Printing Office, and in extending their best wishes to Mike 
and his family--wife Susan and son Andrew--as Mike embarks on the next 
stage of his life.

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