[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2238]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                   TRIBUTE TO MADELEINE COOPER TAYLOR

 Mr. BIDEN. Mr. President, today I wish to publicly 
congratulate Ms. Madeleine Cooper Taylor on her recent appointment as a 
member of the city council of Memphis, TN. Last Tuesday, she was 
appointed unanimously by the council to serve the remaining term of 
council member TaJuan Stout Mitchell.
  Ms. Taylor has worked as a program coordinator for the Memphis branch 
of the NAACP since 1991 and is a lifelong Memphian.
  Now, I am not normally in the habit of coming to the Senate floor to 
congratulate a new city council member, especially one who is not from 
my home State of Delaware. But this is no normal circumstance. 
Madeleine Cooper Taylor is the mother of Reagan Taylor, an attorney and 
presidential management fellow whom I have been fortunate enough to 
have on my staff for the past 6 months.
  During her rotation on my Judiciary Committee staff, Reagan has made 
an invaluable contribution to legal and drug policy for our country. 
Thanks to her efforts, we have succeeded in reauthorizing the Office of 
National Drug Control Policy, and our fight against the scourge of 
methamphetamine has been bolstered. And even though she is scheduled to 
rotate out of my office at the end of this month, as we speak she is 
hard at work improving security for our State and local courts and 
better utilizing DNA as a powerful tool in solving horrendous crimes.
  While Reagan tirelessly works to make our communities safer through 
her efforts on the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, Councilwoman Taylor 
stated in one of her first public statements after her appointment that 
she is concerned about crime in her community. As the old saying goes, 
the apple does not fall far from the tree.
  It has been my pleasure to have Reagan Taylor on my staff over these 
past months, and it is my distinct honor to congratulate Madeleine 
Cooper Taylor on her new public office. I wish them both the best of 
luck in their future endeavors.

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