[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 1803]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 HONORING THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF CONNY B. McCORMACK, LOS ANGELES COUNTY 
                    REGISTRAR-RECORDER/COUNTY CLERK

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                        HON. GRACE F. NAPOLITANO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, February 7, 2008

  Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize and commend 
Conny B. McCormack, an outstanding Californian, who has recently 
retired from 30 years of public service, the last 12 as Los Angeles 
County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.
  Mrs. McCormack is the epitome of the competent, capable, dedicated 
public servant. Her career accomplished many noteworthy positions 
before she came to Los Angeles County. As the Los Angeles County 
Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, Mrs. McCormack has met with great 
success. Her Registrar of Voters duties saw her conduct elections in 88 
cities, 100 school districts, and 149 special districts for roughly 4 
million voters across 5,000 precincts. Her duties as Recorder/County 
Clerk included maintaining birth, death and marriage records for a 
county of nearly 10 million people and recording and filing countless 
property documents and statutory oaths. Her office maintained over 200 
million documents, a volume exceeded only by the Social Security 
Administration and the Pentagon. Mrs. McCormack, a great innovator, 
implemented the InkaVote Plus voting system, to guide voters through 
casting their ballots correctly and make voting easier for the 
disabled, and launched a new Enterprise Recording Archive system that 
eliminated manual processes to increase efficiency and cut down the use 
of paper.
  Mrs. McCormack embodies the characteristics of a highly respected 
public servant, humble, lovable, spirited, renowned for her skills in 
the kitchen, a lover of outdoors gardening, hiking, and playing with 
her adopted canines from the L.A. County animal shelter. Mrs. McCormack 
is a great role model for our young women and a workers' advocate who 
helped support numerous student and clerical training programs. She has 
participated in many charities, from the Christmas Angel Tree Program 
for local low income children to Aids Walk Los Angeles to victims of 
Hurricane Katrina.
  Conny has been an exemplary public servant known throughout her field 
for her dedication to her position, for her honesty, and for her 
integrity in her zeal to protect voters. A lifetime workaholic, an avid 
recycler, a true bargain hunter, a continual multi-tasker.
  Madam Speaker. I proudly ask you to join me, her family, friends, and 
community in honoring Conny McCormack for her service in, and 
contributions to, the County of Los Angeles and other communities 
across the country.

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