[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Pages 2047-2048]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           TRIBUTE TO PETER H. FONTAINE AND THERESA A. GULLO

  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I rise to congratulate Peter H. Fontaine 
and Theresa A. Gullo for 25 years of outstanding service to the 
Congress as staff at the Congressional Budget Office. My colleagues 
understand the important work done by CBO, providing Congress with 
high-quality, objective, nonpartisan, and timely analyses. The success 
of CBO and the respect it has built up over the years is the result of 
the hard work and dedication of employees such as Mr. Fontaine and Ms. 
Gullo.
  Mr. Fontaine started at CBO in February 1985 as an analyst for energy 
issues in the Natural and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit in the 
Budget Analysis Division. He was promoted to unit chief of the Natural 
and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit in 1995, to deputy assistant 
director for budget analysis in September 1999, and to assistant 
director for budget analysis in August 2007, where he oversees the 
staff who prepare the cost estimates for legislation and baseline 
budget projections that are so instrumental to the work of Congress.
  Ms. Gullo gained her first experience working at CBO as a summer 
intern in 1982, before returning in February 1985 as an analyst for 
natural resources programs in the Natural and Physical Resources Cost 
Estimates Unit in the

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Budget Analysis Division. In 1995, she became the first unit chief of 
the newly established State and Local Government Cost Estimates Unit, 
and in September 2007, she was promoted to the position of deputy 
assistant director for budget analysis.
  As chairman of the Budget Committee, I greatly appreciate the 
sacrifices that Mr. Fontaine and Ms. Gullo--as well as their families--
make in assisting the Budget Committees and Congress. This sacrifice 
has never been truer than over the past year, where CBO has faced an 
unprecedented work load, with the staff working endless nights and 
weekends under extraordinary time pressures on an array of complex 
issues. As assistant director and deputy assistant director for budget 
analysis, Mr. Fontaine and Ms. Gullo oversee much of that work. I thank 
them for their dedication and professionalism.
  The outstanding work being done behind the scenes by public servants 
like Mr. Fontaine and Ms. Gullo rarely gets the recognition it 
deserves. But their efforts are critical to the functioning of our 
government. They are providing a tremendous service to Congress and the 
American people.
  I hope my colleagues will join me in congratulating Mr. Fontaine and 
Ms. Gullo on their 25 years of outstanding service to Congress.

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