[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2288]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO ROBERT A. DENNIS

 Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I want to take a moment to 
recognize the retirement this week of Robert A. Dennis, CBO's Assistant 
Director for Macroeconomic Analysis. Mr. Dennis is retiring after more 
than 30 years of service at CBO.
  He began his career at CBO in 1979, working as a Principal Analyst in 
CBO's Macroeconomic Division. He was promoted to the position of Deputy 
Assistant Director of the Division in 1988 and then to the position of 
Assistant Director of the Division in 1992, where he has served since.
  As the head of CBO's Macroeconomic Analysis Division, Mr. Dennis has 
been one of the leading economists at CBO and has helped drive the 
agency's outstanding work. His skills as an economist have been 
highlighted in the diverse issues he has worked on while at CBO, 
ranging from macroeconomic effects of tax policy, to the impact of flu 
epidemics and terrorist disruptions at U.S. ports.
  Mr. Dennis has also played a critical role at CBO by developing many 
of the procedures the Macroeconomic Analysis Division has used to 
prepare its economic forecasts. He even wrote the computer software 
that the division used for many years to analyze current economic 
developments and prepare charts for CBO publications.
  Mr. Dennis's excellent work has been recognized throughout his 
career. In the 1980s, as a principal analyst, he received a CBO 
Director's Award for outstanding performance. And he has since received 
a number of awards recognizing his outstanding management at CBO.
  Mr. Dennis has exemplified CBO's high standard of professionalism, 
objectivity, and nonpartisanship. He has worked tirelessly to ensure 
Congress was given accurate and timely information on the key policy 
issues of the day.
  I thank Robert Dennis and commend him for his many years of 
dedicated, faithful, and outstanding service to CBO, to Congress, and 
to the American people. I wish him all the best in his well-deserved 
retirement.

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