[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 15611]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF KENNETH D. McCLINTOCK

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                           HON. ALAN GRAYSON

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, November 12, 2014

  Mr. GRAYSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today, in honor of Hispanic Heritage 
Month, to recognize Kenneth D. McClintock. McClintock served as the 
22nd Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. As 
Secretary of State, he fulfilled two roles, serving as the head of 
Puerto Rico's Department of State and, perhaps even more important, 
serving as lieutenant governor. McClintock also served as Acting 
Governor whenever the Governor was away from Puerto Rico.
  As Secretary of State, he digitalized his department, reducing 
backlogs and speeding up services, in spite of having lost 60 percent 
of his employees through early retirements, attrition and involuntary 
layoffs triggered by the fiscal crisis of 2008 to 2009. Governor 
Fortuno delegated multiple additional responsibilities to McClintock, 
such as chairing the Advisory Council on Government Reform and 
Reorganization. McClintock's government reorganization plans resulted 
in the streamlining of government services and agencies, the creation 
of new agencies, such as the Financial Education Institute, and multi-
million dollar savings.
  McClintock capped a 16-year career as a member of the Puerto Rico 
Senate, serving as the 13th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 
2005 to 2009. He also served as the youngest and the first Hispanic 
chairman of the nationwide Council of State Governments in 1999. In 
2000, McClintock served as the second president of the hemispheric-wide 
Parliamentary Conference of the Americas (COPA).
  McClintock is the author of Puerto Rico's Telecommunications Reform 
Law of 1996 as well as over 100 other laws.
  McClintock is an adjunct professor of US Government and Government 
Management at Interamerican University's San Juan campus. He coauthored 
a book with Puerto Rico's State Democratic Chair, Roberto Prats, about 
the 2008 Clinton presidential campaign in Puerto Rico, which they co-
chaired.
  The founder of a congressional internship program that has been 
replicated by nineteen states and territories, he is a longtime board 
member of a DC-based nonprofit, The Washington Center for Academic 
Internships and Scholarships. In his spare time, McClintock is an avid 
coin collector and an active member of the Episcopal Diocese of Puerto 
Rico.
  Born in London, England in 1957, his father, a native of Texas, was 
an architect, while his mother, born in Puerto Rico, was a college 
professor. McClintock is the proud father of a Georgetown University 
sophomore and aspiring actor, Kevin Davison, and a high school senior, 
Stephanie Marie.
  I am happy to honor Kenneth McClintock, during Hispanic Heritage 
Month, for his contributions to the Puerto Rican community.

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