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“DEPARTURE OF LESLIE BROWN FROM RECLAMATION” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Senate section on pages S366 on Feb. 2, 2004.
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DEPARTURE OF LESLIE BROWN FROM RECLAMATION
Mr. SMITH. Mr. President, today I bid farewell and best wishes to Ms. Leslie Brown, who leaves the Bureau of Reclamation's Washington office after fifteen years of dedicated service.
For the majority of her 15 years at the Bureau of Reclamation, Leslie has served in their office of Congressional Affairs with distinction and efficiency and without regard to ideology or partisanship. During my tenure both as chairman and as ranking member of the Water and Power Subcommittee of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Ms. Brown worked closely with my staff to make sure that testimony was submitted in a timely manner. She always worked to ensure that we got the information we needed from Reclamation in order to address many of the water resources issues facing Oregon and the western United States. We will miss Ms. Brown at Reclamation. With her there, we always knew we could get the information and assistance we needed in a timely manner and always with a smile on her face.
While Reclamation and those of us in this body who work with that agency are sad to see her leave Reclamation, I am pleased that Ms. Brown will continue to work with the Congress from her new post in the Congressional Affairs office at the Department of Agriculture's Rural Development--where she will continue to help Congress address the needs of rural communities throughout the United States.
Mr. President, I ask you and others in this body to join me in wishing her good luck and thank her for everything that she has done for me, for Oregon, for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and for the Senate.
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