House Proceeding 10-22-09 on Oct 22nd, 2009 :: 0:00:40 to 0:03:10
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Bart Gordon: the house will be in order. the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for one minute. mr. gordon: mr. speaker, sad to announce a retirement. no, it's not mine. it's worse. the chief and staff of the science is going to be retiring at the end of this year. and as all of us know, if we're

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Speech By: Bart Gordon

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Bart Gordon: going to run our business well and be successful, we have to have good friends th will give us advice. we've got to have an outstanding staff that will help us execute our work and chuck has been both of those for me. and chuck has served his country with distinction in a number of ways.

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Bart Gordon: from the jungles of vietnam as a decorated marine, includi purple heart, to the halls of congress, chuck has been patriot. first coming to washington in 1993 and then in 1998 chuck took on the chore of being the chief of staff for my personal office.

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Bart Gordon: and later when i became ranking member of the science and technology committee, chuck took all those additional responsibilities as the staff director there. and in 2007 when i had the good fortune of you allowing me to serve you as the chairman of the science and technology committee, chuck then beca staff director for the committee.

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Bart Gordon: and quite frankly he has bee the key to our committee's success, skillfully putting together an outstanding staff, mentoring them, bringing them along to really perform to their maximum potential. and doing all that and i'm very pleased in a bipartisan manner and i'll tell you one quick story there. when i first became elected, as

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Bart Gordon: you know, the majority staff has 2/3 to a 1/3 and so there was a big switch and so chuck went to the minority could be the first one to interview for our new expanded staff. and after interviewing them, because he wanted to get the very best he could, our first five hires were from the republican staff and all the other republican staff members

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Bart Gordon: who didn't have a job, he said they could stay and help us work until they could find another job. and i think because of that, over the last 2 1/2 years, we've been so successful in beingble to pass 82 bipartisan bills and resolutions, 27 of those have been s more in the pipeline to be signed.

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Bart Gordon: so, chuck, thank you for a job well done and i hope that chuck's wife, mary, is listening and if so, mary, thank you for