House Proceeding 02-24-09 on Feb 24th, 2009 :: 0:05:40 to 0:09:10
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Steny H. Hoyer: quiet presence, your extraordinarily good advice and counsel, and your steady hand.

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Speech By: Silvestre Reyes

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Silvestre Reyes: godspeed, good luck, well done. the speaker: pleased to yield to the gentleman. mr. reyes: i gentlelady for yielding. i rise today to pay tribute as well to our speaker's security advisor and former staff direc permanent select committee o

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Silvestre Reyes: intelligence, mr. michael she hi -- shey. as chairman of the permanent select committee on intelligence, i have had the immense honor of working closely with mike on significant intelligence issues of our day. whether the subject matter is foreign intelligence surveillance laws, satellite technology, or human intelligence opera

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Silvestre Reyes: virtually a walking encyclopediaa of knowledge. mi national security expeise is a result of his many years of public service first during his time in the u.s. navy j.a.g. corps and then in 10 years that he spent as an aide to the late representative edward bolin.

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Silvestre Reyes: as some of you may remembe bolin was the first chairman of the house intelligence committee and he earned great distinction as the father of the bowlin amendment which prohibited bolin amendment which -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. the gentleman is recognized. mr. reyes: he is known as the father of the bolin amendment

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Silvestre Reyes: which prohibited funding of u.s. involvement in the nicaraguan contrast uprising. acting as an associate staff member for the house, i ran contra investigating committee, mike had a front row sea to the history that evolved during his service to representative bolin. he joined the intelligence committee as chief counsel in

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Silvestre Reyes: 1990 under the leadership of then chairman anthony bailenson. in 2003 he received the defense intelligence agency's directors award, the highest award given by that agency. it was at that time he left the committee when then minority leader, our speaker today, hired

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Silvestre Reyes: him as her senior policy advisor. to me it seems she knew a good thing when she saw it. we missed him on the committee, but we were glad he was there advising our speaker. in the time that i have had the privilege to serve as a member and now as chairman of the intelligence committee, i have grown to rely and discover that

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Silvestre Reyes: mike's depth and breath -- breadth of intelligence and his knowledge are only surpassed in my opinion by his exactin eye for detail, his capacity to focus on the bigger picture, and his ability to find middle ground when there doesn't seem to be any. while he is often quiet, mike is always processing, turning the

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Silvestre Reyes: information over and ois head, and offering a measured thoughtful response to whatever the situation may be. just as he h ably served the speaker, he has become a trusted advisor for me as chairman and for our intelligence committee