Senate Journal: Page 1315: Monday, April 24, 2000

  5 legislative office after completing three terms in
  6 office as a State Senator; and
  7    WHEREAS, Senator Szymoniak's distinguished career
  8 as a state legislator has included service as an
  9 Assistant Minority Leader during the Seventy-eighth
  10 General Assembly; and
  11    WHEREAS, Senator Szymoniak has served as a member
  12 of the Seventy-third through Seventy-eighth General
  13 Assemblies, and will have served 12 years at the time
  14 of her retirement; and
  15    WHEREAS, Senator Szymoniak's distinguished career
  16 has also included service in the Senate as Chairperson
  17 of the Human Resources Committee and of the Human
  18 Services Appropriations Subcommittee; as Vice
  19 Chairperson of the Local Government Committee and the
  20 Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee; and as
  21 Ranking Member on the Ethics Committee and Human
  22 Resources Committee; and
  23    WHEREAS, Senator Szymoniak's record of service is
  24 not limited to the Iowa General Assembly, but includes
  25 service as a member of the Des Moines City Council
  26 from 1977 to 1988; as Board President of the Iowa
  27 Council for International Understanding; and on the
  28 Boards of Directors for the House of Mercy, Urban
  29 Dreams, and Westminster House; and
  30 WHEREAS, Senator Szymoniak was one of four women

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  1 inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1999
  2 and has recently been named one of twelve Women of
  3 Influence in Des Moines by the Business Record; and
  4     WHEREAS, Senator Szymoniak has sponsored
  5 legislation and been instrumental in programs to
  6 protect children and families and to reform the
  7 welfare system; has worked to develop the concept of
  8 community empowerment to assist young children and to
  9 expand options for child care for working families;
  10 and has worked to ensure that Iowa children and
  11 families have access to needed health care; and
  12     WHEREAS, Senator Szymoniak has been an outspoken
  13 leader and mediator in the area of health and human
  14 services, and has labored diligently to reach
  15 consensus on many sensitive human services issues, in
  16 order to serve the needs of children and families in
  17 Iowa; and
  18    WHEREAS, Senator Szymoniak has served honorably and
  19 has unselfishly given of her time and efforts to
  20 further the interests of the State of Iowa and to
  21 provide beneficial programs for the citizens of Iowa,
  22 and has been an influential and devoted legislator in
  23 this state; NOW THEREFORE,

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