国会记录：2002年3月20日（房屋）页面H1076识别MS。Diane S. Roark扬声器专业队员。根据房子的先前订单，来自佛罗里达州（Goss先生）的绅士被认可了5分钟。高斯先生。扬声器女士，过去，通常在考虑情报预算期间，我在这个机构之前已经升起，并提到了普遍存在的智力选择委员会的卓越员工，其中我们非常自豪。这些人是特别选择的，因为他们的知识和对情报世界的理解，一个实际上非常常见的世界，并且对没有花时间的人令人困惑。我们不对这些人谈论很多，他们不寻求认可。他们不是那种。他们明白，大部分工作必须秘密完成，以免背叛他们处理的敏感信息，但让我向我保证我的同事和美国人民，这群专门的人努力工作，他们深深地挖掘智力界的运作，以确保有智力活动的监督，我们的国家是安全的，智力界正在逐规。 I want to specifically recognize one of these dedicated people who has served the committee and our country diligently for almost 2 decades. Her name is Diane Roark, and I am sorry to say that when this body reconvenes in April Diane will no longer be on our staff. She is retiring from the House and from government service. Madam Speaker, Diane first joined the committee in April 1985, having previously served in the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and just prior to joining us, on the National Security Council, where she was Deputy Director of Intelligence Programs. Since joining the committee, Diane has excelled in the very difficult, technical areas of our oversight. She was the program monitor for the National Reconnaissance Office where she not only challenged the embedded bureaucracy and made it become more innovative in approaches to future election, but she also forced the office to restructure and reform their fiscal accountability system so that oversight was assured. Most recently, Diane has been our program manager for the National Security Agency, a vital agency for us. This agency has many, severe challenges, Madam Speaker, and if it were not for the efforts of Ms. Roark, I do believe that our committee's efforts to oversee and advocate for NAS would have been much less effective, and for that she has my personal thanks. Diane is known as a very dedicated, tough-minded program monitor who digs into the issues and forces agencies to see and understand what they sometimes miss themselves. She is also known as a very knowledgeable task master, and her arrival at an agency is often anticipated with apprehension. Those managing the community know that she is usually on the mark with her assessments and that she takes the public's trust very well to heart. Recently, one of the senior managers within the community commented on her performance by saying that our staff ``is very aggressive in their oversight and has a very serious and in-depth knowledge of our programs, sometimes a better understanding than some of the senior managers do.'' I think that this is the type of oversight capability that the American people are entitled to and should demand. I cannot think of any greater tribute for Diane than knowing that agency leaders throughout the community recognize that her instincts and assessments are sound. So, Madam Speaker, it is with some sadness that I rise today to say farewell to a public servant who has dedicated a career to ensuring our security, each and every one of us. Diane's departure is truly our loss, although I know that her younger son, Bryce, will enjoy having Mom around home more. We are going to miss her. On behalf of the committee I thank Diane for her professionalism, her dedication, her unfailing commitment to our Nation and its security. We wish her well in her future endeavors, whatever they be. Know that she has served her country well and she will be missed. Job well done. ____________________