Tribute to John L. McGoldrick

Mr. LAUTENBERG. Mr. President, it is with great pride that I rise today to pay special tribute to an outstanding gentlemen from New Jersey. On January 20, The American Jewish Committee Institute of Human Relations Award Dinner will honor John L. McGoldrick. Since 1979, John McGoldrick has served as a director of the New Jersey Transit Corporation, which is the United States' third largest passenger rail and bus company. As anyone from New Jersey knows, passenger rail and bus service is extremely important to the commerce and quality of life in our State.

Currently John McGoldrick is executive vice president of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. He is vice chairman of the company's executive committee and is responsible for Global Corporate Policy. He is also general counsel of the company and director of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation.

More important than any of those responsibilities is Mr. McGoldrick's responsibility for Bristol-Myers Squibb's HIV/AIDS initiatives in Africa. That includes the company's groundbreaking $115 million Secure The Future program in Southern and Francophone Africa, as well as the ACCESS program to make antiretroviral therapy more accessible in the developing world.

At Bristol-Myers Squibb John McGoldrick has also led the company's efforts in support of the State of New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.

John McGoldrick is also very active outside of his work at Bristol-Myers.

Mr. McGoldrick is a director of the Regional Plan Association, a trustee of Legal Services of New Jersey and a Trustee of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey.

Mr. McGoldrick also has been elected a Member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a fellow of the American Bar Association and a fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.

He is also a director of Zimmer Holdings, Inc., which is a company that manufactures artificial hips and knees as well as other orthopedic products.

I ask my colleagues to join me and the American Jewish Committee Institute of Human Relations in honoring Mr. John L. McGoldrick for his great service to New Jerseyans and people all over the world.