{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2006-12-27-pt1-PgE2244-2", "2006-12-27", 109, 2, null, null, "HONORING MS. GERMAINE BROUSSARD", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "HONORING", "E2244", "E2244", "[{\"name\": \"Frank R. Wolf\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "152 Cong. Rec. E2244", "Congressional Record, Volume 152 Issue 136 (Wednesday, December 27, 2006)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 136 (Wednesday, December 27, 2006)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E2244]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                    HONORING MS. GERMAINE BROUSSARD\n\n                                 ______\n\n                           HON. FRANK R. WOLF\n\n                              of virginia\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                      Wednesday, December 27, 2006\n\n  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor on behalf of Rep. Tom Davis and\nmyself to recognize Ms. Germaine Broussard of McLean, Virginia, for her\ndedication to sending many cookies and other packages to U.S. troops\noverseas.\n  Ms. Broussard is known as the Cookie Lady to those who have\nbenefitted from her kindness. She has already baked and shipped over\n51,000 cookies to servicemembers. She has dedicated many hours of her\nfree time and her own resources toward baking cookies to thank U.S.\ntroops.\n  I am proud to call attention to the dedication of Ms. Broussard. I\nwould also like to share a recent article from The Stars and Stripes\nwhich describes Ms. Broussard's hard work.\n\n              [From the Stars and Stripes, Nov. 21, 2006]\n\n              Va. Woman Cooking Up Eats Galore for Troops\n\n                           (By Kirsten Brown)\n\n       Washington.--When Lt. j.g. Gregory Trach, 34, received an\n     e-mail from Germaine Broussard two years ago asking\n     permission to send cookies to his ship, he thought little of\n     it.\n       ``Thank you for your support of the U.S. military,'' he\n     responded, then dismissed the request as a thoughtful but\n     meaningless gesture.\n       A few weeks later, the USS Shreveport received 12 boxes\n     packed with more than 1,800 chocolate chip, peanut butter,\n     oatmeal and sugar cookies. Shocked, Trach sent Broussard a\n     second e-mail: ``We thought you were kidding!''\n       That was Trach's first brush with ``the Cookie Lady.''\n       So far, Broussard, 39, has baked and shipped more than\n     51,000 cookies to servicemembers. The McLean, Va., resident\n     calls her mostly one-woman program ``Troop Treats.''\n       It felt like Christmas to Lt. Col. Skip Goodwillie, 45,\n     each time he and his unit opened a box from Broussard.\n     Goodwillie, who is in the Army Reserves, was stationed\n     northeast of Baghdad at Kir Kush military base when he\n     started getting cookies.\n       ``It was just wonderful to have mail call and hear, `Hey\n     Skip, the Cookie Lady sent us another box,' '' Goodwillie\n     said. ``It was wonderful for our morale.''\n       The Cookie Lady does get donations, but she pays for most\n     of it out of her own pocket. After her job as a Smith Barney\n     business development associate, Broussard comes home to start\n     mixing batter about 7 p.m. She pulls the last cookies from\n     the oven between 1 and 3 a.m.\n       ``Some people can be a little hesitant about why am I doing\n     this,'' Broussard said. ``I had wanted to do something, but\n     with the Red Cross, you donate money, and they send the box.\n     But our family has always used home-baked cookies, bread,\n     whatever, to be able to say thank you.''\n       Broussard also sends necessities such as travel-sized\n     shampoo, soap, toothpaste, mouthwash and other treats,\n     including DVDs, Cocoa Rice Krispies and cheesecake mix.\n     ``It's a small piece of home,'' she said.\n       Embedded teddy bears are also part of her effort.\n     Broussard's six ``Battle Buddies'' bears are dressed in\n     camouflage and she could fill an album with pictures of\n     beaming soldiers posing with their brown battle buddy.\n       Broussard will soon launch her second holiday project,\n     ``Operation Santa's Little Helpers,'' which enlists children\n     to write cheery cards to the troops. These notes are tucked\n     in red or blue stockings along with presents such as Slinky\n     toys, Silly Putty, playing cards and, of course, candy.\n       In junior high school, Broussard earned only a ``B'' in her\n     home economics class. ``I don't use a standard one-cup\n     measuring method,'' she said. ``It's just a little of this,\n     little of that. The home ec teacher went crazy. I'd love to\n     go back to that teacher and say, hmm! 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