Orrin Hatch: “I am pleased to pay tribute to a fine public servant and an incredible asset to the U.S. Congress. Rich Rimkunas has had…”

“I am pleased to pay tribute to a fine public servant and an incredible asset to the U.S. Congress. Rich Rimkunas has had a career filled with outstanding achievement at the Congressional Research Service, CSR. After nearly 37 years of service, Rich will be retiring from CRS on Friday, April 28. When Rich joined CRS in 1980, he was an analyst working on a broad array of social policy issues. Initially, he worked on issues like child nutrition, poverty, Social Security, social services for the aged, and unemployment insurance. Rich cocreated and coauthored a widely circulated CRS report on Federal social welfare spending. He was also a coauthor and contributor to several chapters in the House Ways and Means Committee print ``Children in Poverty,'' which provided a detailed look at the incidence and characteristics of child poverty in the United States. Rich ultimately became heavily involved in providing research and analytical support to Congress on many health policy issues, including analyses of aggregate national health expenditures, the Medicare hospital prospective payment system, the Medicare Advantage program, and Medicare catastrophic drug costs. Additionally, he has worked on numerous issues related to Medicaid.…”