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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 193 Celebrating the life of Lisa J. Raines.

Agreed to by the Senate, January 31, 2002 Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 4, 2002

WHEREAS, on September 11, 2001, terrorists launched an inexcusable attack on the United States, causing great destruction and horrible human suffering in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS, the attack had a devastating effect in Virginia, home of the Pentagon and of many of the personnel, military and civilian, who served there; and

WHEREAS, among the victims of the Pentagon attack was Lisa J. Raines of Great Falls, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on September 11; and

WHEREAS, Lisa Raines was senior vice president for government relations at the Genzyme Corporation, a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and

WHEREAS, Lisa Raines was involved in many of the laws affecting the biotechnology industry over the past decade, including those that strengthened patent protection and accelerated the approval of drugs by the Food and Drug Administration; and

WHEREAS, for the past year, Lisa Raines had worked to persuade her industry to support the idea of drug coverage for the elderly under Medicare; and

WHEREAS, an influential figure on Capitol Hill, Lisa Raines was widely respected for her intelligence, her knowledge of health-care issues, and her powers of persuasion; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, That the General Assembly hereby note with great sadness the loss of Lisa J. Raines, an innocent victim of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of Lisa J. Raines as an expression of the heartfelt condolences of the General Assembly of Virginia.