[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 502 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 502

  Congratulating all of the contestants of the 2006 Scripps National 
                             Spelling Bee.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 6, 2006

 Mr. Lautenberg (for himself and Mr. Menendez) submitted the following 
             resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Congratulating all of the contestants of the 2006 Scripps National 
                             Spelling Bee.

Whereas the Scripps National Spelling Bee is the largest and longest-running 
        educational promotion in the United States, and is administered by the 
        E.W. Scripps Company and 268 local sponsors, most of whom publish daily 
        and weekly newspapers;
Whereas the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee began with 275 competitors from 
        across the United States, American Samoa, the Bahamas, Canada, Europe, 
        Guam, Jamaica, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, each of 
        whom had qualified for the contest by winning locally-sponsored spelling 
        bees;
Whereas Miss Katharine ``Kerry'' Close is an 8th-grade student at the H.W. 
        Mountz School in Spring Lake, New Jersey;
Whereas the 13-year-old Miss Close first competed in the Scripps National 
        Spelling Bee as a 9-year-old, tied for 7th place in 2005, and competed 
        for the 5th time this year, sponsored by the Asbury Park Press and the 
        Home News Tribune;
Whereas Miss Close has spent between 1 hour and 2 hours a day looking up words 
        and their origins during the previous 5 years, yet has still found time 
        for sailing, playing soccer, and going to the mall and the movies with 
        her friends;
Whereas Miss Close survived 19 rounds of fierce competition this year and won 
        the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee in the 20th round by correctly 
        spelling ``ursprache'', which is defined as ``a parent language, 
        especially one reconstructed from the evidence of later languages''; and
Whereas the achievement of Miss Close brings an immense sense of pride to H.W. 
        Mountz School, her hometown of Spring Lake, and the entire State of New 
        Jersey: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) congratulates all of the contestants of the 2006 
        Scripps National Spelling Bee; and
            (2) respectfully requests the Secretary of the Senate to 
        transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to the H.W. Mountz 
        School, located in Spring Lake, New Jersey.
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