[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 19 (Tuesday, March 3, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H700]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     AMERICAN HELLENIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION HONOREES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
January 21, 1997, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pappas) is 
recognized during morning hour debates for 2 minutes.
  Mr. PAPPAS. Mr. Speaker, just a few days ago an organization of which 
I am a member, called the American Hellenic Educational Progressive 
Association, or AHEPA for short, had its 33rd Biennial AHEPA 
Congressional Banquet not too far from here.
  At that event one of our colleagues, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Bilirakis) was the recipient of the annual Pericles Award. The 
gentleman from Florida, as all of us know here, is a leader in many 
areas of public policy, health care being one of them, but also in 
areas of public policy dealing with the Mediterranean, Eastern 
Mediterranean, Greece, and Cyprus. Mr. Speaker, we are all very proud 
to congratulate the gentleman on that.
  The second award recipient was Andy Athens of the Chicago area. He 
received the 1998 Archbishop Iakovos Humanitarian Award.
  Both of these gentlemen are fine Americans. I am very, very proud to 
know them and to consider them friends and to be a member of the Greek-
American community in the United States with them, and am very pleased 
to have been there with them and their families that evening.

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