[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 57 (Wednesday, May 4, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H2886]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    NOTING CONTRIBUTIONS OF IMMIGRANTS ON OCCASION OF CINCO DE MAYO

  (Mr. CUELLAR asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize the strength of the 
contributions of our immigrants. We find our immigrants, our sons and 
daughters, in government; we find them in the arts; we find them in 
medicine, in our educational system. And the strength that they provide 
our country has been outstanding. My mother and my father went only to 
a third and sixth grade education. They worked hard. They taught us how 
to work hard, and they taught us the power of education.
  This is why it is important that we recognize the strength and the 
diversity that our country is based on the immigrants, especially now 
that we rise and we see the Cinco de Mayo, especially my district, 
which is about 68 percent Hispanics. We should thank their 
contributions and recognize that contribution.

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