[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 110 (Tuesday, July 21, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1865]
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   HONORING HEIDI REITZ OF SARTELL, MINNESOTA AS AN ANGEL OF ADOPTION

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                         HON. MICHELE BACHMANN

                              of minnesota

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 21, 2009

  Mrs. BACHMANN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor Heidi Reitz of 
Sartell, Minnesota, one of this year's Angels of Adoption. As you know, 
this prestigious award from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption 
Institute honors people who have given so much of themselves to help 
children and families find one another.
  Even without this award, Heidi would deserve acknowledgment for her 
extraordinary work bettering the lives of orphans in China as Director 
of Programs for Love Without Boundaries. I am honored, as a foster 
mother myself, to make known her hard work to this Congress. Because of 
Heidi's volunteer efforts, more than 300 children are in loving homes.
  The inspiration for her tireless dedication can be found in her own 
home. Her husband has helped Love Without Boundaries with cleft palate 
surgeries and two of her six beautiful children were adopted from 
China. As a volunteer, Heidi has arranged trips for two cleft-lip 
orphans and helped start a cleft healing home where children awaiting 
surgery to correct this difficult condition can be properly cared for. 
Heidi is working to make sure each of these special children are 
adopted into homes ready and prepared to care for them.
  Madam Speaker, Heidi Reitz has done such a service for all of mankind 
through her tireless dedication to orphan children in China. As 
families from every country wait to be united with their adopted 
parents and children, Heidi is giving them every opportunity to 
complete their family. The Love Without Borders website uses the 
anonymous quote, ``To the world, you might be one person . . . but to 
one person you might be the world.'' To the hundreds of children and 
families, Heidi is ``the world'' and an Angel in Adoption Award is just 
a small way we can show our appreciation for her efforts.

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