[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 25 (Friday, February 15, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H554-H555]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY

  (Mr. HUELSKAMP asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUELSKAMP. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 150th 
anniversary of the founding of Emporia State University in Emporia, 
Kansas.
  Founded on this very day in 1863, with a mission of providing 
outstanding educators for the State of

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Kansas, Emporia State is much recognized to this day for its 
outstanding teachers college. One-third of the degrees earned each year 
at Emporia State are graduate degrees--the highest rate of any 
university in Kansas.
  Today, I join more than 5,900 current students and 75,000 alumni in 
congratulating Emporia State University on their first 150 years, and I 
wish them the very best in the next 150 years.

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