[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 130 (Wednesday, August 3, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3905-S3906]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            MORNING BUSINESS

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            TRIBUTE TO RECIPIENTS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL AWARD

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, today I wish to congratulate this 
year's winners of the Congressional Award. Established by Congress in 
1979, the award recognizes the achievements of young Americans between 
the ages of 14 and 23 years old and celebrates their accomplishment in 
four program areas: voluntary public service, personal development, 
physical fitness, and expedition/exploration.
  The award challenges participants to set goals in an area that 
interests them, encourages them to pursue new interests, and helps them 
grow along the way. If they are successful in their pursuit, they earn 
bronze, silver, and gold certificates and medals. Through this long-
running program, generations of young Americans have learned new 
skills, earned greater confidence, and positioned themselves for future 
success.
  On Friday, August 5, Gold Medal recipients will gather for a virtual 
ceremony to receive their Congressional Award. On behalf of the U.S. 
Senate, I would like to congratulate all of the winners for their 
accomplishments and for the example they set for their peers. Among 
this impressive group, my State of Kentucky is home to nine gold 
medalists.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that a list of this year's 
recipients of the Congressional Award Gold Medal be printed in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

       Alabama: Barbara (Belle) Kelly
       Arizona: Charles Zhang, Catherine Ross, Baraa Abdelsalam, 
     David Conners, Nathan Devey, Jack Gray, Ryan Grosso, Allison 
     Li, Abby Wolf
       Arkansas: Etana Morse
       California: Alessandra Alcala, Valerie Lee, Sonia Burns, 
     Emir Dine, Eric S. Lee, Andrew Sung, Sophia Lin, Aiden Chow, 
     Bridget Chung, Nicholas Taylor, Kyle Min, Lauren Yu, 
     Annabelle Yaeun Park, Manuel Choi, Gina Lee, Daniel Chang, 
     Catherine Liu, Hawon Cho, Benjamin Kim, Nathan Park, Ethan 
     Lee, Rachel Yun, Victoria Choi, Jade Bahng, Denny Lee, Chloe 
     Kim, Chanah Park, Taeil Kim, Junsun Ho, Tyler Huang, Seok Woo 
     Kim, Jesse Dong, Serim Jang, Maya Rosenbaum, Emily Doi, 
     Jianhui (Edward) Liu, Yumin Kim, Amber Kim, Andrew Chung, 
     Ellen Kang, Sharon Kim, Nathan Kim, Rachel Hong, Sangjun 
     Shin, Kai Indeglia, Andre Lombardi, Hannah Kim, Anaiya Abney, 
     Kevin Ann, Jacob Arca, Metin Aslan, Marcus Au, Tessa 
     Augsberger, SaraJane Bacallao, Aaron Baek, Abhinav Balla, 
     Snikitha Banda, Willow Black, Anaahat Brar, Cody Busch-Weiss, 
     Julia Chang, Natalie Chen, Jamie Cho, Hana Choi, Jaemin Choi, 
     Elise Chung, Chan Chung, Aidan Compton, Michael Dai, Keziah 
     De Bie, Lauren Fields, Kacey Fifield, Andres Garcia, Joan 
     Isabelle Go, Vansh Goel, Rachel Gwon, Jaiden Ha, Joshua Han, 
     Angela Hao, Alexander Henderson, Jonathan Hinderaker, Kaiyue 
     Hu, Lucy Hwang, Kate Hyun, Grace Jin, Joanna Jin, Benjamin 
     Joo, Kaila Jung, Stella Jung, Luke Jung, Emma Ka, Jina Kang, 
     Su Kara, Nathaniel Kim, Naomie Kim, David Kim, Doyoon Kim, 
     Sean Kim, Jacob Kim, Jonathan (Junhyeong) Kim, Lena Kim, 
     Minseo Kim, Hyojoong (Eric) Kim, Michelle Kim, Eunyul 
     (Esther) Kim, Joanne Kim, Joon Kim, Annabelle Kim, Jonathan 
     Kim, Rebecca Kim, Hajin Kim, Joshua Kwon, Juliana Lawrence, 
     Vivian Lee, Min Young Lee, Helen Lee, Brian Lee, Kurtis Lee, 
     Han Lee, Hyun (Henry) Lee, Weixuan (Demi) Lei, Shengyi Li, 
     Shani Lin, Madeleine Lloyd, John (Will) Logue, YingZhi Ma, 
     lshan Madan, Michael McPhie, John McPhie, Troy Miyazato, 
     Sarah Mohammed, Kishant Mohan, Hannah Moon, Donovan Morgan, 
     Roma Nagle, Michael Nam, Keyon Namdar, Ryan Namdar, Andrew 
     Ngai, Joseph Oh, James Oh, Saanvi Pabbichetty, Brent Park, 
     Seohyun Park, Angelina Park, Hanna Partovi, Curtis Peters, 
     Jack Quach, Yasmeen Qubain, Xinrui (Eric) Que, Sahana Raj, 
     Maren Ritterbuck, Sofia Roberts, Tiana Salisbury, Janav Shah, 
     Saiya Shah, Andrew (Woohyun) Shin, Alissa Shterenberg, Levent 
     Sirtas, Kate Smith, Austin Son, Rachel Song, Deborah Song, 
     Jake Song, Saurish Srivastava, Nesha Subramaniam, Eshan 
     Subramaniam, Norah Takehara, Tatton Thompson, Ethan Tobey, 
     Betul Serra Tulu, Emre Berk Uludag, Stefan Vin, HaoZhou Wang, 
     Ethan Won, Kyle Woo, Charis Woo, Esther Wu, Shengnan Ye, 
     Ethan Yee, Luciano Yi, Aaron Yoon, San (Martin) Yoon, 
     Fengtianye Yu, Alexander Yue, Hannah Zhang, Joanna Zhu, David 
     Song
       Colorado: Soleil Gaylord, Jonathan Crowe, Ella Davis, 
     Stephen Zhang
       Connecticut: Caroline Tucker, Patrick Vicente, Brian Karle, 
     Taylor Roy, Kennedi Muller, Alexia Anglade, Mallory Doyle, 
     Kayla Roy, Brooks Barry
       Florida: Kayra Akin, Karalynne Alliss, Caleb Amador, Blaine 
     Baxter, Ainsley Boyd, Jordan Card, Allison Card, William 
     Charouhis, Ashley Colegrove, Grace Donath, Avery Doty, 
     Savannah Virginia Elizondo Vega, Gillian Falls, Eric 
     Feichthaler, Tyler Feichthaler, Nicholas J. Forester, Owen 
     Gelberd, Anna Grawunder, Meghan Heilpern, Andrea Holloway, 
     Jonathan Howes, Breana Huggins, Austin Knight, Marcella 
     (Ella) Ladd, Sophia O'Donnell, Ashwin Parthasarathy, Callahan 
     Pirozzi, Colton Price, Garrett Rose, Kate Small, Andie Smith, 
     Brandon Spohn, G. Logan Taylor, Marco Gino Thomas, Giavanna 
     Vastola
       Georgia: Darshan Addepalli, Zachary Beddingfield, Meghana 
     Choragudi, Shivam Jain, Akshadha Jain, Vihan Chander Kamala, 
     Yugeshwar Muralidhar, Zeynep Ozdemir, Jordan Smothers, 
     Sabrina Yeh, Sophia Ying
       Hawaii: Kai Moriyama, Sophie Nguyen, Jaime Wang, Annie Wang
       Illinois: Caitlin Wilson, Paige Bowman, Michael Goodall, 
     Jocelyn Canellis, Emily Yoo, Joy McClintick, Ermina Hassan, 
     Aishvarya Godla, Krithik Praveen, Abigail Bergan
       Idiana: Matthew Stachler, Allison K Pemberton, Rex Burkman
       Iowa: Emily Poag
       Kansas: Matthew Schmidt, Dorothy Caisley, Aaram Salam, 
     Pranav Pathapati, Phoebe Martin, Amanda Zhu, Abigail 
     Lopatofsky
       Kentucky: Kalea Alexander, Madelyn Faughn, Clarissa Miller, 
     Quinn Miller, Andrew Nichols, Jada Smith, Sydney Sun, Chloe 
     Yates, Olivia Claire Yates
       Louisiana: Kelsie Tillage
       Maryland: Benjamin Lee, Elena Grant, Louis Gasper, Byron 
     Wu, Josef Marschall, Stone Li, Miriam Talalay, Stella 
     Szostak, Caroline Herring, Julianne Herring
       Massachusetts: Taban Malihi, Amrik Eadara, Anya Mittal, 
     Lars Gubitosi, Shea Furse, Theodor illarionov, Tiffany Hu, 
     Lindsey E. Arruda
       Michigan: Isabella Cook, Pooja Kapoor
       Minnesota: Giselle Johnson
       Mississippi: Katie Evans, Parker Henry
       Missouri: Patrick Mason, Abigail Mueller, Rhea Patney, 
     Michael Smith
       Nebraska: Carmela Rigatuso
       Nevada: Lexie Wilder, Rida Ali, Brayden Mendoza
       New Hampshire: Sage Herr
       New Jersey: Riya Karande, Varija Mehta, Seung Hee Rhew, 
     Evan Kuster, Dhruv Parikh, Matthew Reiter, Helena 
     Rittenhouse, Andrew Ge, Michael Caggiano,

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     Shivam Syal, Mahek Shah, Shannon Rhatigan, Riya Goel, Naomi 
     Klein, Christopher John, Anusha Bansal, Owen Brown, Megan 
     Szot, Naaz Syed, Annika Santhanam, Tanish Tyagi, Lauren 
     Doliszny, Katherine Doliszny, Joshua Whitaker, Gabrielle 
     Akiatan, Chaitanya Bhimineni, Anish Chaganti, Paige 
     Vrankovic, Lily Mahabir, Kate Minn, Preeti Chemiti, Mirika 
     Jambudi, Elif Cebe, Mirella Richard, Anika Parthiban, Dhruv 
     Balaji
       New York: Srivaths Ravva, Philemon Han, Caroline Fouts, 
     Jessica Dantoni, Jay Kim, Armaan Pahuja, Jocelyn Greshes, 
     Druery Czarkowski, Anthony Ciampi, Andrew Choy, Vishala 
     Swami, Tahirah Abdul-Qadir, Nicole Cioffi, Kevin Harrington, 
     Alexandra Osilovskiy, Shreya Narayan, Tvisha Faria, Jane 
     Robinson, Cindy DeDianous, Aidan Kielty, Sophia Baldassarre
       North Carolina: Kayla Anderson, Phillip Bartlett, Gabriel 
     Bonomo, Reagan (Charlee) Brown, Joshua Dong, Marcus Freeman 
     111, Aria Gholizadeh, Lauren Gregg, Sarah ``Sorren'' Gregg, 
     Eliana Hounslow, Andrew Hubertus Joseph Juhasz, Santosh 
     Kandula, Vaishnavi Kode, Avery Lester, Jerry Lin, Peter John 
     Liotino, Sriya Mannepalli, Jadon Palmeter, Parker Rose, 
     Brynne Van Allsburg, Austin Winkelspecht, William Witte, 
     Ashrith Yelavarti, Harrison Yost
       Ohio: Naveen Kamath, Anna Houseknecht, Glenn Ochsner, 
     Katrina Beer, Ian Wright, Neha Jasti, Pranav Krishnan, Tanya 
     Keskar, Nithya Duddella, Rishika Jeyaprakash
       Oklahoma: Bruce Bigler, Phillip Kane, Emma Linsenmeyer, 
     Benjamin Martin, Ashlyn Milford, Caleb Tham
       Oregon: Karlynn Kenny
       Pennsylvania: Justine Eng, Waverly Huang, Alexander Wood, 
     Genevieve Barge, Qingqing Zhao, Anker Zhao, Nicole Rozanski, 
     Anna Laible, Shivani Jajoo, Madeleine Day, Nathanael Chen
       Rhode Island: Brittan Gallo
       South Carolina: Robert ``Wesley'' Quinn, Hannah Cate Smith
       Tennessee: Rachel Baker, Hadley Brown, Katherine Koester, 
     Joshua Mi
       Texas: Barret Allen, Karthik Bhagavatula, Reese Billedo, 
     Saahas Bondalapati, Salim Budak, Kai Campbell, Akif 
     Celepcikay, Alaqmar Chawalwala, Maria Cheng, Seoyeon Chung, 
     Aylin Cibik, Aesha Derasari, Pragya Devashish, Muhammed Bera 
     Dogan, Margaret Dorsey, Martha Grace Fields, Sriyuktha 
     Ghanta, Nicolas Gonzalez, Eric Gonzalez, Sofia Guiot 
     Villarreal, lshayu Gupta, Serene Haroon, Suhani Jampala, 
     Courtney Janecka, Vinayak Joglekar, Mihir Kalvakaalva, Jane 
     Kamata, Mucteba Karaca, Aaliyah Khan, Andy Kim, Aarushi 
     Lakhi, Michala Lee, Francisco Lugo Gonzales, Sandhya Mahesh, 
     Sydney Mathew, Welles McDevitt, Busra Olmez, Juhi Pandit, 
     Baxter Perry-Miller, Sanjana Perungulam, Pranav Police, Ryan 
     Schlimme, Sohum Sharma, Lauren Stump, Vibha Velur, William 
     Wallis, Bennett Welsh
       Utah: Jasmine Brensan, Rivanna Buechner, Jessica Cardon, 
     John Evershed, Ashley Herbert, William Herbert, Anagha Rao, 
     Benjamin Woodfield
       Virginia: Sarah Chang, Madeleine Dearie, John Dozier, Eric 
     Feng, Ramya Griddaluri, Noelle Koo, Chase Mccullough, Natalia 
     Nelson, Hannah Nguyen, Joshua Nichols, Emily Ocasio, Susan 
     Pirnat, Ross Roberts, Kushaan Saran, Divya Singh, John Paul 
     Sommer, Hudson Stolz, Lynn Tao, Gent Veizi, Justinian Wright
       Washington: Josiah Stewart, Andrew Champlin, Cara Elzie, 
     Roxanne Fredericksen, Vanesha Hari, Connor Huang, Benjamin 
     Kinder, Jack Pietrusiewicz, Evan Ping, Anya Vaish
       Washington, DC: Roshan Natarajan
       Wisconsin: Daphne Wu, Maximilian Hong
       Wyoming: Dawson Fantin, Nathan Duda, Kora Williams, Allison 
     Morrison, Harris Tanner, Faith Danner, Alexandra Robert, 
     Karli Nelson, Megan Zotti, Brooke Bindl, Gracie McGraw, 
     Seneva Sullivan, Carl Gray, Faith Brandt, Hudson Garner, 
     Ellie Weibel, Berkeley Snyder, Koye Gilbert, Henry Dickinson, 
     Rachel Kuntz

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