[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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