[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 14 (Thursday, January 25, 2024)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E73]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        RECOGNIZING THE NATURALIZATION OF MARITZA COROMOTO BIGGS

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                           HON. BRIAN HIGGINS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, January 25, 2024

  Mr. HIGGINS of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to 
Maritza Coromoto Biggs, who will officially become a citizen of the 
United States of America on January 27, 2024, having recently completed 
her naturalization interview and test.
  Ms. Coromoto Biggs, born in Punto Fijo, Venezuela in 1958, was the 
fourth of ten children. She grew up in a modest but hardworking family. 
Her father worked for a petroleum company and her mother was a young 
homemaker. At an early age, she made history as one of the first women 
in the Venezuelan Air Force and came to this country in November of 
1982 as a diplomatic delegate to learn how to fly and operate F-16s 
from the distinguished professionals of the U.S. Air Force.
  Ms. Coromoto Biggs had a long and distinguished career advancing 
peace, stability, economic development and the improvement of human 
conditions throughout the Western Hemisphere through her work at the 
Inter-American Development Bank. She and her husband, Tyler Sanford 
Biggs, an economist at the World Bank, built a family and community of 
close friends here in the United States. She has two daughters who live 
and work in Virginia and Washington, D.C. today and is a proud abuelita 
to her two grandsons.
  As Ms. Coromoto Biggs takes her oath of loyalty to the United States, 
a place that feels more like home than her home country, we celebrate 
the American dream and the opportunity that this country continues to 
provide, and we congratulate Ms. Coromoto Biggs on her naturalization.

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