[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 75 (Wednesday, May 1, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H2782]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          HONORING PETE DOBITZ

  (Mr. ARMSTRONG asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ARMSTRONG. Mr. Speaker, a pretty cool thing happened in my 
hometown of Dickinson, North Dakota, last week: Pete Dobitz won his 
500th career game as our high school baseball coach.
  Since 2000, Dickinson High School has won five State championships 
and has been runners-up three times. If that is not enough, Coach 
Dobitz spends his summers coaching and running the Babe Ruth baseball 
team. To be honest, he would have gotten here a little earlier, but he 
refuses to count the 2004 State championship season because he was 
deployed, honorably serving the State of North Dakota and our country 
in the National Guard.
  I can't think of anybody more worthy of being able to be addressed on 
the floor of the House today. I have had the privilege of coaching with 
him. I have had the privilege of running a baseball program where he 
ran my Babe Ruth program, and I have the privilege and honor of calling 
him my friend.
  He has touched numerous high school students' lives, both in the 
classroom and in the ballpark. Here is to another 24 years and 500 wins 
because he is a fixture in the third-base dugout.

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