[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18608]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    WICHITA NAMED ALL-AMERICAN CITY

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, some people think all the wise and good 
people are inside the Washington Beltway, but, of course, that is not 
right as each and every day ordinary people in communities all across 
this great Nation join together to do extraordinary things.
  The City of Wichita, Kansas, led by its outstanding mayor and my 
friend, Bob Knight, was recently named an All-American City by the 
National Civic League. This is a great honor and one worthy of mention 
here on the floor of the People's House.
  The three programs the city of Wichita submitted in its winning All-
American City application are Wichita's Promise: The Alliance for 
Youth; Wichita Independent Neighborhoods; and the Cessna 21st Street 
Learning and Work Campus.
  These programs are volunteer driven and do the hard work and 
sometimes thankless work of making our Nation better by making our 
communities better, one at a time. I want to publicly thank everyone 
associated with each of these organizations because, thanks to you, 
Wichita is an All-American City and America is a better place to live.

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