[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3246]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           NATIONAL TRIO DAY

  (Mr. DICKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DICKEY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to bring to my colleagues' 
attention the celebration of National TRIO Day this past Saturday, 
February 27. National TRIO Day was designated by concurrent resolution 
on February 24, 1986, by the 99th Congress. It is celebrated on the 
last Saturday of each February.
  The TRIO program is a Federal program that works. Students volunteer 
their time to learn about how to better educate themselves, to become 
more gainfully employed. Employees of TRIO are there to help them and 
encourage them. This is for families that have income of under $24,000.
  We need more funds for this program so that we could fill more slots 
across the country. There are more people who want to get in the 
program than we have slots available.
  One last thing, I would like to commend Lindsey Burkett of my 
hometown of Pine Bluff. She is in the Upward Bound program at the 
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and is the 16-year-old daughter of 
Nadine Burkett and the late Ray Burkett. She is a junior honor student 
at Dollarway High School. I want to commend her for her work and TRIO 
for it also.

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