[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Pages 5026-5027]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  CONGRATULATING THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA HOCKEY TEAM FOR THEIR 
                           NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP

  Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I came to the floor today as we begin 
business this week to talk about two issues. First, let me describe 
what happened Saturday evening on the east coast. There was a hockey 
team from the University of North Dakota that went to the east coast to 
play in the NCAA Division I hockey championship. When they finished 
that competition, the North Dakota Sioux were Division I national 
champions once again. In fact,

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it is the seventh Division I national championship for the University 
of North Dakota hockey team.
  I am an alumnus of that great school, and it was with great pride I 
watched the game on television last Saturday evening and saw the North 
Dakota Fighting Sioux win that contest. We are the home of great 
skaters, great hockey players, and great tradition. This year, once 
again, we demonstrated that you don't have to have a 40,000-student 
population to be a Division I national champion.
  I called the White House this morning and asked if they would invite 
that team to the White House, as is often the custom for championship 
teams--college football, basketball, and other teams, including 
professional teams who have been invited to the White House by the 
President to say congratulations to them. I hope he will do the same 
for this wonderful group of young men from North Dakota who are now 
this Nation's champions in Division I hockey.
  So my hat is off to the University of North Dakota. It is a wonderful 
school. I am proud to have gotten my undergraduate degree there. I am 
increasingly proud year after year as I watch that school. Not only are 
they great athletes and hockey players, these are also great students 
and good young men. This is an athletic program without parallel around 
the country, in my judgment. Again, I congratulate those young men. I 
am very proud of them.

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