[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 24228]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



      WELCOME TO SOUTH FLORIDA RECEPTION IN HONOR OF DONNA SHALALA

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, tonight the Humane Society of Greater 
Miami is hosting a ``Welcome to South Florida'' reception. The event is 
being held to welcome University of Miami President Donna Shalala and 
her dog, Cheka, to south Florida.
  President Shalala was the longest-serving Secretary for Health and 
Human Services in U.S. history. Before that, she served as Chancellor 
of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the first woman to head a Big 
10 university.
  She is now at a new job that she loves, President of the University 
of Miami, a major and leading research university in the southeastern 
United States, located in my congressional district.

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  President Shalala says that Cheka ``speaks English and Spanish and is 
a perfect fit for south Florida, the Gateway of the Americas.''
  We thank Kelly Grimm and the Humane Society of Greater Miami for 
their dedication to helping homeless animals, and Donna Shalala as 
president of the University of Miami.

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