[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 4019]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       WE THE PEOPLE COMPETITION

 Mr. HOLLINGS. Madam President, I want to recognize the 20 
students of Wilson High School in Florence, SC, who will be visiting 
the Capitol in early May to compete in the national finals of the ``We 
The People . . . The Citizen and the Constitution'' program. Right now 
the students are conducting research and preparing for the contest, 
which will test their knowledge of the Constitution and the Bill of 
Rights against 1,200 students from across the country. They have earned 
the trip by showing they were the best of the best in a statewide 
contest in February.
  Obviously, I hope my fellow South Carolinians win it all, but 
whatever happens, we are all winners in this country. When young 
people, on their own, want to understand the fundamental principles and 
values of our democracy, they are more likely to vote. They are more 
likely to participate in political life. They are more likely to take 
serious the civic duties that this nation needs of our citizens in the 
new century.
  I wish the very best to the Wilson Tigers: Jessica Anderson, Whitney 
Benjamin, Carol Chen, Cameron Coker, Katherine Collar, Joshua Croteau, 
Matthew Daniels, Leon Dock, Cara Dowling, Christine Gonzales, Latrese 
McElveen, Matthew Meggs, Philip Miller, Virginia Munson, Ashley Neel, 
Dacey Riley, Elinor Rooks, Gregory Schuetz, Priscilla Suggs, and 
Jingtian Yu.

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