[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 18201]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HONORING ERIC LEE

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                         HON. MICHAEL BILIRAKIS

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 15, 2003

  Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Eric Lee, a fine 
young man and outstanding student from my congressional district in 
Safety Harbor, Florida.
  Eric recently learned that he has been selected to receive the 
prestigious Fulbright award to study, lecture, or conduct research 
abroad during the next academic year. Eric received this award because 
of his academic achievement and leadership in the field in which he has 
chosen to study.
  Congress created the Fulbright program in 1946 to ``increase mutual 
understanding between the people of the United States and the people of 
other countries.'' I strongly support this goal and agree with the 
program's namesake, former Senator J. William Fulbright, that we should 
``aim to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a 
little more compassion into world affairs and thereby increase the 
chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and 
friendship.''
  Mr. Speaker, there are more than 250,000 Fulbright alumni worldwide. 
I am confident that Eric Lee will exemplify the excellence and 
achievement that they have established throughout the program's 
history. I congratulate him, and his parents, on this outstanding 
achievement, and I wish him well in his studies and his future 
endeavors.

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