[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22491]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          RECOGNIZING EL PASO'S RIO GRANDE CHILI WAR FESTIVAL

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                          HON. SILVESTRE REYES

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 18, 2003

  Mr. REYES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call my colleagues' attention 
to a ``hot topic''--the Rio Grande Chili War Festival, taking place 
September 20 and 21, 2003, on the Yselta del Sur Pueblo reservation in 
my congressional district.
  The Festival will feature a variety of local foods, including Mission 
Valley Long Green chilies, a chuck wagon cook-off, live entertainment, 
Native American dancers, and games. Most importantly, the event will 
establish once and for all that the best chilis anywhere in the 
Southwest are grown in El Paso.
  You see, Mr. Speaker, some of my good friends and colleagues from New 
Mexico and Arizona might be under the misimpression that their 
communities have our nation's greatest chilies, or best chili festival. 
While I am sure they are very good, El Pasoans know that those bragging 
rights belong to us!
  Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I commend everyone involved with the Rio 
Grande Chili War Festival--the best chili festival in America--and wish 
them every success with the event.