[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 15677]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  HONORING SARAH YANG, MINNESOTA'S NATIONAL HISTORY DAY REPRESENTATIVE

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                         HON. MICHELE BACHMANN

                              of minnesota

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 18, 2009

  Mrs. BACHMANN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor Ms. Sarah Yang of 
Ramsey, Minnesota. Sarah is serving as the Minnesota representative for 
the National History Day competition and it is my honor to call 
attention to the hard work and dedicated effort she has put into her 
project.
  Since October, Sarah has been researching information on Xang Vang, a 
Hmong community advocate in Minnesota, in concert with the competition 
theme of, ``The Individual in History: Action and Legacies.'' She was 
first selected as a winner from Anoka High School and then selected 
among 30,000 students from Minnesota. Her project, ``Restoring Roots: 
Xang Vang & the Regeneration of Minnesota's Hmong Economy'' has 
culminated in a website that chronicles the life and work of Vang.
  Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor Sarah Yang and all the students 
who have participated in National History Day. We're often told, ``We 
can't know where we're going until we know where we've been.'' Sarah is 
just one representative of thousands of students who have taken 
ambitious strides to learn the history that will guide them to a bright 
and successful future. Congratulations to Sarah for making it this far 
and I hope we will continue to see more students taking part in 
National History Day every year.

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