[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8553-8554]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            CONGRATULATIONS TO OAK POINT INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Minnesota (Mr. Paulsen) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to congratulate the students at Oak 
Point Intermediate School in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, for collecting an 
impressive $42,474.24 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Pennies 
for Patients program this year. That's more than any other school in 
the country.
  Every year, Mr. Speaker, elementary and secondary school students 
bring their spare change to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Pennies 
for Patients program, and they donate them as a part of that program to 
find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood cancers. Leukemia 
causes more deaths than any other cancer in children and young adults 
under the age of 20. Thanks to this program, schools across the country 
have been collecting important resources to fund valuable research and 
provide patient care.

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  Programs like Pennies for Patients teach young students how they can 
impact the lives of their peers and the communities they live in.
  I am incredibly proud of the students at Oak Point for all of their 
hard work and their service, and I congratulate them. I hope they have 
a great time at their much-deserved pizza party next week.

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