[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17204]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      CONGRATULATING NINA DAVULURI

  (Mr. MAFFEI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAFFEI. Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure to rise today to 
congratulate Nina Davaluri on winning the 2014 Miss America 
competition, and to proclaim our welcoming her back to central New York 
for her homecoming celebration this weekend.
  I had the privilege of meeting Nina when she was Ms. Syracuse, and I 
can tell you that she will be a different kind of Miss America. She 
graduated from Fayetteville-Manlius High School and then went on to the 
University of Michigan, where she earned a degree in brain behavior and 
cognitive science. She was an exemplary student and, during her time in 
college, made the Dean's List and won several scholastic awards.
  She is also very involved in the community. She is talented and 
driven and civic-minded, and she believes in empowering women around 
the world through education and opportunity, and that is what she has 
been doing as Miss America.
  She has also already broken down barriers and changed the face of the 
Miss America competition as the first Indian-American woman to be 
crowned Miss America.
  Madam Speaker, I would ask my colleagues in the House of 
Representatives to join me in congratulating Nina Davuluri on her 
victory at the 2014 Miss America competition and wish her the best of 
success in all her future endeavors.

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