[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4275]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              CONGRATULATING THE STUDENTS RUN L.A. PROGRAM

  (Mr. CARDENAS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CARDENAS. Mr. Speaker, I just want to literally take a minute to 
congratulate all of the runners and the families and the supporters of 
the Los Angeles Marathon. But the unique and beautiful thing about the 
Los Angeles Marathon is that close to 3,000 young people on this past 
Sunday finished 26.2 miles--26.2 miles. In preparing to do that, 
millions of miles were walked and run by the children of Los Angeles.
  I'd just like to say thank you to the Students Run L.A. program 
because they literally got my daughter off the couch last October. And 
Alina Cardenas ran her first marathon, and never before had she run a 
marathon or been a runner; so did her little cousin, Kyle Herrera, as 
well.
  So I just want to congratulate and thank all of those young leaders 
for doing a wonderful job and all of those men and women who helped 
them get there.

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