[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8440]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                         RECOGNIZING JIM WEBER

 Mr. DAINES. Mr. President, I wish to recognize Jim Weber, a 
welding and machining teacher at Capital High School in Helena, MT. Mr. 
Weber uses Mastercam CAD/CAM software to give his students real world, 
practical skills, as well as the work ethic necessary to complete any 
task. His instruction helped lead one of his students to victory at the 
National Machining Competition for creating a custom fly fishing rod 
and display case.
  Mr. Weber's fly fishing rod project not only leads to great and 
necessary personal skills, but he inspired this years' senior class to 
make an even bigger impact with their fly fishing rods. Mr. Weber's 
class designed and machined 15 custom fly fishing rods for the Big 
Hearts under the Big Sky project which helps to create free and 
gratifying opportunities for service men and women, life-threateningly 
ill children, and women battling breast cancer to explore the vast and 
beautiful Montanan outdoors. Not only was he able to teach high school 
students how to make rings, knives, and fishing rods, he was also able 
to motivate his students to help themselves by helping others.
  The ability to educate students and make them ready to take on the 
challenges that our world contains is a valuable asset to the young 
adults. Each and every day Mr. Weber provides a great service to our 
future leaders that words cannot adequately express. I am excited to 
see what comes of the great men and women Jim Weber is able to teach 
and inspire.

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