[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8659]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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        CONGRATULATIONS TO MINNESOTA'S TOP SPELLER MAXWELL MEYER

  (Mr. PAULSEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to congratulate Minnetonka's Maxwell 
Meyer, who is a seventh-grader at Minnetonka Middle School East, for 
his performance at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
  Maxwell was among the 49 survivors of the preliminary round last 
Wednesday when 234 other spellers were eliminated. Maxwell then spelled 
both of his words right in the nationally broadcast semifinal round on 
Thursday and, unfortunately, came up just short of the finals after 
failing to score enough points on a written vocabulary test.
  The National Spelling Bee, Mr. Speaker, showcases some of the 
brightest, most dedicated young students across the country, and 
Maxwell makes his community and the State of Minnesota proud.
  To reach this stage of the spelling bee takes countless hours of hard 
work, learning the skills and knowledge to be an accurate speller. For 
some, that means even reading the dictionary.
  Maxwell's efforts had folks all over the State of Minnesota cheering 
him on, and we congratulate him on his success.

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