[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 8-9]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            HONORING KEVIN KLINE AND THE SNOWDROP FOUNDATION

  (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, in the movie ``Forrest Gump,'' Tom Hanks runs 
for over 3 years.
  A good friend of mine is like Forrest Gump. His name is Kevin Kline. 
He is a DJ on the 93Q morning radio show. His partners, Erica Rico and 
Tim Tuttle, call him Kevin Gump or Forrest Kline. Why? Because for 55 
hours over New Year's, Kevin and others ran, walked, or crawled to save 
kids with cancer.
  With his wife, Trish, Kevin started the Snowdrop Foundation because 
cancer touched a 16-year-old, who lost her life, named Chelsey 
Campbell. Snowdrop has raised over $1 million in

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just 9 short years. They did this to ensure no child or parent hears 
those three awful words, ``You have cancer.''
  All Texans are proud of Kevin and Trish and Snowdrop. To quote 
Kevin's idol: ``That's all I have to say about that.''

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