[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 2664]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          JOY GASSAMA WINS CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

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                            HON. PETE OLSON

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, March 2, 2016

  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Joy Gassama of 
Sugar Land, TX for winning a U.S. State Department Critical Language 
Scholarship (CLS) Award for 2015.
  Joy is currently a student at the University of Texas-Austin. Through 
her CLS scholarship, she was hosted in Meknes Morocco, where she became 
proficient in Advanced Beginning level Arabic. CLS recipients, like 
Joy, are sent abroad to study the language and the culture of the 
region they are hosted in. These prestigious scholarships are funded by 
the State Department through their Bureau of Educational and Cultural 
Affairs. The Critical Language Scholarship program aims to spread 
diversity and critical language skills to all of its awardees. We are 
proud of Joy for all of her hard work, and congratulate her on her 
scholarship.
  On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congressional District of Texas, 
congratulations again to Joy for winning the Critical Language 
Scholarship Award. Keep up the great work.

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