[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 2665]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          SOFIA AHMED 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 Sofia Ahmed of 
Katy, TX for winning a U.S. State Department Critical Language 
Scholarship (CLS) Award for 2015.
  Sofia is currently a student at the University of Texas-San Antonio. 
Through her CLS scholarship, she was hosted in Beijing, China, where 
she became proficient in Advanced level Chinese. CLS recipients, like 
Sofia, 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 Sofia 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 Sofia for winning the Critical Language 
Scholarship Award. Keep up the great work.

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