[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4553]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               EARTH DAY

  (Mr. SARBANES asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SARBANES. Madam Speaker, this coming Friday, April 22, is Earth 
Day.
  I had the pleasure this morning to be at Masonville Cove in 
Baltimore. This is the first national wildlife urban refuge that was 
established in the country. I was there with a class of young people--
high school students from Benjamin Franklin High School--who are 
learning science in the classroom but then are taking that knowledge 
outdoors and are connecting to nature.
  I am very excited that recently, when we passed the new 
reauthorization of the Federal Education Act, we embedded in it 
environmental education, which is now going to allow nonprofits, local 
school districts, and others to apply for competitive grant funding 
from the U.S. Department of Education to support environmental 
education and outdoor activities all across this country.
  The excitement these young people have today shows that our planet is 
in good hands.

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