[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8609]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                ALYSSA FERGUSON IS A SPECIAL YOUNG LADY

  (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, I would like to give an update to the folks 
back home about a special young lady, Alyssa Ferguson.
  I first talked on this floor about Alyssa when the Fort Bend Star 
told us her story. It was their third best story for 2015. I also spoke 
on this floor a second time about Alyssa the first time I met her. She 
threw out the first pitch, a strike, at a home game for our local pro 
baseball team, the Skeeters.
  Alyssa is special because what she has done when she heard that she 
had cancer. She used her only wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation to 
give a water well to a small village in Africa.
  A few weeks ago, Alyssa and 100 kids with cancer enjoyed a Prom Party 
Palooza at Texas Children's Hospital. Alyssa said: ``Some people don't 
make it to the real prom. It's great we get a chance to experience 
that.''
  Keep fighting, Alyssa, and when you go to your real prom, there will 
be a long line waiting to be your date, and I will be at the front of 
that line.

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