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On the recordDecember 19, 2012
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The bill designates an unnamed mountain peak at the northern border of the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Yosemite National Park in California as Mt. Andrea Lawrence. Andrea Lawrence, a former Olympic skier and inductee into the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame, was a community leader in northern California who worked to protect these special places and communities in the eastern Sierras. We applaud Senator Boxer and Congressman McKeon for this legislation, and we support its passage. I yield back the balance of my time.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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