Commending the Real Salt Lake soccer club for winning the 2009 Major League Soccer Cup.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 1430, honoring and saluting golf legend Juan Antonio ``Chi Chi'' Rodriguez. First, I would like to thank Chairman George Miller, Ranking Member John Kline, Subcommittee Chair Carolyn McCarthy, Ms. Woolsey, Ranking Member Todd Russell Platts, and Mr. Roe. I want to take the time to thank all of my colleagues for their support.

I rise today in strong support of H.R. 1430, to honor Juan Antonio ``Chi Chi'' Rodriguez. In 1935, Chi Chi Rodriguez was born into a poor family in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. He was one of six siblings. His father used to earn only $18 a week as a laborer and cattle herder. His mother was a housekeeper. Their family struggled. When Chi Chi was only 7 years old, he helped families by earning money as a water carrier on the sugar plantation.

He soon learned that he could earn more money as a caddy. At that time, he also taught himself how to play golf--and that is very difficult for anyone who is playing golf. I have been playing golf for some time, and it's still very difficult, and I am still trying to learn--by using tree limbs and a metal can hammered into a ball.

With unyielding determination and discipline by 9 years of age, Chi Chi could play and win. Boy, that's difficult. You know, we wish we could play and would have played when we were young like that at the age of 9.

His uncompromising sportsmanship resulted in a lifetime 38 professional wins, including eight PGA wins, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973 and 1979, and 22 senior PGA Tour wins.

Chi Chi Rodriguez was inducted into the PGA World Hall of Fame in 1992. However, his legacy does not end on the links. And I want to remind everybody, this resolution is not about his golf and what he did for golf, but it's about what he did as a human being and his contributions and scholarships to many individuals, and that's why we are honoring him. I want people to remember that and my colleagues to remember that. This is not about a golfer, this is about an individual who was willing to do as much as he can to help other individuals.

Chi Chi Rodriguez's robust charitable contributions for the benefit of at-risk and underprivileged youth have helped thousands of young people. He and his wife, Iwalani, have changed lives, and can you imagine many individuals lives that are changed because someone cared, someone touched their lives, someone gave them direction, someone gave them confidence in themselves and said, you know what, there is a better way of life.

Chi Chi wanted to make a better way of life for many individuals, and that's why we are honoring him and that's why we are recognizing them. They have strengthened self-confidence and fostered stellar discipline in many young people by founding the Chi Chi Rodriguez Academy.

The mission of the academy is to assist at-risk children by improving their self-esteem, character, work ethic, social adjustment, and academic performance, using the golf course as a living classroom. In addition, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute honored Chi Chi Rodriguez with a CHCI Service Award for his ongoing commitment to providing opportunities for Latino youth to succeed.

His support of CHCI's fiesta, which is a bipartisan Fiesta de Golf Scholarship Challenge, has helped raise more than $824,000 for CHCI's Scholarship Awards Program over the past 3 years. These are a sample of many of the 430-some scholarships that have helped many of our kids, Javier Acolan, Ranier Gonzalez, Ashley Garcia. These are a few of many that I could name here tonight but when you look at the faces and you look at individuals who had an opportunity to pursue their education, become successful, contribute to our society, this is what Chi Chi is about, improving our communities, making sure that they become productive in our communities.

Chi Chi has received many other humanitarian awards due to his giving nature and leadership. He has received the Salvation Army Gold Crest Award and the Good Sport Award from Sports Illustrated for Kids.

He was inducted into the World Sport Humanitarian Hall of Fame and received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Georgetown College in Kentucky. He also received the American Education Award from the American Association of School Administrators.

With his support, The Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation earned the National Golf Foundation Award for the Best Youth Program in the United States in 1986 and the Robie Award for Humanitarianism presented by The Jackie Robinson Foundation in 1996.

His success on the links has earned Chi Chi Rodriguez a special place in history.

However, his work, and I state, however his work in helping many disadvantaged children has earned Chi Chi a special place in each of our hearts, because it's about giving, it's not about receiving, it's about helping others, not about what you get. He wasn't about me, myself and Irene, it was about what can I do to help others. And that's what Chi Chi wanted to do. He wanted to touch those lives.

He proved that humble beginnings do not define a person. He has shown us that with hard work and determination that you can be successful, but you can be caring and you can give back. Because the Lord gave him something, and he wanted to return something back to others.

By giving back to help our youth, he taught us. Please join me in honoring and saluting Chi Chi Rodriguez. I urge all Members to support the passage of H. Res. 1430.

I yield to the gentleman from Utah.

Yes.

Yes.

Would you like to join? We would love to have you join and be part of the sponsors as well. Because we also have, from your side, a member of our board that's on that board as well.

That's correct.

Thank you.

No, it's not. It's really thinking about someone who has contributed, someone who has done an awful lot. And it's bipartisan individuals, both Republican and Democrat, that belong to the CHCI board as well. We welcome the new Members that were elected to become part of that board that will say, you know what, we have got to honor individuals.

It's not about a conflict of interest, it's not about anything else. It's about

doing something that's positive for individuals. When someone is going to receive something in return, then it becomes a conflict of interest. But we are not receiving anything in return. All we are doing is honoring an individual.

Thank you. Again, this is about children.

Will the gentleman yield?

We would love to honor other foundations and other individuals as well. This is only one of many that we should recognize, just as I am honoring Arnold Palmer that we gave the Congressional Gold Medal. And at one time I hope you are here to celebrate when we have the actual gold medal that we will present under your leadership that we will be able to do here on the floor later on next year because it won't happen now.

Once again, I would like to state for the record that this is not a conflict of interest. This is about bipartisan individuals who sit on the board who continue to want to provide assistance to many individuals who are in need of help. Whether it's this organization or whether it's any other organization, I think it's important that we do recognize individuals that are willing to give of their time and their effort to make life better for someone else. And this is a humanitarian individual.

I know we are on the subject of recognizing the sports individual, and I would like just for the record to state that my colleague that just spoke actually supported a resolution to support a sports individual as well, and that was H. Res. 942, for the record. So if we are going to be consistent, let's be consistent on both angles.

With that, I would like to, once again, state that many corporations and many individuals give because they're good corporate citizens, because they want to make our communities a lot better. They want to provide an opportunity for individuals to enhance their education, further their education, be productive citizens. And sometimes many individuals cannot afford to go on to a college or university. It's that assistance that we give to individuals that will allow an individual to further their education, thus for becoming productive individuals.

This is an individual that has helped in that endeavor to make sure that we raise the additional money, whether it's for this institution or whether it's for other institutions. I belong to a variety of different institutions that raise money on a bipartisan basis to make sure that we allow many individuals to be productive individuals within our communities.

It wasn't wrong. It was a good thing you did.

I appreciate your doing it in the past, and I look forward to your continued support.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Bills brought before the House, the majority gets to direct which bills are brought up and which are not brought up, and with all due respect to Mr. Murphy, a great Member of Congress, this is a wonderful race course--I know there are many Americans that enjoy horse racing-- but candidly, I struggle to go through this and understand why on the floor of the House of Representatives that this seems to rise to the level of recognition.

We have so many problems and challenges facing this country, so many issues that we could and should be debating. We should be debating a budget, for instance, which is not being brought before this body. We should be talking about the debt and the deficit and those other things that are going to affect every Americans' life. And I recognize that there are times when we need to step up and recognize some truly worthy accomplishments, and we honor and name post offices and whatnot, but when it comes to the world of sport, I continue to voice my opposition that this is the time and the place to actually have a ``debate'' about whether or not the 142nd season is worthy of recognition in a resolution from the House of Representatives.

Mr. Speaker, I'm sure there are some young kids that are here. They're going to go back and talk about their time at the House of Representatives, and they're here in the audience. And they're going to go back and talk to their teachers and the teachers are going to ask, What did you talk about? Did you talk about the war on terror? Did you talk about the debt? Oh, no. They were honoring a race course. A race course. So it's terribly frustrating.

There is a way to honor and recognize, through Members of Congress, great accomplishments and a new racing season at a local race track, but, honestly, I just don't believe this is the way to do it.

I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Again, Mr. Speaker, I voice my opposition. The idea, the notion that while there have been silly bills passed and offered by the minority, it's certainly not an argument to continue the status quo. I think the frustration of the American people is we're not dealing with the serious business. We're not offering a budget resolution. We're not debating appropriations bills. We're down here talking about racetracks. That's the frustration. You've got people at home right now watching on C-SPAN because they don't have a job, and we're here talking about race courses? Seriously?

I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

My colleagues here, these are good Members of Congress. My point is, we need to raise the bar and start doing some serious work around here. I would agree, this is a historic Congress, because we are doing nothing right now. We are doing nothing.

I would agree with you, I will stand here, and I will have the political guts

to vote against the resolution for the South Carolina recognition of the men's--I think it's the Men's College World Series.

It's ridiculous that we bring it up. I don't care if it's a Democrat, I don't care if it's a Republican. If it's in the world of sport, they get enough recognition.

And to cite this as, oh, it's important because Sports Illustrated recognized it, well, they have a swimsuit edition. I haven't seen a resolution on that yet, and I hope we never do. The people of the United States deserve better than to debate whether or not to recognize a racetrack on its 142nd anniversary.

We have got important business. We have troops that are in harm's way. We have yet to bring up a supplemental that the President is asking for.

We have not, since, I think it was 1974 when they changed the budget rules, we have not brought before this body--for the very first time since then--we have not brought up a budget resolution to discuss the outrageous deficit that we are suffering through.

This body has not brought up appropriations bills. These are the important things that we should be doing here. We flew in yesterday to do what, debate this, men's baseball and a racetrack?

The Democrats have the House, the Senate, and the presidency. They get to determine what bills are brought up, and I will grant you, there are silly bills offered by both sides, but it's time to get serious about the people's work. There are people who are suffering out there, and the frustration is that we waste our time on this.

These people in the audience travel from around the country, around the world, to come see us, what, debate a racetrack? It's an embarrassment. It is an absolute embarrassment.

I reserve the balance of my time.

I yield myself such time as I may consume.

I am trivializing it because it is trivial. It is trivial. There are other ways to recognize a racetrack without taking the time of this body and this country on this floor. I am trivializing it, and I think that's the proper course.

Weeks ago I took a position I would not vote in favor of any sports resolutions. I don't care if they are Republican, I don't care if they are Democrat. I think the principle is these people receive more than adequate recognition for what they have.

And, hey, look, I have stood behind some of these in the past. I am here long enough. I am just a freshman. I didn't create this mess here, but I am here to help clean it up. And given my months in Congress, yes, I took a position I am not going to support any of them. I don't care who offers them, and it's time this body starts to operate on principle.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I move to take the gentlewoman's words down.

Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I just want to be clear; our intention here is pure. If she were asking for civility, I will take her word for it. We do have certain decorum here in the House. I just ask that we abide by that. To suggest that any Member is being dishonest or deceitful or a liar is obviously not within the history of the ongoing proceedings of this House. That's all I ask.

I withdraw my reservation of objection.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Let me make the point that, yes, I've voted for sports resolutions, I've even cosponsored resolutions, but I came to realize what a waste of time that is. So a number of weeks ago, I took the pledge that I was no longer going to participate. But there are examples in my past, and being a freshman year, I made some mistakes. That's one of them. But I just believe that there are more important, more worthy things that this body ought to be participating in. And probably the next thing we ought to be doing is voting on some things today; so I urge my colleagues to vote against House Resolution 1513.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 1513) congratulating the Saratoga Race Course as it celebrates its 142nd season, as amended.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

On behalf of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, it is my privilege to rise in support of H. Res. 1513. This measure congratulates the Saratoga Race Course on its 142nd season. H. Res. 1513 was introduced by our colleague, the gentleman from New York, Representative Scott Murphy, on July 13, 2010. It was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which ordered it favorably by unanimous consent on July 15, 2010. The measure enjoys the support of 60 Members of the House.

The Saratoga Race Course was opened August 3, 1863, and it is the oldest organized sporting venue of any kind in the United States. The course is a top destination for tourists from all over the country and from all over the world. It now receives over 1 million visitors each year and supports thousands of jobs in Saratoga Springs and the surrounding communities.

Mr. Speaker, this venerable race course is one of the world's greatest sporting venues. It has continued many of its original traditions since its founding and has contributed to the town of Saratoga receiving the First Great American Place award from the American Heritage Magazine in 1997.

Let us now take the time to congratulate this historic race course on its 142nd season through the passage of this measure. I urge my colleagues to support it.

I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I want to respond, and I yield myself such time as I may consume.

If I had a dime for every trivial bill the minority has put on this floor, I could retire as a rich woman. This is not a trivial bill. This is the oldest racing course in the United States, a historic racing course that has been so recognized by the American Heritage Foundation. It ill-behooves the other side to trivialize a bill by a Member of this proportion. I know that my good friend on the other side would not like me to go through and call the roll on bills that would make us laugh. Nobody can think that this bill commemorating the oldest sporting venue in the United States would make us laugh. It ill-behooves us not to respect the bills each side puts up, particularly since the minority gets to put up an equal number of such bills that have been requested by their constituents, and we all ought to at least grant one another that privilege without demeaning it.

I'm pleased to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Murphy), who proudly sponsored the bill before us today, and I commend him for doing so.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

I did not hear the gentleman rise to voice the same opposition to a resolution that will be voted on in the next series of resolutions by a Member from his side of the aisle, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina; and it says congratulating the University of South Carolina Gamecocks on winning the 2010 NCAA Division. If you're going to rise because you think some bill shouldn't be on the floor, then you ought to rise all the time.

As for what we should be devoting our time to, both sides of the aisle give time to resolutions requested by their constituents, and we give equal time. That doesn't mean we don't give time to very important matters, and we have given very significant time to very important matters this session, which is why it is considered one of the most historic sessions of the Congress of the United States.

I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Tonko).

I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Well, just to indicate for the record, this has been called a historic Congress, not by the Democrats, but by historians who have looked at prior Congresses, including Republican-controlled Congresses, and, indeed, the last Congress before this side took control, which was especially historic in taking the country down to its knees, leaving it to a new, an entirely different administration in Congress, to pick the country up.

I do commend the gentleman for saying he will vote against Mr. Wilson's bill, having been called out, I guess he has to, to show he has any guts at all. But then we are going to be looking to see if he votes against all such bills in the future.

I want to say again that it is quite possible to make a point about what you want to see on the floor without trivializing a bill that is perfectly in order, perfectly respectable, in fact, helps the economy, commemorating a venue that helps the economy of another Member's district.

If you want to make the point that you think the Congress ought to be doing other things, then make the point, but don't do it by putting down other Members. That's not the model of civility either side should be offering on this floor.

I reserve the balance of my time.

Does the gentleman yield back or does he want to keep this going?

I just want to say to the gentleman, it has been pointed out to me that the gentleman cosponsored a resolution, H. Res. 942, commending the Real Salt Lake Soccer Club for winning the 2009 Major League Soccer Cup.

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Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to remove from the Record an idiomatic expression that apparently was misunderstood. I never called the gentleman dishonest. I want to strike the words ``lie in his mouth,'' which is an idiomatic expression that means the gentleman has no business saying what he said. But if it is construed to mean that I'm calling him a liar, then I would certainly ask that that be stricken from the Record. Indeed, my comments were begun with words about civility here, so I certainly did not intend to call the gentleman dishonest or a liar.

Well, I appreciate that the gentleman is withdrawing his objection, and I appreciate that he understood. He knows me well. He is the ranking member of one of my committees. He knows that I do not engage in pointless, uncivil remarks. Indeed, the whole import of my objection to the issues with the gentleman's resolution from Saratoga was I wanted to make sure everybody understood that we ought to respect one another, and I certainly respect the gentleman and certainly would not have meant otherwise through my remarks.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I accept the gentleman's change on how he thinks these matters ought to be considered. I certainly don't think we ought to take it out on the Member from Saratoga, and I ask that we approve the resolution that was before us commemorating the 142nd anniversary of the Saratoga Race Course.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Will the gentleman yield?

My understanding is that you are actually a board member of the Congressional Hispanic Institute, is that correct?

My understanding is that actually 13 of the 28 sponsors of this bill are on the board of this, is that correct?

My understanding is that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute is an independent 501(c)3.

My question, my concern about this is I have one about recognizing sports folks--and that's a separate issue. He has certainly accomplished so much on the golf course and off the golf course. I admire the work that you have done in this Congress.

But it does seem to be a huge conflict of interest to sponsor a bill recognizing Chi Chi Rodriguez, who then, in turn for his accomplishments for youth programs of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. Isn't that a conflict of interest?

Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman from California would engage with me here, I do have a few more questions, and I appreciate the dialogue and the passion you have for this.

One of my concerns is that it actually, I think, detracts from the idea of the accomplishments of Chi Chi Rodriguez and also the good work that I am sure that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute has done. But to say that there is nothing in receipt, that it's all about giving and no receiving, it seems to me, on the appearance of it, that there is a huge conflict of interest. For Members of Congress, who serve independently on a 501(c)3, they serve independently with this organization, with a fiduciary responsibility to that organization, to use the office of being a Member in Congress to advance legislation that is surely, surely going to benefit the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

I would be happy to yield some of my time to address this.

Reclaiming my time, for the record, I have absolutely no doubt that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute does good. You have mentioned some scholarships. I have looked at the Web site. There is no doubt. There is no question in my mind. My question is, why this particular foundation, one that you serve on the board of directors.

This country has thousands of foundations that do good work. But if the threshold here, and my understanding is the institute raises in the neighborhood of 6 to $7 million----

I yield to the gentleman from California.

Reclaiming my time, I feel, Mr. Speaker, that this is a colossal waste of time to recognize sports heroes. That is a separate subject. That is a separate subject. Last week I voted against Joe Paterno, for goodness' sakes, one of the great football coaches in this country. Chi Chi Rodriguez has accomplished amazing feats. There's no doubt in my mind about this. But I feel as if the floor of the House of Representatives is being used for Members' own personal benefits to actually move forward their own foundation. And that is the concern.

There are thousands, as you just agreed to, thousands of foundations that do great work, that inspire kids and youth. That's part of what makes this country such a great country. But the only reason this bill is moving forward today, the reason it's coming to the floor of the House, is that we have 13 Members of Congress who serve on the board of directors of this, which seems like a conflict of interest.

If you want to address that, I would be happy to yield more time to you to address it.

Reclaiming my time, Mr. Speaker, I do appreciate the gentleman addressing the questions. I really do. One of the concerns that is there is if you look at the opportunity, if you will, to attract corporate money to this. I went to the Web site today. These companies donate in excess of $200,000 to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: AstraZeneca, Exxon Mobil, Toyota, Wal-Mart. These are companies that donate over $100,000, according to the Website: AFL-CIO and affiliate unions, Altria Group, American Petroleum Institute, Anheuser-Busch, AT&T, Change to Win and affiliate unions, Comcast Corporation, Dell, Lilly, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, PepsiCo, Southwest, State Farm Insurance, Telemundo, Time Warner Cable, the Coca-Cola Company, UnitedHealthcare Foundation, Univision, UPS.

The purpose of this bill, according to the resolution, the very last line here, is to direct the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make available an enrolled copy of this resolution to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, of which 13 Members of this body sit on the board of directors, and to the Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation.

Mr. Speaker, just to finish the conclusion of that thought, the reason, at least from my vantage point, and I would hope that you would address this, the reason that this resolution is moving forward is that there is a benefit to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. They can use this as a tool to go out and solicit more money, more support, and grow their own personal foundation. It's not something that's afforded to other foundations. And the only reason this is moving forward is because we have 13 Members in this body that are cosponsors of this legislation that sit on the board of directors. And that is of deep concern.

Mr. Speaker, what the gentleman from California pointed out is true. Previously I had sponsored and voted for resolutions regarding sports folks. I finally realized this is a colossal waste of time. I took a pledge that I was no longer going to do it. I did it in the past. It was wrong. We have people unemployed. We have people who can't meet their mortgages.

I have come to find I think they are absolutely a colossal waste of time. Even though they're a lot of good people, but we're not recognizing taking care of the people's business. That's my own personal belief.

But to clarify the question that you had, yes, I did do that in the past. I

wish I hadn't, but I'm a freshman. I made a mistake, and I'm moving forward.

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 1430) honoring and saluting golf legend Juan Antonio ``Chi Chi'' Rodriguez for his commitment to Latino youth programs of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, as amended.

Mr. Speaker, I request 5 legislative days during which Members may revise and extend and insert extraneous material on House Resolution 1430 into the Record.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 1430, which honors and salutes golf legend Juan Antonio Rodriguez, widely known as Chi Chi Rodriguez, for his commitment to the Latino Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, or CHCI. Mr. Rodriguez is an extraordinarily accomplished golfer. With 38 professional wins, including eight PGA Tour and 22 Senior PGA Tour victories, it is no surprise that he was inducted in 1992 into the World Golf Hall of Fame, the first Puerto Rican ever to earn this honor.

Chi Chi Rodriguez worked hard for his success and has never forgotten his roots in Puerto Rico, where he worked for a dollar a day cutting sugar cane. Using his surroundings to teach himself the game of golf, he used a tree branch as a golf club and a metal can as a golf ball.

Chi Chi Rodriguez has worked as tirelessly off the course as well as on it through his dedicated support of youth and their educational aspirations. Over the past 3 years, he has raised over $824,000 for CHCI's Scholarship Awards Program to assist Latino youths in their pursuit of higher education. These efforts have resulted in financial support for more than 430 scholarships. Moreover, Mr. Rodriguez continues to contribute to his own Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation, which funds the Chi Chi Rodriguez Academy.

The Chi Chi Rodriguez Academy assists at-risk children by improving their self-esteem, character, work ethic, social adjustment, and academic performance, using the golf course as a living classroom. Mr. Rodriguez has raised more than $4 million for his academy, which every year brings 600 children from low-income families or broken homes to a golf course to learn responsibility and discipline through the game of golf.

Chi Chi Rodriguez's work for CHCI and his foundation have been recognized numerous times, including an induction into the World Humanitarian Sports Hall of Fame in 1994 and receiving the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute renowned Service Award in the year 2010.

Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in supporting this resolution to honor and salute golf legend Juan Antonio ``Chi Chi'' Rodriguez for his commitment to Latino youth programs of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield the gentleman from California, Congressman Baca, as much time as he may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Baca).

I would like to know how much time we have on both sides, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, again, I ask my colleagues to join me in supporting this resolution to honor and salute golf legend Juan Antonio ``Chi Chi'' Rodriguez for his commitment to Latino youth programs of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

Mr. Rodriguez uses his experience and his career success to expand opportunities for disadvantaged youth, and he helps them reach their full potential. I thank Representative Baca for his leadership in bringing this resolution forward.

I yield back the balance of my time.