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                        HONORING EMILY J. ALPERT

  (Mr. VELA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. VELA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Emily J. Alpert for her 
22 years of extraordinary work and dedication to the Brownsville 
Community Health Center Corporation as the director of operations.
  Emily has been instrumental in transforming the Brownsville Community 
Health Center into the beacon of excellent healthcare services it is 
today. Her work embodies the philosophy of providing quality care that 
preserves the dignity of all human beings, a philosophy engrained in 
the Rio Grande Valley.
  For these reasons, I would like to ask my colleagues to join the 
Brownsville Community Health Center and me in congratulating Emily on 
her retirement and wishing her well in all of her future endeavors.

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