Pryce Statement on Passage of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Congressional Gold Medal Act
Thursday, 14 September 2006, 12:00 p.m.
Washington, DC — Today, Congresswoman Deborah Pryce (R-Columbus) released the following statement after casting her vote in support of S. 2784, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Congressional Gold Medal Act:
“It is a profoundly humbling honor to help recognize a man so thoroughly committed to peace with this body’s highest expression of national appreciation,” said Pryce. “No leader on Earth better represents the virtues of peace, nonviolence, and human rights than the foremost advocate for the Tibetan people, the Dalai Lama. While the Dalai Lama’s virtues are self-evident, internationally celebrated, and need no validation from this body, I am nonetheless deeply moved to pay tribute to such an important political and spiritual figure in human history.”
Pryce was a cosponsor of the identical House bill, H.R. 4562. The bills authorize the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to present on behalf of the Congress a gold medal to Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, in recognition of his outspoken advocacy for peace.
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