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Brooklyn Daily
Marine Park
Three cheers to the Model Congress Team at St. Edmund Preparatory High School. The politicians to-be competed in the Princeton Model Congress in Washington D.C.
The team, which has doubled in size since its initial showing last February at Harvard, consisted of Shelby Lau, Amanda Mattioli, Joshua Beaton, John McCarthy, Anastasia McGrath, Marissa Moran, Gerald Rehill, and Jared Rios.
They showed up ready to rumble and up for the challenge — with the help of the team’s non-traveling members.
There stood St. Edmund’s delegation — proud in its purple and white — among the country’s elite, private school students. The eight students assumed their roles as representatives and senators and fought for the bills they drafted in the weeks before the competition.
Proposals included bills calling for a new type of nuclear energy, taming China’s actions in the South China sea, amending Obamacare, and reenacting postal banking.
The future legislators were nothing but spectacular as they defended their bills and managed to get six of their eight bills passed in their individual committees.
All eight made their voices heard by giving passionate speeches and sound advice regarding the bills’ constitutionality.
Seeing government in action was an experience these students will never forget and that will motivate them as they get ready for Harvard Model Congress in February.
Standing O wishes them lots of luck.
St. Edmund Preparatory High School [2474 Ocean Ave. at Avenue T in Madison, (718) 743–6100].