MEDAL OF FREEDOM AWARDED TO CONGRESSWOMAN ROS-LEHTINEN
Medal of Freedom Awarded to Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen Staff Report ongresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, United States Congresswoman for the 18th District of Florida, has been awarded the Grand Lodge Medal of Freedom for the year 2006. The presentation was made by the Grand Master, in the presence of several Grand Lodge officers, in her office on Tuesday, June 6, 2006.
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Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, a six-term member of the House of Representatives, is the first Hispanic woman ever elected to that body. She currently serves as a member of the House Committee on International Relations, the subcommittee on National Security Emerging Threats and International Relations, the subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, the subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and the House Committee on International Relations. During her congressional tenure, Congresswoman RosLehtinen has to her credit a number of legislative achievements in which she has sponsored bills which include provisions to promote the cause of freedom throughout the world. In fulfilling her committee duties
she has ceaselessly labored to insure that other governments, in return for U.S. support, work toward the granting of greater degrees of freedom for their people. Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen is a naturalized American citizen, having been born in Havana, Cuba. Her roots provide her with an appreciation of the true meaning and importance of freedom. Upon receipt of the Grand Lodge Medal of Freedom, she made the following remarks: “I would like to thank the members of the Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of the District of Columbia for selecting me as the recipient of their annual Medal of Freedom. I am delighted to be given this exceptional honor. “Advancing freedom at home and abroad is an issue of central importance for the Freemasons, and is a cause that resonates strongly with me as well. It is truly a privilege
Congresswoman Ileana Ros Lehtinen accepts freedom certificate and the Medal of Freedom of the Grand Lodge of D.C.
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