the spelling bee in this week's npr story and on the topic he says, npr, he tells npr, these kids are spending sometimes a few hours a day going through word lists to learn the most difficult words in english. very often there are youngsters coming from immigrant families that really prize learning english as part of becoming -- assimilated into american culture. so my hat's off to all these young spellers. mr. speaker, the immigrants who rely on integration grants are often the parents of these success stories. they're the mother at the hebrew immigrant aid society in new york or the father at the lutheran social services south dakota who after working two jobs in a day still find the ability to make it to a night class where they can learn english and about our nation's history and government. the energy that drives these parents is the same energy that drove our immigrant parents and grandparents. the idea that their hard work would give their children a