WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Sen. John Boozman issued the following press release:
The U.S. Senate has passed a bipartisan resolution led by Senators John Boozman (R-AR), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) recognizing eight decades since the establishment of the Fulbright Program by former U.S. Senator for Arkansas James William Fulbright on August 1, 1946.
The cultural exchange initiative, which promotes U.S. higher education abroad and remains a valuable diplomatic tool, operates in more than 160 countries. Its alumni include 63 Nobel Prize laureates, 94 recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, 44 heads of state, 17 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, 11 members of the United States Congress, a former Secretary-Gene...