[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 21, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H8904]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          IMPORTANT EVENTS IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Fox] is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. FOX of Pennsylvania. I appreciate the time to speak to my 
colleagues about two important matters that took place in my district, 
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, most recently. The first was the 
return of the 1215th Garrison Support Unit last night around 10 o'clock 
at night, eight soldiers from the 1215th U.S. Army Reserve Unit 
returned after a nine-month deployment to Europe in support of 
Operation Joint Guard.
  These outstanding soldiers were part of the third rotation of the 
Army Reservists deployed to support the UN peacekeeping mission in 
Bosnia, formerly known as Operation Joint Endeavor. These soldiers, men 
and women, have, as Reservists, done a great service, not only to 
Pennsylvania, but their country. They come from such occupational 
specialists within the U.S. Army as personnel administration, logistics 
and transportation, public affairs, chaplains, military police, medical 
and legal affairs, and the mobilized soldiers are from the Montgomery 
County, Pennsylvania, area as well as other parts of Pennsylvania and 
Maryland, and have done an outstanding job and are to be congratulated 
for their readiness to assume these duties and the service they have 
given to our country.
  I wanted to join with Congressman Greenwood, who also represents this 
area, in saluting these soldiers.
  I also want to take the opportunity to congratulate the Montgomery 
County Employment Group, who I met with this morning, in Plymouth 
township. There they had the opportunity to have employers and 
employees who are with disabilities being able to work for local 
employers, doing an outstanding job. They are among the most dedicated, 
hard-working individuals within our community. And many businesses, 
including the reporter newspaper, ARAMARK-Beaver College, Valley Forge 
Hilton and very important businesses throughout my district, over 25, 
have employed over 200 people with disabilities and done an outstanding 
job working with them, providing them long-term employment, self-
esteem, leadership opportunities, and they are an inspiration, I think, 
to all those who come to meet them and have been served by them.
  Our special award winners today were the Lower Merion School 
Superintendent David Magill as one of the winners of leadership for his 
service with the hiring of disabled individuals, as well as Ike 
Carpenter, President and CEO of Micro E.D.S., a marketing 
communications company.

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  Those individuals were especially cited for their outstanding work. I 
look forward to working with my colleagues in Congress to make sure 
that the tax credit legislation that is provided to these employers 
will be continued.

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