[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 6 (Wednesday, February 4, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H245]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         HONORING RONALD REAGAN

  (Mr. ROGAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGAN. Mr. Speaker, I would remind my good friend, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Doggett) that the last time a slew of corporate jets 
converged upon Washington, DC, those executives were not filling the 
Capitol. I believe they were filling the Lincoln bedroom.
  That aside, Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about another 
President: Ronald Reagan. I am pleased to support naming Washington 
National Airport after him. He was a President whose legacy was not 
being written by supermarket tabloids. President Reagan's great legacy 
included 20 million new jobs created, a substantial drop in poverty 
rates, an increase in middle class and real farm income, and the 
doubling of women-owned businesses. Under President Reagan, African-
American employment increased 46%, and Hispanic employment increased a 
whopping 84%.
  More importantly, Mr. Speaker, he was a President who gave us a 
romance and patriotism about our country that we knew long since, and 
had lost for awhile. We recovered that splendid sense under his 
leadership. It is time to honor President Reagan with this simple, yet 
well-earned, tribute.

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