[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 67 (Friday, May 22, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E965]
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           IN HONOR OF THE PENNSYLVANIA FREE ENTERPRISE WEEK

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                         HON. JOHN E. PETERSON

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 22, 1998

  Mr. PETERSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join the 
citizens of Pennsylvania to pay special tribute to the Foundation for 
Free Enterprise Education which this year is celebrating the 20th 
Anniversary of Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week.
  Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week is a seven-day economic education 
program providing Pennsylvania high school students and teachers at all 
levels, a practical, in-depth course on the American system of private 
enterprise and the operations of a free market. Over 1,100 students and 
teachers will join together with more than 200 Pennsylvania businessmen 
and businesswomen in order to experience and explore the challenge of 
healthy competition through a business management simulation, to hear 
top leaders in Pennsylvania business and government speak on the issues 
facing American business and industry, and, to participate in a series 
of specially formulated projects designed to acquaint them with the 
inner workings of a modern-day business.
  Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week is celebrating its more than 12,000 
graduates representing more than 900 high schools in every county of 
this Commonwealth who have returned to their schools and communities 
with a vastly improved understanding of the world of business.
  Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week is now recognized as the largest, 
most successful economic education program of its kind in the world. 
Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week has now attained both national and 
international acclamation by its receipt of the 1987 National Award for 
Excellence in Economic Education from the Freedom's Foundation in 
Valley Forge, by being instrumental in starting similar programs in 
twenty-seven other states as well as in the country of New Zealand, by 
hosting students from the countries of Puerto Rico, Mexico and Russia 
and by serving as hosts in 1994 to a contingent of business people from 
Australia, seeking to pattern a program after Pennsylvania's.
  I applaud Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week which continues to 
fulfill its mission of providing the highest quality economic education 
to the youth and educators of Pennsylvania, thereby insuring a brighter 
future for the Commonwealth.

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