[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 158 (Wednesday, November 10, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2342]
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              WELCOMING THE 1999 AEA CLASSIC TO SAN DIEGO

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                     HON. RANDY ``DUKE'' CUNNINGHAM

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 9, 1999

  Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I am honored to recognize the industry, 
finance and media participants in the 1999 American Electronics 
Association (AEA) ``Classic,'' an annual meeting linking high-tech 
industry leaders, entrepreneurs and financial partners that is being 
held this week in San Diego, California.
  It is my great honor to represent one of the nation's most ``wired'' 
congressional districts. Within an hour's drive of the AEA Classic 
gathering lies the entire 51st Congressional District that I represent. 
It is also home to the global capital of wireless telecommunications, 
exemplified by firms such as Qualcomm, Ericsson, Motorola and, very 
soon, Nokia. We are also home to leading participants in the PC and 
electronics industries, including Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Sony and 
others. Major software firms like Peregrine Systems, Intuit and Stac, 
integrated solutions providers like SAIC, and technologically advanced 
national security industry employers like TRW, Titan, Cubic, Orincon, 
CSC, Jaycor, General Atomics and many others, all have either 
headquarters or major presences in San Diego County.
  I have seen the future, and it is made in San Diego in more ways than 
one.
  Our leading technology employers have two things in common: leading-
edge ideas, backed with sufficient financing to get them to market and 
to prepare them for the markets of the future. This principle, bringing 
great ideas together with the business know-how and the financing 
necessary to make them succeed, is the motivating purpose for the 
annual AEA Classic.
  The jobs and economic opportunities of the future are being made 
today at meetings like the AEA Classic, in San Diego today. They are 
not being created by the government or by regulators or by bureaucrats, 
but by entrepreneurs with dreams, and by people with resources to make 
these dreams real. To ensure that these innovations keep coming, I 
believe that we need to work together to improve education in every 
community for every person. And we need to keep the long, taxing arm of 
the federal government out of the way.
  The AEA Classic meeting in San Diego deserves Members' attention, 
because their next purchase, their constituents' next job, or the 
technology for their next phone call may well depend on its success. 
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for permitting me to take note of a major force 
in the development of America's dynamic high-tech industry.

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