[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 24 (Thursday, March 7, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H741]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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     RECOGNIZING VOLUNTEER EFFORTS OF NATIONAL ROOFING CONTRACTORS 
                  ASSOCIATION TO REBUILD PENTAGON ROOF

  (Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize 
the small roofing contracting companies who have donated labor, funds 
and supplies to rebuild over an acre of the Pentagon's roof.
  On September 11, the Pentagon experienced severe structural damage 
when terrorists flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the building. The 
massive fire caused by thousands of gallons of jet fuel destroyed over 
40,000 square feet of the slate roof.
  At the urging of Northern Virginia Roofing, a contracting company 
owned by a husband and wife team in Falls Church, Virginia, the 
National Roofing Contractors Association negotiated an agreement with 
the Department of Defense to give the Pentagon a new roof. To date, 
nearly $400,000 in cash and supplies has been raised by small roofing 
contracting companies who felt compelled to defeat the terrorists in 
their own special way.

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