[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 23 (Thursday, March 3, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H947]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONGRATULATING DELL COMPUTER FOR NEW PLANT IN FORSYTH COUNTY, NORTH 
                                CAROLINA

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, today I ask my colleagues to join me in 
congratulating Dell for beginning construction last week on a new $100 
million assembly plant in the Fifth District of North Carolina.
  The 527,000 square foot facility set to open in Forsyth County this 
fall will be Dell's largest plant in the world. It will bring jobs to 
700 people in its first year and employ up to 1,500 people within 5 
years. Most of these jobs are expected to be new and most of them will 
go to local residents. The plant will join Dell's two other American 
manufacturing operations in Texas and Tennessee and produce Dell's 
OptiPlex and Dimension desktop computers.
  Dell, which was named Fortune Magazine's ``Most Admired Company'' for 
2004, will be a tremendous asset to the Fifth District. Its presence 
will attract other businesses and suppliers that will add millions of 
dollars to the local tax base and bring thousands of new jobs to the 
region.
  I would like to thank the local leaders in Forsyth and surrounding 
counties for working so hard to make this possible. I am proud of the 
success in manufacturing coming from the Fifth District and look 
forward to many prosperous years at Dell.

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