[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 69 (Monday, May 23, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H3746]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      ECONOMIC GROWTH IN TENNESSEE

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, you know last year this body passed the 
2004 Jobs and Growth Act, and this restored sales tax deductibility to 
our State.
  Mr. Speaker, I wanted to rise tonight just to give an update on the 
good work this is doing in the State of Tennessee. We have a $272 
million boost in our State revenues. Now, we are one of those States 
that does not have a State income tax. We have a State sales tax, and 
restoring that deductibility that the Republican leadership pushed 
forward in this House has paid dividends for the State of Tennessee.
  It is like a lot of the other economic news that we are hearing: 
274,000 new jobs that were created in the month of April; employment 
ranks grew by 598,000 jobs this last month, pushing it to over 141 
million Americans who are working. These are the right decisions, the 
right steps to promote positive economic growth in our great Nation, 
and I thank the leadership for their work on that issue.

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