[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 9, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1420]
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            NEW YORK CARIB NEWS RECOGNIZES BOROUGH PRESIDENT

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                         HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 9, 2008

  Mr. RANGEL. Madam Speaker, I rise today to enter into the Record a 
June 24, 2008 article about Adolfo Carrion in the New York Carib News. 
Mr. Carrion is the Borough President of the Bronx and has served in 
that capacity since 2001.
  In his seven years as President, Mr. Carrion has aided in bringing 
down unemployment and speeding up housing development in the borough. 
Most notable is Mr. Carrion's fresh approach to the economic mindset of 
those in the notoriously depressed neighborhoods of the South Bronx; he 
wants to ``shift people's thinking about how they're going to succeed 
in the New York economy . . . from social intervention to economic 
growth and opportunity.'' Mr. Carrion's vision for a new way of 
facilitating economic growth through changing the way that people think 
is indicative of the innovation and economic will that Caribbean 
Americans contribute to the continued growth of the New York economy.
  Mr. Carrion's next goal is to become the City Comptroller. He 
believes that the position will further help him elevate the economic 
standards in the borough as an integral part of the economic revival of 
the city as a whole. His success is yet another testament to the 
tenacious spirit and strong will of the millions of Caribbean 
immigrants that are so much a part of New York City and America.

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