[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 9, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H6238]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               FLUOR'S IMPACT IN THE GREENVILLE COMMUNITY

  (Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, you know, there's plenty 
of economic bad news around, coupled here and there, and we've had our 
share of those in the upstate of South Carolina, but there's also some 
bright spots, and those are very much worth celebrating.
  Fluor Corporation's employment in Greenville, South Carolina, has 
gone from 2,500 in 2003 to 5,400 today. An additional 3,200 project-
based workers help in projects around Greenville. Fluor is currently 
looking for 2- to 300 engineers to come help with significant new 
projects that they've won all around the world.
  In fact, their growth has been so significant they've been a major 
cause of the drop in the vacancy rate in class A office space in 
downtown Greenville, going from 24 percent down to 11.9 percent in the 
central business district.
  That's impressive, Mr. Speaker. It's worth celebrating, and 
especially worth celebrating is the fact that Fluor will now be taking 
over the contract at the Savannah River Site, where for 50 years, we've 
been producing and storing tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen 
that will give us the opportunity to learn how to store hydrogen and 
break through to a hydrogen economy.

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