[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 17 (Thursday, February 2, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H386]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        AN AMERICA BUILT TO LAST

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Mr. Speaker, last week we were in this Chamber 
listening to the President deliver a State of the Union address, the 
blueprint for an America built to last. We took away different points 
from that speech. Many will speak to his initiatives which address 
American manufacturing, a new and innovative energy source, educating 
and creating a more skillful workforce. I took away that this blueprint 
for an America built to last will be successful because of its 
foundation, the foundation which is the people of this great Nation.
  The President is putting his faith in the people. He is putting his 
faith in their values, uniquely American values. He is putting his 
faith in those values which created and motivated the creation of the 
middle class, the middle class which is the backbone of this great 
Nation. That is why we will have an America built to last.

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