[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 8 (Friday, January 16, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S236]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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        JOHNSON CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

 Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, this year marks the centennial 
year of the establishment of the Johnson City Chamber of Commerce.
  Since its establishment on July 6, 1915, the chamber has served as 
the leading voice for local business and community development. The 
chamber has been instrumental in transforming Johnson City from a small 
rail-shipping town in the early 1900s to a distinguished medical 
community over the past several decades and continues to lead the way 
for new business, trade, and growth in upper East Tennessee.
  As we see around the country, the Federal Government has been 
throwing a big, wet blanket of burdensome regulations on businesses and 
the economy, and chambers of commerce around the Nation have been 
leaders in advocating to get Washington out of the way and unleash our 
free enterprise system. The best thing we can do for job creation is to 
remove these regulations so businesses and entrepreneurs will be able 
to get our economy moving again.
  We need to be working to help our job creators put people back to 
work, and we thank the Johnson City chamber for its work to help 
Tennessee businesses and employees, and for all it has done to help 
Johnson City succeed and continue to thrive.
  With a new Republican majority, we will work with the chamber to 
advance our shared goals to jump-start our economy and liberate our 
free market so businesses in Tennessee and around the Nation will have 
the freedom they need to get our economy going in the right 
direction.

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