[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 98 (Tuesday, June 6, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2750]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            WELCOMING PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI OF INDIA

  (Mr. McCORMICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCORMICK. Madam Speaker, I take this opportunity to address a 
very important visit by Prime Minister Modi this week.
  I am excited that this person is coming to America to extend goodwill 
between our two nations in one of the most strategically important 
relationships we have in the world.
  If you consider their relationship to Pakistan, China, and 
Bangladesh, and the economic power that they hold, it is an economy 
that has been blossoming in the last 10 years and has increased by over 
30 percent while Canada and Russia have actually maintained a flat or 
decreasing GDP.
  The reason this has happened is because they have embraced a 
constitution very similar to the United States' and values very similar 
to ours.
  I call that we continue to extend our military actions, our military 
purchasing power, and our economic reliance on each other into the 
future as we accept Prime Minister Modi here in the United States in 
the most important accolades that we recognize leadership across the 
world.

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