[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 11358-11359]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   PRESIDENT BUSH RALLIES FOR INDIANA

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, on Monday I had the profound honor of being 
the first Hoosier to welcome President George W. Bush to the great 
State of Indiana on his very first visit there.
  As the President trod the sawdust of the Indiana State Fair Grounds, 
he was greeted with ovation after ovation from a State full of 
conservative, profamily Hoosiers that appreciate his leadership at home 
and abroad.
  But we were especially grateful that the President addressed his 
message to the issue of jobs. Ever since the last year of the Clinton 
administration, the economy of the State of Indiana has

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been in steep decline, with manufacturing jobs exiting the State, 
exiting the country. President Bush came and said he was in Indiana to 
talk about jobs. He extolled the leadership of this Chamber last week 
and called on all of Congress to pass his Jobs and Growth Act, and so 
do I this day.

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  We were grateful to welcome President Bush to Indiana, but more 
grateful still for his focus, putting out-of-work Americans back to 
work.

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