[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16263-16264]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   SOUTHWESTERN BREEDS FUTURE LEADERS

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, this weekend, I had a really wonderful 
opportunity. The Southwestern Company of Nashville, Tennessee, a 
company that I worked with through my college years and then as soon as 
I graduated from college, celebrated their 150th anniversary.
  What we did was bring together alums of this great company for a 
reunion. We had a great time. Our focus was on the principles and the 
skills that Southwestern teaches that have not only made it a great 
company, but have also added to this country's free enterprise system.
  We talked about how this is a company that builds character in young 
people. It builds the skills that are necessary to become 
entrepreneurs: tenacity, perseverance, self-reliance, vision, how to be 
self-reliant in your business, to be small business people, to build an 
understanding that hard work pays off, and that you should seek risk 
and the rewards that go with that risk.
  This is all an understanding of free enterprise and how free 
enterprise works.
  Madam Speaker, this Nation has the best, the greatest free enterprise 
system on the face of the planet. That is why we have seen 146,000 jobs 
created, we have had 25 consecutive months of economic growth, and 
unemployment is at near historic lows.

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  Madam Speaker, I commend the Southwestern Company, and I commend the 
small business people and entrepreneurs of this great Nation who build 
this free enterprise system.

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