[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27535]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            ECONOMIC GROWTH

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I had the honor and privilege to 
host President George W. Bush in North Carolina's Fifth Congressional 
District. The President spoke about our country's impressive economic 
growth at the John Deere-Hitachi manufacturing plant in Kernersville.
  We all have a lot to be grateful to our President for. Under his 
leadership, our economy is flourishing and getting stronger. In a 
report issued last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, our economy 
created 250,000 new jobs during the month of November. Over 4.4 million 
jobs have been created since May 2003.
  Unemployment is down to 5 percent, which is lower than the average of 
the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. This is due to the hard work of the 
American people, lower taxes, legal reform, and less government 
interference into the lives of entrepreneurs and small business owners.
  I am proud of President Bush's leadership and agenda for a strong 
economy. I will continue to work with him and the rest of my colleagues 
in the Congress to make tax relief permanent and exercise spending 
restraint.

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