[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4181]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to recognize and 
congratulate Workforce Essentials in Clarksville, Tennessee, for its 
innovation and its attentiveness to the needs of the area it serves.
  In Clarksville, we have a great program that is in place. It is an 
initiative called an Army of One Plus One. The program is attuned to 
the needs of the areas veterans, military spouses and retirees. Their 
good work was recognized last Friday night by the National Association 
of Work Force Partnerships as this year's recipient of the Theodore E. 
Small award, which recognizes the successful implementation of the 
program, which is a partnership with the 101st Airborne at Ft. Campbell 
and alongside the Tennessee Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of 
Labor, and the U.S. Department of Defense by identifying the military 
as a primary sector of the workforce. The spouses of soldiers, the 
veterans and the entire community have benefitted from this 
partnership.
  The CEO of Workforce Essentials, Ross Jackson and his great team plus 
the outstanding team at Ft. Campbell, led by General Turner and Colonel 
Ruggley, are to be commended for providing their great work.

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