[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9195]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          COMMENDING TOM DAVIS

  Mr. KELLER. Mr. Speaker, today I am happy to welcome Tom Davis to 
Washington, DC. He has traveled here all the way from Spring, TX, to 
testify before the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness, which 
I chair. I invited him to talk about the ways that the private sector 
can help increase college access for millions of Americans.
  Tom Davis is already doing his part. He is the owner of Davis 
Brothers Construction, a company of about 35 employees that builds 
multi-family homes. Most of his employees are hourly laborers who make 
a decent living but can't afford to send their kids to college. So Mr. 
Davis has said that, for any of his employees whose children want to go 
to college but can't afford it, he will pay for their tuition and 
books. His generosity has built fierce loyalty among his employees, and 
he has already sent seven kids to college who otherwise couldn't have 
gone.
  It is because of businesses like his that I introduced the Family 
Friendly Employers Act which gives a tax incentive to those employers 
who pay for their employees' children to go to college. Our country 
could use more family friendly employers like Tom Davis.

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