[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11661]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         GOOD NEWS FOR THE ECONOMY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT

  (Mr. COURTNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. COURTNEY. Madam Speaker, this past Monday, southeastern 
Connecticut received blockbuster news when it was announced that 
Electric Boat will be acquiring 700,000 square feet of office space 
from Pfizer pharmaceutical company. This is space from which Pfizer was 
going to be departing as part of its global reorganization. EB's 
decision to come in and acquire this space is huge, and it is good news 
for the economy of southeastern Connecticut.
  It is not happening in a vacuum. This space is needed because the 
workforce is growing. There are new jobs in southeastern Connecticut 
because this Congress recognized that our submarine fleet, which had 
been underfunded under the prior administration, was running into end 
dates for the Ohio class submarine program.
  We have invested, over the last 3 years, in growing the workforce and 
in research, development, and engineering. These new jobs will ensure 
that we will have a submarine fleet well into the later stages of the 
21st century. It will provide stability for the economy of southeastern 
Connecticut, and it will maintain that Groton, Connecticut, will become 
and will remain the submarine capital of the world.

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