[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16455-16456]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            ARNOLD DE LA PAZ

  (Mr. FARENTHOLD asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FARENTHOLD. This year Mr. Arnold De La Paz, the founder and 
president of DLP Group, Inc., in Corpus Christi, was named the Small 
Business Association's Lower Rio Grande Valley District Minority Small 
Businessperson of the Year.
  Mr. De La Paz is a service-disabled veteran who started his career 
with a small painting company and eventually, through hard work and 
dedication, founded the DLP Group, which is now one of the largest 
paint manufacturers in America. Mr. De La Paz is one of many small 
business owners that work every day to live and realize the American 
Dream. We must continue to foster an environment where job creators 
like Mr. De La Paz can succeed. We can do that here in Washington by 
simplifying the Tax Code, reducing government regulation, and getting 
the Federal budget under control.
  I think Mr. De La Paz summed it up well when he said, ``Our Nation 
has always been about the urge to dream and the will to enable it.'' 
Mr. De La Paz is an example to other small business owners. His 
contributions as a job creator who has worked tirelessly to put 
Americans back to work is what this country is based upon.

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