NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

2/9/2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES - U.S. Rep. Jim McCrery will speak at Northwestern State University on Thursday, Feb. 22 at 11 a.m. in the Friedman Student Union.

His appearance is sponsored by NSU's Student Government Association and is open to the public. McCrery will discuss the war in Iraq along with other current topics and will take questions.

McCrery has been recognized as one of the most thoughtful members of the United States Congress, focusing on solving America's challenges by looking past politics of the moment and toward long-term, permanent solutions. Serving his ninth full term in the U.S. House, McCrery represents Louisiana's Fourth Congressional District, encompassing northwest and west central Louisiana.

Congressional Quarterly has called McCrery an "economic guardian" for his work as Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. In addition, the non-partisan magazine named McCrery as one of twenty-eight "emerging players" who will shape Congress's agenda in the post-September 11th world.

McCrery has concentrated his energies on producing fundamental tax reform, economic growth and making health care more available and affordable. In addition, former Ways and Means Chairman Bill Archer has called McCrery "one of the most knowledgeable members of the House on the issue of welfare reform." House leaders twice called on McCrery to serve on conference committees which resulted in the passage of historic welfare reform legislation. McCrery serves on the Ways and Means subcommittee on Human Resources that has jurisdiction on welfare reform issues.

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