To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 255 North Main Street in Jonesboro, Georgia, as the "S. Truett Cathy Post Office Building".

Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis) and the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Turner) for their excellent remarks.

Mr. Speaker, as the sponsor of this legislation today, I am pleased to speak on the House floor regarding H.R. 3029. This legislation honors a Georgia entrepreneur and restaurateur and a great American, S. Truett Cathy, the founder, chairman and CEO of Chick-Fil-A, Incorporated. This legislation designates the post office in Jonesboro, Georgia, in my district, as the S. Truett Cathy Post Office Building. I appreciate the support of the entire Georgia congressional delegation, which has cosponsored this important legislation.

The Chick-Fil-A story began in 1946 when Truett and his younger brother, Ben, spent $10,000 to open a tiny 24-hour restaurant called the Dwarf Grill in Hapeville, Georgia; and the Dwarf Grill still stands in Hapeville, Georgia. In 1967, Mr. Cathy opened his first Chick-Fil-A restaurant at Atlanta's Greenbriar Mall, which established the in-mall fast-food quick-service restaurant concept in this Nation. Today, Chick-Fil-A is the third largest quick-service chicken restaurant chain in the entire United States based on annual sales. Currently, there are more than 1,080 restaurants in 36 States and in Washington, D.C.

Truett Cathy is a devoted religious man who built his life and his business based upon hard work, humanity, humility, and Biblical principles. Based on these principles, all of Chick-Fil-A's restaurants operate with a closed-on-Sunday policy, without exception, to allow the employees of Chick-Fil-A to attend services on Sunday. When not managing his company, Cathy donates his time to community efforts and teaches a Sunday school class to 13-year-old boys, as he has done for more than 45 straight years.

Chick-Fil-A's official statement of corporate purpose says that it exists ``to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us and to have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-Fil-A.'' That is why Mr. Cathy invests in scholarships, character-building programs for kids, foster homes and other community services.

Mr. Cathy has established the WinShape Centre Foundation, the Leadership Scholarship Program, and the WinShape Homes Program. The WinShape Center Foundation annually awards 20 to 30 students wishing to attend Berry College in Georgia with $24,000 scholarships that are jointly funded by the Rome, Georgia, institution. Through its Leadership Scholarship Program, the Chick-Fil-A chain has given over $17.5 million in $1,000 scholarships to Chick-Fil-A restaurant employees since 1973. As part of his WinShape Homes Program, a long- term care program for foster children, 13 foster care homes have been started in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and even in Brazil. They are operated by Cathy and the WinShape Foundation.

S. Truett Cathy is a dedicated husband and family man. He is a father and grandfather. Cathy and his wife, Jeanette, have 12 grandchildren and more than 125 foster grandchildren. Due to inspiring his life story and his dedication to community service, I am pleased to honor this great Georgian and his legacy in this manner.

I especially would like to thank my colleagues from Georgia, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston), the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Bishop), the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Marshall), the gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. Majette), the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Lewis), the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Linder), the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins), the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Norwood), the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Deal), the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Gingrey), and the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Burns) for their support in joining me as sponsors of this legislation.

In addition, I would like to thank the members of the Committee on Government Reform and the committee staff for including my bill in the list of suspension bills today. I would especially like to thank my good friend, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis), for managing this bill on the floor, and the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Deal) for all his efforts as a member of the committee on behalf of my legislation.

I encourage all of my colleagues to support this legislation and pass this bill in the House today. I look forward to working with Senator Miller and Senator Chambliss and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and the entire Senate in order to gain quick passage of this bill in the Senate.

What an outstanding story, what an outstanding life, what an outstanding man is S. Truett Cathy. We humbly honor this great servant of God by naming this post office in Jonesboro, Georgia, after him.

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3029) to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 255 North Main Street in Jonesboro, Georgia, as the ``S. Truett Cathy Post Office Building''.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks on the bill under consideration.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3029, introduced by the distinguished gentleman from the State of Georgia (Mr. Scott) designates the U.S. Postal Service facility in Jonesboro, Georgia, as the ``S. Truett Cathy Post Office Building.'' All members of the Georgia State delegation have signed on to this legislation.

Mr. Speaker, this legislation honors a wonderful American entrepreneur, S. Truett Cathy. The respected founder of the Chik-Fil-A restaurant chain, Mr. Cathy has developed one of the most successful privately-owned restaurant chains in the United States. S. Truett Cathy lived the American Dream by spending just a few thousand dollars to open a tiny diner with his brother, Ben, in the Atlanta suburb of Hapeville, Georgia, in 1946. It was almost 20 years later, in 1967, before Mr. Cathy opened his first Chik-Fil-A restaurant in an Atlanta shopping mall. Today there are over 1,000 Chik-Fil-A restaurants from coast to coast.

Many people know that Chik-Fil-A restaurants are not open on Sundays. This has been true ever since the first restaurant opened in 1967. Mr. Cathy makes no exceptions for his ``closed-on-Sunday'' policy, ensuring that all Chik-Fil-A employees have a chance to worship, spend time with their families and friends, and simply relax 1 day a week. On his day off, Mr. Cathy has taught Sunday school classes for nearly 50 years.

Mr. Cathy also should be recognized for his work in offering educational scholarships. He has established the Chik-Fil-A Team Member Scholarship that awards a $1,000 scholarship to 25 Chik-Fil-A employees each year, encouraging them to pursue advanced educations. Chik-Fil-A has generously given away nearly $18 million to its employees through this program. Mr. Cathy has also created the WinShape Centre Foundation that annually grants dozens of $24,000 scholarships to students wishing to attend Berry College in Rome, Georgia. Chik-Fil-A has also provided $25,000 in general scholarship funds to each of the universities who participate in the Chik-Fil-A Peach Bowl football game in late December.

Mr. Speaker, for all these reasons, I commend the gentleman from Georgia for his meaningful work on H.R. 3029 that honors S. Truett Cathy. S. Truett Cathy's success as an entrepreneur and charity as a philanthropist are truly worthy of commendation by this House.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Burns).

Mr. Speaker, I have no other speakers. I urge passage of H.R. 3029, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor S. Truett Cathy. Guided by his ability, dedication, and faith, Mr. Cathy took a small restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, and built Chik-Fil-A, Inc., the third largest fast food chicken restaurant in America, with more than 1,080 restaurants nationwide.

This is in itself a great enterprise. Yet Mr. Cathy, through his success in business and exemplary community service, has come to serve as a paradigm of excellence. In 1984, Mr. Cathy founded the WinShape Center Foundation, designed to ``shape winners'' by helping young people succeed in life through scholarships and other youth-support programs.

Like Mr. Cathy, the foundation he began is the epitome of responsible citizenry. The foundation annually joins Berry College in Rome, Georgia to award 20 to 30 students with $24,000 scholarships. In addition, through its Leadership Scholarship Program, the Chick-Fil-A chain has awarded more than $17.5 million in $1,000 scholarships to Chick-Fil-A restaurant employees since 1973. Chik-Fil-A's partnerships with the LPGA and college football's Peach Bowl have resulted in more than $1.25 million for WinShape homes and other charities in 2002 alone.

Mr. Cathy's philanthropic endeavors extend to children as well. As part of his WinShape Homes program--a long-term care program for foster children--Mr. Cathy launched and operates 13 foster care homes in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Brazil. These homes, accommodating up to 12 children with two full-time foster parents, provide long-term care for foster children with a positive family environment. In addition, more than 1,600 young campers from throughout the country attend annual sessions at Camp WinShape. An initiative of the WinShape Center Foundation, this camp offers a series of two-week summer programs to help boys and girls build self-esteem through physical and spiritual activities.

Mr. Cathy is a devoutly religious man who built his life and business on hard work, humanity and biblical principles. Based on his strong faith and sense of purpose, all of Chik-Fil-A's restaurants operate with a ``closed-on-Sunday'' policy, allowing employees to practice their faith and spend time with their families. Mr. Cathy spends his day off teaching a Sunday school class to 13-year-old boys, as he has done for more than 45 years.

S. Truett Cathy represents the best that Georgia and this country has to offer. I am proud to be a co-sponsor of H.R. 3029, designating the post office of Jonesboro, Georgia as the ``S. Truett Cathy Post Office Building.''

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 3029, renaming the post office in Jonesboro, Georgia, for S. Truett Cathy. I join my distinguished colleague, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Scott), in recognizing this man's great achievement in our State, in our community, and in our Nation. Truett Cathy is truly a leader and truly a friend, and I am very honored to call him a friend of not only Georgia, but of the Nation.

Certainly at his opening of that first small restaurant called the Dwarf Grill back in the 1940s, no one could have imagined the impact that he has had on our communities throughout the Nation. He developed a keen art of both marketing and culinary skills and developed what we all know as the Chick-Fil-A sandwich. I will tell you one of the things I enjoy most when I have the opportunity is to visit one of his restaurants. Begun in 1967, it is now the third largest chicken quick- serve establishment in the world.

The most interesting thing about Mr. Cathy is he has been true to his principles. As the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Scott) pointed out, he chooses not to operate his business on Sunday so that his employees can worship their God and enjoy their families. He is a member and deacon of the First Baptist Church in Jonesboro.

I got to know Truett Cathy through his involvement in education, not only at Berry College, but at multiple universities around the State. At the university that I had an opportunity to be on the faculty of at Georgia Southern, he was one of our strongest supporters. We have a Chick-Fil-A Room in our university where we teach marketing. His son Dan is a graduate of Georgia Southern; and he continues to be very, very active in education throughout our State and throughout our Nation.

As the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Scott) pointed out, he has the WinShape Foundation that operates long-term care programs for foster

children. He provides scholarships to Berry College, and he provides scholarships to employees of Chick-Fil-A, over $17 million worth of development and education scholarships. He believes in the youth of America. He believes that our future is in those individuals that will shape and mold and become the future leaders that we so desperately need.

I am indeed privileged to join the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Scott) and to join the rest of the Georgia delegation as we provide a tribute to the life and the accomplishments of S. Truett Cathy. I urge my colleagues in this body to join us as we vote today on H.R. 3029.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join with the gentleman from Ohio (Mr.

Turner) in support of H.R. 3029, legislation naming a Postal Service facility located at 255 North Main Street in Jonesboro, Georgia, after S. Truett Cathy. H.R. 3029 was introduced by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Scott) on September 5, 2003. The bill has met the Committee on Government Reform policy and has the support and cosponsorship of the entire Georgia delegation.

S. Truett Cathy is the founder and chairman of the third largest fast-food chicken chain in the United States. The first restaurant opened in 1967 in Atlanta, Georgia. As of February, 2003, there are more than 1,000 restaurants in 36 States and Washington, D.C.

Not content to be just a successful businessman, Mr. Cathy continues to give back to his community. He provides leadership scholarships to employees, scholarships to young people to attend college, sponsors long-term care for foster children, and a summer camp program to build self-esteem. He also sponsors golf and football sporting events.

Mr. Speaker, naming a postal facility after Mr. S. Truett Cathy continues the tradition of honoring dedicated and committed individuals who make a difference in their community and in our Nation. I am pleased to join in urging swift adoption of H.R. 3029.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Scott), the proud Georgian sponsor of this legislation.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, it is clear that Mr. Cathy is indeed a remarkable man. I congratulate the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Scott) and the Georgia delegation. I urge swift passage of this legislation.

Mr. Speaker, I have no further requests for time, and I yield back the balance of my time.