Minority Enterprise Development Week, 2006

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Part V

The President

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Proclamation 8041--Minority Enterprise Development Week, 2006

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 8041 of August 22, 2006

Minority Enterprise Development Week, 2006

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

During Minority Enterprise Development Week, we
celebrate the outstanding progress made by minority
business owners, recognize their important
contributions to our Nation's vibrant economy, and
emphasize our commitment to helping them succeed.

Throughout our country, minority entrepreneurs
strengthen our economic growth and keep our Nation
moving forward. As Ronald Reagan said, entrepreneurs
are the ``explorers of the modern era,'' and minority
business owners help expand opportunities for their
communities and their fellow citizens. A free society
in which people have the opportunity to pursue their
goals, no matter who they are or where they are from,
is a stronger and more just society.

Over the past 3 years, our economy has grown by nearly
$1.3 trillion, and minority businesses have contributed
to that growth. Since 2001, my Administration has
worked with the Congress to deliver the largest tax
relief in two decades, leaving more money for minority
business owners to reinvest. We are also undertaking
initiatives to widen the ownership of businesses. With
these resources, minority enterprises are hiring more
employees, improving their communities, and helping
fuel our country's economic resurgence.

Minority businesses throughout our Nation remain
strong, and our country benefits from the positive
impact they have on our economy. Minority business
owners represent the hopeful spirit of America, and all
across this land, Americans continue to achieve their
dreams and build better futures for themselves and
their families. During Minority Enterprise Development
Week, we underscore our commitment to helping
entrepreneurs realize the promise of our great Nation.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United
States, do hereby proclaim August 27 through September
2, 2006, as Minority Enterprise Development Week. I
call upon all Americans to celebrate this week with
appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities to
recognize the many contributions of our Nation's
minority enterprises.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-second day of August, in the year of our Lord
two thousand six, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and thirty-first.