1-1 ****** NEED TWO-PAGE HEADER ****** 1-2 SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 323 1-3 WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States has enacted 1-4 national legislation designating the route of the nation's 1-5 newest trade corridor I-69 as a high priority corridor for 1-6 the movement of people, goods, and services; and 1-7 WHEREAS, The I-69 route links all of the 1-8 United States-Mexico border crossings from Laredo to the 1-9 Lower Rio Grande Valley to the Great Lakes and the Canadian 1-10 border crossings in the northeast quadrant of the United States 1-11 with 42 percent of the United States population and 44 percent 1-12 of the United States gross domestic product; and 1-13 WHEREAS, The I-69 route links the Canadian provinces 1-14 of Ontario and Quebec, which lead the Canadian economy with 1-15 approximately 62 percent of the population and gross domestic 1-16 product, to highways leading to the industrial heartland of 1-17 Mexico; and 1-18 WHEREAS, When built, I-69 is estimated to spawn more 1-19 than 40,000 new jobs by 2025, resulting in $12.8 billion in 1-20 additional wages and $24 billion in added value, and it will 1-21 benefit many rural areas of the United States not currently 1-22 served by an interstate highway; now, therefore, be it 2-1 RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 2-2 77th Legislature, hereby declare February 21, 2001, as I-69 Day 2-3 in recognition of this important international transportation 2-4 corridor. 2-5 Truan 2-6 Armbrister Gallegos Ogden 2-7 Barrientos Harris Shapiro 2-8 Bernsen Haywood Shapleigh 2-9 Bivins Jackson Sibley 2-10 Brown Lindsay Staples 2-11 Cain Lucio Van de Putte 2-12 Carona Madla Wentworth 2-13 Duncan Moncrief West 2-14 Ellis Nelson Whitmire 2-15 Fraser Zaffirini 2-16 Ratliff, President of the Senate 2-17 ______________________________________ 2-18 President of the Senate 2-19 I hereby certify that the above 2-20 Resolution was adopted by the Senate 2-21 on February 21, 2001. 2-22 ______________________________________ 2-23 Secretary of the Senate 2-24 ______________________________________ 2-25 Dean of the Senate