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66 The PCB Magazine • July 2017 America return: innovation, competition, and leadership on the global stage. I believe that what you have seen happen over the first four to five months of President Trump's presidency is a move in that direction. If you look at the number of bills that Con- gress has passed this session since the last elec- tion, it is more than any that have passed in the first 100 days since George H. W. Bush was presi- dent, far more than President Obama during his first term. If you look at the number of bills that have been signed into law by President Trump, it's far more than President Obama or any of the three previous predecessors to that. There is no question that President Trump has hit the ground running, trying to do the very things that he promised that he was going to do during his campaign: regulatory reform; restore healthcare to the American people and take it out of the hands of unelected bureau- crats in Washington, D.C. Now, some of these things are still a work in progress, but by and large, we've seen the markets respond very fa- vorably to President Trump's message of return- ing to America's greatness. Within a few weeks of the election, the stock market saw a major rally. These are historical moves by the Ameri- can free-enterprise system to validate what the American people are asking for. If you look at the number of Congressional Review Act measures, for example, I think there have now been 13 Congressional Review Act measures that have been signed into law, keep- ing one of the promises that President Trump made to roll back onerous regulations that are stifling job growth and slowing econom- ic growth here in America. If you look at how many jobs have been created, I've seen various numbers, but certainly in excess of 350,000 jobs have been created just since the president took office. Looking at our border security, we're at a 17- year low, a 61% drop in attempted border cross- ings on our southern border. The president is setting about doing what he said he was going to do and we're working very hard in the House to give him the avenue legislatively to do those things, so I'm very optimistic about the direc- tion we're going. Now, have we solved every- thing? No, we haven't. We have not complet- ed the healthcare reforms. That's still a work in progress. We passed it out of the House and it will soon go to the Senate so that the Senate can begin that work in earnest. We've already made significant progress down the road on tax reform. Everybody ac- knowledges that letting the American people keep more of what they earn, letting business- es keep more of what they earn so that they can invest in research and development and new innovations, new products, that's going to make America that much more competitive on the global stage. Look at the budget that was just released by the President, a budget that bal- ances. When was the last time we saw a budget come from the President that actually balances? Goldman: It balances? How did he do that? Johnson: That's something that we've got to talk about. There's no question about that. That doesn't mean that it's going to get a rub- berstamp here in the House because we too in the House want to see a balanced budget. That's what we have supported for the last sev- en years. I have voted numerous times for a balanced budget amendment to the Consti- tution and I believe that the federal govern- IMPACT Interviews Representative Bill Johnson (R-OH) speaks to IMPACT attendees at the kick-off dinner.