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Linder Receives “Thomas Jefferson Award”

(1/1/2007)
Food Distributors International (FDI) has given John Linder “The Thomas Jefferson Award” for his consistent support of free market principles and Jeffersonian ideals. The Thomas Jefferson Awards are presented to members of the House of Representatives who have voted consistently in support of efforts to move power beyond Washington and back into the hands of the American people, specifically in areas such as tax and budget matters, and labor and regulatory policy. The Thomas Jefferson Award is given to those members of Congress whose voting records demonstrate a commitment to sound fiscal policy, minimal government regulation and other free market principles. The award program was inspired by the philosophies and writings of Thomas Jefferson, who in his first inaugural address noted, “A wise and frugal government…which shall leave men otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”

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