FROM THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

October 1, 2004
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Treasury Official to Meet with Local Business Leaders in West Virginia

Treasury Deputy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman will be in Charleston and Parkersburg, West Virginia next week to meet with local business leaders and discuss the President's efforts to strengthen the economy and create jobs. Also, while in Parkersburg, the Deputy Secretary will tour Treasury's Bureau of Public Debt (BPD) facilities there and meet with employees. As the agency that borrows the money needed to operate the federal government, BPD issues and services U.S. Treasury marketable, savings and special securities.

The following events are open to the media:

Wednesday, October 6

8 a.m. EDT
Remarks before the Charleston Rotary
Fellowship Hall, Christ Church United Methodist
Quarrier Street
Charleston, West Virginia

12:15 p.m. EDT
Remarks before the Mid-Ohio Valley Chamber of Commerce
320 Market Street
Parkersburg, West Virginia