We hold this hearing on the heels of what I would call mixed news about our economy.
history of fiscal stimulus is not always a happy one because a lot of times the moneys arrived after the economy has beg...
I am pleased to hear about how many States and localities have created Web sites to provide accountability and transpare...
the question that we will always ask is if we are getting this money out as quickly as we can.
Obviously, you will keep monitoring and let us know if you think that it is moving more slowly to State and local govern...
You are going to be able to do a lot of things and slice and dice the data any number of ways you want.
that we find ourselves in this situation at all is, in my mind, and the minds of many of my constituents, quite frankly,...
They know they need it. But they are worried about whether we are going to spend it effectively.
I think it would be a perfect focus at the outset to take some of the contracts issued pursuant to the stimulus.
This is really too critical, too big, and as I said at the beginning, it is too big for us to let it fail.
We reacted in this emergency with an unprecedented spending program and a pressure to spend it quickly.
I appreciate it, because obviously--and, of course, we will see some of this from the macro economic data, but we hope t...
I cannot think of a better preparation for this job that he had than to be a State Senator.
The whole reason for the Recovery Act was to create or save jobs.
I mean, it is hard to imagine that putting this much money out into the economy would not help some.
the overall result of almost $800 million in Federal funding is unreservedly positive.
So on that chart, what jumps out at me, certainly, and I presume would at others, is that a relatively small proportion ...
The unemployment level now is above what many economists predicted when we passed the stimulus in February.
