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If we had the full 60--we will just round it off, we will say $60 billion out and you get 28 to 34,000--and we will round that out, to 30,000 jobs per billion dollars in infrastructure investment, we would have 1.8 million people working.
Tomorrow, I am told that the unemployment figures for the Nation might reach 9.8 percent.
This is the first time I ever remember, in my legislative career, a short 17 years, 18 years, of not having that done.
I would like to do a lot more in expediting the red tape and the hoops and all the delays like the bridge in Minneapolis.
this program would spend out at only 2.4 percent. They were dead wrong; it spent out at 64 percent.
Well, we look forward to working with you both and getting the money out, getting people working, and then making certain that the money that we spend goes on good projects that are spent with the best interest of the taxpayer in mind.
We wanted to do $120 billion to $150 billion, and we could have done it.
Not all by what we put in the legislation. We wanted good reporting and be good stewards of the taxpayers' money.
The stimulus bill, too, if you go back and look at the arguments to sell it, was sold as an infrastructure bill.
Unfortunately, we still have problems in getting the money out, and this isn't something that should be a surprise.
The most important thing we can do is get people working, and what a difference it does make in their lives.
I think when we passed at least our portion of the stimulus bill, and you have to remember, out of $787 billion, less than 7 percent was transportation and infrastructure-related.
"""A lot of people have imagination, but can't execute--you have to execute with the imagination."" --Donald J. Trump http://tinyurl.com/pqpfvm"
We passed on September 28th a $30 billion measure.
How is he going to keep this extraordinarily talented workforce operating?
Stability of funding would have an enormously positive impact.
Why would we spend $100 billion building the Space Station and then put it in the Pacific?