I voted for the stimulus in the hopes that the money is going to get to help the people for whom it is intended.
I think that the money that could stimulate business in communities like Bedford-Stuyvesant, I have greater concern, because unless there is...
Now, the U.S. Government gives you $1.8 billion. What do you do with it? Where does it go, physically?
What kind of effort is being made so that all this money that's coming doesn't just go to the big name contractors who don't necessarily fin...
So, these stimulus funds, and this goes into a question, and I'm sure it's raised--they're being used to supplement additional spending--you...
There's no doubt that New York and other cities across the country are experiencing severe declines in their tax revenues, which is creating...
I'm only interested where national stimulus funds are going in.
Mr. Skyler, how much funds have the city of New York received already from this program?
According to the revenue architects, we need over $2 trillion in repairs for infrastructure.
Even though we're in an economic downturn, we intended to continue with those positions. We did not have the funds to do so until the full s...
So, some of the money that's coming from the Federal Government, in fact, is going into the Treasury and you reinvest that money, right?
But what kind of effort is being made? Have you had meetings already with minority business entrepreneurs telling them how they become part ...
I think one of the things that we will be doing with this committee is that we really analyze how much of a stimulus this stimulus package i...
I want to find out the role of the banks in this chain of custody of the money.
And when will that $4 billion be finally received?
I want to know if any money is sitting around waiting to find a program while there are people around the country waiting for a job.
I actually believe that government, this Congress, created some incentives out there some years ago for people to borrow and spend irrespons...
Ohio has been hit very hard by the housing crisis, and I have long been concerned about the foreclosure tornado ripping through our cities a...
