What is even more startling than that is that the upper 0.1 of 1 percent, the upper 0.1 of the top 1 percent, representing about 13,000 households, reaped more than one-third of all the income growth of the last 20 years.

I ask that you give States the maximum flexibility when setting the criteria for drawing down these funds.

We are manufacturing every component.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate being recognized to address you here on the floor of the House of Representatives. I have been listening to the dialogue that has been poured before us from the three gentlemen here, my colleagues…

I thank the gentleman from Tennessee. He mentioned that he has taken calculus. I would submit that they put me through calculus, too, a couple of years, and they actually never told me at the beginning, middle, or end that there wasn't…

I had a conversation with an orthopedic surgeon a couple of months ago. He said to me, I have a small practice. He said 95 percent of the MRIs that he orders are completely unnecessary except he has to cover everything because someone…

Part of it was school construction and reconstruction.

5,323 jobs were either created or saved with ARRA funds.

we are moving these funds in an effective and efficient manner.

When I am working with fifth graders, I want them to see themselves in a future with a job that they want to do that is highly engaging.

I got $16 billion in the recovery bill for school construction, $16 billion.

I think it means we have to put having people earn a good living at the center of economic policy.

ARRA has had a positive impact in Iowa even during this economic downturn.

we are using a total of $591.6 million of ARRA funds.

I think it is something you should only do for a year or two.

That is massive redistribution of wealth.

I think we have to do whatever we can to really get things going.

I thank all of you for being here and for just excellent testimony from all of you.