It is going to lift people's spirits up.

I know you and I and others in this Chamber are focused like a laser beam on getting this economy turned around. Although we see some promising signs--for example, in my State of California it turns out that last month 32,000 new jobs were…

I will be brief in my strong support for the Murray amendment to provide $1.5 billion for youth jobs programs through the Workforce Investment Act for summer and year-round employment. This amendment will help create up to 500,000…

I want to thank Senator Webb for offering this amendment, which is the same text as our bill that we introduced about a month ago. I think Senator Webb has made an excellent case for this very important amendment which will reduce the…

We are seeking funds for completion of the feasibility phase.

So this amendment is very important. As our economy continues to recover, we all know jobs are lagging. We need to do all we can to try to replicate what happened in Rocklin, CA. When you give a young person opportunity, a job opportunity…

I just want to say to Senator Voinovich how much I appreciate his leadership.

We believe the tax cuts in that bill did stimulate the economy. We believe it has saved and created jobs.

the long-term impact on this, on the rest of the economy probably it dwarfs the direct impact on the construction industry.

Transportation investments not only create and sustain jobs in the short term; they help us with economic recovery.

as I stand here today, it would be pretty easy to solve this problem. Senator Bunning needs to stand down. He just needs to stand down. He made his point. He argues that we should pay for emergency funding. I voted for pay-go, but we do…

I fully agree that this bill that we write now for the next 5 years has to be robust, and it has to be clear that this is an economic driver for America.

I want to thank you personally for the work you did to help us finally get this short-term extension, and now hopefully the long-term extension done.

Frankly, you have so much credibility. And Thursday's vote is key.

We are very excited about it on both sides of the aisle, and we couldn't have had a better first day.

every billion dollar increase in Federal funding for transportation supports 35,000 new jobs.

I want to say, on behalf of many of us on this side of the aisle, how glad we are that Senator Bunning has changed his mind and taken the option he was presented with on Thursday; that is, to offer an amendment and then for us to get this…

Together, we need to put America back to work.

These delays are really hurting our people back home, all of us, every one of us, no more than Missouri.

I vow to streamline our bill to 10 sections at the most because that was the first advice of the Special Commission.

I wrote to him on February 26 ``On behalf of the 201,000 Californians who will see their unemployment insurance benefits expire'' and telling him that the benefits will expire on Sunday, which was 2 days ago; that unemployment insurance is…

That is why this Thursday vote in the House is so important.

I made a commitment to Senator Bond and to you, in your absence at that moment, that we will do a bill that you will participate in, and we will get that bill done in this Committee.

There are two ways to fight for things you believe in around here. One is an inside strategy, talk to our colleagues. The other is an outside strategy, engage the people who are on the ground.

The bipartisan effort by certain Committee members to support transportation funding on the HIRE Act last week was also much appreciated.