Rep. Corrine Brown: “Mine is 50-50. Ms. McKINNEY. Yours is 50 percent black, that is unconstitutional. Does that mean any percent black is…”

Mr. Speaker, we have a good bill with lots of important provisions, including new matching grants to improve port security, a national security card for port workers and truck drivers, antiterrorism response teams and sea marshals, and…

I did not support it because it did not include almost any of those elements that we are discussing here tonight.

What stands out most in my mind is that the economic stimulus package that passed this House, that I did not vote for, gave more tax breaks to a certain segment. I call them the country club tax breaks. I say it is the reverse Robin Hood…

For every billion dollars that we spend on infrastructure, it generates 49,000 jobs. If we want to stimulate the economy, then we should invest in the building up of our infrastructure and tie it to homeland security.