On the recordFebruary 28, 2012
One of your points about the impact, that one piece of the bridge project, the $400 million element of steel, it wasn't just the steel itself. Had we been developing that portion of the steel for the project in the United States, there would have been thousands of other jobs that would have been related to it to support that effort, in terms of the manufacturing, the development, the people who provide the equipment to manufacture the steel and put it in place, and the tools. It is a dramatic ripple effect. You referenced 150,000 miles of road in critical need of repair. What's under the surface is even in worse shape. We have, in the United States, every day 6 billion gallons of water that leaks from water mains that are old, in some cases unsafe and unhealthy. That's the equivalent of 9,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. Lined end to end, it would go from Washington, D.C., to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
