John Spratt: “Adding funding for mass transit and other transportation projects won't only help jump start our economy, but it also…”

Mr. Speaker, beyond the walls of this Capitol, there are millions of Americans who can't afford health insurance and they live in fear of getting sick. Millions more are discriminated against by insurance companies because they have…

Thank you very much indeed.

Can we conclude from what you have just said and from what you are seeing that the favorable factors in our economy today may be glimmers of hope, may be harbingers of an economy that is recovering?

I think it is a widely held view that all of those actions have had positive effects on the economy.