[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 6, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S44]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. REID (for himself, Mr. Levin, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. 
        Begich, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. 
        Casey, Mr. Lautenberg, Ms. Stabenow, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. 
        Lieberman, Ms. Klobuchar, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Schumer):
  S. 1. A bill to create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen 
America's middle class through measures that modernize the nation's 
infrastructure, enhance America's energy independence, expand 
educational opportunities, preserve and improve afforrdable health 
care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for 
other purposes; read the first time.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the 
bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

                                  S. 1

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``American Recovery and 
     Reinvestment Act of 2009''.

     SEC. 2. JOB CREATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND A STRONG MIDDLE 
                   CLASS.

       It is the sense of Congress that Congress should enact, and 
     the President should sign, legislation to create jobs, 
     restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle 
     class through measures that--
       (1) modernize the nation's infrastructure;
       (2) enhance America's energy independence;
       (3) expand educational opportunities;
       (4) preserve and improve affordable health care;
       (5) provide tax relief; and
       (6) protect those in greatest need.
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