[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H664-H665]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            THE RECOVERY ACT

  (Ms. CASTOR of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I'm here to report that the 
Recovery Act is working in my hometown of Tampa, Florida. Yesterday, I 
attended a groundbreaking for a new community health center that is 
desperately needed in a part of town where they don't have anywhere 
else to go other than the emergency room, where we all end up paying 
for their health care.
  But in attendance at the groundbreaking were some of the construction 
workers, contractors, the architects, the real estate agents that will 
be put to work constructing this new community health center.
  And just a couple of weeks ago I visited another community health 
center up the road, run by Tampa Family Health Centers, and met 
doctors, nurses, medical professionals, a new receptionist that were 
hired because of the Recovery Act. It's these dollars that are 
investing in our hometowns, putting people back to work in the short 
term constructing these new facilities, but in the long term providing 
better health care at affordable rates for our families.

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