[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H666]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                THE JOBS ARE HERE THANKS TO THE STIMULUS

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, many times we come up here and 
we hear my Republican colleagues say, ``Where are the jobs?'' Well, I 
am going to tell you where the jobs are at.
  In Houston, Texas, yesterday, we did an event with the Port of 
Houston and the industries along that channel--whether they be 
refineries or chemical plants or stevedoring companies or shippers. The 
jobs that we have through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 
are at the Port of Houston to the point of $98 million that came 
through that act to create and to expand the jobs at the Port of 
Houston, to make sure we can bring in those ships, make sure we can get 
that dredging done so they can be competitive not only with our own 
country's ports but also worldwide.
  The jobs are in our district that were awarded money to benefit Early 
Head Start in Houston areas Head Start; the Department of Education; 
Early Head Start in the Galena Park School District received funds; 
expanding Head Start programs in our district, hiring more teachers, 
but also expanding it so parents can have a child go to Head Start, and 
they can go to work and earn some money--including new centers, one in 
Channelview, Texas, we hope to open. Expanded federally qualified 
health clinics in our district are serving more people because of the 
Recovery Act.

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