[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 110 (Thursday, July 21, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H5294-H5295]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON THE STIMULUS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Florida (Ms. Brown) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  The best anti-poverty program is a job. The stimulus bill saved 3.3 
million jobs just this year. After 8 years of reverse Robin Hood under 
Bush, we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. I repeat: We were losing 
800,000 jobs a month. Eight hundred thousand people headed toward 
poverty. The stimulus bill reversed the slide toward poverty for this 
Nation.
  Earlier this week, I submitted data for the Congressional Record 
showing that the stimulus bill has funded 700,000 education jobs, more 
than all of the jobs lost due to Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill 
combined. Today, I submit for the record data on jobs saved or created 
by transportation funding in the stimulus bill. Since February 2009, 
335,000 positions have been funded directly by the Department of 
Transportation. That figure does not include the jobs indirectly 
created by the stimulus bill as States and local governments leverage 
these funds for improvements that get goods and services moving 
throughout this country.
  So far, the DOT has paid out $30 billion in grants and has authority 
for another $18 billion. Over 15,000 projects have been made possible 
by the stimulus bill. Mr. Speaker, can anyone seriously argue that $48 
billion for roads, rails and infrastructure will not put millions of 
people to work? Of course they can't.
  In my district, construction of a new Amtrak station in Sanford, 
Florida, employed 46 subcontractors. Forty-five of them are from 
Florida. Does anyone want to call that a disaster?
  The real disaster is that we didn't put enough money in the stimulus 
bill for transportation. This country gets a failing grade for the 
conditions of our roads and bridges, and we're going to have disaster 
after disaster like what occurred in Minnesota, the collapsing of the 
bridge that killed people.
  Mr. Speaker, the stimulus bill put us on the road to recovery, and I 
will continue to set the record straight. Let's not stop this recovery 
by reversing course. The pending transportation reauthorization bill 
will take us backwards a decade and will kill the millions of jobs. 
That is what I call a disaster.
  I am placing in the Record the transportation and how much each State 
received and how many jobs it created. For example, in Florida, 782 
projects, over 16,000 people put to work. Let me just mention one other 
State--Pennsylvania, 384 projects, 13,000 jobs reported.
  Mr. Speaker, people come to this floor and they talk all the time, 
and I guess people on TV think that what they're saying is actual, or 
factual. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you 
can't fool all of the people all of the time.

    AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009--DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION GRANTS AS OF MARCH 31, 2011
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                State                   Projects        Total Awarded        Funds Per Capita    Jobs Reported
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Alabama.............................          364             $689,783,797               $146               4107
Alaska..............................           54              388,794,321                557               2771
American Samoa......................            4                8,468,599                N/A                348
Arizona.............................          249              808,989,561                123               7964
Arkansas............................          150              422,379,045                146               4021
California..........................         1244            7,348,869,737                199              33355
Colorado............................          151              667,300,538                133               6441
Connecticut.........................          169              472,631,172                134               6667
Delaware............................           49              143,098,747                162               1196
District of Columbia................           26            1,733,232,733              2,890              13812
Florida.............................          782            1,839,648,149                 99              16596
Georgia.............................          438            1,136,153,103                116              11212
Guam................................           12               30,591,897                N/A                186
Hawaii..............................           39              214,745,880                166               3185
Idaho...............................          107              221,927,181                144               2235
Illinois............................          920            2,727,586,568                211              10433
Indiana.............................         1163              828,803,322                129               6910

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Iowa................................          255              424,232,778                141               3741
Kansas..............................          180              397,374,332                141               3465
Kentucky............................          183              518,755,460                120               5079
Louisiana...........................          156              578,683,578                129               4313
Maine...............................           91              212,986,398                162               1252
Maryland............................          191              649,531,314                114               4029
Massachusetts.......................          152              897,777,105                136               4173
Michigan............................          819            1,139,143,390                114              10209
Minnesota...........................          266              692,002,343                131               4104
Mississippi.........................          199              419,224,091                142               4988
Missouri............................          377              800,082,800                134               5269
Montana.............................           98              305,897,160                314               3344
Nebraska............................          142              272,964,222                152               2493
Nevada..............................           89              331,090,324                125               2844
New Hampshire.......................           54              154,196,422                116               1192
New Jersey..........................          202            1,156,651,333                133               8467
New Mexico..........................          129              355,934,416                177               2927
New York............................          521            2,853,649,172                146              14377
North Carolina......................          460            1,413,137,683                151              10512
North Dakota........................          184              211,838,719                328               1369
Ohio................................          493            1,313,714,616                114              10045
Oklahoma............................          304              646,213,981                175               5174
Oregon..............................          385              530,282,667                139               3560
Pennsylvania........................          384            1,450,896,521                115              13060
Puerto Rico.........................           65              186,789,071                N/A               1597
Rhode Island........................           84              205,287,296                195               1656
South Carolina......................          219              552,208,453                121               3922
South Dakota........................           65              250,604,563                308               2717
Tennessee...........................          370              839,526,398                133               6448
Texas...............................          642            2,851,769,034                115              25458
U.S. Virgin Islands.................           11               31,184,858                N/A                319
Utah................................          143              398,498,657                143               2577
Vermont.............................           82              198,703,920                320               1181
Virginia............................          193              934,531,617                119               7558
Washington..........................          306            1,467,863,369                220               9414
West Virginia.......................          184              253,292,304                139               2013
Wisconsin...........................          479              699,094,342                124               4252
Wyoming.............................           77              202,044,754                371               1934
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    Totals..........................        15155          $46,480,663,811            $11,312           $332472
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Sources:
http://www.dot.gov/recovery
http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/RecipientReportedData/Pages/StateTotalsByAgency



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