[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18496]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             LET'S WORK TOGETHER TO PUT PEOPLE BACK TO WORK

  (Mr. ELLSWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLSWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I was sitting in my office, and I heard a 
lot of folks asking where the jobs were.
  I downloaded an article from the Evansville Courier Press, which 
happens to be in Indiana. It says: ``Stimulus has Hoosiers working.''
  I'll make a few quotes out of this article: ``More than 2,400 people 
are now at work on Federal stimulus-funded roadway projects in Indiana, 
according to a state report being released today.''
  ```Things were slowing down, and the stimulus filled in the gap,' 
said Tim Mahoney, an economics professor at the University of Southern 
Indiana. `It's kept the people employed that would be laid off,''' says 
that same article.
  ``What's clear is that the stimulus projects have boosted an industry 
otherwise floundering in Indiana.''
  ```In general, it definitely puts our people to work,' said Pete 
Bjorkman, the chief estimator for Evansville-based J.H. Rudolph'' 
construction company.
  ``Our crews are going to be working more hours and more days because 
of this . . . ,' he said. `It is creating more crews, more hours for 
our people that wouldn't have been there before.'''
  Mr. Speaker, I listened in the office to the stuff being said back 
and forth. To the folks in the audience and the people that are walking 
out there, Mr. Speaker, they're tired of this crap that's going on back 
and forth. We need to work together to put people back to work.

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