[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19549]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      THE RECOVERY ACT IS WORKING

  (Mr. SCHRADER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCHRADER. Mr. Speaker, for the past couple of weeks, Members from 
the other side of the aisle have come to the floor, as we have heard 
today, and rhetorically asked, where are the jobs? Assertions have been 
made the Recovery Act was ineffective and hasn't created any jobs. 
Well, that simply isn't the case in my district. I would like to give 
one example, Mr. Speaker.
  As Oregon families prepare to send their children back to school, 
let's talk about what the recovery dollars are doing in our local 
school districts, often the heart of our communities. In my district, 
recovery funds are saving the equivalent of 145 teaching and support 
jobs in one school district alone, the Salem/Keizer School District, in 
the 2009-2010 school year. These are positions that would have been 
eliminated without this critical funding and are crucial to the core 
academic growth and development of our students.
  These same recovery dollars are also preventing the equivalent of a 
district-wide, class-size increase of 2\1/2\ students and preventing an 
11-day reduction in the school year. Money well spent.
  We don't spend enough time in this building talking about the jobs 
that are saved and families that are benefiting from these recovery 
dollars. Without the recovery package, more teachers would have lost 
their jobs and our students would have suffered.

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