[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19557]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           AMERICA'S RECOVERY

  (Mr. TONKO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TONKO. Mr. Speaker, many commissions who have advised Congress 
advise that the unemployment rate would continue to climb even after 
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act were approved, simply 
because neglect and measures that put us into a deep hole where an 
administration spent down a surplus into a deep deficit was going to 
take a while to recover from. And so now with the investments made 
through that Recovery Act, I am very hopeful that in my district we 
will get good news, as GE, which is corporately headquartered in my 
district, has made application for some of the DOE moneys.
  Because of accountability and transparency, the President is right to 
make certain that all of these moneys being released are greatly 
accounted for. Battery investment, battery advance manufacturing in 
battery worlds, will allow for a diversity of battery manufacturing 
that will allow us not only to have these batteries used for energy 
generation purposes, but for actually providing for the resources for 
transportation fleets, both large and small, and certainly working on 
investments that will restore intermittent energy supplies.

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