[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 19665]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                THE SUCCESS OF THE AMERICAN RECOVERY ACT

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, our Republican friends, perhaps in a bit of 
wishful thinking, are trying to convince the American public that the 
American Recovery Act has been a failure.
  Well, they're going to have a hard time convincing my constituents in 
Louisville, Kentucky, where it was just reported that home sales have 
increased by 27 percent this month over last year, almost all due to 
the $8,000 first-time home buyer's credit that we put in that act. 
They're going to have a hard time convincing the people at GE's 
Appliance Park, where they're about to bring 400 jobs back from China 
to Kentucky to build a revolutionary, energy-saving water heater. 
They're going to have a hard time convincing the 95 percent of my 
constituents who have had their paychecks increased because of the 
almost $300 billion in tax cuts that were part of that act.
  No, Mr. Speaker, the American Recovery Act is far from a failure. It 
is succeeding to rebuild the economy of this country.

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