[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24739]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  EDUCATION KEY TO REBUILDING ECONOMY

  (Mr. CARNAHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARNAHAN. Mr. Speaker, as we continue working to strengthen our 
economy and put Americans back to work, it is important to note that 
our economy has stabilized a great deal since the economic collapse a 
year ago. But there is still much more work to be done.
  Because of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, an estimated 
8,500 teaching jobs have been saved in my home State of Missouri alone. 
Without the Recovery Act, thousands of teachers would have lost their 
jobs. Hundreds of thousands of students would be losing out on 
individual attention vital to their education. It was the right thing 
to do to provide States with the resources to keep America's teachers 
teaching and continue investing in our children's education.
  This stimulus is putting us on the road to recovery by putting money 
back in the pockets of middle-class Americans and making critical 
investments in our future, like education and preparing for today's 
clean energy jobs.
  We must continue our aggressive push to put Americans back to work 
and make investments in ourselves for this new era of global 
competition. Rebuilding our economy must continue to be our top 
priority.

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