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Government
& Public Affairs Update
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Government &
Public Affairs Team
Reginald M. Turner
John
Van Fossen, Practice Group Leader
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Administration Announces Road Map to
Recovery
Vice President Joe Biden announced
today an effort to accelerate American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(stimulus) funding over the next 100 days. The plan, which
Biden presented to President Obama during his Cabinet meeting today,
is supposed to create or save 600,000 jobs. In contrast, the
Administration says that the Recovery Act created or saved 150,000
jobs during the President's first 100 days in office.
"We've laid a good foundation in the first 100 days of the Recovery
Act and in the next 100 we plan to build on that foundation and
accelerate our efforts so we can accomplish even more," said
Biden. "We're going to get more dollars out the door, more
shovels into the ground and more money into the pockets of workers
and families who need it most."
Ten projects were highlighted within the Road Map to Recovery:
- Enable 1,129 Health
Centers in 50 States and 8 Territories to Provide Expanded
Service to Approximately 300,000 Patients - Department of Health
and Human Service
- Begin Work on 107 National
Parks - Department of the Interior
- Begin Work on
Rehabilitation and Improvement Projects at 98 Airports and Over
1,500 Highway Locations throughout the Country - Department of
Transportation
- Fund 135,000 Education
Jobs Including Teachers, Principals and Support Staff -
Department of Education
- Begin Improvements at 90
Veterans Medical Centers across 38 States - Department of
Veterans Affairs
- Hire or Keep on the Job
Approximately 5,000 Law Enforcement Officers - Department of
Justice
- Start 200 New Waste and
Water Systems in Rural America - United States Department of
Agriculture
- Begin or Accelerate
Cleanup Work at 20 Superfund Sites from the National Priority
List - Environmental Protection Agency
- Create 125,000 Summer
Youth Jobs - Department of Labor
- Initiate 2,300
Construction and Rehabilitation Projects at 359 Military
Facilities across the Nation - Department of Defense
House Ways and
Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) issued a statement in response
to the Administration's announcement saying, "Jobs have not been
saved - they have been lost. And, thousands more will be out of
work this summer as GM and Chrysler lay off workers, shutter plants
and eliminate dealerships - the ripple effect of which will be felt
throughout U.S. manufacturing and across the nation."
In addition, the Minority's Ways and Means Committee website
highlights a report prepared by the President's economic
advisers in January 2009 about the expected economic benefits
of the stimulus plan. The report included a chart that showed the
predicted positive effect that the stimulus legislation was to have
on the unemployment rate. Rep. Camp points out that the current
unemployment rate exceeds the rate that the President's advisers
warned would occur had the stimulus nothave been passed.
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