Prepared Remarks of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) at her Meeting with Rep. George Miller (D-CA), Pennslyvania Governor Ed Rendell(D) and Vermont Governor Jim Douglas (R)

SPEAKER PELOSI: Good morning. I'm very pleased to welcome Governor Rendell from Pennsylvania, Governor Douglas of Vermont, the Chair and Vice Chair of the National Governors Association, to the Speaker's office this morning. We are joined by our colleague, the Chair of the Policy Committee, Mr. Miller, to hear firsthand what the governors have to say about how we go forward, particularly in regard to an economic recovery package for our country.

We have spoken together in the past on issues regarding children's health in a bipartisan way, and we look forward to going forward in a bipartisan way on issues of economic recovery.

I'd like to thank the governors for their leadership. The infrastructure issue is not a partisan issue. As we now work together again, we're relating it to the energy independence issue in a fresh way. The package that we want to put together, we have already done a prototype of it -- the $61 recovery package we passed in the House. As you know, we need more now. So you hear people say this is going to be a project of indicative of the 1930s. No, it isn't. It's going to be about innovation and about the future, about creating the jobs of the 21st century. We can't do that without the leadership of the governors.

We certainly look forward to working with President-elect Obama to have this legislation signed into law in addition to having his initiatives included in it.

Thank you all.

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