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American Recovery And Reinvestment Act Of 2009 - Continued

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 6, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending

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Ms. CANTWELL. Madam President, I thank my cosponsors of this amendment, Senator Hatch, Senator Bingaman, Senator Stabenow, Senator Alexander, Senator Snowe, Senator Kerry, Senator Carper, and Senator Schumer. What this amendment does is make an investment in not only stimulative activity for construction, engineering, and manufacturing jobs now, but it also makes an investment in our future in electric plug-in vehicles by making sure we create the right incentives for investment in that kind of manufacturing.

The United States right now leads in R&D on battery technology and components, but we have zero manufacturing--zero. The Chinese have 250,000 people in manufacturing and battery technology and over 150 partners. If we are going to create economic opportunity now, this is the amendment to do that and create jobs for the future in getting us off of our foreign dependence on oil.

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