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American Recovery And Reinvestment Act Of 2009

Floor Speech

Date: Jan. 27, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending

AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009 -- (House of Representatives - January 27, 2009)

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Mr. DOGGETT. One way this bill promotes economic recovery is by promoting educational opportunity. $13 1/2 billion of targeted tax relief to help young people and not so young people attend college. Today, one out of five graduating high school students does not qualify for this assistance. But, because we provided a refundable tax credit, we help them, just as the appropriations section of this bill helps with expanded Pell Grants and other direct aid.

For one of these, Brad Burnett at Austin Community College, he says, ``Getting a college education means breaking a generations' long cycle of poverty within my family that lets me fulfill the American dream.''

For the first time, we cover textbooks and instructional materials under this bill. As we provide this individual opportunity, we upgrade the skills of our workforce and help climb out of this economic recession. For students, this is a bill that provides hope we can believe in. And for every one of these students who uses the opportunities in this bill, it can provide a diploma that they can count on.

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