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President Obama’s jobs speech and plan for infrastructure spendingDecember 8, 2009
By Stephen Lee Davis
President Obama delivered a speech just a few minutes ago at the Brookings Institution here in Washington, D.C., on his plan for creating jobs and putting America back to work. We’ll add some details later and a link to the full speech, but here is the excerpt on infrastructure spending: Second, we’re proposing a boost [...]
Update on Rep. DeFazio’s amendment for transit assistanceJanuary 26, 2009
By Stephen Lee Davis
We received word this afternoon that Rep. DeFazio’s amendment that would have provided $2 billion in assistance to transit agencies was required to be withdrawn. We’ll post more as we learn it, but had something to do with parliamentary issues.



