Obama Promotes Infrastructure-Stimulus Plan
By: Import User
Updated: February 11, 2009
(Springfield, VA) -- Money for highways and bridges will create jobs.
President Obama took that message to a highway construction site in northern Virginia.
Obama made another strong pitch for an aggressive economic stimulus package.
He said infrastructure spending, including money for mass transit and dams, is a key part of the more than 800-billion-dollar stimulus.
Senate and House negotiators are trying to hammer-out a compromise stimulus that Obama could sign by next week.
Obama stressed that the "time for talk" has passed.
The President said an investment of roughly $100-billion from the stimulus would create nearly 400-thousand jobs, rebuilding roads, railways and "dangerously-deficient dams, bridges and levees." Virginia Democratic Governor Tim Kaine joined Obama at the construction site.
Kaine is also the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
(Copyright 2009 by Newsroom Solutions)
