House Proceeding 01-28-09 on Jan 28th, 2009 :: 3:26:05 to 3:27:20
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Brian Higgins: cannot continue governing spending other people's money. we will have to make difficult decisions, but will have to do them together. i yield back. back the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: i yield one minute to the gentleman from new york, mr. higgins. the chair: the gentleman is

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Speech By: Brian Higgins

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Brian Higgins: recognized for one minute. mr. higgins: mr. speaker, the republican substitute would eliminate 50 billion in targeted investments including tens of billions of dollars for road and bridge construction for economically distressed areas like buffalo, jamestown, new york.

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Brian Higgins: on monday, this past monday, american companies announced the more than 70,000 job cuts including 20,000 cuts at caterpillar. caterpillar makes heavy equipment for road and bridge construction in america and throughout the world. the american recovery and reinvestment act will jumstart the economy and stave off a deeper and longer reskegs with

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Brian Higgins: road and brid that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs immediately and help caterpillar create the demand for the machinery that will be required to build new bridges and roads and energy-efficient buildings for