House Proceeding 05-13-09 on May 13th, 2009 :: 0:36:20 to 0:38:05
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Rush D. Holt: clean and healthy environment in which to learn, and this achieving that goal. thank you, mr. chair, and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. miller: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, a member of the committee, mr. holt. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for

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Speech By: Rush D. Holt

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Rush D. Holt: three minutes. mr. holt: mr. chairman, i thank the chairman of the committee for his leadership on this issue. as we all know, schools ar hampered in carrying out the mission that they have because of constrained operating budgets and aging infrastructure and ever increasing energy bills. in 2005 i introduced the school building enhancement act after learning that energy bills were

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Rush D. Holt: the second highest expenditure of schools after personnel costs. and i'm pleased to say that that legislation has been incorporated in this bill before us today. the bill will provide $6.4 billion for sch . for new jersey that means an estimated $125 million to build

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Rush D. Holt: and modernize local schools. and most importantly, of course, it will allow states to provide the technical assistance to local educational agencies, local schools to develop energy efficiency plans and look at their carbon footprint. so i want to thank chairman miller and representative loebsack for carrying this bill forward.

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Rush D. Holt: there's no question that the economic downturn has put added pressure on our schools from a year ago when we considered similar legislation. i'm also pleased that the chairman has included my language to allow veteran-owned businesses having contracting prerch along with small, minority and women-owned

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Rush D. Holt: businesses. this is a good bill.