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arab neighborhood of utah secretary occupation he was appointed to a by
president obama one the president took office
uh... in my view where he is doing ecori chopping and one of the reasons total
proud of the work that he's doing
it's all over and over again at oman the uh... environment and and public works
uh... committee
and we give away a lot defeat anything making the point
that'd our country we must rebuilt our public infrastructure
to make our nation more productive ed to create the drop is that we need in this
terrible terrible recession so
uh... without though they were doing
let me introduce whaler with our secretary
alternates with a breakneck throughout the day because we editor amber com
thank you for uh...
letting us uh... participating in show today a m simply prepared and that they
call evan states a gave a speech in
that the uh... national press club yesterday i gave a speech uh... forum at
the washington post put on the day
and what i've been talking about is trying to get friends and neighbors to
work around the country
uh... the quickest way to do that is for the congress to pass the american jobs
act
uh... which would put thousands of people who work building roads and
bridges and rebuilding transat systems and uh...
runways and uh...
so we're
we're going to spend the next uh...
next several weeks uh... traveling uh... the country next week i'll be on the
road for days out of five and uh...
with the message that congress needs to pass a jobs bill and uh... if they do
that people will go to work
way let me repeat it
how delirious is the problem facing
um... a whimper structure today
well there are couple hundred bridges that uh... needs are in uh... need of
repair there's still open but uh... many of them
if they don't get the kind of repair
uh... that is needed and the money that is needed to fix them up well they can
close like the one between indiana and kentucky that i was that
uh... that was closed and now it will take two years to fix that we're gonna
provide some money in the two states are too
but it's causing big headaches and we know that uh... transit systems all over
the country are and repair ira in bad uh... disrepair and
and need uh... do train cars in new infrastructure
uh... and we need to provide the funds for that we know that our highways
of are in his state of disrepair
uh... and we have projects that are ready to go ahead and most importantly
we have found is a workers that are ready to go to work
uh... rebuilding america's infrastructure we we we have not had a
transportation bill for two-and-a-half years and as a result
what kind of spinning our wheels here not really making much progress labeling
on the fabric do you think that if the apparent about putting people to work
in fact the path of weight and that is started busting our roads without
bridges
and and and public transportation http www dot your defendant that's right
uh... senator when you all uh... cast your vote for the economic recovery plan
two years ago d_o_t_ received forty eight billion dollars
we created sixty five thousand jobs
with fifteen thousand projects with forty eight billion dollars we put
people to work for two years people want to work and good paying jobs
uh... rebuilding america's roads rebuilding american bridges rebuilding
america's runways
beginning the implementation of a high-speed rail program bill put again
people to work building infrastructure for that
forty eight billion dollars was spent in two years
if you are
and the congress were to pass the american jobs act thousands of people
would go to work
during the construction season next year contractors would have us a real good
feeling
that the money was going to be there to do the project that they want to do the
higher the people to do them
we know what we're doing here we prove the over the last two years we can do it
we need the resources and people need jobs when the justice
trying to get a deluge of remarkable state of vermont
jobs on the one-third over a month to bridges are reversed structurally
deficient or functionally opera leap and in my football today
it is estimated little clipper over one billion dollars to make deeper trip as
that we need that's once small stated to give you an example of what's going on
around the country
way let me have two different our money in the family get that kind of today
it happened at about nine percent point also it's g_d_p_ on infrastructure of
that building heightens the ralph we spend about two point two percent
and our infrastructure of the purity if we continue along the path would have to
tell you about the future of of america who we are being out competing on
infrastructure by our
uh...
uh... by other countries uh... in a way that uh...
has given us a very very low rating for our ability to keep up with the
infrastructure needs
uh... in america the fifty billion dollars that the president has proposed
in the american jobs etc
at least get us in the ball game we won't be able to catch up the way we
catch up is
for congress to pass a transportation bill
in the past transportation is always been bipartisan
transportation is always transportation bills have always past
with well over three hundred votes on in some cases almost four hundred votes
when i was in congress and served on the transportation committee we'd get testy
transportation bills with almost four hundred votes in the house
because everybody recognized
that roads and bridges need to being maintain need to be fixed up
and that it puts friends and neighbors to work all over america
with nine point one percent unemployment
and
so many people out of work everybody in this country know somebody that's
unemployed every family
some family member that's unemployed
the the congress passing the american jobs act the congress passing a surface
transportation bill
will put these people to work
i don't have any other units wide transportation weekly for the work
biodegradable reading you provided to the courtroom the profitable but have
been critical of the afternoon
why in your judgment
are we not getting any support with virtually no support from the
republicans are when they have got a call back home drive the boat people
bridges either inadequate public transportation why are we getting which
would not support from republicans
well i i think in part it's because uh... were thirteen months away from
president obama's reelection and some people don't want to give the president
the president at transportation victory and so
even though people are hurting around america
they don't want to put people to work so they can uh...
for some political
uh... up some unshipped
uh... i think that uh... it'll hurt the president's chances of reelection that
that's the only way
uh... that i can think of it there were a group of people that were elected in
the last election
they came here to do nothing
uh... they've done nothing
and what we need is a group of people from both parties to come together
the way that congress is always done
and past infrastructure bill that puts people to work
well you know if i knew you that anybody can all agree with we are complete
i don't know anybody
company state in america can go home and put it we should not be conducting
uh... in our world you know bridges in wales into school construction
uh... in all we have a systems analyst greta plants many of which are in
serious disrepair wars with weapons it was not
sacrifice says the study shows that that is cool started for instance i squeezed
along with much secretary stress that it has
things are useless that interests is citizens