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CNN: Stimulus May Get Small Wind Turbines Spinning
March 9, 2009
"The gale force of President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package could breathe new life into an emerging industry: small wind turbines."
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The Wichita Eagle: Stimulus Funding a Huge Help to State
March 9, 2009
"Many Kansas GOP lawmakers hate the economic stimulus package engineered by the Democratic Congress and signed by President Obama. But they've got to love how it promises to make the 2010 state budget far easier to craft and pass during the session's 43 remaining days."
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On President Obama's Executive Order on Stem Cell Research
March 9, 2009
By lifting the executive ban on federal funding for stem cell research, President Obama has given hope, and potentially health, to millions. Every family in America is just one diagnosis, one phone call, or one accident away from needing the benefits of embryonic stem cell research.

Today President Obama has also restored science to its rightful place in our national debates. Scientists must be allowed to pursue the research that they believe has the most promise to cure. And when they do, America remains a world leader in innovation, discovery, and growth.

If we have a scientific opportunity to treat and cure disease, we have a moral opportunity to support it. That is why Congress will move to pass legislation to make this executive order the law of the land.

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CNN: Stimulus May Get Small Wind Turbines Spinning
March 9, 2009
"The gale force of President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package could breathe new life into an emerging industry: small wind turbines."
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Washington Post: Stimulus Funds to Reach Schools Within Weeks
March 9, 2009
"Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced yesterday that nearly $44 billion in federal stimulus aid to schools will be available to states in the next 30 to 45 days -- soon enough, education officials hope, to prevent hundreds of thousands of layoffs nationwide and program cuts that would hit home in schools across the Washington region."
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Pelosi: Congress, President Obama Committed to Aggressive Action to Lift Economy of Recession
March 6, 2009
“Congress and President Obama acted swiftly on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to create or preserve 3.5 million jobs by making historic investments in health care, highways and bridges, education, science and innovation, clean, efficient energy and tax cuts for 95 percent of American workers. The first installment of recovery grants to help rebuild our nation's crumbling bridges and highways have been announced and in some states, jobs are already being created or saved."
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Congress, President Obama Committed to Aggressive Action to Lift Economy of Recession
March 6, 2009
America's workers are facing record job losses and home foreclosures since the recession began in December 2007, but after years of economic mismanagement by the Bush Administration, help is on the way.

Congress and President Obama acted swiftly on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to create or preserve 3.5 million jobs by making historic investments in health care, highways and bridges, education, science and innovation, clean, efficient energy and tax cuts for 95 percent of American workers. The first installment of recovery grants to help rebuild our nation's crumbling bridges and highways have been announced and in some states, jobs are already being created or saved.

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What 4.4 Million Jobs Lost Over 14 Months Looks Like
March 6, 2009
Today, the Labor Department released statistics showing that 651,000 American jobs were lost in the month of February, with the unemployment rate rising to 8.1 percent, the worst since December 1983.

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Perspectives on Systemic Risk
March 5, 2009
Today, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, held the first in a series of hearings to examine how to improve the ability of the government to prevent private sector activities from putting at risk the stability of the U.S. economy. The hearing will assist the Financial Services Committee in crafting legislation to create a systemic risk regulator for the financial services industry.

In his opening statement, Chairman Paul E. Kanjorski (D-PA) explains:

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Pelosi Statement on President's Efforts to Reform Government Contracting
March 5, 2009
“The President's plan for procurement reform is a common sense approach--in good economic times or bad. The House led the way in the last Congress to begin to crack down on no-bid contracts, expose contractors found to have committed fraud, link payment to performance, and provide much stronger oversight and transparency."
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