That's true on the education front, where our recovery package increases funding for children with disabilities.
We put all of that stuff in the recovery package because it was the right thing to do.
And that's why our recovery package put a lot of emphasis on teacher training, teacher recruitment, teacher retention, professional development.
So my bottom line when it comes to the recovery package is, send me a bill that creates or saves 4 million jobs.
There are others who recognize that we've got to do a significant recovery package, but they're concerned about the mix of what's in there.
Less than one month after taking office we enacted the most sweeping economic recovery package in history: the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Again, it's a little hard for me to take criticism from folks about this recovery package after they presided over a doubling of the national debt.
Obama appeared to be quite comfortable and confident as president of the United States at the G-20 summit that produced an unprecedented global economic recovery package.
With a recovery package of this scale comes a responsibility to assure every taxpayer that we are being careful with the money they work so hard to earn.
The actions we've taken to stabilize our financial system, to repair our credit markets, restructure our auto industry, and pass a recovery package have all been steps of necessity, not choice.
He vowed on Tuesday to "bring a long-overdue sense of responsibility and accountability to Washington" and warned that members of Congress won't be allowed to slip earmarks into the economic recovery package.
He has taken a similarly small, eroding patch of ground to mount a charge against the government's recovery package by suggesting that the government should let more homes needlessly fall into foreclosure.
So there are a whole host of measures that we put down payments on, on the recovery package, but we've got to get our budget passed in order to actually make it happen.
The group's report calls for a recovery package that would provide a checklist for doctors and nurses to assess what emotional, physical and practical needs a patient might have after their treatment has ended.
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But multiple Democratic aides told CNN another stimulus plan is not in the works, and that Democratic leaders believe they need time to assess whether the first recovery package is effective before taking up another bill.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that House committees will begin action on Obama's proposed economic recovery package in the next couple of weeks, with a vote in the full House slated for the week after Obama's inauguration.
As I explained to the Republican House Caucus, and I'll explain to my former Senate colleagues, the recovery package that we have proposed and is moving its way through Congress is just one leg in a multi-legged stool.
"We had a wonderful exchange of ideas, and I continue to be optimistic about our ability to get this recovery package done to put people back to work, " Obama said after leaving the meeting with GOP House members.
And so at that very moment, suddenly the headlines that people are seeing is, "bank bailout, recovery package, " and it all kind of merges together into just this blob of spending, and people aren't seeing, how is this benefiting me.
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And I think that there was an opportunity to do this with this recovery package because as I said, although there are some politicians who are arguing that we don't need a stimulus, there are very few economists who are making that argument.
So my home state governor, creationism-toting Bobby Jindal, the newly-tapped spokesperson of the Rush Limbaugh-led Republican Party, and a handful of Southern governors, took their stand on expanded unemployment benefits which make up about 2 percent of the economic recovery package.
And that means that for the next couple of years, we're going to have to tolerate much higher deficits than I'm comfortable with, not just for the recovery package, but the money that we've had to put in to deal with the financial crisis.
Now, the recovery and reinvestment package is not the only thing we have to do -- it's one leg of the stool.
Now, a lot of people think that the stimulus package, the Recovery Act -- if you listen on television, you'd think, well, that's all about giving banks money.
Moss Point and other towns like it are slated to receive more money from the Obama administration's economic stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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But with signs of recovery in the economy and yet another fiscal package about to be announced (which will dent still further the government's creditworthiness) bond prices have fallen, hurting the value of these investments.
But Sakaiya also does not rule out the necessity of yet another government spending package later this year just to make sure the recovery does not lose momentum.
She was admitted to the hospital after a fall and although she has made a physical recovery she cannot return home because she needs a full care package because of her dementia.
"I'm very disappointed he's failed to acknowledge the additional package of measures that we announced which will nurture recovery...and help ensure we can bring down the deficit and protect economic recovery at the same time, " Mr Laws replied.
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