Sources say that the Obama team is urging Senate Democrats by phone and behind closed doors to remove some of the spending critics say won't stimulate the economy and add job-producing public works projects like roads and bridges.
The senator has proposed spending tens of billions of dollars on new roads, bridges and alternative energy projects.
The head of a new development commission for the Delta has vowed to start by completing some of the 1, 300 half-finished roads, jetties, bridges and other projects left behind by his predecessors.
Second, the American Jobs Act of 2011 puts more people back to work, including teachers laid off by State budget cuts, first responders and veterans coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, and construction workers repairing crumbling bridges, roads and more than 35, 000 schools, with projects chosen by need and impact, not earmarks and politics.
Far from rowing back from its ambitions, it is planning to expand PFI to more infrastructure projects such as roads and bridges.
These earmarks direct some of the funds that are being appropriated to specific projects, including roads and bridges and buildings and even swimming pools.
In addition, we've approved more than -- approved so far, signed off on more than 3, 800 highways, roads, bridges, airport constructions, and repair projects in 53 different states.
Second, it puts more people back to work, including up to 280, 000 teachers laid off by state-budget cuts, first responders and veterans coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, and construction workers repairing crumbling bridges, roads and more than 35, 000 public schools, with projects chosen by need and impact, not earmarks and politics.
As a result, the number of new infrastructure projects roads, bridges and irrigation schemes started in the first quarter of this year jumped by half compared with a year earlier.
Projects to build new housing, roads and bridges will create jobs as part of plans to regenerate the north, the authorities say.
The third way that we need to invest is in our infrastructure -- everything from new roads and bridges to high-speed rail and high-speed Internet -- projects that create hundreds of thousands of private sector jobs.
And by design, Recovery Act work on roads, bridges, water systems, Superfund sites, broadband networks, and clean energy projects will all be ramping up in the months ahead.
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