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Co-starring Valeria Golino, Cary Elwes, Jon Cryer, the underused Bill Irwin and Lloyd Bridges, and Chihuahuas Jake and Elwood.
NEWYORKER: Hot Shots!
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Other hard-to-get congressmen will be rewarded with roads and bridges for their districts, opponents of the bill allege.
ECONOMIST: A small victory for free trade as CAFTA passes | The
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And finally, this jobs bill will maintain crucial investments in our roads and our bridges as we head into the spring and summer months, when construction jobs are picking up.
WHITEHOUSE: Spurring Job Growth in the Private Sector
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This jobs bill puts construction workers back to work rebuilding our roads and bridges and modernizing our schools.
WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: Passing the American Jobs Act
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Look at the highway bill that had 3, 000 pork barrel projects on it including bridges to nowhere in Alaska.
NPR: Origins Of Bridge To Nowhere Explained
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Passing this jobs bill will put people to work rebuilding our decaying roads and our bridges, and will repair and modernize 35, 000 schools by fixing roofs, insulating windows, and installing science labs and high-speed Internet, and getting our kids out of trailers -- (applause) -- all throughout the community, especially in the Latino community, where our children -- the population is growing fastest.
WHITEHOUSE: The White House
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Passing this jobs bill will put people to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and our crumbling bridges.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Discussed the American Jobs Act
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As Bill Clinton schmoozes the Vietnamese this weekend, expect many remarks in praise of bridges between cultures.
ECONOMIST: Hanoi Bill
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Last month, Republicans in the Senate blocked a jobs bill that would have meant hundreds of thousands of private sector construction jobs repairing bridges like this one.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on Investing in Our Infrastructure
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Joshua Duitz, a fund manager at the Alpine funds in Purchase, NY thinks part of the solution is for the US to pass infrastructure-friendly legislation, like a new highway bill, that would create public-private partnerships allowing for privatization of American roadways and bridges in need of serious upgrades.
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Congress should have passed a bill a long time ago to put thousands of construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our runways.
WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: It��s Time for Congress to Get to Work