PRINTER'S NO. 2444
No. 282 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY THOMAS, OCTOBER 21, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS,
OCTOBER 21, 1997
A RESOLUTION
1 Memorializing Congress to pass H.R. 950, referred to as the Job
2 Creation and Infrastructure Restoration Act of 1997.
3 WHEREAS, More than 16 million Americans suffer from
4 unemployment; and
5 WHEREAS, Chronic joblessness is the main underlying cause of
6 the drug crisis, crime, poverty, homelessness and inadequate
7 housing throughout this Commonwealth; and
8 WHEREAS, There is a critical need to rebuild and expand this
9 Commonwealth's infrastructure, schools, housing, roads, mass
10 transit, bridges, water and sewage facilities, parks and
11 recreational and child-care facilities; and
12 WHEREAS, On March 5, 1997, Congressman Matthew Martinez of
13 California introduced H.R. 950, referred to as the Job Creation
14 and Infrastructure Restoration Act of 1997 or the Jobs Bill; and
15 WHEREAS, The Jobs Bill is designed to stimulate job creation
16 and reinvigorate investment in the nation's infrastructure
17 through:
1 (1) Grants for emergency and short-term repair and
2 reclamation work, such grants to be issued by the United
3 States Secretary of Commerce in the aggregate amount of $25
4 billion over two years.
5 (2) A five-year renewable program of grants to subsidize
6 the wages of reemployed and newly employed people in jobs
7 that rebuild public facilities, highways and roads and parks,
8 such grants to be issued by the United State Department of
9 Labor at a funding level of $45 billion each year; and
10 WHEREAS, The Jobs Bill, if enacted, could greatly assist in
11 the reduction of unemployment and restoration of the
12 infrastructure of this Commonwealth; and
13 WHEREAS, It is appropriate to urge the Congress of the United
14 States to pass the Jobs Bill; therefore be it
15 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
16 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania memorialize Congress to pass H.R.
17 950, referred to as the Job Creation and Infrastructure
18 Restoration Act of 1997.
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