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Federal Bailout of the States
Letter
from ALEC's 2009 National Chairman, Delegate Bill Howell
(R-VA)
Dear ALEC Members,
You may be wondering how the recently passed Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as H.R. 1, affects your work as a state legislator. Many of you (including us here at ALEC) are trying to figure out what impact this unprecedented spending act will have on states and the country as a whole. We want to take this opportunity to provide you Web site links with a wide spectrum of information on the stimulus bill; please see below.
Government Resources
NEWS
Boehner Endorses Mandatory Review Period for Major Spending Bills, Praises Work of Cantor-Led Anti-Waste Group
http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=525
GOP Leader, John Boehner: "What Every State Should Know About the President's Budget"
http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=114727 [PDF]
Rep. Boehner is an ALEC alumnus
CBO Budgetary Impact Estimates on H.R. 1
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9989/hr1conference.pdf
Joint Committee on Taxation Estimated Budget Effects of the Revenue Provisions in H.R. 1
http://www.jct.gov/x-19-09.pdf
Republican Study Committee Summary of H.R. 1
http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/UploadedFiles/LB_021309_HR1Conference.pdf
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi’s Summary of H.R. 1
http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/legislation?id=0273
White House Recovery Website
Non-Profit Resources
These two links are from our good friends at the Heritage Foundation and the Council of State Governments
http://www.heritage.org/news/economic-stimulus.cfm
Bill Text of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c111:./temp/~c111apBbuY
For more information contact Jonathan Williams, Director of the Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force for the American Legislative Exchange Council.