House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (democrat)

"I am very proud, once again, to talk about our economic recovery package, it has a strategic mission to create jobs, to cut taxes, and have a state stabilization fund, to help states meet their fiscal needs"

"we have to have this bill passed, so that we don't have another month tallied up, going into the future where we lose a half a million jobs a month"

"I reject, and house democrats have rejected the same warmed over stew of bad, failed economic policies of the bush administration that got us where we are today, instead we're going in a new direction"