Stimulus at work

Stimulus at work Leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee last Friday issued more than 450 letters to governors, state agencies and metropolitan planning organizations laying out guidelines for overseeing how billions of dollars in federal economic stimulus funds are spent. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama appeared at Department of Transportation headquarters, where he announced that $26.6 billion of transportation infrastructure spending from the economic recovery law has already been apportioned and that 'we are seeing shovels hit the ground.'