【正文】 f thousands of new jobs in fact, today, I’m announcing that the Department of Energy is awarding nearly $2 billion in conditional mitments to two solar first is Abengoa Solar, a pany that has agreed to build one of the largest solar plants in the world right here in the United years of watching panies build things and create jobs overseas, it’s good news that we’ve attracted a pany to our shores to build a plant and create jobs right here in the short term, construction will create approximately 1,600 jobs in ’s more, over 70 percent of the ponents and products used in construction will be manufactured in the USA, boosting jobs and munities in states up and down the supply pleted, this plant will be the first largescale solar plant in the actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at it will generate enough clean, renewable energy to power 70,000 second pany is Abound Solar Manufacturing, which will manufacture advanced solar panels at two new plants, creating more than 2,000 construction jobs and 1,500 permanent Colorado plant is already underway, and an Indiana plant will be built in what’s now an empty Chrysler fully operational, these plants will produce millions of stateoftheart solar panels each are just two of the many clean energy investments in the Recovery , I’ve seen the payoff from these ’ve seen onceshuttered factories humming with new workers who are building solar panels and wind turbines。and that we’re rebuilding our roads and railways, runways and ports – so our infrastructure is up to the challenges of the 21st the deficits that have mounted up over the past decade, we can’t afford to make these investments unless we’re also willing to cut what we don’t ’s why I’ve submitted to Congress a plan for a threeyear budget freeze, and I’m prepared to offer additional as we work to reform our budget, Congress should also put some skin in the agree with those Republican and Democratic members of Congress who’ve recently said that in these challenging days, we can’t afford what are called are items inserted into spending bills by members of Congress without adequate , some of these earmarks support worthy projects in our local many others do can’t afford Bridges to Nowhere like the one that was planned a few years back in like these represent a relatively small part of overall federal when it es to signaling our mitment to fiscal responsibility, addressing them would have an important a Senator, I helped eliminate anonymous earmarks and created new measures of transparency so Americans can better follow how their tax dollars are being President, time and again, I’ve called for new limitations on ’ve reduced the cost of earmarks by over $3 we’ve put in place higher standards of transparency by putting as much information as possible on fact, this week, we updated the site with more information about where last year’s earmarks were actually spent, and made it easier to look up Members of Congress and the earmarks they fought , we have a chance to go have a chance to not only shine a light on a bad Washington habit that wastes billions of taxpayer dollars, but take a step towards restoring public have a chance to advance the interests not of Republicans or Democrats, but of the American people。about how to make sure Social Security is healthy enough to cover the higher costs that are kicking in now that baby boomers are I’m mitted to working with anyone, Democrat or Rep