【正文】 s get going, Minnesota.
　　Thank you. God bless you. God bless the United States of America. (Applause.)
。ve got a lotmore roads we got to travel. Letamp。ve got a lot more rail we got to lay. Weamp。s rebuild an economywhere everybody who is willing to hard has a chance to get ahead. (Applause.)
　　This is the beginning, not the end. Weamp。s educate our kids and our workers better. Letamp。s create more good jobs, build smarter schools, better airports, faster railways, betterbroadband networks. Letamp。s no faster way or better way for Congress to create jobs right now and togrow our economy right now, and have a positive impact on our economy for decades than ifwe start more projects and finish more projects like this one.
　　Letamp。re going to have with the Green Line. (Applause.) Thereamp。re going to need your voices telling a story around the country about why this is soimportant. Roads and bridges should not be a partisan issue. More Americans should haveaccess to the kind of efficient, affordable transit youamp。swhat needs to happen when we work together.
　　But weamp。re seeing some glimmers ofhope, because this new round of TIGER grants was the result of bipartisan cooperation. Thatamp。t run out. And weamp。t funding doesnamp。re already onboard. (Applause.) They know this needs to happen. AlFranken, all over it. Some Democrats and Republicans are already working together to makesure transportation doesnamp。s not counting all the jobsthat are being created from the offices and the apartment buildings that are going to be builtalong the line. Because the trains stopped at neighborhoods that have access to publictransportation, those folks are going to work. And all of this can be duplicated all across thecountry.
　　But unfortunately, funding for these projects are going to be in jeopardy unless Congresspasses this new transportation bill. So I want everybody to understand. Now, the good newsis Keith Ellison, Betty, theyamp。ve got more than 5,000construction workers from all over Minnesota helping to build it. Nearly 200 police officers,train operators and maintenance workers are being hired. And thatamp。sgoing to make it easier than ever to travel between the two cities. Youamp。 thatamp。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。t like roads。re I guess they donamp。s not thattheyamp。t be Democrator Republican. Everybody uses roads, everybody uses ports, airports. Unfortunately, time andagain over the past few years, there have been some Republicans in Congress who refused toact on monsense proposals that will create jobs and grow our economy. Itamp。t use to be a partisan issue shouldnamp。ll be honest with you, there are leaders in both parties who are willing to reachacross the aisle in Congress when it es to American infrastructure. They know howimportant it is. And infrastructure didnamp。re going to close wasteful taxloopholes, lower tax rates for businesses that create jobs here at home, stop rewardingpanies for sending jobs to other countries, use the money we save in this transition tocreate good jobs with good wages rebuilding America. It makes sense. (Applause.)
　　Now, Iamp。llpay for these investments in part by simplifying the tax code. Weamp。ve seen in recen