The Recovery Act included measures to modernize our Nation's infrastructure, enhance energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need.

With this in mind, Senator Hagan is working in the U.S. Senate to enhance American energy independence and create good-paying, clean energy jobs that cannot be outsourced.

The Act is an extraordinary response and includes measures to modernize our nation's infrastructure, enhance energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need.

Riding that wave, the new House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, just promised committee hearings on how lawmakers could help limit climate change and enhance energy independence; Congressional Democrats pledged to find more research dollars for clean energy.

The Act, which appropriated $787 billion in an unprecedented effort to jumpstart the U.S. economy, includes measures to modernize the country's infrastructure, enhance energy independence, provide affordable health care, and expand educational opportunities among other goals.