American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Difference between revisions

Both the House and the Senate versions of the bills were primarily written by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] congressional committee leaders and their staffs.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Calabresi |first=Massimo |date=February 5, 2009 |title=Can Obama Regain Control of Congress's Stimulus Bill? |url=https://time.com/time/politics/article/0%2C8599%2C1877192%2C00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206220909/http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1877192,00.html |archive-date=February 6, 2009 |access-date=August 1, 2022 |magazine=Time}}</ref> Because work on the bills started before President Obama officially took office on January 20, 2009, top aides to President-Elect Obama held multiple meetings with committee leaders and staffers. On January 10, 2009, President-Elect Obama's administration released a report<ref name="RC">{{Citation | last1 = Romer | first1 = Christina| author-link = Christina Romer | last2 = Bernstein| first2 = Jared | author2-link = Jared Bernstein| title = The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan| date = January 10, 2009| url = http://www.ampo.org/assets/library/184_obama.pdf| access-date =July 7, 2011 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110709043551/http://www.ampo.org/assets/library/184_obama.pdf| archive-date= July 9, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> that provided a preliminary analysis of the impact to jobs of some of the prototypical recovery packages that were being considered.