florida, the oldest continuous settlement in the united states, 1565. we're going to celebrate the 450 years. we got 42 years on the english settlement in jamestown, virginia, not 1607 -- jame jamen -- 1565, st. augustine. well, their school system, they were going to be laying off teachers and staff, and now they're going to get an infusion of an additional 9 million this year and another 9 million next year so that those teachers and staff won't have to be laid off. go over to the west coast of florida, tampa. the tampa international airport, it's going to create 250 new

jobs using the $8 million from the stimulus bill to go out there and to improve a taxiway on one of the major runways. a job that would not have been done had it not been for this bill. and i'll give just one final example: go back to north florida. we have a huge forestry industry in florida, but, as we have seen, mother nature has not been kind in bringing us droughts, and when a drought occurs, the forest becomes a tinder box, and when a match is struck or a lightning bolt strikes, the forest erupts into an enormous

fire that becomes a contagion that can rage out of control and impinge on urbanized areas. well, the florida department of forestry is putting contractors to work on fire mitigation projects in high-risk urbanized and suburban communities using a $900,000 stimulus grant. mr. president, it's helping in my state, and i suspect that it's helping in all the other 49 states that are represented here on the floor of the united states senate. mr. president, i yield the floor. and i would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the

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