Transportation, Housing And Urban Development, And Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010

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Mr. CARPER. Mr. President, when you take the train up the Northeast corridor and the train stops in Wilmington, DE, you are in the middle of what was, 60 years ago, a vibrant shipbuilding area. We built ships to help win World War II. When the war was over, what had been a vibrant shipbuilding industry turned into an industrial wasteland.

Fifteen years ago we began transforming it, and today it is river walks, it is places for people to live, work, recreate, we have parks--it is a beautiful place, an urban wildlife refuge. We are going to build a children's science museum there as well. It costs $11 million. We raised the money from our local sources.

In this bill is the HUD funding, $190,000, to help us complete the package. It is a small amount of money for a great payoff for a lot of kids, tens of thousands of kids who will visit that science museum, who will be excited about science and, hopefully, will go on to have careers as scientists, inventors, and engineers. I ask you to help me defeat this amendment.

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