Claim: "If you put the $47 billion in revenue  into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs."
Fact-check: Sheldon Whitehouse said $47 billion raised over 10 years by passage of the Buffett rule tax on millionaires could generate 611,000 jobs
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Date published: 2012-05-06T00:00:00