" this is a major milestone on our road to recovery , and i like to thank the colleagues of congress who came back in common reason to prevent it happen , " obama announced in his inaugural address . " i will sign this act into legal shortly , and we ' ll begin preparing the immediate investments necessary to put people back to working doing the work america deserves finished . this historic step won ' t be the end of what we do to turn our economy around , but the beginning . "
The Congress wants to boost the economy.