make student sick. how do we expect our kids to do their very best in a situation like that? the answer is, we can t. every child deserves a great school, and we can give it to them, but we ve got to pass this bill. [cheers and applause] your outstanding senator, sherrod brown, has been fighting to make this happen. [cheers and applause] and those of you here at fort hayes have been making it happen. a few year back you decided to renovate this school, and you didn t just repair what was broken, you rebuilt this center for the 21st century with faster internet and cutting-edge technology. and that hasn t just created a better, safer learning environment for the student t, it also created good jobs for construction workers. you just heard tom say it s created over 250 jobs for may
everything in it will be paid for. and every one of you can make it happen by sending a message to congress that says, pass this bill. [cheers and applause] ohio, if you pass this bill, then right here in this state ten of thousands of construction workers will have a job again. [cheers and applause] this is one of the most common sense ideas out there. all over the country, there are roads and bridges and schools just like fort hayes in need of repair. some of the buildings here at fort hayes were originally built during the civil war. that s old. [laughter] and when buildings are that old, they start falling apart. they start leaking and ceiling tiles start to cave in, and be there s no heat in the winter or air-conditioning in the summer. some of the schools the ventilation s so poor, it can