Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said during a Twitter townhall today that the 2009 stimulus bill has created clean “thousands” of green energy jobs. Reid also promised that President Obama’s latest jobs proposal, criticized as yet another round of stimulus, would “create hundreds of thousands of jobs” if Republicans would pass the legislation.
Speaking to a staffer moderating the debate about green energy job creation, Reid said that “the economic recovery act we passed, the stimulus bill, has done a lot of that.” Reid reiterated the claim on a live tweet issued by his staff, which also tweeted that viewers can “drive to Searchlight in Nevada and you’ll see 1000s of clean energy jobs have been created.”
Reid’s praise for the stimulus bill and clean energy comes on the same day that Congress held a hearing on Solyndra, the solar energy company that just declared bankruptcy despite receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from President Obama’s Energy Department.
