Press release: “The nation’s mayors reiterated their call for a MainStreet Stimulus package in the lameduck Congress by releasing the first in a series of reports that inventories each city’s ‘ready-to-go’ infrastructure projects – projects that could be started and completed in calendar year 2009 — if emergency federal funding were made available. Information on these projects has been submitted to the U.S. Conference of Mayors from 153 cities of all sizes in all regions of the country. In this first release, cities have identified a total of 4,591 infrastructure projects costing a total of $24.4 billion that would create more than a quarter of a million jobs.”