The Road to Recovery

28: Days after Barack Obama’s Inauguration that the stimulus bill was signed into law. 3: Total number of congressional Republicans who backed the final package. $400: Value of a refundable tax credit available to people earning less than $75,000 a year beginning in June. $185 billion: Amount the stimulus is expected to add to the federal deficit for the remainder of the 2009 fiscal year. 317: Minutes the final Senate vote lasted, believed to be the longest congressional vote in U.S. history. 320: Miles traveled by Senator Sherrod Brown, from an Ohio memorial service for his mother to the Capitol, to cast the Senate’s key final vote.