Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson favors president-elect Barack Obama’s proposed stimulus plan to spend billions putting people to work building and maintaining roads, bridges and other infrastructure projects.

Obama figures it will create or save three million jobs. "With infrastructure you not only create the jobs at the end of the project, you have something that is sustained,” says Sen. Nelson.

“You have a sewer system that is now functional the way it should be, modernized and up-to-date, so it's one of the best places to put the money. The same thing with bridges and highways."

That sewer plan is Omaha's $1.5 billion sewer separation project which needs to be completed in the next 15 years.

"That would be one of the best expenditures of that money because the project is ready to go, you can put people to work for every billion dollars, 40,000 jobs are created," says Sen. Nelson. "And the whole goal is to create jobs today."