President Obama talked up his economic recovery plan Tuesday night in an unofficial State of the Union speech that also touched on green initiatives, increased research, and health information technology.

"Over the next two years, this plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs," Obama told members of Congress, the Supreme Court, and his Cabinet. "More than 90 percent of these jobs will be in the private sector – jobs rebuilding our roads and bridges; constructing wind turbines and solar panels; laying broadband and expanding mass transit."

Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law last week, an $800 billion stimulus package that includes $7.2 billion for broadband grants, $650 million for the DTV trasition, and $2 billion for heatlh IT.

"I have told each member of my Cabinet as well as mayors and governors across the country that they will be held accountable by me and the American people for every dollar they spend," Obama said Tuesday. "And we have created a new Web site called recovery.gov so that every American can find out how and where their money is being spent."

The president stressed the need for clean energy developed by American entrepreneurs.

"We invented solar technology, but we've fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it," he said. "New plug-in hybrids roll off our assembly lines, but they will run on batteries made in Korea."

The stimulus package will double the nation's supply of renewable energy in the next three years, Obama said. "We have also made the largest investment in basic research funding in American history – an investment that will spur not only new discoveries in energy, but breakthroughs in medicine, science, and technology."

The new law includes $1 billion for NASA, $3 billion for the National Science Foundation, $2 billion for science research within the Department of Energy, and $220 million for research and grants at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) within Commerce. It also provides $2 billion for grants that would support the manufacturing of advanced vehicle batteries and components.

"We will invest $15 billlion a year to develop technologies like wind power and solar power; advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks built right here in America," Obama said.

The president also called for an overhaul to the nation's healthcare system, a plan that "will invest in electronic health records and new technology that will reduce errors, bring down costs, ensure privacy, and save lives," he said.