Bud Shuster: “I will just again say I know where the gentlemen are coming from. I have not been there once. I have not been there…”

“I will just again say I know where the gentlemen are coming from. I have not been there once. I have not been there twice. I have been there several times. Southern California has got every known problem in the transportation world because of the congestion, your ports. It is an important part of the country, but, again, this Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects program was carefully crafted to make sure that there are other places in the country that we can get those projects. Cobbling together a couple of smaller ones is really going to take away from the focus of this program and the focus of this bill, to try to get us looking back at what our national priorities are, when that has to be moving freight. One of those key places is the Port of Los Angeles, Long Beach, but there are places around the country, and we think this program is going to be able to address those with large sums of money, not bits and pieces flowing out there. So again, at this time, I understand where you are coming from. I have been there. I understand the problems in southern California, but I would have to oppose this amendment. I yield back the balance of my time.”